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Showing posts with label weight. Show all posts
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Friday, 20 December 2013

Body fat reduction and weight loss?

Well, to lose weight effectively, healthfully, and in a way that you can keep it off, you should lose no more than three pounds a week. (Plus you'll also be losing water weight and getting rid of bloating, so there goes another load of weight - anywhere from four to twenty pounds.)

Cut out entirely (or as very best as you can):
-Junk food
-Carbohydrates other than whole-grain and whole-wheat
-Anything with high fructose corn syrup
-Anything with "sugar" as one of the first two ingredients
-Butter
-Oil other than olive or canola oil
-Cheese
-Full-fat dairy
-Potatoes, other than sweet potatoes

Eat around 1,600 calories a day. This should consist of:
-Four or five servings of lean meat/protein
-One serving of whole-grain/whole-wheat carbs
-One serving of fat-free dairy
-Three servings of fruit
-Five servings of vegetables
-As many non-starchy vegetables as you want (this means no squash, sweet potatoes, carrots, corn, or lima beans.)

Example:
Breakfast - two scrambled eggs with salt and pepper on one piece of light whole-grain bread, one apple, small container of fat-free yogurt

Snack - orange

Lunch - grilled chicken breast with spices, spinach and lettuce salad with vegetables and dressing made from vinegar, olive oil, salt, and pepper

Snack - half-cup of baby carrots, half-cup of grapes

Dinner - one roasted chicken breast with spices, half-cup of black bean salad or black beans with spices, two cups of steamed vegetables with a teaspoon of olive oil and salt and pepper

Every day, you need to get cardio exercise for at least an hour. Ride a bike, walk, run, do jumping jacks, kick boxing, anything.

Wednesday, 18 December 2013

How do you loose this fat?

You cant just loose your face fat. if u follow the below diet plan it will effect ur all body not just face

Below are the few Quick Steps towards a Healthier Diet.
1) The very first thing u should keep in your mind and that is the extra weight u put on didn’t come in overnight so it is not possible and also unrealistic to take it off quickly. You have to show patience.
2) The 2nd important thing is that your body weight is controlled by the number of calories you eat and the number of calories you use each day. So, if you consume fewer calories than you burn, you will lose weight. You can do this by becoming more physically active or by eating less.
3) The 3rd important thing is never skip ur meal or go to a crash diet. Don’t ever try to starve urself. It is very important to understand that when you skip a meal or go on a crash diet, the result is that it slows your metabolism to conserve your energy. And when you lose weight too quickly for a few days, your body thinks it is threatened with starvation and goes into survival mode. It fights to conserve your fat stores. There fore keep in mind never try to skip ur meal, especially breakfast and always try to take food on time
4) Before starting any type of diet, weight yourself and note ur whole body measurement in a dairy. Then after every week weigh your self again and compare with earlier measurements and see how much weight u r losing. Record a goal that you can reach in one month that is 4 to 8 pounds less than you weigh now. Set a goal you know you can achieve.

Now some tips how to set ur deit plan.
5) Start taking your food with out any oil. Try to use boiled/steamed vegetables, meat, and lot of salad. U can eat fruits too and boiled/steamed chicken or red meat too but no pork. Please note and put it in ur mind that nothing fried or oily.
6) Try to chew ur every food for atleast 20 times. And then swallow it into ur stomach.
7) No Potato Please. It is strictly forbidden during this diet
8) No Junk Food Please.
9) Drink at least 3 ltr of water daily. Make ur habit to drink water as much as u can. Rather take a bottle of water with you all the time, when you feel starving, drink it as much as u can.
10) Make you habit to use brown bread.
11) use skimmed and low fat milk and yogurt
12) Sugar is strictly forbidden in this diet plan.
13) First try to avoid any type of soft drink but if u really wants to taste some thing sweet then drink any soft drink (but not cola), but just one glass once in a week.
14) Eat at least once in a day a vegetable soap or Thai soup ( as ur dinner or lunch), as much as u can but no corn flour in it.
15) Just look at your food portion. It is much better to eat several small meals a day (like 5-6 healthy meals a day) than eat either one or two or three huge meal a day.
16) if u feel hungry then divide ur diet into 5-6 healthy meals a day (1 plate size only)
17) one bowl of oatmeal can be taken as a break fast
18) No hard drink of any type is allowed in this diet.
19) Smoking strictly forbidden in this diet
20) Watch out ur every drink and every single piece of ur food. Stay away from fatty foods, junk foods, synthetic foods, foods with preservatives and too much carbohydrate. Don’t try to take foods that are made of white flour for example white bread, cakes, pasta etc and food contain sugar such as cookies, ice cream, candy etc.
21) Remember after every 15 days you can take once in a while with a little treat any thing u like. But remember just a small portion. For example one small personal pizza or one small burger or small pastry.
22) Try to adopt some healthy timing. Early to rise and early to bed. No late sittings.
23) People usually want Quick and Easy result, we all are impatient. You have to be patient in terms of your weight loss and never give up. Always keep in mind that slow and steady win the race.
24) At least take this diet for 3 to 6 months and when u feel that u have achieved your desired weight then make this is as a Life Style change for you entire life. Remember do not focus on just losing weight; try to concentrate on diet plan forever so that you will never have to loose weight again. But occasionally u can take other junk food too.
25) You have to keep in mind that above plan is a not a quick thin program. Don’t try to deceive ur body. It will destroy your metabolism and in the future the proportion of gaining weight is much higher and easier than today.
26) Never ever go for any type of Diet pills or any drug which claim that it will reduce the weight quickly. Taking Diet pills will kill.
27) Exercise: Rule-of -Thumb: remember the formula for weight loss and that is Diet= 70% Exercise= 30%. So remember exercise is must with every diet plan. Start your exercising slowly and gradually increase the intensity. Trying too hard at first can lead to injury. The best indoor exercise machine is tread mill. Run on tread mill for at least 30 mnts daily. Try to extend ur period for one hour. And if you don’t have this facility then best indoor Exercise is skipping.

Does cardio make you loose fat?

No. Diet makes you lose fat.

Everyone who answered so far is wrong and just promoting a common misconception. That's seven wrong answers in a row which shows how common this misunderstanding is. Here's the truth of it.

If you eat too much food, too many calories, you can run all day and never lose an ounce of fat. You can only lose fat if your diet allows it. That's why "cardio" is not the key to fat loss and does not MAKE you lose fat. It only HELPS you lose fat. For a better understanding, check out these fat facts.

• If you consume fewer calories than you burn, you have to lose fat eventually. There are no exceptions to this fact.

• A pound of fat will yield about 3500 calories (Kcal) of energy.

• Your body will burn hundreds of calories even if you are in a coma. That's your BMR. Go here to find out what it is --> http://www.calculator.net/bmr-calculator...

• An average person must run or walk about 5 miles (8 km) every day to burn one pound of fat per week AND THEIR DIET MUST ALLOW IT.

• An average person must run or walk about 350 miles (563 km) to burn 10 pounds AND THEIR DIET MUST ALLOW IT.

• An average person who consumes 500 calories per day less than they burn will lose about a pound a week with no extra time or physical effort required.

• A average person dieting with a 500 calorie/day deficit will burn 10 pounds of fat in 10 weeks. The same person running 5Km (3 miles) per day with a Zero calorie/day deficit will burn 10 pounds in 16 weeks.

•Running only burns slightly more calories than walking as long as the distance remains the same.

• It does not matter if a person runs or walks a given distance…they will burn about the same number of calories. Although running burns slightly more than walking, the distance is far more significant than the speed over which it is traveled.

• It is not necessary to do "cardio" to burn fat. "Cardio" is aerobic exercise which elevates the heart rate to 80% of max and sustains it for the purpose of cardio-vascular fitness. You can burn fat in your sleep.

• Most of the calories you consume will be spent just keeping your body temperature at 98.6F.

• It doesn’t matter how hard or how long you exercise, you will not lose any fat if you eat too much. You can always eat more calories than you can burn. When it comes to burning fat, diet always trumps exercise.

Read my answer about why exercise is not the key to fat loss

Overall body fat loss help!

For fat loss, the best you can do is walking. Go on a treadmill and set the incline to 6-8 and set speed at 3.5 - 4.5. Do the cardio for 30 - 60 minutes 5 days a week. If you cannot exercise for long, at least to 15 min of cardio. The most important thing is the combination of cardio, resistance training and diet. Keep your diet at 1800-2000 calories a day. You'll burn 200-400 calories each day (assuming that you do the workouts) so that would equate to 1600-1800 calories total; that is within the healthy realm of fat loss. NEVER GO BELOW 1500 CALORIES A DAY, that would be cause for malnutrition.

I lost 50+ pounds by doing this with a personal trainer. Lift weights with low weight with high reps per set. Do 20 reps per set for 2-3 sets. Then do cardio after that. Do this 5 days a week and rest for 2 of 7 days (its your decision on which days are rest days).

For diet, calories aren't the only thing to be concerned about. The thing that you need to watch out for is the carbs. There are 2 kinds of carbs- simple carbs and complex carbs. Complex carbs are good for you, basically, they take longer to digest thus leading to less fat production and an even burn of energy throughout the day. Simple carbs are ONLY GOOD FOR BREAKFAST. They have a simpler structure and can be digested immediately. Thus results a very quick rush of energy. If you do not burn this energy soon within digestion, then it will be converted to fat.

To determine what carbs are what in your food, look at the total carbs. Say it has 20g of total carbs per serving. It has 18g of sugar. Sugar is a simple carb, so only 2g of that serving is complex carb. This is bad for a diet, but not too bad for the mornings. Remember, complex carbs are good, simple are bad- simple right?

Lastly, have 5 meals a day. Just make sure they are small in proportions and equate to 1800 cal total. For example, wake up at 6, eat, eat at 9, eat at 12, eat at 3, then eat at 6pm.

When I was on a diet, I always rewarded my self once a month with some nice and tasty comfort food. You don't have to be too tight as*ed about diets all the time, it would drive you to insanity. Just dont pig out and eat like 3000+ calories on that once a month pig out day.

Monday, 16 December 2013

To reduce weight quickly

Do cardie exercise, yoga, plates its great to burn fat and it will tone ur body as well, Dancing can be one of the ways of a work out and you may not even get bored of it.

Physical exercise is important for maintaining physical fitness and can contribute positively to maintaining a healthy weight, building and maintaining healthy bone density, muscle strength, and joint mobility, promoting physiological well-being, reducing surgical risks, and strengthening the immune system

 Just because you're getting healthy doesn't mean you can't snack. In fact, eating small meals and snacks throughout the day, or grazing, has been shown to aid weight loss, (compared to eating three large meals a day), by keeping metabolism steadier.
 Pick snacks that are low in calories and fat and high in fiber (dried apricots, nuts, rice cakes, fruits, baby carrots, cherry tomatoes, and so on).

 Vegetables are generally very low in calories, very high in fiber, and full of flavor and nutrition. Generally, you want to - with a combination of calorie reduction and increased activity - reduce and burn a certain number of calories a day, causing a net loss of calories so your body is forced to use its own stores of fat. Articles for weight loss tips

Loose weight fast?

Physical exercise is important for maintaining physical fitness and can contribute positively to maintaining a healthy weight, building and maintaining healthy bone density, muscle strength, and joint mobility, promoting physiological well-being, reducing surgical risks, and strengthening the immune system.

Just because you're getting healthy doesn't mean you can't snack. In fact, eating small meals and snacks throughout the day, or grazing, has been shown to aid weight loss, (compared to eating three large meals a day), by keeping metabolism steadier. Pick snacks that are low in calories and fat and high in fiber (dried apricots, nuts, rice cakes, fruits, baby carrots, cherry tomatoes, and so on).

Vegetables are generally very low in calories, very high in fiber, and full of flavor and nutrition. Generally, you want to - with a combination of calorie reduction and increased activity - reduce and burn a certain number of calories a day, causing a net loss of calories so your body is forced to use its own stores of fat. Articles for weight loss tips

Easy weight to lose weight FAST

Do it for yourself : easiest way to lose weight is to decide for yourself that you really want to lose weight if you are not motivated enough than nothing is going to happen

Exercise : Dancing can be one of the ways of a work out and you may not even get bored of it. Diet wise : drink 8-10 glasses of water.

U should have a healthy balanced diet have more fiber and protein in your diet they keep you full and energized and you should have small meal every 3 hours and don’t eat before 3 hrs of going to bed and soup it make u full and has less calories just avoid the cream and make the soup in this way mix veggies and water sort of a thick soup its very filling and sometimes tasty. You should look at how you are eating these days.

Eating healthy food lets you have a healthy body. You should stop using food that has fat and contains sweets in it. You should prefer having fruits and vegetables over them along with some work out.

Wednesday, 11 December 2013

Weight loss solutions?

Weight loss is one of the toughest goals to be accomplished by an individual. You need a lot of self motivation and you need to put in a lot of effort in order to achieve the objective which is weight loss. You need to incorporate different things in your every day routine for sloughing off those extra pounds which you have gained with the course of time over your body. However, it is not only about changing the way you eat and behave with your body but it is about remodeling and alternating the whole lifestyle patterns which you have been following for past few years.

In order to help you out in this misery situation, I would like to discuss some weight loss solutions with you that are result oriented and will definitely help you in the long run as well. Just make sure that you incorporate these weight loss solutions in your daily routine and I am sure that after observing the results, you will surely admire you decision of following the solutions which I will be discussing in the following passages.

First and the most important weight loss solution for sure success is that you must cut down the consumption of junk and processed foods from your daily diet. You must consume fresh vegetables and fruits in your daily diet as they will not only help you in getting rid of your excessive weight but instead, they will make sure that your body is getting sufficient amount of essential nutrients which are required for it’s proper functioning.

Weight Loss Techniques?

We've all seen the ads for hypnosis programs that promise to help us stop smoking, sleep better, get rid of stress, and a number of other common problems. Perhaps you've heard about using hypnosis to lose weight, and are wondering if hypnosis is a viable weight loss option. The short answer is yes: hypnosis can be a valuable tool in the battle of the bulge. While many people have benefited from hypnosis, it should only be used in conjunction with a weight loss program that encompasses healthy eating habits and an exercise regime.

How Hypnosis Can Help You Lose Weight

So, how exactly does hypnosis help you lose weight? The answer is simple enough: hypnosis helps you build healthy habits. Permanent weight loss is really all about learning and establishing healthy habits in your life. Hypnosis can help you by letting you absorb new, healthier beliefs and ideas that can be used to counteract and eventually replace the unhealthy living habits that only serve to perpetuate your weight problem.

The Power of Hypnotherapy

How can hypnotherapy help you build stronger and healthier habits that promote weight loss? Specifically, hypnotherapy can help you in four ways:

1. Hypnotherapy helps you create a self-fulfilling prophecy. We've all heard it say, "You are what you eat." In reality, this old adage would be better stated as "you are what you believe." Belief is a powerful thing. Hypnotherapy can help plant positive beliefs in your mind that can help sustain the motivation and attitude necessary to lose weight. Hypnosis can put emphasis on the positive aspects of losing weight, such as increased stamina, energy, and overall better health. Rather than view weight loss as a negative, difficult, or challenging experience, hypnotherapy can help put a positive light on the experience, making the process of losing weight easier.

2. Hypnotherapy can help you create a new and powerful self-image. Hypnosis may sometimes also integrate other forms of therapy, including visualization therapy. Although many of us yearn to lose weight, and maybe even dream about it for most of our lives, very few of us actually take the time to imagine our lives as a slimmer version of ourselves. What would we look like? What would we wear? How would we eat? How would we feel about ourselves? A powerful element of hypnotherapy is that it forces us to encounter ourselves, including the selves we would like to become. Hypnotherapy forces us to create a strong self-image of who we are, and who we would like to become. Once we realize what we truly want, hypnotherapy can help keep this self-image planted squarely in our subconscious, making it a powerful image that guides us toward successful weight loss.

3. Hypnotherapy helps you get rid of stress. Why should you worry about stress as you work toward your weight loss goal? Many people who strive to lose weight don't realize how stressful their situation is. Weight loss is a stressful! Your very self-image seems guided by the numbers on your bathroom scale. Your morning weigh-in can set the tone for your entire day. The number that flashes across your scale can make the difference between a great day and a lousy one. Hypnotherapy can be a powerful de-stressing tool in a stressful time. By controlling stress, you will be more successful at keeping motivated and fueled for weight loss success. The more positive and relaxed you are, the less likely that you will fall prey to comfort or binge eating, lack of motivation, or other unhealthy behaviors.

4. Establish healthy habits. One of the greatest attributes of hypnotherapy is that it can help you establish healthy habits that promote weight loss. Are you drawn to desserts after a bad day at work? Do you eat when you're bored? Hypnotherapy can help you control this type of emotional eating by gently reminding you to eat only when you are hungry. Do you lack the motivation to start an exercise routine after years of inactivity? Are you afraid that all your hard work will not pay off? Hypnotherapy can help quell fears and raise your motivation by putting a positive spin on your weight loss experience. Reframing the idea of weight loss as something positive, even relaxing, can help make the experience less of an emotional rollercoaster.

Meaning of Weight loss diet?

Definition

Weight loss is a reduction in body mass characterized by a loss of adipose tissue (body fat) and skeletal muscle.

Description

Unintentional weight loss is the most common symptom of cancer and often a side effect of cancer treatments. A poor response to cancer treatments, reduced quality of life, and shorter survival time may result from substantial weight loss. The body may become weaker and less able to tolerate cancer therapies. As body weight decreases, body functionality declines and may lead to malnutrition, illness, infection, and perhaps death.

Most cancer patients in the United States expect to suffer weight loss during treatment for their disease; a study of 938 patients from 17 communities in upstate New York reported in 2004 that weight loss was the fourth most commonly expected side effect of cancer therapy, after fatigue, nausea, and sleep disturbances.

Severe malnutrition is typically defined in two ways: functionally (increased risk of morbidity and/or mortality) and by degree of weight loss (greater than 2% per week, 5% per month, 7.5% per 3 months, and 10% per 6 months). Without considering a specific time course, grading is as follows:

Grade 0 = less than 5.0% weight loss
Grade 1 = 5.0% to 9.9%
Grade 2 = 10.0% to 19.9%
Grade 3 = greater than 20.0%
Grade 4 (life-threatening) is not specifically defined. Paying attention to weight loss at an early stage is necessary to prevent deterioration of weight, body composition, and performance status.
Causes

There are many reasons for weight loss in cancer patients, including appetite loss because of the effect of cancer treatments (chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or biological therapy) or psychological factors such as depression. Patients may suffer from anorexia and lose desire to eat, and thus consume less energy. When inadequate calories are consumed, it can lead to "wasting" of body stores (muscle and adipose tissue). Weight loss may be temporary or may continue at a life-threatening pace.

Weight loss may be also be a consequence of an increased requirement for calories (energy) due to infection, fever, or the effects of the tumor or cancer treatments. If infection or fever is present, it is necessary to consider that there is an increased caloric need of approximately 10% to 13% per degree above 98.6°F (37°C). Therefore, energy intake has to be increased to account for this rise in body temperature.

Weight loss may be a result of a common problem in cancer called cachexia. Approximately half of all cancer patients experience cachexia, a wasting syndrome that induces metabolic changes leading to a loss of muscle and fat. It has been proposed that cachexia may be due to the effects of the tumor, but this is debatable considering some patients with very large tumors do not experience cachexia, while others do even though tumors are less than 0.01% of body mass. Cachexia is most common in patients with pancreatic and gastric cancer. Approximately 83% to 87% of these patients experience weight loss. Cachexia is characterized by such symptoms as decreased appetite, fatigue, and poor performance status. It can occur in individuals who consume enough food, but due to disease complications, cannot absorb enough nutrients (i.e. fat malabsorption). Although energy expenditure is sometimes increased, cachexia can occur even with normal energy expenditure. Cachexia is multifactorial in nature and associated with mechanical factors, psychological factors, changes in taste, and cytokines. It should be distinguished from anorexia, in which there is a loss of desire to eat, resulting in weight loss. Cachexia is a serious complication in cancer patients, thought to be responsible for as many as 20% of all deaths from cancer.

Special Concerns

In order to allow normal tissue repair following aggressive cancer therapies, patients require adequate calories and macronutrients in the form of protein, carbohydrates, and fat. Inadequate consumption of food and/or poor nutrition may impair the ability of a patient to tolerate a specific therapy. If a low tolerance to therapy necessitates a decrease in dose, the therapy's effectiveness could be compromised. Wound healing may also be impaired with poor nutrition and inadequate energy intake.

Research has demonstrated that men often experience significantly more weight loss than women over the course of the disease and lose weight much faster. On average, survival time for men is shorter than for women. Significant predictors of patient survival are stage of disease, initial weight-loss rate, and gender.

Treatments

Nutritional problems related to side effects should be addressed to ensure adequate nutrition and prevent weight loss. In particular, cancer patients should maintain an adequate intake of calories and protein to prevent protein-calorie malnutrition. The patient's caloric requirements can be calculated by a dietitian or doctor since nutrient requirements vary considerably from patient to patient. Moreover, patient education about nutrition is vitally important; several recent studies have shown that almost half of all cancer patients in the United States receive no nutritional information from health care professionals, including the 18% who experience significant weight loss.

The following dietary tips may help patients to reduce weight loss:

Eat more when feeling the hungriest.
Eat foods that are enjoyed the most.
Eat several small meals and snacks instead of three large meals. A regular meal schedule should be kept so meals are not missed.
Have ready-to-eat snacks on hand such as cheese and crackers, granola bars, muffins, nuts and seeds, canned puddings, ice cream, yogurt, and hard boiled eggs.
Eat high-calorie foods and high-protein foods.
Take a small meal as to enjoy the satisfaction of finishing a meal. Have seconds if still hungry.
Eat in a pleasant atmosphere with family and friends if desired.
Make sure to consume at least eight to 10 glasses of water per day to maintain fluid balance.
Consider commercial liquid meal replacements such as Ensure, Boost, Carnation, and Sustacal.
An appetite stimulant may be given in order to prevent further weight loss such as megestrol acetate or dexamethasone.In clinical trials, both these medications appear to have similar and effective appetite stimulating effects with megestrol acetate having a slightly better toxicity profile. Fluoxymesterone has shown inferior efficacy and an unfavorable toxicity profile.

As of 2004, researchers at the Medical College of Virginia are studying a group of compounds known as cannabinoids for the treatment of cachexia and vomiting associated with cancer treatment. The best-known natural cannabinoids are derived from marijuana.

Further research is needed in order to devise an effective treatment for the loss of muscle tissue in cachexia. As of 2004, there are no medications, nutritional supplements, or other treatments that are even moderately successful in reversing the wasting of muscle tissue in cachexia.

Alternative and Complementary Therapies

Depression may affect approximately 15%–25% of cancer patients, particularly if the prognosis for recovery is poor. If anorexia is due to depression, there are antidepressant choices available through a physician. Counseling may be also be sought through a psychologist or psychiatrist to cope with depression.

It is important to check with a dietitian or doctor before taking nutritional supplements or alternative therapies because they may interfere with cancer medications or treatments. St. John's Wort has been used as a herbal remedy for treatment of depression, but it and prescription antidepressants is a dangerous combination that may cause symptoms such as nausea, weakness, and may cause one to become incoherent.

How do weight loss patches work?

Weight loss patches are a pretty new phenomenon, and at first glance seem to be the answer to everyone's prayers - a way to lose weight effectively without doing any work at all and not even changing your eating habits. Are you familiar with the phrase "If something seems too good to be true it probably is"? Check out to learn some truths before you take the plunge with a weight loss patch.

Truth One

If you can find a weight loss patch that works - and it's a big if - the chances are it would need to be prescribed by a doctor. Losing weight in the amounts promised by these things can cause serious health problems, and for this reason your doctor will want to run through a lot of tests etc beforehand. You may not want to hear the truth, but the fact is if you start dropping 35lbs in a month like they promise, your body is going to suffer some serious side effects from your weight loss patch.

Truth Two

Most of the commercial ones will have little to no effect. And if a weight loss patch does have some positive effects, it's not going to be from the "herbal" extracts or the tea leaf extracts or whatever else they claim has magic powers. The fact is, if you check the ingredients you'll notice that alongside the herbal stuff, most of them will contain large amounts of caffeine, ephedra, or some derivative of a substance like this. These chemicals speed your heart up, which in turn causes your body to burn slightly more calories than usual to keep up with it. Let me ask you though, if you are overweight, is overworking your heart like that the smartest way to be losing weight?

Truth Three

Many of them are unlicensed. Because of the nature of the internet, you can see these weight loss patches advertised for sale everywhere, much like you can with Viagra and other stimulants. It can be very hard to tell whether the substance you are buying is legal in your area or even if it has been approved for use on humans. If you have even the slightest doubt, don't buy it!

Truth Four

If you are lucky enough to see a result after using a weight loss patch, it won't last. Your body is only reacting to the chemicals being absorbed through your skin. As soon as you stop wearing the patch, you'll go back to how you were. Unless you plan on wearing a weight loss patch for the rest of your life, you may want to consider a different method of weight loss. Patches just won't help long term!

What is the best weight loss place in 2014

The best weight loss place for me is my home. I don't have to spend money for a monthly membership at a gym. I don't have to worry about childcare. I don't have to feel intimidated by others. I can do all 3 things required for healthy weight loss at home.

I get my cardio done by walking, biking, jogging, and I also own an elliptical. (I picked that up at a new and used sporting goods store for about 3 months worth of gym membership fees.)

My strength training also takes place at home. I own a variety of exercise DVDs that focus on strength training. (Tae Bo, yoga tapes, Power 90, etc.) It's important for me to have a variety because I get bored easy!

The third aspect of weight loss is eating healthy. At home, I stock up on healthy foods and don't buy junk food. This helps me to eat right because I can't get tempted to eat junk food if it isn't there.

At fitday.com, you can keep track of your activities, goals, and eating habits. Good luck with your weight loss!