Why Your Scale Might Be Stuck

Maybe you're cutting the wrong calories! Reducing "liquid calories" from beverages such as soda, fruit punch, and sweetened iced tea is 5 times more effective for weight loss than cutting back on calories from solid foods, according to a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The researchers say that because swallowing beverages does not satiate the body the way chewing solid food does, it causes people to overeat. --Prevention, August 2009.

Comment: Ditching the soda, etc., and cutting way back on high-calorie solid foods does wonders for those who want to lose weight. And don't forget to exercise!

Suzanne

I think if they studied that more carefully they might find a large percentage of the weight loss from cutting out the beverages will be just water weight.

In my belief, the single best weight-control technique is getting adequate exercise.

Exercise does all of the following, and more:

-- Burns more calories
-- Increases metabolic rate
-- Regulates the resting heart rate
-- Reduces appetite until metabolic needs exceed caloric intake
-- Relieves stress, helping to regulate the adrenal glands which in turn affect metabolic rate
-- Increases circulatory system capacity and efficiency
-- Prevents insomnia
-- Increases sense of well-being
-- Increases muscle tone and mass, making it easier to burn calories while at the same time increasing strength
-- Prevents depression (and many people eat more when depressed)

Exercise cannot be over-stressed in today's world.

Blessings,

Green Cochoa.

I agree with the emphasis on exercise. I've not heard this one before:

"Reduces appetite until metabolic needs exceed caloric intake"

I'd be interested in hearing more about this one.

Tom,

There's so much information out there on this point of exercise reducing the appetite, that I will let you choose which articles to look at in the results list of this Google search.

Blessings,

Green Cochoa.

I was interested on the specific point that it "Reduces appetite until metabolic needs exceed caloric intake".

Basically, and if you were to read some of those articles you would see this, exercise only reduces appetite under one of two conditions:

1) If the exercise is light to moderate, but not heavy; or
2) It will reduce the appetite temporarily.

If I go out and work very hard in my garden all morning, I am hardly hungry for lunch. But come supper time, my appetite will be good. This is because the caloric expenditure of the morning's work requires a replacement. But if I just take a walk for 20 minutes, my appetite might be reduced, and since I didn't really need the calories, I might never have an appetite "comeback."

Exercise regulates the appetite to what is necessary. If you need more calories to support your level of exercise, you will certainly have a strong appetite. But if you have been consuming more calories than required for your activity level, exercise will reduce your appetite. That's the point I was trying to bring out. The articles you will read there from that Google search go into detail about two key appetite-reducing hormones that exercise produces, and the amounts produced depend on the type and quantity of exercise. Apparently, aerobic exercise drops the appetite more than a non-aerobic one like weight lifting.

Blessings,

Green Cochoa.

Thanks.

Extra virgin coconut oil definitely assist with losing fat especially when combined with exercise.. I tried it and loved it, along with other health benefits, it is quite effective.
God Bless,
Will

Will you explain further?

Hi Servant,
Here is a link that goes into more detail:
Coconut Oil
God Bless,
-Will