July 2018 ~ HEALTH and FITNESS

This article is for the busy Moms who want to lose their body fat. The first thing you should do is write down everything that you eat. This is one of the best weight loss tips you will ever get from me.

No foolin' sister!

Because the answers may surprise you. Using a food journal is one of the best ways you can go about taking control of what you put into your body. And spare me the ol' "But Matt... I don't have time for this..." argument!

You see, it is pretty simple... as simple as just keeping a thin notebook in your pocket to find out exactly what you are feeding yourself during the day. You don't have to do this every day. But you should do it often enough to get a good idea what you are doing about nutrition and how to attack the fat loss problem.

I'm betting because you are a busy Mom, that you will have no idea where you get most of your food -- perhaps eating your children's leftovers?

Keeping a food journal allows you to positively identify the problem areas. You won't have to "guess" or "deny" why you are gaining weight.

And don't get anal here. Just jot down what you are eating and estimate the amount. It is just to give you an idea how much food you have been eating all day. And whether those foods are supportive to your fat loss diet.

Take care that you don't view the food journal as a chore. Your entries should be basic and easy to understand to you. You just want to know exactly what your eating habits are like to identify how you can make smarter choices and reduce your fat loss. Ideally, it shouldn't take five minutes (max) per day to journal quickly every time you eat something. After breakfast, take a few seconds to jot down what you ate. How much you ate. And do that every time you snack, eat a meal at home or in town.

I think you should get enough information after a few days to get a grasp of your eating habits and what habits you need to break. My feeling is... getting a food journal is one of the best ways to get started on the road to slimming down. Because you can work out extremely hard but your bad eating habits can be counterproductive to your weight loss goals.

So get a memo pad, journal your eating habits and figure out what you can do to improve it. What a simple way to get very effective results that will pay off big time down the road.

Discover how you will: Never be confused about effective fat loss again. Get rid of orange peel thighs. Wave goodbye to those cottage cheese arms. . Once and for all, fit back into your old "thin" clothes... AND spend more time with the family because you are not wasting it on useless and boring cardio exercises!

I'm sure you have heard people say that weight-loss is all about the amount of calories we take in versus the amount of calories we burn off during each day? For years people have been saying weight-loss is a simple, calories in calories out equation.

The "thinking" goes like this: If you eat less and exercise more you will HAVE TO create a caloric efficiency, and then you will lose weight and be healthy. But if (and when) this doesn't work it is because you LACK WILL POWER with the calorie in calorie out diet. Does this sound familiar? If this really worked I wouldn't have spent the last decade researching and experimenting with different theories on weight loss.

I did quickly find out though in my early days of doing the "D" word (dieting!) countless times that when I restricted my caloric intake 2 things happened. First, the scale told me that I had lost weight, and very quickly. And secondly, when I began eating again another thing always happened, I always gained the weight back, and sometimes even MORE! While it appeared that I had lost weight, I had actually just lost water and on longer, more extreme calorie restricted diets, I lost muscle, and this is a very bad thing, lean muscle is attractive and healthy for women, and it looks good!

So, why doesn't this simple theory of calories in versus calories out actually work, it seems very logical. This is because our bodies are far too complex for this simple formula. We have evolved and survived over thousands of years. Our ancestors experienced times of famine, and during these times with little to no food their bodies did what they are designed to do in order to keep them alive, they turned themselves into FAT STORING MACHINES! And we have evolved from our ancestors, and therefore our bodies do the exact same thing when we restrict our calories. Our bodies think we are entering into famine and our bodies go into fat storing mode.

When you eat less calories your body actually go into starvation mode, which SLOWS DOWN YOUR METABOLISM and CAUSES YOU TO GAIN WEIGHT! And I don't need to point out that this is the exact opposite of what you are trying to do. Not to mention the misery you experience when you are on a low calorie diet. So don't count calories, they are not worth your time. Count nutrients instead.