Don't Beat Yourself Up Over a Bad Day - Weight Loss Tip

Weight Loss Tip - You are going to have moments of weakness and times when you overeat. Don't beat yourself up when you overindulge . Instead put yourself back on track the next day. Give yourself credit for everything you have been doing on other days. Every day is different, do the best you can do now. You can workout a little longer and burn some of those extra calories. When things go wrong stay away from faulty thinking and negative self talk and just re focus and try to make it right . Negative self talk is your greater enemy than food itself. Being too hard on yourself will only make it worse.

Ideal body weight chart

This chart may not apply to everyone as ideal weight also depends on frames, build, muscle tone etc.

IDEAL WEIGHT CHART
HEIGHT	MALE	FEMALE
4' 10"	85 - 103 lbs	81 - 99 lbs
4' 11"	90 - 110 lbs.	86 - 105 lbs.
5' 0"	95 - 117 lbs.	90 - 110 lbs.
5' 1"	101 - 123 lbs.	95 - 116 lbs
5' 2"	106 - 130 lbs	99 - 121 lbs
5' 3"	112 - 136 lbs	104 - 127 lbs.
5' 4"	117 - 143 lbs	108 - 132 lbs
5' 5"	122 - 150 lbs	113 - 138 lbs
5' 6"	128 - 156 lbs	117 - 143 lbs
5' 7"	133 - 163 lbs	122 - 149 lbs
5' 8"	139 - 169 lbs	126 - 154 lbs.
5' 9"	144 - 176 lbs	131 - 160 lbs.
5' 10"	149 - 183 lbs.	135 - 165 lbs
5' 11"	155 - 189 lbs	140 - 171 lbs
6' 0"	160 - 196 lbs	144 - 176 lbs.
6' 1"	166 - 202 lbs	149 - 182 lbs
6' 2"	171 - 209 lbs	153 - 187 lbs.

Table of Contents

Weight Loss Tips
Ideal Body Weight Chart
Calorie Calculator
Kg - Pound Conversion
Metabolism
Boost Metabolism
Virtual Weight Loss Model
Body Mass Index (BMI)
Body Mass Index Calculator
Ideal Weight Calculator
Strength Training
Aerobic Exercise
Interval Training
Negative calorie Food
Sleep - Weight Loss
Portion Control
Basal Metabolic Rate
Submit Your Blog - 50 Blog Directories
Tips To Stop Food Cravings
Tips For Portion Control
Protein And Weight Loss
Fiber And Weight Loss
Water And Weight Loss
Weight Loss Inspirational Quotes
Weight Loss Motivational Quotes
High fructose corn syrup
Visualize yourself thin
Artificial Sugar - Less Calories, More Side Effects
Resolve To Lose Slowly - Set Realistic Goals
Portion Control
Don't Use The Word Diet As Diets Don't Work
Don't Beat Yourself Up Over a Bad Day
Keep a Positive Attitude to Maximize Your Success in Weight Loss
Get Plenty of Sleep - It May Aid Weight Loss
Arthritis and Yoga
Spice Up Your Food
Low calorie dairy foods
Sugar and Weight Loss
Eat smaller, more frequent meals

Quitting Soda to Lose Weight

Here's a simple and sweet story about successful weight loss;

i used to drink a 2 liter bottle of soda a day then i realized how much wieght i had gained by doing that. i quit drinking that all together and now drink nothing but water and i have last 35 pounds in 6 months. water does really help you lose weight.

This is the latest comment you will find on the Drinking Water to Lose Weight post.

Also see good reasons not to drink bottled water.

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Leptin and Lectins

I've been puzzled by an interesting question lately. Why is it that certain cultures are able to eat large amounts of carbohydrate and remain healthy, while others suffer from overweight and disease? How do the pre-industrial Kuna and Kitavans maintain their insulin sensitivity while their bodies are being bombarded by an amount of carbohydrate that makes the average American look like a bowling ball?

I read a very interesting post on the Modern Forager yesterday that sent me on a nerd safari through the scientific literature. The paper that inspired the Modern Forager post is a review by Dr. Staffan Lindeberg. In it, he attempts to draw a link between compounds called lectins, found in grains (among other things), and resistance to the hormone leptin. Let's take a step back and go over some background.

One of the most-studied animal models of obesity is called the "Zucker" rat. This rat has a missense mutation in its leptin receptor gene, causing it to be nonfunctional. Leptin is a hormone that signals satiety, or fullness. It's secreted by fat tissue. The more fat tissue an animal has, the more leptin it secretes. Normally, this creates negative feedback that causes it to eat less when fat begins to accumulate, keeping its weight within a narrow range.

Zucker rats secrete leptin just fine, but they lack leptin receptors in their brain. Their blood leptin is high but their brain isn't listening. Thus, the signal to stop eating never gets through and they eat themselves to morbid obesity. Cardiovascular disease and diabetes follow shortly thereafter, unless you remove their visceral fat surgically.

The reason Zucker rats are so interesting is they faithfully reproduce so many features of the disease of civilization in humans. They become obese, hypometabolic, develop insulin resistance, impaired glucose tolerance, dyslipidemia, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Basically, severe metabolic syndrome. So here's a rat that shows that leptin resistance can cause something that looks a whole heck of a lot like the disease of civilization in humans.

For this model to be relevant to us, we'd expect that humans with metabolic syndrome should be leptin-resistant. Well what do you know, administering leptin to obese people doesn't cause satiety like it does in thin people. Furthermore, elevated leptin predicts the onset of obesity and metabolic syndrome. It also predicts insulin resistance. Yes, you read that right, leptin resistance comes before insulin resistance.

Interestingly enough, the carbohydrate-loving Kitavans don't get elevated leptin like europeans do, and they don't become overweight, develop insulin dysfunction or the metabolic syndrome either. This all suggests that leptin may be the keystone in the whole disease process, but what accounts for the differences in leptin levels between populations?

I'll talk about a possible explanation in my next post.