Average Weight For Women

Copyright (c) 2008 Karen Sessions
Let’s be honest. You are carrying around more body fat that you desire and you are simply sick and tired of it. It makes you feel distorted, you have no energy, your clothes don’t fit, you hate to look in the mirror, and you are just plain miserable.
If you want to drop that nagging body fat, then you need to get focused. Make a decision to lose that fat, and stick to it.
I’m going to give you 3 key tools that you can start using right now to boost fat loss 3 times faster.
I’ll keep this short and simple, so let’s get to it…
First, don’t starve the fat off your body, but feed your body foods of quality that it can use to burn fat and nourish your metabolically active muscle.
What does this mean? Well, first don’t eat 3 square meals a day. To increase your metabolism naturally you need to eat more smaller, yet balanced. Kick-up your meal frequency to 5-6 times a day.
Why is this important? Well, every time you eat foods that your body can use for energy or building purposes it increases your metabolic rate naturally.
Okay, so you are eating more meals a day, but I must caution you. The foods you choose are going to have a DRAMATIC impact on your fat loss rate. If you choose natural foods your fat loss will soar. If you choose processed foods your fat loss will stall or increase.
It is of utter importance that you choose natural foods your body can use burn fat and build muscle.
Second, eat low-carb meals to dip into fat stores better. I know all too well the current low-carb debate. I’m not suggesting that you rip carbs out of your diet completely.
However, if you want to tap into your fat stores better and burn off fat, you are going to have to lower your complex and starchy carb intake and replace those carb meals with non-starchy veggies.
Non-starchy veggies can be thought of as negative calories. They don’t impact the insulin so they will keep you in fat burning mode 24/7.
Third, eat more essential fats. Yes, the body needs essential fats to function properly and to burn fat. While most people eat a hefty amount of fat each day, most of that fat intake is not essential.
You can be fat, yet fat deficient. However, if you supply your body with essential fats it can use, you can dramatically decrease your body fat and improve your health.
Conclusion – These are just a few tools to get you started to improving your health, burning off stubborn body fat, and increasing lean muscle tissue. If you implement these 3 tactics whole-heartedly you will start to see and feel changes within days.

Researchers from Venezuela have found a solution for overweight people that wants to have a permanent weight reduction.

The diet starts the day with a big, well composed bereakfast with carbohydrates, proteins and fat. The rest of the day you should eat small meals with very little carbohydrates.

If a diet shall be effective over longer periods of time, it has to give a good feeling of not being hungry at the same time as it set a stop for your sugar cravings. The researchers tell us they have found such a method or diet now.

The researchers had 94 overweight women with little activities on their schedule on two different diets. 46 of the participants should follow a traditional diet almost without any carbohydrates at all. The daily ration allowed for 1085 calories, and allowed for only 17 grams of carbohydrates, like from bread, fruit, breakfast mixes or milk. In addition the women could eat 51 grams of proteins and 78 grams of fat pr day.  The breakfast consisted of around 290 calories and was the smallest meal of the day.

The other group could eat 1240 calories a day, with 46 grams of fat, 93 grams of proteins and as much as 97 grams of carbohydrates. More than half of the carbohydrates would be in the breakfast.

The trial went on for 8 months, where in the first 4 months the participants focused on weight loss. The last 4 months the women should focus on not gaining any weight.

At halfway time, the women in the low carbohydrate diet had lost almost 13 kilos, as the ladies in the big breakfast diet had lost almost 11 kilos. But after the second half of the race had gone it was pretty clear who the winners were and were the wieghtloss was most effective.

The women in the low carbohydrate diet group had gained in average over 8 kilos, while the women in the big breakfast group had continued to loose weight and had actually lost over 7 kilos more.

They had all together lost around 21 percent of their body weight, while the other group had only lost around 4.5 percent.

Children’s Health…Weight Control For Their Life

Overweight Kids Becoming The NormThe first thing that I must do is applaud you for taking the time to research this disproportionally growing problem. I have no way of knowing what it is that troubles you, but at least you are taking steps to try and rectify the situation. I have only one child, a daughter in her early twenties, so I can only go by what I have observed in the last few years. Where did all these overweight kids come from? When I was that age we had two maybe three kids in the class that we called fat. From the looks of it, whenever I go shopping or to the mall, it has become the norm rather than the exception. I wonder, are the parents just as big? Are they all products of the electronic revolution of computers and video games? Do children ever kick a ball just for the heck of it, or climb a tree, play tag, or hide and go seek? Do the kids who play Madden Football ever actually throw and catch a real one?  Or have parents shackled to their busy humdrum schedules, simply given up on trying to provide healthy meals, and given into the easy fix a microwave dinner or local McDonald’s or a pizza joint provides them? The other culprit in this pathetic scenario is of course the food industry that keeps pumping salt and sugar into everything. All the crops and livestock are shot so full of chemicals, for various reasons, that it is a wonder our meals have any nutritional value at all.    Whatever the reason, these children are in serious trouble. Many of them are beyond being overweight and are considered to be obese by the time they enter middle school. If it’s true that the only exercise they are getting is with their thumbs, from video games and texting, the future is going to be filled with many trips to the doctor. They are in for a life of shortness of breath, possibly diabetes and for certain cardiovascular and heart complications. In addition, lets not forget the back, legs, and foot problems they will undoubtedly suffer. I realize that there are those that unfortunately are stricken with medical diagnoses that prevent them from losing weight. These people should be given all the professional help and support that they need. For those of you who are looking for a weight loss program for the first time, or have tried diets in the past that didn’t work, you’ll be glad you took the time to read this. I am now going to show you why it is that most popular diets fail, and then provide you with a great fun alternative that will work for you and your children. Why Many Of The So-Called “In” Diets Fail

Hazardous To Your Child’s Health Many of the diet plans tout the idea that “low”as in low carb or low fat, equate to loss, as in loss of weight. This is not true. The body can’t function on a low carb diet and will cause you to have headaches, irritability and sleep loss. You will end up gaining weight after the initial weight loss. Low Fat foods that the stores sell are typically very high in calories, and will cause you to gain, not lose weight. As far as your eating habits, companies  are prospering on the simple concept of moderation. They haven’t done anything that you can’t do yourself. They have just made it easier for someone to eat less. In addition, the packaged food contains preservatives. I am sure that not only can you cook better meals than they offer, you’ll be able to do it for a fraction of the cost. I know it sounds ridiculous to say that someone who is starving themselves is on a diet. But for the hundreds of thousands of women who pop pills and binge, it is a reality. Plain and simple, your body needs food to function properly. There are so called liquid diets, and programs that tell you to eat as little as possible. Losing weight this way is  actually worse for you than gaining weight. Without proper nutrients, your body will systematically break down.Losing Weight Can be Fun!Eat More To Lose MoreMy research brought me to  a revolutionary new diet system and eating program that will make you lose weight WITHOUT restricting your diet to “low fat” or “low carb” foods. The secret is eating the right CALORIES. Strip That Fat will get you to actually eat more and lose more. Now, that sounds like fun.  I’ll tell you another fun concept. How would you like to eat more rather than less? That’s right! With Strip that Fat you will be eating five meals a day. You need to exercise, but most of you do enough exercise already to be losing weight, you just have not been told about the proper techniques (which they release in full details within this system). Imagine an exercise that increases your metabolism, and increase the calories you burn while you are resting. Resting? That sounds like fun too! These are just a few of the reasons that  Strip that Fat is the top dieting programs available online. Do the fun thing and check this out. Find out why dads, moms, and kids who have never had success losing weight, are seeing results after just the first week. Please go to: Fat Loss ReviewsCompare Strip That Fat to the other top weight loss products that are now available. You decide which one best fits your needs.

Copyright (c) 2009 Neal Spruce

Menopause and weight gain

Menopause is defined as the end of menstruation. The postmenopausal period is associated with symptoms such as hot flashes, changes in libido and weight gain. In America, the typical woman reaches menopause at just over 51 years of age. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2005, the average American woman reaching age 50 could expect to live another 30 years. The weight a woman gains while she’s in menopause is weight she may well struggle with for the rest of her life. Does being menopausal doom you to weight gain? Is losing weight after menopause harder than it would be before menopause? In this article, we’ll take a look at these issues and go a little more in depth about the times in their lives when women are the most likely to gain weight.

The typical American woman will experience numerous changes in body shape during her life, specifically just after high school, childbearing and menopause. The culprit for young women is often a significant decrease in activity after high school leading to the infamous “Freshman 15″. , Pregnancy is an obvious time for weight gain, but most women reach their pre-pregnancy weight within six months of giving birth – at least after their first child.1 The women in both scenarios can change their weight or body fat by eating less and moving more. See Weight Control 101 for a complete discussion.

The common belief with menopause is that the decrease in female hormones somehow leads to a slower metabolism or increased body fat. Several studies have evaluated whether there is a specific change around menopause that leads to weight gain, or at least makes it easier. These studies have shown that the biggest change affecting body weight around menopause is a reduction in activity. This is a common theme at various stages of a woman’s life. That is, a relatively steady or slight increase in calorie intake with decreasing activity over time. One strong predictor for obesity in a person’s life is age. Since the average woman gains about a pound yearly, it is much more likely that a middle-aged woman will be obese compared to a 20 year-old. Also, a woman with extra weight at adolescence is more likely to gain extra weight at other times such as her freshman year of college.

Some of the stronger studies on menopause looked at women of the same age who either still had periods or were in menopause. When pre and postmenopausal women are matched for age, menopausal women have 1. No difference in weight gain. Both pre and postmenopausal women gain weight. The difference is where the fat is stored.7 2. No difference in loss of lean mass compared to premenopausal women. Both lost muscle tissue with time. 3. An increase in central adiposity – more fat stored around the waist as opposed to the thighs or arms. 4. No change in body composition. It seems the biggest effect of decreased estrogen is where fat is stored, not that more fat is stored. 5. A possible small decrease in resting metabolic rate (RMR) from decreased estrogen, but not enough of a difference that menopausal women gain more weight.7

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT)

Some women take medication to replace the hormones lost from menopause. Women often ask if weight gain is something they can expect as a side effect of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). A three-year study found that there was no increase in body weight among HRT users compared to placebo regardless if they used estrogen or estrogen and progesterone combined.9 Women should discuss HRT with a physician who will assess any risk of hormone-dependent cancers.

In summary, menopause only means women will no longer have periods. It does not mean the body slows down to the point a woman is destined to gain weight. Postmenopausal women can lose weight just like premenopausal women. When postmenopausal women lose weight, they can lose both subcutaneous (under the skin) and visceral (around the organs) fat as easily as premenopausal women. This means postmenopausal women can reverse any weight gain. In addition, weight loss among postmenopausal women is accompanied by the same improvements in cholesterol and reduced insulin resistance. This results in a lower risk of heart disease and diabetes. Women can both prevent gaining weight and achieve better overall health during menopause by engaging in regular physical activity.

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