10 Things You Need to Know About Losing Weight

On By Healthy Eating and WellbeingIn Weightloss

I watched an excellent programme on BBC1 last night called 10 Things You Need to Know About Losing Weight, in which medical journalist Michael Mosley investigated the latest scientific breakthroughs in slimming.  He uncovered 10 of the simplest ways to shed unwanted pounds.

This show was well researched and had lots of studies to support claims that were made.  Two points which I found most interesting were

  • The Slimming Secrets of Soup A study carried out for the programme found that people who had a solid meal followed by a glass of water became hungry before others who had the same meal but it had been blended into a soup along with the water.  This is because the blended meal stays in the stomach for longer and in turn the stomach tell the brain that you are still full.  This is great to know because there is such a variety of soups on the market and soup is also relatively easy, cheap and quick to make at home.  Click on this link for some tasty ideas http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes_menus/collections/healthy_soup_recipes

 

  • The Brains response after skipping meals Many people skip meals and believe that it will help them to consume less calories throughout the day.  The BBC did an experiment for the show 10 Things You Need to Know About Losing Weight and found that skipping meals actually does the opposite and causes us to eat more.  When we skip meals our bodies release a hormone called ghrelin which sends a message to the brain that our stomachs are empty, and also promotes fat storage.  Ghrelin tells our brains that we are starving and triggers us to want high calorie foods in order to compensate for the missed meal.  Once we eat the high calorie food because we are so hungry, our bodies then hold onto all of the fat and store it.  This links into my previous “Healthy Eating” post where I mentioned that you should not allow yourself to get hungry.  It leads to bad food choices and has a negative effect in the long run.

The 10 things that you need to know about losing weight are:

  1. Don’t skip meals.
  2. Use a smaller plate
  3. Count calories
  4. Don’t blame your metabolism
  5. Protein staves off hunger pangs
  6. Soups keep you feeling fuller for longer.
  7. The wider the choice of foods the more you eat.
  8. Low fat dairy helps you excrete more fat.
  9. Exercise continues burning fat, even while you sleep.
  10. Keep moving and lose weight.

If you missed this programme you will be able to view it on BBC iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ksh7c/10_Things_You_Need_to_Know_About_Losing_Weight/
It is well worth watching.

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  3. Carol Taylor

    I think I understand why I am overweight now. The soup information was unexpected. I haven’t heard of that before. A question I do have is with the exercise. I know he did 90 minutes of walking. Does it take that long to deplete the carbohydrate reserves? Is it necessary to deplete the reserves and if so what are the guidelines?

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    1. Hi Carol, the government recommend that we get 30 minutes of exercise 5 days per week. This may sound excessive but you can get more exercise into your day by simply getting off thr bus or train one stop early, or walking to do errands instead of driving. I do not believe that it is necessary to do 90 mins of exercise in order to deplete carbohydrates, and when I visit the gym, if I am not doing a class, I would usually do 30 mins of cardio and then 30- 40 mins of weight lifting.

      It is better to focus on the quality of your workout rather than quantity. One of the best ways to deplete carbohydrates and burn a lot of calories is through HIIT (high intensity interval training). You can perform this on any cardio machine, cross trainer, treadmill, exercise bike, rowing machine. On the cross trainer for example you would simply exercise at a moderate pace for 1 minute, and then as fast as you can for 20 seconds. Once the 20 seconds has finished you return to the moderate pace. You can repeat this for up to 20 or 30 minutes, whichever suits you.

      I hope this helps, let me know how you get on.

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    2. Bill Smoot

      I have been following a 10,000 step program, which involves walking 5 miles per day. Any walking counts. In conjuction with improving my diet with no red meat, modest amounts of lein protein, increased fruits and vegetables, less fatty foods like cheese, cookies and ice cream, and more whole grains like oat meal and granola, I have lost about 5 pounds. Feel better, I like the walking, and it was basically effortless.

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      1. That is excellent Bill, it sounds like you have made your mind up and you are following through with your decision. The differences you will notice in your body will amaze you if you are consistent. Changes do not take place over night but they will be worth it if you are consistent.

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  14. Ronnie

    This show was such a load of BS. They pick a flaky woman who is eating 5 times the amount of fruit she should eat and then they tell everyone not to blame their metabolism? That’s just insulting to those of us who know better and still can’t lose weight. I challenge them to follow my eating habits and tell me I’m forgetting or fudging what I’m eating. That was not possible in my case. I was on Jenny Craig and you eat their food plus very little else. I followed the diet to the letter and after menopause did not lose more than 5 pounds after 3 months. I did everything they told me to do. I then went to a doctor supervised diet plan with fresh food and the same thing happened. This one told you to the letter and the ounce what you should eat. I was unemployed and had the time to follow it very diligently but even so I could not lose anything past 8 pounds. Both diets were about a 1200 – 1500 calorie a day intake. I have had my thyroid and other hormones checked and have had thorough physicals but no one knows why this is happening. All I can say is that it happened to every woman on my mother’s side after menopause. I was skinny all my life until menopause. I didn’t just all of a sudden start eating a ton of food or laying around doing nothing. A lot of my female friends my age are experiencing the same thing. So I hate shows like this because they’re full of it.

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    1. Hi Ronnie, I am sorry to hear that you have not had any success with dieting or healthy eating. Of course when watching these shows you have to appreciate that they are very general and do not have the time or inclination to get into peoples individual circumstances. Your comment is very interesting though as I am sure that there are many women of a similar age group who have experienced similar things. And of course as we age it becomes much more difficult to lose weight, and when we relax our diet and have more treats, our bodies hold on to those calories much more.

      As I have mentioned in many of my previous posts I think that it will be much more effective for you to concentrate on eating whole and healthy foods rather than worrying about calories or anything else that is so time consuming. I wish you success with this in the future.

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