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Healthy Recipes for Weight Loss: Smoothies and Juices
Clean Green Juice (Serves 4) 2 heaped scoops wheatgrass or barley grass powder mixed in 1-cup water OR 1 cup juiced mixed greens (lettuce, spinach, beet greens, wheatgrass etc) NOTE: you will need a centrifugal juicer to juice green leafy vegetables or you can ask your green grocer to do it! 5 stalks, [...]
Diet Plans to Lose Weight- The Blood Group Diet
In 1997, a book by naturopathic physician Peter D’ Adamo, Eat Right 4 Your Type took the world by storm when D’ Adamo claimed that your blood type classification was the key to your health and ability to lose weight. But should we really be taking heed to what D’ Adamo claims? And is our [...]
Diet Plans to Lose Weight: The 10-Day Detox Plan
When weight becomes an issue in your life, you will sometimes want to resort to a whole lot of fad diet plans to lose weight. Beware of what you choose though, because some quick-fix solutions are not healthy ones. A detoxification diet is a great way to kick start a diet plan because they [...]
Healthy Recipes For Weight Loss: Salads : Papaya and Avocado Salad (Serves 4)
2 cups baby spinach 2 cups rocket 1 paw-paw, deseeded and cut into cubes 1 avocado pear, sliced 1 small packet mixed salad sprouts (e.g. alfalfa, chickpeas and lentils) Dressing: 2 Tbs red wine vinegar 2 Tbs olive oil ¼ tsp onion 1 tsp paw-paw seeds 2 tsp honey (Mix [...]
Healthy Snacks for Weight Loss
One of the biggest challenges in eating healthy is how to choose healthy snacks for weight loss. For most people, snacking involves eating something sugary and indulgent, like chocolate. When on a weight loss plan though, those sweet indulgences need to be reduced, and replaced with much healthier options. Having said this, snacks need [...]
Preventing Diabetes
Being overweight puts you at risk for many modern diseases- including diabetes. When it comes to diabetes, diet and lifestyle are an integral part of management. Although there is a genetic component to the disease- it’s largely our lifestyles that determine whether these genes will express themselves. Bad diet, lack of exercise, overweight and stress- [...]
Sabotage in Weight Loss
Do you feel like you are continuously making excuses for your failure to stick to your weight loss programme? “I don’t have time for exercise”, “I haven’t had a chance to go shopping”, “My mind is just not ready” are some of the things you may be telling yourself. Sometimes you can sense that you [...]
Dealing with Food Cravings
Have you ever felt that nagging temptation of your favourite forbidden food, grabbing hold of you and nor letting go? One of the biggest challenges in any weight loss programme is the issue of cravings. For most people, it’s a craving for sweet and sugary foods, but many people will crave fatty or salty foods [...]
The Causes of Overweight
One of the first questions I ask my patients is what do they think caused them to be overweight in the first place. This is generally the place to start initiating change. For some people it’s a hormonal disorder, for others it may be overeating triggered after a divorce or a lack of exercise due [...]
How to Lose Weight Quickly
There is a lot of evidence that slower weight loss is more permanent, but if you want to know how to lose weight quickly, there is a solution. You will probably find hundreds of diets when looking for ways to lose weight fast, and all will promise grand results. Starvation diets and very low calorie [...]