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Weight loss on macrobiotic diet

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Losing weight on the macrobiotic food diet

How to lose weight with macrobiotic diet, reduce weight by proper eating, slimming, how to achieve ideal weight loss.

At the beginning of macrobiotic transition nearly everybody will lose weight of few kilograms. Somebody more, somebody less. For many people it’s very positive effect and there are people, for which it’s the main motive for eating and staying with macrobiotic diet. Overweight people are better at the beginning with it, they have enough fats from which they can lose weight from. A little worse are these that have no extra weight, because even these are losing few kilograms at the start. The reason is simple. Organism, especially intestines, are adapted from the childhood for the digestion of another kind of foods, and it’s mainly simple sugars and quantity of fats. It takes certain time, until the organism cleans from the sediments and excesses, hence the whole period is followed by the weight lose. The weight loss will eventually stop (for somebody earlier, somebody a little later, mostly it takes about half a year). Then the weight is adjusting slowly and it settles on the ideal rate. Even the man, who eats macrobiotic diet, can be obese. If he overeats, he goes up with his weight as anybody else, if not more.

The problem of thinness is social problem. The most and the worst is hit the surrounding by it. Poor “slim macrobiotic” man has to hear often even several times a day hear the sentence: “Oh dear, you look bad, eat something finally”, or “It was so handy woman and now, look at her!”. It’s all only relative, because most times, the slim man will feel much better than ever before, his vitality is growing greatly. But today the average man is mildly obese and the percent of obese people is incomparably greater than slim ones. When you meet someone on the street who gained on weight, you won’t tell him: “What are you doing, that you are so fat”, but you rather choose sentence: “You have improved.” But if somebody lose weight, he hears many times a day: “You are so slim.” The power of collective is strong and only few are able to throw all these talks out over your head. If we lose weight too much, fast and long, it’s necessary to control the menu. Especially its variety, if we haven’t tied it up too much and if we are not eating one-sided. We have to be careful about, if we are not using salt too much, because even this is one of the reasons for the excessive weight loss. If we lose weight too quickly, we increase the ratio of fats and especially in the form of seeds, we can moderately increase the ratio of legumes and above all we are chewing very well. We have all come through this period, when surroundings had pity and scolded to us. It’s best to throw it over the head and get round. It doesn’t take long and the reward for us, except of good health, is better figure, stronger muscles and beautiful, clean skin and it’s worth waiting for some time to this.

Quick tips to lose weight

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Question:
If anyone could give me their absolute best tips to lose weight, I would be greatful?
Hi guys, I’m trying to make some BIG changes in my life right now, and one of them has to do with my body: I’m severly overweight and out of shape. I started exercising last week, but I’ve exercised before too and not really lost a whole lot of weight. If anyone here could give me some pointers I’d appreciate it.
Thanks for your time.

Answer:
I am personally eating macrobiotic diet for 4 years and I am completely satisfied. As for the weight loss, we have opposite problem in our macrobiotic community. How to gain weight, but in the healthy way :) On a macrobiotic diet you’ll lose a lot of weight very fast, but still in the best healthy way (from their point of view).

The weight loss point of this diet is, that it’s based on the complex sacharides (polysacharides) - whole grains, vegetables, fruits - as opposite to the simple ones (mono, di) - sugar.
The complex sacharides are going slowly (3 hours) into your blood stream and you have no strong cravings like with the simple sugar.

Try to switch completely to the whole grains, vegetables and fruits.
Use whole grain malts (barley, rice, corn) and maple syrup instead of the sugar.
Use good quality cold pressed oils and no more than 1-2 tablespoons a day.
Limit the salt intake and switch to sea salt. If you eat lots of salt, you will need to compensate it with lot of sugar too. Try to limit the salt only and you’ll see, there’s no such strong need for sugar.
As many people suggested - it more frequently, but smaller portions. This way you’ll achieve stable sugar blood level.
Chew well and eat slowly in a calm environment. Not watching TV, not reading newspapers or surfing internet.

Many tips like this were posted here. I just wanted to show another alternative, that has many books written about and many courses and website tips on the net - macrobiotic.