{"id":4626,"date":"2011-01-07T00:33:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T00:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=4626"},"modified":"2022-11-15T12:53:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T12:53:06","slug":"how-to-lose-weight-and-influence-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=4626","title":{"rendered":"How To Lose Weight And Influence Yourself…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FatI just watched a fascinating programme on BBC One called “10 Things You Need to Know About Losing Weight<\/a>“. It is available on iPlayer for the usual limited time.<\/p>\n

The programme starts by explaining that visceral fat – fat which fills body cavities and surrounds organs – is the most dangerous kind, and can lead to various health problems including cancer and Type 2 Diabetes. It is this fat which gives people enhanced waistlines even if they aren’t overtly fat, but it is also the first fat to be burnt when a person starts dieting\/exercising.<\/p>\n

Just stopping eating – as in the classic diet – is no good. You’ve got to consider other things, too.<\/p>\n

The 10 things were as follows (all backed up with current scientific evidence):<\/p>\n

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  1. Don’t skip breakfast\/meals – if you do, your brain makes you crave high-calorie foods to compensate.<\/li>\n
  2. Use smaller plates – if you change your plate size from 12″ to 10″ and you could eat up to 22% less food.<\/li>\n
  3. Calories matter – for example, a chicken dinner with potatoes and vegetables is quite possibly more than you can eat, but a fruit smoothie containing the same number of calories can be knocked back in seconds.<\/li>\n
  4. Don’t blame your metabolism – you’re just eating more calories\u00a0than you are burning.<\/li>\n
  5. Protein makes you feel fuller for longer.<\/li>\n
  6. The exact same meal served as a soup instead of separate items with a glass of water keeps your stomach full for longer.<\/li>\n
  7. The wider the choice, the more you will eat.<\/li>\n
  8. Dairy calcium causes you to excrete more fat – twice as much as the non-dairy equivalent diet.<\/li>\n
  9. Moderate exercise carries on burning fat for up to 24 hours after you do it. The actual excercise burns very little, but the main effect occurs after you stop.<\/li>\n
  10. Even small changes to the amount of exercise you do burns a significant amount of calories – up to 240 just by going up and down the stairs a few times and maybe walking to the shops.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Obviously, you have to make up your own mind. But it is something that a lot of driving instructors really ought to think about – sitting down all day is not good for the waistline!<\/p>\n

    What IS interesting is that if you Google for information on weight loss, the advice is all old<\/em>. It advises just eating less and becoming some sort of herbivore. As the presenter of the BBC show said (and he is a trained doctor), when he was at medical school, they were just taught that calories are calories, when modern science is saying absolutely the opposite.<\/p>\n