Weight Loss Digest

There is No Such Thing as Toning, Toning Exercises Don’t Exist

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:50:14 +0000

There is No Such Thing as Toning, Toning Exercises Don’t Exist

Guys, Have you been training like a girl?

I’ve always found the fitness industry interesting. And spending a lot of time inside a gym like I have, meeting lots of fitness enthusiasts, you always get told lots of B.S.

It’s amazing how little people actually understand about how to change their body.

Take “toning” for example.

And yes, I did write it like that deliberately. You see, I don’t really consider “toning” a word that should ever be used by someone looking to get into shape. I’m sure you’ve heard it all before, probably even said it yourself.

It usually sounds something like this.

“Oh, I don’t want to get really big, I just want to get a bit more toned…”.

There’s nothing wrong with not wanting to look like Ronnie Coleman, I certainly don’t. But wanting to get “toned” is stupid, because there is no such thing as toning.

When people talk about getting toned, what they really want is to increase muscle and decrease fat.

Simple isn’t it?

Why can’t they just say this in the first place!

If you want to increase your muscle mass and decrease your fat, you need to go about things in a systematic way.

Simply doing lots of repetitions with low weight will not make you “toned”.

This is a huge myth and for good reason.

I know gym instructors who tell clients to use higher reps and lower weights when looking to tone up.

No wonder people are frustrated with their results!

There are things you need to do in order to build muscle and there are things you need to do in order to burn fat. It’s as simple as that.

Unless you have superb genetics, chances are you’re going to find it hard to build muscle and burn fat at the same time.

This is because to gain weight, you need to eat more than you burn and to lose weight, you need to burn more than you lose.

Sure, at first, you may be able to gain some muscle as you lose fat, but eventually your body will adapt to its new situation and you’ll only be able to do one or the other at a time.

So I hope this has cleared up a couple of issues for you.

If I hear you ever mutter the word “toned” inside a 5 mile radius of a gym, I’m going to bitchslap you.

So, I hope you now understand the difference between building muscle and losing fat.

The Muscle head is a natural bodybuilder and the author of the brutally honest and revealing book “The Muscle heads Guide to a Godlike Physique”. For more hard hitting information on how to get the body of your dreams, Go Here to now How to Build Bigger Biceps.

Dumb Ass Exercise Injuries, Don’t Make One of These Mistakes

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:57:04 +0000

Dumb Ass Exercise Injuries, Don’t Make One of These Mistakes

If you spend enough time in the gym, you will see some funny things. Well, if you have my sense of humor anyway.

Some people never seem to find anything funny happening in their gym, so I thought I would share a couple of the funnier things I’ve seen, while teaching some useful information at the same time.

1st Dumb Ass Exercise Injury Gym Story

A couple of years ago I was taking a breather after a couple of hard sets of calf raises. Right in front of me were a couple of young guys who hadn’t even started to shave yet. They were just normal kids in the gym, not news worthy at all.

Then I saw one of them grab a set of 80lb dumbbells and shuffle over to the decline bench. This got my attention. 80lbs is a good weight for older, stronger guys to be using.

These two were just a pair of skinny kids. Maybe these guys were freaks? Maybe they just didn’t look anything special. All these thoughts ran through my head.

Then as one guy got on the bench, the other helped him with the weights.

He readied himself and began to move the weights upwards. Or should I say, they both moved the weights upwards.

And then it happened. He managed to move the weights up a few inches away from a full extension, then both dumbbells came crashing down onto his face.

Haa So the great mystery had been solved. These guys weren’t freaks. They weren’t a super strong pair of kids at all. They were just a pair of dumb Asses.

Which brings me to my point for this article. Know your limits. It’s easy to think you’re superman and use heavy weights, but it’s not going to help you much.

To get the most out of your workouts, you need to be pushing yourself, but there is a big difference between pushing just beyond yourself and pushing way beyond yourself.

One is a key to muscle growth, the other will just result in laughter. Up to you which one you choose.

So next time you’re ready to choose how much weight to use on an exercise, think back to this article.

Make sure it’s heavy enough to be a challenge, but light enough to not make you look like an idiot and potentially hurt yourself.

The guy’s in my story were lucky enough to get out with only bruised egos, but I know of other people who have seriously hurt themselves by being stupid.

Alright, so if you thought the last story was good, wait until you hear about the guy in this story today.
2nd Dumb Ass Exercise Injury Gym Story

It happened a while ago, but I still remember it pretty well. In fact, whenever I feel sad (And that’s not often, trust me) I just think back to this day and a smile creeps back onto my face.

To be honest I can’t remember exactly what I was doing at the time, but I remember seeing a handful of young guys walking around the gym carrying plates.

This definitely caught my eye, so I had a look at what they were doing with all these plates.

Turns out one of their buddies thought he was a bit of a hero. After putting around 1000 pounds onto the leg press machine, the hero jumped onto the machine and pumped himself up for the big push.

I would’ve been shocked if he could have actually done this properly, so I still kept my eyes on him as he began to liftoff.

I’ll give him some credit, he was able to move the whole heap of plates a couple of inches, but then he decided he’d had enough, so he began to move the weights downwards.

And this is when it all began to go wrong. Just before he moved the safety catches back into place, his knees gave away and the weights came crashing down, pushing his knees right into his face.

It was at this point I leapt to the rescue. I quickly got over there and fixed everything up.

While his bonehead buddies were trying their best to push the weights back up the rails, I simply pulled all the plates off one side, so the idiot underneath could easily push the whole thing back up.

This guy was also lucky to get away unhurt (Severely bruised ego), but I’m sure you can see how it could have gone from bad to worse.

The moral to this story (You knew I’d get here eventually) is to leave your ego at home. Your ego has no place in the gym.

This is some advice that I was given early on and I’m going to try to really hit it home with you today.

If you have trouble detaching your ego each time you go to the gym, try this.

When you put your car keys and whatever else in the locker, remember to grab your ego and place it there too.

The ego is one of the main causes of stupidity in the gym, so don’t ever lift a weight unless you have already dealt with it.

How Not to use a Squat Rack and the Best Way to Use a Squat Rack

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:36:30 +0000

How Not to use a Squat Rack

If you’re not gonna squat, get out of the squat rack!

Has this ever happened to you? You hit the gym early in the morning, all pumped up for a great session. It’s leg day and you know what that means, so you put your serious face on and trudge into the gym. Only to find that some 16 year old pipsqueak is standing in the squat rack doing bicep curls!

I’ve got nothing against 16 year old kids in the gym, trying to improve their bodies. I used to be one of them myself, once upon a time. What I do hate is when those kids spend their time in the squat racks, doing bicep curls. They’re called squat racks for a reason people.

And it’s not just the young guys, oh no, this is a far bigger problem. People of all ages think it’s fantastic to use the squat rack to do bicep curls. Is it because you can leave the barbell on the supports so you don’t have to actually bend down to pick the bar up? Probably.

Best Way to Use a Squat Rack

If you’re one of these people, stop doing it. This is what you need to be doing instead. Head into the squat rack and load up a bar with a good weight for you. Get under the bar and then start squatting. I guarantee if you only made this change to your workouts, you would see startling results.

At my local gym, I love it that no one squats. Apart from those idiots who do their bicep curls in it, I pretty much have it all to myself. But when I’m trying to be nice (And that’s not very often) and actually help people out, I tell people squatting is a must. It’s such a powerful exercise, you would literally be a moron to not do it.

The thing that holds people back is pain. I won’t sugar coat it. The squat, when done correctly, takes a lot of effort and a fair bit of discomfort. But it’s this pain and discomfort that forces your body to grow, so unless you can get out of your comfort zone and push through the pain barrier, you’re going to be in trouble.

So I hope you now realize what you need to be doing. If you are one of those pesky guys doing bicep curls in the squat rack, stop immediately. Quite simply, if you don’t squat, you’re really holding yourself back. So go and do it!

How to Build Bigger Biceps

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:31:17 +0000

How to Build Bigger Biceps

Are you a bicep warrior?

Of all the jokers that I see in the gym, the bicep warrior is one of my favorites. I’d pretty much guarantee you that you have a few of these guys at your gym. Heck, you’re probably one yourself.

For those of you who are unaware of what a bicep warrior is exactly, let me explain. They are usually motivated by ego, travel in packs and may even wear their best clothes to the gym. But the thing that makes a bicep warrior is the way he trains.

You see, a bicep warrior is at the gym so he can look good in front of the ladies. Nothing wrong with that. If you saw how much attention I get from the girls, you’d be at the gym too. But what is really wrong with how he goes about it.

This is how the bicep warrior thinks. “Ok, girls love big biceps, a nice chest and abs. So I’ll go to the gym every day and do the same workout. That will have me looking awesome in no time. 50 sets of bicep curls, followed by 20 sets of bench press, then I’ll finish up with 1000 crunches. Ooh yeh“

Let me tell you now, that is a dumbass way to think. Sure, girls might love biceps, but thinking like that is the wrong way to go about it. There are so many things that are wrong with that mindset and it will really kill your results if you go about it like that.

Instead, you need to realize that building muscle is more than just doing a few bicep curls and bench presses. For maximum results you need to take an intelligent approach. I know the word intelligent makes you cringe, but hold on a second, it doesn’t have to be scary.

You just need decent advice and that’s where I come in. Instead of just hitting your biceps and chest, start working out your entire body. I know the concept may seem foreign at first, but it’s a sure fire way to increase the level of results you’re having.
There are a few reasons why exercising your entire body will help you greatly, but they’re beyond the scope of this article. If you’re interested, go check out my package, if not, just listen up anyway. Doing exercises like squats will actually help you build bigger biceps. Don’t believe me? Try it for a few weeks and see if you notice any differences. What have you got to lose?

Of course there is more to this than just what’s written here, but if you have been a bicep warrior up until this point, now’s a good time to stop and learn the proper way to build some serious muscle.

Thinking of Trying a Low Calorie Diet Plan – Be Careful, It Won’t Work!

admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:59:03 +0000

Thinking of Trying a Low Calorie Diet Plan – Be Careful, It Won’t Work!

Even though most people tell you that a low calorie diet plan is the way to go, the truth of the matter is that low calorie doesn’t always work successfully.

See… weight loss isn’t as simple as calories in versus calories out all the time.

Sure, in the short term, you lose weight with that theory. You might even lose a bit of weight.

Eventually though, as any seasoned dieter will know, you’ll plateau. Your body will get used to the amount of calories that you’re putting into it, and your metabolism will adjust accordingly.

And if you’re eating really low calorie – it’ll even go into starvation mode, holding on to fat storages for you. When it does that, not only will you not lose more weight… but you might even gain weight.

This might come as a shock since most people promote the low calorie diets… but think… most people promote low calorie, but one out of every two Americans is overweight. Obviously something’s wrong with common knowledge (either that, or people aren’t staying on their diets).

Here are Some Everyday Low Calorie Foods which are low in calories and ideal for your Weight Loss Diet.

Low Calorie Foods

* Portion sizes will vary depending on the type and make of product purchased. Portion size is very often a subjective view

Low calorie food	Portion size *	100 grams (3.5 oz)	energy content
Beans mung dried boiled	100 cals	100 cals	Low
Beans runner boiled	15 cals	25 cals	Very low
Broccoli	20 cals	30 cals	Very low
Brussels sprouts	20 cals	32 cals	Low
Canderel sweetener	10 cals / tablet	-	Low
Cottage cheese low fat	80 cals	80 cals	Low
Fish any white fresh poached	150-200 / fillet	110 cals	Low
Fromage Frais low fat	65 cals	55 cals	Low-Med
Hunts bitter lemon drink	2 (125ml)	1 cal	Low-Med
Hunts bitter Ginger ale drink	2 (125ml)	1 cal	Low
Hunts bitter orange drink	2 (125ml)	1 cal	Low
Lentils	70 cals	50 cals	Low
Macaroni (boiled)	238 cals (250g)	95 cals	Low
Mayonnaise weight watchers	45 cals (1 Tbsp )	300 cals	Lowe
Muesli sugar-free	180 cals (50g)	360 cals	Low
Noodles (boiled)	175 cals (250g)	70 cals	Low
Pasta ( normal boiled )	330 cals (300g)	110 cals	Low
Pasta (wholemeal boiled )	315 cals (300g)	105 cals	Low
Peas chick boiled	115 cals	115 cals	Low
Porridge oats (with water)	193 cals (350g)	55 cals	Low
Potatoes (boiled)	210 cals (300g)	70 cals	Low
Rice (white long grain)	420 cals (300g)	140 cals	Low
Rice ( Brown )	405 cals (300g)	135 cals	Low
Spaghetti (boiled)	303 cals (300g)	101 cals	Low
Tofu	90 cals	73 cals	Low
Yogurt virtually fat-free	50 cals (1 small pot)	40 cals	Low

Calorie cycling is the answer to both of those answers. It goes against common knowledge because it allows you to have “cheat” days. This not only makes people like the diet (which means they stay on it), but it “tricks” the metabolism so that it can never adjust to a certain amount of calories. When this happens, weight loss continues to occur for long periods of time unlike with the low calorie diet plan.

Rachel has lost 100 pounds herself, and is passionate about helping other people do it too. She has been featured in Woman’s World, among others.

You can check out more about calorie cycling and Rachel’s Weight Loss Diet on her website.

How Many Calories Are In Wine? Which One is Best for Your Diet

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:06:50 +0000

How Many Calories Are In Wine? Which One is Best for Your Diet

How many calories are in a full serving 5 oz glass of wine?

What does a glass of wine cost you in terms of your diet?

Wine is nothing more than a mixture of water, alcohol and grape flavors.

Winemakers begin producing wine by crushing the grapes and then adding yeast to activate the fermenting process and the yeast converts the sugar and oxygen in the juice into ethyl alcohol.

Since water contains no calories, fat or carbohydrates and the grape flavor represents a very small percentage of the total wine calories.

The sugars in the grapes are gone, since they have been converted into alcohol) so essentially all of the food values you are consuming come from the alcohol and the alcohol alone.

The four sources of energy for your body come from fat, proteins, carbohydrates and alcohol.

Unlike fat, proteins and carbohydrates energy sources, alcohol is processed by your liver.

This is the reason many alcoholics and heavy drinkers experience liver damage.

A bottle of distilled spirits per day would provide your body with approx 1,875 calories. If you add a little food to that number you very quickly rise to a caloric intake where you will start putting on some serious weight.

So, if your looking for a low calorie wine look at the Alcohol content. The higher the Alcohol level usually the higher the calories.

If you’re looking for low calorie wine, there are a few different drinks that you can go with.

There’s Beringer Blass Wine Estates, which is lower in calories and alcohol than their similar California wine counterparts. They say that this is because the grapes in their wines were picked before they had time to build up a lot of sugar. A 5 ounce glass of White Lie has 97 calories instead of the typical 115, and the alcohol level is 9.8% versus the typical 13%.

Bacardi’s Island Breeze is another drink that’s lower in calories because they use sucralose to sweeten the rum instead of the usual sugars. The alcohol level is lower as well, as it’s 18% compared to the normal 35%.

There’s also a new alcohol that came out by the brand called The Mad Housewife and Two Wives, and an online retailer named Lola that boasts the same low calorie, lower alcohol wines.

Consider yourself warned, though – drinking low calorie wine (or following any kind of solely low calorie diet) will not necessarily help you lose weight.

Wine types and General Calorie Count

Wine (4 fl oz)	Calories
Beaujolais	95
Bordeaux, red	95
Burgundy, red	95
Burgundy, white	90
Cabernet Sauvignon	90
Chablis	85
Champagne, dry	105
Champagne, pink	100
Chardonnay	90
Chianti	100
Liebfraumilch	85
Madeira	160
Marsala	80
Merlot	95
Mosell	100
Muscatel	160
Port, ruby	185
Port, white	170
Reisling	90
Rhone	95
Rose	95
Sangria	115
Sauterne	115
Sauvignon Blanc	80
Tokay	165
Zinfandel, red	90
Zinfandel, white	80

Eating low calorie all the time will eventually make your weight loss stagnate, because your body will get used to what you’re giving it and expect it. And as soon as you put in more calories… you’ll gain weight. The only thing that you’ll be able to do to lose weight is to eat LESS… and then you’ll start the same cycle all over again.

Calorie cycling is just the thing that you should look into. It makes you switch your calories up constantly, so your body never knows what to expect, and it continues to churn out fat like a machine.

Rachel has lost 100 pounds herself, and is passionate about helping other people do it too. She has been featured in Woman’s World, among others.

You can check out more about calorie cycling and Rachel’s Weight Loss Diet on her website.

Looking for a Low Calorie Beer, Here is Our Big List.

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:07:58 +0000

Looking for a Low Calorie Beer, Here is Our Big List.

The Low calorie beer is one of the new products brought to market that many people are raving about. And while it seems like a phenomenal thing to drink compared to the normal stuff but be warned that low calorie can be hazardous to your health!

Beer is loaded not only with calories, but with sugars that are transferred into empty calories and carbs that seem to hang onto like a spare tire.

Sierra Nevada Bigfoot holds first place (meaning the most caloric content) with a whopping 330 calories.

Before we get into that, though some low calorie beers (all with 12 oz. serving sizes)

Natural Light Beer has 97 calories.
Schlitz Light Beer has 96 calories.
Miller Lite Beer has 96 calories.
Pabst Blue Ribbon Extra Light has 70 calories.
Budweiser Light has 108 calories.
Generic Beer has 104 calories.
Coors Light has 102 calories.

As far as the hazards of low calorie beer – make sure you know that eating a very low calorie diet can put your body in starvation mode. Not only will you stop losing weight, but you’ll actually have the potential to gain weight.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that “Lite” beer is all that much better.

Even if you’re not eating very low calorie and just low calorie – your body can (and will) plateau after you eat the same amount of calories over and over. When this happens to most people, they get frustrated, give up their diet, and binge eat. They do this over and over and it causes an unhealthy cycle for both mind and body.

There’s a new style of eating that many psychologists and doctors recommend, called calorie cycling. With this way of eating, you shift the amount of calories that you eat so that your body is constantly kept “on its toes”. You can’t plateau because your body never knows what’s coming to it. This diet has very high success rates because not only do people enjoy being on it for the quick results, but it’s also healthy and psychologically sound.

Rachel has lost 100 pounds herself, and is passionate about helping other people do it too. She has been featured in Woman’s World, among others.

You can check out more about Rachel’s Best Weight Loss Diet on her website.

How many calories in beer?

All data is for a 12 ounce serving. Brewers occasionally change their recipes, so if you have a can in your hand right now that says something different than this chart believe the can. (* = no data yet)

Domestic Beer Calories, Beer Alcohol, and Beer Carbs
Brand	Brewery	Alcohol (ABV)	Calories 12 oz	Carbohydrates(grams)
Anchor Porter	Anchor	5.6%	209	*
Anchor Steam	Anchor	4.9%	153	16.0g
Anheuser Busch Natural Light	Anheuser Busch	4.2%	95	3.2g
Anheuser Busch Natural Ice	Anheuser Busch	5.9%	157	8.9g
Aspen Edge	Adolph Coors	4.1%	94	2.6g
Big Sky I.P.A.	Big Sky Brewing	6.2%	*	*
Big Sky Moose Drool Brown Ale	Big Sky Brewing	5.1%	*	*
Big Sky Powder Hound (seasonal)	Big Sky Brewing	6.2%	*	*
Big Sky Scape Goat Pale Ale	Big Sky Brewing	4.7%	*	*
Big Sky Summer Honey Ale (seasonal)	Big Sky Brewing	4.7%	*	*
Blatz Beer	Blatz	4.8%	153	12.5g
Blatz Light	Blatz	*	*	8.5g
Blue Moon	Adolph Coors	5.4%	171	13.7g
Bud Dry	Anheuser Busch	5.0%	130	7.8g
Bud Ice	Anheuser Busch	5.5%	123	8.9g
Bud Ice Light	Anheuser Busch	5.0%	115	7.5g
Bud Light	Anheuser Busch	4.2%	110	6.6g
Bud Light Lime	Anheuser Busch	4.2%	116	8.0g
Budweiser	Anheuser Busch	5.0%	145	10.6g
Budweiser Select	Anheuser Busch	4.3%	99	3.1g
Budweiser Select 55	Anheuser Busch	2.4%	55	1.9g
Busch Beer	Anheuser Busch	4.6%	133	10.2g
Busch Ice	Anheuser Busch	5.9%	169	12.5g
Busch Light	Anheuser Busch	4.1%	95	3.2g
Carling Black Label	G. Heileman	4.3%	138	12.5g
Colt 45 Malt Liquor	G. Heileman	6.1%	174	11.1g
Coors	MillerCoors	4.91%	149	12.2g
Coors Light	MillerCoors	4.15%	104	5.3g
Extra Gold Lager	MillerCoors	4.97%	152	12.5g
Flying Dog Doggie Style	Flying Dog Brewery	4.7%	158	11.4g
Flying Dog Dogtober Fest	Flying Dog Brewery	5.3%	146	11.4g
Flying Dog Double Dog Pale Ale	Flying Dog Brewery	10.5%	292	15.0g
Flying Dog Gonzo	Flying Dog Brewery	8.7%	269	18.6g
Flying Dog Horn Dog	Flying Dog Brewery	10.5%	314	18.9g
Flying Dog In Heat Wheat	Flying Dog Brewery	4.7%	131	8.3g
Flying Dog K-9 Cruiser	Flying Dog Brewery	6.5%	181	10.6g
Flying Dog Old Scratch	Flying Dog Brewery	5.3%	150	9.6g
Flying Dog Road Dog	Flying Dog Brewery	5.2%	158	12.0g
Flying Dog Snake Dog	Flying Dog Brewery	6.4%	179	10.6g
Flying Dog Tire Bite	Flying Dog Brewery	4.6%	124	7.1g
Genesee Beer	High Falls Brewing	4.5%	148	13.5g
Genesee Cream Ale	High Falls Brewing	5.1%	162	15.0g
Genesee Ice	High Falls Brewing	5.9%	156	14.5g
Genesee Red	High Falls Brewing	4.9%	148	14.0g
George Killian’s Irish Red	MillerCoors	4.98%	162	14.8g
Icehouse	MillerCoors	5%	132	8.7g
Icehouse 5.0	MillerCoors	5.5%	149	9.8g
Icehouse Light	MillerCoors	4.13%	103	5.5g
Hamm’s Beer	MillerCoors	4.7%	144	12.1g
Hamm’s Golden Draft	MillerCoors	4.7%	144	12.1g
Hamm’s Special Light	MillerCoors	3.9%	110	8.3g
Keystone Premium	Adolph Coors	4.43%	111	5.8g
Keystone Light	Adolph Coors	4.13%	103	5.0g
Keystone Ice	Adolph Coors	5.9%	142	5.9g
Leinenkugel Honey Weiss	Leinenkugel	4.92%	149	12.0g
Leinenkugel Northwoods Lager	Leinenkugel	4.94%	163	15.3g
Leinenkugel Original	Leinenkugel	4.67%	152	13.9g
Leinenkugel Creamy Dark	Leinenkugel	4.94%	170	16.8g
Leinenkugel Red	Leinenkugel	4.94%	166	16.2g
Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat	Leinenkugel	4.9%	165	16g
Leinenkugel Light	Leinenkugel	4.19%	105	5.7g
Leinenkugel Amber Light	Leinenkugel	4.14%	110	7.4g
Lowenbrau Dark		5.0%	160
Lowenbrau Special Beer		5.2%	160
Magnum Malt Liquor	MillerCoors	5.6%	157	11.2g
Michael Shea’s	High Falls Brewing	4.62%	145	13.0g
Michelob Amber Boch	Anheuser Busch	5.2%	166	15.0g
Michelob Beer	Anheuser Busch	5.0%	155	13.3g
Michelob Golden Draft	Anheuser Busch	4.7%	152	14.1g
Michelob Golden Draft Light	Anheuser Busch	4.1%	110	7.0g
Michelob Honey Lager	Anheuser Busch	4.9%	175	17.9g
Michelob Light	Anheuser Busch	4.3%	113	6.7g
Michelob Ultra	Anheuser Busch	4.1%	95	2.6g
Mickey’s Fine Malt Liquor	MillerCoors	5.6%	157	11.2g
Mickey’s Ice	MillerCoors	5.8%	157	11.8g
Miller Chill	MillerCoors	4.2%	110	6.5g
Miller Genuine Draft	MillerCoors	4.7%	143	13.1g
Miller Genuine Draft Light	MillerCoors	4.2%	110	7g
Miller Genuine Draft “64″	MillerCoors	2.8%	64	2.4g
Miller High Life	MillerCoors	4.7%	143	13.1g
Miller High Life Light	MillerCoors	4.2%	110	7g
Miller Lite	MillerCoors	4.2%	96	3.2g
Milwaukee’s Best	MillerCoors	4.5%	128	11.4g
Miller Lite Brewers Collection Amber	MillerCoors	4.2%	110	6.2g
Miller Lite Brewers Collection Blonde	MillerCoors	4.2%	110	6.2g
Miller Lite Brewers Collection Wheat	MillerCoors	4.2%	110	6.2g
Milwaukee’s Best	MillerCoors	4.3%	128	11.4g
Milwaukee’s Best Light	MillerCoors	4.5%	98	3.5g
Milwaukee’s Best Ice	MillerCoors	5.9%	144	7.3g
New Belgium 1554	New Belgium	5.6%	205	25g
New Belgium 2 Below	New Belgium	6.6%	200	17g
New Belgium Abbey	New Belgium	7.0%	200	18g
New Belgium Blue Paddle	New Belgium	4.8%	140	14g
New Belgium Fat Tire	New Belgium	5.2%	160	15g
New Belgium Mothership Wit	New Belgium	4.8%	155	15g
New Belgium Trippel	New Belgium	7.8%	215	20g
New Belgium Sunshine Wheat	New Belgium	4.8%	145	13g
O’Doul’s	Anheuser Busch	0.4%	70	13.3g
Old Milwaukee Light	Old Milwaukee	3.8%	114	8.3g
Old Milwaukee Beer	Old Milwaukee	4.5%	146	12.9g
Olde English 800	MillerCoors	5.9 %	160	10.5g
Olde English 800 7.5	MillerCoors	7.5 %	202	13.4g
Olde English High Gravity 800	MillerCoors	8.0%	220	14.6g
Olympia Premium Lager	Pabst	4.7%	146	11.9g
Pabst Blue Ribbon	Pabst	5.0%	153	12.01g
Pabst Extra Light Low Alcohol	Pabst	2.5%	67	*
Pete’s Wicked Ale		5.3%	174	17.7g
Red Dog	MillerCoors	5.0%	147	14.1g
Red Hook ESB	Red Hook	5.77%	179	14.15g
Red Hook IPA	Red Hook	6.5%	188	12.66g
Rolling Rock Extra Pale	Latrobe	4.6%	142
Rolling Rock Premium Beer	Latrobe	4.5%	120	10.0g
Sam Adams Boston Lager	Boston Beer	4.75%	160	18.0g
Sam Adams Boston Ale	Boston Beer	4.94%	160	19.9g
Sam Adams Cherry Wheat	Boston Beer	5.2%	166	16.86g
Sam Adams Cream Stout	Boston Beer	4.69%	195	23.94g
Sam Adams IPA	Boston Beer	5.93%	175
Sam Adams Light	Boston Beer		124	9.7g
Sam Adams Pale Ale	Boston Beer	5.25%	145
BEER CAFFEINE!
Schaefer Beer	Pabst	4.6%	142	12.0g
Schlitz Beer	Pabst	4.7%	146	12.1g
Schlitz Light	Pabst	4.2%	110	*
Schlitz Malt Liquor	Pabst	6.2%	185	*
Sierra Nevada Anniversary Ale	Sierra Nevada	5.9%	190	17.3g
Sierra Nevada Bigfoot	Sierra Nevada	9.6%	330	32.1g
Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale	Sierra Nevada	6.8%	214	19.4g
Sierra Nevada Draft Ale	Sierra Nevada	5.0%	157	13.4g
Sierra Nevada Early Spring Beer	Sierra Nevada	5.9%	190	16.7g
Sierra Nevada Harvest Ale	Sierra Nevada	6.7%	215	19.3g
Sierra Nevada India Pale Ale	Sierra Nevada	6.9%	231	20.0g
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale	Sierra Nevada	5.6%	175	14.1g
Sierra Nevada Pale Bock	Sierra Nevada	7.0%	218	19.7g
Sierra Nevada Porter	Sierra Nevada	5.6%	194	18.4g
Sierra Nevada Stout	Sierra Nevada	5.8%	225	22.3g
Sierra Nevada Summerfest Beer	Sierra Nevada	5.0%	158	13.7g
Sierra Nevada Wheat Beer	Sierra Nevada	4.4%	153	13.1g
Signature Stroh Beer	Stroh’s	4.8%	153	*
Southpaw Light	MillerCoors	5.0%	123	6.6g
Steel Reserve	MillerCoors	8.1%	222	16.0g
Steel Reserve Triple Export	MillerCoors	8.1%	222	16.0g
Steel Reserve Six	MillerCoors	6.0%	160	11.0g
Stroh’s Beer	Stroh’s	4.6%	149	12.0g
Stroh’s Light	Stroh’s	4.4%	113	7g
Tuborg Deluxe Dark Export	G. Heileman	5.1%	163
Tuborg Export Quality	G. Heileman	5.0%	156
Weinhard’s Private Reserve	MillerCoors	4.8%	150	9.9g
Weinhard’s Amber Light	MillerCoors	4.2%	135	11.5g
Weinhard’s Hefeweizen	MillerCoors	4.9%	151	12.2g
Weinhard’s Blonde Lager	MillerCoors	5.1%	161	14.0g
Weinhard’s Pale Ale	MillerCoors	4.6%	147	13g
Yuengling Ale	D.G. Yuengilng	5.0%	145	10g
Yuengling Porter	D.G. Yuengilng	4.5%	150	14g
Yuengling Premium Beer	D.G. Yuengling	4.4%	135	12g
Yuengling Light	D.G. Yuengling	3.8%	98	6.6g
Yuengling Lager	D.G. Yuengling	4.4%	135	12g

Bottom line the calories in beer have a huge impact in calories.

If your going to drink keep track of the calories and don’t drink so many beers.

So, What About the Calories in Wine?

If you think that Wine Calories are lower then Beer, check out this page concerning the calories found in wine products.

5 Simple Steps for Weight Loss with Teens. It’s Not that Hard

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:00:14 +0000

5 Simple Steps for Weight Loss with Teens. It’s Not that Hard

When determining a healthy diet for your teenager, there are a few important things that you need to considered. If you miss any of these your in trouble.

When you are trying to determine a healthy diet for your teenager, there are a few important things that you need to considered.

First, consider how easily the diet will fit into your teenager’s lifestyle. The last thing that a teen wants to do is be on a diet that will make them stand out from their peers.Remember, teens must cope with the teasing, social isolation, verbal abuse, and emotional torture that often result from being overweight, as well as their own negative self-images.
Also consider a diet that a teenager could stick to as well, since something unrealistic or too restrictive will make them resentful and likely to give up, which would not only give them further health problems, but self esteem issues to boot.
The healthy diet for teenager should also have some “fun” in it. Not many teenagers want to stick on a basic low calorie diet of the same boring foods all the time.Also, the average 11 year old requires a minimum of 1800 calories. This increase with age and gender to about 2700 calories for 18 year old teenage boys.The reason that adolescents and teenagers need these calories is to satisfy the nutritional demands of the intense development and growth they experience during this period.A very low calorie diet (less than 1000 calories) can lead to serious nutritional deficiencies, involving extreme tiredness, bone weakness, skin and hair problems, as well as hormonal problems and worse.
If the teenager is a picky eater, that needs to be taken into consideration, as well as if they need support.
Unless your teen is seriously overweight, the most effective way to reduce weight is to eat healthily and get regular exercise.Amazingly, many teenagers don’t choose this tried-and-tested method. Instead, they prefer “instant solutions” to their weight concerns – solutions which typically cause ill-health and weight gain.Sound Familiar?

One diet meets all of these criteria. The diet, called calorie cycling, is a new spin on a popular bodybuilding tactic. Calorie cycling allows people to lose weight very quickly, and is highly recommended by doctors and psychologists.

The reason that this is so highly recommended is because there’s a lot of leeway in it. 5 days a week, the teenager would eat a moderate amount of calories (it’s calculated based on the age, weight, and activity level of each person).

For 2 days, they get to have “cheat” days.

Teenagers generally love this diet because they don’t feel as if they have to be strict all the time.

It doesn’t seem like it would help but the high calorie days actually allow dieters to lose even more weight by “tricking” the metabolism into believe that their is an abundance of food.

You need to find creative ways to encourage teens to adopt healthy habits. But it’s hard enough to get adults to take responsibility for their weight and health. Fortunately teens are not as set in their habits as most adults.

Good Luck,
Rachel

Rachel has lost 100 pounds herself, and is passionate about helping other people do it too. She has been featured in Woman’s World, among others.

You can check out more about Rachel’s Best Weight Loss Diet on her website. Don’t for your child, today.

WebMD has an article titled Successful teen dieters reveal their weight loss strategies. that might prove useful. You can also check out about.com for their articles on Teenage weight loss.

5 Steps to Control Your Emotional Eating Problem

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:03:45 +0000

5 Steps to Control Your Emotional Eating

Emotional eating can really destroy your weight loss plans. Making sure that you get a grip on this will really help you lose weight in the future.

Before we get too far in, though – If you want to know how to control emotional eating, you should know for sure exactly what it is.

See, sometimes we get a longing to eat for reasons that have nothing to do with actual hunger. We have desires for food (usually fattening foods that are salty or sweet) when emotions are in highs or lows. We have the urge to eat, and we think nothing else will make us better.

You might recall how people say that they gain lots of weight when they break up with someone, for example.

Emotional eating sometimes happens when there’s a major incidence to trigger it, such as the a breakup, a job loss, etc. It can also happen for smaller things, such as being nagged at by a boss, or dealing with traffic.

The problem with emotional eating is that it makes problems even worse, because it leads to guilt issues, weight gain, and poor health.

If you want to know how to control emotional eating, there are a few things that you can do right away.

Figure out why you eat at certain points and what events “trigger” it.
Identify what your true hunger signals are… and what the signals are when you just want to emotionally eat.
Reduce the availability of your trigger foods. Simply buy less of them and don’t have them around the house.
No skipping meals… this just leads to more emotional eating.
Find other ways to let out your stress.

Rachel has lost 100 pounds herself, and is passionate about helping other people do it too. She has been featured in Woman’s World, among others.

You can check out more about Rachel’s healthy weight loss diet on her website.

If Emotional Eating is a Serious Problem for You, then Master these Steps.

Tame your stress. If stress contributes to your emotional eating, try a stress management technique, such as yoga, meditation or relaxation.
Have a hunger reality check. Is your hunger physical or emotional? If you ate just a few hours ago and don’t have a rumbling stomach, you’re probably not really hungry. Give the craving a little time to pass.

Keep a food diary. Write down what you eat, how much you eat, when you eat, how you’re feeling when you eat and how hungry you are. Over time, you may see patterns emerge that reveal the connection between mood and food.
Get support. You’re more likely to give in to emotional eating if you lack a good support network. Lean on family and friends or consider joining a support group.
Fight boredom. Instead of snacking when you’re not truly hungry, distract yourself. Take a walk, watch a movie, play with your cat, listen to music, read, surf the Internet or call a friend.
Take away temptation. Don’t keep supplies of comfort foods in your home if they’re hard for you to resist. And if you feel angry or blue, postpone your trip to the grocery store until you’re sure that you have your emotions in check.
Don’t deprive yourself. When you’re trying to achieve a weight loss goal, you may limit your calories too much, eat the same foods frequently and banish the treats you enjoy. This may just serve to increase your food cravings, especially in response to emotions. Let yourself enjoy an occasional treat and get plenty of variety to help curb cravings.
Snack healthy. If you feel the urge to eat between meals, choose a low-fat, low-calorie snack, such as fresh fruit, vegetables with fat-free dip, or un-buttered popcorn. Or try low-fat, lower calorie versions of your favorite foods to see if they satisfy your craving.
Get enough sleep. If you’re constantly tired, you might snack to try to give yourself an energy boost. Take a nap or go to bed earlier instead.
Seek therapy. If you’ve tried self-help options but you still can’t get control of your emotional eating, consider therapy with a professional mental health provider.Therapy can help you understand the motivations behind your emotional eating and help you learn new coping skills. Therapy can also help you discover whether you may have an eating disorder, which is sometimes connected to emotional eating.

The following article is taken from the Texas State Website

Take Control of Emotional Eating

There is no question that comfort foods such as ice cream or mashed potatoes can help calm many people during stressful times.

Appetite, food preferences, even cravings can be affected by our feelings, and most of the time, we turn to our comfort foods. Unfortunately, most comfort foods tend to be high in calories and fat content. But take heart, you can still indulge in your comfort food of your choice, just be aware of portion size, and be open to trying a new twist on an old standby.

Try to avoid the urge to eat as a way to deal with anger or depression.

The next time you are feeling emotional, why not take a short walk or bike ride. Occasionally a change of scenery can snap you our of it before you eat a pint of ice cream.

Here are some healthier twists on old comfort foods

Are cookies your thing? Try an oatmeal-raisin cookie or vanilla wafer.
If you prefer a salty alternative, try pretzels dipped in spicy mustard, or baked tortilla chips with salsa.
Add grated fresh vegetables to your meat loaf, mashed potatoes or lasagna.
Puree fresh fruit such as berries or pears for a homemade topping good on grilled poultry or seafood.
Substitute applesauce or pureed prunes in place of half the fat in your muffin, bread or cookie recipe.

more information can be found on this site or at about.com. The mayo clinic is another source for help concerning emotional eating.

How Do You Stop Emotional Eating

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:30:28 +0000

How Do You Stop Emotional Eating

If you want to know how to end emotional eating, congratulations. It takes a strong person to even recognize that they might be doing this.

To begin with, let’s identify what emotional eating actually is.

It’s eating when a specific incidence (or set of incidences) happen that produces a “high” or “low” feeling for someone.For example, someone might seek comfort in food after a bad day at work, a fight with a loved one or even something small such as having to sit in a lot of traffic before or after work.

Sometimes the strongest cravings for food happen when you’re at your weakest point emotionally. That is when many people may turn to food for comfort.

Conversely, one might emotionally eat when there are good things happening as well. People often gain weight when they’re in relationships because they’re so happy and comfortable.

It’s important to acknowledge that sometimes people get urges to eat food for reasons that have little to do with being hungry, but more of catering to our desires. We get desires to eat and we think that the only cure for these temptations is to eat fattening foods (and in actuality, there are more healthy things that can be done).

Emotional eating only leads to downward spirals because it makes the problem worse since it leads to feelings of guilt, packing on weight, and overall adding poor nutrition to the body.

Emotional eating can destroy anyone’s weight loss plans. Emotional eating often leads to eating too much, especially too much of the wrong kind of food such as high-calorie, sweet, fatty foods.

But the good news is that if you’re prone to emotional eating, you can take steps to regain control of your eating habits and get back on track with your weight-loss goals.

Some things that you can do immediately is to figure out why you’re emotionally eating and what types of events make you do this. You can also figure out when you’re really hungry as opposed to when you’re wanting to just eat emotionally.

The main reason for emotional eating is to serve as a distraction from unwanted emotions. If you’re worried about an upcoming event or stewing over a conflict, for instance, you may focus on eating comfort food instead of dealing with the painful situation.

Whatever emotions drive you to overeat, the end result is often the same. The unwanted emotions return, and you may also now feel the additional burden of guilt from your eating binge.

What’s is the solution to emotional eating?

Find other ways to release your feelings (both positive and negative). You can write in a journal, go shopping, indulge in a bath, or read a good book.

My favorite is to think a different thought. Since our thoughts usually drive our emotional eating binges, I chose to think a better thought. A thought that makes me feel good of course. Not those thoughts that got be to the point of an emotional eating binge.

The best thing is no one has to know what I’m thinking, move over Angelina…

Good Luck
Rachel

Rachel has lost 100 pounds herself, and is passionate about helping other people do it too. She has been featured in Woman’s World, among others.

You can check out more about Rachel’s healthy weight loss diet on her website.

The mayo clinic has additional information on emotional eating and weight loss. Laurie has written an article called Overcoming the Craving to Snack Mindlessly that you might find helpful.

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