Are you one of those individuals who work late at odd hours? The earlier you go to bed, the greater the chance that you will miss those terrible hunger pangs that make you eat late at odd hours. You will know very well that this is not good for your consuming food habits or even your financial affairs but once the craving for food has come, there is limited scope in terms of what you can do about it. The treats are one of those ways in which you can put on fatty slabs without even understanding it. You keep assuring yourself with the concept that you can somehow get rid of it anyway but when it comes exercising, you somehow always have alternative commitments.
All people are rightly accused of consuming food when they really shouldn’t but the late night consuming of food is a particular issue of concern that seems to affect all especially if you are without a spouse and do not have a set pattern for consuming food or employment. Probably this will become a habit of a lifetime and will permanently alter the way you appear to others. Even if you decide that you are going to exercise with some sort of self discipline, very soon you will tire and you will slip back into late night consuming of food.
Why the particular attention to consuming food late at odd hours? This is because as this time arrives, you really do not have the opportunity to burn off the fat. You end up going to bed and therefore the food goes straight towards making you fatter instead of helping you to grow your muscles. At least when you consume food over the midday meal period you can try to get rid of it through various forms of physical activity. I sometimes swim as a means of getting rid of excess calories. It is also not a very healthy habit to be consuming food very late at odd hours as you do not give your body the space to absorb the best nutrients that you have consumed.
Eating at odd hours is not a particularly sociable activity and does not lend itself with the fact of having to live with different people.
It is rather a lonely and selfish habit that will remove any inhibitions that you may have had about overeating. The tendency is to gulp down food as quickly as possible because you are preparing to go to bed and do not wish to waste your time cooking your own meal. Thus you have the lethal combination of a lonely person eating alone. This is exactly the kind of situation where obesity will take a firm hold on the person.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Do food labels really help the diet fanatic?
Hi guys. Today’s topic is about an everyday occurrence that might not seem to have significance until you look at it in the context of your overall diet. Labels tell you at a glance what is contained in an item of food and may also form the basis for decision as to whether you eat the food or not. People who are involved in weight loss programs are normally required to check everything that they eat to ensure that it complies with the diet that has been chosen for them. The problem is that sometimes those labels do not provide all the information that is required or they provide inaccurate information.
In the same token that the dieter wants to ensure that they take few calories as possible, the seller wants the buyer to buy many expensive items. This can sometimes cause a conflict of interest because buyers are not so educated about weight control that they are able to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy food. This requires that there is an understanding of the labeling and sometimes the motives that drive that labeling. Some traders would rather tell outright lies to their customers than lose a sell.
They have developed some clever marketing ploys that enable them to give information that at first appears to be accurate but which on closer inspection is rather fictitious or is not telling the whole truth. The calculation is that some gullible mug will be able to buy the story and purchase the product. The sad truth is that often the trader’s calculation is true and people end up buying things that are not conducive to their diet.
Perhaps the alternative is not to trust labels at all and to work yourself into a situation when every food label is viewed with suspicion in case it has a multitude of things that are going on that the trader wants to hide from you. I think that the best way is to look as labels as a guide. They simply give you a guide of what might be in that tin or container. You then have to do the hard work by going deeper and researching to ensure that you are not eating something that will be harmful to your health or general wellbeing in the future. It is really a self help manual that requires you to research further in order to get to the bottom of the issued.
In the same token that the dieter wants to ensure that they take few calories as possible, the seller wants the buyer to buy many expensive items. This can sometimes cause a conflict of interest because buyers are not so educated about weight control that they are able to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy food. This requires that there is an understanding of the labeling and sometimes the motives that drive that labeling. Some traders would rather tell outright lies to their customers than lose a sell.
They have developed some clever marketing ploys that enable them to give information that at first appears to be accurate but which on closer inspection is rather fictitious or is not telling the whole truth. The calculation is that some gullible mug will be able to buy the story and purchase the product. The sad truth is that often the trader’s calculation is true and people end up buying things that are not conducive to their diet.
Perhaps the alternative is not to trust labels at all and to work yourself into a situation when every food label is viewed with suspicion in case it has a multitude of things that are going on that the trader wants to hide from you. I think that the best way is to look as labels as a guide. They simply give you a guide of what might be in that tin or container. You then have to do the hard work by going deeper and researching to ensure that you are not eating something that will be harmful to your health or general wellbeing in the future. It is really a self help manual that requires you to research further in order to get to the bottom of the issued.