Surviving Party Weekends Without Breaking the Scale

The 4^th of July is here—and with it, barbecues, parties and endless invitations to imbibe! It’s a time to celebrate and we all know that parties are not easy when you’re watching your diet and trying to stay in line with easy weight loss programs or a quick weight loss plan. Instead of dreading the aftermath, arm yourself with a plan to enjoy in a healthy way.

With a little bit of forethought and a few tricks, it can still be a holiday to remember!

Start Slow
Don’t start nibbling until you’ve been at your event for at least a half hour. You may get so involved with conversation and socializing that food will be the last thing on your mind.

Savor Every Bite
Enjoy the spread—but follow the tenets we share with you at our weight loss clinics: eat and drink slowly to allow yourself to enjoy every single taste on your plate. It takes approximately 20 minutes for our brains to register that we’re full, so if you eat slowly, you will feel fuller and won’t want to finish your plate. Plus, when you eat more slowly, you’ll chew your food more thoroughly, which leads to better digestion. Even when you’re working with FDA approved medical weight loss pills or other weight loss products, it helps to slow down and think about what you’re doing.

Just Say Yes
Don’t deny yourself your favorites! The more you hold back, the more likely you are to continue thinking about your favorite foods and ultimately binge, even when using appetite suppressants. The key is to be selective and make each indulgence count. If you’re craving pie, have it—but don’t eat cookies just because they’re in front of you. Chances are you’ll fill up on stuff you don’t like AND eat your favorite when it pops up in front of you. You’ll end up rolling home with a few extra pounds if you indulge in mediocre choices.

Don’t Leave Home With An Empty Stomach
Have a light snack before you go out for the evening or to holiday parties. Enjoy a little bit of soup, Greek yogurt with fruit, or some of the weight loss products available at our medical weight reduction institutions beforehand—that way you won’t find yourself grazing at the buffet table all night. Tres tacky!

Hydrate, Hydrate and Re-hydrate!
Filling up with water not only boosts your metabolism, it makes you eat less and helps prevent a hangover. Have a glass before you leave your house, and if you’re drinking all night, have a glass of water between each drink. If you overindulge in martinis, make sure to stock up on Pedialyte and Gatorade to replenish your electrolytes. If you are using FDA approved medical weight loss pills as part of one of our quick weight loss programs, hydration is a key component that should be a priority anyway.

Smaller Portions
Grab a small plate when you hit the buffet. A bread plate is dainty and cuter to hold, and also slows you down on stuffing yourself with hors d’oeuvres. Plus, you won’t feel super cool refilling the plate 10 times, so that will help you keep yourself in check. At your next visit to one of our weight loss clinics, check out our examples of healthy portion sizes.

Peruse the Healthy Options
As tempting as it is to go straight for the high-caloric, fatty foods, help yourself to low-fat, nutrient-rich foods first, such as fruit, colorful veggie platters, beans and any form of protein. It will help you eat less of the unhealthy stuff—plus when you do, you’ll eat them more for their flavor than to satisfy your hunger. Bottom line: eat from the food groups suggested by easy weight loss programs, while letting yourself indulge a little.

Keep it Moving
Squeeze a workout or two in during the holiday weekend. It helps alleviate some of the guilt, gives you some alone time, and energizes you for all your activities! Most importantly, it will help metabolize all the food you will be consuming and put you in a good mood.

Keep it Clear
Really pay attention to what you drink. It’s pretty hard to pass up the bubbly—but try to stay away from creamy drinks and fancy chocolate martinis. Two mixed drinks can contain as much as 500 calories and one cup of eggnog is around 380 calories. Yet two glasses of cider or white wine have only 300 calories. If you’re poison falls in the liquor category, then keep this rule in mind: the clearer the liquor, the less toxic and fattening. So a vodka soda is your best bet, while a Jack and Coke is sugar-ridden. When it comes to mixers, stick to soda, if you can. Adding some lemon and lime will give it a refreshing twist that is easy to get used to. Juices and tonic have a lot more sugar, which leads to more calories and a worse hangover. If you are working with medical diet pills or weight loss products as part of a quick weight loss plan, make sure to check with a physician at one of our medical weight loss clinics to make sure that it’s safe to drink alcohol.

Get support and info about medical weight loss programs and FDA approved weight loss pills at our Pasadena medical weight loss center or one of our Orange County medical weight loss clinics. Visit www.AmericanWeightLossCenter.com to find a location near you.

 

Bouncing Back from Stress

Whenever we experience a big change in one area of our lives, it can be stressful to all the other aspects, including your diet. At American Weight Loss Centers, we understand that it’s easy for the trials and tribulations of life to throw your easy weight loss program completely off track. However, with some forethought and planning, you can avoid the pitfalls that life’s challenges can pose for your diet or any of the quick weight loss programs offered at our weight loss clinics.

If you get laid off from your job, lose a major client, move residences or lose a friend or family member, it’s understandable that such incredible stress can make you reach for comfort food or overeat. Keep in mind that when major life changes hit you out of the blue, the stress is only going to be compounded by overeating and consuming unhealthy foods. Instead of eating more to fill whatever void you’re experiencing, stop and breathe. Think about ways to relax and ease whatever transition you’re going through. Even if you are you using weight loss products or FDA approved medical weight loss pills, take some steps to take care of yourself and not let your appetite get out of control. Our medical weight loss clinics offer some great recommendations for keeping your cool.

Find Support
Determine who gives you great support and stay close with them. Whether it’s family, friends, an exercise buddy or a mentor, reach out when you need some words to keep you on track. Just expressing your emotions in general will help ease some of your stress. Visit one of our Orange County weight loss centers or Pasadena weight loss clinic to talk with the staff about other ways to ease stress.

Be Flexible
Sometimes even easy weight loss programs can be too much for us to focus on. If you have too much else going on and weight loss cannot be your focus for awhile, it’s okay to modify your goal to simply be maintaining you current weight instead of losing. This keeps you in a realistic place and doesn’t set you up for failure if you’re still trying to reach an aggressive weight loss goal.

Keep Moving
One of the best de-stressors and a fundamental element of all quick weight loss programs is exercise. Whatever you do, maintain your workouts—this will help you maintain balance and alleviate stress. Physical activity will only improve your overall wellness, as well as your mental and physical health, during times of stress. Even just getting outdoors for a walk or bike ride will do wonders for your state of mind.

Keep An Arsenal Of Healthy Snacks
Load your kitchen and desk up with healthy snacks and weight loss products. Sugar is absolutely not the answer—it will only make you feel worse when the sugar rush wears off and throw off quick weight loss programs. Eating antioxidant packed fruits, veggies and nuts will actually help your body cope with stress.

Meditate
Take 5, 10 or 15 minutes out of your day to simply breathe and be. Learning how to control your breathing through meditation is a great way to cope and the time out will benefit your blood pressure, cardiovascular system and every other aspect of your life.

Visit www.AmericanWeightLossCenter.com to learn about medical diet pills and our medical weight loss centers. Check out our Orange County medical weight loss centers or Pasadena weight loss clinics today.

The Efficiency Of Medical Diet Pills

Some individuals have no passion for sports and do not like running or making any type of physical effort. Amongst these people not all of them are healthy, they can have different diseases or they can just be fat. If they have diabetes, obesity and other similar diseases, they must go to a doctor to ask for medical diet pills.

The medication efficiency is strictly related to the ingredient types and percentages that are found inside the tablets. If the ingredients are in the right amount, exactly as specified in the original medication recipes, then the tablets will work.

These products are not miraculous and if they are used alone, no effects are seen on long term. But when they are combined with physical activity and a specific diet, the results can be magical in time. There is no need for running if that seems too hard, but a walk every day is a good way to stimulate metabolism.

The weight loss drugs require a medical recommendation and approval before use. Taking them independently can cause some side effects as each drug type is good for a certain individual. They are also known to create addiction for some people.

They work by preventing fat absorption in the blood from the digestive system. The fat is eliminated through the bowel movements. Not all of the pills use the same method for obtaining weight loss. Some of them break the appetite, others work differently.

Most of the medical diet pills have wonderful effects for people who want to lose fat. But they do not work alone; they have to be a part of the entire effort. The other two parts of the whole process are the physical exercises and diets.

Obesity is a problem faced by many Americans these days. Across the country people are gaining weight and harming their bodies. But if you want to break the mold and get fit there are options available. Whether you want to slim down at the Aliso Viejo weight loss center or try medical diet pills, contact American Weight Loss Center today.

The Force Field For Dining Out —Tips to Avoid Diet Sabotage

Don’t let eating out at restaurants and all the upcoming weddings, special events and summer parties get you down. Arm yourself with some great tips for handling your appetite and making great choices so you can stay on track with easy weight loss programs!

1. When you’re with a group, be the first to order so you won't be tempted by the choices of others in the group. Even the best FDA approved weight control capsules can be ineffective when you follow others' leads!
2. Keep your portion sizes in check. Restaurant portions can be two and three times the necessary size... or even more! Order a salad as a starter and split an entrée with a friend. At your next visit to one of our weight loss clinics, ask to see an example of a normal, healthy portion size.
3. Scale down the size of the menu yourself! Order a salad and an appetizer as your entrée, or a side dish and a salad. When working with easy weight loss programs, you will know which side dishes will be best for you and the success of your medical weight loss goals.
4. Avoid the Super Size menu. Fast food is already a threat to the best quick weight loss programs—and even patients taking FDA approved medical weight loss pills. Either order one of the healthy salads or wrap options or try something small, like a basic burger without cheese. Skip the fries and soda if you can. Another great option is to order a children's meal. Ask for ideas at one of our local slim down centers.
5. Skip the extras. While the basic burger served with ketchup, lettuce and tomato isn't so bad, one with “everything on it” can be an absolute sabotage to the caloric intake of a quick weight loss plan or medical weight loss programs. If you are using medical diet pills or working with one of the many available quick weight loss programs, hopefully your cravings are in check. Skip the bacon, cheese, mayonnaise, double servings of burgers or extra buns. Several fast food chains offer the “protein style” burger, which is served in lettuce instead of buns, or you can always take one bun off.

Hopefully, these tips will arm you with some protection for your medical weight loss programs. Whether you choose weight loss pills, medical diet pills or other weight loss products, make sure to engage the assistance of a medical professional like the physicians available at one of our medical weight loss centers. Visit AmericanWeightLossCenter.com to find one of our Orange County medical weight loss centers near you.

Weight Loss Tips for Dining Out

When you’re on a diet or working with one of your local weight loss clinics, it’s easy to think of restaurants as evil. Visions of bottomless bread baskets, gigantic portions and loads of sugar, fat and calories make it difficult to associate eating out with dieting or medical weight loss. However, avoiding restaurants is not realistic and actually can be detrimental to the success of easy weight loss programs—when you completely deprive yourself, you’re setting yourself up for a binge, even if you’re getting a little help from medical weight loss pills or appetite suppressants.

You can eat at restaurants and still lose weight. With a little help from easy weight loss programs like the ones we offer at American Weight Loss Centers, navigating the eating out or even drive thru experience will be a piece of cake… or maybe fruit.

Budget Your Meal
Determine how much you're willing to eat before looking at the menu. You can give yourself some leeway by scheduling exercise on or near days you plan to eat out. Putting in gym time or going for a run will help offset a extra calories. It’s okay to be flexible—you can loosen up a bit on special occasions, as long as you eat carefully the majority of the time.

Forget About Cleaning Your Plate
There are a few ways to eradicate the nasty “clean your plate” habit we were taught as kids. 1) Eat half the meal and get a doggy bag for the rest. 2) Eat slowly, it takes your stomach 20 minutes to signal your brain that it’s full. 3) Push your plate away or make sure your waitress or busser takes it away.

Go Al a CarteOpt for à la carte selections—you'll probably eat less. Another good thing to do is to skip the bread basket. When you’re working with an easy weight loss program, whether it involves FDA approved medical weight loss pills or not, it’s good to simply remove the temptation of starchy carbs.

Be High-Maintenance
Okay, not literally, but go ahead and make special requests like asking for dressing and sauces on the side or to have something made without butter, grilled instead of fried, etc. Another good practice recommended by easy weight loss programs and weight loss clinics everywhere is to substitute the evils—ask for salad or veggies instead of fries or potatoes, and other healthy moves like that.

Check out next week’s blog for more dining out tips. At American Weight Loss Centers, we’re happy to provide easy weight loss programs that include amazing weight loss products, FDA approved medical weight loss pills and all you need for safe medical weight loss. Visit www.AmericanWeightLossCenter.com to find and Orange County medical weight loss center or Pasadena weight loss clinic near you.

Ask the Doctor: How Do I Maintain A Long-term Balanced Diet?

"Dr. Kim, I am currently trying to slim down and tone up, but I also know that exercise won’t do me as much good if I’m not eating the right foods. How do I maintain a balanced diet? Do your weight loss programs include a customized meal plan to help your clients not only lose weight but eat healthy for the long term?" – Niki, Gardena, Calif.

Dear Niki:


The question you ask addresses a fundamental principal of weight loss, maintaining a healthy diet.  Let's start by addressing your point about exercise first.It is an absolute truth that you can lose weight by dieting alone, but you can't lose weight by exercising alone.  The reason is that greater changes in your body's caloric balance can be achieved by making changes in your diet than by making changes in your exercise level. But exercise is good for a number of reasons.  First, it helps keep your eating in check.  Most people who exercise regularly try to limit what they eat so they don't sabotage their efforts. Why put all that effort into exercising if you're going to jeopardize it by eating unhealthy.  Second, it burns calories.  But not as much as you think.  People who start a weight loss program believe that exercise is going to help melt away the pounds.  Unfortunately, our bodies don't work that way.  Our bodies are highly efficient.  Under conditions of exertion and limited caloric intake, our bodies react in such a way that it metabolizes less fat.  That being said, exercising does burn calories.  It also does one very  important thing; it sensitizes our bodies to insulin.  Insulin is a hormone that is important for maintaining even sugar levels in our bodies.  You are probably aware that insulin is what's missing in people with Type 1 Diabetes.  Exercise helps keep insulin levels down.  This is important because insulin is also partially responsible for the accumulation of fat in our bodies.  So exercise is important for weight loss in a direct and indirect way.

The guidelines put forth by the American Weight Loss Centers  individualize our recommendations taking into consideration all of the current science out there about nutrition and metabolism.  Our focus in creating our dietary recommendations came from helping people maintain their weight loss.  There are a million and one different ways to lose weight.  All the ads and late night commercials take advantage of this.  They advertise a new and different way to lose weight almost every week.  You'll be surpised to know that despite all the different ways someone can lose weight, there's only one way to maintain that way loss.  There's no secret here.  That way needs to be an individualized approach that looks at what your needs, diet preferrences and circumstances are.