Weight management often depends on calculating metabolic rates, understanding fat biochemistry, and tailoring exercise programming for either muscle acquisition or structured fat reduction.
A special restaurant meal or an indulgent night of drinking that made your total calorie intake for the day come to 3,000 calories might make you feel as if you've gained 10 pounds overnight -- but you haven't. Weight gain requires you to consume a calorie surplus over several days, weeks or months.
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A high-calorie diet provides the energy the body needs for muscle growth and weight gain. Eating certain foods after your workout can help enhance your efforts to bulk up through exercise.
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A smoothie can provide a perfect lunchtime option, especially when you're trying to drop a few pounds. You don't have to spend a long time in the kitchen doing prep, which could increase your temptation to eat more than you should. Smoothies are also portable, making them an option for brown bagging at the office.
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Celebrities, including Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian, purportedly wear corsets to help them slim down. This process supposedly "trains" your waist to a smaller size. However, corsets only make you appear thinner when youβre wearing them β they do nothing to burn off belly fat.
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The Atkins diet, first published in 1972 and reinvented 20 years later, has helped countless people lose weight, but isn't without controversy.
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Protein, along with carbohydrates and fat, is a major macronutrient that helps your body function optimally. You need it to build strong tissues, support immunity and boost your metabolism.
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Losing belly fat at any age is a challenge, but it seems even more difficult to achieve over age 60. As you age, having a more sedentary lifestyle, changes in hormones and a natural loss of muscle mass makes it more likely that your waistband will expand.
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More than $20 billion is spent per year on weight loss books, drugs and surgeries, ABC News reported in 2012. With dozens of books coming out each year, it's difficult to know how to tell the good books from the fad books.
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To put on pounds the healthy way, you'll need to increase your calorie intake and do some strength training. You may have tried a weight-gain supplement as an easy way to boost calories but then found the flavor to be lacking.
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With a high metabolism, you take in calories but don't see the instant gains on the scale that others who have different hormone profiles and genetic dispositions register. You're likely an ectomorph, a body type characterized by a lanky, long frame, narrow shoulders and little body fat.
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If you only use the scale, you may not truly know if you're at a healthy weight. The scale can't tell you the type of tissue it's weighing. Having too much fat -- even if you're thin or carry a normal weight in pounds -- will endanger your health.
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Most adults easily burn 1,000 calories per day even without movement. Your body is constantly working behind the scenes -- pumping blood, running internal organs and taking in oxygen. These necessary functions use energy or calories; the calories burned through them are known as your basal metabolic rate, or BMR.
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When you follow a vegan diet, eggs, dairy, meat, fish and chicken -- as well as processed foods containing these ingredients -- disappear from your menu as you replace them with vegetables, nuts, seeds, beans and fruit.
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Although obesity is a nationwide epidemic, some people need to gain weight to reach a healthy size. Weight gain may be required after illness or surgery. An older adult may unintentionally lose weight due to diminished appetite and food intake, subsequently experiencing poor health and frailty.
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Losing weight requires you to cut back on calories, but this doesn't mean sticking to celery sticks and broiled chicken until you reach your goal. An occasional treat, such as a slice of homemade banana-nut bread, won't make or break your entire diet.
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Sodium doesn't actually make your body gain fat -- it causes bloating and water retention that causes the number on your scale to rise. You can't predict, however, how much these numbers will increase when you overindulge in salty foods.
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In four months, you've got that big event -- a wedding, reunion or beach vacation -- and you feel your body just isn't ready for it. A 30-pound weight loss will help boost your confidence and health.
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Kellogg's promotes a weight-loss challenge that uses their Special K cereal as a meal replacement. By replacing two meals daily with a bowl of the cereal, the company claims you can lose up to six pounds in two weeks.
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Skipping meals will not help you gain weight. Forget breakfast, and you continue the six- to nine-hour fast that occurred while you slept. Take advantage of the morning meal to add extra calories so you can put on pounds to achieve a healthy weight.
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One specific liquid diet doesn't exist. Many variations of a very-low-calorie diet that has you subsist on juice, clinically prepared nutritional drinks, smoothies, or concoctions of cayenne pepper and lemon juice for days, weeks or even months persist, however.
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