Today I’m sharing Jim Waters successful weight loss story retired from Vought aircraft of Haltom City been able to lose 100 pounds.

Jim who was 344 pounds weigh and had type II diabetes, tried many diets in the past but everything was waste. Jim was hardly able to walk, as his muscles were not able to support his big weight.

Jim doctor recommended him Atkins Diet in July 2006. Working constantly with the dietitian, he came to know that he had to bring his calorie intake down to 800 per day and he has stuck with it and lost 98 pounds. Now he used to walk three miles a day.

Jim Waters advice for others: You have to change your eating and exercising habits for life. If you don’t, it's a waste of time.

The number of overweight people going through weight loss surgery has doubled in the last five years. According to Obesity Surgery Society of Australia and New Zealand (OSSANZ), more than 7500 went through weight loss surgery last year. Latest report from Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development found Australia suggests that Australia is on the fifth place in obesity rate among adults in the developed countries. One out of every five adult is obese here in Australia – triple the number of obese twenty years back.

The study was carried out on 2000 obese people who had gone through surgery and another 2000 people whom weight was being managed by lifestyle factors such as diet. After 10 years it was found that twice as many people in the non-surgical group died from heart attack and another 47 people diet of cancer compared to 29 people in the surgery group.

Professor Jeff Hamdorf, from the medical education faculty at the University of Western Australia, said the study "really shows how effective surgery can be for obese people who have not been able to lose weight any other way."

Right now, people with BMI greater than 35 are recommended for weight loss surgery. Bt according to Professor Hamdorf, weight loss surgery should be allowed to people with a BMI greater than 30.

Sarah Fisher, who is a nurse from Lane cove, had gone through gastric band surgery last year and since then her total weight have fallen from 115kgs to 77kgs. "I tried every diet but nothing worked. I suffered asthma, osteoporosis and depression," she said. "After surgery, the weight fell off. The improvement in physical and psychological terms has been phenomenal."

With improved surgical techniques, there are many risk factors involved as well.

According to a survey that was conducted in Briton, women there are going to spend £150,000 on dieting and getting in shape during their lifespan. Getting a gym registration, exercising DVD’s, supplements and eating more fruits and vegetables will cost £2422 per year.

A woman will spend an average of £150,164 but still will be able to lose 3 pounds which will most probably get back on. This poll included 2000 Briton women of average age 23 and found really worrying trends in ways to lose weight.

Ten percent of women said that they have lost half a stone in one week and another six percent of women saying that they are able to lose a stone in two weeks time. More 53 percent of women, dieting means eating less than 1000 calories a day and for another one fifth, dieting means consuming less than 800 calories a day.

33 percent of women use slimming pills for losing weight and another 30 percent women are making themselves sick. And 11 percent women are using illegal drugs like speed or cocaine for losing weight and for speeding up their metabolism. Eight out of every 10 women want to drop their size to 10 or less and another 40 percent think that size 10 is just perfect.

Here is good news for the mothers who gained some pounds during their pregnancies. According to the researchers, the women who gained some pounds during pregnancy should try to get more sleep. They found that mothers who used to sleep for five hours or less a day when their babies were six months old were more three times likely to be having extra weight compared to the more rested mothers at one year (Via Yahoo News).

"We've known for some time that sleep deprivation is associated with weight gain and obesity in the general population, but this study shows that getting enough sleep -- even just two hours more -- may be as important as a healthy diet and exercise for new mothers to return to their pre-pregnancy weight," said Erica Gunderson of Kaiser Permanente, which runs hospitals and clinics in California.

The researchers found that mothers, who used to sleep for five hours or less a night when their babies were six months old, were more likely to gain 11 pounds extra at one year (after baby birth). Mothers who used to sleep for sever or more hours a night lost more weight.

What is metabolism?

Metabolism is the process that our body uses to convert calories into energy. When someone told you about burning calories, he’s talking about metabolism. The rate at which our body burns calories is known as metabolism rate.

Our body keep on burning calories throughout the day whether we are eating, working, moving or even when sleeping. For losing weight, we all need to build a fast metabolism. People with slow metabolism find it’s really hard to burn calories. Slow metabolism will result in extra fat being stored. The slower metabolism rate you have, the more weight you are going to gain.

The speed at which your metabolism works to keep your body working whether you are sleeping or resting is known as your basal metabolism. If you are able to boost your metabolism, you will find it really easy to lose weight when you are doing nothing or resting. It is not really hard to speed up your metabolism. With fast metabolism, you will have faster weight loss, faster fat burning and healthier body. Here I’m suggesting you some healthy ways to speed up your metabolism:

1. Try to be as much active as possible


2. Walking, running and exercising for burning calories and for higher level of metabolism


3. Eat enough calories to provide your body with energy to make it through the day and to keep your metabolism running quickly.


4. Have breakfast in the morning to stay energetic for the whole day


5. Take small but frequent meals during the day


6. Eat your proteins to increase your metabolism rate


7. Drink three cups of greet tea daily to burn more calories


8. Drinking cold water can also help you speed up your metabolism


9. Spicy foods that make you sweat


10. Good night sleep for better metabolism


11. Drinking high amount of water throughout the day


12. Do n’t forget to include high energy foods like fruits, vegetables and whole grains in your diet


13. Avoid refined foods and sugary snacks


14. Do not starve yourself. Consuming calories lower than 1000 will slow down your metabolism

Watermelon is a big source of vitamins like Vitamin A, C and B6. It also contains high amount of potassium and low amount of sodium. Watermelon contains no fat and it is being eaten with love by people of all ages.

Egypt people first grew watermelons back in 4000 BC. Watermelon reached Europe back in 1300 and since then it is very famous there and is being used as a favorite fruit by many people.

I’m not sure whether our ancestors were aware about too many healthy benefits of watermelon. Buy now we know watermelon can help us to lose weight. The biggest challenge all the weight losers face is that they have to stick to a diet plan and cannot think of neglecting their weight loss diet program for a single day. So they have to choose a diet plan very carefully and have to choose a diet plan they can follow in the long run.

Watermelon is a tasty fruit and we can easily adopt the habit of eating it regularly. But we need to be a bit careful as if we eat too much of watermelon we might get sick of it and may not be able to eat it regularly.

Watermelon is rich n antioxidants from the lycopene. Watermelon can be really used as a healthy weight loss diet as it contains very few amounts of calories. Watermelon should not be kept in a refrigerator although that will be tastier as it will lose some of its nutrients there. So it is ideal to keep it at room temperature to get maximum nutrients.

Watermelon is one of best negative calorie foods. And about negative calorie foods, it is said that our body has to use high amount of energy to digest negative calorie foods.

According to the recent researches, a diet that is full of vegetables can reduce the risk of heart disease. Watermelon is fat free and contains high amount of water. So it will help you in consuming high amount of water, which is recommended for losing weight.

So watermelon is highly suggested for weight loss. One cup of watermelon contains just 46 calories. So watermelon can be an ideal choice for many weight losers. Just eat watermelon regularly and drink high amount of water that looks to be a good approach for losing weight.

According to a latest research, patients who use weight loss pills for getting rid of the extra fat lose only “Modest” amount of weight and many of them remain considerably obese or overweight (Via BBC News).

Weight loss pills like orlistat decreased weight by 5 kg or just 5 percent of total body weight which make their use totally unjustified as per guidelines. Fat loss pills are no way alternative for healthy living. Eating less and doing exercise is really important.

More than one billion people are overweight or obese worldwide which makes anti weight loss pills market really big. According to a calculation, approximately 1.2 billion was spent on the anti obesity pills in 2005.

The latest finding by professor Raj Padwal and his team suggests that in many cases these pills achieve very little in terms of weight loss. But it was not clear from this research, 5 to 10 percent of weight, which was reduced with weight loss pills, was enough for getting big health and survival benefits.

Sonia a CREWKERNE woman added another 10 years to her life after losing 4 stones with Weight Watchers and was able to drop her dress size by four.

Sonia decided to join Crewkerne’s Weight Watchers group after watching the snaps of her 60th birthday. She said she decided to change her size 22 figure so she could feel happy and confident at a wedding and started following a points plan at the Henhayes Centre group.

Sonia had never thought that she would be able to lose weight. But her meeting with the people facing similar situation and experts at Weight Watchers made a big difference to her lifestyle.

Now Sonia is able to walk without a stick and her doctor told her that by losing that amount of weight, she has added another ten years to her lifespan.

Sonia added: "It was the best decision I've ever made, I just wish I'd done it sooner. "I feel a different woman, I feel as though I've got my life back, more energy and confidence - everyone comments on how much younger I look - and to be honest I feel younger.

Bhangra is a living form of music and dance basically originated in the region of Punjab in India and Pakistan. What a great idea to using this entertaining form of dancing for losing extra weight. This is exactly doing some policemen here in Bathinda a city in India in Punjab state.

The policemen there are using Bhangra for losing extra Kilos with the help of Bolly wood star Sunil Shetty through a reality show Sabse Bada Loser Jitega. Bathinda launched the fitness program when 500 of policemen out of 1781 were found overweight and unfit.

"After the tests we found that 30% of our force was obese and required immediate weight loss programme. So we devised this fitness programme on the lines of SBLJ and Bhangra was also made a part of it," said Bathinda SSP Naunihal Singh.

Link - Via - The Times of India

Health professionals are urged that obese women should be refused fertility treatment by the time they do not lose weight. Whether they are looking to get treatment from NHS or privately, medical professionals are asked to refuse to deny treatment to women in case their BMI is greater than 35.

IVF should be offered to women only when their BMI drops below 30. British Fertility Society told its new advice was based on what which was fine both for the mother and baby.

"Obesity reduces the chances that a woman will conceive naturally and decreases the possibility that fertility treatment will be successful," said Mr Tony Rutherford, the chair of the BFS's policy committee. "It also increases the risk of complications during fertility treatment and pregnancy and endangers the health and welfare of both mother and child."

Obesity can increase the risk of miscarriage to women after IVF treatment. The BFS guidelines have no authorized weight, but many professionals working in the field refer them to.

Via - BBC NEWS UK

A latest research suggests that obesity chances increases in those children who do not get adequate amount of sleep. For this research, researchers recorded the sleeping time and BMI of 785 children in third grade and then again in sixth grade.

They found that children in third grade used to sleep on an average 9.45 hours a night while the children in the sixth grade were found to be sleeping on an average 8.78 hours a night.

After making all calculation for sex, race, maternal education, sleeping problems like nightmare etc, the researchers found that for every hour that sleeps time declined over the three years, children were more likely to be overweight by 40 percent. The protective effect came mostly from earlier bedtimes rather than later wake times.

Link Via - New York Times

We already have many reasons to lose weight. Now we have one more big reason to lose some extra pounds. According to a latest research, overweight people are twice more likely to die after being diagnosed with prostate cancer compared to the people having normal weights (Via Yahoo News).

For this study, Smith and his team examined the results of men who have advanced prostate cancer. This study examined 788 men whose weights were recorded at the time of diagnosis to check if their BMI have any effect on their risk of dying.

According to this study, 6.5 percent of people with normal or lower weight i.e. people with BMI less than 25 died after prostate cancer within 5 years. Death rate was 13.1 for the overweight people i.e. people whose BMI lies from 25 to 30. But death rate was 12.2 (lower than the overweight people) for obese people i.e. for people whose BMI is 30 or more.

This research does not give any specific reason for link between obesity and higher risk of death due to prostate cancer. From this research, it was also not clear if people losing weight would help them after they are diagnosed with the disease.

Karen Schulte had problems with her weight since first grade. But two years ago at the age of 40 and with weight of 217 pounds, she decided she had to do something about her weight. Now she is down to 154 pounds and is aiming to bring her weight down to 150 pounds.

How Karen was able to lose these pounds? She started her exercise program with a personal fitness trainer at Fitness Etcetera in West Roxbury, Mass. As Karen started losing weight, her trainer kept her motivated to go for a healthy diet. She just followed her physical trainer advices and started maintaining a food diary.

After losing a lot of pounds, she applied to Weight Watchers to be one of the inspiring stories of 2007. She did not get success in it but she was able to won a gift card of $100 that she had to spend on her clothes. Karen dropped from size 22 to size 10. She was even able to drop her shoes size from 91/2 to 81/2.

"It literally changed my life, my whole lifestyle. It's not about how much you eat or what you eat, it's about how your life and approach to food impacts your life," said Schulte, who works as a registered nurse at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Scott and Melody a married couple who are tired of being overweight now want to lose 200 pounds between them. By doing this, they are determined to set a good example before their three children.

Both Scott and Melody Kellison have decided to lose 200 pounds between them i.e. 100 pounds each. For losing 200 pounds, they have joined Covenant’s Weight Management Center. They joined this weight loss management center in the hope this center unique approach will help them in losing the decided pounds.

This center has a team of professionals that includes a doctor, a nurse, a dietitian, a psychologist and an exercise physiologist. This team of experts is scheduled to meet them on regular basis to get the things right and to help them become healthy again.

Kellisons daughter is worried about their parents health especially her dad. "He has high cholesterol and high blood pressure and smokes and I'm just worried that one night he'll go to sleep and never wake up," Brittany says.

According to a new Government study, having 25 pounds of extra weight does not increase the risk of death due to cancer and heart disease. This study seems to justify Grandma claim that a few extra pounds wont kill you (Via Yahoo News).

This study will make some overweights happy who cannot lose those last 15 pounds. And they uplift proponents of a theory that it's possible to be "fit and fat." All news are not good for overweights. Being overweight increase your chances of being dying due to diabetes and kidney disease.

And for the people who are more than 30 pounds extra according to their height have the risk of death due to many ills including some form of cancer and heart disease. But having little bit of extra pounds can help people survive some illnesses - results that puzzled health researchers.

A latest study from UK suggests that about 6,000 middle aged or old women develop cancer every year here in UK because of being obese or overweight. The study that looked at 45000 cases of cancer among 1m women in the last seven years, says this is about 5 percent of such cases (Via BBC NEWS UK).

This study blamed extra weight for 50 percent of womb cancer and type of oesophageal cancer cases. The study warned that having extra weight could increase the risk of cancer. According to the stats 23 percent of all women in England are obese and 34 percent are overweight.

There are many people who make the mistake of trying to lose weight fast. But in actually, it will take some time for you to lose weight and it is not going to happen in few days. For losing weight, we need to adopt healthy eating habits, also need to do regular exercises. Here I’m suggesting some tips that will help you in losing weight:

1. Eat only when you are hungry. Always eat healthy low calorie foods.


2. Do not forget to drink at least 8 glasses of water a day to keep you hydrated and having the feeling of full.


3. Join a gym and go there to lose extra fat and speeding up your metabolism.


4. Do not forget to take a small walk immediately after lunch and dinner.


5. Always remain motivated about losing weight. Nothing should stop you from going outside for doing exercising.


6. Always choose healthy foods over junk foods. Do not wait fro tomorrow to adopt a healthy eating pattern. Start it from today.


7. Do not eat too much at a time. You can break your three day meals into five or six small meals.


8. Include more fruits and vegetables into your meal plan and avoid too much coffee, tea and sweet beverages.

According to a latest study, children who do not get sufficient amount of sleep are most likely to become obese. Researchers here in US examined children of ages nine to twelve and found that children who slept less than 9 hours a night were more likely to gain weight as compared to the children who slept more during the night (Via The Scotsman).

Researchers at Michigan University believe that children who slept for longer hours during the night may be more energetic and have more chances of going outdoors and play, rather than watching TV.

The study recommended that every extra hour per night a nine-year-old spends sleeping reduces the child's likelihood of being obese three years later by 40 per cent.