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Controlling Weight Gain
It is easier to control weight than to lose weight already gain. People are spending countless hours and large amounts of money on losing weight only to regain it later. Prevention now will help to give you a healthy body and better life style in the future. Learn how to do better.
The risk times are:
- Stress- eating for comfort
- Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
- Busy with work and family
- Holidaying
- Dining out and take-away
- Illness and physical injury
- Low exercise and physical inactivity
- High fat cooking
We need to be conscious of eating too much fat when dining out or having takeaway. Reducing the fat in every day meals is also very important. Refer to the following articles on the web site.
- Healthy Eating For Weight Control
- Watch Out For Hidden Fat
- Skimming Off The Fat
- Menu Roasted Over High Fat Content
- See the Light on Food Choices
Add Spice to your life with the addition of spices for flavour rather than fat. Reduce the oil in stir-frying and add garlic, cumin, ginger, and lemon grass. There are more tips in the article:
Check out the web site for help with stress eating or come and see an APD dietitian for personal help.
Pregnancy and breast feeding can be a time of weight gain but with help and good healthy eating, it need not be. The baby will thrive and be more beautiful with good nutrition from mum. A well balanced diet with plenty of fruit and vegetables with good sources of iron such as red meat will help. Refer to the information on pregnancy and breast-feeding on the web.
Busy at work or with family and friends some times don’t leave the time to plan healthy menus. Hectic times will work better when planning and shopping ahead. The take-away meal often happens when it is 5 pm and you are on your way home with nothing planned.
Entertaining can be healthy when serving tasty low fat gourmet food. Refer to some of the recipes, or to the book
If holidaying, then try and be active. A holiday from physical activity and watching the type of food you eat will be a disaster in weight gain. Some people have gained 3 to 4 kg or more over Christmas through this. Let it not happen at Easter. Seek help or refer to the article
Illness can prevent physical activity. Injuries to knees and ankles or severe arthritis can prevent walking or cycling. If activity is greatly reduced for any reason, then the total energy value of food must be watched. Refer to the articles Exercise to the optimum. It is better to walk longer at a light puffing pace than to sprint for 10 minutes. An hour of walking with puffing will burn more fat. The fat burning is greater once the glycogen stores in the muscles are depleted. Remember it is easier to control weight rather than to gain and struggle to take it off. Seek help early, for a small problem before it becomes a big one. The staff at the Perth Diet Clinic are all understanding and trained to help, what ever your problem is. Often just advice on good nutrition is very worthwhile.
Added to site on : Tuesday, 31 December 2002