A review of my blog so far

I was very fat－ 106 kilogram, but I have fixed this problem: I am 86 kilograms now.

In my blog, I share my experience of losing weight and good articles matching my experience. I, a successful dieter, recommend you all the methods I have already practiced for one and a half years. I do three things a day: I have banana diet and tomato soup: the former, breakfast; the latter, dinner; I drink lots of water－2000CC; I also exercise thirty minutes every day. Having lots of vegetables and fruits, less carbohydrate and no alcohol is a good way. I think the motivation of exercise is very important. Doing interesting exercises like WII makes me feel no pain but fun. Just remember not to practice any strange diet methods hurting your health, such as cigarette diet. Now I am very proud to name myself Andre the Light Keeper because I keep myself light.

You can control your weight as you quit smoking

People use different ways to cut weights. Some of the ways are good, but some of them are weird. Have you ever heard that smoking diet? I think it is a stupid act because once you begin to smoke you will addict to cigarettes─quit smoking difficulty, and gain more weight quickly when you try to quit it, and get lung cancers easily. Trust me that I was a smoker before and I gained about 20 kilograms when I unwillingly quitted─I was in a coma, and I was disabled later, and I can reach no cigarettes any more─the cigarettes. Now I am healthy, fit without bad habits

You can control your weight as you quit smoking

I have found a good article on

http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/health/w8quit-smoke/index.htm

Here is the summary of this article: You can control your weight as you quit smoking

Many ex-smokers do gain weights; some, a few pounds, but only a few, lot of weight.Quitting smoking is much more important than gaining a few pounds. Just some simple changes, like developing healthier eating and physical activity habits can help you control your weight when you quit smoking. Averagely, people quitting smoking gain only about 10 pounds if you have smoked for 10 to 20 years or smoked one or more packs of cigarettes a day.

The reasons of gaining weight are: when nicotine, a chemical in cigarette smoke, is in your body that causes you have low or no appetite for food; therefore, when you quit smoking your body turn back to normal and back to the weight you would have been had. During first week after quitting, you might gain 3 to 5 pounds due to water retention. After you stop smoking, you may burn less calories than when you were smoking.

Smoking causes more than 400,000 deaths each year in the United States. When you smoke the heart rate increases, and about 4,000 chemicals in cigarette smoke pollute environment around you, and 40 of these chemicals cause cancer─high risk to get lung cancers.

Here is some data:

Men are 22 times more likely to develop lung cancer, women, 12. Smokers are twice as likely to have a heart attack as a nonsmoker. Smoking cigarettes are hurting not only smokers’ health, but also the health of anyone who breathes the smoke─smokers or nonsmokers. The smoke could cause heart disease and stroke, chronic bronchitis and emphysema, lung cancers and some types of cancer.

Adapted from the National Cancer Institute's "Smoking: Facts and Tips for Quitting"

You can control your weight as you quit smoking

Here is some advice: to avoid gaining weight when you quit smoking, you need to do physical activities to burn your increasing calories, changes your eating habits to control the total amount of calories you input. In one study, women who stopped smoking and added 45 minutes of walking a day gained less than 3 pounds. Besides controlling weight, exercise can increase energy, promote self-confidence, improve your health, relieve the stress and depression caused by the lack of nicotine in your body. Try to do at least 30 minutes of physical activities a day on most days of the week, such as gardening, housework, mowing the lawn, playing actively with children, taking the stairs instead of the elevator.
Try to gradually improve your eating habits. Eating a variety of foods from each group in the Food Guide Pyramid each day.
Think before you act, friends. Choose a healthy, safe, effective way to keep you healthy and lose your weight.

vocabulary:

Chronic 慢性的 lasting for a long time; difficult to cure or get rid of

Emphysema 肺氣腫 a condition that affects the lungs, making it difficult to breathe

Pyramid 金字塔 a large building with a square or TRIANGULAR base and sloping side that meet in a point at the top. The ancient

Egyptians built stone pyramids as places to bury their kings and queens.

Bronchitis 支氣管炎 an illness that affect the bronchial tubes leading to the lungs

Stroke 中風 a sudden serious illness when a blood VESSEL (=tube) in the brain bursts or the loss of the ability to move or to speak clearly.

Alcohol and Weight Loss─Can You Have Both

Alcohol and Weight Loss─Can You Have Both?

Recently, my mother pushes my father to lose weight because he is over 80 kilos, but he is only 168 centimeters tall. Of course, Mom makes him to have the banana diet as I do. He has practiced the banana diet for about five weeks. It is very strange that my father’s does not reduce any weights after two weeks; although, it is not gaining more. Last time when we went back home, Dad suggested that they should go to Costco to supply his wine inventory. Mom found out that in the storage, Kaoliang wine, red wine, whisky are all gone. “There must be a big mouse in our home.”, said Mom─ My dad was born in the year of Mouse. No wonder he can not lose his weights; he drinks a small cup of wine every supper, and he thinks it does not matter. For improving he is wrong, I decide to search some articles for him to understand that alcohol contains high calories and no good for dieters.
The article: Alcohol and Weight Loss─Can You Have Both?is on http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/nutrition_articles.asp?id=563
The author directly told us that alcohol is the enemy to dieters. Although many experts say a single drink a day may be good for people’s health, such as reducing the risk of high blood pressure. But the truth is if you drink any kind of wine daily, you might ruin your diet plans.

Alcohol and Weight Loss─Can You Have Both?

The author points out some reasons. First, alcohol is metabolized differently than other foods and beverages: the former does not have the process of digestion; the latter has slow process of digestion.

The alcohol is absorbed quickly in the stomach and arrives at liver and brain in few minutes. In another hand, other foods and beverages which are after slow digestion change into body fat waiting to be stored in our bodies.
Second, alcohol is a diuretic which causes water loss and becomes dehydration. Alcohol not only burdens liver’s work but also makes our body lose important minerals─such as magnesium, potassium, calcium and zinc along with the urine. These minerals are important to keep the fluid balance, chemical reactions, and muscle contraction and relaxation of our bodies.
Third, alcohol lowers your inhibitions, which ruins your diet plans because alcohol actually stimulates your appetite. People can be full from a certain amount of calories from food, but several drinks can’t. There is a paper pointing out that if you drink before or during a meal, both your inhibitions and willpower are reduced. In this situation, the more you drink, the more you want to eat, especially ─greasy or fried foods—which can make you bigger and bigger. If you can not resist having a drink, at least you should wait until you have finished your meal, and then you can order your drink. A tip here: snacks (peanuts, pretzels, chips) which are salty accompany with drinks encouraging you to drink even more; you should drink some water between each alcoholic beverage.