The Diet Secrets

A fat belly is more than an eyesore while wearing a bikini - it’s a potential health risk.  According to medical studies, abdominal fat carries greater health risks than fat stored in low areas of the body, such as the thighs and buttocks.   Many experts actually believe that the size of your waist and the percentage of body fat concentrated in your stomach areas is a more accurate predictor of future health risks than your weight.

If you are prone to gaining fat around your midsection, any weight gain is likely to result in increased fat tissue in the same area.  As such, the best way to prevent it to work to keep your weight at a normal level.

Spot Reduction

You’ve probably seen the glut of commercials on TV selling abdominal exercisers that purport to melt off your stomach fat by helping you build muscles in that area.  I can safely inform you that all those things - from the vibrating belt variety to the portable ab machines - are a load of crap.

Fat Loss

For most folks, losing that concentration of abdominal fat can only be achieved by a reduction in your total body fat.  As such, eating healthy and exercise continues to be the only sensible way of achieving it.  Instead of focusing on losing the belly, you should look towards losing overall body fat by a restricted diet and plenty of aerobic exercise.

Losing the belly will come with losing fat throughout the rest of your body.

While a food diet generally means you’ll be restricting food intake, the Ultimate Sex Diet doesn’t quite follow the same pattern.  Instead of eschewing the activity, this sex diet actually involves having more sex - lots and lots of it in order to lose weight.

According to the author, Kerry McCloskey, plenty of sex brings innumerable physical and emotional benefits, like a healthy heart, stronger immune system, less propensity for depression and weight loss.  At the bare minimum, practitioners of the Ultimate Sex Diet should have sex three to five times during the week and at least once on weekend.  The more sex you can fit into your schedule, the better the weight loss results will be.

That’s the exercise portion of the system, by the way.  It, of course, also involves an eating regimen that’s a little more forgiving than your typical diet programs. Recommended food types in the Ultimate Sex Diet consists of mostly low-fat and high-fiber fare.

Bread and pasta are particularly cited as good items you should limit.  Anytime it is available, dieters should always choose low-fat versions of dairy and milk.  Food choices that come highly recommended include whole grains, fruits, vegetables, sugar-free desserts, herbs, spices and seafood.  Aphrodisiacs like dark chocolate and wine are also encouraged, if they help increase your sexual appetite.

There is no calorie-counting in the Ultimate Sex Diet, where focus is trained on eating healthy while getting lots of sex to burn off  excess calories.  The book is currently available for about $28.

My family loves holding a barbecue in the backyard during weekends, weather permitting.  Unfortunately, that means plenty of red meat and fat - not the best food choices around someone trying to restrict their calories and lose weight.

What’s a girl on a diet to do?  Find healthier barbecues to feast on, of course!

While the rest of the family waits for their fatty burgers, steaks and hotdogs to cook, I wait for my healthier barbecues to get well done.  Believe me, I get the complete set of nutrients my body requires with low calories to boot.  Want to know what I cook?

1. Vegetarian kebabs

Tofu, onions,  tomatoes, peppers and pineapple slices all skewered on a stick, cooked over fire.  Make sure to use a low-calorie marinade or you’ll be messing up your diet all the same!

2. Fish

What tastes better than grilled beef, chicken and pork?  Grilled fish!  Find fresh fish and have a healthy, tasty, meaty barbecue.

3. Corn

Not many people seem to know this but sweet corn cooked over a grill is incredibly delicious.  It literally tastes like no other preparation of corn is able to achieve - even without fattening butter!

4. A little lean meat

Lean meat is fine but when I begin banqueting on it during backyard barbecues, I just find it hard to stop.  Instead, I just take a small slice of meat and limit my consumption to that, followed by my healthier fire-cooked options.

Ever since she first appeared on the Poison Ivy sequel, men the world over have not been able to take their eyes off Jamie Pressly every time she dons a bikini in one of her many movies and TV appearances.  Not too long ago, though, the actress gained 42 pounds after giving birth to her first son.

You read that right, she gained “42″ pounds, all traces of which seems to have disappeared from her body, if you watch her figure in the new season of My Name Is Earl.  According to Jamie, she made a steadfast commitment to get fit and tone up her body, after gaining all that baby weight.  How did she do it?

Jamie was no stranger to exercise and, in fact, has been used to fitness routines as part of her regular pre-child schedule.  After the baby, she focused on losing the excess weight, all while maintaining her shapely curves, by doing a circuit-training training session four times a week.  With compound exercises and no rest between sets, the calorie burn she earned from exercising helped her shed the weight fast.

For diet, Jamie focused on keeping it healthy, with a regular amount of calories.  Instead of feasting on burgers and steaks, she focused on plenty of servings of fruits and veggies, as well as lean protein sources and fiber.  Since she exercised hard, Jamie didn’t need much calorie restriction from her eating and geared the diet towards filling her body with just enough nutrients to last her through her hectic schedule.