The 100-Calorie Secret - Never Diet Again!

You Cannot Pick the Parts of the Mediterranean Diet You Like and Ignore the Others! The issue for many is weight loss--that's  being healthy.Drink a glass of red wine every night, eat the olive oil loaded salads and whole grain pasta and you will gain weight. What about the rest of the Mediterranean Diet?

The  Mediterranean region has gathered an immense appeal among  Americans.  Fresh fruits, vegetables, fish, beans, nuts and last but not least the ultimate Mediterranean food; The almighty extra virgin olive oil.

Weight Loss Occurs When Calories Are Burned With Aerobic Exercise-NOT by Building Bigger Muscles!  The difference between muscle metabolism ( 6 cal/lb) and fat metabolism ( 2 cal /lb) is not as great as one might think. If you replace 10 lb. of fat with 10 lb. of muscle you burn
about 40 calorie more per day. It's hard for most people to build up 10 lb. of muscle.

The exercise industry promotes the idea that working out will help you to lose weight and sculpt your body. Using the right equipment or doing the right exercises, according to them, will take fat off the love handles, thighs, underarms, and other very specific parts of your body.

Men  try this by doing  crunches  to get that thin belly.
Females try to get rid of their muffin tops  by all kinds of belly exercises.

The problem is that distribution of fat is for the most part genetically determined and has little to do with how much one exercises or diets. Moreover, building muscle mass is not ineffective in promoting weight loss for the average dieter.

740 Calories & 76 Grams of Sugar for a Chocolate Mocha or a Hazelnut Hot Chocolate!

Let's face it, It's just an excuse to drink a milkshake, the danger is that it is presented as being "healthy" and trendy.

It's the trendy  image of Starbucks-Not the cost:
Americans are distressed with paying $3.00 dollars or more for their gas, but  not for a $ 4.75  glass of java chip Frappuccino- 530 calories of coffee, syrup, milk, ice, and whipped cream. When it comes to high priced coffees,  there seems to be no limit.

Coffee is America's Fuel:
America's fuel is coffee, not gasoline with over 330 million cups of coffee drunk a day. Bob Thompson, a professor  at Syracuse University writes,  " One could really make the argument that coffee is the "American lubricant." It lubricates social situations and the workplace.

As you're working during the day, coffee becomes the equivalent of 'in-flight fueling station,'" says Thompson. "You grab a cup on your way to work, you've got your little commuting holder in your car, there's a pot at work."

Weight loss and dieting are impossible if you are drinking even a single soda or fruit juice a day.Not only do they add 12 lbs and 2 inches to your waist line over a year, the sugar makes you hungry all day and turns to fat around your belly.

January 9, 2009: Sipping Your Calories Away Through A Straw?
A single soda, gatorade, glass of fruit juice or bottle of an energy drink a day= 12 lb.
weight gain in a year!  What a waste.

Just Drink any of of these drinks 1 time a day over a year and  gain 12 lb. (When they are excess calories above your daily calorie needs). Each one has 130-150 calories and 30 to 50 grams of sugar!

People are taking in enormous amounts of calories in liquid form” reports Sara Bleich in the January 2009 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.