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Change being fat into being fit. Dietitian Ryan Andrews offers new insight into our nations obesity epidemic in his new book, DROP THE FAT ACT & LIVE LEAN, debunking common fattitudes that lead to weight gain and poor health.

Summertown, TN (PRWEB) February 08, 2012

DROP THE FAT ACT & LIVE LEAN offers no-holds-barred lessons that should be taken to heart by anyone who lives, eats and exercises like most Americans. Dietitian Ryan Andrews offers an insightful look at what makes people fat. Using a humorous, take-no-prisoners style, he debunks common fattitudes that prevent people from being fit and healthy.

Fattitudes are lifestyle habits, dietary choices, and belief systems that add more body fat, less muscle mass and less mobility; in short, a shorter life span. Skipping breakfast, not getting enough sleep, drinking calories and eating nutritionally-void foods fast and haphazardly are a few of the defacto rules on how to get fat and stay that way. Using the opposites approach to behavioral learning, Andrews teaches readers what not to do in order to lose weight.

Healthy Living Publications, whose main genre are titles on alternative health care and plant-based diets and nutrition, recognized that this was not your average weight-loss book. Here is a much needed approach that can unlock the trap doors so many people set for themselves.

Andrews, director of education for Precision Nutrition, is in charge of the Precision Nutrition Lean Eating Coaching Program, helping over 2,000 clients annually. Drawing on his experience with clients as both a world-class fitness coach and a nutrition coach, he understands first-hand the challenges and excuses that come into play.

A new set of weight management skills includes research-driven principles of healthy nutrition. Whole foods in place of processed foods, as well as a plant-based rather than animal-based diet, are proven to work the most effectively for achieving a healthy body. From exercise to portion size, compelling and convincing reasons are offered to give new lifestyle and dietary changes a chance.

The underlying heart of the matter is that being lean is not simply about looking good in tight jeans. Losing weight not only makes people look and feel their best, but offers them the opportunity to live a healthful, fulfilling, productive and purposeful life.

DROP THE FAT ACT & LIVE LEAN emphasizes how the real formula to weight-loss success is the ability to make good decisions on everyday choices.One person at a time, adopting the habits of the fit and lean, begins a new social norm.

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From Fit to Fat: Losing Fattitudes to Lose Weight

A recent national health survey indicates that more than six out of every 10 Americans are overweight or obese, a number that has done nothing but continually climb in recent years. There are subsequently a growing number of people wanting to lose weight. Desire, however is not enough.

It doesn't sweat or breathe hard during workouts, but your attitude — your frame of mind — can make or break your fitness ambitions.

We, most of us, have a pretty good idea of what we want to accomplish and what it's going to take to get there. We plan to exercise and make good food choices. But often to the detriment of their "I'm-really-going-to-do-it-this-time" aspirations, they lack this key component: attitude.

Since our attitude, thoughts and feelings guide and influence our behavior, it's important to focus in on those attitudes and convictions we need to possess and to chuck the ones which do us absolutely no good.

One worthy of chucking is the ultra-fast-weight-loss pipe dream. When we attempt to correct the results of months or years of poor fitness behaviors in a few weeks, we're simply setting ourselves up to fail. Any dietary plan that promises you'll lose more than 1½-2 pounds a week is unhealthy and unrealistic. Patience, in this case, is a virtue as well as a necessity.

Second chuck-worthy attitude: "I've found this great diet!" A recent Consumer Reports magazine survey found that an overwhelming majority of 32,000 successfully dieters lost weight and kept if off, not through food deprivation or elimination, but through exercise and permanent healthy dietary habits.

In contrast, an embraceable attitude is viewing exercise as a lifelong endeavor and realizing that they're called "workouts" because they are work! If you're new to exercise, you must be mentally prepared for — not frightened off by — your body's natural response to physical exertion.

Not to say you should try to kill yourself, but know that sweating and breathing hard will not feel "easy" and will very likely feel a bit uncomfortable. But, while getting fit is not easy or effortless, with moderate, gradually progressive workouts your body will adapt and grow stronger.

Another embraceable attitude is a willingness to learn and change your behaviors. When you're willing to try new things — new cooking styles, new types of food, new forms of activity — you can accomplish new things. You cannot hold onto to old behaviors and hope to achieve a different outcome.

All in all, we know that fitness involves much more than our attitude, but it's important to realize that many crucial fitness battles are won or lost from the neck up. Get your attitude in check and the obstacles that you will undoubtedly encounter will be more easily overcome and your fitness aspirations more likely fulfilled.

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Weight loss has become a multi-billion dollar industry in America. There are thousands of fitness centers and diet plans that all claim to work. Especially this time of year, many people strive to lose weight for their New Year's resolutions. It is never easy losing even a few pounds, and sometimes we need help from professional nutritionists and even surgeons.

One of the most drastic weight-control measures is a bariatric surgery known as gastric bypass. The surgery, according to the Mayo Clinic, entails a surgeon making a cut across the top of the patient's stomach, sealing it from the rest of the stomach and dramatically reducing the amount of food the person can consume in one sitting.

The human stomach can normally hold "about three pints of food," according to the Mayo Clinic website. With the bypass, the resulting stomach "pouch" can hold "only about an ounce of food."

Obesity is a serious and difficult issue because it can cause heart disease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancers. Nevertheless gastric bypass is not a choice to make lightly, and doctors discourage turning to it as an "easy" alternative to dieting or exercise.

The process to undergo bariatric surgery can take up to six months. Numerous psychiatric and dietician sessions are required. The surgery costs from $18,000 to $35,000. Because of the cost, insurance companies are hesitant to pay for it unless the patient has tried other ways to lose weight.

Like other surgeries, it can result in numerous health complications. With gastric bypass there are short and long- term risks. Anesthesia complications, infections, and bowel obstructions can occur. After the surgery, patients may regain the weight or have psychological issues.

The gastric band—an adjustable system which performs the same function as the surgery, but can be removed—has fewer risks since there are no incisions, but there is a 1 percent chance that a blood clot will form in the legs during surgery.

"My thinking and eating is my problem," said Helen Bolar. She attends gastric bypass information sessions at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Streeterville. Bolar wants to lose at least 75 pounds by undergoing surgery. She is afraid of gastric bypass surgery because of the risks and instead wants to have the gastric band inserted.

The ideal patient for either gastric bypass or the band must have a BMI of 40 or higher. This means that they must be more than 100 pounds overweight.

"Surgery is the easy part...the hard part is not gaining the weight back," said Dr. Alexander Nagle, a doctor at Northwestern who performs gastric bypasses, during an information session. "It is a life-changing commitment to diet and exercise... and will increase life expectancy."

Obesity is a complex issue, and despite numerous debates and studies, there is no consensus as to what "causes" it. Genetics play a huge role in how the body processes food, and certain types of medications such as steroids and antidepressants can also affect the body's metabolism.

Weight gain and obesity have risen over the past few decades because of how Americans consume food.

There are fast food restaurants on every corner. More restaurants offer foods that are higher in sugar and fat. Portion sizes in this country are larger than average as well.

There is also a socioeconomic element to consider. In poor neighborhoods and rural communities, where obesity is more often seen, a lack of affordable food options and grocery stores make it harder to access healthy food. Also, people in these communities don't always have the option to walk or bike to work or school.

Technology is also a contributing factor. Children and adults spend countless hours sitting in front of television or computer screens instead of being active.

A new study published in "Food Quality and Preference," a journal of the Sensometric Society, stated that, "non-food products that are produced to smell like food, such as chocolate or fruit-scented personal care products may increase food intake and lead to obesity."

Other problems are with the traditional "food pyramid" and the USDA guidelines, according Monica Eng, a health writer for the Chicago Tribune.

"Fat has been largely vindicated as a contributor to obesity and yet the USDA [United States Department of Agriculture] is still telling people to drink low fat milk and cut fat in other areas," Eng said. "Anyone who follows the USDA guidelines will probably remain obese until its guidelines catch up to the most recent science."

A dietician can help personalize a diet that does not necessarily follow the food pyramid. Nutrition Counseling Services offers individual diet plans. NCS is just one of many counseling and treatment centers that offer help to Chicagoans.

Students around the nation, including DePaul students are conscious of the risks of overeating and not getting enough exercise.

Victoria Prasil, a junior at DePaul, exercises regularly.

"There are so many people who have health problems and don't do anything proactive to change their health," Prasil said. "I'm fortunate to be healthy and I want to do all I can ensure to stay healthy inside and out."

Gastric bypass and other bariatric surgery may be the best option for a person's health and well-being, but it is a decision to be made with care. Unlike a diet, gastric bypass cannot be stopped or reversed if it does not work out.

"[Bariatric surgery] is not a cosmetic surgery," said Nagle. "It is a major surgery…that is used to prevent and treat medical problems."

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02-02-2012 05:53 Food cravings ruining your weight loss progress? Constantly getting a craving for chocolate? Sweet cravings, salt cravings or carb cravings? "Stop cravings -- 3 tips to beat cravings and lose weight fast" gives you advice on how to stop cravings, stick with your diet and lose weight fast. You can even allow yourself a cheat meal or cheat day and still lose weight so long as you follow these weight loss tips. Watch "Stop cravings -- 3 tips to beat cravings and lose weight fast" now and please give us a thumbs up if you like it and it gives you useful advice on how to manage your food cravings. Did you catch what the 3 tips are? Click on the times below to hear them again: Stop Cravings Tip 1: 0:30 Stop Cravings Tip 2: 0:55 Stop Cravings Tip 3: 1:24 What is your biggest craving? Get any strange cravings? Why not share your cravings with us below and see if anyone else has the same cravings. For me, if I've just eaten something savoury, I'll get a craving for some chocolate. If I've just eaten dessert, then something savoury or salty like cheese, crisps or toast will be what I'll crave. Cravings are our biggest enemy when we're trying to lose weight. They are often the reason why diets fail. We start our diet plan, then we start to get cravings for some banned food. The harder we try to ignore it, the more we think about it. Eventually we give in. And then we think our diet has failed again, we'll never be successful at losing weight so we may as well stop trying. This video ...

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Sharlene Fair had tried for years to lose weight, but nothing seemed to work until she found her answer after breathing into a tube at her local gym.

It was an irritating 10 minutes of breathing, but one that Fair said ultimately helped her drop what she calls the equivalent of a "small child" in pounds.

The tube was connected to a machine at LifeBridge Health & Fitness in Pikesville that used Fair's breath to measure her metabolic rate, or how fast she burns calories while resting. Her personal trainer used the data to help determine the exact number of calories Fair should be eating to lose weight and then tailored an eating and exercise plan to fit her body composition.

"I have definitely seen the difference," Fair said during a recent follow-up visit. "The pounds have come off."

The weight-loss industry in recent years has moved beyond a one-size-fits-all approach in developing eating and exercise plans that once relied solely on a person's weight and height.

For years, doctors have used the standard body mass index, which plugs a patient's height and weight into an equation, to help determine the person's health. But more are steering away from that because it isn't personalized enough. Under the BMI method, athletes like Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis would likely be considered obese because they have so much muscle that it causes them to weigh more than they look.

Weight-loss experts, nutritionists and trainers instead are increasingly taking into account a person's entire body composition, including the amount of fat and muscle that person has and how fast he or she burns calories. A person with a lot of lean muscle will burn calories faster than a person with more fat. The technology to measure these components has been used by hospitals and professional athletic teams for years but only recently has become more advanced and readily available to the general public.

Early methods of measuring metabolic rate involved dunking people in water. The idea was based on an old principle that "fat floats and all the rest goes to the bottom," said Dr. Benjamin Caballero, a professor of nutrition and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "The more fat the person has, the less it would weigh down the water."

The newer machines use methods such as air displacement and electric currents to determine body composition. Caballero said they are not only more accurate, but they can be used by more people. An elderly person who can't stay underwater long or someone who is claustrophobic might not be a good candidate for the water test.

LifeBridge Health & Fitness is using a device once found only in hospital settings. It also looks at a person's eating preferences, exercise habits and health history in coming up with a final plan. The machine offers nearly 40 meal plans, including low-carb, vegetarian and Caribbean variations, in an effort to please different palates.

Ellensue Levinson-Jeffers, a personal trainer at LifeBridge, said the test often finds that people aren't eating enough calories to keep up with the pace at which their bodies burn calories. Their bodies then try to conserve the calories that are coming in, resulting in slower weight loss.

"Our bodies are complex machines, and what we eat really affects us," she said.

Matt Bender, who owns a metabolic rate machine called a Bod Pod, said that how much you eat can also determine whether you lose fat or muscle. If you start to lose muscle, your weight loss will slow because muscle burns calories faster than fat. Bender said people often pay attention to the number on the scale, which isn't the most important factor.

"We want to make sure we're feeding our resting metabolic rate," Bender said. "That information by far is the most useful for a person taking a fit test. We are addressing the biggest equation in weight loss, which is calories."

The Bod Pod has been around for more than a decade, but Bender introduced it to the area four years ago and brings it to area gyms in a camper. The machine, in which a person sits for several seconds, uses air displacement to help figure out a person's body composition. Bender said people should be tested again after they lose weight because as their bodies change, so do their metabolic rates, and a new eating plan may be needed. A person with more muscle might need to eat more, he said.

The focus on body composition is part of a holistic approach to weight loss that is starting to take hold. Lynne Brick, owner of the Brick Bodies chain of gyms, said emotional issues, stress, hormones and body composition should all be considered.

"It is really critical if you're going to lose weight that you do a major self-assessment and have a professional guide you," Brick said.

The holistic approach is one the Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center has used for years. The center, which works mostly with extremely obese patients, does a full work-up with new patients that includes not only a physical assessment but a look at what behavioral and mental aspects of their lives may be affecting weight gain. The center looks at eating habits and what may trigger binges. The program also uses a body scanner to determine metabolic rate.

"I see people who have the same height and weight, but if you talk to them and exam them more extensively, they're far from the same," said Dr. Lawrence J. Cheskin, director of the center.

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