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Vicky Pattison ‘punished’ her body in bid to lose weight – Metro.co.uk
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Vicky Pattison has opened up about her punishing bid to lose weight before turning 30.
The TV star used exercise as a way of making up for food she had eaten that she felt was unhealthy.
Vicky, 32, added that she used to start diets and fall off the wagon frequently when she went out with friends.
She told Metro.co.uk: For me the first hurdle that I fall at when Im on a diet is that I wanna go out and I wanna see my friends. And it always revolves around food doesnt it?
When youre trying to be good and you cant determine exactly whats in your meals you feel out of control, and you feel frustrated and the anxiety sets in so you miss it.
You become like a hermit and I cant do that, so I always end up falling off the wagon and going out with me mates regardless.
Vicky added: Since I turned 30 my relationship with my body has totally changed, Im no longer trying to fight against it. I used to try and punish it. I used to say exercise is a form of punishment for what Ive eaten. Now I see it as a celebration of what my body can do.
Now she is in a happy relationship with boyfriend Ercan Ramadan and thinking about starting a family, she has joined WW (formerly Weight Watchers) in order to get healthy and boost her fertility.
The former Geordie Shore star recalled the moment she was told her chances of having a baby were being impacted by her former party lifestyle.
It was really scary. I think for any woman discovering where youre at with your fertility is gonna be nerve-wracking and for me it was no different, Vicky said, especially because considering I know Ive had a very wild lifestyle during my 20s. I wasnt living conscientiously.
Towards the end of last summer when I began my fertility journey I was really stressed out. It was really difficult. But now that Ive got my information and I know where Im at and what I have to do in order to keep my body happy and healthy.
It feels very liberating, I feel very empowered and Im grateful to WW for helping us on me way with that journey.
And Vickys mum Carroll is looking forward to becoming a granny for a second time.
Me younger sister is about to give birth any day now, so shes gonna be a grandma regardless. Her hopes dont all hinge on me but no doubt she is looking forward to it. She just wants us to be happy.
I think mam knows that I see children as part of my future landscape. She loves Erkan which really helps.
Vicky Pattison is a WW brand ambassador and will be following the new myWW programme with her mum Caroll so they can help motivate and inspire each other. To start your own weight loss and wellness journey with a loved one with help from WW Weight Watchers Reimagined head to ww.com.
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Mom thought the diet was making her lose weight – but it was breast cancer – themediatimes
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A mother who lost two stones and thought that her diet was going well was devastated to discover that it was breast cancer that made her lose weight.
Emma De Jonge of Woodville heard the devastating news after finding a piece that looked like a hard pea.
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The 50-year-old woman knew she had to be examined when she felt the growth a second time straighten her hair.
She said, I was on a diet and lost a lot of weight.
I thought I was on a good diet, but I had cancer and that is why I was losing it.
I was sitting in my bed when I first felt the piece of brush on my arm.
When I felt it two weeks later, I thought I couldnt ignore it and I called the office for an emergency appointment.
Emma De Jonge had lost two stones(Image: BURTON MAIL)
Emma underwent a lumpectomy at the Burton Breast Care Clinic at Burtons Queens Hospital just weeks after her diagnosis.
After episodes of chemotherapy and radiation therapy, she overcame her cancer.
But she still had to face looking over her shoulder lest it come back.
She said, If I had a sniff, I would immediately think the cancer had come back.
I had to find peace of mind rather than continuously looking over my shoulder.
It was then that I started the first level of Reiki, which is about self-healing and is purely for you.
Within two weeks of diagnosis and operation, the cancer had gone from the first to the third year and the lump she noticed for the first time had become flat.
Emma, Ellies mom, 27, and grandmother of newborn Nathan, now counts her blessings, she went for the date because she was warned that cancer can change and hide .
She said, With chemotherapy, I was very hard-wired, I had stiff muscles and I was nervous.
It made me very sensitive to others and gave me increased meaning.
I did not want to announce that I was sick because I needed to take care of it myself.
I would tell someone to say nothing, then I would meet someone else and I could say they knew.
I was very fortunate to have an anti-sickness medication and a travel group, so rarely had any illness, but I felt exhausted.
I have things like mouth ulcers and my immune system was weak.
I could not have take-out or street food in case they were not cooked properly.
The chemo was followed by 25 cycles of radiotherapy.
Emma said, The radiation therapy made me sleep and sleep properly. It was a very deep and full sleep.
I always needed all the lights off and no noise to fall asleep, but I found that I could fall asleep on a hairpin.
Emma said, I got attached to losing my hair because I couldnt cope with the rest. I realized that I had to make cancer the focus.
I tried the cold cap (which reduces blood flow to the scalp to prevent hair loss) to keep me from losing my hair, but it was brutal and didnt work for me.
I decided that the best thing was to shave my hair and get used to it.
It was really liberating, because I had demonized it so much in my head that when I saw myself, it was actually a nice surprise.
I didnt look as bad as I thought. I felt like I was taking control.
Thanks to her brutal treatment, Emma received aromatherapy treatment at the hospital, funded by the Burton Breast Care Clinic.
She said, I had a lady named Josie and we chatted.
She told me that she was a breast cancer survivor.
I had this perfect shaped little woman who did this nice treatment on me and I just thought look at her now .
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For me, it is mainly that I was undergoing therapy and it is skin to skin.
The human touch is comforting and the oils help give you balance and are uplifting.
It was this complementary therapy that inspired Ms. De Jonge to form and open her own business offering treatments in Woodville.
The Pixie Retreat, above the hair and beauty of Buckenham, in High Street, offers Swedish massages, aromatherapy, reflexology, reiki and hopi ear candles.
Although she cannot yet offer these treatments to cancer patients, Emma plans to take oncology training so that she can do the same for others as Josie does for her.
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Curtis Pritchards weight loss How Love Island star lost a stone since leaving the villa – The Sun
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CURTIS Pritchard has revealed he has lost a stone since leaving the Love Island villa last year.
The professional dancer says he decided to sign up to WW, formerly known as Weight Watchers, after years of crash dieting.
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He admitted he would go through phases of rapidly losing weight to bingeing on 10,000 calories a day.
Speaking at a WW Supper Club in London last night, the 23-year-old said:"I've lost a stone to date so it's been going fantastically my WW journey.
"The reason I joined is I always do these crash course diets and I have always been around dancing so I've been under a lot of pressure to look a certain way.
"I need to have a certain amount of energy for the style of sport and career I chose.
I have always been around dancing so I've been under a lot of pressure to look a certain way
"So I've had to do these crash course diets to drop weight dramatically.
"Sometimes I'd lose about two stone in a month then all of a sudden I'd be feeling weak and my mental state wouldn't be correct.
"I wouldn't be able to focus properly and I just wouldn't be able to perform to the ability that I needed to.
"Then all of a sudden I'd crumble and I'd put it all straight back on.
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"Literally I'd just binge and eat whatever - chocolate, pizza.
"Some days I'd eat probably about 10,000 calories.
"So the weight would just go on and off, on and off, and I never felt good."
Some days I'd eat probably about 10,000 calories
Curtis said that it was after leaving the Love Island villa that he decided it was time to change his relationship with food.
"In the villa, I did get fat shamed coming out," he said.
"I wanted to change my relationship with food - I wanted to eat whatever I wanted, in moderation.
"That's what I've been able to do for the past six months.
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"I've been eating more than I've ever eaten in my entire life - just the correct stuff.
"And if I want that pizza, you can still have that pizza, you can do whatever you want."
He added:"When I was dieting, I used to be thinking 'I need to eat, but I can't eat. If I don't eat now for another two hours then I can eat a little bit then.
"It would be a nightmare. It's an ongoing game and I can't focus on what I want to focus on.
"So now I'm eating as much as I want, and I'm not thinking about food, and the weight is just slowly and gradually coming off me.
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"I'm playing the long game now, I'm not playing the short game - and it's working.
"A stone's come off me - I wanna lose another seven pounds - but it's happening."
Curtis was joined at the event by his mum Debi, who has been supporting him throughout his weight loss journey.
She said: Just looking at Curtis now actually wells me up a little bit.
"He always put the pressure on himself because hes wanted to achieve to the best of his ability.
"In the field he chose his audience expect him to look a certain way so hed try his hardest to eat a little amount so that everyone was proud of him.
"Jumping to Love Island, he had a great time, but coming out he felt uncomfortable because of the body-shaming he experienced.
"Hes now found a good mental state about food thanks to joining the WW family.
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Alongside Curtis was reality star Vicky Pattison, who was revealed as the latest ambassador for the brand, earlier this week.
She said: Through most of my adult life, my weight has fluctuated. Ive been really, really slim and then Ive also been a lot bigger.
"In retrospect I wasnt happy either size.
"When I was bigger I didnt feel comfortable going out and doing what I wanted to do, or wearing what I wanted to wear, and when I was smaller, I even counted how many blueberries I put in my porridge.
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She added: Im 32 now and I want to be happy - I want to be content. I dont want to be told I cant have carbs or a gin and tonic.
"I dont want a life without Haribos. And most importantly, I want to create the best environment and make my body the most hospitable it could possibly be for a baby one day.
"I want to be happy, and healthy for when that time comes.
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This man lost almost half his body weight after tipping the scales at 24 stone – Wales Online
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A lorry driver who weighed almost 25 stone just over two years ago has lost nearly half his body weight after being told he was at risk of serious health problems.
Jason Dury, 47, who used to "snack on chocolates biscuits and anything that came with chips" decided to join a Slimming World group to fight the flab.
Two years later, after radical changes to his diet and exercise regime, he got his weight down to 14 stone and feels like a new man after his massive weight loss.
He said: "I'd been overweight for quite a while, but I always made excuses for not doing anything about it. I'd say 'I'll start on Monday' but Monday never came.
"I avoided parties because I felt out of place and the moment a camera came out, I disappeared. I just felt embarrassed of how I looked and would get breathless after walking a few hundred yards.
"I had a couple of wake up calls the led to my decision. One was a visit to my GP after having serious headaches. They found that my blood pressure was through the roof and I was told in no uncertain terms that if I didn't lose weight I was on course for a heart attack or stroke.
"The week after that I joined a Slimming World group in Cwmbran and within a few weeks the headaches had gone and I lost two stone really quickly."
Jason, who lives in Risca , added that he was determined to change after an embarrassing incident at Dublin airport.
"I was held back for a routine security check so I was the last one to board the flight," he recalled.
"I had to tell the air stewardess that the belt didn't fit around my waist and she said 'no problem I'll get you a belt extension'.
"I felt like the whole plane behind me fell silent and I could feel their eyes boring into the back of my head."
Jason was worried when he first joined Slimming World because he thought he would be the only man there and would be the largest person in the group.
He added: "It was very nerve-wracking when I first went because I was feeling very self-conscious about the way I looked.
"But everyone was really friendly and supportive and my circle of friends has grown because of going to Slimming World too.
"I was really surprised by my weight though, I hadn't properly weighed myself for years and thought I was at least four stone lighter than I really was."
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Jason soon started to shed the pounds - at a rate of about two and half pounds per week for the next 22 months - to get down from almost 25 stone to 14.
His family and friends even struggled to recognise him.
"I went to a family party and two of my cousins walked right past me and blanked me because they had no idea who I was," he laughed.
Although he sometimes had urges to eat the junk food he used to live on, Jason said he doesn't eat any less than he used to, he just replaced the biscuits and sweets with an apple or an orange and now eat plenty of fruit and vegetables.
He said he couldn't have achieved his goal without the support of the leader of the Slimming World group at Hollybush Community Centre, Clare Lewis.
"Jason is the biggest weight loss of anyone who has been to my group in the five years I have been working with Slimming World.
"The change in him is unreal, he's so much more confident now.
"You see people come into their first meetings with their heads down sometimes and a lack of self confidence and esteem. But as time goes past they grow in confidence.
"It completely changes lives, it's changed my life too."
Clare lost four and a half stone herself before become a consultant at Slimming World and helps others to meet their weight loss goals.
Aside from changing what he eats, Jason is now a keen walker and hikes in the Brecon Beacons. Something he could "never have dreamed of doing" before losing weight.
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New State of the Science Medical Program Targets the Obesity Epidemic – Yahoo Finance
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Designed by physicians for physicians, New Direction Advanced provides doctors with the tools to effectively treat obesity in their patients.
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J., Jan. 13, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Robard Corporation, a leading provider of medical weight loss programs and products to the health care industry for more than 40 years, has announced the launch of its latest scientifically-designed obesity treatment program, New Direction Advanced.
Joining other Robard brands including NutriMed and Advanced Health Systems, New Direction Advanced is a medically-supervised obesity treatment program used by physicians, surgeons and hospitals across the United States to treat patients living with obesity. The program employs patient behavior modification, comprehensive medical protocols and scientifically designed nutritional products to safely facilitate weight loss in patients with obesity and related chronic conditions.
Developed in collaboration with leading physicians on the frontlines of obesity treatment, New Direction Advanced is the result of a comprehensive review of recent academic research, expanding on Robards longstanding commitment to developing modern approaches for safe, effective, and evidence-based obesity treatment without the use of drugs. Meal replacement products, which are utilized extensively as part of the program, employ synergistic ingredients which help promote optimal metabolism for active weight loss, and help support patients to lose as much as 36 pounds in 12 weeks on a medically monitored Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD).
After 20 years of outstanding patient experience with Robard New Direction meal replacements in my clinics, I am excited to implement the Advanced formulation, says Dr. John Hernried, MD, FACP, President and Medical Director of the Hernried Center for Medical Weight Loss in Sacramento, CA. They took the input of physicians and developed a product that has led to enhancedsatiety, increased nutritional ketosis and overall better outcomes.With all this, they managed to maintain the excellent taste of the multiple flavors which is a key element in offering a VLCD to my patients with obesity.
Obesity has been officially recognized as a disease by the American Medical Association, and since then the treatment of obesity has become a public health imperative. Currently more than one in three American adults is living with obesity, a chronic condition that affects about 93.3 million US adults.
For more than three years, Robards food scientists and research team conducted a comprehensive scientific review to determine the most effective combination of weight loss and weight management ingredients, says Robard Vice President of Sales, Mario Testa. We aggregated this data to determine the efficacy of each ingredient and how those ingredients would synergistically help deliver the best nutritionally based products for weight loss. This research resulted in Robards new premium product line, New Direction Advanced, one of the most scientifically advanced products available for medically supervised weight management.
New Direction Advanced goes far beyond the typical program that promises quick, but short-lived weight loss, says Dr. Phillip Snider, a bariatric physician at the Guthrie Clinic in Sayre, PA. The innovative protein composition profile coupled with Robards comprehensive education curriculum, guidelines for medical management and wide variety of patient support materials put this program in a class of its own.
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Weight loss: Woman reveals simple diet plan she used to drop whopping 7st 5lb – Express
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A weight loss journey could be inspired by many different reasons, but after suffering most of her life with her weight and suffering from multiple sclerosis complications, one woman lost an incredible seven stone five pounds, and she credited her weight loss to a simple dieting plan - what was it?
Vicky Robson, 38, from Reading struggled with her weight all of her life and would regularly binge on snacks such as crisps, cake, cheese and biscuits before overhauling her diet and dropping the weight.
Reading local, Vicky knew that losing weight would help alleviate the pain she suffered daily with multiple sclerosis but didnt know where to seek help from until she discovered a particular diet plan.
Id struggled with my weight all my life, I weighed 12st at the age of 12 and my struggles continued well into adulthood, she revealed.
By this point Id tried a variety of diets, slimming clubs and meal replacement plans but without any support.
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It wasnt until 2015 that Vicky experienced a wake-up call, she said: In May 2015 I was feeling low, I was now a size 22 and my reality check came when I struggled to walk up a slight slope.
I have MS (multiple sclerosis) so the pain I was getting in my lower legs was a wake-up call, she revealed.
After trying multiple weight loss programmes, Vicky discovered the LighterLife diet plan which helped her to shed seven stone five pounds.
Being an all or nothing type of person a recipe-based weight-loss plan didnt work for me because sooner or later Id be grazing on the wrong things. Instead, I knew a meal replacement diet would keep me focused as its very straightforward to follow with strict guidelines, but this time I wanted weekly support alongside the reduced calories, thats why I chose LighterLife.
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LighterLife is campaigning to help people live healthier and more fulfilled lives by boosting confidence, self-esteem and belief.
The LighterLife weight loss plans combine a very low-calorie diet (VLCD) with weekly counselling.
With LighterLife dieter get access to meal-replacement food packs - consisting of shakes, soups, mousses or bars - and no conventional food.
With weekly support from a LighterLife weight loss counsellor and a variety of weekly Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Mindfulness activities, Vicky was able to overhaul her lifestyle.
She said: Each week I joined a telephone conference call lead a LighterLife counsellor, it was great being able to access the support from my sofa.
Losing over 7st on the LighterLife Total Plan changed my life, she added.
Im so proud to say Ive managed my weight for over three years and I still apply the CBT techniques I learnt in group to keep me focused and on track.
So what did Vickys diet plan consist of to lose such a significant weight?
Before adopting the LighterLife diet plan, Vicky would binge on unhealthy foods which contributed to her weight gain.
Breakfast: Vicky would either skip breakfast or opt for a sugary cereal breakfast bar
Lunch: Vicky would opt for fatty tuna mayo sandwiches or baguette with crisps and full fat fizzy drinks
Dinner: Vicky would overeat on overly fatty foods such as chilli con carne with 50g rice topped with grated cheese and sour cream
Snacks: She would always reach out for crisps, cake, cheese and biscuits, peanut butter and jam sandwiches to satisfy her hunger
Breakfast: Vicky would opt for homemade yoghurt with granola
Lunch: Vicky will make homemade soup and eat it with one slice of brown bread or salad with low fat dressing and wafer thin ham
Dinner: Vicky would opt for healthier versions and measured portions of meals like chilli con carne with lean mince or sausage casserole with good quality sausages. Always a measured portion of carbohydrate, or sometimes cauliflower rice, and a portion of vegetables
Snacks: She would now opt for carrot sticks and a piece of fruit a day. She also tries to avoid snacking in the evenings but if she does decide to go for a snack in the evening she would opt for some greek yoghurt.
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Ditch fad diets and use the power of the mind by following these simple tricksNew years resolutions tend to revolve around healthier living and losing weight and most fail. Only one in 10 stick it out, according to a major study.
But you dont need a gym membership or mad diet in 2020 you can think yourself thin, hypnotherapist Steve Dell claims.
He says: Changing yourself can be difficult without the right understanding of how our brains work. The primitive part looks out for our survival and is an element very resistant to change. It views change as dangerous.
He claims you can quieten the primitive brain, allowing the conscious, good-decisionmaking part, to take charge.
Do a deal
The battle between your primitive and conscious brain is one of supremacy, Steve says.
Once you are aware of that, you can address it to work in your favour. So make a deal with your primitive brain.
When you are on a diet and cake is calling, you want to stick to your goals but you are drawn to a slice. That is your primitive brain resisting change. Make a deal out loud or write it down. Tell your primitive brain: Thanks for the suggestion but I know eating cake is a bad idea, and I am in control. Ill have a slice on my treat day instead.
Learn to relax
Quietening our evolutionary brain is no easy task as many factors impact how active our survival mode is. Stress makes our primitive brain active. So you need to reassure it you are OK. Relaxation is how you get there.
If the stressor is something you can eliminate, do so now. If the cause is not easily removed, you need to work on calming your body and mind.
Body scanning is a short and effective guided meditation to do that. Practise this as many times as possible a day. The more you do it, the quieter your primitive brain becomes.
Give it a go
Lie down or sit in a quiet room. Close your eyes and picture a colour you like. Imagine it as a gentle, warm mist and breathe it in.
Allow it to enter your body, making you feel warm and calm from your head to your toes. Soon you will be able to access this relaxing feeling by simply taking a deep breath and tapping into your colour.
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7 Intermittent Fasting Benefits That Aren’t Weight Loss – Men’s Health
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Most people try fasting with one goal in mind: losing weight.
But science has also discovered health benefits linked to whole-day, alternate-day, and time-restricted fasting, says Carolyn Williams, Ph.D., the registered dietitian that helped develop the new book The Mens Health Guide to Intermittent Fasting.
Scientists speculate that the benefits of short-term fasts may come from the structured break they provide to around-the-clock eating.
Even if you dont change the content of your diet, by controlling the time period in which your calories are consumed, you give your body a pause from a constant onslaught food, says Williams.
Maybe youre skeptical. But Williams says that, at first, she was too.
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She studied the research. She looked at the data. She even tried a time-restricted fast herself. I expected the fast to affect my blood sugar because Im prone to low blood sugar and I know how I get without eating, Williams says.
But Williams says she was surprised to find that she had no trouble going 16 hours without eating. Her method: She stopped eating after dinner and fasted from 7 p.m. to 11 a.m., following the popular 16:8 intermittent fasting pattern, which leaves an 8-hour-long window for eating.
I find Im really not hungry; in fact, sometimes I have to remind myself to eat lunch, Williams says.
While more research is needed to determine if fasting is effective for long-term dieting, theres no debate that it works in the short-term.
By refraining from eating for at least 12 hours (ideally 16), your body starts burning through glucose and can begin tapping fat for fuel, explains Williams. Studies show that you can expect to lose between 3 and 8 percent of your bodyweight in as few as three weeks.
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Compared to calorie-restriction diets, intermittent fasting tends to trigger more belly fat loss, the research suggests. Anecdotally, Williams says she senses greater energy and improved clarity of thought.
Here are some other potential upsides of intermittent fasting, each supported by research.
Whenever you restrict calories and lose weight, some of that weight comes from a reduction in muscle mass. That goes for intermittent fasts as well as traditional calorie-restriction diets.
However, at least one study conducted by the Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition at the University of Illinois suggests that intermittent fasting may be more effective for retaining muscle mass.
The study compared overweight and obese adults who followed a calorie restriction diet with similar-weight subjects who restricted calories through intermittent fasting. After 12 weeks, the researchers found both diets to be equally effective in trimming body weight and fat mass, but less muscle was lost by the group that fasted.
Overweight people who could choose any 10-hour timeframe to eat as long as they refrained from eating the other 14 hours of the day saw a reduction in waist circumference and visceral abdominal fat after 12 weeks, according to a report in the journal Cell Metabolism.
The study in Cell Metabolism referenced above also demonstrated the potential of intermittent fasting to reduce risk of metabolic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
All the participants in the study were diagnosed with metabolic syndrome, a cluster of health conditionsincluding high blood sugar, excess abdominal fat, high blood pressure, and abnormal cholesterol or triglycerides levelsthat occurring together boost the risk of type 2 diabetes, stroke, and heart disease.
After 12 weeks, every participant experienced improvement in all of the common markers of metabolic syndrome.
A similar study in the journal Translational Research found that alternate-day fasting, in which participants restricted calories by 75 percent on a fast day, followed by a feed day without calorie restriction, resulted in clinically significant reductions in blood sugar and insulin resistance.
A study published in Nutrition and Healthy Aging demonstrated that participants who practiced 16:8 intermittent fasting without calorie counting significantly reduced their systolic blood pressure compared to a control group after 12 weeks.
Inflammation is your bodys natural way of fighting off infection, illness, and injury. But theres another type of inflammation, a chronic inflammation that can silently trigger heart disease and diabetes.
Smoking, mental stress, and a regular diet of fatty, fried, or sugary foods are common causes. Several studies have shown that intermittent fasting may induce an anti-inflammatory effect that reduces risk of those metabolic diseasesand even improve pulmonary function in people with asthma.
Whats more, a reduction in inflammation due to short-term fasting appears to protect the brain from memory disorders and depression, according to a study in Obesity.
Even when you dont lose weight while on an intermittent fasting routine, your cells may benefit from extra protection, according to a study in Cell Metabolism.
The study assigned men with prediabetes to either a 6-hour early eating period, where they could eat only from 8 a.m. until dinner before 2 p.m., fasting the rest of the day, or a 12-hour feeding period.
At the end of five weeks, the researchers found that the men on the early time- restricted fast improved blood pressure and insulin sensitivity (as expected), but also improved resistance to oxidative stress, where unstable molecules called free radicals can damage proteins and DNA.
Rodent studies suggest that intermittent fasting, which is much easier to maintain than extreme calorie cutting, may boost lifespan, too. In one study comparing rats who were given unrestricted access to food to rats who were fed every other day, the rats who fasted lived 83 percent longer than those who gorged themselves.
For a quick primer on how to start a health-boosting fast yourself, plus dozens of delicious recipes for brunch, dinner, and even Keto-diet-friendly meals, check out The Mens Health Guide to Intermittent Fasting here.
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Want to lose weight? Cut back on the hours you’re eating – FOX 5 Atlanta
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Time-restricted eating
The FOX Medical Team's Beth Galvin talks about time-restricted eating for those looking to lose weight in 2020.
ATLANTA - When it comes to weight loss, when you're eating may be just as important as what you're eating.
Emory internist Dr. Sharon Bergquist says a growing number of people are practicing time-restricted eating.
"They're restricting the time period when they're eating their calories," Dr. Bergquist says. "Some people do it within a 10-hour window. Some people do it within an 8-hour window."
Once their eating window closes, people take a break from eating overnight, fasting anywhere from 14 to 16 hours.
"It's giving your body the chance to really repair itself and rest," Dr. Bergquist explains.
Time-restricted eating is different from intermittent fasting, which often involves going without food on certain days of the week.
Dr. Bergquist says the goal is similar: to give your digestive system, and your whole body, an overnight break.
Emory internist Dr. Sharon Bergquist discusses time-restricted eating.
Just as our brain needs time to sleep and recover, she says, every organ in our body also needs a chance to "sleep."
"It's the time where the body switches into a mode where we start to repair," Bergquist says."So, we change the genes that are getting expressed.We also change our hormones that are being secreted."
Researchers at the Salk Institute and University of California San Diego School of Medicine found time-restricted eating may be especially helpful for people with metabolic syndrome.
That is the name for a cluster of common health conditions, including high blood pressure, belly fat and elevated blood sugar and high cholesterol and low "good" cholesterol that affects one in three Americans.
Metabolic syndrome can raise a person's risk of stroke and heart attack.
The small, pilot study followed 19 participants diagnosed with metabolic syndrome, who told researchers they spread out their eating over about 14 hours a day.
Cutting back on your eating hours may help you lose weight. (FOX 5 Atlanta)
Researchers say 84% of the volunteers were taking at least one medication to manage conditions such as high blood pressure or elevated cholesterol.
The participants restricted their eating to a 10-hour window each day, but ate about the same amount of calories, for 3 months.
The researchers found the volunteers who practiced time-restricted eating experienced a 3-4% reduction in weight, body mass index, abdominal fat and waist circumference, and their numbers, such as their blood pressure and blood sugar levels, also improved.
Dr. Bergquist says the study findings show time-restricted eating may pay off for people with metabolic syndrome.
"People lose some belly fat, blood pressure goes down, cholesterol goes down," she says. "Their insulin resistance goes down, which leads their blood sugar to go down. So, even without limiting calories, and without exercising, (time-restricted eating) seems to help all these different conditions."
If you're interested in trying time-restricted eating, Dr. Bergquist says, try shifting your eating schedule.
"You can either start your first meal, breakfast, to later in the day or push up your dinner to earlier in the evening," she says. "So, your window of eating is reduced down to 10 hours. Some people try 8 hours, which is stricter and harder. I think, as a goal, 10 hours is a very reasonable timeframe."
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Metformin and Weight Loss: Here’s Everything You Should Know Before Trying It – Prevention.com
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Maybe youve heard that the diabetes drug metformin makes people lose weight. But is that even true? And more important, might you be one of the people who could drop pounds by taking this prescription medication?
Great questions. The answers are: Yes, metformin helps some people lose weight, but depending on whats going on with your body, you mayor may notbe one of them.
Before we get to whether it makes sense for you to ask your doctor to take out her Rx pad, heres a little background:
Metformin is an oral drug that is FDA approved to control blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes. It is sometimes used off-label (meaning docs prescribe it for non-FDA-approved uses it seems to work for) in people with prediabetesi.e. they have somewhat high blood sugar or some insulin resistance, and so are at risk for developing diabetes. Its also prescribed off-label for other conditions, such as polycystic ovarian syndrome.
Researchers arent 100% sure of all the ways the drug acts in the body. Metformin is a complex drug with multiple sites of action and multiple molecular mechanisms that are not fully understood, according to a 2017 report.
What is known is that metformin causes the liver to lower the amount of glucose (sugar) it makes and releases into your bloodstream, and also affects your gut, so that you use glucose more efficiently. All of this helps people with diabetes, whose blood sugar is too high and/or not being used properly (which makes the body want to crank out more.)
Folks seem to be less hungry on the drug. Metformin mainly causes weight loss by lowering food intake, says Steven K. Malin, Ph.D., an assistant professor and expert in exercise metabolism and human nutrition at the University of Virginias Curry School of Education and Human Development. Simply put, the drug is thought to act on the brain via neural pathways to lower appetite signals, and to tamp down the signals of a ghrelin, a hunger hormone manufactured in the gut, which together add up to you feeing less noshy.
It may also help your gut flora use glucose as an energy source, says Malin, which means your body doesnt need to dip into blood glucose as frequently, causing those crazy energy dips that make you want to inhale a king-size sack of M&Ms and a Big Gulp.
Another way it is thought to make you less hungry is that metformin may reduce inflammation in your fat tissue, says Caroline Apovian, M.D., an obesity medicine physician and professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. We think inflammation begins the process of weight gain, and causes dysfunction in the neural pathways that lead to satiety in the brain, she says. In other words, this inflammation may be preventing your brain from getting the Im full signals that your hormones are trying to convey.
So metformin seems to be a one-two punch: If you alter the gut microbiome, youre increasing the satiety hormones, says Dr. Apovian. If you improve inflammation, youre allowing the satiety hormones to work through a different mechanismbut it all ends up in the brain. Finally, when the brain says, step away from the Oreos, you are no longer helpless to comply.
About 4 or 5 pounds, says Dr. Apovian, who prescribes metformin along with one of the approved drugs for obesity for people who have diabetes and obesity or prediabetes and obesity to help with bigger weight loss. If someone has obesity, you always need another agent aside from metformin. The heavier a person is, the better they are likely to drop a few pounds on metformin, and research shows that the weight loss in people with diabetes who stay on the the drug lasts.
In some cases, metformin can still promote some weight loss, says Malin. There is evidence that metformin can induce weight loss of approximately 5-10 lbs. in people who have PCOS or psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, he says. A possible reason is that they have associated insulin resistance.
While some doctors will prescribe metformin for moderately overweight people without insulin issues, it is not clear from any research that it helps. Unless it is warranted to take metformin to promote glycemic control or improve insulin sensitivity because of underlying health issue, taking metformin may not be advisable, says Malin. His research on healthy people as well as people with prediabetes taking metformin and exercising had mixed findingsmore fat metabolism, but blunted fitness gains and no added health benefit from taking the drug. Focusing instead of being physically active and consuming a proper diet would like be better for weight lossand build healthy habits going forward.
Bottom line: If you have diabetes, pre-diabetes, insulin resistance or hyperinsulinemia (when your blood sugar is too high for a variety of reasons), or have the disease of obesity, its worth asking your doctor about taking metformin. If not, keep your body moving and eat healthfully, avoiding processed foods especially, as they are thought to contribute to inflammation.
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