Eating junk foods and gaining weight is one thing, but if you think that you are eating healthy foods and still gaining weight by a few pounds, then it may be that you are overeating. The solution to your problem is portion control. You should closely watch the amount of food you eat daily. If you eat more than what you need, you will gain weight for sure!

Contrary to what you might believe, portion control is NOT controlling the amount of food that you put on your plate; rather, it means controlling your daily calorie consumption. Nearly every food you buy from the grocery store will have details about its calorie content on the back of the package. Read those labels carefully. By reading those labels, you will get a fair idea of how many calories you are consuming daily!

It could be that you are actually consuming more calories than what your body needs, and consequently gaining weight by leaps and bounds. Once you implement this calorie counting strategy, you will see what a huge difference it makes in your body composition!

Another way to control your portions is by eating on a smaller plate. Let's face it: If you eat less food on a bigger plate, you will 'feel' that you are eating less, even though it could be untrue. It is not enough that the amount of food you put on a plate fills up your stomach; satiating your eyes and mind is equally important. And the only way to achieve both goals is by using a smaller plate.

When you use a smaller plate, it will naturally be full to the brim, and while you maybe eating the same amount of food as before, in your mind you will actually believe that you are eating a lot more! Got it?

Once your mind is satiated, you won't feel tempted to eat any junk foods! Believe it or not, most people overeat not because they are hungry but because they want to derive emotional comfort from food!

Here is another way to reduce your food intake without starving yourself: Add raw fruits and vegetables with every meal you eat. This is because fruits and vegetables, especially when eaten in their raw forms, can satiate you very quickly and even keep you full for a long time. You might believe that eating a lot of veggies is not going to fill your stomach, but it definitely will! As a matter of fact, most of the raw vegetables are rich in fiber, which is what satiates your hunger!

THIS IS A BULLSHIT MYTH:

Do you know that salads can help you lose weight in multiple ways? If you eat salad with every meal, your metabolic rate will increase, which in turn will help you burn fat fast! But there is another way in which salads can help you with weight loss, something you might not be aware of! Eating junk foods alone is not okay, but if you eat salads with junk foods, you will be able to offset any further weight gain!

You may be wondering how salads can help you so much, especially when you have tried almost all the available fad diet plans out there and still failed miserably. Well, it all happens because of the transaction between two types of chemicals. Do you know why you became overweight? Yes, the obvious answer is that you became overweight because of eating junk foods.

But why would you gain weight by eating junk foods? You gained weight because the foods you ate such as soft drinks, sugar, dairy foods, etc., are rich in acids. These acids would have killed you if left 'as is' inside your body. To save you from untimely death, your body bound these acids with fat, neutralized them and stored them as fat deposits inside your body!

Now, as a matter of fact, green vegetables such as salads contain a lot of alkaline. Alkaline is the worst enemy of acids. When alkaline enters your body, it will cleanse your body of all the toxins that you have in the form of fat deposits. In this way you will see that you are able to shed all the extra pounds very quickly! The more green and leafy vegetables you eat, the faster you will lose weight!

That is why I told you at the beginning of this article that even if you eat junk foods once in a while, it is important to add a green vegetable to it. Whenever you enter a fast food restaurant, ask the waiter to serve you with some salads, along with the regular food. Since salads contain alkaline, it will neutralize the acids contained in the junk foods, thereby preventing any further weight gain!

Of course, if you are serious about weight loss, you should not make it a regular habit to eat junk foods. Plan your meals in such a way that at least 70-80% of your meal consists of raw vegetables and fruits while the rest can be cooked meal! Planning your meals in this way will enable you to lose weight very quickly! Remember that the faster you lose weight, the quicker you can acquire a sexy body like your favorite celebrity!

THE TRUTH

The paragraph contains the only good advice in the whole myth: Eat lots of raw fruit and veggies. Otherwise, this myth is complete hogwash. If you followed this "advice" to the letter, you'd be as big as an elephant and smell like one, too!

Eating MORE CALORIES will only make you fatter, not skinnier. Adding a salad to your junk food meal will make you fatter than if you just ate the junk. It is true that alkaline and acid neutralizes one another. But so what? That doesn't mean you can drink battery acid and offset its poisonous effect with baking soda.

MYTH BUSTED!

If you thought losing weight was difficult, maintaining that 'lost' weight is even more difficult. I cannot tell you how many of my friends were able to lose weight successfully, only to regain back all the 'lost' pounds after a few weeks. It is not the fault of the diet program they followed. They gained weight for two reasons: They got back to their old lifestyle habits–that is, regular junk food intake–and they started living a sedentary lifestyle and forgot all about exercising!

People have a misconception that once they lose weight successfully, they think that they won't gain weight any further, no matter what they do! This is totally untrue! Even after you have lost weight successfully, you will have to follow the same diet and exercise routine to maintain that weight! I can understand if you don't want to go back to your rigorous gym routine, but you can definitely do some walking, can't you? Follow these three walking tips to help you get started!

1. Consult with your doctor: Before you start walking on a regular basis, I would recommend you visit your doctor and have a word with him. Your doctor will be able to structure a regular walking schedule for you based on your current health situation. Your doctor might also recommend some other activities for you besides walking.

2. Track your steps: Simply walking is not enough; if you walk just five steps one day and fifty steps on another, then you won't know how many steps you actually need to walk to maintain your slim body. For this reason I would advise that you use a tool called pedometer. It is actually quite affordable and will measure your walking steps every day.

As you check your daily walking stats, you will want to increase the number of steps on a regular basis because no one likes to sit on their past laurels; once you achieve a position, you would want to get higher and higher!

Just remain committed to your walking schedule and see how much better you feel!

3. Put on the right clothes: For walking to become an enjoyable experience, put on loose-fitting clothes that allow free movement of limbs. Don't wear any tight-fitting apparel that makes you uneasy! Also be sure to put on running or walking shoes that make your feet comfortable. If you wear the wrong shoes you will soon get bored of walking. Worst, you could end up with muscle injuries!

Do you want to have a body like the sexy girls on the television show, Gossip Girl? Thanks to shows like this, women are trying too hard to acquire that flat stomach in record time. They are doing hundreds of ab crunches per day because they think it is the best way to get rid of tummy fat.

You will be very sorry to know that you are actually working harder than you should! Losing weight and getting rid of a big, fat tummy is a lot simpler and easier than what you believe! In this article I will tell you about three simple ways to lose weight fast.

1. Proper meal planning is half the battle won: Believe it or not, you can win half the battle against fat just by eating healthy meals! When you eat healthy and keep your stomach full, there is no room for temptation of any kind. When no temptation exists, you won't eat junk foods. Once you get rid of this temptation for junk foods you will see that losing weight is much easier than what you thought!

Unlike junk foods, healthy meals will help you in many ways: They will provide your body with much-needed nutrition and energy; they will also detoxify your body by ridding it of all the waste deposits left by junk foods. Once you get rid of this junk, your metabolic rate will automatically increase, which means that you will burn more fat in less time!

2. Cardio will help you win the other half of the battle: While you can lose weight with diet alone, this process is very slow. If you are like anyone else, you want to get rid of your tummy fat as fast as possible, right? Well, cardio will accelerate the weight loss process by skyrocketing your fat-burning rate. Even if you manage to burn just 500 calories per day, you will lose at least one pound of fat per week (3,500 calories make one pound)!

What are cardio exercises? Cardio is something that you have been doing already! Simple activities like walking, running, swimming, dancing, cycling, etc, all fall under the category of cardiovascular activities!

3. Work on your tummy: Your tummy, or abdomen, consists of three types of muscles: upper abs, lower abs and side abs. If you do a few sets of crunches and alternately target each of these muscle groups, you will see that you will not only acquire abdominal muscles, but also a flat tummy. Remember though that you don't need to do hundreds of crunches per day; in fact doing a few crunches everyday is better than doing 100 once in a while!

Also remember, exercise will build the muscle, but you have to strip off the overlaying body fat in order to see the muscle underneath. It's relatively easy to build abdominal muscle; it's far more difficult to strip away the fat.

If you are tired of following fad diets and pills, this article is for you. I don't know if you are aware of it, but a new diet program called Fat Loss 4 Idiots is helping people lose weight quite fast by using a method called calorie shifting. If you are new to either the Fat Loss 4 Idiots program or calorie shifting, read through this article to find out how it can help you lose weight quickly!

According to the calorie shifting method of weight loss, you gain weight because of your metabolism-actually, slow metabolism. When you stick to a particular fad diet program, say, a low-calorie diet, your body will adjust itself to that diet. With low-calorie foods, since you don't consume too much of calories, your body doesn't need to increase its metabolic rate since it has only a few calories to burn off!

Once your body gets accustomed to low-calorie foods, your metabolic rate will NEVER increase to its optimum level, and you will NEVER lose weight!

With the calorie shifting method, you eat foods of varied calorie contents: some will be rich in calories, while others will be low-calorie. When your body receives foods of varying calorie contents, it becomes confused as to what to do! Consequently, it keeps your metabolic rate high at all times! This is what you want, don't you? Once your metabolic rate is set at the optimum level, you will start burning fat a lot faster than now!

For your information, the Fat Loss 4 Idiots program is based on this calorie shifting method!

Is there any proof that conventional dieting doesn't work?

Well, there sure is! If you have ever dieted, you will remember that after losing weight rapidly for the first few weeks, you will hit a 'weight loss plateau' when you would unable to lose any further weight. Has this ever happened to you that the dieting methods that worked the previous week failed you now? That is one of the simplest illustrations of the fact that your metabolic rate adjusts itself to the diet you follow!

Most of the conventional diet programs have so many restrictions that you end up with a weak, limp body. Not so with Fat Loss 4 Idiots program. If you follow the calorie shifting method of meal planning recommended byFat Loss 4 Idiots, you will see that you are allowed to eat all types of foods. The only restriction is that you must regulate your total calorie intake!

Contrary to what people might tell you, you failed to lose weight not because of any of your faults, but because you followed the wrong diet plans. Check out Fat Loss 4 Idiots and I am sure you won't regret it!