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Whether you’re putting yourself on a diet or hitting the gym in hope of reshaping your body and/or losing weight – discipline is the key to keeping you on that schedule and maintaining it.

Some people have that internal discipline and others do not and that’s okay. Whether you fall on one side or the other, you will still need assistance in developing a successful program or changing the habits you have developed over a lifetime.

That is where Lite for Life San Francisco comes into play, they offer a great free weight-loss consultation and help you along the way in developing a great weight loss strategy step-by-step.

Check out their weight loss programs and talk to a counselor today!

* However, how will this year’s resolutions actually pan out?
* What are you doing differently?
* Are you looking to finally lose those 15 pounds, and not just lose that weight, but to keep it off for good?

If you’ve had unsuccessful resolutions fall by the wayside in the past; it could be a time to change how you approach weight loss. Let Lite for Life San Francisco help.

Lite for Life in San Francisco offers FREE CONSULTATION to help you shape your weight loss approach depending on how you live every day:

• One-on-one nutritional counseling
• Customized goal setting
• Nutritional education that fits your lifestyle
• Supporting you in implementing personal success strategies

LiteSF’s free consultation is FREE so what do you have to lose?

Weight. That’s what you have to lose!

The team of experienced and proficient researchers headed by Dr. Nita Forouhi of the Institute of Metabolic Science in UK has finally brought about some good news for us all!

According to the research results, the total percentage of calories you receive from fat in comparison to protein or carbohydrates is just negligible in context of the weight a person is liable to gain in the coming years.

Out of the total calories a person consumes, the standard fat intake can possibly range from 31.5 % to 36.5 %. An average person with normal health and standard diet puts on a quarter of a pound annually.

However, the nutritionists and several health examinations have certified that there is basically no relationship between how much fat is consumed by the person and the extra weight that has been put on eventually.

As a matter of fact, the health experts recommend you to go for a 20% to 35% intake of “healthy” fats like those from vegetable oils, fish, and nuts.

For further details about this particular segment of study, visit http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BA3C920091211.

But, did you ever stop and think how this caffeine consumption is helping you in terms of your health?

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As recent studies and survey results have indicated; having a few extra cups of coffee each day can actually reduce the risk of advanced prostate cancers by almost 60%.

At a recent American Association of Cancer Research meeting in Houston, it was stated that although the case of high coffee intake and its activity on prostrate cancer are still yet to be proven.

Still, coffee seems to work well in reducing the risk of prostrate cancers.

Following a survey carried on for almost four years on over 50,000 men, it was concluded that men who have the highest intake of coffee shows significant lower risks of serious prostate cancer.

Caffeine beans are also known to reduce the risk of diabetes, and improve the liver health.

As per scientific explanations, coffee has positive impacts on insulin, glucose metabolism and also on sex hormone levels. All of them combine together to check the occurrence of prostate cancer.

These coffee research works were presented at the Cancer Prevention Research Conference.

Now that the benefits of caffeine consumption have been highlighted, if are thinking of increasing your coffee consumption, hold on!

Further studies and research results have also confirmed that excessive consumption can lead to various kinds of nervous and heart problems. So, ensure to drink coffee in moderation, and preferably after discussing it with a dietician.

You can surely check out the different merits and demerits of Coffee as discovered in the coffee-cancer study.

LiteSF.com went through our weight loss program and is now healther, lighter, and has improved energy just in time for the holidays. Go figure!

We’re continually tweaking the website to improve the experience, so check out the new LiteSF.com redesign and let us know what you think! We’d love to hear from you.

The cookies are meant to be meal-substitutes and contain a blend of amino acids and food proteins.

There are critics of the cookie diets; complaining that the diet is not-lifelong, nor sustainable; that one cannot maintain such a diet and live a healthy lifestyle.

Weight-loss plans that center around a diet of below 1,000 calories do not, they say, lead to long-lasting weight loss and can result in potassium deficiency, gallstones, heart palpitations, weakened kidney function and dizziness.

Despite the criticism, the cookie diet is thriving with throes of new dieters trying it and sales going through the roof for a company like Smart for Life, who expects gross revenues of $82 million to $95 million this year.

Does the cookie diet work? Who knows, but even if you weren’t thinking of going on a diet, you might be convinced to do so now. Read the full article at the New York Times.

Lite for Life (LiteSF.com) was founded with the goal of providing people like you with a successful approach for continued weight management with diet counseling, nutritional counseling and weight loss counseling along the journey.

Our philosphophy is as you lose weight, you gain knowledge, and further able to control and experience personal success.

The Lite for Life program is different from the other weight loss programs in San Francisco, like Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers, in that we focus on changing eating habits and lifestyle to bring long lasting results.

Ultimately, the challenge is not just to lose weight, but to keep it off. To learn more about the Lite for Life lifestyle, visit us at LiteSf.com, or sign up for a free in-person counseling session.

Have you ever been in the situation where you are on a diet and you get allexcited because you lost a few pounds quickly?  You continue to lose weight, but then all of a sudden, you stop.

You can’t seem to get past that certain number; it has been 6 days of constant dieting and exercise , but you’re stuck.

Many people’s weight loss will hit a barrier as the body adopts to the new eating regimen.

If you want to continue losing weight, you must not supplement your efforts, one way of doing that is increasing your metabolism.

Did you know that your metabolism slows by 5 percent each decade? With age, muscle mass diminishes and with that, so does your metabolic rate.  By increasing or maintaining your muscle mass, you can help to continue your weight loss.

Take this startling example from a recent article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

The metabolic difference between a pound of muscle and a pound of fat is dramatic: Muscle burns at least three times more calories. “A woman who weighs 130 pounds and has a healthy 25 percent body fat will burn about 200 more calories per day than a 130-pound woman with about 40 percent body fat – a typical level for women at midlife,” says David C. Nieman, Dr.P.H., director of the Human Performance Laboratory at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC.

So, if you are wondering why you aren’t losing weight as quickly or your diet has hit a rough spot, don’t underestimate the importance of a great metabolism.

Interested in how you can continue losing weight, stop in for a free weight loss consultation…

To check for sugar contents, look at the ingredients on the back of the can or wrapper.  Keep an eye out for sugar (duh), corn syrup, fructose, dextrose, molasses or evaporated cane juice, on the label, all of these contribute to Americans’ overconsumption of sugar.

The 22 teaspoons of added sugar a day does not include naturally occurring sugars found in fruit, vegetables or dairy products.

Read more about this article at SFGate.com