Weight Loss Recipes and the Mediterranean Diet

No matter what regimen the recipe you happen to find comes from, you can happily adapt it to the Mediterranean Diet by following the following guidelines. Just substitute the following foods where appropriate, and there you have it: a new Mediterranean Diet recipe!

* Fruits and vegetables. If it's a fruit or a vegetable, it's likely to be your friend on the Mediterranean Diet. No canned or processed stuff; get it as fresh as it came off of the tree. You might want to give up on store-bought fruit juices and just squeeze your own juice from whole fresh fruit, as even the juices that say "100% juice" add sugar.

* Nuts and legumes. Very often overlooked. Peas, beans, and lentils are chock full of fiber, vitamins, minerals, calcium, zinc, and protein. You can have them in place of meat, even. Note that this does not include coconut, which actually isn't a nut technically at all.

* Extra Virgin Olive oil. Use it everywhere, for every oil, butter, or fat substitution. Fry in it, simmer meat in it, top bread and toast with it, dress salads in it.

* No sugar! None! Ever! There's plenty of natural sweeteners instead of sugar, including dates, figs, and honey.

* Whole grains. Going back to fiber for a moment, people of the Mediterranean region avoid anything bleached and processed like it was deadly poison. Remember, this is the area where the concept of unleavened bread came from. Bread is at the least whole grain, and even then not consumed in large quantities.

* Dairy. This is the smallest proportion of foods eaten daily. It's no exaggeration to say that Mediterraneans use at the most one cup of milk per day, and this is likely only used in preparing foods. At that, it is non-fat milk or goat's milk. Cheese and yogurt are popular, however, but again it is goat's milk for the cheese (feta) or skim milk for yogurt.

Copyright Ray Darken - Ray has included his down-loadable guide to the Mediterranean diet. If you'd like to read more, try these articles, beginning with the mediterranean diet recipes.

Weight Loss During Menopause

Weight loss during menopause is slightly different than just plain ol' weight loss. Because your hormones are going kinda crazy, you need to address that to maximize your weight loss. Here are a couple ways to accelerate your weight loss during this time.

Weight Loss During Menopause

1. Spinning Around like a child

Listen, your hormones are going crazy and they're unbalanced. Spinning addresses this because it stimulates your Endocrine System to balance out and stabilize your hormones. Now, spinning won't totally rework mother nature with menopause, but it'll help with weight loss at this point in your life since the more balance your hormones are, the easier it is to lose weight.

Here's what you do...

Spin clockwise with your arms out like airplane wings. Spin anywhere from 5-20 times. Your goal is to get slightly dizzy, not totally "fall down" dizzy. Once you spin and find that number where you're slightly dizzy, you'll need to spin that number mulitple times each day to help "rework" and correct your hormones throughout the day to clear the path for easier weight loss.

2. Jump on a mini-trampoline

This is just an all-around great exercise. I like the fact that it's convenient, you can do it at home, you can do it in brief spurts of time, and it's very low impact. What I do is jump on it 2 minutes at a time during commercials. Did you know that the average 1 hour tv show has 20-22 minutes of commercials?

That's the perfect time do jump on the mini-trampoline. You'll get a 20 minute workout while watching tv.

Try out these 2 things and weight loss during menopause will be a piece of cake.

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