Calorie Sneak ups

I've written on my blog before about hidden factors that make you eat more. One way to combat calorie snack attacks is by having your snacks already planned out so you know exactly what you are eating. Another approach (below) from Yahoo Health Tips also works well. My recommendation would be to create a list of 10 'approved snacks' and their sizes so when you head to the kitchen for a snack you have choices laid out for you and know that they will all fit in your plan.

Sneaky Snack Approach
When you know how many calories are in your snack of choice, you're in a better position to adjust your calorie intake of other foods later, so your total caloric intake for the day stays on target. That's right -- you can't snack away without cutting back somewhere else. But knowing how many calories your chosen noshes contain -- be they fruit, veggies, and yogurt or higher-calorie snacks like cereal and savory crackers -- will help you modulate at mealtime.

Diets that dieted (thank goodness)

You can go on one of two types of diets: a healthy diet or a crazy fad diet. I just came across a great list of the "Top 25 Fat diets from the last 25 Years". Here's a gem known as the Sleeping Beauty Diet (I can't make this up).

The general idea behind this warped sedative-fueled fad diet is, “Take two of these and call me in seven days.” You are supposed to drug yourself to sleep for up to seven days at a time.

You may lose some weight because you didn't eat for a week, but we've got snooze for you: This diet, which was reportedly used by Elvis during those times his trademark jumpsuits became a tad too tight, just won't work. You'll awaken hungrier than a hibernatin' bear and lumber your way to the nearest buffet for a binge to end all binges. Just say no to drugs... and yes to a healthier diet and weight loss plan.

How To Prevent Eating When You're Not Hungry

I have written before on how it is very easy to sabotage your diet though unknowing snacking (see last week's post as well)

Melaine at Dietterric also posted her top 3 tips on how you can make sure that your aren't eating just because you are bored. Here's my favorite of her list:

#3 Take a short walk
This may seem like a strange way to avoid eating when not hungry, but sometimes just getting the blood flowing through the body, helps you realize you aren’t as hungry as first thought.

Also, exercise itself tends to suppress the appetite, so you’ll probably find that walking around cures any hunger cravings you were having anyway.

Plus, you’ll also burn off some additional calories — great if you’re trying to lose weight.

This is also known as 'delaying the craving' and it a very good strategy for emotional type eating as in these situations your desire for food isn't

Kettlebell Snatches and Fat Loss (Video)

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Here is a good 'how to kettlebell snatch' video. Chris shows you how to make sure you don't beat up your wrists (a problem I had for a while).

You may remember back a couple months there was a lot of buzz about kettlebells and fat loss due to a study published in ACE Fitness Matters. The study showed how kettlebell snatches burned more calories than anyone could have imagined. I'm not sure if this is because of the kettlebells or because of the metabolic acceleration nature of the workouts. Either way I find training with kettlebells fun and they burn a ton of calories.