Weight Loss Marin will help you reach your weight loss goals, period!
A person doesn’t have to be obese, but even being over-weight, can lead to major health risks like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, arthritis, sleep apnea, increased blood sugar levels leading to insulin resistance and many more preventable diseases and conditions associated with increased weight.
Being educated, having a lot of willpower and regular exercise can help, but often times this is not enough.
Maybe you have consulted with a bariatrics specialist to discuss possible surgical procedures to finally lose the weight like gastric bypass surgery or the gastric lap band.
Do you really want your stomach stapled? Do you really want a band placed around your stomach so that you feel full even after having a very small amount of food? Are you fully award of how dangerous and invasive these types of weight loss surgeries can be?
Even so-called safe procedures like liposuction to get rid of peskycellulite can be very risky sometimes.
It is a great idea to make sure that in your quest to lose weight that you evaluate all of the non-surgical ways to lose weight before going through a risky and possibly painful surgery, but does that mean that all of the other ways to melt off those extra pounds of fat and inches are safer than surgery?
For instance: Weight loss pills or medications and fad diets or starvation type diets can also be very detrimental to your health. Many people try these extreme methods and they become obsessed with losing weight, which can lead to developing eating disorders like anorexia or bulimia, which if goes untreated, can often lead to very serious health complications, even death!
Losing weight doesn’t have to be so risky though. There are ways to lose weight that do not involve starving, dangerous pills and over the counter weight loss solutions which are proven to work, and it all starts with education.
You also don’t need to read a bunch of boring books about the mechanics of weight loss. You don’t have to memorize a ton of information about body mass index (BMI), fat, calories, protein, carbohydrates or any other complex information on how the human body works.
There is some basic information that you do need to know though, about how our body processes food, especially sugar, that will open your eyes on how to finally lose weight, and keep it off for the rest of your life. This kind of simple information is ultimately what Weight Loss Marin is all about.
We have also included a local directory of weight loss providers like gym’s, weight loss centers, doctors, and even hypnotists that provide weight loss solutions, so no matter where you live in the Marin, San Francisco or genera Bay Area you live in, you will have plenty of options.
Below is a short list of some of these: Weight Loss Marin directory:
Adventures In Wellness Dieting Hypnosis -
260 E Blithedale Ave, Mill Valley, CA 94941
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AMG Medical Weight Reduction Clinic –
203 E Blithedale Ave, Mill Valley, CA 94941
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400 Professional Center Drive, Novato, CA 94947
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6 Petaluma Blvd. North, Petaluma, CA
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DeSalvo Chiropractic & Weight Loss Center –
7595 Redwood Blvd. Ste. 108, Novato, CA
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Eating Disorders Collaborative Marin –
1330 Lincoln Avenue Suite 107, San Rafael, CA 94901
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600 Miller Avenue, Mill Valley, CA
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616C Petaluma Blvd North, Petaluma, CA
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Institute For Health Management -
1100 S. Eliseo Drive, Suite 2, Greenbrae, CA 94904
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Jenny Craig Weight Loss Center -
75 Bellam Boulevard, San Rafael, CA
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4460 Redwood Hwy # 5, San Rafael, CA
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Filed under Weight Loss Marin CA by on Jan 18th, 2011. 
San Francisco weight loss is difficult with all of the great food in the city. At weight loss Marin, we know the temptations can be frustrating, but be on the lookout for some weight loss misconceptions!
There are different ways for you to lose weight in this world. But every weight loss program needs commitment of your time and effort and it requires willingness and discipline. Body builders and others who know much about nutrition are able to lose weight very quickly when needed, but the rest of us have to try much harder.
Some people think that by skipping meals you can lose a lot of weight very quickly. But the fact is, when you skip your normal meals you can turn extra hungry for the foods that you crave, and because your appetite is in high-gear, you will tend to not only overeat…but overeat bad foods! Not to mention skipping meals lowers your metabolism. If at all possible it is recommended that you eat 5-6 small meals everyday.
Some individuals believe that eating 5-6 meals a day increases weight but the fact is eating small amount of food several times a day helps you feel more satisfied and full than you would ever think. In fact, it is actually really hard to eat that many times during the day for a lot of people.
On top of not being hungry enough to eat that much in a day, a lot of people are simply too busy to take all those breaks to eat so often during a typical day. But you can select the types of foods that are easy to prepare for you and bring them with you to work many times. You can actually have some protein replacements like protein shakes and protein bars. Try planning your meals the night before you go to work to see if that kind of thing will be feasible for you.
Carbohydrates supply energy in the body as we all know, in fact, our brain does not function well without them. But you need to minimize high density carbohydrate intake because excessive carbohydrates of the wrong kind can be stored as fat in the body if you are not careful. Eating large amounts of protein rich foods because it gives a constant supply of amino acids that keeps the metabolism fired up as well, but be careful not to add extra fat and grease to your diet while consuming protein.
Proper exercise is very helpful in your weight loss program as you know. If you are unable to dedicate a large amount of time to an exercise plan, try to walk some places that you may normally drive. Not down the freeway of course, but if you regularly go down the street to the market, try walking to get some fresh air and good exercise.
If you can only walk 10 minutes a day, that is still 10 minutes longer than some people and you will see some health benefits from this type of behavior. You can also do some aerobics or running if you do happen to have some extra time. Excessive cardio exercise is so good for your overall health, and can be really great for losing weight as well.
It is really important that you do not give up or get too frustrated in your goals for weight loss in San Francisco. We have tons of beautiful areas here where we can get regular exercise and there are healthy food options…you just need to know where to look!
Filed under Weight Loss San Francisco by on Oct 13th, 2011. Comment.
If you live in San Francisco or Marin County and you have been struggling to lose weight, here’s why!
The ups and downs of losing weight are more than most people can bare, and the roller-coaster ride of weight gain and weight loss while on fad diets are no exception.
Losing weight is really hard for everybody, but that is no reason to give up and live your life thinking that you will be overweight forever. There are some staples of the American diet that can help you lose weight much more easily, if you simply avoid them.
If you have heard ideas like this before in your weight loss struggle but still had a lot of trouble losing those extra pounds, there is a good reason why.
The things that you need to avoid are everywhere!
Let’s talk about some of the culprits that make us so fat, and why it is a really good idea for our overall health to just avoid them altogether.
Are You Eating Processed Foods?
The reason that you find processed foods in the diets of so many people is because this stuff is everywhere. They can be made cheaply and easily and shipped right to your door if you want them to be.
They can also make you really fat and completely unhealthy. Television advertising is not the best place to get quality information sometimes, so when you think of high fructose corn syrup, you likely believe that it is OK for you, right?
It’s just like sugar, except it’s from corn so what’s the big deal? Well, just like cane sugar, this stuff is in everything nowadays. No matter how natural the sugar or where it is derived from, you simply can not lose any weight if you have a ton of it for every meal.
Since the average person in one year will consume about 150 pounds of sugar in a given year, do you think it matters where it comes from…cane or corn?
No matter how you cut it, sugar is nothing but empty calories and consuming mass quantities of the stuff is not going to help you one bit in your fight to lose that weight.
So what about artificial sweeteners?
Well, first of all they are created by man, and not nature. Nothing good can come from man-made sugar as far as most people are concerned. Artificial sweeteners are also linked to a huge list of things that you don’t want to go wrong in your life.
How about a side-order of anxiety, depression, migraines, panic attacks, memory loss and a slew of other unwanted health risks that are attributed to artificial sweeteners? On top of that, they actually stimulate your appetite, so you will be more hungry to boot!
There’s a lot of talk about trans fat lately too, and for good reason. In one fell swoop, trans fat actually lowers your good cholesterol while raising your bad cholesterol. With so many people at risk for heart disease and obesity, you have no use for trans fat in any diet you are on, period!
Finding the right tools in the battle to lose weight is essential for success. Knowing what to avoid, what to eat, what is myth and what is truth about the foods you eat is crucial for any weight loss and/or healthy living.
Finding a healthy plan that allows you to not starve, while eating the proper balance of foods that your body needs, while avoiding the ones that it does not is the best thing that you can do in the battle of the bulge.
Filed under Weight Loss San Francisco by on Aug 19th, 2011. Comment.
While we at Weight Loss Marin do not usually recommend rapid weight loss…
Sometimes…
Sometimes you may have a situation, or event that is coming up on short notice, and you want to lose a couple of extra pounds before you attend. Losing weight rapidly is never recommended at Weight Loss Marin because it is widely believed to be unsafe.
However, we have all been in a situation where losing a few pounds for an event was necessary, and we have all done it too. So, we can’t hardly tell you that you can not do something when we have done that very thing ourselves.
Here are a few tips on how to lose weight fast:
Tips for Losing Weight Fast – Burn the Fat or Eat the Muscle?
This article is called ‘tips for losing weight fast’ because I would like to draw your attention to some points about a couple of weight-loss concepts that you may not know.
The first point is that losing weight fast can be done. Many have done it, particularly on low-carb diets like Atkins where ketosis (when your body converts fats to energy) is involved. Losing weight fast can also occur by engaging in near-starvation techniques.
The problem with such ‘losing weight fast’ techniques is that most of the weight you’re losing is muscle. This is particularly bad in the long run because greater muscle means a faster metabolism, which allows you to burn more calories while at rest. Losing weight fast without sacrificing muscle is simply not realistic.
The ketosis stage of low-carb diets appeals mightily to the ‘losing weight fast’ mentality, but has also been described as the greatest weight-loss marketing tool. This is because when you engage in it for a couple of weeks you may find yourself losing weight fast during that time, which allows you to think that you are participating in some kind of miracle diet. Despite the fact that you can’t sustain these kinds of losses, this initial weight loss stimulates positive word-of-mouth. Note as well that ketosis is only a single phase of a low-carb diet because if you engage in it for too long it can lead to serious kidney and liver damage – a considerable sacrifice to make in trying to lose weight fast when you can have sustainable weight loss and a healthy body instead.
So, the first distinction to be made is between weight loss and fat loss. If you starve yourself for a few weeks, the number on the scale will probably make you happy. What the scale is not telling you is that you are losing a great deal of muscle, which is a really bad situation for you if you seek the long-term weight loss that has to do with burning fat – and keeping it off.
What I offer to you in this article is not a recommendation to starve yourself or engage in ketosis, even though if you followed this advice you would think well of me for a couple of weeks when you got on the scale (before cursing me intensely later on when you gained it all back).
What I do offer is some tips on healthy methods you can use to lose as much fat weight as possible in as short a time as possible. Losing weight fast does little good if it’s not fat, and this is an important distinction. Losing weight for healthy fat loss means a maximum of a few pounds per week, while setting up habits that will allow you to continue to lose rather than short-term ecstasy followed by another bout of frustration and depression.
If you’re willing to commit to it, here are some tips concerning what you can do to look and feel markedly better in the next couple of months:
Whip your calorie-burning mechanism.
This means speed up your metabolism, and the best way to do that is to get your body accustomed to burning calories quickly by feeding it frequently. You will get great results with 6 small meals a day, and if you decide – for example – that you are going to take in 1800 calories a day, then you’re looking at small portions of 300 calories each meal. Note that you should not be taking in less than 1200 calories per day since you increase your risk of depleting muscle as you get lower in this range.
Don’t just eat frequently, eat well.
Obviously, if you need to lose weight quickly you know that you need to limit your amount of fat intake, particularly the saturated fats found in foods like ice cream, cookies, chocolate and fatty parts of the cow and the pig (steak, hamburgers, bacon, ham, etc). You will want to replace them with lean proteins (fish, chicken, turkey, etc), complex carbohydrates (whole grain bread, oatmeal, potatoes, green vegetables) and unsaturated fats (fish, avocados, nuts). Your carbohydrates should comprise about 50% of your diet, proteins should be around 30%, and fats should be 20% or less.
Sweat it out.
Aerobic exercise (meaning that which maintains an elevated heart rate) is crucial to fat loss, and if you need to lose the fat faster then you will need to do it more often than average. This means 6 or even 7 days of the week, for 45 minutes or so each day. The best aerobic exercises include cycling (without stopping), jogging, or using equipment like an elliptical machine, a stairclimber, a rowing machine, or a cross-country ski machine.
Burn more calories while sleeping.
The way to do this is to build more muscle, so you’re going to want to do some weight training. Doing workouts 3 or 4 days a week, 30 minutes each day will increase your lean body mass and charge your metabolism even further. This means more calories burned and more fat loss, particularly in the long term.
If you think that this sounds like too much work, I urge you to ignore these tips and try the low-carb/starvation alternatives mentioned above. You presumably won’t be too surprised when you join the millions who have adopted the ‘losing weight fast’ mindset and temporarily lightened the burden on their scales, only to return shortly to the exact place they started at.
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Filed under General Weight Loss by on Feb 17th, 2011.
Have you ever heard of Weight Loss Forever?
This was a weight loss center with 8 locations around the Virginia Beach, VA area including the corporate headquarters.
I can’t bash a business like this, because a lot of people use this type of method to lose weight, and a lot of people have success. The problem is, that often times, a lot of money is required up front for meals, counseling and weight-loss plans.
A lot of people in Virginia lost hundreds and thousands of dollars by signing up for a business like Weight Loss Forever.
One day, the company decided to close its doors, keep everyone’s money and they didn’t mention a word of this to anybody.
Here is a link to a Virginia Beach area news station that put out a story about the Weight Loss Forever incident.
Now, this isn’t the kind of thing that happens all of the time, and this company wasn’t doing any business in the Bay Area, but it does show you that people that are out to take your money and run, will do it for any reason. People trusted this company to help them lose weight, and all they got was their money stolen from them.
In the end, people were basically willing to gamble with hundreds or thousands of dollars, all to lose weight?
I suppose when somebody is running a business designed to help people, but they need to pay rent for their building, and pay employees, it stands to reason that they could take all of the clients money and close up shop one day without notice. Just keep in mind that the next time a company pulls a stunt like this, it could be with your money!
I think a lot of people go to these types of weight loss centers because they offer support. Anybody that has ever tried to lose weight by themselves knows that having some support during the ups and downs of losing weight can help out a whole lot.
This is why Weight Loss Marin was created. Giving you the support that you need without spending a ton of money, and risking that money, hoping that you don’t get taken for a ride the way the folks were in Virginia Beach.
In this day and age, businesses are going under at an alarming rate, so please be warned if you are ever asked for your credit card for future services at an business like this. You want to lose weight, not your money.
We advise that if you are going to use a weight loss center like this, that you stick with one of the larger ones like Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers.
Here are the addresses of some of these local centers.
Jenny Craig Weight Loss Center
75 Bellam Boulevard, San Rafael, CA
1201 B Larkspur Landing Circle
Larkspur Landing, Larkspur, CA 94939
Filed under Weight Loss Forever?, Weight Loss Marin CA by on Feb 15th, 2011.