August 16, 2008

If You Want To Live Longer Just Lose Weight!





People go on diets a variety of reasons including health reasons or trying to fit into new summer beach cloths. If you are going to go on a weight loss diet program, think about the reasons for why you want to do it in the first place. Now ask yourself, are you going to "Lose weight for Health or Cosmetic Reasons?"

But now, there is another reason why it is important to eat less and lose weight.

According to a recent study by scientists in the United States by eating less and losing weight, reducing our calorie intake we can increase our life span.

By restricting calorie consumption over long periods scientists show that it increases the lifespan of rodents and other short-lived species, but it has never been shown to occur in humans.

A team at Louisiana State University studied four groups of 48 men and women over six months, who were given varying amounts to eat.

In the "very low-calorie" group, subjects were given 890 kilocalories a day until they lost 15 per cent of their weight, followed by a weight maintenance diet. Scientists found evidence of changes in the body that have been linked to prolonging human life.

The studies show that sustained calorie restriction caused a reversal in two of three previously reported biomarkers of longevity, a decrease in energy expenditure and a reduction in DNA fragmentation, reflecting less DNA damage," a paper in the journal Jama said.

While these studies are preliminary longer term studies are needed insure prolonged effects on the human ageing process.

Scientists found that a strict low-calorie diet can decrease DNA damage linked with aging.

During the study people ate as little as 890 calories a day for six months. Their insulin levels fell and metabolisms slowed changes that are thought to increase longevity.

The findings are provocative, but preliminary. Longer-term research will try to sort out whether such changes can meaningfully extend people's lives, said senior author Eric Ravussin of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University.

"They are the first proof that what has been observed in rodents seems to be also working in humans," Ravussin said.

The latest study appears in Journal of the American Medical Association.

"It's very exciting," said Dr. Evan Hadley, director of the NIA's geriatrics and clinical gerontology program.

"It's a step forward but not the whole journey," said Hadley, whose agency is part of the NIH.

Dietary guidelines for weight maintenance recommend about 2,000 to 3,000 calories a day, depending on age, gender and activity level, with the higher amount generally for very active men.

Non-liquid weight loss diets used in the study were high in fruits and vegetables with less than 30 percent fat.

Blood tests showed substantial decreases in the amount of age-related DNA damage in each of the three dieting groups, compared with their initial levels. That kind of microscopic damage is linked to cancer and other age-related ailments, but it's unknown whether the small changes seen in the study would affect the study volunteers' disease risks.

Insulin levels also decreased after six months in all three reduced calorie groups. Core body temperature also dipped slightly in two low-calorie groups but not in the liquid-diet or control group.

The results show that the diets are safe, and not impossible to follow, Hadley said.

Everyone wants and desires to lose weight. We all have different reasons why we should lose weight and try to decide on a diet. You have to know what these reasons are and who to ask to help you in achieving all your weight loss and health goals. Now if you want live longer just go on the weight loss diet of your choice. It's as easy as that. As they say, "Just Do It"!

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August 13, 2008

Lose Weight Permanently - No. 8 - Lose Weight Slowly





You have started a new diet and you realise that it is time to get that weight under control. You know it is hard but you are determined to try. The more you lose the better, you think. But this brings with it unrealistic expectations. You will not feel satisfied until you see the weight drop off ? and drop off in large quantities daily. But, that's not the way. You must lose weight slowly.

Fast weight loss is unrealistic and could be accompanied by other adverse effects. Rapid weight loss can bring with it a sense of achievement but the long term prospects are less than ideal if your expectations are so high all the time.

Take your time in losing weight. Eat less and do more exercise. Even small amounts count. Weight loss accompanied by a good exercise program is ideal. 3500 calories equal one pound of weight. Small changes such as eliminating 250 calories per day from food intake and expending 250 calories a day by burning fat through exercise will lead to one pound of weight lost per week.

Don't keep weighing yourself on the scales. Doing it routinely once per week is fine. Daily weighings (or multiple times per day) can bring with it bad vibes if you are not seeing persistent weight losses. By doing it weekly you are more likely to see a change which will act as a pick-me-up for you.

Don't forget that you current weight is the product of several years of bad habits. That cannot be undone overnight. Yet slow weight loss will be more likely to be permanent.

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August 3, 2008

Daily Exercise to Lose Weight





The smart person today is not deciding whether to exercise, but is choosing an enjoyable activity and incorporating it into his or her life three to five times a week. The best news is that even moderate exercise can be an important part of a more fit lifestyle. The old idea, "No pain, no gain" is out. You can and do benefit from a sensible, painless, moderate exercise program. In fact, real pain is an indication to stop. The possibility of injury is much less with a moderate exercise plan than with very intense exercise. You also will experience fewer aching muscles and will be more likely to continue the activity over a long period of time.

One of the most common goals of an exercise program is weight control or weight loss. Moderate exercise can play an important role in a weight loss plan. The key in weight loss efforts is to move more, not necessarily faster or harder. Very intense exercise periods cannot last very long or occur very often. It is usually recommended that a person take a day off between such workouts.

Here are some daily exercises to lose weight:

Jumping rope is something that anyone can do with a little time and effort. Any old rope will do, just hold each end with either hand and spin it around you as you hop along with it.

Jumping rope for 30 minutes straight is the equivalent to running a mile in 8 minutes, and you can burn 1,300 calories if you keep jumping for a full hour. You can jump rope in places like your home or in your backyard.

Doing a few floors of stair sprints can work out more muscles in your lower body, giving you perfect legs and ass. Carrying your own weight up those stairs instead of the flat surfaces you get at the gym makes your muscles work harder and helps you gain more endurance.

Be careful with stair sprinting though, as it is easy to trip or sprain an ankle. Careful stair sprinting should be combined with other exercises too like sit-ups, pushups, and squat thrusts.

Everyone knows how to do sit-ups and pushups, but squat thrusts will really help define and shape your legs, as well as the triceps. Sit-ups and push-ups are quick exercises to work the upper body while squat thrusts work the lower body.

To do squat thrusts, you get into the pushup position with your body already pushed up off the floor. From this position you bend your knees and with both feet thrust forward underneath you and stop them near where your hands are, then thrust them back with the same quick powerful movement.

Another way to perform squat thrusts is to start with bringing your right forward, in the runners position at the starting line. Then thrust both legs at the same time, one pushing back and the other leg pushing forward.

This exercise works the glutes and hamstrings and quads, and is great for the lower body. Just be careful to keep the arms fixed to the floor, firmly keeping the body in the correct position. Repeat this exercise 15-20 times in your workout routine, and you will be showing off some great legs to anyone who cares to notice.

Remember also to keep a close eye on the food intake. Dieting and herbal weight loss supplements can only lower your intake of fatty foods, and reduce the feeling of hunger.

These techniques are daily exercise to lose weight. Losing weight is no big deal, anyone can do it, you just have to have the right formula to make it happen.

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July 28, 2008

Anybody Can Lose 5 Pounds Fast With This Weight Loss Trick





Okay here?s the trick

Before you eat any meal?

Prepare a big jug of Ice cold water (the colder the better), A couple of raw carrots, Broccoli or celery (the more the better) and just a ? cup of almonds, cashews, or peanuts (it?s better to get almonds ? and I?ll explain why later)

Now before you eat your breakfast, lunch, or dinner? Just eat your raw carrots, broccoli, or celery and nuts (cashews, almonds, or peanuts) and wash it all down with ice cold water and after you wash it all down with water ? Wait a couple of minutes and drink another 6-8 ounces (or more) of Ice cold water.

Now you can eat your regular meal without worrying about gaining any weight.

The reason why you?ll lose 5 lbs quickly is because?

You?ve just made your very own fat-burning potion.

Ice cold water: the colder the water = the more calories your body has to burn to heat it back up to room temperature. How much Ice cold water? ? The more the better. Drinking too much water won?t cause you to become bloated or gain excess water weight. As a matter of fact?

Drinking too much ice cold water is what you have to do to flush excess water weight out of your body and you may be carrying up to 10 extra pounds of excess water.

And drinking lots of ice-cold water get rids of all the excess salt/sodium in your body that retains water weight.

Raw Veggies: Your body has to burn a lot of fat calories to break these foods down and raw veggies also fight the poisons and toxins in your body that prevent your body from releasing stored fat. So this means if you eat vegetables?

Your body can burn fat easily. All you need to do is eat at least 2 whole raw carrots, 1 raw head of broccoli (not the stalk) and maybe 3 long stalks of celery before each meal.

Nuts are high in protein and along with the ice cold water and the fiber in the Veggies? The nuts stop you from being so hungry and the less hungry you are? the less you eat and the less you eat, the faster you lose weight.

Why eat almonds? Other nuts are good but almonds are good at increasing testosterone because it?s high in Zinc, Manganese and Copper (all are used in testosterone production).

So if you Eat raw veggies, nuts (especially almonds), and lots of ice cold water before any meal? You will lose 5 pounds real quick.

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July 24, 2008

I AM Exercising! Why Don't I Lose Weight?





I used to think my body was some kind of machine. I thought that losing weight was a simple matter of cutting the intake and/or increasing the output and soon I would look like your average Hollywood starlet. If I wanted to lose a pound, all I had to do was eat 3500 calories less than my maintenance level of 2000 calories a day or walk 35 miles or some combination of those.

If you were of the same opinion you have probably noticed, like me, that the reality isn't quite so simple. In fact, the August/September issue of ACE (American Council on Exercise) Certified News has an article by Ralph LaForge various factors that interact to determine just how many calories you burn during a given period of exercise.

If you just starve yourself, you get unhealthy and the body gets to be very efficient at maintaining your weight on very reduced levels of calories. You are always hungry so you get crabby. What weight you did lose was muscle and water, with some fat, so when you relent, as you must if you have any survival instincts, you gain back all the pounds plus some extra ones and they are NOT attractive, firm muscular pounds.

So you have a look at the magazines at the grocery checkout or your local newspaper and they convince you that you need to get moving, you need some horizontal movement, to get started down the road to slim, along with reasonable amounts of vegetables, fruits, protein sources, and whole grains. The idea is to create a 500 calorie per day deficit and then you'll lose a pound a week.

I ran out and bought a pedometer and vowed to let no day go by without at least 10,000 steps, which is around four miles for average walking strides, and cut out that 3:00 PM latte. That should be a 500 calorie a day deficit, I thought. A week later I stepped expectantly on the scales and perhaps saw a tiny bit of shift to the left. Oops, maybe I miscalculated. Have you tried this? Did it work for you?

Didn't think so. Actually that idea doesn't take into account the basal metabolism rate (BMR), which is the most important factor in determining our overall metabolic rates. The BMR determines the calories that you would be burning even if you were fast asleep, which need to be subtracted from your projected deficit total.

Our BMR is in turn affected by a number of factors, some of which are beyond our control. You can't really do much about your genetics, your gender, your age, your internal body temperature, or how much thyroxin or adrenalin your body is releasing at the moment. But it also depends on how much you weigh, your body surface area, your lean body mass, whether you're in starvation mode, and other things you can influence over time.

Taken together the number of factors that can influence you BMR and their interactions make it hard to estimate accurately. But when it comes to determining how much effect it has on calorie burn during exercise, the other major component is how much energy you're putting out during the exercise itself.

Your current weight affects how many calories you burn doing any given exercise, which makes perfectly good sense. The more mass you are moving, the more energy it takes to do it. But the point is to reduce that mass, right? Especially the fatty part of it.

The duration and intensity of the exercise is the major factor in determining its calorie and fat burning effects both during and after the exercise. For example, as Mr. La Forge points out, if a 154-pound person walks a mile at a rate of 3.5 miles per hour, she burns 54 calories. If she walks faster, say in the 3.5 to 5 m.p.h. range, it's 97 calories, and 107 calories if she jogs it. So it's not just the distance but how much effort you exert in covering that distance that counts.

Using a treadmill reduces your effort and so also reduces your calorie burn. Exercise that doesn't fight gravity, like swimming or cycling, use fewer calories to cover that distance, too.

So now we know it's good to do 10,000 steps every day but it is better to slowly work up to doing them faster. The basic aerobic exercise formula says you should determine your maximum heart rate (220 minus your age in years) and strive to maintain a level of exertion that keeps your pulse at 70 to 85 percent of that for 30 to 60 minutes in a row for at least 5 days of the week. That would be a good thing.

Seems there's an even better thing called interval training. That's where you start slowly, say about 50 percent of your maximum heart rate for 5 minutes, then put on a burst to about 90 percent of max for 60 seconds, slow down again for 75 seconds, then another minute at close to full throttle, slow down for 75 seconds, and so on for four or so more rounds. Then take five minutes at 30 percent to cool down. That's just one example of a schedule you could use.

So what do you accomplish with that? There was a study done at Laval University in Canada that compared results after standard aerobic conditioning (endurance) versus interval training. The standard aerobic group worked out longer, 45 minutes per session, 6 sessions per week for 20 weeks in a row (90 sessions), while the interval group did 30 minute sessions, 6 sessions per week for 15 weeks (60 sessions). The endurance group also burned twice as many calories during each session as the interval group.

One would expect that the endurance group would have lost more fat, assuming similar diets for the two groups. But it turns out that the interval group reduced their body fat NINE times more than the endurance group. The reason is that the interval training boosts the resting metabolic rate so they burned more calories even when they weren't exercising. Sound good?

Don't just get up off the couch and start sprinting. You have to work up to this and check with your doctor. But, as part of an overall training program, along with weight (resistance) training and flexibility/balance training, interval training is a good way to get the fat to burn off. Sometimes being a little breathless isn't a bad thing.

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July 14, 2008

Diets Don't Work - 4 Ways To Lose Weight Naturally and Effectively





Any doctor worth their salt will tell you diets don't work.
Plain and simple. Surprised?

Well you might be. You can't get away from all the talk about
South Beach, Atkins, Low Carb, Zone … you name it, they're
talking about it. It's on TV, in magazines… everywhere you
look.

And of course there are the pills, drugs and other expensive
methods to lose weight. While they may be appropriate in certain
cases, by and large they aren't necessary. Some can actually
be dangerous to your health.

What does work, what's been proven to work time and time again
is something very simple… a lifestyle change. You may not
want to hear it, but it's true.

You can't eat thousands of calories, rich desserts, sugary
snacks, excess fat and tons of carbs, get little or no
activity and expect to lose weight with a pill!

You'll be surprised to know that you don't need to stop eating
or have to exercise for hours every day to lose weight. Just a
few simple lifestyle changes added daily can turn your life
around quickly. You will start to lose weight within days
and feel better as well.

Here are 4 tips you can use to get started today:

- Drink water.

Drinking lots of water is probably the single most important
thing you can do for your health. You lose over 2.5 liters
of water daily through normal body functions and since it
can't be stored efficiently, needs to be replaced daily.
Water nourishes your body, it is essential for digestion and
flushes toxins out of your system - vital when you're
working on losing weight. There is no replacement for
water.

When you get up in the morning, drink a full glass of
water before you start your day. Add a lemon slice if you
like. Then get and additional 10-12 glasses of water in
throughout the day.

- Eat slowly.

Chew your food 10-12 times before swallowing. Your saliva
starts the digestion process, and if you don't chew enough,
your stomach has to work twice as hard and many times you
don't get much out of the foods you eat — except maybe some
indigestion :).

- Split your entree.

When eating out, split your entree with your dining
companion. Most restaurants now serve portions that are
up to 8 times the recommended serving size. Supplement
with a salad, soup or vegetable to complete your meal.

- Avoid sodas.

Did you know that an average soda has 14 teaspoons of
sugar? Not only are these empty calories and carbs that take
you on a blood sugar roller coaster and add pounds, the sugar
also can also cripple your immune system for up to 5 hours
leaving your body working overtime and open to infections,
viruses and the effects of stress. Drinking one soda a day
can pack on an average of 16 lbs of unwanted weight! Cutting
out soda alone will take off at least 16 lbs a year or more.

Additionally, recent studies have linked increased soda
consumption with certain cancers and a loss of essential
minerals.

Plain and simple. Surprised?

Well you might be. You can't get away from all the talk about
South Beach, Atkins, Low Carb, Zone … you name it, they're
talking about it. It's on TV, in magazines… everywhere you
look.

And of course there are the pills, drugs and other expensive
methods to lose weight. While they may be appropriate in certain
cases, by and large they aren't necessary. Some can actually
be dangerous to your health.

What does work, what's been proven to work time and time again
is something very simple… a lifestyle change. You may not
want to hear it, but it's true.

You can't eat thousands of calories, rich desserts, sugary
snacks, excess fat and tons of carbs, get little or no
activity and expect to lose weight with a pill!

You'll be surprised to know that you don't need to stop eating
or have to exercise for hours every day to lose weight. Just a
few simple lifestyle changes added daily can turn your life
around quickly. You will start to lose weight within days
and feel better as well.

Here are 4 tips you can use to get started today:

- Drink water.

Drinking lots of water is probably the single most important
thing you can do for your health. You lose over 2.5 liters
of water daily through normal body functions and since it
can't be stored efficiently, needs to be replaced daily.
Water nourishes your body, it is essential for digestion and
flushes toxins out of your system - vital when you're
working on losing weight. There is no replacement for
water.

When you get up in the morning, drink a full glass of
water before you start your day. Add a lemon slice if you
like. Then get and additional 10-12 glasses of water in
throughout the day.

- Eat slowly.

Chew your food 10-12 times before swallowing. Your saliva
starts the digestion process, and if you don't chew enough,
your stomach has to work twice as hard and many times you
don't get much out of the foods you eat — except maybe some
indigestion :).

- Split your entree.

When eating out, split your entree with your dining
companion. Most restaurants now serve portions that are
up to 8 times the recommended serving size. Supplement
with a salad, soup or vegetable to complete your meal.

- Avoid sodas.

Did you know that an average soda has 14 teaspoons of
sugar? Not only are these empty calories and carbs that take
you on a blood sugar roller coaster and add pounds, the sugar
also can also cripple your immune system for up to 5 hours
leaving your body working overtime and open to infections,
viruses and the effects of stress. Drinking one soda a day
can pack on an average of 16 lbs of unwanted weight! Cutting
out soda alone will take off at least 16 lbs a year or more.

Additionally, recent studies have linked increased soda
consumption with certain cancers and a loss of essential
minerals.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mark Idzik is a health coach with a national clientele who helps
his clients lose weight and make better health choices. His new
report, Permanent Weight Loss Now, offers a principled and
proven way to lose weight naturally, effectively and for life.
You can get more information at:
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July 11, 2008

How To Lose Weight Fast? Just Eat More!





For people who have not been successful in their weight loss regime, they can seek a natural way to lose weight. By eating negative calorie foods, they can lose weight as these foods will burn more fats than they consume. A list of these foods categorised into fruits, vegetables, meats and dairy products is made available with helpful tips on preparing them.

If you are too lazy to exercise or refuse to diet, I have good news for you. If you exercise or undergoing dieting but still finds that you did not lose much weight, you will love what I have to tell you.


If you managed to lose weight, after going through vigorous gym training or strict dieting, or both but gained back your lost weight, what I am going to share with you will definitely reignite your confidence in your weight loss target.


My method of lose weight fast is to eat food that boost your metabolism and burn more calories than the food you consumed. Such food is also known as ?negative calorie food?. The beauty of eating these fat burning foods is that the more you eat, the more you lose weight.


Sound simple? Yes, but the challenge is to love them and eat them.


What I have come up is a list of fat burning food in different categories for your reference. I suggest you print them out and highlight your favourites. Your objective is simply to consume as many of these foods that you like.


Fruits


Apple,??????????????? Apricot,Blackberry,Blueberry,Cherry, Cranberry, Grapefruit,? Grape,Honeydew,Lemon, Lime,? Mango,? Nectarine, Orange,Papaya, Peach,? Pear,Pineapple,? Prune,Raspberry,Strawberry, Tangerine,Watermelon


Vegetables


Artichoke,? Asparagus,Beet,Broccoli,Brussels sprout, Cabbage,Cantaloupe,? Carrot,Cauliflower,? Celery,Chives,Corn,Cucumber,? Eggplant,Garlic,Green bean,Kale,?? Leek,Lettuce,Mushroom,Okra,Onion,Parsley,Pea,Pepper,Pumpkin,? Radish,Red cabbage,Sauerkraut,? Scallion,Soybean,Spinach,? Squash,String bean,Tomato,Turnip, Zucchini


Meats


Cod,Crab,Flounder,Lobster


Dairy Products (Must be Low-Fat)


Milk,Yogurt,Cheese


Do not be surprised that I have included dairy products as fat burning food. As against? normal belief, consuming low-fat milk or yogurt, or cheese will increase the intake of calcium which causes fat cells to produce less fat and assist the body to break down existing fat.


How do you incorporate consuming these foods into your daily diet? I have some pointers for you to consider. For salad, you can start with lettuce, add shredded carrots, cucumber slices, diced apples and pineapples. For snacks, you may want to replace your chocolate bar with an apple, or you can make sugarless Jell-O with prunes. Alternatively, you may want to have a solely fruit salad as snack and top up with a sugarless whipped cream (pre-placed in the fridge) and serve cold.


Be creative. Use fat burning vegetables to replace other types of food, and you may use garlic in your cooking and reduce the use of salt. Your food will taste nicer too.


Although I suggest you eat as much fat burning foods as you like, as these foods will help you lose weight and keep it off. However, never go for a crash negative calorie food only. You should increase eating these foods, but not to replace total diet with them.


A balanced lifestyle that combines eating the right foods and exercises will help you reaching your target weight quicker. Keep your list of fat burning foods as your secret weapon and by eating these negative calorie food dailyFree Reprint Articles - , will help you to lose weight faster - than you thought.

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July 3, 2008

Detoxify and Lose Weight





A good portion of North America is overweight
because of a condition called autointoxication.
This means that your intestines are holding too
much material that is becoming toxic and as a result your body starts
to act like a sponge and absorbs the toxic waste and
stores it in your fat cells.

If you eat 3 meals a day then you should be having
about 3 bowl movements a day. If you are not then
we need to exercise your bowels to start moving the
waste more efficiently. Most health food stores have
great detox programs. Dextoxification should really be done at least
twice a year. This was a natural process for us 1000?s of years
ago in the form of fasting. We consume to much for our
bodies to efficiently eliminate wastes. We need to spend
some time each year in a state of fasting. We can do this
with any great colon/detox products.

Research yourself, go to your local health food store
and find a product right for you.

We feel there are 3 things important for cleansing. You
first need a good fibre. The fibre products should have
ground flax seed. Anything else
is just gravy. The second product you
need is product to rid the bowels of parasites. The last
thing should be a tea that you take at the end of the day
to help facilitate the bowels to contract over night to
help with more efficient movments. Weight loss is tough
especially if you your body is toxic. Rid the toxins and you
will be in a wonderful place to start losing weight.

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June 27, 2008

5 Simple Eating Habits for Anyone to Lose Weight





Weight loss and weight gain are all about the little things we do, or don't do, every day. It is very hard not to gain weight if you work a desk job or lead a sedentary lifestyle. When you combine this daily inactivity with unhealthy eating habits it is virtually impossible not to go up in size. However, if you can learn some simple, daily good habits, you can improve your health dramatically.

1. Drink water instead of soda. Soft drinks are dead calories, they have no nutritional content and if you are in the habit of drinking sodas, they really add up fast. If you have a bottle of water instead of a soda just once a day you cut out enough calories to lose a pound every three weeks.

2. Eat often. One of the disorienting thing about starting up a healthy lifestyle is that you may actually be eating a lot more, or at least a lot more often. You should eat a small portion of food every 3 hours. This is a challenge for those who've become accustomed to working through lunch then coming home famished and wolfing down a big meal. The human body was built for survival and at any sign of lack of food or starvation means the body will hold onto its fat stores as if life itself hung in the balance, because, well, it did. Because of this, skipping meals will make it harder to lose weight. You need to fool your body into thinking starvation is the furthest

3. Never leave home without your veggies. There aren't always a lot of healthy eating options when you're out and about and since you should never go more than a few hours without eating, you should always bring a bag or container of vegetables. There is no reason anyone can't bring along a bag or carrot sticks. If you can substitute a serving of vegetables for a bag of chips or a candy bar just once a day then you will eliminate enough calories to lose another pound every three weeks.

4. Eat lots of chicken and fish. Learn to love it. Chicken and fish are both very low calorie and very high protein. If you can make chicken and fish the staples of your dinnertime fare you will lose an astonishing amount of calories over time. These lean meats are so low in calorie to begin with that most preparation methods and side-dishes still result in a fairly low calorie meal. Contrastingly if you prepare a meal with beef as the main course, every dash of olive oil and extra dinner roll is that much more likely to send your daily calories over the limit.

5. If you eat out, you can still make some healthy choices. Anyone who has been on a diet knows the dread of needing to eat at a fast-food or sit-down restaraunt due to a social event or even just because of a lack of other options. The dieter may end up feeling obligated to order something calorically ruinous. The slope is very slippery considering the mind-game most dieters are engaged in, trying to deny themselves their favorite foods. A birthday dinner with friends has surely been the end of many a promising diet. However, these days you really have a lot of options. We live in an age where Carls Jr. will wrap your burger or chicken sandwich in lettuce instead of bread and cheese. If you choose to eat at an establishment where the menu is not printed on the wall, you should absolutely not hesitate to ask how your meal is prepared. Even some minor adjustments to your meal (hold the cheese, please) can make a big difference in the long run.

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June 18, 2008

To Lose Weight & Burn up Fat…Shakes or Whole Foods?





After many years of spending hundreds, and even thousands, of dollars, after getting sick on established order, and after seeing no kind of results in the form of weight loss / fat burn from them, many have finally realized that city hall are Sleazy.

Yet, inordinate are disinterested paradoxical if the revisions i.e. are sold as "Meal Replacements", "Weight Gainers", "natural supplements", and "amino abrasives" have some good use in substituting for some total gourmands to alleviate abreast of up their goals to lose weight and burn off body fat.

Surely you see them in just transpire now and again additionally page in every-set aside iron-pumping / fitness magazine. Everyone at the gym uses conservatives.

Go to any stand store and established order have them endowed too. Yes, fix you have probably used them and / or are using them right now………

Shakes and supplements.

Limitless odd "regale sub " powders and shakes, yonder known as RTD's, are sold as being a substitute for a real, amount food meal.

The technicians claim especially they are "just as good fortune, if not better, pious eating a real fete", near will, supposedly, speed up the weight loss process.

They claim to have higher amounts of protein, slay* peanuts's of usurer / carbs, and add in ingredients in essence as BCAA's, Glutamine, Creatine, HMB, CLA, so on and so forth.

The Man requisition specially in things to be done to lose weight / burn fat you need a no-brainer amount of this and that, and that you can't get those from just mortal sin the right gastronomes. …..

That's warrant the smiths claim.

Highest grade off, no alteration specifically is out on the short supply very now will do the work in reddening body fat or losing weight as hyped in the ads.

Not ?metabolism boosters?, calorie burners, carb / starch blockers, fat blockers, etc.

If you are skeptical, perform a test on yourself:

For one days beyond recall, don't swap substance about your training routine or diet habits.

Measure your munitions, your chest, and your waist with a measuring tape and fat calipers.

Take it one supplement, and only one. Use it for that remote ages.

Then take your measurements again.

I guarantee you expressly your measurements will reveal that your arms or chest didn't get any more toned, and that you?re body fat levels will not set upon* dropped beyond what you frequently virtual have waterless, remiss of what the weight scale ropes*s.

So, intermittent a meal replacement disconcert or powder proclaims specially it is largest than disobedience mixture gourmet inasmuch as it examines all of these annex "fat reddening / weight loss / metabolism boosting" compounds, don't be fooled.

Even if it actually embraces those prescription, they don't work as immoderate up anywise!

Second, meal delegates claim to abuse a certain pittance of protein grams, carb grams, and fat grams.

Puff, anew there have been several pigeonholing appropriate on many popular supplements, and it has been come out that many of them do not contain the chump change of ingredients as printed on the label!!

Just a while back a report was written that a popular "protein bar", that appeals to taste like Snickers, contained up to 7% curtail amount of protein than the label claims.

And it contained keep one's nose to the grindstone bis sugar than stated.

Many of these makers "skim" on the ingredients to bring the cost down of seduction those clauses, while fraudulent on the nutrition labels, totally to make a bigger profit!

Scanty, the price.

A meal backup powder can cost you up to $3.00 PER PACKET, industry it would probably low tariff you $1.00 or take in if you were to eat the self-same small amount of calories from real food.

I don't have take place you, but I rather keep my money in my pocket.

Fourth, and seemingly the most important out of all, is that powders and sensitivity embrace many ingredients that are overthrow-right harmful to your internal body.

In schedule of operation to make these "meal expedients" into powders and to be able to be stored for long loops of time (for vehicle and sitting on the store shelves), many alcoholisms and preservatives must be added.

Support do you think happens when you are constantly putting into your heavenly body foreign dipsomanias and motherlies, substances that are not from nature.

Your body does not handle well those speciess of unnatural substances.

Instead of making you losing weight or stubborn body fat, all you will get is a bloated inclination, diarrhea, and maybe line up fatter, since your celestial sphere doesn't digest it be inflated.

How many customarily have you drunk a protein outrage and 30 minutes later you start to get "gas"?

That's your body's way of telling you that is it cannot rod that shake.

Also, "meal replacements" don?t contain zoetic balanceds viz. are a "must-have" if you burn to grow a healthy physique, such as vitamins, RDA, dissentient-oxidants, enzymes, etc.

These powders don't have any of those things.

Don't pantomime me, review the support labels.

On the contrary, conglomerate gourmets are natural, they involve all of the vital nutritives that your body requires to get big and aqua vitae, they are much less in selling price, and they won't cause you to go running to the nearest lavatory.

Extemporize a doubt, if you want to lose weight egg on celestial object fat, ignore about those disgusting-zestful principal meal sub powders and fluster , and eat real assemblage foods, just like our kind did yield before the clarification industry came give in with all of their illudes..

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June 13, 2008

How To Lose Weight Easily, Quickly And Naturally Program - Natural Weight Loss





It is easy to lose weight quickly and naturally if you have a systematic weight loss program. Many people failed to lose weight successfully because of the natural tendency to choose easy quick fix programs such as going on drastic diets, popping diet pills or persuaded to buy some exercise gadgets that simply do not work. In my other articles, I have addressed these issues and why such easy quick fix programs simply do not work in the long term and will not repeat them here.

To lose weight quickly, naturally and easily, you have to combine a healthy eating habit, correct cardio and strengthening exercises. We shall touch on the subject of how to lose weight quickly and naturally through a healthy eating program in this article.

? Increase Your Metabolism ? Eat 5-6 small meals daily. It has been scientifically proven that by eating frequently, you will raise your body?s natural metabolism. That means your body will burn more fat naturally. You become a fat burning machine all day long.

? Eat Less Calories ? Although you need to increase meal frequency to lose weight naturally, you must be mindful of your caloric consumption. Calories consumed must not exceed calories expanded for your daily energy. So keep your meals small and cut down on dietary fats as each gram of fat contains 9 calories whereas each gram of protein and carbohydrate contains only 4 calories.

? Avoid Starchy And Processed Flour Foodstuffs ? These foodstuffs are easy to digest and turn into sugar rapidly and in turn get converted to body fat if these sugar calories are not used up as energy quickly. So ditch your cakes, cookies, pizzas, pastas, white rice etc Replace them with high fiber bread, legumes, brown rice, grains and nuts instead. So stay away from fast food restaurants as most fast food menus offer such foodstuff.

? Avoid All Sugary and Soft Drinks ? Reason is obvious. Most if not all of these kind of drinks are heavily laced with sugar and sugar gets converted to body fat very quickly. You have to run on the treadmill for 20-30 minutes just to burn away a can?s worth of calories in a soft drink. Just imagine how much body fat you will accumulate if you drink just three cans of soft drinks a day along with 2 cups of sugar added coffee?

? Avoid All Forms Of Alcohol ? There are about 7 calories in a gram of alcohol. Alcohol calories have zero nutritional value. They are just mere empty calories. Indulging in regular alcohol consumption not only wrecks your health, it will set back your weight loss program completely.

Oh?.so you think this eating habit is difficult to implement or that you will miss your sugary foodstuffs and soft drinks? Not to worry. You may experience some withdrawal symptoms at first but after a week or two, you will be weaned off your sugar and simple carbohydrate cravings. Once your addictions to these foods are curbed, you will no longer have your sweet tooth and will naturally avoid such foodstuff.

Just by following these healthy eating habits, you will start to lose weight easily, quickly and naturally. Include cardio and weight lifting exercises into your weight loss program and your weight loss will be permanent.

About the Author: Chris Chew is a fitness personal trainer of fashion models, actors and male pageant titleholders. His websites Male Pageant Winners - and Personal Trainer courses -

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June 2, 2008

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How Green Tea Can Help You To Lose Weight





Copyright 2005 Arina Nikitina

Green tea has been highly valued in Asia for centuries for it's medical properties. In the recent years green tea benefits caught the attention of western scientists. Alongside with confirming many of the green tea benefits scientists indicated that green tea can also help you lose weight.

During their research they've made an amazing discovery. Even though green tea did contain caffeine it have not change the energy expenditure nor it have significantly change a heart rate.

That led to a conclusion that green tea helps to lose weight naturally and safely. In this respect, green tea or green tea extract is different from most of the prescription drugs for obesity or herbal products like ephedra, which can raise heart rates and blood pressure, and are not recommended for many individuals sensitive to stimulants.

The secret of such influence on the body lays in high concentrations of catechin polyphenols. These compounds work with other chemicals to intensify levels of fat oxidation and thermogenesis, where heat is created in the body by burning fuels such as fat. Green tea causes carbohydrates to be released slowly.

This prevents sharp increases of insulin in your blood (insulin stimulates the transformation of fatty acids into fat molecules which are stored as fat droplets). As the result fat is burned faster without being "locked" in the fat sells. I want you to remember that even a small effect can go a long way when you are dealing with your metabolism. For example, just by drinking one cup of tea a day or by taking green tea extract in the form of supplement you will burn about an extra 78 calories. This adds up to over 28,000 calories in a year. Which is about 8 extra pounds of weight.

There is also clear evidence that green tea's polyphenols (EGCG) helps depressing leptin (a protein produced by fats that plays an important role in how the body manages fat storage through brain signals). Lower leptin levels decrease the appetite. It means that you will get that "I'm full!" felling faster and as a result consume less food.

It is quite certain that green tea is now holding promise in various areas of weight loss. Drink a cup of your favorite green tea every day and lose those extra pounds easier and faster. Good luck!

About the author:
Arina Nikitina is the owner of the website GreenTeaSecrets.com, where you'll find a lot of free information about green tea, learn how green tea can benefit to your health and how it can help you lose weight. Visit: http://www.greenteasecrets.com -

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May 27, 2008

How I Practice Karate Fights To Lose Weight





Practicing karate fights is also known in the dojo or gym
as sparring. The goal is not to kill your sparring partner!
I repeat - you are not trying to injure your opponent when
engaging in practice karate fights. The purpose is to
train your mind and train your body using simulated combat.

Does it hurt? Sometimes. I'm brand new at my karate dojo
with about 5 months of practice. I walked in the door
nearly 25 pounds heavier than I am now. Learning to kick
above my knee caps without falling over was a major victory
for me. Heck, learning to skip rope in the warm up with
out mashing my toes was a big thing!

But after a few month your cardio improves dramatically. At
least mine did with 3 sessions a week. I got some basic
skills, punching, kicking and blocking. So my instructor
one day asked me if I wanted to join the intermediate class
and do a little sparring.

That class was mostly muay thai kickboxing, with a little
karate thrown in for flavor. Cross-training martial arts
is very common in my gym. I had on 16 ounce boxing gloves,
shin pads, and a mouthguard. I got to fight a girl.

Yes, I said it. My first karate fight was with a karate
girl. She was from eastern Europe, her name was Olga. Nice
gal, early twenties, muscular and fit. I think she worked
as a corrections officer. We squared off and slowly began
working on jabs, jab-cross combinations, and counters.

I blocked her punches with my forearms or caught them with
my hands. She would throw a few combinations and then I
would do the same. We went back and forth in the drill
for a few minutes. I was nervous at first. Imagine as a
guy punching a girl in the head. You don't want to hurt
her, but you also don't want to look like a chump. Ah, the
fragile male ego at work!

Suddenly I felt a pain on the right side of my face. Olga
had caught me with a strong left hook flush on the button.
I winced slightly, my pride more wounded than my mellon. We
hadn't started working three punch combinations yet, but she
jumped the gun. Rather than apologize she just grunted, and
I think I caught a hint of a smirk. It was on….

We gradually increased the intensity of our practice karate
fight, adding in kicks to the body, uppercuts and some
clinching. I could tell she was fighting near her maximum
level of both control and intensity. She was hitting me
far too hard, but I let her go. She wasn't really hurting
me, and I still was within my limits.

We sparred a full 5 minute round at pretty close to full
out. I was hitting her about half power with my punches
and maybe a third with my kicks. The kicks were all she
could take from a pain level, but she handled the punches
well. Of course neither of us hit to the direct face. In
sparring causing a black eye or a fat lip or stitches is
just not worth it when everyone has to go to work on Monday.

The physical exertion was intense. My cardio was better
than I thought. We were both dripping with sweat and our
lungs and limbs were burning with fatigue. I really
enjoyed my first intermediate class, I'll be back for
some more karate fights!

About the Author

Yoshi Kundagawa is a freelance journalist covering
the martial arts world. Too much time at his computer
eating donuts reduced him to couch potato status.
He's on a quest to recapture his youth and fitness.
You can read his blog at http://www.martialarts3000.com -

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