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How to read a nutrition label correctly

2012-02-05T04:26:00.000-08:00

you are seriously interested in losing weight then one of your first steps is to learn how to read a nutrition label correctly. Nutrition labels are in all foods and it is very important to be able to interpret the data from the label and based on that to make the decision on which foods to consume. For individuals who are trying to become more health-conscious, reading a food label can be difficult. These tips can help you learn how to read a nutrition label and change the way you eat forever.

Serving size: The most important thing you will take away from a nutrition label is the serving size. For instance, look at the serving size and number of servings on a 16 oz soda or a box of cereal. You may realize that the beverage you have been enjoying at only 120 calories actually has 2 or 3 servings in the bottle or the serving size for your cereal is much smaller than what you pour every morning.

Calories: The percent daily values on a label are based on a 2000-calorie diet. If you are thin, small, and inactive this may be an overestimation for you. If you are bulky, tall, and athletic this is an underestimation. Before looking at a label, get an estimate of how many calories you should be eating a day. If you use an online calorie calculator, be sure it factors in your age, gender, height, weight, and activity level.

For those trying to lose weight, subtract 300-500 calories. Remember that the calories listed on the box are only for one serving of that food. If there are five servings in a package and you eat the whole thing, that’s five times the calories listed!

Fat, saturated fat, and trans fat: After you have an estimate of the amount of calories you should eat a day divide it by 30. That is the estimate of total grams of fat you should have in a day. Only about one-fourth of those fat grams should be saturated fat. None of it should be trans fat. When a food is well balanced the percent daily value of each nutrient, listed down the side, should be about equal. If a label has a much higher percent daily value for fat than it has for calories, you have yourself a high-fat food. If the percent daily value of saturated fat is higher than total fat, beware: the fat in this food is particularly unhealthy.

Sodium: Generally the milligrams sodium should not be more than twice the amount of calories. Canned soups commonly have disproportionately high sodium for the calories. Why to I compare sodium to calories? Because if you eat a 1200 mg sodium soup that is 200 calories, you have ‘used up’ a large chunk of your daily sodium on a small portion of food. Are you going to eat unsalted food for the rest of the day? Very unlikely. People with high blood pressure should consult their doctor, but should usually aim for about 2000 mg of sodium a day. If you don’t know if you have high blood pressure, or even if you think you don’t, go to get it checked.

Cholesterol: Recent evidence has shown that only about 10% of the population is affected by consuming dietary cholesterol. These individuals should try to keep the total daily cholesterol below 200 milligrams per day. Foods low in cholesterol have less than one tenth the cholesterol compared to calories. For example: a 200 calorie food should have less than 20 mg cholesterol, a 300 calorie food should have less than 30. For those who do suffer from high cholesterol, eating foods enriched with plant sterols may be beneficial. If you do not know if you have high cholesterol, go get it checked!

Carbohydrates, sugar, and fiber: If you know about how many calories you need per day, divide that by 8. That is the total amount of carbs you should have each day in grams. Divide that number again by 5 and that’s the amount of sugar. Yes, it’s a low, low amount! The majority of your daily carbs should not be sugar. Diabetic patients should consult their doctor or dietitian about carbohydrates in their diet. Patients are generally recommended to have about 45 to 60 grams of carbs per meal. This is even a good rule of thumb for the non-diabetic population. If you do not know if you are diabetic, guess what? Go to get your blood sugar tested, along you’re your blood pressures and cholesterol!
Finally, fiber is very important for health and has been linked to successful weight loss. About 25 grams a day is recommended and it can be a hard goal to reach, so if your food is high in calories (in the 400-600 range) it should also be high fiber (5 g or more per serving).

Protein: Protein, like fiber, has been liked with feelings of fullness and reduced appetite. Some people have decided that this link warrants a diet where you consume nothing but protein and fat and cut out carbs completely. High protein diets can result in severe kidney damage, so I strongly discourage this weight loss strategy. Also, carbohydrates are the pretty much only source of energy used by the brain; so if you cut them out don’t expect to be thinking very clearly.
Again, if you know your ideal amount of calories per day, divide that by 20 and you will have a rough estimate of your daily protein requirements in grams. Unless you are building or maintaining a lot of muscle, try not to exceed this number. Contrary to popular belief, supplementing vast amount of protein in your diet is not a great way to gain muscle. Muscle building requires muscle-specific exercises and requires less protein than you might think. Those with kidney disease should speak with a physician or a dietitian about their protein intake.

Vitamins and Minerals: The only vitamins and minerals required to be on a nutrition label are Vitamins A and C, Iron, and Calcium. Deficiencies in vitamins A and C are not very common, however iron deficiency (known as anemia) and calcium deficiency (a risk factor for osteoporosis) are common. Women in particular suffer from anemia and osteoporosis. Unlike for protein, carbohydrates, and fat, the levels of nutrients recommended do not change by weight or height, only by gender and age. Look for the percent daily value and aim to get 100% each day, or else take a multivitamin. Other vitamins and minerals like vitamin E, thiamin, niacin, and phosphorus may be listed on the nutrition label. These are great to know when they are there, but are not listed reliably on all foods.
One or two trips to the supermarket along with these tips can be all it takes to become a master of food for life, something that will definitely come in handy in achieving healthy weight loss!

Summary Tips for Reading the Nutrition Label:

Check your serving sizes and try measuring them out
Multiply all other values by the amount of servings you consume
Learn the amount of calories per day that is right for you
Calculate the amount of fat and saturated fat you should eat per day
If you have high cholesterol, aim for less than 200 mg cholesterol per day
Sodium is too high if it is more than twice the amount of calories
Have about 45-60 grams carbs at a meal and about 15-30 grams for snacks
Aim for only about 10% of your daily calories from sugars.
Snacks should have 2 g or more fiber, meals should have 5 g or more.
Try to pick snacks with protein but don’t drastically exceed your protein per day
Aim for 100% of vitamins and minerals each day
Check your blood sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol regularly. In fact, do it now.

How To Eat A Healthy Dinner

2012-02-05T04:18:00.000-08:00

Healthy Dinner Fajitas
Contrary to what you may think, cooking a healthy dinner does not have to mean slaving over an oven for hours after a lengthy preparation period. There are actually lots of quick healthy dinner recipes and many can be made even if you have a busy lifestyle. There are numerous health benefits to eating a healthy dinner with controlling your weight one of the main ones. With all things healthy however, preparation is the key.

Healthy Dinner Preparation

The key to a quick healthy dinner is preparation. If you take the time to prepare healthy dinner, you will not be left searching for the take-away menus at the last minute just to get something on the table. To start off you should make a list of some healthy dinner recipes that you like the sound of. This way you can make a shopping list and purposely shop only for the ingredients that you need. Shopping without a shopping list can lead to unhealthy purchases which whilst okay from time to time should not be part of your regular meal programme.

Healthy Dinners can be Affordable!Yes, we know that when you watch the cooking shows on TV, or see Gwyneth Paltrow talking about her latest recipe book that it can be hard to know exactly what is going on, but healthy eating doesn’t have to be like this. Healthy dinner recipes do not have to cost the earth, and if you buy locally your ingredients should be more than reasonable. You might also want to shop for seasonal produce as this is likely to cost a lot less than produce that is out of season and it has higher nutrients than food that is frozen and imported from abroad.
To make your meals stretch further, you may want to get into the habit of cooking for two to four people instead of just yourself and then freeze a few portions. This can help your ingredients to last longer, and it can provide you with a quick but healthy meal to eat after a busy day at work.
Healthy Dinner Recipes
Healthy dinner recipes can be found all over the place from culinary magazines to cookery books to the internet, and there are also some fantastically delicious after healthy dinner deserts that you can make. Thing summer fruit salads, and melon sundaes – both can be prepared so that they are completely healthy. Easy healthy dinner recipes can literally incorporate anything that you like eating. How about cook healthy dinner fajitas? Or salmon with new potatoes, or even a pork chop with seasonal veg. It may surprise you to know that even a family favourite such as a beef burger can be prepared in a way that is healthy. Quick and affordable meals don’t have to be unhealthy. If you take the time to prepare you can enjoy some truly delicious healthy dinner options that the whole family will enjoy!

20 ways to burn 100 calories in 10 minutes or less

2012-02-05T04:04:00.000-08:00

Do you know that by burning just 100 calories (extra) per day you can lose about one pound per month without extra effort? It sounds good and really is if you manage to spend just 10 minutes per day. This will not be your ‘official’ exercise routine but the ace in your sleeve to get faster results.

Everybody can find 10 minutes per day to work out and there are hundreds of exercises to choose from. You can even do them at home or at a time it suits you better. Most people prefer to exercise in the morning before going to work and this is the best time to exercise. Morning exercises are more efficient in burning fat since your body has to convert fat (from the reserves) to energy in order to deal with the extra requirements and in addition will help wake up your body, digestive system and mind.

5 exercises that burn more than 100 calories every 10 minutes*
Aerobics, Step: high impact	128
Bicycling, Stationary: vigorous	134
Circuit Training: general	102
Rowing, Stationary: vigorous	109
Ski Machine: general	122

15 Sports and activities to burn 100 calories in 10 minutes*
Basketball	102
Bicycling: 12-13.9 mph	102
Boxing	115
Football	115
Handball	154
Martial Arts	128
Racquetball	128
Rope Jumping	128
Running: 6 mph (10 min/mile)	128
Skiing: cross-country	102
Snow Shoeing	102
Beach Volleyball	102
Water Polo	128
Climbing stairs	100
Weight training (super circuit)	137

Calories and weight loss

We mentioned above that doing a 10 minute session per day can help you lose 1 pound per month. For those interested in the theory and reasoning behind this statement, this is the logic: One pound of fat is approx. 3500 calories. In simple terms if you manage to burn 3500 more than you consume you will weigh one pound less. So, if you do a 10 minute session per day (using one of the exercises and activities specified above) you can generate a deficit of 30×100=3000 calories per month which is about one pound. Of course there are other factors involved like loss of water weight so we suggest also reading about the difference between weight loss and fat loss.

5 Tips to make the most of your 10 minute sessions

Plan in advance: 10 minutes is not a lot of time and with a bit of effort everyone can find 10 minutes to exercise. What is important is to plan your session in advance and preferably from the day before.

Be Flexible: You do not have to perform your 10 minute session at the same time every day. Sometimes it will be more suitable to exercise in the morning but other times you may do it after work or even late at night. What is important is to exercise daily and avoid skipping a session.

Improvise: Your goal is to burn 100 calories in 10 minutes and there are more than one ways to do this. You can choose to do the same activity every day or a number of activities during a single workout. For example you can run for 5 minutes and do stationary cycling for another 5 minutes. The combinations are endless all you need is imagination and willingness.

This is a bonus: Do not forget that this is not your formal workout routine but a bonus to help you get quicker results. You should not rely on this 10 minute workout alone but you should still follow a more formal routine for at least 2-3 per week and a balanced diet.

Why not make it 15 minutes? This is not actually a tip for your 10 minute session but once you get into the habit of doing 10 minute sessions why not increase that to 15 minutes per day and get 50% more results. If you follow this approach by making one small step at a time you will soon realize that you can actually do many things and get the motivation you need to meet your weight loss goals.

* Kcal estimation is based on 10 minute sessions for people weighting 160lbs.

FDA Warns HGC Weight Loss Aids Unproven and Illegal

2012-02-05T03:52:00.000-08:00

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in conjunction with and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a warning to companies selling over-the-counter HGC products that they are not authorized for weight loss and are illegal when sold for that purpose.

In a joint effort to protect consumers from being misled by advertising, promotion and sale in pharmacies and other pharmaceutical outlets of HGC products for the specific purpose of losing weight, the FDA and the Federal Trade Commission issued warning letters to companies who have been identified as illegally marketing them.
Often promoted and sold as weight reduction supplements or preparations, Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) is in fact only approved by the FDA for use as a female fertility treatment and certain medical conditions, but not as an aid for losing weight. HCG is actually a naturally occurring human hormone produced by the placenta during pregnancy. It is generally marketed in conjunction with an often dangerously low calorie diet plan.
It is the fact that some of the diet plans that are associated with HGC stipulate dieters restrict their intake to as little as 500 calories a day that has brought the practice to the attention of the FDA and other consumer protection agencies. Such a low daily calorie restriction is determined to be hazardous and even dangerous to a person’s health, according to the FDA. In some cases, claims are made about the ability of HGC to cause the body to burn abdominal fat for energy instead of that obtained from food, which the FDA says is unsubstantiated and lacks research-backed proof.
Included in the warning letters to some of the companies is the illegal use of the FDA logo on their websites inferring their endorsement of the company, which it does not.
Source: You can obtain the list of companies that have been issued official FDA warnings and more information from the FDA website here: FDA Action on HCG Products

Weight Loss Books More Popular than Ever

2012-02-05T03:37:00.000-08:00

While there are plenty of weight loss programs out there to help people shed those unwanted pounds and tone up their flabby winter hungover bodies for the summer beach season, it seems that more people than ever are returning to good old fashioned books to help them get back into a trimmer shape.

Sales of new and established weight loss books are rising and with several great new books hitting the bookshelves recently, the trend for overweight people to read their way to a slimmer figure appears to be on the increase. But its not only the hardback and paperback versions of these great books that are seeing a rise in sales. With the growing trend towards technology seeing more people than ever becoming owners of tablets such as the iPad and its copiers as well as the fantastically popular Kindle reader from online book giant Amazon, sales of the cheaper ebook versions of these great publications have skyrocketed.

You can buy a book published for the Kindle for a fraction of the price of the paperback price in the book stores. With ownership of Kindle readers growing daily and especially since Christmas saw huge volumes of Kindle devices sold, there is a massively growing market for electronic books. The good news is that authors and publishers are well aware of this side to the industry and are creating electronic versions of their hardcopy books for people to enjoy.

So how does reading a book compare to signing up to one of the major diets for losing weight?

For many people, reading a good book can be more inspiring and motivating than many propriety diet programs. This is simply because the most effective authors are able to stoke the fire and create interest while providing detailed diet instructions, recipes and plans all in a single book that costs far less than any diet program, online or in the real world.

So whether you like to read a real book that you can hold in your hand, or prefer the convenience of downloading a cheaper version onto your Kindle or iPad, the option is there and it is well worth investing the small amount of money in that it costs to educate yourself. Information is power, remember?

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Green Tea Fat Burner for Weight Loss

2012-02-05T02:00:00.000-08:00

This time I want to take a look at the type of green tea fat burner for weight loss that has grown rapidly in popularity in recent years, and in particular the interesting organic green tea known as Tava Tea, since I’m a paid affiliate of theirs and it makes for interesting reading as well.

Tava Tea, being 100 percent organic retains far more of its health giving properties than many other brands of green tea. This makes it an excellent choice as a hot beverage to relax with and enjoy for itself.

But when combined that with its health giving properties and its rather interesting ability to help your body to burn fat and reduce bad LDL cholesterol, it becomes a real power drink!

Also, unlike many other kinds of weight loss teas, Tava comes in high quality pyramid bags that brew faster than conventional teabags because they allow the hot water to circulate through the tea leaves more freely.

Why You Should Try Tava

There are some really good reasons why you should try Tava Tea as a great hot drink and a health boosting addition to your weight loss strategy.

It tastes great and is easy to make
Helps you lose weight easily
Boosts your health naturally
Makes a great alternative to coffee or black tea

How Does Tava Tea Promote Health?

Tests have shown that drinking Tava Tea slows down the production of insulin by the body after ingesting carbohydrates and also sweet foods. By reducing insulin production, the possibility of weight gain is also reduced as insulin is the hormone that is responsible for causing your body to store fat. So by drinking a cup of Tava Tea around fifteen minutes after eating any fatty foods, high GI carbs or sweet foods, the amount of fat your body will store is greatly reduced, helping you to naturally lose weight.

This wonderful tea is also perfect for maintaining a peaceful state of mind and promoting inner calm. The exclusive Tava Tea mix consists of the important amino acid L-theanine. This helps to balance Dopamine and Serotonin which are neutron-transmitting chemicals that control your mood.

Further Research Information

Research that was conducted by Dr. Kenichi Yanagimoto as long ago as 2004 uncovered that drinking green tea produced a 50% reduction in free radicals in test subjects. Free radicals are attributed with aging, so this is another very good reason to learn to love drinking green tea.

Tava Tea has also undergone tests and has been found to ease digestion and help with digestive problems, while reducing abdominal bloating and has been shown to burn as much as 2.5 times more calories than most generic brands of green tea. Combined with this is the already well known health benefits that come with drinking green tea regularly, so it’s a positive step to take in your own personal journey to better health as well as looking to losing some weight naturally.

Here are some very good reasons to buy Tava Tea:

100% organic weight loss tea
Helps burn fat
Reduces cholesterol levels
The strongest weight loss tea ever created
Certificated by CERES and USDA
180 day money back guarantee
Free Shipping

Lastly, if you do decide that Tava Tea is something that you want to try for yourself, you’ll be happy to know that it comes with a full money back guarantee. Better still, unlike some less than honest competitors who peddle some green tea products, the Tava Tea company does not offer any tempting free trials where you’re asked for your credit card details and later find your being billed every month!

They will only charge you for the tea that you order and that’s all. So you can rest assured you won’t be locking yourself into anything you don’t want to be. To get yours right now, simply click the image banner below to visit the official website and take advantage of their special price and free shipping deals.

Weight Loss Aid

2012-02-05T01:19:00.000-08:00

Weight loss aid when its put forward as an easy to accomplish task is really the way to go when formulating an effective personal strategy. So here at Weight Loss Tips, I have taken that idea and expanded upon it in order to create a fairly generic but nonetheless effective personal weight loss strategy that most people can use to effectively shed some excess weight without any real hardship.

So here is some real weight loss aid!

Weight loss aid is a term used for a process or strategy that will aid, or help someone to lose weight, in its simplest form. So really, to lose weight as simply as possible must, logically be the most effective way for most people, as by definition, when something is simple to do, the likelihood is that people will stick to the strategy. The opposite is a difficult or complex strategy for losing weight which most people simply switch off from because it involves too much hard work or too much planning or simply too much thought!

So let’s look at the simplistic approach to weight loss aid. Here are some pointers:

Don’t stress over any aspect of losing weight
Keep all the main points of your personal weight loss strategy written down
Refer to your notes often
If it doesn’t feel good don’t do it
If it feels good, do more of it
Don’t expect results to happen overnight – it takes time
Learn to feel good about yourself
Visualize yourself at your ideal weight – often
Learn to meditate (it’s the best natural way to relieve stress)
Always keep it simple

These pretty simple and common sense points are probably not new to you and you’ve probably heard them countless times before. But all the same, think about them and give them more of your attention. Focus more of your awareness on your goal to achieve your ideal weight and body shape more than stressing over “I MUST lose X pounds this week…” Accept that losing weight is a natural state that does take a reasonable amount of time to accomplish. That way you won’t get stressed that it might not be working, which in turn spirals out of control.

When things spiral out of control because you are stressing that it might not be working, you end up breaking your weight loss strategy and bringing about the very actuality that you are trying so hard to avoid. In other words, the more you worry about how much weight you must lose, the less likely it is that you will lose it!

To come to your weight loss aid if this situation is starting to happen to you, I would remind you to stop focusing on the outcome that you do not want, which is the failure of your strategy and start focusing on the outcome that you do want, which id achieving your ideal weight and body shape. The more you focus on the positive, which is your goal, the more the negative will drop into the background and lose its power over you.

Does that sound simple? Maybe too simple to possibly work?

Well it is simple, there’s no getting away from it. But simple doesn’t have to imply non functional. In fact it’s usually the opposite. Ever heard the saying “The simple answers are usually the right ones?” Well, it’s a pretty accurate assessment of life in general. By keeping everything as simple as possible, you cut out the complications which can trip you up along your own road to success, allowing you to focus more completely on the outcome of your wishes – the achievement of your ideal weight and perfect body shape.

If you want it enough to be able to see it clearly in your mind’s eye, then you can get it. It’s as simple as that!

Raw Food Diet Weight Loss

2012-02-05T01:16:00.000-08:00

Welcome back and in this post I want to take a look at the raw food diet weight loss possibilities that may exist for serious dieters. This is an original article written for weightlossgo.com and is copyright protected. So how good is this type of diet and what kind of results can you expect to see from trying it out for size?

Well, first off, some people might feel a little revulsion at the very thought of a diet comprised completely of raw food, imagining pieces of raw meat oozing blood over their plate or something equally disgusting, depending upon your own personal tastes, of course. But, as with all things, it doesn’t have to be that way!

What a Raw Food Diet is Not

For a start, there are some meats that it would be downright foolhardy to eat raw, such as chicken which could pass on salmonella or other bacterial infestation which could cause a serious risk to health. So you won’t be eating any raw meat or poultry on this diet, that’s for sure.

So to make it safe, the raw food which this type of diet promotes is mainly made up of fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and pulses, which a small amount of fish which would normally be eaten raw. Raw eggs can also be included, mixed into milk shakes etc, but again there is a risk of bacterial infection, although most sources are screened and certified safe.

You also have the benefit of some dairy products such as the many different types of cheese that are available to add interest. Watch out for the calorie count as some cheeses are pretty high in that department. Good choices are goat’s cheese and the several low fat options. Cottage cheese, while not really cheese is very low in calories and contains almost no fat, while being high in protein.

So now this raw food diet doesn’t look quite so gross as the images it first conjures up, how good is it at helping you to lose weight?

A Raw Food Diet for Losing Weight

Well, if you can stick to a mainly vegetarian version of this healthy diet, it can work very well indeed as the vast majority of fruits and vegetables when eaten raw are low in calories and high in nutrients. That might sound like the perfect combination and it is! However, you will need to include nuts and seeds to boost the levels of proteins that the fruits and vegetables lack and nuts can come with a hefty calorie punch, so small portions only and avoid the salted, roasted variety.

Plain nuts are better and almonds are probably best of all, although peanuts contain a lot of protein. Ounce for ounce they actually contain more protein than prime lean beef! Walnuts contain more omega 3 and 6 fatty acids than fish oil so include a handful of these too. Brazil nuts are high in selenium, which is becoming scarce in mainstream crops due to intensive farming methods.

When preparing raw food oriented meals, be sure to include lots of raw onions and garlic with the food to aid digestion, boost the health properties and give it flavor! Also use fresh herbs and spices in place of salt as these ad no calories but they do add lots of flavor and micro-nutrients.

The best way to serve up meals using only raw foods as mentioned above is in salads, but even salads can get boring so its okay to use a little extra virgin olive oil and cider vinegar as a dressing. You can mash some vegetables together to make pastes and fine chop to create interesting mini side salads. Its all about getting creative with raw foods and simply experimenting with what you have to see what you can come up with. If you can stick to it and not slip up by eating cakes or bread, then you will lose weight fairly rapidly over the first two weeks or so. But you will need to exercise regularly to keep your metabolism active to see a long term benefit.

You will also need a strong sense of determination as this is a diet that can become lacking in variety, which makes it a candidate for letting slip. Stay motivated and positive and you will stay the distance and succeed at attaining your goal, while boosting your overall health in the bargain too!

Live Body Coach

2012-02-04T09:37:00.000-08:00

Sometimes when you are looking to work on the physical aspect of losing weight by training and working out to improve your figure, strength and poise it is necessary to work with a personal trainer to get the most from your efforts. Of course, not everyone can afford the cost of a personal trainer. But that doesn’t need to exclude anyone from access to the professional services of an expert trainer.

Maybe you haven’t yet heard of Live Body Coach, but this is an online alternative to a live personal coach that prides themselves in being able to provide their clients with a comprehensive fitness, weight loss, health and nutrition system that is available anywhere online. In a move that is destined to revolutionize the fitness world, Live Body Coach brands themselves as The 411 of Health & Fitness™.

Live Body Coach Benefits

There are several benefits to signing up with the Live Body Coach

Top certified personal trainers available 7 days a week via webcam
Unlimited source of leading diet plans
Exercise plans and customized video exercise programs match your needs
Easy to work with and convenient: workout when you want
Affordable and achievable way to a great figure and healthy body

The certified personal trainers at Live Body Coach have over 17 years of experience and can be accessed any day of the week via webcam, which makes them available when you want them. This is particularly helpful for those who work long or antisocial hours to be able to access their trainer when it suits. It is also a boon for busy moms who have to grab that half hour or so when they can which can be at different times of the day.

Does Live Body Coach Work?

The company guarantee their customers results and will happily challenge any online fitness program. There are programs available for people of all ages from kids, teens adults and seniors. They cater for a variety of different disciplines, such as Yoga, Zumba Dance, Aerobics, Weight Loss, Golf Training, Nutrition and Healthy Cooking, Boot Camp, Core and much more besides.

If you are intent on working that little bit harder to attain the great looking figure you always dreamed about, then this system can really help to get you into shape fast. You get to workout under professional instruction and supervision via webcam at a fraction of the cost of having a trainer come to your home and the flexibility to choose your own times when you want and not when the trainer can fit you in!

How Do I Sign Up?

Signing up with Live Body Coach is easy. You can also take advantage of their offer of a 10 day risk-free trial which will enable you to get the feel of the program before you commit yourself if you want. Just click your mouse on the image banner below to visit their official website. There you can get all the details on how to easily sign up for your own personal pass to a fitter, more slender and great looking body right now!

Green Coffee Review

2012-02-04T08:41:00.000-08:00

So you thought you’d heard them all when it came to the many different ways of losing weight? Well, here’s another one that might get your interest if you’ve tried other things and not had the kind of success that you wanted. This one is drinking a kind of coffee that has dieters rushing to buy it because of the weight busting properties that have been discovered in it.

This special type of beverage is green coffee and you can get it in a handy package from Maximum Slim, who market the product online at a very tempting price, as you’ll see when you click the image banner on the left and visit their official website to get the full details on how you can start losing weight straight away by ordering and drinking this quite amazing green coffee! What makes it so great?

Weight Loss Benefits of Green Coffee

Makes losing weight easier
Boosts metabolism to force the body to burn more fat
Reduces BMI significantly
Increases energy, alertness and get up and go
Detoxifies the body naturally

What Can Green Coffee Do?

Green coffee bean extract has been praised by experts for its greater antioxidant levels than grape seed extract and even green tea. This amazing drink has been used to treat hypertension, is used in anti-aging products and has been shown in trials to prevent the onset of diabetes.
It has also been shown in further trials to act as a natural appetite suppressant, which makes it perfect as a weight loss booster. The special blend of natural herbal extracts found in green coffee cab also help to cleanse and detox your body in a completely safe and natural way.
Drinking green coffee on its own will provide you with some benefits such as increasing your metabolism and suppressing your appetite to a point, but you will get much more in the way of weight loss benefits when you include this product in a healthy diet and sensible lifestyle. By eating right and exercising regularly, adding this amazing drink to your daily routine can significantly boost your efforts to lose weight.
It does this by making the most of your already improved diet by improving the effectiveness of the way your body digests and processes the food you are eating. The makers claim that test subjects experienced significant weight reduction results in 4 and 8-week studies.
You may improve your ability to lose weight too by trying this product for yourself. Click the banner image above to visit the official Maximum Slim and take advantage of their special offer of a free trial pack and discounts on selected Direct Advantage Programs.
Please note that the author is a paid affiliate of Maximum Slim and that results will differ from person to person. If in doubt, always consult your doctor or medical professional for advice before taking this product.

American Power Yoga APY60

2012-02-04T08:25:00.000-08:00

While most of the natural weight loss programs that are available tend to center mainly around diet plans or exercise routines, or a combination of both, there is one truly unique and powerful system that is gaining popularity fast across America that uses yoga as its foundation.

Here in this original article written for weightlossgo.com you can read our American Power Yoga APY60 review to learn more about what it is and how it can help you to lose weight naturally and easily.

Benefits of Losing Weight with APY60

There are some very interesting benefits to losing weight with APY60 that set it apart from the more typical plans for weight reduction and maintenance. Here are the main points:

12 DVD set covers the whole system you can do in the comfort of your home
Lose weight easily combining techniques of yoga, strength and healthy diet choices
Affordable full price discount or three easy monthly payments

What is APY60?

APY60 is a health and weight loss system developed by American Power Yoga founder, Kurt Johnsen. Kurt is a renowned yoga instructor and martial arts master as well as being a popular international TV host. He has appeared on numerous TV talk shows, radio shows and webcasts. Kurt has instructed both celebrities and athletes in getting fit and losing weight. They include Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders as well as many professional high profile sports stars.
As well as being a trainer to many celebrities, Kurt has trained hundreds of professional yoga teachers. He created American Power Yoga and Ultimate Yoga System: APY60. By using easy to follow poses, the mystery has been taken out of yoga, as Kurt makes yoga fun and very effective for everyone by combining both body and mind improvement techniques that have resulted in a powerful, life-changing system.

How Does APY60 Work?

This system works by combining proven yoga techniques for building physical strength using easy to learn moves that you can do at home, with a healthy and natural diet. This combination is so easy because it doesn’t involve any strenuous exercises as you will find with many training DVD sets. Yoga is very easy to learn and Kurt teaches you all you need to know via his great, easy to follow DVD system.
It takes you, step by easy step through the process of boosting your physical strength and energy levels using yoga techniques, which cause your body to burn more calories. At the same time, you are cutting down on the number of calories you are consuming through a balanced and healthy diet that this system also provides you with.

What Does the APY60 System Include?

This powerful, yet easy to follow whole body system includes:

60 Daily Blends, which include a morning warm-up plus Kurt’s day-by-day coaching to ensure your success
10 weeks of Kurt’s American Power Yoga Classes. They’re easy to follow and fun to do, sculpting your body while they eliminate stress
A step-by-step FITNESS GUIDE allowing you to chart your workouts and measure your results
A nutrition guide with great tips and great tasting recipes
Kurt’s Kitchen™: This is a step-by-step instructional DVD on how you can detox your pantry and learn to eat great!

How to Buy APY60

Before the creation of APY60, the only way anyone could take advantage of Kurt’s unique teaching techniques was in person at one of his yoga studios. For that privilege, you would have paid hundreds of dollars. But now and for the first time ever, you can experience the unique teaching methods of Kurt Johnsen as he brings his highly acclaimed and proven weight loss resource directly to your home!
For more details on how you can get your hands on the full 12 DVD set that comprises the APY60 yoga weight loss system, simply click your mouse on the square advertisement image near the top left of this article.

Weight Loss Resources

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People could read this and learn about the weight loss resources available online. Don’t buy any weight loss product before you read this page to find out why they are worth buying and what they can do to help you to lose weight successfully.

Most people can lose weight on their own by eating a healthy diet in the right size portions and drinking plenty of water, while getting plenty of daily exercise and fresh air. Unfortunately, not so many people have the time, ability or inclination to take this wholesome but time consuming route to a happy, healthy body through a lifestyle designed for this way of being. This is an ideal situation and one that fewer and fewer people are enjoying as modern life makes ever more demands on our time.
Instead, many people are working long hours in jobs that mean sitting on a chair at a desk or behind the wheel of a vehicle which means they get little or no exercise and are forced to eat on the go. This means eating meals that usually consist of junk food or hastily wolfed down sandwiches, often washed down with soda or other unhealthy drink that comes in a convenient can or carton. It is for these people that help is available in the form of dietary supplements and convenience diets. They are not the perfect solution, but are often the only solution and better than simply ignoring health and allowing the weight to keep increasing.
Below is a list of separate pages that fully reviews and describes each product we are endorsing and providing an information resource for.

Jillian Michaels

If you ever watch TV, then you will know who Jillian Michaels is and you’ll also know that she is a hard hitting, no nonsense fitness trainer with a huge following of highly motivated individuals all wanting to be like her. She exudes motivation and watching what she does and says can really fire you up to get off your backside and join in with her exercise routines.
If you don’t want to watch her on TV and have to put up with all the commercial breaks that mess up things by keeping you waiting around for the next part of her routine, then you can buy her DVD workout programs and books from her own official website. There are some great titles available, such as the really popular Jillian Michaels 30 day shred that has sold in incredible numbers. You will find some more information about this amazing gal and her workouts and strategies by following the link in the subtitle for Jillian Michaels above.

Suzanne Somers

What can I say about Suzanne Somers? Well, she is a lady that looks like she has managed to find the elixir of life and the fountain of youth all rolled into one! She not only looks great, she is truly amazing when you consider her age compared to how young and beautiful she looks.
Her training DVDs and books go way beyond mere weight loss and will teach you how to live right and by doing so work your way towards not just having a great figure like hers, but keep yoruself looking and feeling young, healthy and vital… and yes, sexy forever too! Check the link in the subtitle above for more Suzanne Somers merchandise that is available from her personal, official website.

Turbulence Training

If you are the kind of person that is determined to not just lose weight, but work hard on your body to turn it into a figure you can be proud of, then the Turbulence Training system is for you. This review looks at how this exercise and workout program can transform your body into a toned, lithe, six-pack-clad mean machine.
To find out more about this amazing training program, click the link in the sub title for Turbulence Training to read our full review.

P90X Extreme Home Fitness Workout Program

If you think you are tough enough to aim for the top of the fitness ladder, then the only way you’re going to get there is by training not just hard, but smart too. The P90X is a tough task master but it is one that virtually guarantees that you will have a great body in just 90 days if you follow the program to the letter.
if you’re fed up with being overweight, lethargic, lazy, tired all the time and feeling weak, then you should read this review and learn why the P90X can turn you around in 90 Days to being strong, alert, energetic, toned and muscular and at your correct weight. Click the subtitle link above for the P90X to read our full review.

Zumba Fitness DVD

If the though of working out and pushing yourself to the physical limit is too much for you to take, how about getting fit and healthy while losing weight while dancing to the latest Latin craze to sweep the world off its feet! Zumba is more than just a training DVD and is actually taught on real dance and fitness schools across the world.
This is an amazing way to get active, fit and looking great because it doesn’t even feel like you are working out. In fact, it feels even less than doing the full aerobic workout that you get from it because you are, to all intents and purposes, merely dancing and enjoying yourself! What a great way to lose weight! If dancing your way to fitness really appeals to you, then click the subtitle link above for Zumba and read the full review to see if it is really something that you want to do.

APY60

If regular exercise DVDs and workout programs are not your thing, but you still want to lose weight and understand that dieting alone is not always the best way, then you might be interested in taking a look at APY60. This is a weight loss program based on yoga techniques developed by yoga instructor, martial arts teacher and celebrity trainer, Kurt Johnsen.
This system uses yoga moves as its basis for building physical strength and power with stress busting techniques that are easy for just about anyone to do. There are no punishing exercise routines or workouts to leave you feeling beat up. Instead this system takes you through the physical side of fitness and strength using simple, easily learned moves that instil calmness and balance while still being a powerful calorie burning process.

Green Coffee

For losing weight, raising the body’s metabolism is the first order of the day. You can do this through exercise and to some extent through a change in diet, but another effective way of boosting your metabolic rate is through drinking green coffee as a supplement. It is already well known that caffeine helps to boost metabolism.
Green coffee contains caffeine as well as other powerful ingredients that enhance the effectiveness of that caffeine to produce a powerful metabolism boosting effect that helps your body burn more fat and thus reduce weight.

Live Body Coach

For anyone who wants the professional expertise of a personal trainer but can’t afford the cost and the time to hire one for themselves, Live Body Coach offers a spectacular alternative that gives their customers full access to trainers via webcam seven days per week. This is highly convenient as it means you can workout when you have the time and for as little or as much as you need to.
This is a great offer that will not only help you to get fitter and attain that great looking figure you always dreamed of having. It also comes with experts who can advise you on diet and nutrition as well as set out a personal plan for your weight loss and personal fitness success.

Getting the Maximum Benefit

These several health and fitness systems highlighted here in this article all work to improve your overall physical appearance and health. But not one of them will help you is you are not prepared to help yourself by putting in the work and doing what they tell you to do!
If you want to get the maximum benefit of your chosen program, you need to get busy and get working on what you are watching in the DVDs or reading in the books. They will provide all the instruction you will need to make it work for you. Its up to you to follow that instruction and make it your own successful daily fitness and weight loss program that will yield great results. The greatness of those results will be reflected in the greatness of effort that you put into them.

Vitamin D Linked to More Effective Weight Loss

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According to a recent study just published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a diet that is rich in vitamin D may be linked with achieving more effective weight loss results. The study was taken over a two year period and involved 300 overweight people in the 40 to 60 age bracket. They were split into three groups who were placed on different types of diet.

The three diets were made up of a Mediterranean diet, a low fat diet and a low carb diet with the interesting additional aspect in that they all featured vitamin D rich foods.The study’s results were predictable in that the participants of each diet type lost weight in a healthy way, although it was noted that those who ate the foods that were most vitamin D enriched lost the most weight.

According to the study’s author, Danit Shahar,

It was known that overweight people had lower levels of serum vitamin D, but this is the first study that actually shows that serum vitamin D increased among people who lost weight.

She added that these findings,

lasted throughout the two years that the study was conducted, regardless of whether they were on a low-carbohydrate, low-fat or Mediterranean diet.

There are many health benefits to ensuring you get plenty of vitamin D in your diet as well as absorbing plenty of sunshine which causes the body to make its own. These include increased bone health, where high levels of vitamin D help to prevent cases of low bone mass and bone density loss, while reducing the chances of contracting osteoporosis. It also helps to prevent inflammation, which is a leading problem associated with several conditions such as arthritis, joint pain, high blood pressure and imbalances in blood sugar levels and even digestive problems.

Worrying statistics show that a staggering 9 out of every 10 Americans is actually deficient in vitamin D. This can so easily be treated by taking a good supplement of the vitamin as these are perfectly safe and widely available in stores as well as online from trusted vendors such as Amazon here: Now Foods Vitamin D3 5000 Iu.

Rapid Weight Loss Tips to Avoid

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People can read this eye opening article and learn the stark truth about rapid weight loss tips and methods, which ones work and which ones to avoid. From the title of this post, you may be forgiven for thinking that we have gone slightly off track when it comes to helping people, and especially our readers, to lose weight simply and effectively.

Surely, some well timed rapid weight loss tips would be of more help than other things especially to get those who are very overweight or obese jump started with their own diets and weight loss solutions?

Is Losing Weight Rapidly Safe?

Well, not all the rapid ways of losing weight are good for you, and this blog is primarily concerned with healthy, natural ways to lose weight. It is of course natural to want to learn how to lose weight fast, but its best not to. While there are several tried and tested methods that are pretty fast and that work pretty well, there are others that should, in our opinion be avoided as being detrimental to health. So what do we prefer to avoid?

Avoid These Rapid Weight Loss Tips

Well, first of all, the most dangerous method of losing weight is by undertaking surgical procedures except in the most extreme cases, where the alternative could be potentially fatal. But that occurs in such a tiny percentage of people who are overweight that we can generalize more about those surgical procedures that people request that are for cosmetic purposes only.

Cosmetic surgery for losing weight is an extreme measure that is far too actively promoted by many plastic surgery clinics for our liking and far too many people think it is okay to go ahead and take the cheat’s way to dropping a dress size or two.

The downside to surgery is that while most procedures are successful, people often return to their old bad habits and pile the weight back on again all too soon after the surgery. If it was liposuction that was used, people think its okay to just head back to the operating table for a repeat vacuuming out! That is such a bad idea We will not even entertain going into the whys and wherefores of why it is such a very bad idea indeed! Not only that, but while uncommon, complications can and do occur at times and those complications can leave you worse off than you were before you started. Some can leave you disfigured for life and in our opinion that is not worth taking a risk for. Taking the natural approach to weight loss is far safer and no one ever ended up with massive ugly scarring through eating a healthy diet!

Are Berry Extract Pills Effective for Losing Weight Fast?

Another of those quick weight loss tips to avoid are the unbelievably hyped up berry extracts and pills. It may be true that some certain foods can cause the body to speed up the fat burning process, but so does exercise! And exercise does it far more naturally than any pill can do, despite what the advertisers might want you to believe. You know the types of pills that are emblazoned all across a myriad of websites all trying to get you to part with your money for something that promises so much by in the end will deliver very little.

Why are we deliberately putting these products down? Simple. Because you can lose weight much more effectively through eating a healthy calorie controlled diet combined with a good exercise program. The more you can exercise, the more fat you will burn. And when you combine that exercise with a healthy, natural weight loss diet that is low in fats and low in high GI carbs and high in fresh fruits and vegetables, then your own metabolism will get a boost and help you all by itself, without the latest greatest groovy berry extract pills.

One last rapid weight loss method to avoid is getting involved with fad diets that restrict or completely omit whole food groups. One such diet was Atkins that certainly worked as a rapid way to lose weight. But it loaded the body up with so much saturated fat that the resulting ill effects to health, especially to the circulatory system and the coronary vessels and muscles in particular, meant that long term use was almost dangerous.

What Fast Weight Loss Methods are Safe to Use?

A last word about all this. If you really must lose weight quickly, then don’t take short cuts, which is all the stuff like Proactol, The 7 day slimming pill, or supplements such as Clinislim or Decatrim as they are no use on their own, although they do have some minor value when combined with a healthy diet and exercise program. And as for surgery methods, you really should only consider these as a last resort.

Safe Ways to Lose Weight Quickly

What is safe and what does work if you put enough effort into it is in eating a naturally healthy diet and exercising hard. Get into exercise as soon as you can and build it up over time, while combining it with a healthy diet and drink lots of plain water.

Sustained, aerobic exercise done daily for an hour or more will force your body to burn a lot more calories than you can typically consume through eating a naturally healthy diet. You can even try a dance based exercise regimen such as the Zumba fitness program or go with a high energy, tough program like the much publicized P90X extreme home fitness workout program, or even follow the teachings of TV fitness guru Jillian Michaels if you can take the heat!

What you must do is quit eating all processed foods, cut right down on dairy and fatty meats, cut out bread and pasta, cakes and pie, cookies and donuts (yeah, all those good things!) and absolutely do not drink any soda, not even diet soda. Drink a large glass of plain water before every meal and make sure you drink plenty of water between meals too. Instead of drinking coffee or black teat, switch to green tea (unsweetened), especially having a cup or two after each meal.

These things when done in combination will jump start your metabolism fast and get you burning fat whilst slimming down quickly and more effectively than most anything else and for longer. They will work better in the long term than any short cuts or cheats or rapid tips for shedding weight will ever do for you!

Proactol reviews

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Does Procatol work? People can find out about this fat burning weight loss supplement by reading unbiased Proactol reviews and buy Proactol at a discount price by clicking on the image below left. They can then decide that it might be the right weight loss supplement for them. The benefits to people in terms of weight loss are explained in this review that follows.

While this site is primarily aimed at reviewing and reporting on natural methods of losing weight, from time to time we will take a look at one or other weight loss product that is on the market and review it after doing some research to make sure we have all the facts. In this post, which is an original written for weightlossgo.com by the author who is a paid affiliate of Proactol, we take a look at this popular and successful fat burning supplement.
There are plenty of people who like the idea of taking a magic pill and losing weight while they waste their life in front of the TV. But don’t be fooled into believing this or any other product can do that for you.
It can’t. And nor can anything else no matter what the manufacturers claim. Having said that, there are some pills or supplements that you can work with that will help the weight loss process go a little more easily. One of those products is Proactol, which is getting a lot of media interest just lately.

Does Proactol Work?

The maker’s claim that their fat burning pill is capable of binding up a proportion of fats in the food you eat so that your body does not absorb so much of them, preventing weight gain and promoting weight loss. Okay so far. There was a university study of Proactol quoted in material we have researched, although we haven’t found any mention of which university or when it was done, so while it may be worth mentioning this, it is not substantiated.
The study is supposed to have been done by ten healthy participants of which five were men and five were women and they were then divided into two groups, of which one group received pills containing the Proactol ingredients, while the control group were given pills containing a placebo. Neither group were told whether their pills were Proactol or the placebo. The participants took their pills after each meal for the period of one week. During that time they ate the same standard meals so each participant consumed the same amount of fat.
The results were analyzed by measuring the total amount of fat found in the feces of the participants following each seven day consumption period. It was found that the quantity of fat found in the feces in those who took Proactol was 27.4% higher than that found in the feces of the control group who took the placebo. No side-effects or any discomfort was reported by any of the participants.
Okay, that was the science part and you can take from that what you will. The reality is probably a little different as for one thing, the level of fat in your food is not necessarily responsible for weight gain, nor the lack of it for weight loss. You can eat a ton of totally fat free food that is otherwise laden with refined sugars and get obese. The study made no mention of the types of fat found in the tests so the pills could be removing good fats (such as the omega 3, 6 and 9 as well as beneficial monounsaturated fats) from your food along with any bad fats such as the saturated and trans fats that are harmful to health.
Taking a pill and expecting to lose weight is not the best way to go about things, as it could lead some people into a false sense of security and have them believe they can eat whatever they like and not put on weight, or even lose it. This is potentially problematic especially for people who are easily convinced about such things.

The Weight Loss Benefits of Proactol

So after that scathing put down, are there actually any real benefits to taking Proactol as a fat burning supplement?
Actually, yes, there are but it is in using the product as a “supplement” and there is the operative term. If used as part of a sensible diet which is combined with daily exercise, then there can be benefits to reducing the level of fats that the body absorbs through food, although you should make sure that you take any omega 3, 6, or 9 supplements at different times to the Proactol pills to ensure that your body does absorb those beneficial fats.
You can lose weight with the pills if you use them as just described and they may assist with the weight loss process especially if you are often unable to lose weight through conventional means (diet and exercise alone), although you should not take them in place of a good, healthy diet and regular exercise.

Buy Proactol

In the end, the choice is yours. If you are considering trying this product to help you lose weight more easily, then you can get more information by clicking this link: Buy Proactol or clicking on any of the images contained in this article.

Proactol PLUS Review

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People can read this review of Proactol Plus, the popular all-natural weight loss supplement and learn more about how they can easily lose weight by including this in their regular diet. The good news is that Proactol Plus is now clinically proven to work in helping people to lose weight far more easily and effectively than by merely dieting alone. It is now also available to buy with a great discount online. To learn more about this, please read on…

Here is a customer review of Proactol Plus that highlights just how it can be a very effective part of your own weight loss strategy:
Okay, you’re probably totally confused by the sheer number of tough choices that exist when you go looking online for a product that will help you to lose weight, right? I know I was. Literally hours upon hours of searching through reams of websites and I still could not make a firm decision. But all of a sudden I came across a supplement called Proactol Plus™ and all of a sudden it started to make perfect sense.

Does Proactol Plus Have Proof?

Part of the problem is that many products that you find online are just not proven to work effectively. Weight loss is such a huge market (thanks in part to people just like me. LOL) and many of the manufacturers seem to just throw products together so they can make a fast buck.
Proactol Plus™ is completely different, because it really has the clinical proof to back up its claims, in the form of no less than SIX clinical trials.
Add to that the fact that it has been on sale now for five years and has attracted many great testimonials. These include real life “before and after” type case studies. It ranks as the number one choice for people on a huge number of review sites and blogs that I went around checking.
Proactol Plus™ has been certified as what is known as a medical device product (MDD 93/42/EEC), for which it carries a Certificate of Analysis for its active ingredient and France ECOcert SAS. It also has the full approval of the UK Vegetarian Society.
To be honest, I could not find anything like this level of hard proof for any other product for losing weight that I researched. The proof and the facts that i read about really convinced me to give it a try.

Proactol Plus™ is All Natural

This revelation was very important to me. I don’t like any man-made drugs and the main ingredients happen to be two special naturally occurring fibers that have the effect of making 28% of the total fat that you consume completely un-absorbable. Those fats that are not absorbed are simply carried naturally out of your body! So it reduces the actual calorie intake by an amazing 295 calories a day!
The other side of the coin is that these fibers slow down your digestive process, meaning that you feel fuller after eating for longer. I thought that was incredible. All this means that I could still eat a lot of the foods that I like, because with this product the weight loss is not based on counting calories or having to avoid certain food groups in your diet.
Well, I went ahead and placed my order for Proactol Plus™. As soon as I started using it, it began working within about a week and a half. I found it so easy to use too. After all, how tough can simply taking a few pills after each meal be?

Mistake: Ordering only One Box

No one really likes to place a big order of a product until they’re sure it works, but I guess I should have known better, especially having seen all the proof it would work. In fact it started working for me before I even finished the box. Obviously I wanted to continue taking it so I ordered more. I ordered the 3 month quantity on my second order) because it works out much cheaper and a whole load more convenient.
I can tell you that you won’t be disappointed with this supplement. I recommended it to some members of my family and they reported back that they were also really pleased with their results. As of now, I’ve been using it for 4 months and I’ve lost an amazing 23 pounds!
Want to know what my only problem is? Many of my old clothes no longer fit me, so I needed to replace them. But I wouldn’t change that for the world!

If you’re looking for a reliable and effective weight loss solution,CLICK HERE to start losing weight with Proactol Plus™ right NOW!

For more information, please also read our Proactol reviews that expand somewhat on this as well as provides some more of our own opinions on the product and its effectiveness. Please also note that this website’s author is an affiliate of Proactol Plus™ and as such receives a small commission for its promotion. That however does not affect the unbiased nature of this review or the accuracy and factual nature of its content.

How to Lose Weight Fast, but Naturally

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It sounds like the age old dream for anyone who is overweight and is sitting there racking their brains how to lose weight fast, naturally and safely at the same time. We all want that, and easy answer to the question of whether its possible to lose that weight without going to any effort to achieve it, yet keeping things healthy, natural and still do it in record time. Well, this post is going to dispel a few myths here and lay it on the table as straight as it can be.

Is it OK to Lose Weight Fast?

The first thing you need to know, before you even contemplate how you are going to go about losing weight is that fast is NOT good. Okay, you may have an important social function coming up in a few weeks, or maybe you are going on vacation and need to look good in a swimsuit. But if you are worried you are too heavy and look flabby and frumpy in the clothes you wear, the time to start doing something about it has long since past. You should have started long before it got to the stage that you are now panicking because the important date is imminent.
But let’s say, for instance that you didn’t do that and you’ve been gaining weight slowly and surely for several months. It has gotten to the point where you look in the mirror and see another person staring back at you, or at least a different person to the slimmer one who was smiling at you a few months ago! Now you need to do something a little drastic and it is freaking you out. You need a solution and you need it now! Okay, let’s see what can be done…

How to Lose Weight Fast

While I stated earlier that fast is not good when it comes to weight loss, that doesn’t mean that fast is not possible. It certainly is, although it is not recommended nor is it desirable. The reason for this is because when you lose weight fast, something has to be compromised and that something is usually your health. What’s more, rapid weight loss is all too often followed by equally rapid weight gain once you stop doing whatever it is you were doing to get the weight off fast in the first place. But the fact remains that when you are in desperate straights, desperate measures are called for.
If you are ready for this, then you had better be prepared for some serious work, because I said it was possible… I didn’t say it was going to be easy.
Unfortunately, if you go looking for easy ways to lose weight fast, you probably won’t find any natural ones. The amount of weight you can lose also depends on the time you have available. So how long does it take to lose weight? Okay, let’s say, for example, that you have a really short area of leeway, say only two weeks to spare to make a difference.

How to Lose Weight in 2 Weeks

Several factors need to be incorporated here, so you are going to have to take a long (but not too long) hard look at your lifestyle, diet and mental state. The time to start is now.
If you have been leading a sedentary lifestyle up until this point, you are going to have to get active and by that I mean to the point where you are going to get out of breath and sweat like a pig! Don’t overdo it at first, or you’ll do more harm than good and it can actually be dangerous, but the best course of action is either to get yourself a physical trainer as fast as you can, or get to a gym where you can be supervised by a professional trainer. Then get actively working out and take it to the limits of what your trainer says you can – and no more! Build up your workout level over the next few days but you are going to be in that gym (or with personal trainer) every day up until the date of your super important engagement.
In addition to this, you are also, from day zero (now) going to diet like its 1999. By that I mean you are going to only eat a super low calorie, natural diet. No snacks, no nice stuff. This is going to be all pain if you want gain! How bad do you want this?

A Diet of Cabbage Soup?

If you want it real bad, then start the week off with the cabbage soup diet. It is one of the most intensive diets and was initially designed for heart patients that were overweight and needed to lose several pounds fast so they would stand a chance of waking up after their operation. That’s because surgeons do not like to operate on very overweight people because they have a much higher risk of dying during the operation!
Okay, the cabbage soup diet is tough, but doable and you must only do this for a maximum of a week. Any more than that and you risk malnutrition! Also, as you are working out at the same time, you will feel hungry like you never felt it before! You cannot, under any circumstances give in to that hunger, unless it is with a tasty bowl of cabbage soup! No bread, no pasta, no rice, no potatoes… you get the message! After the first week on this diet, you can and should switch to a more balanced diet consisting only of natural foods. No processed meals, no high calorie or fried junk like burgers, fried, hot dogs etc, no high calorie snacks like cakes, biscuits, cookies, donuts etc. Just good, home cooked food with plenty of fresh vegetables, lean meat or fish. By this time you can eat more and increase your calorie intake because the effects of the exercises will mean you can cope with the extra.

Increasing Metabolism for Faster Weight Loss

Your metabolism by this time will be elevated enough to demand more calories and to burn them – as long as you don’t overdo it. By balanced, I mean a balance of mainly proteins, say 40-50 percent with the rest divided between low GI carbohydrates and unsaturated fats. The services of a good nutritionist will be of great value to you in this area and is recommended to give you the best options tailored especially to you. But if you were wondering how to increase metabolism, this certainly will reward you with an answer that is both surprisingly effective and noticeable.
One other weapon in your armory is water.

Drink Water for Speedy Weight Loss

Water (and we’re talking the plain stuff that comes out of the tap or bottled here) is one thing that you can have as much as you want of. In fact you are encouraged to drink as much as you can stand. The general recommendation is eight glasses of plain water per day, but while you are on this intensive regime, you can increase that to as much as you can handle. Why? Water helps stave off hunger plus it flushes your body’s digestive system giving you a free detox. This goes towards your weight loss plan nicely, because it also forces your body to maintain a faster metabolism. I’ll tell you why that is important now.
Maintaining a fast metabolism is your ticket to rapid weight loss while you work on your body at the gym and via your diet. Dieting on the cabbage soup diet alone without exercise and without water will cause your metabolism to become slower over the course of a few days as your body goes into starvation mode and started slowing down everything to conserve energy to match the reduced calorie intake. You have to fool your body into believing it is NOT in starvation mode (even though, essentially, it is). By drinking lots of water and not allowing the feeling of hunger to creep up on you, you can fool your body into thinking it is getting enough nutrients to go on working. The exercise strategy will also force your metabolism to stay in a high state of activity and this will force your body to raid its store of fat to provide the energy you need to continue exercising.

Lose Weight in Your Sleep?

Sleep is another factor that comes into play here. You need to get a good eight hours sleep every night, as it is during sleep that your muscles that you have been pounding hard during the day have a chance to repair themselves and grow stronger, ready for the next day’s hammering. This process also burns energy, which the body must continually provide and it gets the building blocks for that energy from the body’s fat store. So as long as you are doing what I’ve told you so far, then you are also now losing weight in your sleep. Its nice to know that there is an easy side to this!
How are we doing so far… still with me? Good.

Lose Weight Fast with Your Mind!

The last aspect of all of these natural yet rapid weight loss tips is your mental state. Why is this important, I hear you ask? It is a positive, determined and highly motivated metal state that will see you through this tough regime and enable you to stick to it no matter what so that you can achieve your goal and not only be several pounds lighter but also to have your body nicely toned up so that it will look good in the clothes you have chosen for your important occasion – or the swimsuit you intend to wear on your vacation, whichever it is.
Tying this all together then, if you want to lose weight fast but naturally and make that several pounds in two weeks as per this example, you can do it if you really want to do it by pushing yourself to the limit. You will do it if you want it bad enough. Fact.
If you are not 100 percent for this and you go into it only half-hearted, then you will fall off way too soon and fail. That’s why you need a positive, doggedly determined and highly motivated state of mind, access to a gym or personal trainer and the willingness to eat a restrictive diet in order to achieve what you really want.
Be 100 percent focused and positive, because if the occasion your are needing this for is so important to you, then you cannot be anything less, right?

Turbulence Training Review

2012-02-02T09:41:00.000-08:00

People could read this review and find out how Turbulence Training can help them lose weight, burn fat and remodel their body to look totally great. Imagine how great you’d look in the latest fashionable clothes if you had a slim, toned body!
Well you can have that starting right now! You can simply click on the image to the left and visit the official website.
There you’ll get the details on how you can get instant access to this amazing system that’s easy to work on and produces fast and measurable results every time.
Or you could read some more of our own review of the system and get our viewpoint on its benefits.

What Do You Really Want?

What is it that you really want to achieve when you make the decision that you want to lose weight? Is it:

Just so that the scales tell you a lower number of pounds than they do right now?
You want to have a great looking body that is firm, toned and looks great in whatever clothes you decide to wear?

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My guess is the second answer. Well, here is one solution that you can easily work with to achieve a really great looking body that you would be proud to show off in some fabulous new clothes at any social event you care to attend. It is a fat burning, training system that combines nutrition with simple exercises to fire up your metabolism so that your body becomes a true fat burning machine.
Are you interested enough to want to know some more about this? Okay, read on…
Introducing Turbulence Training, which is a system devised by world-renowned Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, Craig Ballantyne (pictured right), who is also a respected fitness author who has had many articles published in fitness magazines such as Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, Muscle and Fitness Hers, Maximum Fitness and Oxygen.
Craig has developed what he calls a revolutionary new fat loss system that was initially designed to specifically help busy men and women to get the greatest results in the least time. This is something you can do at home or at the gym in minimal time without needing access to any professional trainers.

Turbulence Training

Turbulence Training is a scientifically proven weight loss system. It is endorsed by many elite trainers along with some of the top fitness magazines around. Such is its success rate that it has been used by literally thousands of men and women looking to get a better looking body by burning fat and increasing their body’s muscle, while making huge improvements in their health and energy levels.
You can easily download this great fitness and weight loss resource that comes as an easy to read ebook. Then you can start to put into practice the simplest of instructions on how you can achieve a great body without doing hours of laborious cardio training. You combine a cleverly devised nutritional diet with Craig’s own highly successful brand of interval training to produce a body that is a real powerhouse at shedding fat and excess, unwanted weight. At the same time you will build strength and lean muscle to achieve that athletic looking body that is lean and toned.
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P90X Extreme Home Fitness Workout Program

2012-02-02T09:27:00.000-08:00

People may read this and decide that it is exactly what they are looking for to improve their fitness and transform their body into a nicely toned, strong and great looking figure.

You can click link in the image to the left which leads to Amazon where you can buy the P90X Extreme Home Fitness Workout Program for one of the best prices online.
You have to see it to realize that their price is about the best around, so if you want to skip the rest of this mini review of the program, just click the image of the P90X Program and you’ll go straight to the page at Amazon where you can buy it for a great discounted price.

P90X Extreme Home Fitness Workout Program Reviews

For those of you who are sticking around and want to know more about this great home workout program that comes on a set of DVDs, then be prepared for something that you may not like. This is NOT an easy weight loss program, but one where you will have to get active and get exercising, which means getting up off the couch and donning your coolest fitness garb and getting down and busy!
Okay, now that my feeble attempt to put you off buying the P90X Fitness Program have meant that you’re still reading, then I guess I’d better tell you more about what its about.

What is the P90X Extreme Home Fitness Workout Program?

This is a home workout program that you work along with DVDs and use a variety of fitness accessories and of course your own body strength to push yourself as hard as you are personally able to push yourself. That is of course if you intend to see some great results with this system. It combines strength workout routines with cardio workouts, yoga and resistance training. It’s easy enough to follow, as all you need to do is watch the DVDs and do what they’re telling and showing you to do. What’s probably not so easy is the fact that you will have to push pretty hard and that means you’re likely to feel sore in the first few days. That’s okay and a good sign you’re working hard enough to make a difference.
The idea behind the system is that it is made up of 12 DVDs that target different areas of workout routines and are designed to radically change your body appearance in 90 days. of course, it won’t do anything if you just put on the DVDs, lay down on the sofa and watch it while tucking into a king size pizza with a family pack of potato chips on the side, all washed down with your very own 6-pack of soda!

P90X Deals

You have to follow the program and work hard at it and you will see a big difference inside those 90 days. There’s not much more to say on the product that you can’t read for yourself when you head over to Amazon to buy the P90X as they have a ton of customer reviews and information that I won’t insult your intelligence by merely duplicating here (I prefer not to copy/paste other people’s work in this blog, instead keeping it original). Suffice it to say that the system works extremely well if you work at it, but it won’t work if you don’t. If you’re prepared to put in the time and effort with this, then you will have yourself a first rate top quality workout system that will help you to build the body you always dreamed of having in what is one of the easiest to follow set of DVDs currently on the market.

Buy P90X Extreme Home Fitness Workout Program

If this review has convinced you that this great fitness and weight loss resource is a workout program that you can do and that will really help you to get fit and build a great body, then you might want to buy your own program right now. Take advantage of a great deal currently being offered by Amazon.
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Low Cost Weight Loss Supplement DecaTrim Lose 10 Pounds in 10 Days?

2012-02-02T08:26:00.000-08:00

People can read this article because this article has important news for them about diet or slimming pills that claim to help people lose 10 pounds in 10 days and its called DecaTrim. We want to review DecaTrim and see if these claims are real and if you really can lose 10 pounds in 10 days by clicking the image of the bottle of DecaTrim slimming pills on the left and seeing for themselves.

The DecaTrim advanced weight loss supplement official website promises that when people take it as part of a healthy diet they can expect to lose an incredible 10 pounds in 10 days (similar to another supplement called Clinislim). They claim this is possible due to the supplement’s containing 6 patented compounds and clinically proven fat burning ingredients making it the most advanced fat burning supplement available. Is this really fast and safely? Maybe you should ask yourself some questions about this supplement before trying it for yourself, such as:

So how true are these claims and can you really lose so much weight in such a short space of time successfully?
Diet supplements are nothing new and there are many that do actually help people to lose weight fast to various degrees depending on several factors. These include the person themselves and the diet they are currently on, their starting weight, height, build, BMI and their lifestyle.
What is pretty obvious here is that if you take someone who sits around all day doing little or no activity who is overweight. Yet they eat a diet comprising mostly junk food, sweet and fatty foods and drinking vast amounts of soda. If that person takes this supplement and expects to lose weight but is not prepared to make any changes to their lifestyle or diet, then they should not expect to lose any weight.
On the other hand, if you take a person who is overweight but has taken action by getting on a daily exercise routine. They have changed their diet to a healthy low fat, low sugar, low calorie diet and they have swapped out the soda in favor of lots of plain water. Someone like this who takes DecaTrim weight loss supplement will almost certainly experience a more rapid weight loss and depending upon their current constitution, will quite likely meet the claims of the product and hit their 10 pounds in 10 days without too much trouble.
That is not to say that these two examples are hard and fast rules as everybody is different. What may work extremely well for one person may not work so well for another even when they lead exactly the same lifestyle and eat the same diet. So we can realistically conclude that the supplement can work for some people and it may not be so effective for others.
The best way of finding out if it will suit you personally is simply to try it for yourself! The price is very affordable and compares well with other diet supplement products. Plus the company that markets DecaTrim gives a full money back guarantee if you are unsatisfied with the results. So you have nothing to lose by giving these diet pills a risk-free try and everything to gain!
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Lose 10 Pounds in 10 Days Fact or Fiction?

2012-02-02T08:18:00.000-08:00

Those of you who are trying to lose weight can read this article because the author has some important weight loss news for you! While you are lying in bed tonight, you won’t stop thinking about how amazing it would be to actually lose 10 pounds in 10 days just by taking a natural supplement along with your regular diet.
You will get such a feeling of elation just imagining how that would feel, losing 10 pounds in 10 days.
Is it fact or is it fiction? Can an overweight person really lose 10 lbs in just 10 days simply by taking a supplement like Clinislim or Decatrim? Let’s take a look at the evidence.

Clinislim Reviews

Clinislim is one of a new breed of weight loss supplements that works, according to its makers, by retarding the rate of digestion of food and reducing the amount of fat that gets stored by the body. It does this by using a combination of three compounds that contain herbal and other all-natural ingredients.
Studies taken of each compound resulted in significant weight loss over varying periods of time for the group taking the compound when tested against a control group taking a placebo. By combining these three compounds in a single weight loss pill, the makers of Clinislim claim that it is highly possible for a person to lose as much weight as ten pounds in ten days.
What do we think?
The supplement is not a drug and does not contain any medication that would require it to be tested by the FDA. Therefore, it has not needed to be passed by any professional body except the self regulating industry that produces and sells natural health products. That doesn’t mean it is unsafe. The product has been on sale for several years without any reports of ill-effects and it has been used by many thousands of people with positive results.
In short, people have lost weight and continue to lose weight using Clinislim in conjunction with a healthy, low calorie diet. On its own, I doubt it would produce such great results except in a small number of people who are very overweight and just starting on a program to lose weight. The key to being successful with using this pill is to take it in combination with a sensible diet and it will then boost the weight reducing results of the diet.

Why Buy Clinislim?

If you want to lose weight as easily as you can, then taking this supplement is something that you might want to seriously consider to help you make it easy for yourself to lose weight. No one wants things to be difficult and sometimes a good diet can stall.
But supplementing the diet with Clinislim may make a big difference and prevent the dieter from stalling. And even make it possible to lose more weight, faster and more easily than just the diet on its own. It could be your fast track to joining the successful dieters that you know and that may be spurring you on to your own success!

Where to Buy Clinislim?

Now that’s the easy one to answer. A person can get a big discount on the regular price right here when they click the image link below.

You can click the link now and find out how you can start losing weight in no time at all when you buy your first discount pack of Clinislim that is delivered to your home.

Get Your Primary Weight Loss Strategy Right

2012-02-02T07:16:00.000-08:00

We’ve talked about a lot of different aspects to losing weight here in this blog, but not so much on actual strategy. Of course, strategies will differ from person to person simply because we are all different and have different needs to
achieve the results that we seek, but there are some basic, or primary strategies that will be common to most people and it is these that I’ll look at in this post, which is, incidentally an original article written by the author for weightlossgo.com and may not be copied and published elsewhere under copyright rules. So let’s get to it, shall we?
The first thing you need to think about in any overall strategy for losing weight is getting your mind into the right state. This comes in as the primary strategy in anything you need to achieve in life. Positive mental energy really does help you to achieve the thing that you desire, because you want it more than you don’t want it.
If you don’t have a positive mental attitude toward your own ability to lose weight, then you will find it far tougher than someone who is in that “I can” frame of mind. Getting this part right before anything else is tantamount to success, because when you truly believe that you can do it, then you can do it! It was Henry Ford that famously said “whether you think you can or think you can’t, either way you are right” and he knew the truth about the power of the ruling mental state. You can apply the same thing to losing weight.
You need to get yourself into a state where you truly believe that you can lose weight and then believe that it is going to be EASY! When something appears easy to anyone, they find it a breeze to accomplish and this is another mental trick that can be applied to weight loss. Once you are in this way of thinking, then the rest, which is usually made up of a combination if dieting and exercising, is the easy part.
Whether you believe that a diet will help you lose weight or not, when you actually want to do it, you are much more likely to stick to that diet than someone who is only doing it because they have been told they have to. Having to do something and wanting to do something are two very different states of mind and one will cause internal resistance while the other seems a joy to perform. It pays dividends to get yourself into the state where you want to diet with a regular diet that you work with or one of the excellent diet meal delivery programs.
Tackling an exercise program is often viewed as being much harder than merely dieting to lose weight. Again, this is a mental thing and when you believe that exercising is hard, then hard it most certainly is! But, in a similar way to the “want to” and “have to” diet, wanting to exercise makes it a whole lot easier than having to exercise. Do you see how this can be?
It doesn’t matter what the exercise consists of. If you have been leading a sedentary lifestyle for a while and have become very used to it and very comfortable with it, the very thought of getting up off the sofa and doing any form of exercise is viewed with a certain amount of “oh man, do I have to do it?” attitude. This is where psyching yourself up to a thing really comes into its own. It may take some mental acrobatics to get you to the right place, but you can do it and you do it by visualizing yourself getting out of the house and walking a few miles, or going to the pool and swimming some lengths or whatever exercise it is that appeals most to you. You have to choose one that you would like to do more than any other and stick with that one.
Once you have visualized yourself doing your chosen exercise and more importantly, visualized yourself enjoying it, then the next stage is to get up off the sofa, switch off the TV or computer game console and get out of the house and do it for real. You can do it and you can get yourself into the mental attitude where you know you can do it and before you know it, you are doing it and enjoying doing it!
This is weight loss made easy and its all done by tuning your mind into that positive, motivational place that we all have access to and using that attitude for your own good. It works and the more you do it, the better you get at it and the better it works. Try it, you mat surprise yourself!

100 weight loss tips - 100.Why You Should Avoid White Pasta

2012-02-02T07:07:00.001-08:00

That’s right! White pasta is similar to white bread in that it actually contains almost no nutrients or goodness. It is therefore just plain old filler. Stodge! It fills you up but does nothing for you. Worse still is that because it is just made from refined wheat flour, it contains gluten and starch, sugar and salt.
It bilks you up not with muscle, but with fat! This is not good for you and actually damages your health because you feel full after eating it so you are not likely to add any nutritious foods to provide the essential nutrients your body needs. That’s why white pasta is bad for you.
If you must eat pasta, switch to brown pasta, or unrefined pasta. This is made from wholegrain flour which contains many more of the essential nutrients and dietary fiber that your body needs. It tastes just as good as its white counterpart and once you get used to the slightly different texture, you’ll find you won’t ever want to go back to that sticky, stodgy, pasty white stuff ever again!
Another alternative if you really don’t think you can make the change to brown pasta is a product from Barilla, which is a big pasta company. They market a pasta called “Barilla Plus” which looks, feels and tastes the same as the bad old refined pasta you’re used to, except its made from unrefined wheat flour, so it contains all the goodness of brown pasta.
Top of the pasta league for goodness over convenience is of course organic brown pasta. Yeah, I know it sounds like hippy food and it is exactly that. But just because it conjures up images of long haired, scruffy, 1960s look young men and women, don’t let that fool you into thinking this type of food is only for beatniks.
Organic foods are better for you in a whole lot of ways than the more prevalent, toxic, refined garbage that you’re used to eating. They contain almost no toxic pesticide residue (which is present in most non-organic food nowadays despite what the politicians lie to you about), they are higher in natural vitamins and minerals and they taste better too. Anyhow, that’s getting slightly off topic as this tip is all about ditching the white, refined pasta altogether and replacing it with organic, brown pasta if you have to have the stuff. Which will help you to lose weight as part of a healthy diet.
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100 weight loss tips - 97.Why Sugar is Bad For You The Facts

2012-02-02T07:07:00.000-08:00

Here is the 99th in our new series of 100 Weight Loss Tips posts designed to give you a brand new tip on how to lose weight, or as in this case, how not to put on more weight! This is all about the nemesis of all slimmers, SUGAR!
You could even say that sugar is pure evil that tempts the soul and fools the stoutest heart into submission simply because it makes food taste so good! While this great tasting flavoring is something you might think you can do without, you most likely don’t want to hear this:

Why Sugar is Bad For You

The more refined you sugar comes, the more that your own body will react in a negative way to it. Sugar is in just about everything we eat and drink in most normal people’s diet. To give you some idea how that works, if it’s sweet to the taste, you can bet that it’s got sugar in it. Even if it is savory to the taste, it has still got sugar in it!
There are a great deal of different types of sugars out there and you can be assured that all of them are without exception ultimately metabolized by your body. But it’s not all bad news, as I will point out.
There are two main types of sugars that you, as a dieter, need to be aware of. They are Intrinsic sugars and Extrinsic sugars.
Intrinsic sugars are the types found in fruits and vegetables and these are contained in the actual cell structures of the fruits and vegetables themselves. Of these sugars, you do not need to make any cut backs if you’re trying to lose weight fast because they are natural and come along with many vitamins and minerals as well as fiber essential to the normal functioning of the body. In essence, these are good sugars that you can add to your diet.
Extrinsic sugars are those which are not contained within the cell structures of natural foods. They come in two main groups, which are Milk Extrinsic Sugars, which are naturally occurring in milk products such as fresh milk, yoghurt, cheese, butter etc and Non Milk Extrinsic Sugars, (NME) which the sugars that are added to foods in order to sweeten them, bulk them up or preserve them by extending their shelf life.
From a weight loss strategy point of view, it is the NME’s that are the ones to be avoided at all costs. That’s because they carry no additional nutrients with them and are metabolized by the body and placed into storage in fat cells for later use.
The problem with this system is that because you eat so much of it, the body never gets around to using its stored fat and just keeps adding to it. That’s why you gain weight when you ingest large quantities of NME’s. The good news is that if you cut these down to the barest minimum and start exercising regularly, your body will have to start using up the stored fat that you’ve accumulated and you will start to lose weight fast.
The bad news for anyone who is looking for a weight loss solutions is that there is growing evidence to suggest that sugar is addictive which means that the more you eat, the more you crave. It becomes a vicious circle and is what leads to obesity in many adults and children.
The health risks are frightening once you get onto this nasty roller coaster ride that starts to pick up momentum the more weight that you gain. The sugar cravings won’t go away and the weight gain keeps coming as you pile on the pounds. What’s worse, the more weight you gain, the more lethargic you become, making it all the more difficult to break out of the cycle and start doing some exercise before its too late.
Along with weight gain, which in itself comes with a long list of health risks from strokes and heart disease to high cholesterol and diabetes which could lead to heart attacks, to tooth decay, inflammation of the arteries and wait for it… cancer! Yep, studies have shown a link between certain cancers and excessive amounts of non-milk extrinsic sugars in the body. But that’s a topic for a future post all on its own, I think.
If you are addicted to sugar, getting off the roller coaster is going to be a tough hurdle to overcome, but the alternative is exposure to a matrix of ways to die young. What do you want to happen?
Weight loss tips number 98 will follow in the next post!

100 weight loss tips - 97.Avoid White Bread

2012-02-02T07:06:00.001-08:00

Here is the 97th article in our new series of fully 100 Weight Loss Tips posts that are cleverly designed to bring you a brand new top tip on how to lose weight. The last two posts looked at both sugar and sugar substitutes, but the first of these tips, #100 looked at the disadvantages of eating white pasta.
So in this post, we take the other side of the refined wheat products coin and look at the dangers of eating white bread.
There is an old saying that goes: “The whiter the bread, the quicker you’re dead!”
The scary part of that saying is that there is some truth to it. Did you know that the white bread most of us eat actually is not good for you? Yep, it’s the truth, just ask any diabetic how good it is and you’ll get more than you bargained for!

Why White Bread is Bad For You

A lot of research over the years has shown quite clearly that people who consume more refined products in their diet (such as white bread and white pasta) are much more likely to have excess belly fat. Why is that? Simple! By eating these refined wheat based foods, your body does not get what it needs in the way of nutrients and fiber.
The food industry is a completely different entity to the health industry, so don’t expect them to agree with any of this, okay? You can never trust that the food industry has your best interests at heart, even though they go to great lengths to convince you otherwise.
White bread contains no goodness whatsoever, so when you eat it as part of your own diet, all you do is fill up on worthless empty calories and bulk. Worse, the high levels of high glycemic carbohydrates and starches in white bread combine to clog up your arteries with excess LDL (bad) cholesterol as the body tries to metabolize it. What it ends up giving your body is more stored up fat which is generally kept in your belly area.
If you absolutely and positively have to eat bread as part of your regular diet, the best type of bread to eat is wholegrain, or wholemeal bread which is made from wholemeal flour. Wholemeal flour contains the whole wheat grain including all the nutrients, proteins, vitamins and minerals as well as lots of good, natural fiber from the bran, which is the husk of the wheat seed.
All of this goodness is stripped from white, refined flour leaving a sterile, nutrient and fiber starved bulking agent.
If you find that you are so hooked on white bread that the thought of making the change to wholemeal is putting you off, you can still get the (illusion of) flavor of white bread by switching to whole grain white bread. This is made from a mixture of wholemeal and white refined flour and contains some of the goodness of wholemeal bread but retains the texture and blandness of white bread. Sara Lee is a well known manufacturer of this type of bread, but you will find several good ones in the stores these days. They are sometimes labeled “wheatmeal bread.”
After a while, you will be able to move on from wholegrain white to full wholemeal or whole grain and once you do, you’ll wonder why you ever ate white bread. After eating wholemeal bread for some time now as part of my own healthy diet, I find that if I am given white bread, say in a restaurant, it is almost tasteless and very bland as well as having a pasty, unhealthy texture to it. I actually don’t like it at all now. You’ll probably be the same.
So what does this all mean for those trying to achieve weight loss? White bread fills you up with stodge, clogs up your arteries and deposits fat on your belly, which are all things you do not want. Also, it contains no dietary fiber, which is bad for your colon, making it work harder to shift waste products from your body. On top of all that, it slows down your metabolism, which compounded with the above all creates an environment for weight gain.
Whole grain bread, on the other hand, is far better for you in that it provides your body with nutrients, assuming that you have to eat bread at all. The fiber it contains helps your body to metabolize food more efficiently and dispose of waste products better, which makes for a healthy (and happy) colon. This, when a part of a wholesome, healthy diet, also leads to weight loss, as your metabolism is more efficient and your body is healthier and happier.
Weight loss tips number 96 will follow in the next post!

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100 weight loss tips - 98.Sugar Substitute Facts

2012-02-02T07:06:00.000-08:00

Here is the 98th in new series of 100 Weight Loss Tips posts that are designed to give you a brand new top tip on how to lose weight. As with the last post that looked at the evils of sugar, this one carries that on it the form of the other nemesis of slimmers and dieters everywhere, SUGAR SUBSTITUTES!

Sugar substitutes, or artificial sweeteners as they are also known as, are every bit as evil as sugar (especially non-milk extrinsic sugars MNE’s) itself. If that sounds like a blow to the whole weight loss belief system, then I’m afraid you can consider yourself beaten and bruised! You have almost definitely been of the belief that by eating and drinking foods and liquids that are sweetened by artificial sweeteners, then you are safe from the ravages of that terrible weight gaining refined sugar that all the weight loss diets warn you about – and with very good reason. But the truth of the matter is quite different from what you have been led to believe.

Sugar Substitutes Are Bad For You

Artificial sweeteners DO NOT HELP YOU LOSE WEIGHT! Fact.
Do you really think that your body can possibly know how to deal with something that was man-made? Seriously. This is not a joke. These artificial, chemically-adjusted sweetening products do not occur naturally in the wild. No matter what the nice, natural looking advertisements might look like, there are no Splenda trees growing peacefully in warmer climes. Nor will you find NutraSweet plants growing happily in green pastures. They and all other artificial sweeteners are produced in a laboratory and manufactured in a factory.
To really put the kibosh on the whole rapid weight loss myth about artificial sweeteners, it is a known scientifically proved fact that ingesting sugar substitutes may actually increase your levels of hunger! Which causes you to eat more and, yep, gain weight, not lose it!
Don’t forget about all the many health issues that are associated with these unnatural substances. The worst offender is saccharin, which was proved as a cause of cancer back in the 1930s. The US government actually banned it then, but was forced to bury the evidence and reinstate it under pressure from powerful diabetes groups who said that because there was no other sugar substitute available for diabetics, saccharin must be made available. In the 1970s, the evidence re-surfaced but was again beaten down with a big stick from pressure groups and the food industry. Today, saccharin is banned in many countries due to the overwhelming evidence linking it with cancer.
Aspartame (NutraSweet, Candarel etc) is the next worst offender. It too is linked with cell and DNA damage which leads to the formation of cancer cells. It contains wood alcohols which at temperatures above 83 degrees Fahrenheit converts to produce formaldehyde (the stuff used in embalming fluid). Formaldehyde is a known carcinogen and is also a cause of imbalances of chemicals in the brain which lead to symptoms very similar to those experienced by soldiers in the Gulf war and known as Gulf War Syndrome. Incidentally, those soldiers were given a free diet cola drink (you and Michael Jackson know the one I mean) in large quantities, which contained aspartame. The average temperatures in the gulf were above 90 degrees Fahrenheit, by the way…
If you have the given a choice, despite all that was said in the previous post, it’s almost better to go with a product your body has the ability to deal with, such as real, unprocessed sugar (such as molasses) or even refined sugar in smaller quantities. If you can avoid it, you should of course!
It’s far safer and healthier too, to keep well away from blue, yellow and pink packets of things entirely. Watch out for chewing gum as they nearly all contain the artificial sweeteners aspartame and/or sorbitol and constantly chewing them will lead to an increase in hunger! Same goes for diet soda drinks, they may be labeled “diet” but they sure do nothing to help you actually diet but in fact they do the exact opposite and help you to gain weight!
If you are having a hard time digesting all this incredible revelation stuff, do yourself a big favor and search Google for “Artificial Sweeteners May Damage Diet Efforts.” Don’t be too shocked at what you find. Then come back and tell me you still believe artificial sweeteners are okay to consume and to give to your kids.
Weight loss tips number 97 will follow in the next post!

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100 weight loss tips - 95.Dietary Fiber

2012-02-02T07:04:00.001-08:00

Here is the 95th in the series of 100 Weight Loss Tips articles. Each new article brings you a brand new top tip on how to successfully lose weight. So the last tip was all about counting calories and knowing your limits. Well, this one is all about an important addition to your diet that you really should include every day.
That addition is called dietary fiber.
If you don’t know what dietary fiber is, then here’s some background and info that’ll help you understand not only what it is, but why you need it.

Dietary Fiber

Dietary fiber is basically course food that passes through the digestive system and helps to clean our the colon, in a nutshell.
Fiber stimulates muscles in the intestines to further metabolize food and break it down into easily passed waste material. It is an important part of your diet and if you don’t get enough of it every day, you can suffer with constipation and this can lead on to many related diseases of the large intestine from polyps, IBS, a whole range of digestive problems, weight gain, Crohn’s disease, plus far more serious conditions such as colon cancer.
So you can see how important it is to include a range of foods in your daily diet that provide sufficient dietary fiber to ensure your digestive system is working in tip top condition.
Fiber is contained in the following foods:

bran
wholewheat based cereals
wholemeal or wholegrain bread
wholemeal pasta
fresh fruit
fresh vegetables
porridge (oats)
nuts and seeds

Incidentally, there is almost no fiber to be found in meat or dairy products, so if that’s all you eat, you will need to make some serious changes. In fact a diet composed almost exclusively of meat and dairy, junk or fast food with no fresh vegetables, fruit or cereals is asking for serious trouble on the health front.
A staggering statistic is that the average American is walking around with fully 7 pounds of undigested red meat in their colon, through lack of fiber in their diet. is it any wonder that obesity is becoming an almost epidemic in the US?
When you embark on a quick weight loss program and start to lose fat, chances are you’re going to suffer with constipation, especially if you allow yourself to partially dehydrate by not drinking enough water. It happens rather more frequently than many of us care to admit as well as share with others. For this reason, you should make sure you get a good amount of dietary fiber every day. It’s so important to your health as well as your weight loss goals.
When you have plenty of fiber in your daily diet, losing weight becomes a much easier thing to accomplish because your metabolism will be far better stimulated and make digestion of your food that much more efficient. This basically means that you will store far less fat in the body, leading to weight loss. Having too little fiber in your diet has the opposite effect, causing your metabolism to become sluggish meaning your digestion is less efficient and more fat is stored in the body.
So you can clearly see that not just from a health point of view but also from a weight loss point of view, it really does pay to make sure you include plenty of dietary fiber in your daily food allowance and make sure you stick with it every day!
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100 weight loss tips - 96.Count the Calories

2012-02-02T07:04:00.000-08:00

Anyone who is in the process of trying to lose weight will do well to consult with a professional nutritionist or dietitian who will be able to tell you what your own, personal daily calorie intake limit will be. This figure is not the same for everyone, and depends on whether you’re a man or a woman, your ages group, your current weight, your body shape and size including your height, your daily activity levels and most importantly, your weight loss goal.

So while a man of say average height and build who is fairly active may have a suggested daily calorie intake limit of say 1800 to 2000 calories, a smaller framed woman who sits at a desk all day and does little exercise will have a daily calorie intake limit that is a lot less, say only 1000 calories. Knowing that crucial and very personal number is half the battle when it comes to losing weight, because then you know what you’re up against and you can fashion your plan of action around that figure.
This means that you can eat most anything you want throughout the day, as long as you kept at or beneath the limit. Of course, that doesn’t mean you can load up on cakes and biscuits until you hit the limit and eat nothing else for the rest of the day. You have to exercise some common sense and balance your diet so that you get all the essential nutrition from your food and if you still have enough calories left in the bank, then you can treat yourself with something naughty as long as it doesn’t haul you over the limit.
While you may not be able to track 100% of all your food items that you will eat all of the time, you can at least keep to your calorie intake estimation. That gives you some leeway to be able to adjust your eating schedule and ration out your remaining calories accordingly.
By staying close to what you can consume in basic calories, it gives you a lot of freedom in your diet as long as you remain at or below that crucial suggested calorie level that is personal to you.
Of course, it makes sense that if you don’t know how much in the way of calories your intake is supposed to be, how can you possibly know how much you’re allowed to consume?
While counting calories may sounds like a redundant practice left over from the 1970s, think again. Its a commonly known fact that in order to lose weight, you must burn off more calories than you take in every day, so if you are an active person who exercises a lot, you are able to eat a lot more than someone who leads a sedentary lifestyle and still lose weight.
It’s a situation that many slimmers and dieters find themselves in and they are not sticking to this one basic rule of weight loss. By not knowing your daily calorie intake limits and therefore not being able to stick to one, it is a very good reason why so many dieters so often fail!
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100 weight loss tips - 93.Why its Better to Lose Weight Slowly

2012-02-02T07:03:00.001-08:00

Here is the 93rd article in our series of 100 Weight Loss Tips. Each new article brings you yet another brand new top tip on how to successfully lose weight. The last tip looked at eating slowly in order to keep your stomach in tune with your brain so you didn’t keep eating after you were actually full up.
That’s a good way to place a brake on weight gain for sure. In this article, I’ll take the idea of how much weight is safe and sensible to lose and explain why its better to lose weight slowly.
A sensible person embarking upon a realistic weight loss program will aim to lose between one and two pounds a week. No more and no less. This is because not only are there physical limitations of how much weight it is safe to lose, depending upon your starting weight of course, there are also mental limitations on what the majority of us believe we actually are capable of losing in a week.

Why is it Better to Lose Weight Slowly?

When you set yourself a goal to lose one pound a week, you are saying to yourself that this is something you can easily achieve. Let’s face it, it probably took you several months, if not years to put on all that extra weight, so why should you expect to lose it any faster than a pound or two a week?
Of course, if you’re dieting and exercising but still not losing at least a pound per week, then you are either cheating on your diet, or not following your chosen program for losing weight properly. Okay, it can happen that you can stall on a particular program for a variety of reasons, but more often than not stalling is a result of one of the following:

You are cheating
You have lost enough weight
You are not exercising correctly
You are cheating

Did I mention you might be cheating? This is the biggest cause of weight loss program failure, even though most people won’t actually admit it! If your exercise routine is not strenuous enough to burn off the excess calories to what you are consuming via your diet, you might need to push yourself harder.
Sometimes, you have actually lost enough weight and your body is telling you that you have reached equilibrium. In other words you don’t need to lose any more weight, even if your timetable says you still have a couple of pounds to go. Don’t sweat it, just be grateful your body is in tune with being healthy and not allowing you to go too far to end up looking anorexic. A healthy diet and regular exercise will keep things balanced.
If you are losing more than one pound each week, then chances are you’re doing better than expected and again, don’t sweat it, just go with the flow. It doesn’t necessarily mean you have cracked the age old problem of how to lose weight fast. The level of weight that you lose per week will start to decline the further you get into any program anyway, so it just means that you probably had quite a lot to lose and your body is working in harmony with what it needs to achieve.
Just don’t get despondent when you begin to level out at that magical one pound a week. That’s actually where you want to be and let nature take its course for the best health aspects. Expecting to lose levels such as five pounds or so a week, or trying for the fabled “10 pounds in 10 days” just isn’t realistic and your mind won’t accept that it is possible, meaning you stand a far greater chance of early failure when this unrealistic figure is not being met. Far better to aim low and if you do start losing more, then chalk it up to good work and be happy!

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100 weight loss tips - 94.Eat Slowly and Lose Weight

2012-02-02T07:03:00.000-08:00

Here is the 94th in our series of 100 Weight Loss Tips articles. Each new article brings you a brand new top tip on how to successfully lose weight. So the last tip was all about the importance of including dietary fiber in your daily diet and this one looks at the actual volume of food that you are inclined to eat.

Let’s face it, we were conditioned to eat as kids and most of us were made to sit there until we’d cleaned the plate, or we were threatened that if we didn’t eat up all our meat and vegetables we wouldn’t get any pudding! One of these little gems that I was conditioned with was “eat it while its hot” which translated into shovel that food down your throat before it gets cold! Well, eating that way is not a good way to eat, despite what you were told!

Eat Slowly and Lose Weight!

You have to remember that your fork is not a builder’s shovel and your stomach is not a dustbin. Your diet program is there to help you improve your health. There are no prizes for finishing your meal first. In fact the booby prize for shoveling your food down at an alarming rate to beat everyone else at the table is a faster growing waistline than everyone else!
I know plenty of people do eat far too quickly, even if they’re not hungry. They have gotten into the habit of throwing everything into their mouths as quickly as possible and then swallowing the half-chewed food in order to make room for the next shovel load! When you eat like this, your brain doesn’t know that your stomach is full up until twenty minutes or so after it actually is. When this happens, it is possible to stuff yourself silly before the realization hits you that you didn’t need to eat as much as you just did.
What’s the solution to this problem?
This is a mind game and its one you will have to teach yourself by repetition. You have to be quite strict with yourself and start by only eating half of the food that’s on your plate. Then wait ten minutes. Then you can continue to eat but only if you’re still hungry. The trick with this way of eating is that you should never want to feel full up – ever.
When you feel full after eating, then its a sure indicator that you’ve eaten too much at that sitting. That means you probably just busted the bank with regards to your calorie count for the day and unless you have a rigorous weight loss exercise session planned for later, you are going to gain weight today!
Counter that by forcing yourself to slow down when you eat. To do that, play a game in your mind. Start by putting less food onto your fork to start with, then put the food in your mouth and start chewing slowly. Put the fork down and place both your hands either on your lap or flat on the table. Spend a little time chewing that mouthful of food and as you do, imagine the flavors you can taste in it. Maybe there was a certain herb that was used in the cooking that stands out and you can identify it. Or maybe its an ingredient of the food itself. Try identifying what it is as you chew and don’t allow yourself to swallow until you have figured out exactly what that taste is.
If that’s too tough, then an alternative is to count slowly up to 20 while you chew each mouthful of food before allowing yourself to swallow it. Always, and I mean always put your knife and fork down between each mouthful. That’ll avoid the temptation to have the fork loaded with the next mouthful ready to cram in your mouth the second you have swallowed.
What does all this slowing down of eating do to help you lose weight?
Plenty. It allows your digestive juices (saliva) to pre-digest the food in your mouth, making it easier for your stomach to finish the job and get the maximum amount of nutrients from your food. It also ensures that your brain is informed that your stomach is full as it actually happens rather than sometime later, preventing you from over-stuffing it with more than it needs. This means you’ll consume fewer calories, while improving you metabolic rate, which is the rate at which your digestive system converts the food you eat into energy and nutrients for your body to use. That means it will store less as fat, meaning a slimmer waistline. Which is exactly what you want!
Here’s one of the really cool weight loss tips that help to curb hunger. Try taking an Omega 3 and Omega 6 supplement (EFAs) around twenty minutes before your meal. This will suppress your appetite and you’ll be much less inclined to want to eat much, so you can give yourself a much smaller serving and feel satisfied with that. Hey presto! You just consumed half the calories you were going to and that means you get to lose some weight! Is that not cool?
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100 weight loss tips - 92.Why Olive Oil is Good For You

2012-02-02T07:01:00.000-08:00

Here is the 92nd article in this great series of 100 Weight Loss Tips. Each new article is here to bring you another new top tip on how to lose weight successfully. The last tip looked at why it is better to lose weight slowly rather than go at it like a bull in a china shop. This healthy weight loss tip looks at the reasons that olive oil (and other oils) is good for you and good for your overall health.

There are several commonly used oils in cooking and different countries around the world tend to favor a particular variation over others. This is usually down to availability and/or cost. But it cannot be denied that one of the best oils you can use for health and to assist weight loss has to be extra virgin olive oil.

Why Olive Oil is Good For You

If you think of it in the way that your car needs a really good, high-quality oil for its motor to function at its best and most efficient, so too your body needs a top quality oil to help it stay healthy. Unfortunately, not all oils are created equal!
There are several schools of thought on which oils are better for you and your health than others. Most do agree however that extra virgin olive, which is 100% natural as well as being rich in Omega 9 fatty acids, is one of the best all rounders for maintaining a healthy body and aiding a slow or even a quick weight loss plan.
Choose the variety of oil wisely for your own personal diet, though. There are several grades of olive oil and it depends upon the country of produce and other factors such as the rainfall for the year and other factors. But most of the time, you can usually see a good quality oil just from the price! Ok, that’s not always the best way of gauging the quality of something, but generally the more expensive it is, chances are the better its quality. That is as long as the bulk of that price isn’t swallowed up in bottling in extremely fancy bottles or importation costs with an oil coming from a faraway place that can’t be brought in bulk.
Spain is the world’s biggest producer of top quality extra virgin olive oil, with Greece and Italy also figuring in there. Brand names that are most popular there, where people know a thing or two about the oil they use liberally on just about everything, are Carbonell or Hojiblanca, but if you can’t get either of those, don’t worry as there are many fine varieties of extra virgin olive oil.
When it comes to using the oil, it is commonly used straight from the bottle, drizzled over bread in place of butter (very healthy when you do it with wholemeal bread!) and poured liberally over salads as a dressing combined with vinegar and freshly ground black pepper.
From a weight loss perspective, olive oil is high in mono unsaturated fats (particularly oleic acid) which are the healthiest kinds and very good for your heart. It also passes through the body much easier than other oils and does not add to fat storage, meaning if you use it for cooking your food will be leaner and healthier.
One point you should be aware of is that when frying, extra virgin olive oil becomes unstable at high temperatures, so is not recommended for this type of cooking. It is better to use a lighter olive oil (non-virgin or second pass) with a low acidity value of 4 or less which is more stable at higher temperatures and can safely be used for stir frying dishes. This way it is better for your healthy diet and to keep things as natural as possible.
Olive oil is one of the main constituents of the famed Mediterranean diet and when used as part of your daily diet has a marked effect on cholesterol regulation, especially the oxidation of LDL cholesterol and therefor lowers levels of bad cholesterol. It also lowers blood sugar levels and blood pressure levels.
Particularly when used to replace unhealthy and potentially harmful animal fats in a daily diet, olive oil will help you lose weight over time and build a healthier and happier body from the inside out. Now isn’t that something worth making the change for?
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100 weight loss tips - 90.How to Cope with a Restaurant Diet Disaster

2012-02-02T07:00:00.000-08:00

We’ve hit a milestone in getting to the 90th article in this great series of the Top 100 Weight Loss Tips. Each new article we add in this series brings you another great new top tip on the many ways to successfully lose weight.

Well, the last tip looked at what to do when you suddenly have the urge to eat one of the “Not allowed” foods on your diet. In this post, we sort of carry that theme on some by looking at what to do when you go full out and bust the bank with an unplanned social event where the meal simply could not be avoided.

Restaurant Diet Disaster

Its a fact of life that train wrecks will happen. It’s also inevitable that one of these nights, you are going to find yourself out with some friends in a restaurant and tucking into your weight in steak (or something similarly outrageous)! This means you just likely blew any progress you already made with your Nutrisystem diet or weight loss program that day where you were being so careful and watching every ounce of food you ate. Well, all is certainly not lost.
You slipped up and made a mistake, but hey, you’re human, right? Humans make mistakes (for better or for worse) and we’re supposed to learn from them (which is what sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom…). So ask yourself, “What lesson did I just learn?”
The answer should be along the lines of: eating a huge meal in a restaurant was a stupid thing to do and you’re not going to do it again… at least not while you are on this Bistro MD diet and aiming to lose weight! So instead of being really dumb and repeating the overindulgence, you simply put yourself back on track the very next day.
You are, after all, allowed to slip up every now and then. As long as you avoid making a habit of it and don’t go consuming excessive amounts of food regularly, you can get yourself back into the fold and put the experience behind you. Water under the bridge and all that, right?
Another great exercise you can pull off is to make right the dining injustice right away. Next morning, you can increase your exercise routine to accommodate burning off some more calories to counter the excesses of the previous night and make absolutely sure you stick to your calorie count for the day (and the days following, of course).
The trick, or what can be described as this particular one of the many weight loss solutions that I’m currently putting forward, is getting your mind in the right frame. By this I mean that you understand that a mistake can be corrected.
And as long as you don’t repeat the mistake, you are stronger for it. Added to that, you have taken a step further along the way to understanding what it takes to stick to a diet. You have learned how to lose weight fast but steadily. You mean to lose weight and to then keep that weight off by making sure you stay on track.
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100 weight loss tips - 88.Why Fast Food is Bad For You

2012-02-02T06:59:00.001-08:00

We’re going along swimmingly with our Top 100 Weight Loss Tips and here we are at article number 88 in the backwards counting series already. Each new article is another great top tip on how to lose weight the easy way! So this time out we’re going to take a look at why fast food is bad for you.

You’re kidding, right? You’re going to tell me that Ronald McDonald doesn’t have my best interests at heart when he’s playing the Pied Piper on TV commercials and luring my kids into his fast food emporiums? You mean hamburgers and fries and milk shakes and all those other great things are not as good as they make out?

Why is Fast Food Bad For You?

Closely following on the heels of chocolate cakes, biscuits and pastries, fast food, in the form of those appealing looking burger and fries meals topped off with a cooling milkshake and a fizzy soda drink, is not just bad for your health. It is positively a disaster for your waistline!
The calorie count of one of those so-called “happy” meals is off the scale. And the levels of saturated fats, sugar, salt and artificial additives is pure poison to the system! Yet the makers advertise their stuff like its the next best thing to paradise. With what can only be described as sinister intent, they aim their commercials at kids. That’s because they know that kids will pester the hell out of their parents to take them to the nearest fast food outlet so they can inch their way a few pounds closer to clinical obesity like all their hamburger munching friends.
Ok, enough of the bad press for the burger makers. I’m not aiming my shaking fist just at them. Pizza sellers are almost as bad, along with ads that promote any unhealthy food that is full of trans fats and additives as being anything other than what they really are. Which is an easy way to gain weight and become extremely unhealthy, especially if you lead a sedentary lifestyle. These foods, and I use the term loosely, are packed full of badness.
I remember watching an episode of The Simpsons, where the grossly obese comic book store guy once said that “loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix.” He portrays everything that eating a diet of fast food and getting no exercise will bring you. Obesity and loneliness as he is typecast by the rest of Springfield as the “fat geek.” No apologies for the very un-PC turn of phrase there. The Simpsons do it all by themselves.
Anyway, back to the plot. If you want to know how to lose weight fast but naturally, you are going to have to see through all the hype and clever marketing and see all fast food for what it really is. Then you’re going to have to make the decision that you are not going to eat any of it. Maybe you don’t have to swear an oath never to touch it again, as that would be too harsh. You’re allowed to slip every now and then because occasional lapses of concentration are what makes us all human!
But for the most part, you should avoid the wickedly grinning clown and all his fast food chains’ mascots and gimmicks as well as those of all the rest of the junk food outlets and avoid eating that stuff like your life depended upon it.
Just remember, Elvis Presley chomped his way though a mountain of cheeseburgers until they killed him while he was still a relatively young man. His life depended upon it but he kept eating until the decision was out of his hands.
So if you want to argue that fast food is convenience, then re-think your arguments. Find something convenient to eat that won’t send you to the obesity clinic or have the men in dark suits come and measure you up for a Super-XXXL box to bury you in.
Now that I have probably just written the most direct and to the point hard hitting post on not how to lose weight fast, you are probably wondering what else I’m going to attack with such voracity! Don’t worry, its not all as bad as this, but it gets me so mad when I see commercials advertising this stuff and aiming it at kids who are our future. What future are we going to have if our kids are dying before we do because they had such a terrible diet and took so little exercise?
Say it to yourself over and over: “Going to a fast food restaurant is NOT a treat!”
Be responsible and feed yourselves and your kids with good, wholesome home cooked food made from fresh ingredients. If you can’t cook, then get off your backside and learn. Fast! Don’t you think your kids are worth the extra effort?
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100 weight loss tips - 89.Sticking to a Routine Brings Success

2012-02-02T06:59:00.000-08:00

Patterns and routines are good for us humans, especially when it comes to setting out to lose weight. It makes sense that once you’ve found a comfortable workout zone, doing your best to stick to it will help you enormously when it comes to making those excess calories vanish.

That’s because routines give us something regular and expected that we know will always stay the same and keep us in that cozy comfort zone.
It may come as no surprise to learn that you really should exercise no fewer than three times per week and then for a good forty to sixty minutes each time. Better if you can make that five times a week, but you shouldn’t feel that you need to do it more often than that. Of course you should do lighter daily exercise every day in addition to your workout schedule. But this can comprise little more than going for long walks or going for a swim with friends as a way of both relaxing, de-stressing and still getting the additional simple exercise that your body will really thank you for by toning up and making you feel great!
Your body will in all likelihood appreciate a good burn-off in the mornings more than any other time, but if you feel that you need to relieve stress later in the evening, then if you have time, treat yourself to an extra workout if you want. You should remain flexible within your routine, so don’t be afraid to go right ahead and adjust your workout schedule to fit your needs. You could even try out some dance based exercises such as Zumba fitness or check out what TV workout guru Jillian Michaels can do for you. Take each day as it comes!
Routine and schedules are important for plenty of other areas in your life, but so far we’ve been focusing mainly on the exercise routines that make up many serious weight loss plans.
A solid routine in your Diet also helps to keep the momentum going. But never make it so rigid that you’ll go crazy. A good routine in your diet can make up the core of the diet plan, while you can add variety and interest by building around that core plan. By this, I mean you have a set menu of the basics for each meal, which you can add to by using additional items such as a different vegetable or fruit or anything that will not add much to the calorie count of your set meal. That way you can add variety without sacrificing extra calories. Or if you don’t have the time to work on a regular diet, you could opt for one of the diet food delivery programs that structure your daily eating schedule, like Nutrisystem, eDiets, or Bistro MD. they provide the food and you provide the eating timetable.
So while sticking with a routine for losing weight brings success, that success ultimately depends upon you sticking to that routine. The best way for doing that is to make the routine into the foundation of your combined diet and exercise plan, while adding variety around it to make it more interesting and enjoyable. Because as I’m always saying, when you can enjoy losing weight, then you are much more likely to stick with it and see it all the way through to your goal.
And that’s why anyone does it in the first place, right?
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100 weight loss tips - 87.Why is Some Vegetarian Food Bad For You?

2012-02-02T06:58:00.000-08:00

The pressure is still on with another of the series 100 Weight Loss Tips counting down with article number 87 in the series. remember, each new article represents another top tip on how to lose weight naturally and easily. This post takes a wrinkled brow look at why some vegetarian foods are actually bad for you and can help you to gain weight. The opposite of what you actually want to do!

What Vegetarian Foods Are Bad For You?

Oh, this shakes some trees right down to their roots! The last bastion of the determined health fanatic is vegetarianism where you can leave behind the evils of meat and all the bad fats, cholesterol and other dietary nastiness. Yet even this way of life and its associated diet has its hidden dangers in some of the foods that are eaten in often large quantities by vegetarians who believe themselves to be healthy.
First of all though, lets get one thing straight before I say anything else.
If your diet consists primarily of fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds and little else, then you are doing it right, to a point and will not suffer any of the ill-effects created by some of the foods that I am going to talk about next.
Now that’s clear, lets look at the kind of vegetarian foods that are bad for you, no question. It goes back to some previous posts on the subject of diet where I lay into processed foods or convenience foods for all the damage they’re doing to peoples’ health and the spread of obesity in adults and children. There are plenty of these pre-packaged, processed vegetarian meals that you can find on the supermarket shelves that are aimed at lazy people who happen to be vegetarian.
These foods are generally made from healthy basic ingredients. Then to make them more appealing, by which I mean to look and taste better so they’ll sell more of them, a cocktail of flavorings and colorings and an unhealthy dollop of saturated fats are added. Flavorings include herbs and spices which are fine, then things that are not fine such as salt, Monosodium Glutamate (MSG — our old nemesis), sugar and other sweeteners, naturally derived or artificial. There are bulking agents which include hydrogenated vegetable oil (better known as and trans fats), gums, more sugars and the saturated fats.
Then there are the refined white flour bulk ingredients such as white pasta, breadcrumbs (from white bread) etc. All in all an unhealthy package that nevertheless looks good because the packaging shows a slim mother feeding her healthy looking kids who are all smiling and holding their plates out for more.
Ok, maybe that’s not exactly what’s on the packages, but you get the idea. Packaging sells products so advertisers are drafted in to make sure packaging appeals to as wide a range of people as possible.
Then, because these foods are actually not as high in protein as you’d like, the first thing you grab for is the cheese. Oh yeah, a nice helping of saturated fat and up goes the calorie count even further!
The problem with many vegetarian dishes is their lack of protein which needs to be made up to correct the shortfall created by the absence of meat in their diet. But this can be done easily enough while still avoiding the saturated fats of dairy products. One of the best sources of protein available is whey powder, which can be purchased in sports stores as muscle building or bulking supplemental powder. Another great source of protein is egg whites and if you can stop yourself chomping on the yoke as well, this actually represents a healthy and nutritional food supplement.
But the bottom line when going vegetarian, or if even you’ve been a lifelong veggie, is to make sure the bulk of your diet is made up of the fresh stuff. Fruit and vegetables as nature makes them, not pounded up and processed into “man made goo” then reformed into something that looks edible and that looks good on the packet. If you can do that, then cheating a little with a slice of cheese or a fruit yoghurt will not significantly upset your diet or cause weight gain, because your metabolism will be working just fine processing the fresh foods.
So the top of the rapid weight loss tips for this article is to stay away from all processed, pre-packaged ready meals. Do that whether they say they’re healthy, vegetarian or whatever, because they’re not very healthy and they’ll contribute to you gaining weight, not losing it!

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100 weight loss tips - 86.See Yourself Losing Weight with Photos

2012-02-02T06:57:00.000-08:00

This post looks at the idea of using before and after photographs to actually see yourself losing weight in a graphically visual way. Remember, the camera doesn’t lie (its the clever photoshop manipulators that do that…) You may have noticed a slight change in format for this post and its one I will adopt for the rest of this series, so the main titles are a little easier to read and more manageable.

Losing Weight with Photos

As I was saying, one truly un-arguable way of losing weight naturally is to watch your progress as it unfolds by enlisting the help of the camera. It’s quite easy to do this and a powerful way of reinforcing your motivation to succeed.
When you get started on your own weight loss strategy, take a “before” photo so that you will have a permanent graphical image of exactly what you’re going to be moving away from in the “old” you. If it helps by way of a constant reminder of what it is you have decided to set out and achieve, stick a copy of that image to your fridge. Better make it a big blow-up copy!
The main reasoning behind this is to keep you constantly and visually reminded of why you are trying to lose weight!
You need a good, high profile starting point and you need to remember where that is. So by seeing yourself as an overweight lump staring back at yourself from one of the main places where you are likely to cheat from, the fridge, then you are more likely to get annoyed with yourself enough to motivate you to stick to your guns!
You can take this one step further and post pictures of your progress on a blog, or on a really public place like Facebook if you’re feeling really brash! Although you may get some flack about your methods of losing weight from friends and relatives of you go public in that way.
The good part about this particular exercise is that as you do progress, the photos will get better each time. Then you will start feeling very proud of yourself for getting to each stage of your diet, represented by a new photo. When you feel proud of your achievements, you are going to be spurred on to even greater achievements!
This works so well because as time moves on and you can visibly see the changes in your body (for the better). As each pound drops off and you tone up a little more each week, you will feel even more proud of yourself. It follows that you will be all the more inclined, or better determined to see your diet plan and/or exercise program all the way to its happy and successful conclusion.
What better way to bolster your confidence by being able to compare photos two or more weeks apart and see the difference as it unfolds before you! This is such a powerful exercise in positive thought, belief and confidence that you give yourself far more chance of succeeding than someone who doesn’t use this simple yet clever strategy.
Don’t allow yourself succumb to any embarrassment or shyness, because these things will keep you fat! Throw off those negative feelings and embrace the positive devil may care attitude. This will be far more likely to push you through the barriers of temptation that creep up on you, especially if you’re feeling down. Throw caution to the wind and take those pictures of yourself as you really are. And then enjoy the ride as you lose weight week by week and have a photo album of the living proof to remind yourself that you are doing it and succeeding!
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100 weight loss tips - 85.Why Soda is Bad For You

2012-02-02T06:55:00.001-08:00

Before I get into this, please be aware that when I’m referring to soda, I mean the fizzy, non-alcoholic carbonated drinks that usually come in cans or bottles and are flavored and sweetened with a variety of ingredients. I don’t mean the fizzy water that is often mixed with whiskey!

Why is Soda Bad For You?

Ever since a certain drinks company patented their recipe for cola, then advertised it as the next best thing to, well, the best thing ever, a whole industry has grown up around fizzy carbonated drinks. These are known in the US as soda and in many other countries as simply fizzy drinks, pop, soda-pop and whatever else they like to call it. They are all the same thing and they are all made by taking straight water, adding flavorings, preservatives, colorants, chemical stabilizer and sweetener then carbonating it under pressure to add the fizz.
This produces a thirst quenching drink, especially when its cooled in a fridge. Or at least it would be thirst quenching if it didn’t contain so many chemicals and some contain sodium to make you more thirsty so you’ll drink more! There are several reasons why soda is bad for you, not least of all that the majority of them contain a load of fructose in the form of high fructose corn syrup. This is an ingredient that is linked with obesity as well as type II diabetes, so it really is not good to be drinking this stuff as part of your daily diet or personal hydration strategy.
Maybe you think you can avoid many of the health dangers by switching to a low calorie, or sugar free alternative? Think again.
Sugar free soda contains artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, saccharine and sorbitol, all of which are linked with cancer. Aspartame, by far the most popular sugar free drink additive these days is a time bomb waiting to go off. At temperatures greater than 83 degrees Fahrenheit, aspartame becomes unstable and the wood alcohol breaks down to form formaldehyde. That’s the stuff embalming fluid is made of and it is carcinogenic (cancer causing), no question. Aspartame also messes with cell DNA and can trigger abnormal cell growth. It also tricks your brain into thinking you are hungry. This means you’re going to want to eat more of the foods that are usually bad for your diet, which defeats the object of drinking a low calorie or calorie free drink.
So do you still want to drink soda in any form?
There are some great alternatives to quenching your thirst. Try good old fashioned water. Remember that stuff? You can flavor it with freshly squeezed lemon or lime juice and chill it in the fridge for a really great thirst quenching drink that is totally calorie free, totally additive free and will help you to lose weight!
Here’s a good weight loss tip: If you are a lover of sugar-laden soda drinks and drink two or more cans a day, by dropping them completely from your daily routine will help you to drop as much as FIVE POUNDS in a single week. And that’s WITHOUT doing anything else!
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100 weight loss tips - 84.Walking for Weight Loss

2012-02-02T06:55:00.000-08:00

The Top 100 Weight Loss Tips continue unabated as we count down with article number 84 in the series. Here we have yet another great top tip on how you can lose weight naturally, easily and safely. This post looks at one of the simplest exercises there is for maintaining fitness, health and of course for helping you to lose weight.

That simple to do exercise is walking and so we look at walking for weight loss and why this is something that is so easy, everyone should be doing more of it!

Why Walking is Good for You

It may come as no great surprise to learn that you do burn calories while you are walking. When you reason it out, that means that the longer you walk for, the more calories you are going to burn off. You can take it one step further and then notice that the more strenuous the walk, for instance up and down hills or steep inclines and the rougher the terrain, the more calories you will burn off.
Ok, not everyone has a mountain in their back yard to go tramping up and down every day. But even if you live somewhere fairly flat, a good hour long walk every day will burn off a surprising amount of calories to help you fulfill your weight loss exercise quota as long as you walk at a decent pace and don’t merely saunter along.
One great way to gauge how far you are walking or how many steps you are taking is to get yourself a good quality pedometer. This will also allow you to keep track of how much walking you’re doing in a day including while you are at work or just walking around the shops.
A determined march through a large shopping mall is a way of getting your walking miles done if you aren’t the type to simply want to walk around the streets. It’s also a good alternative if you live in a neighborhood where walking through the streets might not be all that safe.
Why does walking do you so much good?
For starters it gets you out into the fresh air and away from energy sapping pursuits like logging the long hours in front of the TV or computer games console. When you walk at a brisk pace, you use muscles in your legs, lower back and torso, which benefit from the exercise and will reward you for doing it daily by toning up flabby upper thighs, buttocks and can even help to reduce a flabby tummy.
You have to be a little purposeful, is all. When you walk, make your body stand erect with your back straight and your shoulders back. This forces you to suck in your tummy making your tummy muscles work harder and tones them up. It also has the effect of building your confidence because you get used to walking this way after a while and it becomes the norm for you. When you feel more confident, you are spurred on to bigger and better things and may begin tinkering with the idea of taking up more easy kinds of exercise, like maybe swimming.
The bottom line is that by briskly walking for an hour every day, it will help you to maintain a better looking, more toned figure, and also help you to lose weight by burning off the excess calories.
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100 weight loss tips - 83.Not All Fats Are Bad

2012-02-02T06:54:00.000-08:00

Hi there, I’m back with another of Top 100 weight loss tips with article number 83 in this excellent series. We’re always looking at alternative means to lose weight naturally, safely and as easily as possible.

Well, this post is no different as it looks at whether or not all fats should be avoided and whether or not you really should stick to low fat diet.

Not All Fats Are Bad

When it comes to weight loss solutions, the latest most effective new diet is always the one the majority of dieters like to follow. This is especially if it claims to be scientifically backed up by evidence and proof.
Unfortunately, not all scientific evidence and proof is accurate.
Take as an example the scientific “facts” about how safe smoking was in the 1960s. Guess they turned out to be not as sure fire as everyone believed! So even when this or that diet comes along and “proves” with the backing of some medical evidence or research figures, that it is the best thing you’ll ever try, there is no cast iron guarantee that it is as foolproof as the makers say it is. Nor is it always as safe as the advertisers would have you believe.
Remember the Atkins diet? There is a case in point of how the media can latch onto a fad and turn it into a monster. Literally in this case, as people were gorging on a diet rich in saturated fats and protein and ignoring the hugely important carbohydrates and dietary fiber that comes from fruit and vegetables!
But are all fats bad for you? Certainly some of them, when consumed in excess will do untold damage to your body and cause you to gain weight. Similarly, by cutting out all fats from your diet, you could also be doing yourself and your body a lot of damage.
For starters, your brain, the central control center for your entire body, needs fats to function! Okay, it doesn’t need the saturated animal fats that come from fatty meats and dairy products. These are the ones that will clog up your arteries with bad LDL cholesterol. They’ll acidify your body so that if you are susceptible to contracting arthritis, gout as well as other inflammatory diseases, your symptoms will be exacerbated or you’ll suddenly start suffering form them where before you didn’t. They also retard your metabolism and give your digestive system a real hard time. That will lead to depositing fat to be stored on your belly where you really don’t want it, while causing the clogging up your intestines and colon. Nice!
On the other hand, the fats that you do need, referred to as essential fatty acids, will improve your health. They are the omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids that are getting a lot of good press lately. Omega 9 fatty acids are also highly beneficial in your diet, but are not considered “essential” fatty acids. They are all beneficial in your diet as they help to lower your levels of bad LDL cholesterol while raising levels of good HDL cholesterol. They improve your brain’s many functions and help to improve intelligence levels in children. The health benefits of getting your daily recommended allowance of these omega fatty acids would make a list far too long to go into any detail here.
So why aren’t we getting them from our food?
Most products on the supermarket shelves have these essential fatty acids stripped from them through the processing, refining and canning stages. In fact, a lot of the food’s goodness is removed during the processing stage, which in many foods is replaced by unhealthy trans fats. It’s done to provide picky housewives with perfect looking, bland tasting and homogeneous products that their kids will probably eat in preference to freshly cooked food of a healthy diet that you have to prepare yourself. Sure, its much easier to pop a ready meal in the microwave and save all that preparation and cooking time so you can catch your favorite TV show.
But is that TV show worth the health and future health prospects of your kids? All for convenience? Most stuff that comes pre-packaged or tinned is likely to be deficient in the essential fatty acids. To get them, if you really must eat this way, is to supplement your diet with fish oil or flax seed oil capsules.
But why waste money on supplements when you can get all the omega 3, 6 and 9 oils from fresh food. Here are some of the foods that contain high levels of the essential fatty acids that you can get just about anywhere:

Omega 3 Fatty Acids:

Flax (linseed) seeds and the oil that comes from them is six times richer in omega 3 than most fish oils. Walnuts are also one of the top foods for omega 3 acids. Also high in these essential fatty acids are oily fish such as salmon, mackerel, herring, anchovies and sardines. Eggs are also a good source of omega 3, while most fresh meats also contain lower levels.

Omega 6 Fatty Acids:

Sources of omega 6 include fresh poultry, eggs, avocados, whole grain breads, flax oil, nuts, sunflower oil.

Omega 9 Fatty Acids:

The best source of omega 9 is extra virgin olive oil. This is an integral part of the popular and extremely healthy Mediterranean diet and is one you can use to replace the less healthy vegetable oil in cooking.
So you really owe it to yourself and your kids to spend some time preparing and cooking meals from fresh ingredients. Think about your own health? And what about your weight and working on how to lose weight? Do you think all those crappy convenience foods and processed meals from the store are going to help to keep you slim? No they are certainly not!
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100 weight loss tips - 81.Start the Day With a Good Breakfast

2012-02-02T06:53:00.001-08:00

You see, while it may seem contrary to your diet ethic to eat a lot of food at breakfast, when you do it right, it will benefit you and improve your ability to burn off those all important calories. As a part of a sensible and healthy diet program, it may surprise you how beneficial it can be.

Start the Day With a Good Breakfast

By eating a good, healthy breakfast that will complement your diet, I do not mean shoveling down a huge plate of bacon, sausages and eggs, all fried in something unmentionable. And then followed on with several rounds of heavily buttered toast. Or worse, a pile of pancakes swimming in maple syrup!
I mention this particular type of breakfast, as it is exactly this which people are almost always assaulted with when staying in hotels or eating out in breakfast restaurants in most places in the United States. Sure, that kind of breakfast is very tempting, but unfortunately it is also very “obesity city here we come!”
A healthy breakfast will consist of a low GI cereal, such as rolled oats (porridge) muesli or bran that release their sugars slowly into the system. Brown (wholewheat) bread as toast can follow with boiled, poached or scrambled eggs (much more healthy than fried), fruit juice and some fresh fruit such as an apple, a pear, a peach, apricots, plums, or some strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, loganberries etc all helped down with some coffee or tea as you prefer.
This will fill you up and provide a good mixture of proteins and slow release carbohydrates, plus dietary fiber from the wholewheat bread and cereals, with vitamins and minerals from the fresh fruit. It is also a very good idea to preclude all that food with a large glass of plain water, as your body will be a little dehydrated following a nights sleep.
By having a healthy breakfast that fills you up as part of your daily diet, you give a kick-start to your metabolism when it needs it most. That is right after its been in sleep mode for the last several hours. By boosting your metabolism early on in the day you ensure that it keeps going at an elevated rate throughout the day, so that what you eat later on is digested and assimilated more efficiently that it would be otherwise.
This all means better use being made of the calories you take in and more energy to exercise during the day for you to burn them as well as boost fat burning capabilities. It really is the very best start to the day you can give to yourself!
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100 weight loss tips - 82.Maintain Your Diet Priorities

2012-02-02T06:53:00.000-08:00

We all have moments of temptation thrust before us and they all seem to get blown out of all proportion when we’re on a weight loss program. Such decisions that may have seemed minuscule when we were not so concerned about our diet are suddenly magnified a guzillion times when we’re on a diet food delivery! What should we do?

Maintain Your Diet Priorities

Think about this one: That sandwich you’re making right now would be sure to taste much more amazing if you were to add an extra tablespoon of that gorgeous mayonnaise, but you have to ask yourself, “Do I really need it?” The answer is a resounding NO, but the temptation is there and its a tough one to rationalize when its staring you in the face. And you can smell how good it is too!
However, what is more important for you? Is it to reach your weight loss goal that much sooner, or is it to make this sandwich taste a little better by adding something that is sure to compound the number of calories in there? Its your choice in the end, but you have to remind yourself that it is also your choice to learn how to lose weight fast or just remain a fatty! Now does the decision get a little easier? It sure does!
There is another side to this point. What if you had caved in to that temptation and told yourself that one little slip up will be ok? Do you think the decision will be any easier next time you’re faced with that jar of mayo and you’re staring at a sandwich that is crying out for more taste? In fact, if you’d given in to temptation the first time, it becomes so much easier to give in to temptation a second time. Then a third, a fourth and so on. It becomes a very slippery slope and before you know it, you’re no longer on your diet, whatever weight you lost up until this point is already starting to creep back on again and you’ve lost your self esteem and confidence.
All for the sake of a scoop of mayo!
The best approach to this situation is to be firm with yourself and say no to anything that will break your diet. By avoiding temptation the first time, you’ll be better placed to avoid it the next time and keep on avoiding it until you’ve achieved your goal and you’ve lost all the weight you wanted to lose.
Once you’ve done that, do think you’ll want to undo all that achievement by going back to eating all that calorie laden stuff again? The sensible money is on the “NO” answer here!
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100 weight loss tips - 91.What to Do When Faced With Temptation

2012-02-02T05:40:00.000-08:00

Here is the 91st article in this great series of the Top 100 Weight Loss Tips. Each new article will bring you another great new top tip on how to successfully lose weight. The last tip looked at why olive oil is so good for you from both a health and a weight loss standpoint.
This article looks at one of the problems faced by almost all dieters at some stage or another. Its that if being faced with something you badly want to eat but know you shouldn’t. What do you do when faced with temptation for something you know you really shouldn’t be eating? Read on…

What to Do When Faced With Temptation

To eat or not to eat…
When you’re actively trying to lose weight fast, what ever your reasons may be, situations are going to arise when you’ll come up against one of the foods that are banned from your diet. In these cases you are likely going to be overcome with a desire to eat them. So what do you do when you find yourself stuck in a dilemma of whether to give in to your sudden craving to eat it or not.
The diet books and podium thumping diet experts will probably tell you to be strong and resist temptation. That the craving will go away of its own accord an a short time, especially if you can walk away from the food and drink a glass of plain water instead. Sure, this is the textbook thing to do, but is it the right thing to do?
Modern dieting techniques are beginning to question this approach and instead are saying, if you really want it so bad, then cut off a small piece if possible and treat yourself. This way you satisfy your cravings by eating a small piece of what you want and putting the rest away for another day. It follows the school of thought that if you’re hungry for something, then go right ahead and eat it and don’t go stressing yourself by denying yourself simple pleasures every now and again.
The way to gauge how effective this is for you is to start by taking a single mouthful of what you desire and making a point of chewing it over really slow and concentrating on the flavors, the textures and everything about the experience of enjoying that mouthful to its fullest extent. This works whether its a diet meal you prepared yourself, or you got from a diet food delivery program like Nutrisystem or Bistro MD and the like. When you finally get around to swallowing, tell yourself “My craving is completely satisfied now” and make it your intention to believe it totally.
That way, you have had your treat and satisfied your mental craving to taste the treat (whatever it was) by making full use of concentrating all of your senses on enjoying that moment and dragging it out for as long as possible to get the maximum satisfaction from it. When you do that, you’ll realize you don’t want any more and are quite happy to get back to your diet.
As an aside, when you do succumb to treating yourself, make sure you do it on a full stomach, sometime after eating a meal that is within your diet’s guidelines. This is extremely important, because by treating yourself when you are already full, you only have to satisfy a craving for the taste and experience of eating the treat. You do not have to also face the added prospect of satisfying hunger.
If you are hungry and you have your eye on a treat, then you must walk away from it. There is no way you will be strong enough to take only one bite of a treat when you are hungry, because in that case you have two very powerful urges to satisfy instead of just one. The urge to satisfy the craving for a taste and experience of enjoying a treat can be dealt with, but try to overcome the addition load of the urge to satisfy hunger and you will most likely fail and eat the whole thing!
Why is this? Because hunger is an imperative that must be satisfied before all else.
That’s why your meals should consist of a balance of foods that will fill you up, such as plenty of freshly cooked vegetables, meat (if you are not vegetarian) or fish, potatoes (rich in fiber and vitamins) and/or brown pasta or brown rice. Once you are full up, then you can have your treat because the hunger imperative has been satisfied with the meal and you will be much more able to resist taking a second bite!
All in all, when you know that there is room for a sneaky treat every now and then, a diet becomes much more doable and even enjoyable, especially when you are aiming to lose a few pounds for a forthcoming event that you have bought a special outfit for and you need to fit into it comfortably!
100 weight loss tips number 90 will follow in the next post!

How to Increase Metabolism

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One of the real sticking points when it comes to losing weight is the problem of a slow metabolism. This makes the task doubly difficult because if your body is not burning enough of the calories it is consuming, then you simply will not lose any weight and may even gain weight despite being on a low calorie diet. So how can you turn this situation around and increase your metabolism?

What is Metabolism?

Firstly, let’s take a high level view of what metabolism is and how it affects the way your body looks. Simply put, your metabolism is the rate at which your body uses up the energy that it gets from whatever you consume as food or drinks. A relatively normal metabolism will be in balance and a person in this state will neither gain nor lose weight because their body is using as much energy as it is getting. When you are at your correct weight, this is the state of balance that you want to find yoruself in and stay in. But not everybody enjoys such a welcoming condition.
Those who have a very fast metabolism but who do not work out often will tend to look thin and wiry, be able to eat a mountain of food and simply not gain an ounce. These people are in the minority, but it seems that most people who are the opposite knows one or more people like this and probably hates that they can eat so much and still be so thin!
A much larger proportion of the population has a slower metabolism and is prone to gaining weight if they eat something that pushes their day’s calorie intake above a certain level. That level will be different for different people and will be individual to you. That means there are no set rules on how many calories you can eat in a day that will apply to everyone in your office or home.
As an individual, its necessary that you get a personalized assessment of what your specific daily calorie intake should be and you get that from a professional nutritionist or dietitian, or in some cases your doctor if they have expertise in that area. This figure will represent how many calories you personally need to consume via your daily diet to maintain a healthy weight. It has to be personalized because while you may have exactly the same physical appearance as someone you know, your lifestyles may be different and your activity levels may be different.
But most importantly, your metabolisms will probably be different.

Increasing a Slow Metabolism

The best way to naturally boost your metabolism is by getting plenty of daily exercise and activity. This may be something you hate to hear, but its a pretty sure thing. Exercise forces your muscles to work and when they work they consume energy. They get that energy from the sugars in your bloodstream and it gets there from the food you eat and primarily the amount of sugars that are in that food or liquid.
Most people’s diets consist of foods and drinks that contain high levels of refined sugar or sucrose, which the body can’t use directly. There are other sugars such as fructose (including high fructose corn syrup), dextrose and a whole host of others that are outside the scope of this article to go into in any great detail. Save it to say that what we will call “sugars” will be a composite of sucrose, which the body has to break it down into glucose for the muscles to use, and “other sugars”.
Unless our bodies are physically working hard, the chances are we will not use up all the sugars that are coming in, so the excess will get stored as fat for later use. This is a situation we do not want, as the levels of stored fat will keep on increasing and our weight will go up in comparison. But by doing more exercise, we can burn more of those sugars and get to the point where we are burning more than we consume. That’s when our bodies are forced to make up the shortfall from the store of fat, leading to us achieving our realistic weight loss goals.
When you exercise regularly and often, your metabolism will naturally increase as your body gets used to the increased workload. When that happens, it becomes more efficient at burning the sugars it gets from its diet and will consume more calories regularly as you lose weight and also tone up your physical appearance, thanks to the stronger and more defined muscle structure.
That’s as well as may be, but what about someone who can’t get so much exercise every day? How do they increase their metabolism?

Metabolism Boosting Foods

You can boost your metabolism through your diet alone, although it is still recommended that you get as much exercise as you can to maximize the process. Eating a diet that rich in foods high in protein and low in carbohydrates and refined sugars is the best and most natural way to boost your metabolic rate. Cut out things like bread, pasta, pie, donuts, cookies… okay, you should know the ones that you should cut out by now if you’ve been following this blog for any length of time!
Include things like lean meat, fish, egg whites, nuts, seeds and pulses, fresh vegetables and fruit. You probably should be selective with the latter two items, as most fruits and vegetables are high in carbohydrates, but some of these are permissible in moderate quantities.
As an aside, eating raw vegetables where possible will stimulate a higher calorie burn rate because your body has to work harder to digest them!
Drinking caffeinated beverages (coffee and tea) also helps raise metabolism. A good idea is to drink green tea for weight loss as this also contains many additional health benefits as well as being a better metabolism booster than both black tea and coffee! However, do NOT drink certain caffeinated cola soft drinks or sports drinks because they are either heavy in sugar or heavy in artificial sweeteners which themselves have an adverse effect on your health and ability to lose weight.
As with all advice on this subject, please consult your doctor or medical professional before embarking on any specialized diet if you are in doubt about any aspect of it. This article was written exclusively for weightlossgo.com and is protected under international copyright against plagiarism. It may NOT be copied or reproduced on any other publication or medium under any circumstances.

Jillian Michaels Losing It Reviews

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People can read this review about Jillian Michaels and her weight loss and fitness workout schedules, DVDs, diets and related products. If you are serious about losing weight and getting into shape, then this review is for you!
For anyone who takes an interest in TV trainers and weight loss shows, the name Jillian Michaels is pretty much a household name associated with really tough workouts and training schedules designed to get lazy people off their backsides and working up a sweat!
Well, this is where you will get to see more about the fitness expert, life coach, TV fitness guru and hardball trainer on Losing It with Jillian Michaels and The Biggest Loser as well as guest spots on a variety of talk shows, interest shows and popular interviews.
Here’s a look at some of her popular fitness and weight loss resources:

Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred Reviews

This is Jillian’s hugely popular DVD training course that can have you losing as much as 20 pounds inside 30 days. The 30 Day Shred DVD comes with 3 circuit-training workouts that run for 20 minutes each. When you follow these workouts you will burn a large amount of calories while building stronger, leaner muscle. The workouts are based on Jillian’s own brand of 3-2-1 Strength/Cardio/Ab training circuit. That translates into 3 minutes doing strength work, 2 minutes doing cardio work and a minute doing ab work.
Also included is Jillian’s brief warm-up session as well as her all important cool down stretching session.
The idea is to follow this program for at least 30 days to get the most from it. You will be pleasantly surprised at what you can achieve in that time as long as you stick with it!

Jillian Michaels DVD Collection

There is a big and ever growing collection of great fitness, workout, yoga and weight loss DVDs available from Jillian’s website that you can get to by clicking the big image banner at the top of this page. Here is a rundown of the DVDs:

Ripped In 30 Reviews

After the success of Jillian’s Shredded in 30 Days, it’s time to move up a notch and get ripped! This DVD program is set out in four separate 24-minute long workouts. They are based on her popular 3-2-1 interval system that has helped so many people to lose weight and get a great looking body. It mixes strength, cardio and abs workouts in short intervals so almost anyone can easily do them and see great results.
The four workouts represent four workout level, with the first being an more easy level then advancing up to level 4 which is much tougher but still very doable because you work your way up to it gradually. There is also a great, complimentary 30-day diet plan to go with the workout program so that you can be sure to be eating healthily to really boost your body’s ability to burn the fat and build lean muscle. In fact, the whole program is designed for getting you into the best physical shape you have ever been in!

6 Week Six-Pack Reviews

This is the DVD set where you can forget all about doing a bunch of boring sit-ups! This is Jillian’s ab-shredding system that is designed to give you a chiseled midsection. Its done by working with her powerful combo of core-focused cardio circuits and her famous ab-toning exercises.
This DVD series comes as two 30-minute long workouts along with warm-up instructions and Jillian’s specialty cooldown stretching exercises. You see incredible results courtesy of Jillian’s unique methods!

Lose Weight with Jillian Michaels

The upshot of this article is to show you that you can lose weight and greatly improve your fitness levels when you take your guidance and tutoring from Jillian. She is one the best workout trainers around right now and to have her in your living room with you as your personal trainer while you work on getting fit and slim would be the best thing ever. As that is probably not going to happen, the next best thing is to have Jillian on your TV set showing you exactly how to lose the flab and tighten up those loose bits by following her professional instruction.
As far as fitness and weight loss resources go, you would be hard pressed to find a more motivational instructor and trainer than Jillian. You can find out more about Jillian and her amazing fitness instructional methods as well as get hold of any one of her DVD training systems as well as read any of her books that you want to just by visiting her official website. There you can follow the links to whatever product takes your interest. To do that, just click the image below and you’ll be transferred right there where your weight loss and fitness journey can begin for real!

Sonoma Diet Reviews

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People can read this review of the Sonoma Diet and find out how they can lose weight the easy way by using this great, easy to follow diet and fitness program rolled into one. There are several major benefits to losing weight with this plan and if you follow them closely, then you will amaze yourself at how easily you can lose weight and look and feel terrific!
If you have always wished that you could have a great looking, slim and fit body but never believed it was possible for you, then going on this diet and lifestyle program can change all that and make your dreams and wishes come true!

Benefits of the Sonoma Diet

A lifestyle that infuses you with health and energy
A way of eating that treats meals as celebrations
It encourages you to indulge in the healthy pleasures of delicious food
It is a way to lose weight easily, quickly and permanently

For full details, you can visit the official Sonoma Diet website by clicking your mouse on the image below.

What is The Sonoma Diet?

This is a diet and lifestyle program that was created by nationally and internationally renowned registered dietitian and culinary professional Dr. Connie Guttersen, R.D., Ph.D. She created the Sonoma diet to help people to attain a lasting physical benefit from weight loss and improved health and fitness through eating a healthy and interesting diet. The Sonoma Diet, which is backed up by the accompanying Sonoma Cookbook will introduce you to delicious recipes and meals that instead of binding you to a strict eating regime, actually encourage you to celebrate flavorsome food. At the same time, it helps you to lose weight naturally while indulging in truly satisfying amounts of some really great food.
The portion sizes are measured by plate size rather than weighing the ingredients themselves, which is more of a friendly approach because you can see that when your plate is full, you have the right size meal. The Sonoma Diet places the emphasis on whole foods, with very few processed foods included in the menu, which is good. It also means that there are quite a lot of forbidden foods, but this is turned around by emphasizing the foods you can eat and not those you can’t.
The diet program itself is cleverly divided into three “waves”, which is an approach favored by some other plans and one that works very well indeed.

Sonoma Diet Wave 1

This first “wave” lasts for just ten days and is where you will be re-programming your body to ditch old, bad eating patterns and habits and form new, healthy ones. There are no diet meals as such, but a collection of really great tasting recipes that are naturally low in calories while being high in healthy nutrition to get you feeling good, with more energy and get up and go than you probably feel before you started the plan.

Sonoma Diet Wave 2

The second “wave” is the main part of the program and this is where you stay until you reach your weight loss goal. This lasts as long as you need it to in order to hit the target weight you were aiming at. You eat healthily and still enjoyably, while living a more active and healthy lifestyle.

Sonoma Diet Wave 3

The third “wave” is the on-going maintenance part of the program where you continue to eat great food that is healthy and nutritious and remain active to make sure that you remain at your target weight in the long term and never go back to those old, bad eating and lifestyle habits that got you out of shape in the first place.

Downsides to the Sonoma Diet

No diet is perfect and all have their downsides. Sometimes these are simply because they are diets and diets are designed to help people to lose weight so they can sometimes seem a little harder on you than you might want them to be. This diet is no different and so as this is a fair review, here are some of the aspects of this diet that you ought to be aware of before you sign up.
The calorie count for each day is quite low, with around 1,000 calories for women and around 1,200 calories for men in Wave 1. For women, this rises to around 1,200 and for men to around -1,500 calories in Wave 2. To help get over the potential hunger gaps between meals, you can eat snacks of raw vegetables or drink lots of plain water.
The diet claims not to be low carb, although when you actually measure the amount of carbs in the meals, you’ll find only around 40 grams of carbs in Wave 1, with around 100 grams in Wave 2. This is comparable to most low carb diets. Also, sugar substitutes, additional fats or what can be considered extra foods are not allowed

Conclusions

The beauty of this program is that you get to choose what you eat from a wide selection of foods that keep you interested and enjoying the diet as something you really want to keep doing. There are suggested meal plans that you can opt for if you run out of ideas, or you can design your own menus from the selection of foods the plan recommends.
In fact, the Sonoma Diet can really help you get into a way of eating that can only encourage good, healthy eating habits. You get to choose and those choices will become second nature to you because you will grow to appreciate great nourishing ingredients that go into great meals. You can enjoy great success with the Sonoma Diet, thanks to its emphasis on delicious food rewards that keep things interesting and varied. This way, you get to enjoy a slimmer waist and a healthier body combined with a truly energized lifestyle that will not fade over time. In fact, this program will become a lifestyle choice you will love and will not want to give up!

Suzanne Somers Sexy Forever

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People can read this review of how Suzanne Somers keeps herself looking so young with that gorgeous figure. Learn how you can lose weight and look great too at any age.
You may be shocked to learn that Suzanne is actually in her 60s! That’s right! The picture of the woman you see in the image to the left is actually 64 years of age! So how does the actress, entertainer and author with no fewer than 10 New York Times bestsellers manage to keep herself looking so slim, trim and totally gorgeous? You can click your mouse on that image right now and find out from her own website.

How Does Suzanne Somers Stay Looking So Young and Beautiful?

Well, we can’t spill all the beans right here, because that would be a little unfair and anyway, part of the process of losing weight and looking great is going through the methods she outlines in her own program. Its no good just learning a few snippets because you have to really make a full commitment to losing the weight you want to lose and to get fit in order to have a body that looks as amazing as Suzanne’s does.
But we can tell you some of it to get your interest going. So then you’ll just have to click through our image link to Suzanne’s website (top left on this page) to get the rest!
Sexy Forever Online is Suzanne’s own, personal fitness and weight loss program that will give you a full quota of all the tips and tools that you are likely to need in order for you to lose weight and feel fit, nice and sexy. Suzanne’s program will sure help you to reveal to yourself those hidden obstacles that are effectively stopping you from losing weight.
That’s right! There are internal mental blocks inside of you that are acting to sabotage your efforts to lose weight and they get in the way every time you try. It happens to a lot of people who regularly attempt and fail to lose weight, or they lose some and then quit and put it all back on again.
Suzanne has discovered the secret to overcoming those obstacles and then pushing through with your determination and motivation to finally succeed. But not just to succeed. She shows you how you can lose the weight and keep it off in the long term so that you too can look and feel as great as she does. Its no secret that she advocates a healthy lifestyle regime and that includes eating a naturally healthy diet and getting plenty of daily exercise. But there is more to her secret than just eating right and staying active.

Want to Know More?

Are you interested to know more about Suzanne and this incredible health and weight loss resource? Sure you are! Just click your mouse on the image banner below and that will take you direct to Suzanne’s website where she reveals her secrets of how she keeps her youthful beauty, her great looks and that amazing, forever sexy body!

Zumba Fitness Total Body Transformation System DVD Set Review

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People could read this review and learn about the Zumba Fitness Total Body Transformation System DVD set and how it can improve your life in so many ways easily by making it easy to get fit by doing something as enjoyable as dancing!

If this is something you always wanted to do but never knew it could be so easy, then you can get this amazing fitness dance DVD set online by simply clicking the image to the left. That’s how you can get more details such as the current discount price and shipping information from Amazon.

If you would like to read more of our review, then by all means read on. We are focusing on the benefits of this system as a means to improve your fitness and lose weight, while also pointing out any drawbacks to the system.

The Benefits of Zumba Dance

The major benefits of this incredible way to easy fitness are:

Its ease of use so that almost anyone can do it
Dancing is fun and everyone wants to do fun stuff
You can do this in the privacy of your home
You can take it at your own pace, no stress, no hassle

There are always plenty of motivational workout routines and exercises that you can now get on DVD for that power workout at home. One of the best and most popular of these at the moment is the Zumba Fitness Total Body Transformation System DVD Set that comes as a full set of DVDs and extras. You’ll find this collection is pulsating with red-hot dance steps to great Latin rhythms and its all put together in a series of routines that are really easy to follow. You’ll find that this invigorating dance-fitness type of workout doesn’t feel like a workout at all, but more of a dance party designed to get your body moving and shaking off the excess weight to sexy, exotic rhythms such as salsa, samba, cumbia and merengue etc.

Zumba Fitness DVD

But there is a serious side to this set of dance style Zumba Fitness DVD in that each routine features a set of interval training sessions. These combine both fast and slow rhythms to the kind of resistance training that helps to sculpt and tone your body all the while helping you to burn fat. It gets you motivated and active, so that you can enjoy the many long-term health benefits of this kind of action while having a lot of fun. After all, working out needs to be fun if you are going to want to do it more and this is a load of fun for sure!
There are four DVDs and six total workouts in the set. These will work your whole body from the top of your head to the tips of your toes!
You can start with the basics and then move up to more interesting targets, like your core, thighs and of course those abs. To make it extra interesting, this set comes with toning sticks similar to maracas which will also help to add muscle to the body sculpting routines you’ll be doing.

Zumba Fitness DVD Features

The fitness set comprises 4-DVDs with 6 workouts designed to work your whole body
Cool red-hot dance steps, featuring exciting, pulsating rhythms combining with easy routines
Toning sticks like maracas for adding muscle to the sculpting workouts
Three types of workout: Basic, 20 minute Express, Sculpt-n-Tone
Extras that include the Cardio Party plus Flat Abs workouts

Zumba Fitness? What is It?

Back in the mid 1990s, celebrity fitness trainer “Beto” Perez learned the concept of dance fitness inspired by Latin rhythms and dance routines in his native Colombia. It happened when he went to his aerobics class but had forgotten the music, so as a hasty backup, he grabbed some cassette tapes he had in his backpack. These included music of traditional Latin salsa and meringue, which he had been listening to all through his life.
By improvising, Beto gave his class and found to his surprise that his students so enjoyed their workout and got so much from it that he realized he had the makings of a revolutionary new concept in aerobic fitness. The Zumba Fitness Party was born and very soon, the class became the most popular at his fitness facility. These days, the Zumba program has expanded and is now taught at over 50,000 locations across 75 different countries. It has also sold millions of DVDs which have changed the lives of the many lovers of Zumba worldwide. To date, Zumba classes attract an estimated 6 million participants every week!

Best Price Zumba Fitness DVD

If you want to take advantage of one of the best weight loss resources there is, then join them and have a great time while enjoying the dance sensation of Latin routines. Use it to boost your fitness and lose weight too, especially when combining this with an appropriate diet. While finding the best price Zumba Fitness DVD set, you can buy these fabulous DVDs at a discount by clicking the image at the top of this page or click this image link to Amazon, the most trusted and best loved online store in the world at their sale page:

Clicking that image above will get you one of the the best Zumba Fitness DVD deals currently available online! But it can’t last for too long and the price may rise at any time. So if you really want to take advantage of this great discount price, get yours right now while the price is still this low!

Nutrisystem Reviews

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People can read this article and find out about how Nutrisystem diets work and what the customer can expect to get when they sign up with Nutrisystem to lose weight, improve their health and get a great figure.
If getting yourself started on one of the easiest dieting programs around is your aim, then choosing a Nutrisystem diet plan is a very wise decision. In fact its the right decision for so many great reasons.

You may be looking around for honest information that includes the kind of unbiased and balanced viewpoint you’ll find right here.
You are still going to find advertisements for Nutrisystem everywhere you look.
What people need is just a plain, honest review of this cost effective diet and that’s exactly what I’ve put together here.

Lose Weight Fast and Easy

The TV ads tell you that Nutrisystem is one of the easiest ways you’ll ever get to lose weight and they are right on that score. Here is what makes this diet so easy, time saving and successful:

All the food preparation is done for you. No cooking, no hassle
All your meals are delivered to your home. Now that is convenient!
The meals are calorie controlled, nutritionally balanced, interesting, tasty and varied. You’ll never get bored eating it!
The diet is structured to keep you on track with full support if you need it.
You just eat and you lose weight — it’s as easy as that!

You can visit the official Nutrisystem website to sign up right now simply by clicking your mouse on the big promotional image for Nutrisystem above and to the left of this paragraph if you want to get started right now.

Nutrisystem Discount Code

You may have heard of Nutrisystem discount codes and coupons that were available online to get special deals on the various diet plans. You need to know that these codes no longer exist, simply because there is no further need for them. The company regularly runs special offers and discounts that are available to anyone regardless of any old codes or coupons you may find published on out of date websites. Things like free delivery, customer counseling and support all come as standard now with auto delivery. To take advantage of their current promotion, all you need to do is click on the Nutrisystem ad pictured top left on this page and you will automatically receive any bonus the company is running when you sign up with Nutrisystem.
There are plenty of reviews around many websites that tell you about all its great points. But how many of them tell you about the things you should really be prepared for before you click on the ad and you then decide to sign up? Well, this one does just that. It makes sense to provide an honest review. This way, readers have a better idea what is involved in getting on one of their diet plans. This makes it so much more easy to lose weight when you are fully prepared for it.

About Nutrisystem

First a little background on the company. Nutrisystem, Inc. is a company that provides a convenient and easy to use weight loss system for dieters and has been in business since the early 1970s. So you can see they’re a long term company that have been there helping people to lose weight for a very long time. They are well established and have been providing weight loss solutions to dieters for all that time with a high degree of success. You don’t get to be one of the most popular diet companies without providing your customers with a successful means of losing weight for all that time. Nutrisystem does just that for its customers and has been doing it for almost four decades.

What Does Nutrisystem Provide?

In the Nutrisystem package, you have over 120 ready meals and desserts that you can choose from. For this reason, you won’t get tired of serving up and eating the same foods repetitively like on some diets. The system works quite simply, in that you just order what you want from their website or you can do it over the phone.
The foods used in the Nutrisystem set up use low Glycemic Index (GI) carbohydrates combined with the correct amounts of fiber and protein, while being low in fat. To make a meal, you just take any of their prepackaged meals (you may add some grocery items that they recommend, such as salads, fresh fruits, fresh green vegetables etc) set it on a plate and either microwave for a hot meal or not for a cold one, and you’re done.
One of the nice parts about this diet is you get to eat five times each day. This is especially useful in helping reduce any food cravings you might get between meals on standard diets. The best part is of course you get to keep eating all your favorite sweets and pasta. There’s no need to count calories any more and you have full access to Free Live counseling, which is available both online and via telephone.

Nutrisystem Low GI Carbs

Ok, here’s the science bit: Low Glycemic Index (GI) carbohydrates is a measure of the quality of carbohydrates and how they impact your blood sugar levels. Carbohydrates that are broken down slowly by the body are considered low on the Glycemic Index, which is good. On the other hand, carbohydrates that break down too fast cause insulin levels in the blood to rise, which then causes the body to store fat and make you feel hungry even straight after a meal. So it makes sense to ensure your food is made up of lots of low GI carbs and to avoid the high GI carbs.

Nutrisystem Diet Plans

Nutrisystem offer several different types of meal plans which are tailor made for different groups. Those currently available are for:

Women

Over 65s (Silver)
Vegetarians
Diabetics
Select (Fresh frozen meals)

Over 65s (Silver)
Vegetarians
Diabetics
Select (Fresh frozen meals)

Nutrisystem Meals

There is a really big selection of different meals, far too many to do justice to in this single review. The best way to review the particular meals that are on offer is to visit the Nutrisystem website (you can follow that link to get there) and see for yourself. Alternatively, if you want to make yourself a cup of coffee (or better, weight busting green tea!) and sit down for a good long read through all the comments on this post as many people who have written in have talked about some of the meals they liked or disliked.
In general the meals are of reasonably good quality as far as can be achieved with pre-packed meals (something is always lost in the packaging process) but they are not gourmet meals by any stretch of the imagination. As long as you are prepared for this, then you should have no problems expecting something better than what in reality are fairly average, albeit tasty, interesting and extremely varied meals.

Plus Points:

From time to time, you will find bonus offers for a variety of great deals, so keep checking back for new ad posters. The bonus may be along the lines of getting a free week (or two or even more) of food extra at no additional cost when you order a 28 day food program from Nutrisystem. Or it may be a money discount on a 28 day plan. It provides a convenient way to diet that is especially suited to busy people who simply do not have the time to work on conventional diets. The food is delivered to your door and any frozen meals can be stored it in your freezer, while the rest of the meals can be stored in a cool, dry place such as a larder, pantry etc. You can just take out a meal as you need it and follow the instructions on the pack. Some meals are ready after simply place it in the microwave for the time stated on the packaging and in no time at all you can be sitting down to your own calorie controlled, healthy diet meal.
Nutrisystem’s latest weight loss program is heavily based on the Glycemic Index being rich in good carbohydrates and protein while being low in unhealthy fats.

Nutrisystem Support

If at any time you need support, or if you need to chat online with a support person you can. Nutrisystem has their own online chat support system where you can contact someone any time of the day of you are worried about anything at all. This includes things that you might think are silly and you wouldn’t want to bother anyone about. It also provides you with a one-on-one weight loss coaching service devoted to helping you through those first few days on program. They are there to help you, even with the seemingly silly things. That’s because if there’s something even minor that is bothering you and you don’t tell anyone, it can grow into something major and stall your progress. Whereas getting it off your cheat early on can make all the difference to your chances of success. Its there for you if you need it, so use it!

Nutrisystem Cost

The general Nutrisystem cost varies depending upon the plan you choose and any discounts you take advantage of. Visit their website by clicking any one of the links on this page to get the most up to date information on their current published prices. The price includes online nutrition classes, counseling, access to their customer forum as well as delivery of the food packages. The goal here is to promote sustainable, long term weight loss. You are provided with four week’s worth of meals including daily breakfasts, lunches, dinners as well as two snacks per day.

Minus Points:

No review would be any good if it only told you all about the great things a system provided while ignoring any disadvantages or negatives, so this review gives it to you straight.
First up, with regards to the Select plans, you’ll need sufficient space in your freezer to store the food packages when they arrive, which is seven sets of three meals plus snacks so make sure you’re prepared for that. Other standard plans don’t need the freezer, but they will still need to be stored somewhere that is cool and dry, so a cool pantry or larder is ideal.
While the packaged meals are complete meals in themselves, they are smaller than many people are used to. Lots of people go on the Nutrisystem diet and believe that the meals they ship to you are the same as what they’re used to, then complain when they still feel hungry after eating them. If you find the meals are really too small for you, then Nutrisystem do allow you to include some fresh green vegetables such as cabbage, broccoli, kale etc that you buy from the store and cook yourself to bulk out the meals. Read the information brochures that come with your packaged meals as they will tell you what you can add. Fresh green vegetables will not add many calories or bad carbs to the diet but will aid it by providing essential vitamins and minerals while helping to curb any feelings of hunger. Alternatively, drink one or two glasses of plain water before each meal. This will help with digestion and help make you feel more full after the meal.
The thing to realize here is that if you are used to meals of a certain size, it could be part of the reason you have gotten overweight in the first place. Large meals, especially if they are full of high GI carbs, saturated fats and hidden sugar, are a sure way to pile on the pounds. So when you are faced with the smaller meal size of this product, you really should make an effort to get used to it, because after all, you want to lose weight and one of the ways that’s going to happen is if you eat less!
Next, some people report getting flatulence (gas) after eating the food. So you might be tempted to ask, does Nutrisystem cause gas? Okay, this might appear to be a little unpleasant, but its a natural byproduct of metabolizing some protein rich foods. If your previous diet was lacking in certain foods, the body will need to adjust to the new types of food. If you never ate fresh vegetables before and start doing so as part of any diet, you’ll get gas until your body gets used to metabolizing them. To counter this, make sure you drink plenty of fresh, plain water (not soda!) which will help with digestion.
Ok, apart from that and the Nutrisystem cost, which is comparable to and in many cases cheaper than most over the counter diets, as far as Nutrisystem tips go, it does exactly what it says it does as long as you follow the plan that you decided on. Same as pretty much any diet really.

What You Can Do To Help Yourself Succeed with Nutrisystem

You can help yourself immensely by doing some light exercise while you are on the plan as well. This is because its a scientifically proved fact that exercise improves metabolism and when combined with a healthy diet really does cause sustainable weight loss.
Having a positive mental attitude towards losing weight also helps a lot. This is because when you are positive about something, there is a greater chance of success because you want it more. When you adopt an I CAN attitude, you can achieve things that will surprise you!

Best Price Nutrisystem

While this review is mostly about the NS diet and the plan itself and is generally only updated when these get updated, it would be missing something of there were no mention of the price. To get the best price Nutrisystem diet plans, it usually just means clicking through one of our own image banners advertising Nutrisystem on this page. While the most up do date price should always be taken from Nutrisystem’s own website as this may fluctuate with special offers etc, we can give you some background on how this company compares with other diet delivery companies.

Nutrisystem Price Comparisons

You will find that Nutrisystem is actually one of the least expensive of all the diet delivery companies in the United States. They can do this because they are also one of the largest and the food is prepared and packaged at their own company premises. In fact, in a recent price comparison with one major competitor, Jenny Craig, it was found that Nutrisystem’s base prices taken for a week supply of food were as much as four times cheaper than Jenny Craig and considerably cheaper than eDiets and Diet-To-Go.

Nutrisystem Auto Delivery

There seems to be some confusion among some customers about where they stand with the auto delivery system that Nutrisystem uses. There is information in their website’s FAQ that explains it, but here is a short explanation to clarify things in two main points:

To take full advantage of any special offers and free shipping, you should stay on the program for at least 2 shipments
To cancel, you must call their number (1-877-338-8446) you can’t do it from the website

Most people recognize that its better to stay on the diet for two or more months to get the maximum benefit and lose more weight. In that case, signing up for auto delivery and getting the bonus offers is not a problem as you can cancel any time before subsequent shipments with no penalty.

Nutrisystem FAQ

In any event, prospective customers should read through the Nutrisystem FAQ, which you will find on their official website before they sign up for their diet plan. It is in your interests to read through the FAQ before signing up with Nutrisystem so you understand everything first. It will help you to make the right decision to sign up for one of the weight loss diets plan or not.

Nutrisystem Coupons

As already mentioned above, there are no more Nutrisystem coupons and any you find on websites will be out of date. This is because all offers are available to everyone now and to get them you only need to click one of the image ads on this page which will take you directly to the official Nutrisystem website.
When you sign up for a Nutrisystem diet plan you are paying for a great opportunity to lose weight with a proven formula that works for the vast majority of its customers. You are getting a fully supported diet system that provides it customers with ongoing support and professional counseling if you need it and a proven track record of over three decades of experience.

Additional: Genuine Real Life Reviews of Nutrisystem

If you’re happy with the information I’ve provided about Nutrisystem, that’s great because it means I’ve done my job and provided an honest and useful information resource for you. I would also urge you to please take some time to read what my readers have to say about it as well. There are plenty of differing views from real people who have tried the various plans and had a variety of results with them. What follows are their own stories, failures and successes laid bare — all published, the good and the bad, in the name of fairness.

eDiets Review

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People wanting to lose weight the easy way can read this eDiets review and learn why this weight loss diet program works and how it can work for for them too! eDiets is another of the great diet food delivery programs that we can recommend to busy dieters who don’t have much free time to take advantage of. Its simple and time saving to use and you can lose weight easily by just eating the high quality, fresh prepared meals that are conveniently delivered to your home.

So what is eDiets all about and how can it make your weight loss efforts so much easier?

Why You Would Choose eDiets

Its a diet, activity and fitness program that suits your lifestyle/career
eDiets is fully endorsed by the American Dietetic Association
You can view their great demo videos and diet podcasts online
One to one live consultation available with a health professional
Pre-prepared grocery lists for you to print off and shop for your new diet
Peer support through eDiets forum community

What is eDiets?

eDiets is a weight loss diet company that has been helping people to lose weight through the food they eat since 1996. In that time, they claim to have served over 2 million customers! That’s a figure that speaks volumes about how successful this type of diet program actually is.
Before a new customer gets started with their meal plan, they complete their personal profile. This enables the company to tailor the best diet selection to the customer. It also helps the customer to be more specific about what their personal needs really are and helps to eliminate some of the uncertainties that can arise. For instance, many dieters are not sure even what they need, so this goes a long way to defining they specific needs and allowing eDiets to provide the right diet for the right person.
eDiets provide their customers with freshly prepared, nutritious and healthy low calorie meals to order. Customers can choose their meals from a substantial and widely varied menu to suit their individual needs or opt for one of over 20 specialized diet menus suited to different groups. The order is then prepared and shipped to customers in packages containing meals for a seven day period.

eDiets Food

The food provided by eDiets to their customers is made fresh to order and then shipped. There are no frozen meals and no processed meals. There are no freeze dried meals that need to be reconstituted with water and there is definitely no cooking! The meals are made fresh and packaged in stay-cool containers and remain fresh for up to 10 days when kept in a refrigerator.
You can choose from the full seven day plan or opt for a five day plan that allows you to be free at the weekends. This is useful if you like to socialize and maybe eat out at restaurants, while sticking to the diet during the week.
If you don’t want to go with having your meals delivered to your home, there is another option available and that is to have eDiets help you with planning your diet that you will prepare and cook yourself.

eDiets Online Diet Plans

Getting professional help on creating and formulating your own personal diet can be an expensive and time consuming process. It often involves making an appointment to visit a nutritionist who will create a personal diet plan for you. The several consultations can work out expensive. But eDiets provide you with a much more cost effective alternative to this.
You can sign up online and get access to their own online diet plans that can be personalized to your specific needs. The difference here is that you create your own diet then go and shop for the ingredients, prepare and cook your meals and have greater control over what you eat and how much. The other alternative is to let eDiets do all the food preparation and cooking for you.

eDiets Meal Delivery

This option id perfect for people who lead busy lives and really don’t have time to work on their own diet plan, go to the store to buy all the food and then spend hours in the kitchen preparing and cooking their own meals. You simply choose the meals that you want from the extensive eDiets menu and place your order a few days before you are ready to get started.
Upon receiving your order, the meals are prepared and cooked by eDiets’ own chefs. They are then packaged in stay cool containers and shipped to your home. All you do upon taking delivery of your package is to store the meals in your fridge. You then simply take a meal out as you need it and heat in a microwave and in under two minutes you are sitting down to a great meal!
The quality of the meals is very high, because they are prepared and cooked to order, fresh. So you are eating fresh cooked meals and not the processed or reconstituted meals that are provided by other companies.

eDiets Cost

Of course, you get what you pay for. If you want to get away with cheap meals, don’t bother signing up with eDiets!
You get quality according to the amount you are prepared to pay. Go into any restaurant and try and get away with a cheap meal, chances are you’ll get a barely edible meal. Pay a little more and you get better quality and food you can actually enjoy. Equate this with a diet and when you go cheap, you risk quitting early because you hate the food, plus you end up wasting your money. But pay that little extra and when you are eating good food that you really enjoy, you are far more likely to stick with the diet and successfully lose weight.
This is the philosophy with eDiets and its a philosophy that works. The food quality is high and you will have to pay a little more to get it. Are you worth it?
Of course you are!
You can sign up and also take advantage of a great 25% discount on your first order when you click you mouse on the eDiets image banner below. Click it NOW and get started right away losing weight with quality food the easy way.

100 weight loss tips - 3.Fast Weight Loss Is To Be Avoided

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The old proverb, “Slow and steady wins the race” is very apt when applied to losing weight as it is really the best way to go in order to work in harmony with your body. After all, it is our natural state to fluctuate in weight slightly over time, gaining the odd pound as well as losing it but always returning to that ideal level which is characteristic to us personally.

That means trying to force our bodies into a rapid weight loss spiral is unnatural and will be resisted by our own built-in instincts. By trying to diet to lose weight too fast, our bodies naturally react by slowing down our metabolism to counter the unnatural reduction in essential nutrients, shutting down redundant systems and only keeping the important ones going. So the body in that state will conserve as much of its store of reserve fats as it can, only using the minimum to keep it going. If you combine a starvation diet with rigorous exercise, you then force the body to give up its reserves and you’ll soon be unable to continue as you’ll simply run out of energy!

This is a hugely undesirable state to get into as far as losing weight goes as well as overall health as it causes extreme fatigue and will end up with you being confined to total bed rest while you recover. While you’re recovering, you’ll be putting back on every pound you lost so the effort will be a wasted one.
There is a huge amount of evidence to suggest that trying to lose weight too fast nearly always results in the same amount that you lost being put right back on again plus a couple of extra pounds. That’s because of the way the body reacts to this method. When you place the body into starvation mode, which is what you will do when you try to use some quick weight loss methods, as soon as you start eating normally again, the body will instinctively store more than it needs in readiness for the perceived next period of starvation. You can’t get around that as its hard-wired instinct and the only way to keep weight off once you lose it too quickly is to continue with your harsh regime. Not a happy way to lead your life!
It is so much better to lose weight slowly and surely as you increase metabolism and be burning calories more effectively. By setting realistic weight loss goals that are achievable, week by week or month by month and taking it slow and steady, the weight will drop off gradually. Not only that but it will be much more likely to stay off once you have achieved your goal mainly because you will have altered your lifestyle in that time and given yourself plenty of time to become accustomed to it and comfortable with it.
This means you will be more disposed to maintain the new lifestyle without any hardship or feeling of lack and be happy at your new weight that will remain the norm for you.
100 Weight Loss Tips number 2 follows in the next post!

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100 Weight Loss Tips - 2.Diet for Weight Loss

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The Importance of Exercise to Lose Weight

While your diet has to be both nutritious, wholesome and filling while simultaneously restricting your calorie intake on a daily bases, your body needs to burn those calories as efficiently as it can for weight loss to come about. Sure, you can figure out how to lose weight fast by starving yourself. But what happens is that your body simply goes into a physiological state known as starvation mode. In this mode, all non-essential functions are reduced and all nutrients and energy are directed to the parts that are essential to preserve life. These include auto-muscle responses like heartbeat, lung function, digestion and excretion, brain function etc.

When all your body’s reserves of fat are used up, muscle tissue begins to reduce and your weight will drop dramatically. This is NOT a desirable state to get into as this is a serious danger to your life. You could die from malnutrition! There is a much better, healthier way to lose weight and tone up your body so that you can fit into that smaller dress size.
That way is to combine a healthy diet with exercise. Daily light exercise is perfect to begin with and can comprise long walks in the fresh air, swimming or other light, enjoyable activity that gets you out of the house and moving around. As you gain fitness this way, you can move up to more strenuous exercises like working out to a system such as the P90X extreme home fitness program, as your body becomes accustomed to working more than it used to.
The whole idea of exercise to lose weight is such an important factor in the process that it beggars belief that so many people who are trying to lose weight simply don’t want to do any at all. yet the all want to know how to lose weight fast! That’s crazy because by omitting exercise from your weight loss plan, you are only doing half the job and not giving yourself the best chance of success not just in the short term but long term too.
Exercise works to bring about a reduction on your weight and an improvement in your body shape, which is, after all the reason you’re doing this! Here’s how it works:
When you exercise, you are forcing certain muscle groups in your body to work. When muscles work, they need a supply of energy which they get from sugars in your bloodstream. As the muscles work, they use up the supply of sugars in the blood thereby causing the body to replenish the supply of sugar from its store of fats. This reduces your “fat weight” while providing the muscles with the energy they need to work.

Burn Calories in Your Sleep

When you sleep, the muscles that were working hard during the day now start to repair themselves and build more muscle tissue in readiness for the next session of work, or exercise. While this process is going on, those muscles are still using more of your body’s store of energy, so in effect you are burning calories in your sleep – far more than you would normally burn if you had done no exercise.
Those muscles tone up your body too, reducing the flabbiness and allowing you to fit into those smaller size clothes. They also gain mass. This is a point that surprises many people who are trying to lose weight, because muscle weighs more than fat by volume you may not actually see much difference on the scales at least not to begin with, although you will see the difference in the mirror. Which is, after all where you want to see the difference!

More Muscle for Less Weight

As time progresses and you continue exercising daily if possible, your weight will reduce as more fat gets used up than muscle mass gets created. This happens as long as you exercise in a way designed to burn fat and not to build excessive mass, as bodybuilders do. Bodybuilding actually aims for weight gain and this is achieved by doing low repetition, heavy resistance exercises combined with a high protein diet. That’s how bodybuilders achieve the huge, muscle bound bodies they are aiming for.
If you are not aiming to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger in his heyday, then your exercises should comprise many repetitions with low resistance so that the muscle work hard and use lots of energy but do not build excessive additional muscle tissue. This way you end up with a well toned, lithe and great looking body with lots of energy and plenty of strength and stamina. Your clothes will fit well and you will be the envy of all the other dieters who are not exercising!
Here’s to your weight loss and great looking new body success!

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100 Weight Loss Tips - 1.Exercise for Weight Loss

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The Importance of Exercise to Lose Weight

Burn Calories in Your Sleep

More Muscle for Less Weight

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100 weight loss tips - 10.Learn to Love Sports

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Play a Sport, Get Fit and Lose Weight

While this isn’t about joining a professional football or hockey team, unless of course you are fit enough and skillful enough to do that. It is about getting together with a local sports club at amateur level and finding a sport that you enjoy and can do on a regular basis. This is a great way to change your lifestyle for the better too!

The first consideration is your current fitness level as well as the amount you are overweight. That’s because these factors must be carefully monitored by a doctor or qualified sports trainer before you get your kit on and start running around a soccer pitch for 90 minutes. If you’re not ready for it, it could kill you – literally!
As a real life example of this, several years ago I worked with a guy who was 36 years old and quite overweight, although he believed he was still fit enough to play soccer. The company we worked for had its own sports center and its soccer team competed in a small time, inter-company league. This guy decided he wanted to play and as the team were short, he got the call up. Well, he ran around like a champion for about 10 minutes, then casually walked off the pitch and threw up on the side lines. He then keeled over with a heart attack. Although the medics got there fast they were unable to revive him and he died.
So be very careful about playing any sport before you’ve had a chance to build up your fitness levels and especially if you are eating a really bad diet of junk food. Do this by first changing your diet to a more healthy one. Also make sure you are drinking plenty of water Then start exercising by starting slowly and gradually building up the time you do it for. When you start to play a sport, start by only playing for short time and building that up as well as the amount of strenuous work you do each time you play.
You should also do some stamina training to coincide with your chosen sport, such as distance running or jogging which will boost your fitness levels. Again, start small and build up the distance that you run for. Swimming is also a good fitness building exercise as it makes you use most of the muscles in your body depending upon the stroke, so vary this to include breaststroke, crawl, backstroke and sidestroke.
Some good sports to take up if you are unfit and need to build up your strength and stamina are badminton, volley ball or even table tennis, where the focus is not so much on the physical running around as it is in games like hockey, tennis, basket ball or soccer or strength related as it is in rugby or football. You can also play for a few minutes at a time then stop and get your breath back before continuing if you feel you can.
In fact, there are countless other types of sports you can try that I haven’t even mentioned here. Choose one that fits with what you like and that you will enjoy doing. Once you get used to a sport and can play at amateur match level once or twice a week, then you will have attained a level of fitness that will naturally decrease your weight!
100 Weight Loss Tips number 9 follows in the next post!

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100 weight loss - 9.Get Plenty of Fresh Air

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Lose Weight by Breathing Plenty of Fresh Air!

As astounding as this may sound, there is plenty of evidence to show that when you spend more time out of doors in the fresh air, you give yourself more chances to boost your weight loss effort in ways you may not have thought of before. Here’s the background to how it works:

If you’ve been reading through this series of tips for losing weight, you will probably know by now that a large proportion of any weight loss strategy depends for its success on your body being able to metabolize food more efficiently. It must now be blatantly obvious to you that by spending the majority (if not all) of your waking hours indoors, either slumped in front of the TV or working at a desk or something similar, known as a sedentary lifestyle, you are depressing your metabolism by your body’s own inactivity. In other words, by not moving around much and that style of life being the norm, your body’s own functions slow down habitually to match that way of life.
This means that more of the food you eat as part of your regular diet gets stored as fat simply because your body doesn’t have any way to convert what you eat into energy for your muscles to use, because they’re not using any. So it all gets converted to fat which is stored and you gain weight as well as grow in size.
Another by product of this way of life is that because you are not moving around very much and you are spending so much time inside, the air you breathe becomes more contaminated with additional carbon dioxide while becoming oxygen depleted. That oxygen depleted air you are breathing also works to further inhibit your metabolism so an even greater proportion of what you consume gets stored as fat, while your muscles actually waste away due to lack of use, lack of nutrients and lack of oxygen.
To reverse this situation, exercising is essential, as you are probably also very aware. But exercising in a gym means you are still indoors, breathing in stale air. Or worse, recycled air that has been passed through an air conditioning unit to cool it so it seems fresh. But it is still oxygen depleted, especially if the gym you are using is exceptionally busy. That’s a lot of people all breathing in the same air, taking oxygen from it and enriching it with carbon dioxide!
So to really give your exercises a boost, you can’t beat getting outdoors into the fresh air and breathing in natural, oxygen rich air. That oxygen rich air is more abundant in places where there are lots of plants and trees, such as a public park. The additional oxygen boosts your sluggish body to increase metabolism causing the nutrients you have consumed to get broken down and converted to energy more efficiently. At the same time the oxygen enriched blood flows to the muscles helping them to convert the sugars into energy faster to produce a more efficient calorie burning engine within your body.
It sounds almost incredible, but it works! Not only that, but by exercising in a park, you are also boosting the natural daylight that has two additional benefits. It boosts your body’s production of vitamin D, which has been shown in recent research to help with the weight loss process. The extra sunlight also helps to improve your mood by causing your body to produce more serotonin (the feelgood hormone), further adding to your motivation to exercise more, harder and for longer than you would do indoors!
So if you really want to turbo charge your body and burn those excess calories, get outside in the fresh air and burn even more!
100 Weight Loss Tips number 8 follows in the next post!

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100 weight loss tips - 8.Combine Diet and Exercise

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Good Diet Plus Daily Exercise Equals Weight Loss

So far, throughout this series I’ve looked at many different ways in which you can boost your weight busting strategy or use certain strategies and techniques to make things easier for you while keeping the whole process on a natural level. But there has been a recurring theme to the whole process of losing weight which is that the very best and most effective way to ensure you sustain long lasting weight loss is by a combination of a good healthy and wholesome diet combined with an effective daily exercise routine.

This is something that cannot be stressed strongly enough. If you are determined to succeed, then you must do these two things.
1. You must eat healthily to provide your body with the maximum level of nutrients with the minimum of bad fats, sugars and additives.
2. You must exercise regularly in order to burn off more calories than you are consuming.
All the rest is additional to these two basic needs. When you can satisfy them, then everything else you do will help to accelerate the process and make it easier, but you must satisfy these two main criteria before all else.
Its all because your body, in order to maintain an equilibrium between a healthy weight and level of fitness; and an efficient metabolism, needs to be nourished correctly and worked hard enough so that it does not store large amounts of excess calories as fat. A calorie controlled, healthy diet helps this process immensely by cutting out all junk and processed foods which lead to excessive weight gain. By replacing them with good healthy food, you provide your body with all the nutrients it needs to work at top efficiency.
In order for your body to use up the fat it has stored up over a long time, exercise is essential. That’s because it not only causes your body to burn all the calories it has ingested, but to use those calories to build more muscle mass.
This, in turn makes each exercise session more efficient as the increasing mass of muscle will use progressively more calories to do the same amount of work (because there are more muscle cells to feed) while enabling you to exercise harder and for longer because of their growing strength. This all causes a snowball effect in your exercising process, as the more you do, the more you can do. And it will be patently obvious to you that the more exercise you do, the more calories you will burn.
So over time, you will end up burning far more calories than you are consuming which will have caused the desired amount of weight loss. Once you have reached your target weight, you don’t stop there, but continue to exercise while actually increasing your food intake because you must them maintain the balance of calories consumed to calories burned.
This ends up with you having a much fitter, better toned body that is at its correct weight. Plus you get the added bonus that you will reach a stage where you can eat much more of a healthy diet while not gaining weight! Which is actually a place that we all want to be!
100 Weight Loss Tips number 7 follows in the next post!

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100 weight loss tips - 7.Change Your Lifestyle

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Weight Loss and Lifestyle

If you’ve ever wondered about why so many people gain weight in the first place, when our bodies are designed to balance themselves out in an optimum way to maximize health and fitness, then you only have to take a look at their lifestyles to see where the problems lie. Most people, especially in our fast paced Western way of life, have gotten so caught up in their jobs and maintaining a way of life that is high stress and high maintenance that they’ve forgotten that they’re bodies are suffering under the weight of it all.

The result is after eating a bad diet of fast, junk food and getting little or no exercise to at least go some way to burning off the excess calories, followed by weight gain. Its a bad situation because if not checked can spiral out of control and lead to type 2 diabetes and of course obesity. Getting unnaturally heavier over time also places strain on your heart and circulatory system. The lack of exercise causes muscle wastage and loss of muscle tissue mass which compounds the problem making the body less able to deal with all the extra calories. Which end up being stored as ever more fat.
So the only way to turn this around is by making some lifestyle changes that will go some way to altering your body’s state of health without going all out and completely changing your life. Which of course is something that is not open to most people as they have a family, home and place in society to maintain. So the lifestyle changes you need to make can be partial while allowing your life to continue as it is while at the same time making improvements to your health.
The biggest and most effective changes you can make is in your diet because you don’t need to quit your job and move into a cave to eat better!
Instead of eating hamburgers and fries or pizza, or hot dogs etc for lunch every day, switch to weight loss food that incorporate something healthy like salads or home cooked meals made from fresh ingredients. If you can’t get them where you work, there are two alternatives.
You can sign up to one of the diet food delivery companies like Nutrisystem, eDiets, jenny Craig or Bistro MD and have them create all your diet meals for you that you can take to work and avoid eating junk food.
or if you don’t want to pay out for that kind of service, you can make a week’s supply of healthy, low calorie meals yourself at home at the weekend when you have some spare time and freeze them in individual containers. How hard is that?
When you get to work, microwave them or heat those meals up in your workplace’s canteen microwave. If there is no way to do that, then make a way! Take on a “can do” attitude when it comes to your diet and you’ll be surprised at what you can accomplish in that department!
When it comes to exercise, you are going to have to get creative if your job entails spending all day sitting down. It doesn’t matter if that means you are behind a desk or at the wheel of a car, taxi, bus or truck or whatever. You need to get more active!
If you drive to work, consider leaving the car at home and cycling if its not too far. If there is a gym nearby where you work, then use it a lunchtimes for maybe half an hour and then eat a nutritious lunch afterwards. Is there a public pool nearby? Then go do some swimming! If there is an elevator you normally take to your office floor, then take the stairs instead!
There are loads of things you can do to subtly change your lifestyle without making major changes that will help to turn your health around for the better and allow you to lose weight instead of gain it!
100 Weight Loss Tips number 6 follows in the next post!

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100 weight loss tips - 5.Find The Right Exercise to Lose Weight

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What is the Right Exercise?

That is the 64 thousand dollar question and one that does not have the same answer for everyone. That’s because, as I may have mentioned on more than one occasion, every person is different, people lose weight differently and that means while one person will be more disposed to lose weight doing something that suits them best, that may not similarly suit anyone else. The same goes for different types of exercise.
So this is something that you are going to have to research on your own, because only you will know when something suits you better than something else? Where one person may really enjoy an early morning run around the local park or along the sea front before grabbing a shower before breakfast to really set them up for the day, another may hate running period. Or they may like running but they hate getting out of bed early! Can you see where this is leading?
Sure, one type of exercise will appeal to a whole group of people but its how they go about doing that exercise that sets the apart from their neighbors.
Some people love swimming, although it won’t appeal to everyone. Some people simply can’t swim! Others can’t be bothered with the hassle of using a public pool with all the messing about getting changed in cold, clammy public changing rooms. Others relish the after swim shower while still others like to swim then relax for a half hour on a poolside lounger reading a book!
Some people like cycling, or for those with good balance, rollerblading or skateboarding. These take a surprising amount of energy even though they look easy! Same goes for skiing or snowboarding.
For others, team sports are their favorites, with volleyball being a favorite summer beach team sport that just about anyone can join in with and have a really great time. Others prefer more serious contact team sports like soccer, football, rugby, hockey or basketball. Still others prefer less demanding team sports such as tennis or badminton pairs, while still others prefer really physically challenging one on one sports such as squash or racquetball.
Then there is the good old reliable gymnasium, where you can work out with weights and other fitness apparatus such as treadmills, elliptical machines, steppers, rowing machines etc.
Of course there are always the far more sedate form of exercise such as walking (with or without a dog). This is something most people can do and it is a surprisingly good form of exercise especially when others are more physically demanding than a person is able to cope with.
But whatever you choose as your preferred form of exercise for weight loss, as long as you make sure you do it as often as possible and with as much enjoyment as possible, your efforts to lose weight will be getting an excellent boost to improve your chances of success!
Whichever exercise appeals to you the most.
100 Weight Loss Tips number 4 follows in the next post!

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100 weight loss tips - 6.Read The Labels on Food

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It wasn’t all that long ago when foods standards agencies made sweeping changes to the packaged food that we buy by forcing manufacturers to put nutritional information as well as a full list of ingredients on the packaging of foods. This enabled shoppers to discern exactly what they were buying so they could make informed decisions on whether to buy a product or not based on the nutritional and additive information provided.

In some ways this was good for consumers and the industry both. On the one hand it gave the industry indicators on what consumers were prepared to put up with. And on the other, for consumers to know what to buy and what to leave on the shelf.
From a weight loss solutions point of view, this is also very useful in understanding which foods are more likely to cause weight gain and which are not. This is the reason that you should always read those labels and make very sure you understand what it is that you are buying. That way you will have a better idea of what you will be putting into your body in the way of ingredients, additives (natural and artificial), salt and sugar and most importantly from our perspective, calories.

Yep, its those good old calories again, but food packaging information allows you to plan your daily calorie intake allowance more closely by following the measures set out on that packaging. Of course you have to be aware that many manufacturers will put a calorie count per set amount of the product, so that it looks a lot better.
For instance, you may have a packet of food that weighs, say 2lbs, and the packaging information may quote say 200 calories per 4 ounce serving, or something like that. This tells you that you should be aware that if you eat the whole pack, you will not be consuming a mere 200 calories, but eight times that amount, which is closer to 1,600 calories!
So if you are serious and positive about losing weight and if you are reading this you most probably are, then read the labels of food before your buy. And if you do buy, then be sure to use the information on that label to work out how many calories each packaged food item will provide per serving and make sure you get it right!
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100 weight loss tips - 4.Set Realistic Weight Loss Goals

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Weight Loss Goals

Its a well known fact that when you set unrealistic goals in any area of your life, you are going to at best struggle to achieve them. But what’s more worrying is that you are far more likely to fail to achieve them or even make a partial achievement. This is because we’re programmed to take things one step at a time. That means that by taking one step and completing it successfully, we are then able to easily go on to take the next step and so on and so forth.

The same thing applies to losing weight. Its an awful thing to be confronted by a massive goal that seems way to impossible to attain, yet so many people do exactly that when they set about putting themselves on a weight loss diet plan of some kind and set themselves the goal of losing a huge amount of weight in a relatively short space of time. As a hypnotherapist, I see this kind of thing all the time with clients who come to me and want to lose weight but can’t believe they failed to lose anything even though they had set themselves the target to lose say 20 pounds in four weeks or even to lose 10 pounds in 10 days.
That might seem achievable on paper, but when you confront it head on, it seems like a massive mountain to scale. So what often happens is that people with that kind of goal to aim for they give up almost before they even get started. It’s natural to feel that way because no one wants to take on a huge undertaking.
Its far easier to break something down like that into smaller chunks that are more readily acceptable. When you set a goal to lose, say six pounds in four weeks, that’s much more doable because it only means dropping one and a half pounds each week. That’s very achievable and when faced with something that seems easy to do, people are far more likely to do it.

So if you’re setting yourself a goal that you feel is too great and you feel maybe you are going to struggle to achieve it, the best thing to do is to halve that goal. Then reassess your chances of making it work. If it still seems too much to handle, then halve it again! You’ll get to a stage where you will have a much lower aim that you know you can achieve without knocking yourself out, and you’ll surprise yourself by doing it with ease. Then just set the same goal again and get to working on that afterwards.
After all, there really isn’t an authoritarian time limit on how fast you should lose weight. Its personal and it must be something you know you can do for yourself.
100 Weight Loss Tips number 3 follows in the next post!

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100 weight loss tips - 17.If You Must Snack, Snack Healthy

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If you’re what’s known as a stress eater, you don’t have to grab for that high calorie, sweet or savory snack that’s lurking in your drawer or cupboard. There are lots of alternatives that are not only better for you and less prone to making you gain weight, but they are a whole load cheaper too.

Its normal to walk round the supermarket and pile your trolley with multi-packs of candy snacks that are well advertised, because you’ve likely been brainwashed into wanting them by clever advertising on the TV and in glossy magazines. The first step to breaking free is obvious, but also a hard one when it has become ingrained into your psyche. That is to watch less TV or even to reserve that idle brainwashing device for only watching selected programs that you really like.
Stop sitting there staring into its depths when the commercials come on like a mesmerized rabbit. Get up and do something else, because you don’t have to sit there and watch them. You will not miss anything important, I swear!
And stop reading pointless magazines filled with stories about famous people that are also crammed full of ads! Once you have cut down on all the ads, you will feel less need to load up on unhealthy snacks, but if you like to snack on stuff, there is a healthy and tasty alternative. In fact there are lots of them and you can even lose weight by snacking between meals when those snacks are healthy, natural ones.
Try snacking on unsalted sunflower or pumpkin seeds. They provide you with lots of chewing but not many calories. Or try cutting up a carrot or two into small wedges and put in a plastic bag to take to work to snack on while at your desk. Carrot slices are sweet tasting and make a great snack. Similarly, a stick or two of celery makes a crunchy snack with very few ! If you like nuts, then buy unsalted almonds or walnuts. They do contain more calories but also a lot of health benefits and you’ll find you won’t want to eat so many of them. Weight for weight, you’ll get a lot more benefit from unsalted nuts, and yes, even peanuts, than comparable weight of candy bars or even the so-called health bars.
A quick note on health bars. They may be advertised as being healthy (there’s that “advertise” word again) but they still contain a lot of added salt and sugar, preservatives and other unwholesome stuff while packing a lot more calories per bar than you think.
The absolute best snack of all is a healthy apple. Yep, a real one and not one covered in caramel! An apple contains a healthy boost of vitamins, minerals, fiber and antioxidants (more in red apples) that boost heath and helps with your weight loss diet because it is low in calories while tasting great. Its also good for your teeth!
Here’s another old saying that really does hold true: “An apple a day keeps the doctor away”
PS: You can also enjoy a pear, a peach, a nectarine, an orange or tangerine, some plums, apricots, cherries, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries… the list of fresh fruits and berries that make the perfect snacks is a very long and tasty one!
100 Weight Loss Tips number 16 follows in the next post!

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100 weight loss tips - 16.Exercise Before Breakfast

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One of the most important aspects of is in burning calories as efficiently as possible, or in other words getting the maximum burn for your time spent exercising. But its also important to burn those calories from your store of fat and not from newly consumed food, because that’s how you reduce your fat store and eliminate the excess pounds from your waistline.

For that reason, doing cardiovascular training first thing in the morning well before you eat your breakfast is the absolute best time to do it. It forces your body to use up the stored body fat you are carrying around with you for the energy the muscles need to do the work, rather than taking those calories from carbohydrates or sugars that you recently consumed in your food. This happens because first thing in the morning your body is in a carbohydrate depleted state following your sleep when you have not eaten for a good 8 to 10 hours.The added bonus by doing this before you eat breakfast is that after your workout or exercise session, your body is in a highly charged state of increased metabolism. This means it is ready for more fuel and will burn that fuel more efficiently than it would have done if you’d just crawled out of bed and headed straight for the kitchen, when your body would have had a very sluggish metabolism. That state would have been more inclined to dump most of your breakfast calories into fat storage for when it was in a more lively metabolic state.
To help this along, it is equally important to eat a healthy, filling breakfast composed of low GI carbs and protein. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, porridge (rolled oats or oatmeal) is by far the absolute best thing to eat for breakfast for its near perfect combination of low Glycemic Index carbs, nutrients and dietary fiber.
Add some sunflower, pumpkin and flax seeds to boost omega 3 essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals. You can also add some fresh or dried fruits such as cranberries or blueberries, cherries, chopped banana, apple or apricot, or anything similar to make it more interesting and tasty and to reduce the need to sweeten it with sugar (use honey – its much better). A large bowl of this will be very filling and its highly unlikely you’ll want to eat anything else, although some fruit juice always goes down well. This is a super food high power breakfast that keeps you full until lunch time and keeps your metabolism efficient.
So now you know why so many people who look healthy and alert during the day if they’d gone for that early morning run, or pre-breakfast workout in the gym, or a good healthy swim first thing. Its not just the exercise itself that has so many benefits, but the exact timing of those exercises that truly does maximize every minute of work in increasing your body’s metabolism and work rate.
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100 weight loss tips - 15.Measure Your Weight Loss Steps

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Walking is something everyone does, but it is so taken for granted that we often don’t realize its potential. But the potential for boosting your efforts to lose weight is phenomenal when its done correctly and in a structured and measured way.

Losing Weight Step by Step

We all walk, at least those of us who have a life away from the sofa and the TV, but we often don’t have any idea just how much walking we do each day. Knowing that can be a helpful addition to the reduction of our waistlines because walking is a form of light exercise and exercise makes your body burn calories!
So if you were to have a very good idea how much you walked every day, you could use that information to plan to extend that amount of walking to ensure more calories are burned each day. The best way to do that is to buy a pedometer.
A good quality pedometer will give you a pretty accurate tally of the number of steps you take each day. What you want to aim for is around 10,000 steps per day if possible to get the most benefit. When you multiply that total by your average stride length, you can work out how many miles you actually walk each day. A rough average is about 5 miles for 10,000 steps although that really depends on your own personal stride length.
I’m sure that you can see the obvious benefits of knowing this figure and then planning to put it to good use. It can form a part of your daily exercise routine without you feeling like you are doing anything extra or out of the ordinary. This is a good way of conditioning yourself to get a good daily ration of exercise without the implied extra work, making it very desirable for people who dislike doing regular exercises or weight loss exercise routines in a gym.
When you get into this way of doing things, you can then make a point of walking a little faster or with a little more determination than usual. By doing that, it will bring you additional benefits in fitness levels and the number of calories burned throughout the day, and every day.
100 Weight Loss Tips number 14 follows in the next post!

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100 weight loss tips - 14.Take the Stairs and Lose the Flab

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This post looks at a really simple form of exercise that you can do for free and its not only easy, but when you get into a routine of doing this always, you will be amazed at the results it can bring. And it doesn’t involve getting any special fitness DVD or punish yourself to a Jillian Michaels style workout either!

Taking The Stairs Can Help You Lose Weight

Its pretty obvious, I know. But while taking the stairs used to be something everyone did before the arrival of an elevator in every building, these days far too many people avoid the stairs and take the elevator, even if its only one floor up or down. Now clearly that is silly, unless you have a physical problem that prevents you from using the stairs. How lazy is it to ride one floor in an elevator?
Very lazy and its a contributing factor to people becoming overweight. Okay, it may be a small contributing factor. But when you have become overweight and want to do something about it, such as reversing the trend and getting back to your ideal weight, then every small thing that you can do to help it along is a good thing.
Well, if one of those things is taking the stairs instead of being lazy and taking the elevator for only one or two floors, then do it! If you really want to make a difference, run up and down the stairs, don’t just walk!
Running up a flight of stairs burns calories because you are forcing your leg muscles to work hard to push your body up a steep incline. It gets your heart racing and forces you to breathe harder. That all contributes to sending some of your blood sugar to those muscles for energy and when you do it as a regular exercise or a minor daily workout, the muscles strengthen and use more energy.
When I worked for a corporate company many moons ago, I used to work on the fourth floor and stopped taking the elevator when I realized I was getting overweight. I started by climbing the stairs at a fast walk and graduated to running all the way up. Not just every day, but I was actually up and down those stairs several times every day because I was always going to or from meetings on different floors as well as having to go all the way to the ground floor to the canteen for coffee! It wasn’t long before I could run all the way from ground floor to fourth floor and walk into my office without being out of breath. Consequently, that particular strategy helped me to lose the eight pounds I needed to get back to my correct weight.
The upshot of that particular exercise meant my legs were much stronger, my waist also became slimmer and I had a great looking backside (as the girls often remarked on when they thought I wasn’t listening)! It works the same way for a woman, too by the way…
Still want to take that elevator?
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100 weight loss tips - 13.Volunteer to Lose Weight

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If you are trying to lose some weight but are one of these people that are resistant to exercising for whatever reason, there are alternatives that can be very fulfilling as well as a lot of fun. How about considering volunteer labor?

One of the really great things to do is to walk dogs that live at your local animal shelter.
(You can find a local animal shelter at Petfiinder.com or check with your local library or local press). This is excellent as it makes you walk at an elevated pace which is even better if you have three or four dogs to walk at once. They can give you a free workout while you go! Animal charities are always in need of helpers to look after the animals they care for so you would be doing your bit for a side of the community that far too many people ignore.
If you live near the coast, why not volunteer to do beach cleanups. This is great for getting plenty of fresh sea air and gets you active and doing something worthwhile as you get a daily workout without even feeling like you’re exercising. There is something quite relaxing and satisfying about walking along a stretch of beach picking up litter that unthinking people throw away. Just think, the next piece of broken glass you pick up could save a child from having a serious accident.
If you don’t live near the coast, try the same thing for riverside or lake shore clean-ups with a local environmental group. People are forever leaving their junk in local beauty spots and there is always a need for volunteers to clean it up to keep the place from becoming a junkyard.
Another great volunteer idea is on local building and repair projects for charities or community projects such as restoring public buildings, renovating public parks or other open air public spaces. There are loads of ways you can help that will also get you working up a sweat and boosting your metabolism for your own benefit as well as benefiting the project you are working on.
You could volunteer to help out with handicapped children such as getting involved with organizations that take them out on trips. You can help with getting wheelchairs in and out of mobility vehicles, supervising the kids while they are outdoors etc.
If none of that appeals to you, then what about volunteering for local environmental groups to plant trees and shrubs in places that have been scrubbed clean and are in need of some regeneration? You’ll be doing your bit for the environment while getting plenty of fresh air to lose weight and improve your health and fitness levels.
So rather than squandering your spare time slumped in front of the TV getting zero exercise and setting yourself up for an unhealthy, shortened and obese life, there are plenty of ways in which you can use that time. You can use it to help out those that are in need and help yourself at the same time by giving yourself some reason for doing stuff that you might not otherwise have even considered.
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100 weight loss tips - 12.Cut Out Alcohol to Lose Weight

2012-02-01T08:43:00.001-08:00

Alcohol is nothing bad or evil as long as its taken in moderation and in fact many health experts have found to their surprise that people who take a daily glass of red wine are more likely to live longer and in better health than those who abstain completely. So how does alcohol fit in with the problem of weight gain?

Well, its not too hard to figure that one out. Drinking one glass of wine will lower your resistance to temptation when a really tasty piece of food is placed in front of you, which will lead to you busting your calorie intake limit for the day. More than one glass of wine, or the equivalent of beer or spirits lowers your resistance further and you’ll be more tempted to eat things that your diet says you shouldn’t. The more you drink, the more you’ll eat!
So it all comes down to how determined you are to lose weight.
If you are not all that determined, then you will not cut out alcohol and you will derail your chances of losing weight. Does that sound a little harsh? Well, its meant to be,because the harsh reality when it comes to drinking alcoholic drinks is that even the most benign of them will almost certainly lead to you eating more than you should.
Even worse is drinking spirits mixed with those fizzy, sugary mixers such as soda, coke, lemonade, tonic etc and even though you may ask for a low calorie version of your favorite mixer, you are still not helping yourself because the artificial sweeteners contained in them actually stimulate hunger and will cause you to eat more.
The only way to make sure you stay on track with your diet is to make a determined effort to cut out alcohol, or at least reduce your intake to only one or two glasses per week. And of that, make it red wine if you must have an alcoholic drink because of them all, this is the one that at least contains some health promoting benefits. You could stay dry all during the weekdays and allow yourself a treat of a glass of wine at the weekend as is permitted on the Sonoma Diet. So at least you’ll be giving yourself a full five days to stick to your calorie limit and promote weight loss through exercise, while relaxing a little at the weekends.
Just remember that while moderation in all things is preferred, you have to be very strict when it comes to alcohol if you are truly determined and want to be positive about losing weight!
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100 weight loss tips - 11.Be Positive About Losing Weight

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Think Positive Thoughts About Losing Weight

What is worse than believing that you can’t do something? Believing that you can’t change that belief!
If that sounds a little like double Dutch, then its not meant to, but really means that you don’t have to be stuck in a negative mindset about anything. You can change you own mindset just by wanting to change it.

When you want to do something, you put 100% effort into doing it, don’t you? Of course you do, otherwise you didn’t really want it enough in the first place. Make sense? Good.So by altering your outlook on your ability to successfully lose weight fast to a positive one, where you know in your heart that you can do it, your belief will follow suit. And before you know it you will believe that you can do it!
Its been proven scientifically that positive change is easier to bring about than negative change. So instead of thinking about certain foods as being “bad” and that you must feel like you really need to cut them out of your diet, alter your mindset away from this negative way of thinking. That is to stop thinking about what you don’t want and change it to a positive way of thinking, which is thinking about what you do want. So now you can think about all the great new recipes and tasty, healthy foods you will get to try out when you begin to experiment with more types of vegetables, or more varieties of beans or legumes, adding different types of spices etc.
This can be a hugely empowering process that really gets you into the positive swing of wanting to eat healthily which totally moves your focus away from the things that you should not be eating.
You can take this one important stage further by now altering your mindset when it comes to weight loss exercise, which is the other half of the equation. If you tend to think of exercise as something you hate to do for a whole collection of reasons, then alter that way of thinking just like you did with food.
So now you can begin to think of types of exercise that you would like to try out.
It could be that you always wanted to follow the Jillian Michaels losing it program, but were prevented by your own thoughts of not being able to. Now you can!
Or maybe you had the idea of getting a Zumba fitness DVD and learning all those great Latin dance exercise routines, but feared you might not be able to do it. Now you can!
Or maybe you saw some promotional things for Suzanne Somers sexy forever program and wanted to try it but didn’t think you could do what she did. Now you can!
Maybe you’d like to go swimming but never considered it because it seemed like a lot of trouble to go to. Instead, think about how you’d love to splash around in a pool with some friends and have a really great time. That wouldn’t even seem like exercise, because it would be so much fun! Or how about arranging to go for a walk in your local park every day, not as an exercise but as something you feel like it would be enjoyable to do. You could maybe feed the ducks in the lake, or walk your dog if you have one.
whatever you do, when you make it fun then you will want to do it, which is exactly the positive way of thinking you want to have!
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100 weight loss tips - 20.Eat Only When You’re Hungry

2012-02-01T08:42:00.002-08:00

Why would anyone eat if they weren’t hungry?
Sure, that sounds so glaringly obvious to anyone intent on losing weight, its enough to make you laugh! But is it really so obvious? Do people not eat, even when they’re not hungry?
Of course they do and people eat when they’re not hungry all the time and that’s often a major contributing reason for their being overweight on the first place!
Its generally known as snacking between meals for no better reason than the snack was available and the person wasn’t so much hungry but bored. And when you’re bored, one way to relieve that boredom is to eat snacks.
And what are most snacks but high calorie, high sugar/salt/fat laden no-nos. They are lying in wait in larders, pantries, fridges or stashed away in handbags, desk drawers etc just waiting for you to reveal their presence so they can whisper their siren call for you to eat them! This is counter productive when you are trying to curb calorie intake.
It doesn’t stop with snacks either. People often eat at meal times whether they’re hungry or not. They eat because the clock says its time to eat, not when their bodies say so. And that’s a habit you are going to have to break very firmly if you want to succeed in losing weight.
To do that, you have to observe your hunger patterns and alter your eating patterns accordingly.
If the clock says its your usual dinner time and you are not really feeling hungry, then put off eating dinner an hour or so. When you eat because you’re hungry, your body is in a better state of readiness to digest the food more efficiently and deploy the energy (measured in calories) to the places that are asking for them.
However, when you eat because the clock says so, your body is not ready and will simply deploy the excess calories to fat cells for storage for when it will need them later. Unfortunately for anyone who is gaining weight, that “later” never comes, because the clock always gets there first. So you eat again, continuing the vicious circle and piling on more stored fat without giving yourself a chance to burn it off before adding more.
How do you break the cycle?
One way is to choose a bedtime that’s earlier than usual and brush your teeth early. That way you avoid after-dinner snacking. Stick to that bed time for a week or so and you’ll find that you are more likely to be hungry when its time to eat breakfast next morning.
A really powerful weight loss tip here is to not eat as soon as you get up. Instead, drink a glass of plain water first, then get out of the house. Either take the dog for a walk (if you have one) or go for a walk yourself. Better still, go for a run! When you get home, shower and get dressed and then eat a good, hearty but healthy breakfast. You’ll really be ready for it! The best part of that is that you’ll go right the way until lunch time without feeling hungry and therefore you’ll avoid snacking mid morning.
The next thing is lunch time itself. Is it a set time? If its set through your job, then there’s not too much you can do about it, so you’re stuck with eating at that time. If you can be more flexible, its better to wait another half hour or more if you can and then eat because you’ll be hungry. The meal will be more satisfying. That will set you up for the long afternoon and again, you are far less likely to feel like snacking.
When you get home, if you are feeling hungry then eat. But of you don’t feel hungry, then don’t just eat because its time to eat. Put off that meal until you do feel hungry. It may be that you don’t want a big meal either. If you only feel like eating a small meal, then only eat a small meal! That’s common sense but something too many people ignore and go ahead and eat the big meal anyway even when they don’t want it all. That leads to weight gain, so by avoiding that temptation, you will be less likely to pile on any extra weight.
Then go to bed early and the good cycle starts again!
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