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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

The Following Tips Helps.

Many people who want to lose weight don't realize that in order to look great and become truly healthy, the weight loss may not be so much about how much you weigh, but what comes off the body. For instance, do you think that if you lose 10 - 15 lbs. of water, you will look as good as if you were to lose that same amount of fat weight? When you're planning to lose weight, you need to get all the fat loss facts that will help you to get the body you really want.

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Does it seem like there simply are not enough hours in the day to go out and work on your weight loss at the gym with a personal trainer? Or, maybe that just doesn't sound like a good idea to you at the moment? After all, you have plenty of other priorities to take care of at the house, right? I was just like you. I work at a financial firm in a crowded city where traffic to and from work is often really congested. So, I work long hours, drive long hours, and by the time I get home, I need to get dinner on the table for more people than just me.

Burn off 10 pounds by using these techniques for two straight weeks:

Eat fruit alone.

Fruit takes only about 20 to 30 minutes to pass out of your stomach and start digesting. If you follow it up with something heavy like bread, it would take longer for the stomach to digest all this food. Because of this, the fruit you have initially eaten will rot by the time the bread is fully digested. The more rotten food you have the more indigestion it causes and fermentation in your gut. Think gas and weight gain.

Eat all your meals prior to 8pm.

Naturally, eating late would mean your stomach will have to work overtime by digesting what you ate, and this would mean more energy needed for digesting and less energy used to repair damaged cells in your body. As a result, you will find it hard to sleep since the body had to digest dinner, which causes you to create adrenaline that will force you to wake up. If you don't get enough sleep this throws off the thyroid which controls your metabolism, which controls how much weight you gain. See the cycle? Sleep is critical here people.

Weight is lost by two different methods. Either you reduce your calorie intake to less than what you are burning off, or you increase the amount of calories that you are burning by exercising to more calories than you take in. The math is simple, but dieting can be hard work. Especially if you have a sweet tooth or are just used to eating whatever you want. But, you should not be afraid to try to put together a New Years weight loss plan that will benefit you, not only now, but in the future.

Have a salad with all meals.

To lose 10 pounds in a matter of weeks, eating a salad with every meal is crucial. Make sure that you eat the salad first. This would allow your body to create more enzymes so when you eat the main course; your stomach will be ready to go to work to digest the cooked foods. It also lets you feel fuller than you actually are, making less room in your stomach for the heavier foods. Salads also create a nice alkaline environment that balances out the acidity of the other cooked foods you're eating. Having an acid/alkaline environment in your blood is critical for weight loss and living a disease free healthy life



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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Choose your own path

The good news is there is a way that works - a way that has been proven to
be effective in getting people results! The answer doesn’t lie in following
a single diet or exercise program or in taking handfuls of pills. The answer
is to simply copy the daily habits or rituals of people who have achieved
and maintained the results you want, but then to only incorporate the
habits that suit you and your individual lifestyle.
Let’s face it, we all have different likes, dislikes, tastes, commitments
and time availability. Therefore, the type of plan that suits one person
may not suit you. Why not examine a range of options that can help you
achieve the results you want and then decide to use the principles that
best suit you.
For example, weight training is a great way to ‘tone up’, boost your
metabolism and dramatically accelerate weight loss. However, some
people, for a variety of reasons, cannot or choose not to incorporate this
activity into their lifestyle. If this is the case- fine! There are many other
‘lifestyle modifications’ that someone can make to achieve the results
they desire.
There are many paths that may be taken up the mountain of physical
greatness in order to reach the peak. However, the people who have
achieved the greatest success have modeled themselves on people who
have been successful in the past but they have also managed to forge their
own path.


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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Weight-loss difficulties

If you ask most people what they would like to change about their body
you will invariably get a barrage of responses rather than a single reply.
Comments about removing bulges, dimples and rolls from certain areas
whilst ‘toning up’ others tend to be the most common responses.
Since we live in an image-based society most people are concerned about
the way they look. This is exemplified by the fact that diet books tend to
be some of the most popular books on the market.
Unfortunately though, the vast majority of people who want to change
their body don’t even take the first step because they are totally confused
as to which direction they should go. Of those who do take action, many
find their ‘body-changing journey’ a very difficult one. Their progress is
often slow, they experience enormous hardships and obstacles along the
way and they are often required to put in a super-human effort in order
to stay on the path. Worst still, by the end of their journey they often
find themselves exactly where they started! Such is the plight of many
dieters.
This often leaves them frustrated and disillusioned due to the futility of
their effort and with the belief that they have to accept their bodyshape
for the rest of their life.


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How To Create A Powerful Weight- Loss Mind Set

It seems ironic that losing weight is such a simple process but as a
society we continue to get fatter and fatter. Let’s face it, we all know
the basics of what we need to do, we just don’t do it! If you eat less and
exercise more you’re going to lose weight! The problem is how many
people actually do these things? What’s stopping people from doing
the easiest things that they know will get them results? Why don’t they
simply make a conscious effort to reduce the portion sizes of their meals
or get up a little earlier to go for a walk around the block? Jim Rohn (a
US personal development speaker) answered these questions well when
he said, ‘The things that are easy to do are also easy not to do!’
The reason why people don’t do these simple actions to get the results
they want is because they haven’t created a ‘Weight-Loss Mindset’. A
‘Weight-Loss Mindset’ is simply having the motivation or drive to do
what is necessary on a daily basis in order to get the results you want. The
motivation comes from within; intrinsic motivation. Motivation is the
fundamental difference between someone having a flimsy hope to lose
weight and someone having a burning desire to do whatever it takes to
get the excess flesh off their body! It is the difference between someone
getting up in the morning to go for a walk when the alarm goes off and
someone hitting the snooze button, rolling over and going back to sleep!
Many people who have achieved their weight-loss goal often comment
that they experienced a ‘defining moment’ in their life that ‘flicked the
switch’ in their mind; a moment that marked a shift in their mind about
weight loss. It may have been a marriage breakdown, the loss of a parent,
a negative doctor’s check-up or even an innocent comment from one of
their children like, ‘Mummy, you’re fat!’ Any of these situations may
cause an immediate shift in a person’s drive to lose weight.
Unfortunately though, these are the exceptions rather than the rule.
Human beings, the resilient creatures that we are, will put up with a lot
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before we’ll make any changes. Often we wake up in the morning after
sleeping well only to feel more tired than before we went to bed but we’ll
put up with it. We look in the mirror and feel disappointed with what we
see but we’ll put up with it. Our joints and lower back ache all the time
but we’ll put up with that too. Yes, we’re willing to put up a lot before
we’ll take any action.
Whats more, even if we do muster up enough motivation to do something
about it, as soon as the going gets a bit tough or ‘life’ gets in the way, we
‘drop the ball’ and go back to old habits. Bad habits are like a comfortable
bed, they’re easy to get into and they’re hard to get out of!
So how do we create a ‘Weight-Loss Mindset’? Is it something you’re
either born or not born with or can it be created? The fact is, just like
athletic ability we all have some but to varying degrees. Some athletes
are born champions and, despite their lifestyle habits sometimes, they
achieve massive success with little effort. These people are very rare
indeed. On the other hand, there are those people who can improve their
ability through hard work, dedication and perseverance, but even on their
best day they may have trouble holding their place in the high school’s
3rd XVIII football team! These people are also extremely rare.
Most people however, will fall somewhere between these two extremes
both in athletic ability and in their ability to create a ‘Weight-Loss
Mindset’. The big difference though, between improvement in athletic
ability and improving your ‘Weight-Loss Mindset’ is that with an athletic
endeavour you are limited by the physical capacities of your body,
whereas when you are dealing with your mind, which is intangible, your
ability to improve is infinite.
Now I know many people may not have the opportunity to have a defining
moment, the moment when a switch is flicked in their mind and they
immediately start taking action towards their weight-loss goal, but there
is another way to create a powerful weight-loss mind set and I will cover
the exact steps later


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Monday, December 28, 2009

Get Advice From the Wrong People.

Once people make a decision to lose weight they will often start asking
people close to them how they think they should do it. These people
are usually family members or friends who have probably never studied
anatomy or physiology and who likely know absolutely nothing about
what it takes to lose weight and get in great shapeShape. As a result, they get
incorrect information that at best, won’t help them achieve their goals, or
at worst, may be harmful to their health!
Perhaps they might decide to follow a diet that they read in their favourite
magazine and more often than not, the diet is advertised to do one thing
and one thing only- sell magazines! It is not used to arm people with
correct information so they can make informed decisions or tell them the
truth about losing weight, it is simply designed to sell magazines.
The best thing to do is to speak with someone who has achieved the result
you desire and who has managed to keep the weight off. Then, model
their actions. Find out what they eat every day, what exercise they do and
what supplements they take and then simply do exactly the same.
Alternatively, employ the services of a professional who has been
successful in achieving weight-loss goals for their clients. Personal
trainers are your best option. Their job is to help people achieve whatever
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Sunday, December 27, 2009

Don’t Make Permanent Lifestyle Changes.

Once people achieve the weight loss they desire rarely do they maintain
the lifestyle that helped them achieve the result. Often they will say that
it is too difficult to maintain so they return to previous lifestyle habits- the
habits that caused them to put on weight in the first place! This is known
as relapse.
In order to maintain the result it is absolutely essential that you maintain
the habits that helped you achieve it. Of course, you can modify them
slightly and still maintain the result. For example, you can decrease the
frequency of your exercise Stronger Seniors Stretch & Strength Chair Exercise DVD Program- 2 DVD Set - Developed by Anne Burnell, Older Adult Education Provider for the American Council on Exercise (ACE)program so instead of exercising every day
you can now exercise every second day or instead of only having one
Treat Meal’ a week you can allow yourself two. Therefore, you are still
maintaining the exercise and healthy eating habits but have modified
them to make them more sustainable for you. Remember these habits
must be maintained for the rest of your life.


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