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I Want To Lose Weight, But I Still Love My Chocolate And Alcohol

Changing your diet so that you eat healthier, lose weight naturally and shed years off your age does not have to be a huge struggle. After all you are investing better in your body and your health.

Let me ask you a question? How long did it take you to be overweight? Probably years right? At the least, it took you a good couple of months, so reversing or stopping those habits is not something that is going to happen overnight.

The best way to approach your change of lifestyle, is starting out with small, doable actions. No matter how small these actions are, they can make a huge difference in your weight, especially if you are going to stick to those changes and continue implementing new changes.

Imagine if you had to decrease the amount of calories you consume a day by a 100. Over a year, what kind of weight loss would that equate to? A lot – trust me! And a reduction of  100 calories is doable a day, all you have to do  is simply commit to removing a small portion of the amount of food you consume with each meal.

If you find that this is leaving you feeling more hungry, then have a glass of water a half hour or so before each meal and you will be less inclined to feel like you require more food. Your tummy is used to you eating more, so it will take time adjusting to you consuming less food. Also, consume foods with  high fiber, they take longer to digest and will make you feel fuller for longer. And the pay off for you is that you will lose weight.

Replace low quality foods in your diet with more vegetables and fruits. As much as it took long for you to enjoy the low quality foods, it will take time for you to start enjoying the new foods, but you will start to enjoy them as you eat them more and more.

Many people find it hard to accept that they will be able to get the same enjoyment out of the food that they know they should be eating but that is only because they have been accustomed to the tastes of the food they eat at the current time.

A great example of this is when a person who drinks their tea without sugar, suddenly decides they will have their tea with some sugar. Their reaction to this is that they will find it extremely sweet, and they will not enjoy is as much, or they simply will have to dilute it with more tea.

So yes, you still love your chocolate and tea, so do I. But cutting down on it, and only consuming them on your cheat days, will do you a wealth of good, and will take you a step closer to your goals.

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Transform Your Body By Boosting Your Metabolism While Gaining Muscles

ist1 4024312 farmer s market organic vegetables Transform Your Body By Boosting Your Metabolism While Gaining MusclesHow are your weight loss efforts going? Are you getting the results that you were hoping for?

Today, we look at metabolism and muscles . . . a high metabolism is a dream for anyone who wants to lose weight, because a high metabolism means that your body is burning calories faster, and that is a great thing! Lets look at how we can increase the metabolism of our bodies and build muscle mass . . .

1.When it comes to increasing your metabolism through exercise, make sure that you do a 10 minute warm up. You can walk this 10 minutes, starting out slowly and then picking up your speed so that your pace is fast and brisk. This war up exercise will increase your blood circulation and that is awesome for your muscles.

2.Do not isolate body parts when you exercise, it is better to target larger muscle groups so that you engage more muscles and as a result you will burn more calories and increase your metabolism.

3. It is also a good idea to start on your hips, buttocks and thighs.Lunges are a great lower body exercise that will definitely raise your metabolic rate, as well as toning muscles.

4. Here is a great exercise for toning and burning calories and increasing your metabolism.

Stand straight then use the dumbbell which has the heaviest proportion that you can lift comfortably over the head. Grasp it at the level of your shoulder with the palm of your hand facing forward then push it overhead in a straight manner until your arm have reached its full extension before it returns from the position where you started. Do this exercise in 10 repetitions, slowly so that you will not strain your arm after which, switch the dumbbell to the other arm. Do the repetitions at least three times from either hands. You have to be sure that your body and arms can tolerate the repetitions otherwise you are prone to muscle wasting as well as injury.

5. Another great exercise that you can use for the purpose of alternating exercises . This includes the exercise with dumbbells that was described in #4, you can do the dumbbells and after several repetitions, go down with the push-up. This is very efficient because really pushes your body to burn calories and increase the metabolism. Push-ups, in general, provides resistance to weight that is needed to build muscles and at the same time increasing the rate of metabolism.

6. For other upper-body exercises, you can use the dumbbells because they are so good in targeting the shoulders, upper muscles of the chest, forearms and muscles of your deltoid. Dumbbells are effective in getting your metabolism high, which is excellent for weight loss.

7. Lastly, it is extremely important to have a balanced nutrition and fix areas where you are sabotaging your eating habits. For example, if you are consuming more fats before, then try toning it down to limited amounts. Instead, consume something that has a higher content of protein, calories and nutrients. your eating habits have to reflect your weight loss goals, otherwise you will not gt your desired results.

The best thing you can do for your body is to consume more vegetables, whole grain and citrus fruits. This will give you more advantage for your muscle gaining technique and you be healthier as you consume foods that are good for the body.

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5 Reasons Why Alcohol Is Sabotaging Your Weight Loss

DSC00930 293x300 5 Reasons Why Alcohol Is Sabotaging Your Weight LossMost of us use alcohol when we go out with friends or family, and in most of our homes, alcohol is served with meals. For me, I have always used it because I am a very shy person, so it would help me socialize more with my peers. That’s the reason I have always used when I thought about why I even started to drink. It has been said that a woman should not consume more than one alcoholic day, and men are not to consume two alcoholic drinks a day. Learn these facts about alcohol and see the effects it has on your body.

1. Increases estrogen and decreases testosterone levels.

Estrogen can give you women characteristics if you are a guy, and the reduction in estrogen levels can mess up your muscle mass. For me, alcohol made me gain so much weight and increased my breast size by 3 cups. So, if you want to lose weight, stay away from alcohol or at least cut down on it.

2. Alcohol dehydrates you and causes water loss. The problem with the water loss is that it takes important minerals and vitamins that your body needs. Also, when you are dehydrated, it means that your body is craving for water, which is needed for most chemical reactions in your body.

3. Alcohol has empty calories and it increases the storage of fats. When the alcohol enters your body, the body basically gives it first preference, which means the calories that you get from food will have to wait being digested. That food ends up being stored as fat. Now you know, alcohol slows food processing in your body.

4. Alcohol contains 7 calories for every gram. Unfortunately for you and me those calories are empty, with no nutritional value for your body. If you are going to add calories into your diet, why don’t you opt for calories that are healthier?

5. I don’t know about you, but I tend to be more relaxed when I am drinking. This causes me to lower my inhibitions, and as a result it makes it easier for me to have a go at that pizza that I have been trying to avoid.

If you are planning to drink with your pals, make sure you eat a healthy balanced meal beforehand. Drinking on an empty stomach is not a good thing, and it will just end up making you feel hungry, and this will increase you binging on some take out.

You have to take care of how you manage your drinking, especially if you are trying to maintain an ideal body weight and size. A few drinks occasionally aren’t bad as long as you can handle the effects. Otherwise your muscle gaining goals can be totally affected in a very negative way.

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The 5 Highly Effective Habits Of Thin People

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Hi,

When it comes to weight loss, for most people it is easier said than done. You need to be really clear about what you want to accomplish, because without clear goals about where you want to go, or how you want your body to be, it is all a wish.

Eating healthy and being at your optimal body weight is an ongoing thing. It is not something that you can do for 3 months and stop doing, and think you will have the body of your dreams. It is something we all have to consistently work at, to get the results we desire.

Having struggled with my weight for a long time, I know that it is hard sometimes to keep focused and to keep doing what I need to do to ensure I am still on the right path to accomplish my weight loss goals. So, lets look at what habits will keep you on the track of winning your weight loss battle.

1. Visualize how your body is going to be once you reach the weight you want. More importantly, think about how good it is going to feel once you are able to fit into those awesome pair of jeans that you have been dreaming about! If the picture in your mind is very vivid, and the emotions that you have at visualizing that picture are real, that will be a very compelling reason for you to keep trying.

2. Eat  just enough food to give adequate energy to your body for optimal function. Overweight people ended up being being overweight probably because of consuming more food than they needed for body function. The lesson here is to eat in moderation, and to actually stop eating when one gets full. Do not wait until your stomach wants to explode. Start by cutting down the calories that you consume a day . . .

3. Get up and start moving. Start with small things like using the stairs instead of the lift, parking away from the mall entrance, fetching stuff for yourself instead of getting your child or little sister to get it for you. The lesson here is that you need to start exercising to get you to start burning those calories.

4. Choose healthier food options. When you are having a pizza or a burger with fries for lunch, look around at what the people who seem to have their weight under control are eating. Chances are they are eating food that have great calories for great energy that will fuel their bodies properly. Stop eating junk

5. Everything worth having requires consistent effort out of all of us. It is not easy, but if you really want it, you need to make sacrifices to ensure you get it. If having the perfect body was easy, we would all be looking great with a Body Mass Index we could all be proud of. Giving up is not an option – if you are sure of where you want to go.

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Burn More Calories In Less Time

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Hi there,

I found this great article about burning more calories and I just had to share it with you. I hope it will be as life changing to you as it was to me. Enjoy . . .

Burn More Calories in Less Time
Yuri Elkaim, BPHE, CK, RHN

www.myFitterU.com

In my view, intensity is the most critical aspect of any exercise regime and can mean the difference between someone who reaches their goals and someone who doesn’t. Increasing your workout’s intensity will stimulate your body to burn more calories and induce a greater cardiovascular response. It will also allow you to have a more time efficient workout.

If you are looking to burn fat and become more toned, then increasing your exercise intensity is critical. Many people have the misconception that if you workout at a higher intensity you will no longer be burning fat since you will be in your “cardio zone”. Whereas, if you keep your intensity low for a longer duration you will burn more fat since you will be in your “fat burning zone”.

Let me clarify this for you once and for all. By training at a low intensity (<70% max) it is true that you use fat as your predominant source of fuel. While exercising at a higher intensity (>75% max) your main fuel source is carbohydrate but you will ultimately burn more calories. And since 1 pound of fat is equivalent to 3500 calories, the ultimate goal is to burn as many calories as possible to create a negative energy balance!

One of the best ways to achieve this intensity is through the use of full-body exercises (circuit training set up) in conjunction with interval training. The benefit of full body exercises is that they utilize more muscle in any given movement – thus, you burn more calories. The inherent intensity of the workout also means that each exercise becomes more challenging as your heart rate is sustained at a much higher level as a result of not giving yourself enough rest between exercises.

Here are a couple of benefits to following an exercise program combining circuit training and interval training:

1. Intervals and circuits vastly reduce boredom. Traditional steady state cardio training and/or weight lifting can become quite boring. Interval training and circuit training offer more variety and excitement to your workouts.

2. Interval training increases post-exercise energy expenditure (calories burned following exercise) more than steady-state exercise, which means that more fat is burned. After intense exercise, the body needs extra calories as it works to repair muscles, replace energy stores (i.e. carbohydrate) and restore the body to its normal state (e.g. reduce heart rate).

As this can take many hours, you will keep on burning more calories long after the workout is over. In fact, research shows that metabolic rate is higher for several hours following interval training compared to steady state exercise.

3. Interval training burns more calories. As an example, 30 minutes on an Elliptical machine using a steady state program will burn roughly 292 calories, whereas 30 minutes of intervals will burn approximately 584 calories!

Here is a sample circuit traing workout that will leave you huffing and puffing:

WARM-UP – bike, treadmill, elliptical, rower + dynamic stretching (5-10 min)

CIRCUIT (45 seconds for each exercise, with 15 seconds rest between exercises :: 5-7 min to complete 1 set)

Lunge walks with lateral raises

Plank (on stability ball)

Squats with medicine ball shoulder press

Push-ups

Side Bridges

Reverse Pull-ups

Burpies

INTERVAL TRAINING (cardio machine)

20 sec @ 100% : 40 sec @ 70% x 5 = 5 min

Repeat Circuit and Interval 3 times

Total Workout Time: 45 – 50 min

Do this workout 4 times over the next 2 weeks and watch the difference intensity brings to your workouts – and your results!

About the Author

Yuri Elkaim is a world-renowned fitness, nutrition, and weight loss expert. He is the creator Fitter U and Treadmill Trainer, author of Eating for Energy, and the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for men’s soccer program at the University of Toronto. His trademarked 12-week Fitter U iPod workout program has been helping thousands of people around the world get in shape and lose weight fast without the cost and inconvenience of hiring a trainer. Go to www.myFitterU.com now to get your FREE Fitter U workout and “How to Get Fit and Lose Weight Fast” report!

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