Archive for February, 2010

Looking to lose weight and want to find the best solution? Have you tried every trick in the book and still struggled to lose those unwanted pounds? I have been in your shoes. You exercise regularly, eat right and managed to lose most of the weight, but it’s hard to lose those last few stubborn pounds. Try the simple and effective way to tactics to supercharge your weight loss efforts.

I don’t want you to make dramatic changes in your lifestyle. Instead, I want to to improve on some of the things that you are doing already. It’s hard to introduce new habits is a lot easier to change or modify existing habits. That’s exactly what these tips and techniques are about. Some of them might not seem so easy, but if you can apply at least six of these tips, you will see a significant change in the next few weeks. Do the best you can and don’t try and do it all at one time. These are unique tactics I have developed on my own, and they have helped thousands of clients get results. You can view my clients in action with exercise videos and download full color exercise routines, diet plans and ebooks by registering on my websites mentioned at the end of this article.

1. Become more positive and receptive to new weight-loss ideas.
Because permanent weight-loss success begins not with the measuring cup but the mind, take a minute to explore your reasons for wanting to lose weight. Just fitting into a smaller dress size is not enough. What then? That’s when the weight creeps back. A healthy weight should be a part of your mindset. It’s not just about looking better or fitting into smaller clothes but about being healthier and maintaining a healthy lifestyle of the rest of your life. This is easier said than done. It takes some practice. Ask yourself WHY do you want to lose weight? Can you zero in on a better reason than a smaller dress size? Sure, you want to look good, but you want to feel good, too, right? That is what will keep you motivated for a lifetime.

2. Write everything down.
Take a journal and make a note of how much you exercise, what you are eating, your successes and your failures.Write down what you eat, and check it against a calorie counter every night for the next two weeks. For many people, this is all it takes to wake up and reverse a lifetime of bad habits. This may sound silly but it’s one of the best weight-loss tactics in the world. I have heard several instances where clients eat a healthy salad but sprinkle itwith so much dressing that you end up with a 500 calorie meal. Once you start seeing how many calories there are in what you’re eating, you’ll know which foods to cut back on or eliminate.

3. Become more active.
This is my favorite tip. Exercise is the single strongest predictor of you ability to lose weight – and keep it off. Yes, exercise burns calories, increases your metabolism and energy, and develops lean muscle mass. But just as important, exercise catapults your self-esteem, which makes you more likely to do other things to take care of yourself, like eat less. Get moving means strength training AND aerobic conditioning.

4. Resist that first bite especially for the foods you love.
You’ve heard it before: everything is okay in moderation. But face it: there are certain foods you simply can’t eat moderately. If one cookie or a handful of chips is never enough, it’s best just to avoid these foods altogether. If you’ve spent your entire adult life trying to eat a little of certain foods and failing, that is your signal to just forget it and don’t even take a bite.

5. Drink more water.
I hear clients tell me, “I hate water.” “It’s soooo boring. There’s no taste!” “I can’t drink too much or I’ll waste my day in the bathroom.” “I know I have to drink more water. I just keep forgetting about it.”
You know you need at least 8-10 glasses of water a day. You need to understand why water is so important. Yes, it fills you up. It controls your appetite.

Did you know that it also aids in metabolizing fat? your liver is busy metabolizing fat and ridding your body of toxins. Water helps to get rid of toxins. If you’re not drinking enough water, you have more toxins in your body, compromising the liver’s ability to metabolize fat. You need water on hand for fat metabolism.

6. Reduce 100 calories from your diet every day.
Make a commitment to cut 100 calories a day from your diet and replace it with an activity that burns 100 calories. It’s easier to pinpoint the 100 with the journal I talked about earlier. If you did nothing else, you’d lose 10 lb. at the end of a year. A few activities that burn 100 cals are 1/2 hr. of walking, 20 minutes of swimming, or even dancing around your living room.

7. Eat fruits and vegetables every day.
These have a powerful effect on sugar cravings. Plus, they’re low in calories, fill you up with fiber, and pack a powerful nutritional punch.

8. Start training with weights.
More muscle means more calories burned, even at rest. The key to permanent weight loss.

9. Eat more fibre.
Fiber-rich fruits and veggies are great nutritional fare, since they fill you up without adding too much fat or too many calories. But increasing fiber intake could actually reduce the amount of calories absorbed by the body, too.

10. Spread your calories out over the course of the day.
The typical American eats light during the day, and heavier at night. Yikes! By the time you get to dinner, your metabolism has gotten sluggish, which means a greater number of calories will be stored as fat. It’s even worse if you’re not active after dinner. Eat larger meals during the day, and have a light dinner.

11. Change Your Shopping Style
When I go grocery shopping I can take one look at someone’s shopping cart and make some basic assumptions about their lifestyle. If you want to lose weight your grocery shopping habits must improve. Thin starts at the grocery store. Before you hit the checkout lane, review your selections and dump any sugary, fatty treats and snacks. Your family may complain but they will get used to it.

12. Mix up your workouts. Crosstraining is the key to success.
It is said the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again and yet expect the same results. The same applies to fitness. You can’t expect to do the same exercise, at the same intensity week after week and continue to see results. The body must be ‘shocked’ to respond with results. As long as the exercise is unpredictable and varied or manipulated every two weeks you will continue improving and losing weight.

Nitin Chhoda
http://www.articlesbase.com/fitness-articles/best-weight-loss-programs-tactics-that-work-73237.html

Rarely does a major breakthrough occur in the weight loss industry; A Rare vegetable reduces the pot belly waist, hips, without changing your diet or physical activity.

A company by the name of BioTech Research has developed a new food supplement made form a rare vegetable call caralluma fimbriata. Bio SpeedSLIM provides weight loss without changing your diet or physical activities. Unlike old school weight loss methods, you will not feel hunger pangs, craving, and headaches. Contrast to diet pills which contain strong stimulants, you will not get the jitters or have problems sleeping. The majority of the diet pills on the market today recently reported by the government don’t live up to their claims.

Clinical trial by Dr. Ronald Lawrence, Western Geriatric Research Institute reveals very promising results. The study was conducted with 26 patients. Nineteen patients were on the active compound and 7 were on placebo. One patient from each category did not show up for the final visit. Almost every patient taking the active ingredient lost significant weight. There was almost no weight loss observed in patients on placebo.

Out of 18 patients, 15 patients (83.33%) lost weight. Eleven patients (16.11%) lost about six pounds. The highest was nine pounds. Four patients lost one to two pounds, and two patients maintained their starting weight. One patient gained 17 pounds. This patient was found not to comply with the regimen that was requested, and indeed increased caloric consumption over the four weeks.

Bio SpeedSlim automatically controls overeating with out you even knowing it. Food still tastes great and you will thoroughly enjoy eating meals, and you eat until you’re full. Bio SpeedSlim automatically prevent you from overeating by correcting abnormal overeating control mechanisms in the body. Bio SpeedSlim also helps reduce the formation of excess fat in the body and promotes the burning of excess fat, in addition to building a leaner body. Muscle is what burns most of the calories in your body. The more muscle have the faster you will lose weight.

Bio SpeedSlim is all natural and safe. The active ingredients come from an in creditable rare vegetable. Asia people have been using it for hundreds of years to improve health and relieve pain; it also helped them to lose weight. Clinical studies conducted on caralluma fimbriata showed that it controlled overeating without hunger, hunger pangs and cravings, and also did 4 specific things to promote fast weight loss.

• Automatically controls overeating

• Promotes lean body mass gain which increases the calories you burn per day

• Promotes the burning of stored body fat

• Suppresses body fat

• Reduces pot belly, waist and hips

Bio SpeedSlim is definitely a product that deserves a serious look at if you plan to loss weight in the near future. Obesity is major problem in our society today more and more people are affected by it each day. The diet industry is the one of the least regulated industries we have. As a consumer we have to do more to expose the fraud in the diet industry. Many of us are constantly looking for the miracle diet pill. Bio SpeedSlim comes very close to being that miracle pill.

Lonnie Brown
http://www.articlesbase.com/nutrition-articles/weight-loss-breakthrough-116461.html

This article on weight loss has been written because I know, from personal experience, how important it is to your image and self esteem to have just the right body shape.

There are a lot of ways to lose weight. There are people who have decided to purchase exercise machines and after a few minutes of use each day, can loosen the fat instantly. Others try something new such as the Atkins or South Beach diet that have also proven to be effective.

Not all of these will work the same for a person. Some suggest the use of herbs and supplements. These are of western and eastern origin that have been proven to be safe as long as the proper measures are taken.

One of these aids is called hydroxycitric acid, which is an extract from a Garcinia cambogia tree found in India. Many Indians use this in making curry dishes, which is also used in restaurants in the United States.

The chemical does three things. It works by blocking the enzymes in the body from converting carbohydrates to fat. Second, it suppresses the appetite by making the brain think one is already full and lastly, it helps burn fat faster.

This means the person can go into an establishment that serves Indian cuisine or after buying this ingredient, can make a similar dish at home.

People who consume this often should drink a lot of water and reduce the consumption of alcohol because this will hinder the weight loss process. Those who have diabetes, high blood pressure, are pregnant or are still lactating should also stop first since this could have affects on the baby.

Another ingredient used by Indians is called Gugulipid. This herb comes from the mukul myrrh tree that has been used for centuries. This was first used to treat people with lipid disorders and obesity but tests have shown this can also lower the bad cholesterol and increase the good kind that is produced in the body.

This promotes weight loss by stimulating the thyroid gland, which in turn will speed up the metabolic rate in the body thus burning away fat. People who want to try this should maintain a low fat diet and not mix this with anything else since this could cause rashes or diarrhea.

Now before you read any further let me just say that I do hope you are finding this both helpful and interesting. I have written this because I really do believe that we need to know more about this, so, having said that, lets continue.

Gymnema is also a natural herb that can be found in India and parts of Africa. The leaves are known to interfere with the persons ability to taste sweetness thus reducing sugar consumption.

Those who have a hard time saying no to chocolates or anything sweet should take this before having a large meal. People who have diabetes should also eat this in moderation.

Gamma linolenic acid, which is a type of Omega 6, found in evening primrose oil and borage seed oil can be mixed in a meal before eating. This also increases the persons metabolism thus burning excess fat after brown fat found in the body has been activated.

Pharmaceutical companies sell these in bottle form and must be refrigerated and consumed within a month to a month and a half since this decomposes quickly.

Fibers normally found in herbal teas can also help people loose weight naturally. These products have ingredients such as psyllium, guar gum, pectin, glucomannan or chitin which stimulates bowel movement thus getting rid of excess fat. Users should drink lots of water to compensate for the fluids lost.

The use of aids in losing weight are many and have proven to be safe and effective. The person should consult a doctor first before taking anything.

Let me finish by saying that there is a mass of information out there on the topic of weight loss, and if you are wondering just where to start may I suggest a visit to your local bookstore, your local library, and do a search on the internet.

John Savage
http://www.articlesbase.com/fitness-articles/lose-weight-naturall-and-successfully-53667.html

What is the fastest way to lose weight? In this article, I will answer that very question. I will reveal the absolute fastest way a person can lose weight and still be healthy and retain a semblance of sanity. But first, here’s a little background information on weight loss.

Weight loss is extremely complex. It’s not just a matter of eating less, and exercising more. Many of you can attest to that.

There are other mechanisms at work within the body that slow your weight loss down, and some even stop it altogether.

Your body doesn’t want to lose weight. I doesn’t like it. On the contrary, your body wants to survive, and it equates any efforts to starve it, or to exercise it excessively as undue stress.

The body releases a hormone called cortisol when it becomes stressed. This hormone causes the body to store fat, and catabolize muscle. Essentially, by doing the things you’ve been told will help you lose weight, you’re actually causing yourself to retain, or even gain fat. This is especially true if you follow the more gimmicky or faddish ways promising to be fast ways to lose weight.

In reality, the fastest way to lose weight is not through starvation diets, or by performing marathon cardio sessions.

The true fastest way to lose weight is by adopting scientifically proven fat loss workout routines, and combine that with equally proven extreme fat loss diets.

The workout routines I’m referring to elicit a metabolic and hormonal response within the body that cause you to continue burning fat for up to 38 hours after your workout is over. The types of fat loss workout routines I’m talking about are based on the Tabata method, and HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training).

Both of these training methods have been proven to melt the fat like nothing else. When you unite that with an extreme fat loss diet like Fat Fast, or the more modern Velocity Diet, then you have an extremely powerful fat loss combination that can’t be beat. It truly is the fastest way to lose weight.

If they’re so powerful, then why don’t more people know about Tabata, HIIT, the Fat Fast Diet, or the Velocity Diet? It’s simple. It’s because they’re not overnight guarantees, they’re not “lose weight while sitting on your couch,” and they’re definitely not a pill you can take. It’s actually hard work, and no one is writing articles, or filming infomercials about something that requires real work, and can’t be bottled.

Tabatas and HIIT are the most intense workouts on the planet. Fat Fast and the Volicity Diet are extreme, low calorie, high protein, high fat, low carb diets that no one can realistically hope to stay on for any length of time.

In short, the fastest way to lose weight is also one of the toughest, meant only for the strong willed. What’s the average person, with average will supposed to do?

You have to rethink what “fastest way to lose weight” really means to you. You have to ask yourself a different question, “what is the fastest way I can lose weight?”

Once you ask the question, you have to give yourself an honest response.

Imagine you’re on the Velocity Diet but you find it too difficult to stick to and you give up after a week. You’re now thinking that you’re a failure. What about the super intense Tabata or HIIT workouts? After the first few, most people give up because they’re so painful to do. Once again you’ll start thinking of yourself as a failure.

When you have this negative mind-set, you’ll be less likely to stick to anything, or even try anything else. You’ve given up. How do you keep from letting negativity poison and thwart your fat loss efforts?

The answer is the Zen approach. Buddhists believe in something called the “middle way,” which is the practice of non-extremism. By using the middle way, you’ll make more progress than you would if you tried an extreme approach and failed.

To incorporate the Zen approach to fat loss, you perform some form of Tabata, or HIIT workouts a couple times per week. Choose two non-consecutive days such as Tuesday and Thursday, or Monday and Wednesday. You also throw in a Fat Fast, or Velocity style diet every other day. The way that works is you diet one day, then you eat normally (but still healthy) the next. Knowing that a regular meal is coming the next day will keep you on track during your diet days.

That’s the middle way to rapid fat loss.

Obviously, the person doing Tabatas and/or HIIT 4 times per week and does a strict Fat Fast, or Velocity Diet every day of the week is going to lose weight super fast. But for the rest of us mere mortals, the “middle way” is a more reasonable approach, and the fastest way to lose weight for US.

Egan Cordova
http://www.articlesbase.com/wellness-articles/the-fastest-way-to-lose-weight-is-by-using-a-zen-approach-692858.html

These days staying fit, eating right, and loosing weight have all become serious business especially for women and that’s why Muscle and Fitness Hers.

Muscle and Fitness Hers is a great magazine to pick up and read curled up in your favorite chair but it’s also available online and with so much information it’s hard to get bored with what they’ve got to tell you and you certainly can’t stay ahead of it.

If you are interested in nutrition Muscle and Fitness Hers has some great information on what foods are good for you but there’s more than that. There are menus for meals, food choices, savvy shopping, recipes, meals that are worth eating, and it goes on and on. Learn all about which foods have how many calories, and which foods are the healthiest to eat. Sure fruits and vegetables are important but some are more important than others. There is just so much useful information that you’re going to be thrilled with the information available to you.

But Muscle and Fitness Hers doesn’t start there – find all the information you want. Why not start with a Fusion Core Workout which is explained in detail. Or maybe learn what type of workout is best for you. Want to learn about toning? Muscle Building? Loose those extra mid section pounds? Get the Quick fit workout, perfect legs, or a complete training guide. They have all the information you need.

Muscle And Fitness Hers also has Mind & Body help. Tips on how not to get workout burnout or how to work through those tough spots – they’ve got it all. You’ve heard the old saying “mind over matter” well same goes in the gym so this online magazine is determined to keep you in the right frame of mind to beat any obstacles you come across.

Now remember women train different than men, they think different than men, and the get into shape different than men. That’s why not you need a magazine like Muscle and Fitness Hers written for women by women. No need to work with information for the other sex. And be honest – if you have ever worked out with a guy you know just how different we go about accomplishing the same thing.

The Muscle and Fitness Hers website also has a forum where you can go and chat with other gals that are looking after their bodies through diet and fitness. It’s a great place to meet some new friends and to share ideas and learn new things. You never know what you might learn and it’s always nice to meet others that have the same interests as you.

Once you’ve spent some time on the Muscle and Fitness Hers website you won’t be able to resist taking a subscription for the monthly manual which is full of all kinds of great information that will help you stay both fit and healthy. After all fitness is about more than just the working out at the gym or eating right – It’s about mind, body, and soul.

Kelly Johnson
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/muscle-and-fitness-hers-has-great-information-138050.html