Can’t Lose Weight? You Are Not On Your Own Here!

September 22, 2009  //  Posted by: admin  //  Category: cheap plus size clothing

Really think you can’t lose weight? Any reasons why you think that you can’t shed a bit of flab? The fact is most people who are looking to lose a few pounds get set in the mind that they can’t lose weight. Some mystical power is stopping them from achieving their weight loss goal.

The sad fact is that secretly they don’t want to lose weight at all. They would be happy to simply carry on as they are. Yet they will openly say they want to, but can’t seem to lose weight.

It’s no magical secret. Weight loss is a simple mathematical problem. We eat (calories) and we burn (calories) off. Taking in more calories than you burn off results in weight gain. Period.

The other perspective is that you will lose weight if you burn off more than you eat. And herein lies the problem. Today’s average diet is so calorie laden it’s a joke. If you compared what you should be eating against what you do eat you would give yourself a funny turn. I kid you not.

Let’s take a simple exercise, say doing side bends to try to burn off your love handles. You can lose weight by doing these, lots of these. However, how many you have to do is hard to guess. You have to calculate how many calories you are burning to balance the scales.

You can take in a whole days calories in one meal. Easily! Fast food is the biggest culprit. In fact fast food is quite often laced with sugar, even the burgers! Eating sugar will make you hungry again much quicker.

The body changes everything we eat into energy in the form of glucose (simple sugar). Sweet foods get used up much quicker by the body leaving you feeling hungry a lot faster. So you tend to eat again. There’s a lot of people think our sugar reliant diets is no accident. A western world conspiracy to get us eating (and spending) more.

The more food we eat, the more money we spend, the more big industry gets rich. Big business gets richer by the day with this simple formula. And the easiest way to get us eating more? Add sugar to everything we eat.

It’s a bit like in some bars. Free pretzels and peanuts get us eating salt, the salt makes us thirsty, we buy more drinks. To finish off, you should lose some weight if you burn off more calories than you take in. But will you do this on your own? Very doubtful as the willpower level in our culture is rock bottom.

What you need is a hand holding system to help you. A system that will guarantee you drop those unwanted pounds if you follow the rules. If you’ve tried other methods and they’ve not worked, it’s maybe time you tried something with a new approach

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Love Handle Exercises – Side Bends Aren’t The Answer

September 15, 2009  //  Posted by: admin  //  Category: cheap plus size clothing

There’s an awful lot of stuff on the internet that will show you how to get fat off your love handles. The fact is most of it’s crap. Usually setup to try and sell you some expensive equipment or diet pills.

The usual suspect in the exercise for love handles category is the good old side bend. You hold a walking stick or broom above your head and bend from side to side. Simple! It would be nice if they actually worked.

The fact they won’t work is that targeting one particular area to lose weight from is nigh on impossible. You’ll always get the smart ass telling you they do work. They will work if you incorporate them with an all round system.

Doing side bends as part of an all round workout will definitely get you success. If your workout is also part of an all round system you could double your results. It’s a simple fact. Burn more energy than you consume to lose weight.

Consuming energy means eating it, usually food. To burn energy off you simply have to do something that is active. Exercise usually. Any form of activity will burn energy off. This is basically what exercise is.

This could be walking, swimming, running, weightlifting or even sex. The last one sounds good to me! Any exercise at all is better than no exercise at all. This is the reason people get fat. They eat calorie laden food and do little or no exercise.

You can exercise for your love handles all you want but if you ignore other areas you will simply get nowhere fast. If you are a naturally lazy person (like me) then swimming is probably your best all round exercise. If you have access to a pool, use it. The benefits are immense.

I hate jogging and see no benefit in killing your knees every day. You may need them in later life! You know the guy who made jogging famous collapsed and died while out jogging? Ironically discovered by two smokers walking past.

If you are serious about your shape then you need to get yourself an all round system to follow. Not some new fangled diet that won’t work but a system that will work long term and is gentle enough for you to keep at it. Read a review of the top five systems that are available today by following this link …

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Eat Often, Lose Fat Naturally

July 26, 2009  //  Posted by: admin  //  Category: cheap plus size clothing

The best way to get rid of belly fat is to eat frequent meals.People who eat often are called grazers. People who eat 3 or less meals a day are referred to as gorgers.A standard rule among the majority of diet plans is to “graze”. What this means is that we should be eating smaller portions 5-6 times a day.

There are three reasons why eating 5-6 times a day is so important:

1. We are being congruent with our genetics. Our ancestors did not eat 3 square meals, they ate all the time because they were hunter/gatherers.Their food was nutrient rich and calorie poor.

2. Turning your body into a fat burning furnace is a great natural way to get rid of fat. (Grazing raises your metabolism and a higher metabolism means you can lose fat naturally) Your digestive system cannot handle large amounts of food and causes loss of energy and fat storage.

3. Grazing suppresses your appetite. This helps you to avoid the intense hunger signals you get from being on a “diet”.

The second part of this rule is to always stay full. If your hunger signals reach a high enough level, it will be impossible for you to make wise food choices.Which food is everywhere? Heavily refined, processed foods full of saturated fats and sugars.

Due to the fact that our lives are filled with very high stress situations, we tend to crave fats and sugars so that we can make more stress hormones out of them. In “fight or flight” mode, our bodies are better able to deal with stressful situations.

Fats and sugars provide the necessary building blocks for your body to produce stress hormones such as adrenaline.

The bad news is that if your body stays in “fight or flight” mode, then it will literally start to break down. Our bodies were not meant to sustain long periods of stress.

If you want a long term strategy to lose fat naturally, then start eating 5-6 smaller meals per day and watch your figure change.

These long term weight loss strategies will build a strong foundation for you and your family.

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Fend Off Fat With Fiber

July 12, 2009  //  Posted by: admin  //  Category: cheap plus size clothing

Let’s talk about fabulous fiber. Research shows that increasing your daily intake of fiber, will cause you to lose weight with changing anything else in your diet!

In this article, we will discuss the in’s and out’s of eating fiber.

Nutritionists recommend consuming thirty grams of fiber a day. If you want to lose weight fast with fiber, increase the amount to 40 grams per day.

You can also do a holistic cleanse. A majority of these cleanses contain high fiber amounts to clean your colon which can aid in losing weight.

Eating high fiber food will satisfy your hunger and fill you up. This is due to fiber expanding in your belly and making you feel full.

Below are some reasons why everyone needs to be getting 30-40 grams of fiber per day.

There are 2 types of fiber: insoluble and soluble.

Fiber that doesn’t break down in H2O is called insoluble fiber. This actually adds more mass to your waste and scours the walls in your intestines.

Fiber that breaks down in water is called soluble fiber.This fiber turns into a gooey gel-like substance and is responsible for regulating the flow of your bowels.


Purpose of Insoluble Fiber

  • adds mass to your bowel movements
  • control and balance the pH (acidity) in the intestines

Why insoluble fiber is good for you:

  • promote regular bowel movement and prevent constipation
  • remove toxic waste through colon in less time
  • help prevent colon cancer by keeping an optimal pH in intestines to prevent microbes from producing cancerous substances

Common foods that have insoluble fiber

  • Vegetables such as green beans and dark green leafy vegetables
  • Veggie and fruit peelings
  • Whole-wheat products
  • Oats
  • Corn bran
  • Seeds & Nuts


Functions of Soluble Fiber

  • attaches to fats in the body
  • slows down your blood sugar response

Benefits of Soluble Fiber

  • decreases the amount of “bad” cholesterol in your body, dropping your chances of getting heart disease.
  • helps diabetic people to control their blood sugar levels.

Common foods that have soluble fiber

  • Oat/Oat bran
  • Dried beans and peas
  • Nuts
  • Barley
  • Flax seed
  • Fruits such as pears and apples
  • Vegetables such as kale & spinach
  • Psyllium husk

Eating a lot of different foods, especially vegetables and fruits will give you a balance of soluble and insoluble fiber.Eating fiber is a key concept to lose fat naturally.

 

 

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3 Tips To Break Your Bad Food Cravings

July 01, 2009  //  Posted by: admin  //  Category: cheap plus size clothing

If you are out of control on your eating habits, then this little rule can help you. I call it the addition rule.

The principle behind this rule is very powerful. Whenever you take something away from your life, you need to add something to fill the void. Nature abhors a vacuum and will fill up the empty space.

When you add fresh fruits or vegetables to your meals it will cause you to flush body fat naturally. To understand what I mean, check this out: if you are trying to give up chocolate, then replace the chocolate with dark chocolate (a much healthier choice because dark chocolate has antioxidants in it).

After you have done this for a period of time, start adding some more raw fruits and vegetables to your diet.

This has four specific benefits:

  • Eating these raw, give you much needed digestive enzymes that are needed to break down your food. Processed foods do not give you this.
  • The fiber in the fruit or vegetables expands in your stomach and fills you up faster so you don’t eat as much
  • Fruits and Veggies push other foods through your digestive tract cleaning out yucky debris and pulling out toxins.
  • It provides the body with much needed vitamins and minerals

Next, let’s go over part 2 of this rule: “eat your fiber first”

Eating fiber first (salad) clears your digestive tract and prepares it for your meal.

When eaten with other food, fresh fruits and vegetables literally clear a place for the rest of your food and detoxifies your large intestine. This in itself will help you lose fat naturally.

For example, if you are eating pizza, add a salad and eat it first. If you are eating ice cream, add an apple and eat it first.

Doing this will fill your belly so that you won’t be able to eat as much.

Now, add a raw fruit or vegetable to every meal that you eat and not just your snacks!

Dr Livingston is a chiropractic physician who has thousands of hours studying and researching cleansing the body, fat loss and advanced nutritional testing. He is also the author and creator of http://www.greenlifeweightloss.com which teaches healthy “green” principles for shedding weight fast and naturally with no drugs or surgery.

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