3 Secret Flaws With Calorie Counting Dieting Your Nutritionist Isn't Telling You?
Calorie counting is a great way to manage your weight loss program.
Essentially you can use calorie counting to drop your weight to your desired level and also use it to maintain your target weight to avoid yo-yo dieting pattern.
To achieve this, you have to get into the habit of tracking the amount of calories or energy in every food or drink that you consume.
The general guiding principle behind calorie counting for weight loss management is that in order for you to lose weight you need to burn more calories than you consume daily.
You either do this by eating less calories than your pre-determined daily requirement or you introduce some form of exercise to help burn more calories than your daily consumption or a combination of both.
So effectively calories out should exceed calories in.
When starting out with calorie counting, it is important that you first of all establish your daily caloric need or requirement.
Now this varies from person to person because your actual daily calorie requirements depends on a host of factors such as your age, sex, height, current weight, and indeed your level of activity.
When you have sorted out your basal metabolic rate you are then required to keep a daily log of all the calories in the food and drinks you consume daily as well as an 'exercise and activity log'. This is to ensure that you tilt yourself into a negative calorie balance because that is how you lose weight.
Keeping these Food logs alongside Exercise and Activity logs can be a nightmare without the help of a reliable calorie counting software or fitness software. However, all calorie counters or fitness software are not created equal.
I had experienced difficulty with calorie counting dieting and calorie counting software for years, so I embarked on a research to discover why you lose some weight initially but the loss just seems to tail off after a while.
Here are the flaws I came up with.
1. Your Rigid Calorie Diet is doomed to fail.
Something that happens when you are on a rigid calorie diet is that your weight loss results become affected by the law of diminishing returns over time.
Your calorie counting software may advise you to consume say 2200 calories a day and you follow that religiously only to discover that you are not shifting enough pounds as you would like to as time goes on.
How, you ask?. You see, in the first 2 weeks of our weight loss program, we may burn say 500 calories a day but as we move into week 3 and beyond, our body's metabolic rate slows down and may start burning about 450 calories or less.
Therefore, your rigid or fixed calorie counting diet weight loss results begin to diminish as a result.
2. Calorie Counting software are programmed to count one pound of weight loss as being equivalent to 3500 calories.
This is wrong. Yes, one pound of fat loss is equivalent to 3500 calories but you lose more than fat when you lose weight i.e you lose water and you also lose lean body.
Although you lose more fat at the initial stages of your weight loss program, you will eventually start to lose lean body mass as time goes on.
If you burn 3500 calories of fat, you lose one pound of weight. However, the story is different with lean body mass. In fact, the calorie loss requirement to lose one pound of lean body mass is totally different. This does not even include variables like your body mass index (BMI) which is important.
Now most calorie counters and weight loss software do not take this into consideration when they churn out results. They simply make one universal assumption of 3500 caloric loss is equivalent to one pound loss. Wrong.
3. Exercise and normal daily activity calorie use overlap which calorie counters miscalculate.
In your normal daily routine activities like browsing the internet as you are doing right now, you do burn calories. You may burn say 50 calories just being idle. Now if you mount your exercise bike, your calorie counter may advise 240 calories has been used up by you.
Well, at the completion of that biking exercise, you have actually burnt 190 calories i.e 240 deduct or take away 50.
Why.....because the 50 calories is what you would have spent anyway even without mounting the exercise bike and this must be taken into account when you do the calorie math.
However, your calorie counter or fitness software does not know this and will report 240 calories.... and you wonder why you have difficulty achieving your weight loss goals.
The point being made here is that your calorie counter tends to overestimate calories spent thereby giving you a false sense of achievement.
Now you know why you have failed to achieve sustained weight loss with calorie counting and calorie counters in the past. To get better weight loss results today and in future, you need to get yourself a reliable calorie counting software or fitness software that has been programmed taking all these flaws into consideration.
About the Author: Joe Amagada is a fitness expert with special interest in calorie counting dieting. If you would like to learn more tips about calorie counting and getting yourself a free copy of this specially programmed fitness software, please visit http://www.caloriecountingtips.net
Weight Loss Tip #4 - Count the Once-in-a-While's
I was 25 pounds over my comfortable weight and had been trying to lose for many months. I was very conscious of what I was eating, but did not want to suffer on a restrictive diet. So, I was letting myself have special treats "once in a while". My attempts at losing weight just were not making the scale budge at all. What was the deal?
What I later realized was that the 'once-in-a-while's add up quickly! I knew that I rarely ate 'junk food' like candy bars or cakes, donuts or desserts. So I figured having them once in a while wouldn't do much harm. I had an almond joy one day in January because I knew it had been at least six months since I did anything like that. I had a piece of birthday cake at an office party later that week because I almost never ate cake at home. I had dessert out at a restaurant that Friday night because it was extremely rare that we would order anything after dinner. I had french fries on the side when we ate out on the weekend because I knew it was so seldom I ate them. But in doing so, I neglected to realize I had added another third of a pound to my body weight over just that week!
My warped sense of 'dieting' went on through the months; observing what I ate, observing the scale not budging. "I can drive through McDonald's today on my way to the library because I haven't eaten here in at least two weeks". "We can order chinese food tonight because it's been three weeks since we did that". "Ordering a pizza sounds convenient for dinner, and I know we haven't had pizza for almost two weeks". "Donuts? I almost never eat them--I'll just have a little treat today". Another pound not lost that week.
Think about how many times you are eating a food that you know is too high in calories to allow you to proceed with your weight loss regimen. Most of the clients I meet with have the same story as I did: Shaking their head, they tell me "I rarely eat fast food, pizza, desserts, cookies, chips--Maybe just once in a while". Chances are, you may be eating a "once-in-a-while" food once a month, and you may have 30 of these foods on your list. That means every day you are eating one of these foods you know are not a good idea to eat. Every day you are adding 300 or 400 calories to your dietary intake. That means if you stop having these calorie-dense foods, you can lose three or four pounds this month! Not by dieting, not by starving, not by adhering to a strict regimen. Just by thinking about these splurges and going one more day without them.
My suggestion is to have a 'once-in-a-while' day' once a week. Choose a day you'd like--let's say Sunday. Your plan is, Monday through Saturday you watch what you eat, make healthy choices, have plenty of fruits, vegetables, water, lean meats, low fat dairy products, whole grain breads and cereals, and very low calorie desserts like diet jello or a 100 calorie package of cookies if you get a sweet tooth. Sunday you can have your 'once-in-a-while' treat: order a pizza, go to a chinese restaurant (I did not say buffets, there!), enjoy a piece of homemade pie or cake at a family get together, go out for breakfast, or go to your favorite fast food place and enjoy one of their meals (not super-sized, of course). Choose ONE of these treats and relish the taste, knowing you were not ingesting all this fat and salt during the week, and knowing that truly having this food you like just once in a while is not unreasonable and will not make you fat.
Then go back to your well-balanced healthy eating habits on Monday, knowing you satisfied your craving and you can enjoy another treat next weekend. It's not about deprivation, it's about moderation!
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Motivation for Sustained Weight Loss
Here are the useful steps for motivation for weight loss and sustaining it:
- When you want to go on a diet/exercise program, do it for YOUR WELL BEING, YOUR HEALTH and not just because you want to impress somebody, or your partner insists that you do so, etc.
- Because if you go in for the wrong reasons, you tend to take up extreme quick fixes fad diets that works short term but cannot sustain you for long term. And when your diet plan failed to deliver the desired results, remember, it's not that you have no willpower- it's likely the plan's impractical or unrealistic to follow.
- But still, initially, cut down as much as you can on sugar and refined carbs: especially if you tend to suffer from constant fatigue, lethargy & mood swings from bad eating habits for long.
- But you can take your sugar sources from fruits. When I started, I bring a Tupperware to work filled to the brim with fruits- I was snacking the whole day on fruits- that makes me feeling less deprived.
- At home, arrange fresh fruits in nice plates/baskets and place at a highly visible place. Put chocolates and cookies at places where you cannot see them.
- Start an exercise program at the same time. If it is not convenient for you to join a gym, then get into an exercise program- buy DVDs, exercise bikes, daily brisk walks, check out YouTube for exercise videos. Any activity to get you going- start small and the well being that you feel will make you slowly increase.
- Weight training really helps- you built up muscles (and if you are a woman, need not worry, you will not bulk up) which in turn increases your endurance during cardio activity. Ultimately this makes you burn up more and more calories per workout. During the time you are not exercising, you also feel less tired, your metabolic rate goes up and carrying things becomes much easier than it used to.
Continuous Sustenance:- After your body stabilizes and you regain good health (from exercise & sensible eating), you can squeeze in a cookie or a piece chocolate after a meal- but try to keep the portions real small. I believe if we were to totally deprive ourselves of our favourite foods, we are setting our self up for failure because we will end up binging and hate ourselves afterward.
- Accompany your little indulgence with lots of citrus fruits (especially grapefruit)/raw vegetables preferably taken before the indulgence. If you do that, it reduces your sugar blues (mood swings, dizziness that happens as the result of rapid rise and drop in blood sugar levels). The fibre and low GI index of the fruit/vegetables helps stabilize your blood sugar levels. With this, I do not mean eating a packet of M&M and then eat an orange. It's more that limit yourself about 3 M&Ms and a grapefruit. Do not worry, after a while, it becomes a habit- you would incorporate any indulgence with fruits/vegetables.
- Learn also to eat with more mindfulness and awareness. Note how your body feel after the food. After a while, you will be conscious that your body are not that well when you start shoving unhealthy, fatty, greasy and highly processed food into it. And that will make you put down your spoon after the first few bites.
- Learn to conquer emotional eating ie eating food for comfort. Have courage to confront underlying issues that may be bothering you or making you unhappy. Filling your self with junk because you feel 'empty' will not solve your problems- in fact, it will end up making you feel much worst and you will likely resent yourself after that. Bottled feelings/ stress, coupled with bad eating habits can led to many diseases such as high blood pressure, heart attack, diabetes and cancer- these cases are evident and most of us would have personally known people who suffer from these illness.
Yin Teing takes health and well being seriously. She does lots of research, and most often, uses her own self as a subject of experimentation. She genuinely love to share her discoveries with others and hope to help others through her research and writings.
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Fad Weight Loss Diets Don't Work
People are always looking for a miracle diet that will magically cause the weight to disappear. However, they just don't work. From the vinegar diet to the maple syrup diet, the fad weight loss diet has existed for a long time. The first low carbohydrate diet appeared in 1825, way ahead of Dr. Atkin's time. Lord Byron popularized the vinegar and water diet in 1820.
Why is it that we always fall for these fad weight loss diets? Part of the reason, we want to lose weight, we want to lose it now, and we're in a hurry to get there. We are looking for the shortcuts. Not only does it take discipline to eat right and exercise, but a lot of people find it boring and they grow impatient waiting for the results.
The problem with fad diets, is after a while, you just get sick of eating only one thing. You start craving variety or you want that sweet snack, and you've been deprived for so long, you just eat the whole bag of candy bars. A good weight loss diet plan should change a person's eating and exercise habits for life, not just for a short time.
Not all fad diets sound ridiculous, in fact some of them actually sound very scientific. Unfortunately, the main reason a person loses weight on this diet is because of severe calorie cutting that occurs when a food group is practically eliminated. In fact, all fad weight loss diets have at least one thing in common. They have some sort of gimmick that cuts calories, usually to the extreme.
Another thing that fad diets have that a real weight loss diet doesn't have is the "It sounds too good to be true" factor. Any diet promising overnight results is just too unrealistic. It takes time and effort to truly lose weight and keep it off. Therefore, if you hear of a diet that just sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't true.
Because a fad diet tends to eliminate whole food groups, the dieter is denied important nutrients. As a result, your health can suffer, you could become vitamin deficient, and it has even led to death in extreme cases.
In today's society, it is important to be thin, in fact your success in life sometimes may even depend on it. Therefore, it is tempting to look for the quick fix. But just remember the old saying, if it looks too good to be true is especially true for fad diets. Even though it takes time and effort to achieve long term weight loss, this will work better for you than a fad diet.
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Fat Loss Diets - Why Most Diets Fail To Lose Your Fat
Many diets can result in weight loss but whether that is good weight loss is another matter all together. A good diet is one which will help you to lose fat but sadly a large number do no such thing.
Different diets result in the loss of weight but very few actually get rid of fat. Numerous diets seem to work in the initial stages but then seem to stop all together and there is a good reason for this.
Basically all these diets help you to lose is fluid, they have no benefit when it comes to losing fat which if where honest is what we all really want to get rid off.
Another negative of the many low calorie diets available is that they cause your body to falsely assume you are starving yourself. This makes your metabolism store fat instead of getting rid of it and instead burn muscle. It also makes the metabolism work at a slower rate.
The metabolism working at a slower rate means you will burn your calories at a far lower rate result in very little weight loss - unless you really are starving yourself.
Fat loss diets are, in general, the weight loss programs which bring in results slowly over time rather than quickly so it tends to be a choice of either fast weight loss which doesn't get rid of fat or doing it steadily over time.
The only diet that provides relatively fast weight loss and gets rid of fat is one based around the idea of shifting calories but other than that you will after decide which is more important to you - Fast weight loss or getting rid of fat.
Calorie shifting is the only diet that currently results in fast fat loss and you can find out more about it at http://shiftingcalories.blogspot.com
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Oxygen Therapy For Weight Loss?
The chemistry sounds very straightforward. Human body fat is a combination of three elements - hydrogen, carbon and oxygen molecules (plus other substances that are stored within the fat cells).
Add extra oxygen to the body fat, and in theory it should break down into two well known substances:
- Hydrogen & oxygen molecules (H2O - water, which enters the blood stream, goes through the kidneys and is then excreted via urination); &
- Carbon & oxygen molecules (CO2 - carbon dioxide, which is excreted via respiration).
Oxygen or Ozone Therapies are used by a number of alternative medicine practitioners around the world. It is more popular in Europe than in the USA. Practitioners are also found in Canada and Mexico.
Despite being banned in some countries and certainly debunked by large sections of the "conventional" medical profession, there is plenty of evidence that oxygen therapy produces health benefits for many conditions far cheaper, much faster and without the side effects of patent drugs.
Oxygen therapy is usually administered in one of two ways:
- A facial mask attached to an oxygen tank, so that the patient breaths in oxygen for many hours of the day; or
- Daily sessions of diluted hydrogen peroxide administered via an intravenous drip.
Given the straightforward chemical composition of body fat discussed above, does Oxygen Therapy actually work for weight loss? I decided to contact a number of practitioners in various parts of the world and ask them if, when treating patients for other ailments using oxygen therapies, weight loss was ever seen as a side-effect of their treatment.
All the doctors who replied responded that no such weight loss factor has ever been observed that they could credit to the oxygen therapy itself, and not the condition they were treating.
It seems that empirical evidence to support the theory that oxygen therapy could reduce body fat into the easily excreted H2O and CO2 is lacking.
Still, not everyone is convinced. The chemistry appears fine on paper, so something is missing in the implementation. Finding that missing factor could be crucial in the battle of the bulge, the quest for weight loss, and conquering obesity.
Books have been written promoting special breathing techniques for weight loss. Although there are sceptics, there are also many people around the world who swear by the success they have achieved in losing weight via these breathing techniques.
The theory behind these breathing techniques is not merely due to the intake of the oxygen, but that the human body's metabolic process expels waste matter, including carbon dioxide, when we breath out. Our air intake is higher in oxygen than what we expire, and we breath out more carbon dioxide than we breath in.
The breathing technique therefore seeks to encourage and maximize the expulsion of carbon dioxide from our bodies - carbon dioxide that is the waste matter created when the oxygen dissolves body fat.
Personally, I must admit to being impressed though not thoroughly convinced. It is quite reasonable to assume that the people who are disciplined enough to follow this breathing technique diligently for several weeks or months are probably motivated enough to also be doing other things (dietary, psychologically, etc.) that will be causing the weight loss.
Still, it fits the basic (unproven) theory that adding oxygen to body fat should result in weight loss. Furthermore, it is harmless, so long as adequate dietary intake of antioxidant vitamins and minerals are being consumed. Whether the actual results are from the technique itself or of a more psychosomatic nature is immaterial if it works, is free and available to all, and has no adverse side effects.
By all means, add these deep breathing exercises to your overall toolbox of synergistic weight loss treatments.
Still, there is one more form of oxygen therapy (not usually recognized as such) that even the sceptics would have trouble disputing.
It is more commonly called exercise. More accurately, aerobic exercise. (Aerobic simply means "air breathing".) It is exercise that makes you huff and puff, deepening your breathing. It is and always has been one of the most fundamental parts of any successful weight loss program.
Trevor Johnson is a Masters qualified researcher cum electronic publisher with over twenty years personal experience in the battle against obesity. Objective information and the pros and cons of many types of weight loss therapies is found athis "Weight Loss, Dieting & Obesity" site:http://www.DietWords.com
Easy Weight Loss Diet Plans
Everybody is looking for easy weight loss diet plans they can follow to achieve instant results with the least amount of effort possible.
The calorie shifting diet is one such diet plan. It is one of the easiest and simplest diet plans to follow, as it requires the least amount of sacrifice and discipline to maintain. Thus, people who follow this diet plan have high-motivation due to a general sense of satisfaction, while seeing some positive, serious results. You can expect to lose 9 pounds every 11 days on this diet plan.
How do you follow the calorie shifting diet plan? Simply put, you can eat as much food as you want at each meal until you are satisfied but not to hungry. You get to eat food from each of the four food groups while you are on this diet. You never starve. Your cravings are always fulfilled because you get to eat a little bit of everything. And you lose weight quickly.
How does the calorie shifting diet plan work? Calorie shifting is based on the premise that you have the ability to manipulate your body's metabolism at will, and by eating the right combination of foods at the right intervals, you can trick it into going into fat burning mode, even though you are eating plentiful food. Your body's metabolism is what is responsible for regulating the rate at which you consume food, burn calories, and store fat on your body.
By shifting the types of calories that you consume at each meal, you can trigger the appropriate metabolic response to make this happen. Here is a sample menu plan to illustrate how this works, and to give you an idea as to why this diet is so successful for so many people... You can literally eat as much food as you want of all of these foods!
First Day:
Breakfast: Oatmeal
Lunch: Tuna Salad
Snack: Scrambled Eggs
Dinner: Any type of Sandwich
Second Day:
Breakfast: Scrambled Eggs with Mixed Vegetables
Lunch: Chicken
Snack: Milk Shake
Dinner: Cottage Cheese
Third Day:
Breakfast: Fruit Salad
Lunch: Chicken
Snack: Cottage Cheese
Dinner: Fish Filet
A couple of things are worth mentioning here. On the calorie shifting diet, you can eat each one of these four meals in any order you want during the day. Also, you should give a minimum of 2.5 to 3 hour gap in between each meal.
Now, many experts are speaking out against rapid weight loss diets like this, saying that it is unsafe to lose so much weight so quickly. That is why the calorie shifting diet requires you to take a break on the last 3 days of every 14-day period on this diet, before you resume it again. This gives your body a chance to rest from the rapid weight loss you will have been undergoing. Of course, during those 3 days, it is in your best interest to eat sensibly, so that you don't gain any weight back!
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Weight Loss - It's All In Your Head
Here is a simple truth: We constantly think about changing our lives. For some of us it is our job, finding someone to love or giving up smoking. For many people it is about losing weight. We think about these things and yet never do them.
For many people who are overweight, they are always thinking about it or trying something new. Yet, a significant amount of them do not lose weight, or keep it off. They almost never get into shape.
There is a myriad number of excuses for the weight loss merry-go-round. We waste time, we start and stop, we procrastinate, we lie and make excuses, we get frustrated and complain and in general, make ourselves miserable.
Successful weight loss is much more than dieting and exercise. Actually, losing weight and improving our health is as much, if not more, an internal process than it is an external process.
If you can successfully reprogram yourself, everything else will simply fall into place.
Most experts concentrate on teaching us about diet and exercise. If it were that simple then the success rate would be much higher. It is very easy to impart information to people. Getting them to do these things consistently is the problem. Our conditions come down to two things. The first is the decisions that we make. The second is the things that we do (or the things that we don't do). When we view the problem in this manner it is easy to deduce that losing weight and getting into shape is more about our minds than our diet and exercise programs.
If you wish to create a permanent change in any aspect of your life, including weight loss, you have to have a significant change in your mind.
Here are some ways to approach getting the most out of your weight loss efforts.
There is a very real relationship between your attitude and the outcome. Enter your weight loss regimen with the best possible attitude. Transforming yourself is more about attitude and commitment than it is about finding the right diet or exercise program. Having the right frame of mind equates with a positive outcome.
It is unbelievable how many people sabotage themselves with a poor attitude. Typically they whine, complain, rationalize and procrastinate. Of course, they end up where they started. Conversely, many are successful and maintain their results simply because they manage to get their head into the right place.
Also, once you lose weight you obviously wish to keep it off. This is a lifetime program, not an event. It is not uncommon for people to devote their efforts to losing weight for a specific event. The problem with this is they gain it all back, and then some. Maintaining your weight is a lifetime goal.
Make up your mind. Come face to face with the tough decisions that you have avoided all this time. Instead of focusing on this weeks diet or joining a gym, consider implements a series of healthy lifestyle changes. Break your bad habits by creating and replacing them with good habits.
Finish what you start. Every single day, thousands, if not millions of people begin programs that they will never maintain. They start a new diet, but cheat. They join a health club but do not go regularly. Maybe they start running and quit within the week. Do not be one of them. Be realistic and sensible. Do not try to undo years of bad habits by next week.
Do not procrastinate. The right time never comes. Do not make excuses. If you want something bad enough you will find a way to do it.
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Achieving Weight Loss Through Affirmations
One of the most important pieces of gaining permanent weight loss has nothing to do with the foods you eat or the exercises you do. It has to do with your mindset. Some people are able to lose weight effectively, and then gain it all back, while others, those who have made the proper changes to their lives to lose weight, can stay thin for the rest of their lives. The major difference between these two people is in that one person is achieving weight loss through affirmations, often without even realizing it, while the other is not. One of the most powerful tools for losing weight could en up being weight loss through affirmations.
Affirmations are a thought or a statement that we say to ourselves which has a profound effect on how we act or feel. Depending on its positive or negative nature, the mind then acts accordingly which can lead to either positive or negative impact on our lives. Thus, if you want to achieve weight loss through affirmations, you need to know how to utilize these techniques to give you the mindset of a skinny person. Weight loss through affirmations is an underused and understudied technique, but the effects can be profound.
To achieve weight loss through affirmations we must first overcome our negative thoughts because it is a major contributor to our general mindset. We must let go of these thoughts as these thoughts are major resistance to our weight loss through affirmation treatment. Instead of thinking 'I am fat' or 'I will never be slim again' try thinking 'Today I have succeeded in losing some of excess fats' or 'I look thinner'. These kinds of statements leads to a positive and fruitful results.
For a positive result of weight loss through affirmations, the affirmations need to be repeated many times. Write down any positive thought you get maybe in a diary, on a piece of card or whichever way is convenient to you. Review them daily to get your mind to completely accept these thoughts and think of them as nothing but true. Preferably review them twice a day. Initially along with positive thoughts, you will eventually run across negative thoughts that continually occur to you. Note down these thoughts as well and at the end of the day review them and try replacing them with something more positive. For example if you have a thought such as 'this isn't working' or 'I don't see any change' try replacing it with 'I feel lighter' or 'I feel thinner' or 'It really is working'. You should say your weight loss affirmations out loud, and try to use them in the way that you think, and you should be much better off.
Weight loss through affirmations depends on thoughts and in particular the words that one uses to attain weight loss through affirmations. Proper terminology varies from person to person, but the right words are needed for this weight loss technique to actually work. Try to us simple and direct sentences which your mind can easily get used to without causing any negative effect. This is important as even positive words can have negative effects.
One example of the power of affirmations is noted by Barbara Doberman Levine, author of "Your Body Believes Every Word You say" talked about one man who read about hypnosis and began to affirm to himself, "I am not hungry." Instead he actually gained weight. Whenever he told himself he was not hungry his mind focused its attention to see if he was hungry. He repeated this affirm so many times that his subconscious actually put energy into making him hungry. So he felt more hungry through this affirm rather than before adopting it. Barbara Levine also says, "Telling yourself not to do something, you focus attention on the very thing you are avoiding, making it harder to avoid".
Thus, you can not expect to achieve weight loss through affirmation using phrases like 'I will not eat chocolate' because this brings to mind the thought of eating chocolate, which in turn will make you desire it more. Instead, say something like 'I eat healthy foods' because this is vague enough to avoid problems, but focuses specifically on the idea of controlling what you eat. The words 'no' and 'not' should never appear in your weight loss affirmations.
Weight loss through affirmations is not only about having the right thoughts but is also about expressing your thoughts using right words. If weight loss affirmations are rightly utilized with proper and correct technique it can result in actual weight loss and a prefect body as we desire. When considering trying to achieve weight loss through affirmations, build up a large list of weight loss affirmations, and run through them daily or twice daily. In time, you should notice that you achieving weight loss through affirmations.
Robert Watson is a certified hypnotherapist with the ABH and the NGH, and has worked with affirmations and subliminal messages for over ten years. Visit his Subliminal Messages website for more information about using affirmations and subliminal messages to help you lose weight, quit smoking, have a more positive outlook and more.
Do Weight Loss Body Wraps Really Work?
What Different Kinds of Body Wraps are There?
There are basically two different kinds of body wraps being used today. Both types are largely focused on the healing, moisturizing, and conditioning of the skin. However, the primary role of the two kinds of body wraps is radically different. Read on to find out more!
The Water Loss Body Wrap!
The first type of body wrap, enables you to lose inches through water loss. These water loss wraps can be useful for a large event or special occasion, when you might want to be looking your best for that night. However, the inch loss from a water loss wrap is only temporary.
Losing inches in this manner is similar to that which could be obtained through excessive sweating during exercise.
The Weight Loss Body Wrap!
The other type of body wrap is basically known as a weight loss body wrap. This type of body wrap creates inch loss by aiding the lymphatic system in the removal of stored toxins. These toxins enter into your system through poor dieting, the environment, and pollutants!
Weight loss body wraps stimulate lymphatic drainage which releases toxins and fatty acids from your cells into your capillaries. These toxins are then eliminated along with the system's natural waste process.
During a weight loss body wrap, drinking large quantities of water is beneficial in aiding in detoxification and fat loss.
Although the results from the weight loss body wrap can vary depending on an individual's toxicity level, the loss obtained is often permanent.
What's the Answer?
Yes, weight loss body wraps can help you to lose weight and feel great!
The general consensus by many industry experts is that weight loss can be facilitated through a weight loss body wrap regiment.
However, you must be sure that the body wrap is not formulated for water weight. The body wrap must be created to aide in weight loss thru detoxification and lymphatic drainage.
Many industry experts also concur that body wraps should be used in conjunction with a healthy diet and exercise program to achieve true results. Simply using a body wrap once will not keep the inches off, if your diet and/or exercise regiments are not balanced.
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Protein Power For Weight Loss
According to the latest statistics, the obesity epidemic continues to grow worldwide and shows no signs of stopping anytime soon. An astonishing 59.6% of Australian and New Zealand adults are overweight or obese, while 30% of Australian and New Zealand children are clinically overweight. More than half of the American population is overweight.
Those who have adequate amounts of protein in their diet, however, may find they've escaped being part of this alarming trend. That's because the latest nutritional research indicates that protein has numerous dietary benefits that give a boost to weight loss and weight management efforts. Lets look at some of the ways you can benefit from a healthy daily protein intake.
One of the principle advantages of protein is that it creates a feeling of fullness and satisfaction in the body that makes overeating much less likely. Besides being filling, protein is a smart addition to any weight loss or weight management programme because of the effect it has on carbohydrate cravings.
As nutritional research has documented, carbohydrates trigger the brain to crave more carbohydrates, leading to a cycle of carbohydrate eating that becomes hard to control. Protein can block that triggering effect in the brain. If you eat protein with a carbohydrate it will reduce the cravings caused by eating the carbohydrate.
Simply adding protein to a meal (including breakfast), provides you with an incredible advantage in your quest to lose or maintain weight. But protein provides more than just weight benefits - it provides you with an important necessity as well. Adequate daily protein intake is essential for building and maintaining lean muscle mass.
It may sound like a term that applies only to athletes, but in fact, everyone has a certain percentage of lean muscle mass in their body. The higher your percentage of lean muscle mass, the more calories you can burn in a day.
Besides determining how many calories you burn each day, lean muscle mass also serves a vital function for those trying to lose or maintain their weight. If your diet does not contain enough protein to build or maintain lean muscle mass, your body will begin to lose weight from the heart, muscle and organs.
This type of dieting is unsafe and can prove fatal. So, how much protein do you need every day? Women need approximately 80-100 grams daily,* while men need roughly 120-150 grams.*
But as you incorporate protein into your diet, remember that not all protein is equal when it comes to calories. For example, a serving of prime rib has 1,500 calories! That's why it is important to source your protein from healthy, lean protein sources such as fish, the white meat of chicken and turkey and very lean sources of beef. If you can see the fat...cut it off before you cook it, and don't eat it.
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Cheap Weight Loss Methods
cheap weight loss methods are a dime a dozen these days. The only problem is finding cheap weight loss methods that actually work and if they do work. Will the weight loss program work for your unique metabolism? How fast will you see the results from these so called quick weight loss programs? Learn how to lose 9lbs. Every 11 days, speed up your metabolism to high gear no matter what kind of genes you were born with. While eating more meals and no exercise involved with this new updated weight loss method
Cheap Weight Loss Methods in the past use to teach eat less meals, intake less calories, take several diet substitutes and exercise till exhaustion. Current quick weight loss programs now know that this is not true and is a unhealthy approach to quick weight loss. Not only that, the health and fitness gurus have also learned every diet plan and diet supplement doesn't work for everyone. Every person was born with different genes and have metabolisms that work at different speeds.
Quick Weight Loss Programs that are Successful for Anyone
There are two main factors that need to be included in any quick weight loss programs to be successful to any individuals unique needs. You need to eat several meals throughout the day but with the correct foods. Second, the time you eat those meals is the key for success. It really is that simple when broken down to simpler terms. Don't listen to the complex mumbo jumbo that the so called health and fitness gurus talk about. I believe some of them make it sound more complex than what it really breaks down to. Speed up your metabolism=burning calories and fat quickly which means losing unwanted body weight.
How this Weight Loss Method is so Successful
Eating more food at the right intervals of the day will speed up your metabolism no matter what type of metabolism you have. If you try this weight-loss program you will feel a difference and see the results very quickly. Your metabolism will jump into hyper drive and burn the fat quickly. Trust me you won't be able to stop smiling knowing you will achieve your personal weight loss goal quickly. When I first tried this technique I could literally feel the difference the first day. It gave me more energy than I have ever had, made me feel healthy and alive like never before.
Whether your looking for quick weight loss programs to achieve a personal short term goal or for a long term goal this quick weight loss method will work for you. Exercising definitely helps you to lose weight quicker and be healthier but is not necessary for this quick weight loss method. Not everyone is built the same and some people can't physically workout or just don't want to. This diet plan will be great for you and keep you healthy and energized throughout the day.
Ray Day has used this quick weight-loss program with exceptional results. Even after he achieved his weight loss goal he still uses this cheap weight loss methods daily because it's not just a diet plan for him but a whole new way of life. It's easy to implement for everyday life. He found out about this program here quick weight loss programs
Herbal Remedy for Your Weight Loss
Weight problem or obesity is a problem nowadays. If you have such problem, you really have to do something about it as soon as possible.
In order to lose unwanted weight, one should really show how determine and eager the person can be to solve the problem. Since you certainly know that obesity or weight problem can give you a lot more problems regarding your health. Being obese can even give you other illnesses or complications that can be harmful to your health, so you have to be determined to lose that unwanted weight.
There are plenty of ways that you can do in order for you to solve such problem. You could use herbal remedy for your weight problem. There are lots of herbal remedies out in the market that you can purchase for you to lose weight. Yes, it is true that there are many people, who are afraid to use prescribed medications with their problem because of the risks of having harmful reactions with their body, so they prefer to use herbal remedy to solve their problems.
Yes, there are a lot of herbal remedies that can help you with your weight problem. One of the herbal remedies that you can use is hoodia gordonii. Hoodia gordonii is being popular nowadays as a diet pill that can effectively aid you with your weight problem. Hoodia gordonii is a cactus like plant that can be found in Kalahari Desert. The Kalahari Bushmen used this wonder plant for their long hunting in order to suppress their hunger.
Indeed, this herbal remedy is effective and helpful to solve your weight problem. But you have to take note that, you do not have to rely everything with this herbal remedy; you have to help out as well. This herbal remedy maybe effective but you have to be determined to lose weight.
If you are eager to have a healthy life, then one should incorporate with good diet and exercise plan with your daily lives. You can do some exercise plan each day by allowing yourself to do at least 15 minutes of walking, running, dancing, biking or swimming.
You really have to be realistic in setting your goal. If you really want to lose weight, you can take herbal remedy everyday and you need to have a mindset so to stick with your diet plans in order to lose weight quickly.
You have to check out the foods that you eat each day. It is better to eat food with more fiber. It is wiser to avoid deep fried foods, since it contains large amount of fats. It is recommended to stick with grilled foods since it doesnt have too many fats like fried foods. You can also add fruits and vegetables with your meals everyday.
If you want bring back a healthy life, you have to start to do something now. Take herbal remedy with your weight problem and make sure to stick with your diet plans. Herbal remedy, exercise and eat healthy are important with your quest to a healthy life, you have to stick to it everyday.
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Latest Review About "The Truth About Six Pack Abs" Weight Loss System
This weight loss and muscle building program has been designed and created by a Certified Nutrition Specialist and Certified Personal Trainer. the system reveals the real reason why crunches and cardio are not the solution to eliminate the excess belly fat and those not good looking love handles.
The Truth About Six Packs Abs is the ultimate program that will bring you tons of ideas to spice up your workouts and take them to a whole new dimension.
In addition, this weight loss program will open up your mind respect to your diet, and you will face the excess weight loss not as a problem, but as one more of the many sides of your health, exercise and diet programs, that should go all tied up and together as a whole process where in the end, the result is a better you, with a cleaner, healthier and leaner body. The program explains very clearly what most people do wrong when they try to develop rock hard abdominals. This system will save you from wasting long hours at the gym doing cardio, jogging, crunches and other exercises that will not help you to achieve the goal of a flat washboard stomach.
Here are a few of the objectives treated in the program:
- You will be introduced to several innovative and powerful strategies that will make your training and nutrition routines more exciting and result producing than ever before.
- You will find some brand new training techniques and some fresh ideas you have probably never thought of before.
- You will learn some brand new and original nutritional secrets and strategies. None of them is related to the low carb or low fat nonsense we have heard about lately.
This weight loss system will teach you about smart training and healthy nutrition tips that will help you reduce your body fat levels, feel healthier, and in the end, without noticing you will finally be able to see your abs, bringing our a long time hidden midsection but also an eye-catching muscle tone throughout all your body.
The Truth about Six Pack Abs program will show you how to get lean and stay lean for the rest of your life.
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Circuits For Fast and Effective Fat Loss
Are you lacking the time to exercise? Are you short on money and can't afford a gym membership? Do you lack workout equipment?
Then bodyweight circuits are the answer to all your exercise excuses!
When using body weight circuits, you are getting in a total body cardio workout. All you need to do is pick 2-3 lower body exercises and 2-3 upper body exercises that you do using only your body weight. Alternate the upper and lower body exercises, doing 10-15 repetitions per exercise, with no rest until you have completed all the exercises one time through. Rest for 30 seconds and repeat the circuit up to 6 times. There you have a perfect fat burning circuit in less than 25 minutes!
Not only do body weight circuits burn fat, but they help to boost your metabolism. By using body weight training, you are incorporating both interval and strength training all in one workout and your body will not only burn calories while you are doing your circuits, but long after you are done!
Bodyweight exercises also help build muscle, which helps not only to increase your metabolism, but also makes you look sexy.
Here is a beginner bodyweight circuit workout:
Wall Ball Squat - 15 reps
Kneeling pushups - 10 reps
Hip Extension - 15 reps
Plank on Hands - 20 seconds
Bird Dog - 5 reps per side hold for count of 5 seconds
Here's an intermediate bodyweight circuit workout:
You can use the bodyweight circuits in place of your interval training or added to your regular training. Give them a try and start blasting that fat!
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Lose Weight With a Green Tea Weight Loss Supplement
Supplements containing green tea extracts are a completely natural way of reducing weight with very little risk of any side effects. There are many benefits associated with green tea. The Chinese have known about its medicinal properties since ancient times, however the western world is only just opening up to the benefits of taking green tea.
Weight loss pills or diet pills are all the rage at the moment. Everybody wants to look the best they possibly can and in order to do this everybody wants to be thin! Many weight loss pills contain green tea extracts. Green tea is a natural source of antioxidants. Green tea is useful in reducing cholesterol, and it also helps to reduce the blood sugar level after a meal. It does also help to reduce weight.
Although green tea does help in weight loss, you do however need to be very patient in order to observe the results. Keep in mind that weight loss does not occur overnight, even when you are using nutritional supplements. Since green tea does not have any harmful side effects associated with it, you might want to try out some green tea weight loss supplements. You can search for fat burning pills that contain up to 70-80% green tea extracts.
Fat burning pills including green tea weight loss supplements increase the metabolic activity of your body cells. This consequently increases the amount of fuel that your body consumes. The body's fuel is calories, the higher the metabolism, the faster these are burned. Green tea extracts are also used to treat poor digestion and constipation, and also helps to fight against the free radicals in the body, the negative by-products created by normal bodily processes. Green tea supplements are rich in EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate) which is not only a mouthful, it's an antioxidant and protects the body against any possible digestive problems. It is also helpful in cancer prevention and lowering cholesterol levels.
Green tea supplements are available in the form of tablets or pills. The advantage of green tea supplement over other fat burning pills is that it does not increase the heart rate of consumers. Many weight loss pills have the side effect of causing the patients heart rate to rise, causing a problem for certain groups of people with heart conditions. People belonging to any age group can use green tea to treat any medical complaints without any concern about its side effects.
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Deadly Mistakes People Make With Weight Loss Diets - You Must Be Aware Of This Before It's Too Late
So are you trying to lose weight and thinking about getting on a certain diet? Well you might be already on a diet or maybe thinking about getting on one but do you know that there are some silly mistakes people make which never get them results? You see either people are not aware of these or they just think they are doing all the right things but when they don't get any results that's when they realize that they were making a mistake all this time. Read on to discover some of the most deadly mistakes people make with weight loss diets...
Starving yourself- Some people feel that starving themselves all together would make them lose weight like crazy but this plan normally tends to backfire. You see instead of getting the results you are looking for your body only loses water weight which is gained by faster than you ever lost it therefore starving yourself isn't a solution.
Eating too quickly- There are several diets out there which only tell you what you need to do and what you need to eat but you are never told how. You see some people just eat too quickly and tend to stuff their bodies up with a lot of food too soon. Under this situation the body finds it hard to digest all that food all together therefore it gets stored as fat so the trick here is to eat slowly.
Eating large meals- This is another mistake most people make with their weight loss diets. You see eating large meals will not get you any results at all what you truly need is 8 small meals instead of 3 large meals throughout the day.
The Real weight loss secret- Can you imagine yourself losing 9 lbs every 11 days from now? Yes you heard it right "9 lbs every 11days guaranteed". This is the single most effective way which helps you lose weight. It is truly an absolute breakthrough in the weight loss industry. If you don't know this than you are missing out on the best ever secret "Guaranteed" to help you lose weight right away. So are you ready to drop some pounds within the next 11 days? Read on to discover this rare secret right now click here- Earth shattering weight loss secret guaranteed to help you lose weight within 11 days
Weight Loss and the Law of Attraction
Depending on the circles that you run in, you may or may not have heard about a very powerful force in your life that is called the Law of Attraction. Its powers are literally limitless and utilizing those powers is absolutely free of charge!
Who doesnt want Unlimited Cosmic Power without even having to bust open their wallet?
I will start with a brief introduction to the Law of Attraction, and then I will get right into how you can use this universal power for something that a lot of people care about losing weight!
In simple terms, the Law of Attraction basically states that like attracts like. Whatever thoughts and feelings that you focus on the most will literally determine your future.
In fact, the Law of Attraction has already been working for you and every other life form in our universe since the beginning of time. However, only recently has education about its incredible power become readily available to the general public.
So how is it that the Law of Attraction can help you to lose weight? Simple you just need to think about it! Sounds easy enough, right?
Well, it actually is just that easy, but an explanation of exactly how you are supposed to think will help you to understand this process better. You can then take that knowledge and use it to help you with your weight loss or fitness goals.
Earlier I said that the Law of Attraction has been working for all life since the beginning of time, which begs the question, Then why havent I lost any weight yet?. In fact, that same question could be asked about pretty much any other goal that anyone has ever had. If all we have to do is think about something in order to bring it into our lives, then why arent we all rich, perfectly healthy, and living happily ever after?
The simple answer is that most people without even knowing it dont really think about what they want. They think about the fact that they DONT have it. Now, if youll go back briefly to the definition of the Law of Attraction like attracts like then you will see that the reason why people dont have the things that they want is because all they ever do is think about NOT having those things.
This same concept applies to weight loss and health just as efficiently as it applies to everything else. A lot of people want to lose weight, but rather than think about how wonderful their life will be once they have lost the weight, they instead think about how miserable they are because they HAVENT lost the weight!
Think about it. If you need to lose weight, which of the following statements describes your thoughts/feelings when you walk in front of a mirror without any clothes on:
a) I am so sexy since I have my weight under control, and I have an unlimited amount of confidence. I can date anyone that I please and my biggest problem is deciding which little tiny piece of clothing to wear to the beach or the swimming pool.
b) I am so FAT! I cant even stand to look at myself in the mirror, so how can I expect anyone else to want to look at me? Ill be lucky if I dont have to take my clothing size up another notch or two at the rate Im going.
Now, be honest. Which one of those statements do you think comes closer to the way that people who need to lose weight think of themselves?
Once again referring back to the Law of Attraction If you think miserable, sad, guilty, or low self-esteem powered thoughts, then the Law of Attraction will dutifully bring you more things to be miserable about. In fact, the more miserable you are about any particular subject say, weight loss the more powerfully you will attract more of the same since that is your primary focus.
So, the answer to utilizing the power of the Law of Attraction for weight loss is to simply stop thinking about your situation in such a negative manner! Start thinking positive thoughts, confident thoughts, and thoughts of happiness, smaller clothing sizes, and showing more skin at the beach.
When you successfully do those things, the Law of Attraction will start to move around the chess pieces that affect your life, and before you know it, you will have whatever it is that you need in order to finally get in shape.
It may come in the form of a free gym membership, a workout partner, a piece of home exercise equipment that you actually want to use, a new motivation to get involved in some sort of physical activity, or any number of other things that will put you on the path to weight loss.
Heres the rub, though You cant sit around and get hung up on the details. Mike Dooley said it best in the movie The Secret The Hows are the domain of the Universe!
You dont need to worry about HOW it is going to happen, you just have to feel the positive, confident emotions that will MAKE it happen. The Universe will then step in and show you the path!
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How to Lose Tremendous Amount of Weight Naturally - Start Losing Weight Within a Week From Now
You only get one body therefore it is your duty to treat it right. But most people out there tend to get a bit lazy with their efforts and get careless when it comes to exercising. You see if you are over weight than there is no one else you can blame but yourself as the weight you have gained is a result of your actions and no one else can control your actions but yourself therefore now it is your job to do something about it. There are some mind blowing ways using which you can start losing weight within a week from now. Read on to discover what these ways are and how you can use them to achieve earth shattering results...
Start treating your body right- This is the very first step towards losing weight naturally. You should start treating your body right starting now. Therefore make sure you stop eating any and every sort of junk food including processed drinks. Make it a point to empty your refrigerator of all the junk possible as if it wouldn't be around you wouldn't get the craving to eat it.
Stop getting stressed- The more you stress over your weight the worse your condition is going to be therefore make sure you stop getting stressed and depressed over your weight and develop a positive mental attitude.
Make exercise a vital part of your daily life- You will never lose weight by just cutting out on the wrong type of foods. You need regular exercise with that too therefore make it a point to do proper regular exercise on a daily basis.
The Real weight loss secret- Can you imagine yourself losing 9 lbs every 11 days from now? Yes you heard it right "9 lbs every 11days guaranteed". This is the single most effective way which helps you lose weight. It is truly an absolute breakthrough in the weight loss industry. If you don't know this than you are missing out on the best ever secret "Guaranteed" to help you lose weight right away. So are you ready to drop some pounds within the next 11 days? Read on to discover this rare secret right now click here- Earth shattering weight loss secret guaranteed to help you lose weight within 11 days
There is No Secret to Weight Loss
We have all heard the rants entitled the secret to weight loss, the miracle diet and all those other generic slogans that are designed to get us to read yet another sales pitch on some miracle diet that will get them pounds gone and gone fast. The key word being fast, we live in a busy time and none of us seem to have the time to follow the fundamental weight loss systems.
Let me begin by saying your weight, whether you are obese, a little heavy, carrying that holiday weight or whatever your current situation is not your fault. We are victimized daily by junk food chains or even relatively healthy eateries that offer that extra huge serving just for you! From the day we are old enough to comprehend to the day we die, and we are victimized. This is nothing new; it has been a prevalent part of our society for many, many years. The mass media is used as a tool by anyone who wishes to make a buck. The media is a sales mule, guised under the cloak of information, but a sales tool all the same. Turn on a TV and there it is, eat this, drink this, take this, buy, buy, buy, or more to the point consume, consume, consume. So again your weight is not your fault, but it is your responsibility.
The first thing to decide if you are keen on losing weight is this, do you want to just lose the weight or do you wish to get in shape and stay in shape without needing to fight with weight gain for the rest of your life. If you wish to only lose weight then this article may be of little help to you, but if your goals are to lose weight, keep it gone and develop a lifestyle that means living free of the threat of weight gain then please read on.
Sustained weight loss can only be found in one place, the mind. You have been trained since birth by the media to desire more than you need, some of this may be good, but there is a lot of it that is bad. The good can be the desire to achieve the best in life, good education, nice house, general comfort in lifestyle. The bad is where you are tricked into believing more is better by industries that thrive on your consumption. Such industries like fast food, tobacco are the most obvious and dubious, but consider the food industry in general, do you really need to super size just because it is better value for your buck, and ask yourself why it is better value? The answer is obvious is it not, because more consumption equals greater profits! These industries are willing to give larger portions of food at a cheaper price because they are in fact training you to believe that more is better, by doing this the food industries are increasing over all consumption, quantity is where these large industries make their profits, just look at all the All you can eat franchises, sure they say its healthy in some of them all you can eat salad bars etc, but too much even of a good thing is still bad!
Take one second and think on this, lets us say that you are looking at two sub sandwich stores, store A offers a good sized sub for $3, in fact the sandwich is exactly the right amount to slake your hunger, now store B has a big sign that says 20% more meat in our sub, but is also $3, which would you buy? Most of us wouldnt hesitate and Store B would rake in our business, but really do you need that extra 20%? We as consumers are always looking for the best bargain for our dollar, but in the end is over eating really a bargain we wish to be a part of it, look at what it is really costing you, your self esteem, your fitness and mostly your health! With heart disease, diabetes and obesity on the rise in so many places, I will say it again; the push towards over consumption by the food industry has the stench of big tobacco all over it.
Losing weight is a very difficult process for those of us who suffer from over eating, for many of us food has become an addiction, much akin to Tobacco. As with any addiction the first step is realizing that you are in fact addicted, after that the next and most crucial step in de-toxing that addiction from your body and more importantly from your mind, is to reprogram yourself, to solely retrain your body and mind to crave only what it needs, this is the real challenge in maintaining weight loss! I will sum up a few points that may help you get on the path to healthier food consumption:
Just because you feel hungry there is no need to completely fill the tank, instead consider your expected activities on that day and eat accordingly, just like your car, if you are only driving to the end of the street you dont need a full tank of gas!
Do not binge eat, you can starve yourself and effectively shrink your stomach size (a practice I am very much against, but using as an example here), but with only one gorge binge session you will effectively revert your appetite back to an unhealthy level and begin feeling hungry all over again, a binge eating session is much the same as an alcoholic falling off the wagon, instead I recommend many small healthy meals throughout the course of the day!
Realize that junk food tastes great for one reason only, to get you hooked! It does not constitute food in any way shape or form, remove it from your diet and believe me you will not miss it once the addiction fades
It all comes down to a single phrase which you will have heard before. Healthy mind equals a healthy body!
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Weight Loss Infrared Saunas - How Can You Lose Weight Relaxing?
It might not make sense how you can sit back relax and lose weight. Well imagine you can get the effects of exercising without the exertion. Imagine you can get your heart pumping like your out for a brisk walk, yet there's no impact involved. That's exact how you can lose weight with infrared saunas.
Infrared saunas offer a slew of benefits, only one of which is weight loss, how ever the reason you can lose weight while using the sauna is tied into numerous other health benefits the body receives while relaxing.
It's all about Blood Flow and your Heart Rate
Thanks to the way infrared saunas warm the body the heat penetrates the deep tissues. Unlike just a steam room or wet sauna, the infrared energy possesses holistic healthy benefits. By warming the body and the deep tissue you receive more blood circulation. This increased blood circulation causes the heart to work harder.
Unlike short and fast energy exertions that burn sugars rather then fat, a stint for 20 minutes in an infrared sauna is similar to low impact cardio activity. Helping the body to burn fat while you reap all of the healthy benefits.
Detox Helps
Beyond the weight loss benefits from your increased heart rate there is also a detoxifying benefit. Your body pours out toxins in your sweat in an infrared sauna. Reducing the nasty chemicals and other substances that build up in our bodies. While these may not contribute directly to your weight, reducing levels of these items in your body will make it easier to drop pounds in other areas of your life such as dieting, and exercise.
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