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September 14, 2007 01:19 - Staying Motivated to Exercise

Exercise is always a do-it-yourself venture. No other person and no machine can do it for you. Hence, it is important to have those motivating factors so that a person who is into exercise in order to lose weight will hang about.

This is what people who are overweight should learn to understand. However, even if it so easy to set for instructions and easy to follow, this is not the same case for almost 35% of Americans who are unable to prevent being overweight.

Of course, once we are overweight, we usually want to trim down for a whole lot of reasons, some related to physical condition and fitness, while others would want to enhance their physique and appearance. And it is never too late to be fit.

In the past 50 to 75 years, physical activity has become the exception rather than the rule, both at home and on the job. People tend to drive where others once walked. People tend to flick a switch and machines do the hauling, lifting, pushing, and pulling for them.

However, people who try to lose weight tend to believe that weight gain is likely to happen if they will not take forward-looking steps to stop it.

The point here is that health experts believe that people lose their way, especially when it comes to dieting. They tend to go back to their old eating habits even after they learn to enjoy low-fat eating. They tend to return to sedentary ways even though they enjoy exercising.

But despite the momentum toward weight gain, you can stop it from happening, experts say. And there are plenty of good reasons to avoid excess pounds, reasons that go beyond vanity or social appearance. There are many reasons in order to keep you motivated to exercise and stay healthy for the rest of your life.

Ways to Lose Big

1. Have an explicit goal

A simple statement like, “I want to lose some weight,” is an ambiguous and an indefinite statement. It will not the least motivate you to start doing exercises right away.

What is important is to be precise on your goals. It would be better if you will set some detailed amount of pounds that you really want to lose. Envisage yourself what you will look like after reaching your desired weight. Doing this will inspire you to lose weight. In fact, maybe even more than what you have planned in mind. The idea is to use that figure to assist you to remain resilient and dedicated.

2. Develop a strategy

Strength of will does not work alone! To lose weight and stay with it, your strategy must comprise of both exercise and diet, and not either of the two.

Try to start motivating yourself by throwing away your clothes that have bigger sizes. This will put you in a situation where you only have your sexy clothes and that you have to make a choice by staying motivated to exercise or not wear any clothes at all. Which do you prefer?

3. Make out little, calculable measures

Put into practice actions that will suit your lifestyle. This means you have to implement moves that you and you alone will benefit from it and not somebody else.

The idea here is to opt for a more positive and attainable goal and not just to shun away from being plump and chubby.

4. Produce monitoring that has an important effect

It would be better to have somebody willing to take note of your progress or development. This will inspire you to keep on doing what you have started. Having somebody to listen to your achievements is definitely a better prize than just achieving your goal alone.

Besides, having an extra hand to support you and cheer for you when things start to fall short. It is that simple way of hearing somebody believing on what you do is one of the greatest motivations to keep you exercising for more.

5. Construct a vigorous, sensible timeline

What do you plan to achieve in a year? Try to suit your objectives to your calendar, and do not look forward to see the results in just a snap.

The bottom line is that in order to stay motivated to exercise entails a lot of hard work, which is contrary to what most people tend to think. The main idea is to let people change their lifestyle because it is only through this way that they will absolutely change their weight…for the better.

September 14, 2007 12:05 - Why Is There No Such Thing As Spot Reduction

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September 15, 2007 23:48 - Weight Loss Disasters

There are many reasons that you are not losing body fat and sometimes, you do not realize the habits you have is destroying your weight loss goals!

Weight Loss Disaster 1

You eat to fast. Take your time and eat slowly. You eat so fast that your stomach hardly has time to alert your brain to tell your mouth to quit chewing before your stomach explodes. Try this technique during your next meal. Chew, swallow, put down your fork, and take a sip of water. See how long it takes you to eat. Now, during subsequent meals, take just as long to eat, only without the drill. Another meal-prolonging trick for men with regular dinner partners: Turn off the TV, put down the Daily Racing Form, and actually have a conversation.

Weight Loss Disaster 2

You starve yourself. Cutting out too many calories, particularly protein calories pushes the body to conserve calories rather than burn them and makes your body to break down muscle tissue to fuel its vital operations. Muscle is the key to your metabolism, or the speed at which you burn calories. The more muscle you have the more calories you can burn. You do need to cut calories to lose weight. But you need to make sure you're eating at least 1,600 to 1,800 calories each day to keep your metabolism from closing down. And never cut protein during a diet.

Weight Loss Disaster 3

Not enough sleep. Sleep deprivation decreases the odds of shedding body fat and keeping it off. Researchers found that healthy men who snoozed only 4 or 7 hours a night for 6 nights in a row had higher glucose and insulin levels in their blood. This is a terrible state of metabolism for a man who's trying to lose weight, because extra insulin boosts body-fat storage.

Weight Loss Disaster 4

Eating too much refined carbs is definitely a weight loss disaster. Foods rich in fiber help control blood glucose and insulin levels. Cut back on potatoes because potatoes raise blood-glucose concentration quickly. Go for whole-grain cereals, nuts, and beans are blame-free, if not calorie-free.
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September 25, 2007 22:27 - 5 Weight Loss Traps And Tips To Overcome it!

Human have born in survival instincts. We are born to hunt and look for food during the Stone Age too prevent death from hunger. The brain will make us do anything in order to survive even though in means to go for the kill.
Yet, when you weren't out hunting sloths, you would have become one for similar reasons. "When we didn't need to get food, we saved energy," says Paul M. Thompson, M.D., director of the preventive-cardiology program and of cardiovascular research at Hartford Hospital, in Connecticut. "That was how you survived -- you didn't waste energy."

Where ever you are, your mind will instruct you to eat anything that you can lay your hands on and once the stomach is full, it lures you in relaxing mode. So in the deepest recesses of your noggin, dieting and burning off pounds will need to override 40,000 years of evolutionary programming.

Here are five dieting traps that will get you and some ways for you to over come it.

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September 26, 2007 08:51 - Losing Weight Safely

People who want to lose weight commonly, and first of all, think about reducing the amount of food they eat. This may be quite a solution but not exactly the best there is. In fact, depending on the amount you reduce in your food intake, it may even be dangerous to one's health. So how does one lose weight effectively and safely? Here are some points one should consider when trying to lose weight:

Beware of the Crash Diets

Most people think that trimming down the calories can alone shed off their unwanted excess. Probably this is because of the fad there is in advertising about low-calorie food products and beverages. What people don't know is that this could be dangerous because when they decrease their calorie intake way to below the required levels, the body begins to digest the fats. Sounds good but it doesn't actually. Burning fat requires a lot of energy. Since there is not much energy in the body to facilitate metabolism of fat, it will run at a very slow pace resulting to fatigue, illness and weak immune system.

Low-calorie diet is also compensated for by the body by burning muscle. People on this type of diet who revert back to their old eating habits end up gaining back some, if not all the weight they have shed off. This would consist mainly of fats. And since fats have more volume per mass than muscle, they end up having the same weight as before but more bulkier. In losing weight, one should keep in mind that they should lose excess body fats only.

However, one can try out eating small meals at more frequent intervals. This way the body will not think that it is being starved and will not store food as fat.

Eat Properly

One may have considered junking the crash diet option but he should also not forget to watch what he is eating. Variety must always be considered so that one may be able to get the necessary nutrients from his diet.It is also healthier to eat food which are roasted, steamed or broiled rather than fried. It is also important to include a lot of fiber in the diet. Frequent rehydration is also necessary.

Pump Up lean Muscle Mass

Muscles burn calories when they work; they even do so at rest. Unlike fats which just lie around, bulge around the pants and dangle beneath the sleeves, muscles burn calories all-day round. With this fact, one can start weight loss by increasing muscle mass. The more muscles, the less fat will be left. This is attainable starting with working out with resistance exercises.

Engaging in Aerobics

Aerobics are not only good for the heart by increasing cardio-vascular endurance. Aerobics also help in increasing lean muscle mass while simultaneously decreasing excess body fat. Aside from these, aerobics make the metebolic process more efficient and its rate high, even after a long while. Imagine burning fat efficiently while driving along the freeway or even while watching television.

Extra "Push"

Some people believe that smoking and caffeine can actually help in losing weight. This can perhaps be true; however, they do the body more harm than good because of their side-effects. For that extra "push", one can try out taking food supplements. Afterall, 95% of these products out in the market actually does good.

On Taking Diet Pills

Over-the-counter diet pills affect the amount of weight one loses as well as how long one keeps that amount of weight off. However, one must be wary of the side-effects of these diet pills. As such, one must faithfully follow the instructions provided for in the packaging. It is also prudent to consult the physician anyway before trying out these drugs and also to find out which type would be best for the individual.

Fat loss does not have to mean sacrifice and suffering. It actually means opening up to a more full and healthy life where one may not have to feel bad about himself having to look the way he does or not being able to do what he wants to do. Losing weight might entail a little adjustments plus the discomforts, but as the old saying goes, "no pain, no gain." Besides fat, what has one got to lose anyway?

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September 26, 2007 20:30 - Water and Weight Loss: The Major Misconception!

Do you realize how much water you drink a day? If you don't know it's probably not enough. If you are making a wild guess, it's probably not accurate. If you are not consuming enough water, your diet plan will be much less effective in changing your body than if you were drinking enough.

In any weight loss diet, water is the single most important component in losing fat for long term.

So why it that people will bend over backwards to record is exact calorie counts, carbohydrate, protein and fat gram but do not the amount of water they are drinking day?

Taking note those other things are very important in order to achieve body fat loss, but let's all openly acknowledge that doing that is far more complicated then tracking water intake. For me it is simple. I drink the same amount every time, and know how many times a day I drink it. Here it's why it's very important.

Water is not only a natural appetite suppressant, but also aids the body metabolizes stored body fat. When the body does not have a good supply of water to draw from to perform required physiological tasks, it will draw water from inside the bodies cells, including fat cells, in order to perform the desired tasks. Any fat stores in the body that are drawn on for water, are less likely to be mobilized and burned off as energy, resulting in increased fat stores over time if you were to remain in a constantly dehydrated state.

Plus, did you know that the kidneys needs good water supply to function at optimum levels? If the kidneys are functioning at low levels, they will recruit the liver for back up. One of the liver's main roles is to metabolize stored fat for the body to use as energy. If the liver is half used doing what the kidneys cannot do on their own due to lack of water, then it will not be able to do its own functions, metabolizing fat being the most applicable in this case, with full effectiveness. So if it is metabolizing less fat, than it only goes to say that optimum body fat loss cannot be achieved.

In addition to stalled fat loss, one of the most familiar misconceptions is that drinking water can cause water retention which is absolutely crap. Weight loss and water definitely tie up together because low intake of water causes water retention. The reason is because the body perceives the shortage when it is provided with less than it needs thus causing what is commonly referred to as "survival mode", retaining all the water that it can.
In this state, whenever you do drink water, it will automatically be stored, resulting in water retention. The only solution to reduce water retention is to give the body with more than it needs so that it can flush excess water out of the system.

Blame water retention on foods that contain excessive sodium because those are the stuff that cause water retention, but the main cause again is most likely lack of water, because if you are consuming water enough, the body will get rid of excess sodium as well, another evidence of water and weight loss working hand in hand.
Water helps in increasing muscle tone and contraction during exercise. It prevents dehydration thus increasing our performance and effort during exercise and in turn our physical results.

If you are experiencing excessive hunger, excessive water retention, low muscle tone or fatigue during exercise, it is most likely you are lack with water.

The average active person needs far more than the standard 64oz. of water to function optimally. Perhaps you could purchase a 20 oz water bottle and focus on drinking at least 4 or 5 of them in an effort to consume 80oz - 100oz per day. This amount would be more appropriate to compensate for both bodily functions and physical activity.

Increase your water intake and it can give major improvements not only in your physique, but your attitude and overall feelings of success associated with the various aspects of your program.
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September 27, 2007 10:56 - Get Rid Of These Nutrition Myths And Get Lean

When a client goes to a nutritionist and hires him or her to help him improve on his eating habits, the nutritionist will analyze his past eating habits, his favorite foods, and together they will team up and create eating plan that is tailored to his lifestyle and goals. Of course when he gets leaner and have more vitality, he will be a happy customer.

Not so fast, soon trouble starts. His friends start to ask all about his diet and suddenly his friends are the expert and condemned his new eating diet that have served him well. They will question the dietitian's recommendations like for example don't the nutritionist know that red meat causes cancer? Don't your nutritionist potatoes cause diabetes? So on and so forth.

This makes a nutritionist job so much harder due to so many nutrition myths out there. These myths are usually spread out by self called gurus and it is robbing people of their chance being really healthy and lean. Here are 5 nutrition myths answered! Take not of them because it may make or break your health.

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