In a new study led by Brian Wansink, Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, it was proven that the best way to make sure you stick to your diet is by changing your environment. I’m not talking about going on a weight loss vacation. You still get to live in your home. So what is the difference?
Every day we get bombarded with lots of weight loss tips. These weight loss tips are usually telling you to change your eating behavior, which is tough, or to change the foods you eat, which is challenging also. Few weight loss tips tell you to do simple environmental changes around you that will help you stick to your diet.
Changing your habits is hard, eating only tasteless food isn’t appealing but eating your meals from a smaller plate is easy to do. And by eating form a smaller plate you are going to eat a whole lot less food. You can also make sure you don’t eat in front of the TV or computer, thus reducing the chance of overeating. You can also rearrange the way food is stashed around the house so you will be more inclined to eat healthier food. These are all environmental changes that will help you lose weight a lot easier.
The study proved that if a person was able to follow a weight loss tip for 20 days a month changes would start to appear. This ties in with the fact that if you want to create a new habit you have to consciously force yourself to do the new behavior for 21 days and you will get a new habit. Since environmental changes are so easy to do, dieters are more likely to stick with them for a longer period of time.
In light of the new study, a smart thing to do would be to start any weight loss plan by implementing all the environmental changes first. This will make it a lot easier for you to do the other changes required for faster weight loss and weight maintenance.
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Improve Your Mental Health by Doing 5 Minute Nature Exercises
A new study done Drs Jo Barton and Professor Jules Pretty from the University of Essex revealed the significant positive impact that 5 minutes of nature exercising can have on the human mind. It helps raise their self-esteem and change their mood.
After pooling the data from more than 1 study on the effects of exercising in nature, they discovered that you don’t have to do a whole lot of exercising to benefit. In fact 5 minutes is the sweet spot. Any more or any less and you get diminishing returns. This is great because anybody can take the time for a 5 minute walk through the park.
If you are more ambitious you don’t need to stick just with walking. You can do some gardening, fishing, boating, cycling, farming, horse riding, mountain climbing… Any physical activity done in the bosom of Mother Nature is good.
The study also revealed that the best places to do the exercises were those that contained water. The combination of green and blue seemed to have the best healthy effects on the human mind.
Doing some form of nature exercises is great if you want to lose weight. On one hand you get to exercise and burn some calories. On the other hand you get to boost your self-esteem. This will make it less likely that you will devour a full chocolate cake or a bucket of ice-cream because someone hurt your feelings. Having a good healthy self-esteem is very important to losing weight.
Many start losing weight because they want to boost their self-esteem. I say you should go the other way around. Get a rock solid self-esteem and then you will lose weight fast. Think about it, you keep all your valuable stuff in good safe places. If you raise your self-esteem you will want to lose weight and be very motivated to do so.
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After pooling the data from more than 1 study on the effects of exercising in nature, they discovered that you don’t have to do a whole lot of exercising to benefit. In fact 5 minutes is the sweet spot. Any more or any less and you get diminishing returns. This is great because anybody can take the time for a 5 minute walk through the park.
If you are more ambitious you don’t need to stick just with walking. You can do some gardening, fishing, boating, cycling, farming, horse riding, mountain climbing… Any physical activity done in the bosom of Mother Nature is good.
The study also revealed that the best places to do the exercises were those that contained water. The combination of green and blue seemed to have the best healthy effects on the human mind.
Doing some form of nature exercises is great if you want to lose weight. On one hand you get to exercise and burn some calories. On the other hand you get to boost your self-esteem. This will make it less likely that you will devour a full chocolate cake or a bucket of ice-cream because someone hurt your feelings. Having a good healthy self-esteem is very important to losing weight.
Many start losing weight because they want to boost their self-esteem. I say you should go the other way around. Get a rock solid self-esteem and then you will lose weight fast. Think about it, you keep all your valuable stuff in good safe places. If you raise your self-esteem you will want to lose weight and be very motivated to do so.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Vitamin D Helps You Lose Weight (part of your Men Weight Loss Program)
It seems that vitamin D and weight loss are liked pretty tight according to a recent study done at the University of Minnesota by Dr. Shalamar Sibley. During the study 38 obese women and men were given the same each day. The only difference was that some of them were getting vitamin D supplements.
At the end of the study those that took the vitamin D supplements were lighter than those that didn’t. On average the volunteers that took vitamin D lost about half a pound more weight than those that didn’t.
The study revealed that by combining a low calorie diet with vitamin D supplements you can get a lot better weight loss results. In fact the more vitamin D you take the more you lose weight. There hasn’t been yet established a maximum admitted threshold but for every nanogram per milliliter increase in vitamin D precursor in the blood stream the volunteers lose an extra half a pound of fat.
Another study revealed that around 75%, even more of the population of the USA suffers from vitamin D deficiency. This might explain the rise in obesity levels all around the country. But we shouldn’t jump to conclusions because scientists haven’t yet established if the lack of vitamin D lead to obesity or if it is the other way around.
One thing is certain. Vitamin D deficiency is liked to more health problems than obesity and weight loss. Vitamin D deficiency is linked to various cancers, heart diseases and diabetes. All of them health problems that are aggravated by excess body fat.
Vitamin D, calcium and sunlight all work together and help your body regulate your blood sugar levels and assimilate the nutrients form food. More often than not the lack of calcium in the human body is linked to the lack of vitamin D. This forces your body to increase its production of synthase, a fatty acid responsible for the conversion of calories into fat. The more synthase you have flowing through your body the more likely is for your excess calories to be turned into fat deposits. A lack of calcium in the human body can lead to an increased production of synthase of 500%. This might explain the correlation between the lack of vitamin D and obesity.
According to the current guidelines the daily recommended dose of Vitamin D is of 400 to 600 UI. These guidelines are on the verge of being changed. To get any form of benefit from your vitamin D intake, some studies show that you must take a dose of vitamin D ranged between 4000 and 10000 UI. That way you have a chance to improve your health and avoid diseases.
For more information on vitamin D check out:
Vitamin D: the health benefits of vitamin DVitamin D Foods and the Health Benefits of Vitamin D
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At the end of the study those that took the vitamin D supplements were lighter than those that didn’t. On average the volunteers that took vitamin D lost about half a pound more weight than those that didn’t.
The study revealed that by combining a low calorie diet with vitamin D supplements you can get a lot better weight loss results. In fact the more vitamin D you take the more you lose weight. There hasn’t been yet established a maximum admitted threshold but for every nanogram per milliliter increase in vitamin D precursor in the blood stream the volunteers lose an extra half a pound of fat.
Another study revealed that around 75%, even more of the population of the USA suffers from vitamin D deficiency. This might explain the rise in obesity levels all around the country. But we shouldn’t jump to conclusions because scientists haven’t yet established if the lack of vitamin D lead to obesity or if it is the other way around.
One thing is certain. Vitamin D deficiency is liked to more health problems than obesity and weight loss. Vitamin D deficiency is linked to various cancers, heart diseases and diabetes. All of them health problems that are aggravated by excess body fat.
Vitamin D, calcium and sunlight all work together and help your body regulate your blood sugar levels and assimilate the nutrients form food. More often than not the lack of calcium in the human body is linked to the lack of vitamin D. This forces your body to increase its production of synthase, a fatty acid responsible for the conversion of calories into fat. The more synthase you have flowing through your body the more likely is for your excess calories to be turned into fat deposits. A lack of calcium in the human body can lead to an increased production of synthase of 500%. This might explain the correlation between the lack of vitamin D and obesity.
According to the current guidelines the daily recommended dose of Vitamin D is of 400 to 600 UI. These guidelines are on the verge of being changed. To get any form of benefit from your vitamin D intake, some studies show that you must take a dose of vitamin D ranged between 4000 and 10000 UI. That way you have a chance to improve your health and avoid diseases.
For more information on vitamin D check out:
Vitamin D: the health benefits of vitamin DVitamin D Foods and the Health Benefits of Vitamin D
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Even for Men to Lose Wieght: The Importance of Managing the Emotions Behind Your Eating Sprees
It is very common for people to eat in a desperate need to fill an emotional void. Unfortunately that void cannot be filled regardless how much food you pour in it. All you manage to do is get fatter and fatter. Your emotions play an important role in driving your eating behavior towards healthy or not so healthy food.
Finding other ways of coping with your emotion instead of running to the fridge is a must if you want to achieve long-term weight loss and health. If you don’t get rid of your emotional demons or funnel them in a more productive way, you can’t expect to win against them using just your willpower. For a time you will be able to follow your weight loss plan but eventually you will crack under the pressure.
A new weight loss study funded by NIH and done by the researchers at Temple's Center for Obesity Research is trying to figure out the best way to help people to cope with their emotions and emotional eating.
Edie Goldbacher, one of the researchers said "The problem that we're trying to address is that the success rates for long-term weight loss are not as good as we would like them to be. Emotional eating may be one reason why people don't do as well in behavioral weight loss groups, because these groups don't address emotional eating or any of its contributing factors. " So it seems you have to put an end to your emotional eating if you want to be able to lose weight forever.
The participant from the first wave of the study succeed to lose weight in a relative short period of time. What is more interesting is that the participants that continued to use the techniques that help prevent emotional eating suffered the least weight fluctuations. Some just kept their new weight without a problem. The future of this study sounds promising already.
You should also check out:
How to Stop Emotional Eating: breaking free from emotional eatingEmotional eating: the relation between your mood and eating
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Finding other ways of coping with your emotion instead of running to the fridge is a must if you want to achieve long-term weight loss and health. If you don’t get rid of your emotional demons or funnel them in a more productive way, you can’t expect to win against them using just your willpower. For a time you will be able to follow your weight loss plan but eventually you will crack under the pressure.
A new weight loss study funded by NIH and done by the researchers at Temple's Center for Obesity Research is trying to figure out the best way to help people to cope with their emotions and emotional eating.
Edie Goldbacher, one of the researchers said "The problem that we're trying to address is that the success rates for long-term weight loss are not as good as we would like them to be. Emotional eating may be one reason why people don't do as well in behavioral weight loss groups, because these groups don't address emotional eating or any of its contributing factors. " So it seems you have to put an end to your emotional eating if you want to be able to lose weight forever.
The participant from the first wave of the study succeed to lose weight in a relative short period of time. What is more interesting is that the participants that continued to use the techniques that help prevent emotional eating suffered the least weight fluctuations. Some just kept their new weight without a problem. The future of this study sounds promising already.
You should also check out:
How to Stop Emotional Eating: breaking free from emotional eatingEmotional eating: the relation between your mood and eating
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
Mens Weight Loss Program: Cure Sleep Apnea by Losing Weight
A recent study published in the British Medical Journal demonstrated that losing weight can in fact cure sleep apnea. It isn’t a 100% cure. In fact only 20% of all the participants got rid of sleep apnea. What is really interesting is the fact that all the participants reported a lower incidence of sleep apnea after losing weight.
Sleep apnea is a condition in which your airways get blocked or collapsed while you sleep. This can even prove fatal. That is why most of the persons suffering of sleep apnea must use a continuous positive airway pressure or CPAP machine. That way they make sure their airway passages stay open while sleeping.
The recent study seems to prove that there is a better way to cure sleep apnea. Instead of using the CPAP machine just lose weight. According to the study the participants that benefited the most form losing weight were those that suffered the most sleep apnea episodes during their sleep.
What is really interesting to me is the fact that sleep apnea is almost an inexistent health problems in countries less developed. And what do we have that under developed don’t have? Well many things, and obesity is one of them. It can’t be pure coincidence the fact that the country with the biggest obesity problem on the face of the world also has the most frequent cases of sleep apnea.
Our modern high tech lifestyle is killing us slowly. Being fat comes with lots of health risks, from cardiovascular diseases , diabetes even cancer to sleep apnea it seems. All of them deadly. You have to lose weight and the only way to do it for the long haul is by changing your lifestyle.
Stop working at the desk so much, get more physically active and eat much more healthy food. Don’t just trust what you read on the label. In my opinion anything that has a label is not healthy food. Eat more fruits and vegetables. They don’t have labels and they are healthy. You might even lose some weight by doing so and get rid of sleep apnea.
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Sleep apnea is a condition in which your airways get blocked or collapsed while you sleep. This can even prove fatal. That is why most of the persons suffering of sleep apnea must use a continuous positive airway pressure or CPAP machine. That way they make sure their airway passages stay open while sleeping.
The recent study seems to prove that there is a better way to cure sleep apnea. Instead of using the CPAP machine just lose weight. According to the study the participants that benefited the most form losing weight were those that suffered the most sleep apnea episodes during their sleep.
What is really interesting to me is the fact that sleep apnea is almost an inexistent health problems in countries less developed. And what do we have that under developed don’t have? Well many things, and obesity is one of them. It can’t be pure coincidence the fact that the country with the biggest obesity problem on the face of the world also has the most frequent cases of sleep apnea.
Our modern high tech lifestyle is killing us slowly. Being fat comes with lots of health risks, from cardiovascular diseases , diabetes even cancer to sleep apnea it seems. All of them deadly. You have to lose weight and the only way to do it for the long haul is by changing your lifestyle.
Stop working at the desk so much, get more physically active and eat much more healthy food. Don’t just trust what you read on the label. In my opinion anything that has a label is not healthy food. Eat more fruits and vegetables. They don’t have labels and they are healthy. You might even lose some weight by doing so and get rid of sleep apnea.
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Saturday, May 22, 2010
Tip for Men to Lose Weight: A Hectic Eating Schedule Makes You Fat and Diabetic
A recent study made by the researchers from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies proved that a hectic eating schedule can in fact make you gain weight and diabetic. The whole study started from the observations that shift workers, especially those that work at night, are more likely to suffer from metabolic syndrome.
The metabolic syndrome is a health problem that creates insulin resistance in people and pre-diabetic conditions. It also favors high cholesterol levels and gaining fat on the belly. A truly unpleasant health problem to have.
Researchers were intrigued to find out if by disrupting the circadian clock was the cause of the problem. The circadian clock is your internal clock that is set by light exposure. They were amazed to discover that the circadian clock had nothing to do with gaining weight if you were a night shift worker. The researchers also analyzed the possibility of constant snacking to stay awake as being responsible for gaining weight. This too was a dead end.
By doing research on mice, varying their eating schedule they were able to get to the root of the problem. What makes night shift workers gain weight and have an increased risk of diabetes isn’t working at night. What makes them gain weight is the fact that they have to work a day shift also. You see they don’t have a set eating schedule to which their body can get used. The study leader study's leader Satchidananda Panda, Ph.D. said the following "We believe that it is not shift work per se that wreaks havoc with the body's metabolism but changing shifts and weekends, when workers switch back to a regular day-night cycle,"
Your liver is your metabolic clearinghouse. It dictates how fast you burn calories or how much fat you store. Satchidananda Panda said "If feeding time determines the activity of a large number of genes completely independent of the circadian clock, when you eat and fast each day will have a huge impact on your metabolism".
By putting the mice on a strict schedule of feeding for a while the scientists were able to observe an increased activity on the part of the genes that control the enzymes that break down sugar after each meal. The mice were feed for 8 hours and were on a fast for 16 hours each day. During the 16 hour fasting period the researchers could measure an increased activity on the part of the genes that control the enzymes that break down fat.
Here is what Dr Panda said: "The liver oscillator in particular helps the organism to adapt to a daily pattern of food availability by temporally tuning the activity of thousands of genes regulating metabolism and physiology. This regulation is very important, since the absence of a robust circadian clock predisposes the organism to various metabolic dysfunctions and diseases."
The conclusion of the study is the more robust and set in stone eating schedule you have to more likely you are to lose weight and be healthy. You can try setting an interval of time in which you will eat and another in which you will fast. For example try eating only between 8 am and 8pm, and nothing after that. Dr Panda said he tried it and even lost some weight. In his words Dr Panda said "I even lost weight, although I eat whatever I want during the day". What more can you ask for? Just give it a try and write down in the comment below how it went.
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The metabolic syndrome is a health problem that creates insulin resistance in people and pre-diabetic conditions. It also favors high cholesterol levels and gaining fat on the belly. A truly unpleasant health problem to have.
Researchers were intrigued to find out if by disrupting the circadian clock was the cause of the problem. The circadian clock is your internal clock that is set by light exposure. They were amazed to discover that the circadian clock had nothing to do with gaining weight if you were a night shift worker. The researchers also analyzed the possibility of constant snacking to stay awake as being responsible for gaining weight. This too was a dead end.
By doing research on mice, varying their eating schedule they were able to get to the root of the problem. What makes night shift workers gain weight and have an increased risk of diabetes isn’t working at night. What makes them gain weight is the fact that they have to work a day shift also. You see they don’t have a set eating schedule to which their body can get used. The study leader study's leader Satchidananda Panda, Ph.D. said the following "We believe that it is not shift work per se that wreaks havoc with the body's metabolism but changing shifts and weekends, when workers switch back to a regular day-night cycle,"
Your liver is your metabolic clearinghouse. It dictates how fast you burn calories or how much fat you store. Satchidananda Panda said "If feeding time determines the activity of a large number of genes completely independent of the circadian clock, when you eat and fast each day will have a huge impact on your metabolism".
By putting the mice on a strict schedule of feeding for a while the scientists were able to observe an increased activity on the part of the genes that control the enzymes that break down sugar after each meal. The mice were feed for 8 hours and were on a fast for 16 hours each day. During the 16 hour fasting period the researchers could measure an increased activity on the part of the genes that control the enzymes that break down fat.
Here is what Dr Panda said: "The liver oscillator in particular helps the organism to adapt to a daily pattern of food availability by temporally tuning the activity of thousands of genes regulating metabolism and physiology. This regulation is very important, since the absence of a robust circadian clock predisposes the organism to various metabolic dysfunctions and diseases."
The conclusion of the study is the more robust and set in stone eating schedule you have to more likely you are to lose weight and be healthy. You can try setting an interval of time in which you will eat and another in which you will fast. For example try eating only between 8 am and 8pm, and nothing after that. Dr Panda said he tried it and even lost some weight. In his words Dr Panda said "I even lost weight, although I eat whatever I want during the day". What more can you ask for? Just give it a try and write down in the comment below how it went.
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Friday, May 21, 2010
Obese Men Have A Low Testosterone Level
Studies show that . Diabetic men have even a lower testosterone level and it is pretty common for an obese man to suffer from diabetes too. The bad part about having a low testosterone level and being obese is that you get man boobs. No man wants man boobs.
In a Hypogonadism in Males study conducted at the University of Buffalo researchers were able to notice that 40% of all . In the case of diabetic obese men the percentage rose up to 50%.
According to the results there is an inversely proportional link between a man’s BMI and his testosterone level. The higher a man’s BMI is the lower its testosterone level is going to be.
Dr Sandeep Dhindsa said "The effect of diabetes on lowering testosterone levels was similar to that of a weight gain of approximately 20 pounds." So a man that is overweight and diabetic should start losing weight as soon as possible.
The testosterone level influences a man’s health in many diverse ways. From its sex drive to getting man boos, testosterone is at the heart of a man’s health. Some might say that testosterone is what makes men men. If are a man and you want to increase your testosterone level lose weight.
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In a Hypogonadism in Males study conducted at the University of Buffalo researchers were able to notice that 40% of all . In the case of diabetic obese men the percentage rose up to 50%.
According to the results there is an inversely proportional link between a man’s BMI and his testosterone level. The higher a man’s BMI is the lower its testosterone level is going to be.
Dr Sandeep Dhindsa said "The effect of diabetes on lowering testosterone levels was similar to that of a weight gain of approximately 20 pounds." So a man that is overweight and diabetic should start losing weight as soon as possible.
The testosterone level influences a man’s health in many diverse ways. From its sex drive to getting man boos, testosterone is at the heart of a man’s health. Some might say that testosterone is what makes men men. If are a man and you want to increase your testosterone level lose weight.
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Why Men Have Belly Fat and Women Hip Fat
There is an old question that scientists have tried to answer for decades. Why do men store fat on their bellies and women on their hips and butt. Well according to a recent study done at UT Southwestern Medical Center the answer is in our genes.
It seems that the male genes tell a man’s body to store fat on their bellies. That is why overweight men have huge bellies. Women on the other hand are genetically programmed to store fat on their hips, butt and thighs. Women are at a clear advantage considering the fact that belly fat is linked to the major health problems related with being fat: diabetes and cardio-vascular health issues.
What is interesting though is the fact that women that have reached menopause tend to store fat on their bellies too. This seems to indicate that the male and female hormones, testosterone and estrogen, influence how and where the fat is stored.
The study was done on mouse genes because mice also store fat differently according to their gender. In fact mice store fat just as humans do, which was very convenient for the researchers.
According to Dr. Deborah Clegg "We found that out of about 40,000 mouse genes, only 138 are commonly found in both male and female fat cells. This was completely unexpected. We expected the exact opposite -- that 138 would be different and the rest would be the same between the sexes.”
During the study the researchers were also able to point out the fact that male mice have a greater chance of getting fat on a fat filled diet than female mice. If this is true also for us humans, then men should really stay away from anything filled with fat if they want to lose weight. Women on the other hand have it more easily from Mother Nature in this regard. A high fat diet won’t make then gain as much weight as men do.
Dr Clegg concluded that "The notion that fat cells between males and females are alike is inconsistent with our findings." This study open the door to new and exciting weight loss findings. Hope they will find a faster and more efficient way of losing weight for both men and women.
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It seems that the male genes tell a man’s body to store fat on their bellies. That is why overweight men have huge bellies. Women on the other hand are genetically programmed to store fat on their hips, butt and thighs. Women are at a clear advantage considering the fact that belly fat is linked to the major health problems related with being fat: diabetes and cardio-vascular health issues.
What is interesting though is the fact that women that have reached menopause tend to store fat on their bellies too. This seems to indicate that the male and female hormones, testosterone and estrogen, influence how and where the fat is stored.
The study was done on mouse genes because mice also store fat differently according to their gender. In fact mice store fat just as humans do, which was very convenient for the researchers.
According to Dr. Deborah Clegg "We found that out of about 40,000 mouse genes, only 138 are commonly found in both male and female fat cells. This was completely unexpected. We expected the exact opposite -- that 138 would be different and the rest would be the same between the sexes.”
During the study the researchers were also able to point out the fact that male mice have a greater chance of getting fat on a fat filled diet than female mice. If this is true also for us humans, then men should really stay away from anything filled with fat if they want to lose weight. Women on the other hand have it more easily from Mother Nature in this regard. A high fat diet won’t make then gain as much weight as men do.
Dr Clegg concluded that "The notion that fat cells between males and females are alike is inconsistent with our findings." This study open the door to new and exciting weight loss findings. Hope they will find a faster and more efficient way of losing weight for both men and women.
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
Speed Up Metabolism Tricks: How to master your metabolism for men
Your metabolism is the natural process by which our body combines nutrients with oxygen to produce energy for its proper functioning. This energy is measured in calories which are for the human body like gasoline to a car.
When our main source of energy, blood sugar (glucose), is consumed, the metabolic process focus on fat in order to obtain energy. Similarly, when the reserves of sugar are too high, the metabolism tends to store excess "energy" by turning it into fat to be used when needed. If you want to lose weight you have to master your metabolism.
Even when our body is resting it still consumes a minimum amount of energy needed to ensure the functioning of vital organs and maintaining a normal temperature. Of course when we exercise, the body needs more energy and accelerates the metabolism to deliver it. But most of the time it is not very active, and this is why most of us want a higher metabolism. We want to burn more calories all the time, even when we sit or sleep. Does this mean greater efficiency?
Much has been written around the topic of accelerating the metabolism, and many articles have suggested an increased metabolism is more effective for burning more calories. This is especially true if your goal is to lose weight. But it is interesting to note that an increased metabolism is actually less effective and needs more food to maintain body weight.
This is against the way nature designed us to survive. And it is very important to note that an increased metabolism involves aging faster. We should ask whether it is desirable to act as an over raced engine, but disconnected from the gearbox. Speeding up your metabolism must be done with care to get the maximum benefits with as little disadvantages as possible. It is rather desirable to make sure we eat healthy, in reasonable amounts, accompanied by a regular program of exercise.
Here are some tricks to help you speed up your metabolism and master it in a healthy way:
Speed up metabolism trick 1: Eat often, do not skip meals and eat healthy snacks between meals.
Frequent meals help prevent starvation, and ensure a constant source of energy which maintains the efficiency of the human metabolism. The body is equipped with a survival mechanism by which fat is deposited to protect us from starvation. When jumping over a meal or keeping a very strict diet, the body believes you are going through a period of starvation and reacts promptly to preserve energy by slowing down the metabolism.
Energy deposits are preserved mainly as fat. Fast weight loss occurs mainly by losing water and muscle mass. That is why it is advisable to eat 5-6 times a day to increase the metabolism, 3 main meals and snacks in between. This way, we ensure a high metabolic rate throughout the day. Not forgetting of course that the snacks between meals may be among the causes of weight gain. It is therefore very important that they are healthy and avoid the temptation to eat large quantities. Also the main meals will be reduced to compensate for the exact amount of calories the snacks offer between meals.
Speed up metabolism trick 2: Exercise on a regular basis
Not only physical effort leads to speeding up your metabolism, but it will remain high for a significant period of time, after your workout session. It is a sure way to burn more calories. And the beneficial effects of regular exercise on your health far exceed the effects of aging if we do get a fast metabolism.
Speed up metabolism trick 3: Improve the relationship between muscles mass and fat.
Generally, strenuous activities such as running, burn more calories than muscle-building activities such as weight lifting. But we must not forget that muscle burns more calories than fat. This means that the metabolism is the more active if the muscle mass is greater.
So it is better to choose natural and balanced ways that speed up your metabolism to burn more calories. If you treat your metabolism with care, it will be the best and closest friend in your fight against excess fat.
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When our main source of energy, blood sugar (glucose), is consumed, the metabolic process focus on fat in order to obtain energy. Similarly, when the reserves of sugar are too high, the metabolism tends to store excess "energy" by turning it into fat to be used when needed. If you want to lose weight you have to master your metabolism.
Even when our body is resting it still consumes a minimum amount of energy needed to ensure the functioning of vital organs and maintaining a normal temperature. Of course when we exercise, the body needs more energy and accelerates the metabolism to deliver it. But most of the time it is not very active, and this is why most of us want a higher metabolism. We want to burn more calories all the time, even when we sit or sleep. Does this mean greater efficiency?
Much has been written around the topic of accelerating the metabolism, and many articles have suggested an increased metabolism is more effective for burning more calories. This is especially true if your goal is to lose weight. But it is interesting to note that an increased metabolism is actually less effective and needs more food to maintain body weight.
This is against the way nature designed us to survive. And it is very important to note that an increased metabolism involves aging faster. We should ask whether it is desirable to act as an over raced engine, but disconnected from the gearbox. Speeding up your metabolism must be done with care to get the maximum benefits with as little disadvantages as possible. It is rather desirable to make sure we eat healthy, in reasonable amounts, accompanied by a regular program of exercise.
Here are some tricks to help you speed up your metabolism and master it in a healthy way:
Speed up metabolism trick 1: Eat often, do not skip meals and eat healthy snacks between meals.
Frequent meals help prevent starvation, and ensure a constant source of energy which maintains the efficiency of the human metabolism. The body is equipped with a survival mechanism by which fat is deposited to protect us from starvation. When jumping over a meal or keeping a very strict diet, the body believes you are going through a period of starvation and reacts promptly to preserve energy by slowing down the metabolism.
Energy deposits are preserved mainly as fat. Fast weight loss occurs mainly by losing water and muscle mass. That is why it is advisable to eat 5-6 times a day to increase the metabolism, 3 main meals and snacks in between. This way, we ensure a high metabolic rate throughout the day. Not forgetting of course that the snacks between meals may be among the causes of weight gain. It is therefore very important that they are healthy and avoid the temptation to eat large quantities. Also the main meals will be reduced to compensate for the exact amount of calories the snacks offer between meals.
Speed up metabolism trick 2: Exercise on a regular basis
Not only physical effort leads to speeding up your metabolism, but it will remain high for a significant period of time, after your workout session. It is a sure way to burn more calories. And the beneficial effects of regular exercise on your health far exceed the effects of aging if we do get a fast metabolism.
Speed up metabolism trick 3: Improve the relationship between muscles mass and fat.
Generally, strenuous activities such as running, burn more calories than muscle-building activities such as weight lifting. But we must not forget that muscle burns more calories than fat. This means that the metabolism is the more active if the muscle mass is greater.
So it is better to choose natural and balanced ways that speed up your metabolism to burn more calories. If you treat your metabolism with care, it will be the best and closest friend in your fight against excess fat.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Men, Do You Want to Lose Weight Fast- Are You Sure?
Many say: I want to lose weight fast! Unfortunately all they do is moan and cry about how much they want to lose weight. Words seldom make something become reality. You have to roll-up your sleeves and get to work. That is the only way you will ever achieve permanent and fast weight loss.
If you want to lose weight fast you will have to go on a diet and start exercising. And you have to continue doing it until you will reach your goal. That is why it is very important that you stay focused and motivated all the time.
Create a clear picture of how you would like your body to look. How would it feel? Create a picture so vivid, so appealing that you can feel it drawing you to it. That is how you will start saying “I want to lose weight” and start saying “I am losing weight”. Achieving your ideal body isn’t something impossible. It just requires lots and lots of work and dedication.
Losing weight is like learning to ride a bike. At first you are clumsy and fall a lot. If you stop trying after the first or second attempt, you will never learn how to ride a bike. You have to persevere and fall as many times as it is required for you to learn how to ride a bike. The same applies to losing weight. You will stumble a lot and have lots of setbacks. You will binge form time to time and you will skip workout sessions. It is human and it is ok. But if you stick to it you will get better and better at losing weight.
Once you learn how to lose weight you won’t have any weight problems ever again. It is like riding a bike, once you know it you will know how to do it all your life. The secret lies in not giving up too fast. Stop thinking “I can’t lose weight” and start focusing on what you desire.
Don’t be one of the many that are always talking to everybody they know about how much they want to lose weight. Don’t bore your friends with false proclamations. Tell them only once “I will lose weight” and then let your actions do the speaking for you. All your friends will be amazed, and even the non-believers and negative people close to you will start encouraging you eventually. The more results you get the faster you will lose weight. The compounding effect is awesome.
After you become more experienced at losing weight the healthy way, you will find weight loss to be a piece of cake. You will be able to command the extra pounds off with ease. But take care, this will only happen if you choose a healthy diet and a good workout routine. Extreme weight loss diets only make it so you will have a harder time at losing weight in the future. Please don’t throw away your health and wellbeing for momentary results that fade away very fast.
I wish you the best of luck at losing weight and becoming an example to all your friends. Once you learn how to lose weight you will become an invaluable resource for them if they decide to follow in your footsteps. You will be able to show them how to go form “I want to lose weight” to “I am losing weight in a healthy way”.
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If you want to lose weight fast you will have to go on a diet and start exercising. And you have to continue doing it until you will reach your goal. That is why it is very important that you stay focused and motivated all the time.
Create a clear picture of how you would like your body to look. How would it feel? Create a picture so vivid, so appealing that you can feel it drawing you to it. That is how you will start saying “I want to lose weight” and start saying “I am losing weight”. Achieving your ideal body isn’t something impossible. It just requires lots and lots of work and dedication.
Losing weight is like learning to ride a bike. At first you are clumsy and fall a lot. If you stop trying after the first or second attempt, you will never learn how to ride a bike. You have to persevere and fall as many times as it is required for you to learn how to ride a bike. The same applies to losing weight. You will stumble a lot and have lots of setbacks. You will binge form time to time and you will skip workout sessions. It is human and it is ok. But if you stick to it you will get better and better at losing weight.
Once you learn how to lose weight you won’t have any weight problems ever again. It is like riding a bike, once you know it you will know how to do it all your life. The secret lies in not giving up too fast. Stop thinking “I can’t lose weight” and start focusing on what you desire.
Don’t be one of the many that are always talking to everybody they know about how much they want to lose weight. Don’t bore your friends with false proclamations. Tell them only once “I will lose weight” and then let your actions do the speaking for you. All your friends will be amazed, and even the non-believers and negative people close to you will start encouraging you eventually. The more results you get the faster you will lose weight. The compounding effect is awesome.
After you become more experienced at losing weight the healthy way, you will find weight loss to be a piece of cake. You will be able to command the extra pounds off with ease. But take care, this will only happen if you choose a healthy diet and a good workout routine. Extreme weight loss diets only make it so you will have a harder time at losing weight in the future. Please don’t throw away your health and wellbeing for momentary results that fade away very fast.
I wish you the best of luck at losing weight and becoming an example to all your friends. Once you learn how to lose weight you will become an invaluable resource for them if they decide to follow in your footsteps. You will be able to show them how to go form “I want to lose weight” to “I am losing weight in a healthy way”.
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Monday, May 10, 2010
How to Get Rid of Man Boobs
Man boobs or moobs are super unattractive and can make you look really unappealing to women. No woman wants to have a lover who has bigger breasts than she has. Fortunately there is a way to get rid of man boobs forever and get a buffed great looking chest.
There are 2 reasons men get man boobs. One of them is due to a hormonal disorder called gynecomastia. The men who have gynecomastia have an increased production of estrogen in their body. Estrogen is the female hormone that gives women all their feminine traits. That is why a man that gets an overdose of estrogen produced in his body gets man boobs. Estrogen influences the development of the breasts. If you have more estrogen that testosterone, the male hormone, you will develop boobs.
If you have gynecomastia you have to seek medical advice to cure your hormonal disorder. Usually the treatment consists in estrogen reducing pills. You should also check and see if any of the pills you are taking now don’t have an adverse effect on your hormone levels. If you find out that you are taking medications that increase your estrogen level or reduce your testosterone level, ask your doctor to switch them to something that won’t have the same undesired effect.
To boost your testosterone levels you should try eating specific foods like oysters, green leafy vegetables, salmon, red and orange fruits, wild game or goose, turkey and duck meat. Any food that is rich in zinc should be consumed to increase your testosterone level. In general meat is the best source of zinc for the human body because it can be more easily absorbed.
Green leafy vegetables like broccoli, cabbage or kale are rich in Indole 3 carbinol or I3C. Indole 3 carbinol helps the male body turn off the bad estrogen production and increase the good estrogen production. The good estrogen is used by the male body to create testosterone.
To get rid of man boobs you have to eat the right foods that stimulate testosterone production but you should also avoid eating the foods that inhibit testosterone production. There are foods that over stimulate the adrenal glands leading to adrenal exhaustion. Sugary, fried or fatty foods should be avoided because the strain the adrenal glands. Drinking lots of coffee or caffeine containing beverages also exhausts the adrenal glands reducing the production of testosterone.
In extreme cases, when the hormonal disorder is to great or it would take too long to treat, you can opt for a chest lipoplasty. Lipoplasty or liposuction is a popular surgical way of getting rid of the unwanted fat deposits. You might not know this, but Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock underwent a liposuction procedure in 2005 to get rid of his excess chest fat.
The second cause of man boobs is being too fat. If you are obese you probably have man boobs. The best way to get rid o man boobs in this case is to get on a good healthy weight loss plan. Spot reduction isn’t possible. Even if it were possible you wouldn’t want to do it. Thing about it: how would you look with a buffed chest and a huge fatty belly. Your body is smart and it forces you to lose body fat from all over your body. This way you will look super hot once you lose weight.
Any good weight loss program is based on a healthy weight loss diet and a good exercise plan. You will have to stick to both if you want to ever succeed at losing your man boobs. The best way to get fast weight loss results is to cut all the processed foods from your diet. Buy and eat only whole food and you be amazed how fast you will lose weight.
To your regular workout routine you should add some chest exercises to help sculpt your chest muscles. Once you get rid of man boobs you should also get make sure you will get a killer looking chest. To do this insert in your workout routine push-ups, bench presses, incline flyes or any other chest strength training exercises that you enjoy doing. These strength training exercises will help increase your muscle mass, especially around your chest area.
You should also do some cardio exercises. Cardio exercises help you burn the fat faster from your body by increasing the caloric burnings. You can go jogging, swimming even walking. Just make sure you get some form or cardio exercise twice a week.
You can get rid of man boobs by following a good healthy diet and exercising regularly. You will get a rock hard body in no time, trust me.
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There are 2 reasons men get man boobs. One of them is due to a hormonal disorder called gynecomastia. The men who have gynecomastia have an increased production of estrogen in their body. Estrogen is the female hormone that gives women all their feminine traits. That is why a man that gets an overdose of estrogen produced in his body gets man boobs. Estrogen influences the development of the breasts. If you have more estrogen that testosterone, the male hormone, you will develop boobs.
If you have gynecomastia you have to seek medical advice to cure your hormonal disorder. Usually the treatment consists in estrogen reducing pills. You should also check and see if any of the pills you are taking now don’t have an adverse effect on your hormone levels. If you find out that you are taking medications that increase your estrogen level or reduce your testosterone level, ask your doctor to switch them to something that won’t have the same undesired effect.
To boost your testosterone levels you should try eating specific foods like oysters, green leafy vegetables, salmon, red and orange fruits, wild game or goose, turkey and duck meat. Any food that is rich in zinc should be consumed to increase your testosterone level. In general meat is the best source of zinc for the human body because it can be more easily absorbed.
Green leafy vegetables like broccoli, cabbage or kale are rich in Indole 3 carbinol or I3C. Indole 3 carbinol helps the male body turn off the bad estrogen production and increase the good estrogen production. The good estrogen is used by the male body to create testosterone.
To get rid of man boobs you have to eat the right foods that stimulate testosterone production but you should also avoid eating the foods that inhibit testosterone production. There are foods that over stimulate the adrenal glands leading to adrenal exhaustion. Sugary, fried or fatty foods should be avoided because the strain the adrenal glands. Drinking lots of coffee or caffeine containing beverages also exhausts the adrenal glands reducing the production of testosterone.
In extreme cases, when the hormonal disorder is to great or it would take too long to treat, you can opt for a chest lipoplasty. Lipoplasty or liposuction is a popular surgical way of getting rid of the unwanted fat deposits. You might not know this, but Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock underwent a liposuction procedure in 2005 to get rid of his excess chest fat.
The second cause of man boobs is being too fat. If you are obese you probably have man boobs. The best way to get rid o man boobs in this case is to get on a good healthy weight loss plan. Spot reduction isn’t possible. Even if it were possible you wouldn’t want to do it. Thing about it: how would you look with a buffed chest and a huge fatty belly. Your body is smart and it forces you to lose body fat from all over your body. This way you will look super hot once you lose weight.
Any good weight loss program is based on a healthy weight loss diet and a good exercise plan. You will have to stick to both if you want to ever succeed at losing your man boobs. The best way to get fast weight loss results is to cut all the processed foods from your diet. Buy and eat only whole food and you be amazed how fast you will lose weight.
To your regular workout routine you should add some chest exercises to help sculpt your chest muscles. Once you get rid of man boobs you should also get make sure you will get a killer looking chest. To do this insert in your workout routine push-ups, bench presses, incline flyes or any other chest strength training exercises that you enjoy doing. These strength training exercises will help increase your muscle mass, especially around your chest area.
You should also do some cardio exercises. Cardio exercises help you burn the fat faster from your body by increasing the caloric burnings. You can go jogging, swimming even walking. Just make sure you get some form or cardio exercise twice a week.
You can get rid of man boobs by following a good healthy diet and exercising regularly. You will get a rock hard body in no time, trust me.
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Sunday, May 9, 2010
Weight Loss Motivation Tips: Men, Get Motivation for Weight Loss
Losing weight isn’t that hard. All you have to do is go on a healthy diet and exercise. The problem is usually the lack of motivation, not the lack of good effective weight loss solutions. You have to get enough weight loss motivation and keep it over time if you are to succeed and shed all those unwanted extra pounds.
The best way to get motivation for weight loss is to imagine yourself at your ideal weight. How would you look, how would you feel. Create a clear and complete picture of your future slimmer life. Make it as rich and appealing as possible.
Any time you feel your weight loss motivation slipping bring into your mind the image of your slimmer life. Create movies in your mind of how your life would be once you are thinner. Enjoy your future body so that you will be able to drawn more motivation for the present moment.
Another thing you can do is write down your ideal weight and your ideal day once you have reached it. How will you enjoy your new body? What can you do that you can’t do now once you are fit. Write it all down. Once a week make sure you reread what you wrote and add more if you feel like it.
Setting weight loss goals is wonderful, but setting rewards linked to those goals is even more enticing. Create a list of weight loss goals. To each of those goals attach a reward. Make it something thrilling and exciting. Make the rewards special so that you will crave satisfying your desire for them. If you have wanted to do something for a long time, you can set it as a reward for a bigger goal. For smaller goals create smaller rewards. For example, you can eat 1 slice of cake if you keep to your diet rules for 1 whole week. If you succeed enjoy your slice of cake.
To get the maximum weight loss motivation make sure that the rewards are meaningful for you. Don’t choose a reward only because someone says you should do it. You should choose the rewards because you are the one who will bring the goal to life. So it better motivate you.
You can also motivate yourself by taking your current overweight situation and blowing it out of proportion. This trick works better for some, not for all folks. Think about how miserable your life will be in the future if you keep gaining weight. Think about the piling of health issues, decrease mobility and ever increasing bills you must pay. Think about how much worst your situation will get if you don’t start doing something about it. Place that image behind you so it will motivate you to go towards your ideal body weight picture of yourself.
There are many more motivation tricks for weight loss but these I have found to be the most powerful of them all. If you know any other weight loss motivation tips please share them in the comments below. I wish you all the motivation in the world so that you will get to have your much desired hot body.
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The best way to get motivation for weight loss is to imagine yourself at your ideal weight. How would you look, how would you feel. Create a clear and complete picture of your future slimmer life. Make it as rich and appealing as possible.
Any time you feel your weight loss motivation slipping bring into your mind the image of your slimmer life. Create movies in your mind of how your life would be once you are thinner. Enjoy your future body so that you will be able to drawn more motivation for the present moment.
Another thing you can do is write down your ideal weight and your ideal day once you have reached it. How will you enjoy your new body? What can you do that you can’t do now once you are fit. Write it all down. Once a week make sure you reread what you wrote and add more if you feel like it.
Setting weight loss goals is wonderful, but setting rewards linked to those goals is even more enticing. Create a list of weight loss goals. To each of those goals attach a reward. Make it something thrilling and exciting. Make the rewards special so that you will crave satisfying your desire for them. If you have wanted to do something for a long time, you can set it as a reward for a bigger goal. For smaller goals create smaller rewards. For example, you can eat 1 slice of cake if you keep to your diet rules for 1 whole week. If you succeed enjoy your slice of cake.
To get the maximum weight loss motivation make sure that the rewards are meaningful for you. Don’t choose a reward only because someone says you should do it. You should choose the rewards because you are the one who will bring the goal to life. So it better motivate you.
You can also motivate yourself by taking your current overweight situation and blowing it out of proportion. This trick works better for some, not for all folks. Think about how miserable your life will be in the future if you keep gaining weight. Think about the piling of health issues, decrease mobility and ever increasing bills you must pay. Think about how much worst your situation will get if you don’t start doing something about it. Place that image behind you so it will motivate you to go towards your ideal body weight picture of yourself.
There are many more motivation tricks for weight loss but these I have found to be the most powerful of them all. If you know any other weight loss motivation tips please share them in the comments below. I wish you all the motivation in the world so that you will get to have your much desired hot body.
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Saturday, May 8, 2010
The Best Way for Men to Lose Weight Fast and Keep It Off
The best way to lose weight fast is by getting healthy eating and living habits. You will lose weight faster this way because you will avoid the all to frequent dieting yo-yo effect. By having good healthy habits and getting rid of the unhealthy ones you don’t only lose weight, you keep it off once you lose it.
That it why striving and working hard to change your unhealthy habits into healthy ones is a good time spent. You get to better your health. You also lose weight and keep it off forever. But how exactly can you change your habits?
Changing your habits isn’t an easy thing to do. If it were you would have already done it. The good part is that once you succeed to replace a habit with another one, the new habit is just as hard to replace. This is good news as long as you replace your bad unhealthy habits with new good healthy habits. Picking up unhealthier habits is really undesired.
To form a new habit you have to use the same technique you used to form the old one. Repetition is the mother of all learning and it is the key to forming new habits. So if you want to lose weight fast and keep it off make sure you repeat over and over again the best healthy habits that support you weight loss goal. Forming healthy habits is the best way to lose weight.
Forming new habits is hard because you have to consciously do the new desired behavior each time you would normally do the old unhealthy behavior. Let’s say for example you want to change your nasty little habit of eating junk food for snacks. Each time you catch yourself reaching for an unhealthy snack you must stop yourself consciously and choose to eat a fruit or vegetable instead. Something much healthier should be your target. That way you repress your old instinctive actions and create new ones.
This is going to be hard work and I advise you to work on just one unhealthy habit at a time. If you worked on more you would for sure get frustrated and stop trying. You should start with some simple unhealthy habits and work your way up the ladder to the big unhealthy habits. That way you get more and more experience at changing your habits. If you feel more bold you can start by working on your biggest unhealthy habit and work your way down. This way you are going to get faster results.
Regardless of which path you will choose, changing your unhealthy habits into healthy ones is a must if you want to lose weight and keep it off. Doing all this work will benefit you a lot more than following the latest fad diet. Sure you can lose weight using a fad diet but you also gain it back plus some once you go off it. So please choose the best way to lose weight, choose to change your unhealthy habits into healthy ones.
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That it why striving and working hard to change your unhealthy habits into healthy ones is a good time spent. You get to better your health. You also lose weight and keep it off forever. But how exactly can you change your habits?
Changing your habits isn’t an easy thing to do. If it were you would have already done it. The good part is that once you succeed to replace a habit with another one, the new habit is just as hard to replace. This is good news as long as you replace your bad unhealthy habits with new good healthy habits. Picking up unhealthier habits is really undesired.
To form a new habit you have to use the same technique you used to form the old one. Repetition is the mother of all learning and it is the key to forming new habits. So if you want to lose weight fast and keep it off make sure you repeat over and over again the best healthy habits that support you weight loss goal. Forming healthy habits is the best way to lose weight.
Forming new habits is hard because you have to consciously do the new desired behavior each time you would normally do the old unhealthy behavior. Let’s say for example you want to change your nasty little habit of eating junk food for snacks. Each time you catch yourself reaching for an unhealthy snack you must stop yourself consciously and choose to eat a fruit or vegetable instead. Something much healthier should be your target. That way you repress your old instinctive actions and create new ones.
This is going to be hard work and I advise you to work on just one unhealthy habit at a time. If you worked on more you would for sure get frustrated and stop trying. You should start with some simple unhealthy habits and work your way up the ladder to the big unhealthy habits. That way you get more and more experience at changing your habits. If you feel more bold you can start by working on your biggest unhealthy habit and work your way down. This way you are going to get faster results.
Regardless of which path you will choose, changing your unhealthy habits into healthy ones is a must if you want to lose weight and keep it off. Doing all this work will benefit you a lot more than following the latest fad diet. Sure you can lose weight using a fad diet but you also gain it back plus some once you go off it. So please choose the best way to lose weight, choose to change your unhealthy habits into healthy ones.
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Friday, May 7, 2010
Best Diets for Quick Weight Loss in Men
The are healthy diets. I know the internet and popular magazines are full of fad diets. But fad diets aren’t a permanent weight loss solution. In fact fad diets aren’t healthy at all. You can harm your health and gain more weight because of fad diets if you aren’t careful.
I must admit that fad diets are diets for quick weight loss. If you want to lose weight quickly, regardless of the consequences, a fad diet will please you with the short term results you will get. The main reason why I am so against fad diets is the super fast weight gain that follow them.
You see, after you go off the fad diet you gain all the lost weight back, plus a little more. Your metabolism slows down when you starve yourself. A slow metabolism makes any future weight loss very hard and painful. Not an experience you would like to go through, trust me.
The are healthy diets. You won’t lose weight as fast as with a fad diet using a healthy diet though. So why are healthy diets the ? Well because once you lose weight you won’t put it back ever again. Healthy diets help you form good eating habits that will keep you slimmer forever. That way you save lots of time and the dreaded weight loss yo-yo effect.
A good healthy diet is one rich in fresh organically grown fruits and vegetables. I bet you aren’t eating that much veggies and fruits. If you want to lose weight in a healthy way you should start right now.
Please eat the fruits and vegetables as raw as possible. Deep fried vegetables aren’t that healthy of friendly with your waistline. Fruitcakes and tarts also don’t count as fruits. Eat fruits and vegetables as mother nature provides them to us: raw, tasty and refreshing. There are plenty of salads you can make to satisfy your taste and appetite.
Don’t thing that having a healthy diet is about becoming a vegetarian. You can eat meat as long as it is cooked in a healthy way. The truth is your body needs meat to stay healthy and flourish. But don’t eat deep fried meat or meat cooked in huge amounts of fat. Eat grilled or boiled meat. Your body will thank you and you will start losing weight quick.
Losing weight isn’t about depriving yourself. On the contrary, it is about giving your body all the nutrients, vitamins and minerals it needs to function properly. If you give your body all the resources it needs it will start burning off all the excess fat. Why would it keep excess energy supplies when it gets all the energy it needs each and every day.
There isn’t a best healthy weight loss diet. You will have to find your way. Everybody is unique, with unique needs and desires. You should make your own healthy diet plan. Choose healthy foods that you enjoy eating and create your own healthy weight loss diet. That way you make sure you will enjoy dieting for the rest of your life, eating lots of healthy foods daily.
Just eating healthy foods isn’t going to make you lose lots of weight fast. The can’t do that. You will have to exercise and become more physically active. To get some good starter tips you should read the Best Exercises to Lose Weight Quickly. I hope you will lose weight and become healthier. I wish you good luck.
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I must admit that fad diets are diets for quick weight loss. If you want to lose weight quickly, regardless of the consequences, a fad diet will please you with the short term results you will get. The main reason why I am so against fad diets is the super fast weight gain that follow them.
You see, after you go off the fad diet you gain all the lost weight back, plus a little more. Your metabolism slows down when you starve yourself. A slow metabolism makes any future weight loss very hard and painful. Not an experience you would like to go through, trust me.
The are healthy diets. You won’t lose weight as fast as with a fad diet using a healthy diet though. So why are healthy diets the ? Well because once you lose weight you won’t put it back ever again. Healthy diets help you form good eating habits that will keep you slimmer forever. That way you save lots of time and the dreaded weight loss yo-yo effect.
A good healthy diet is one rich in fresh organically grown fruits and vegetables. I bet you aren’t eating that much veggies and fruits. If you want to lose weight in a healthy way you should start right now.
Please eat the fruits and vegetables as raw as possible. Deep fried vegetables aren’t that healthy of friendly with your waistline. Fruitcakes and tarts also don’t count as fruits. Eat fruits and vegetables as mother nature provides them to us: raw, tasty and refreshing. There are plenty of salads you can make to satisfy your taste and appetite.
Don’t thing that having a healthy diet is about becoming a vegetarian. You can eat meat as long as it is cooked in a healthy way. The truth is your body needs meat to stay healthy and flourish. But don’t eat deep fried meat or meat cooked in huge amounts of fat. Eat grilled or boiled meat. Your body will thank you and you will start losing weight quick.
Losing weight isn’t about depriving yourself. On the contrary, it is about giving your body all the nutrients, vitamins and minerals it needs to function properly. If you give your body all the resources it needs it will start burning off all the excess fat. Why would it keep excess energy supplies when it gets all the energy it needs each and every day.
There isn’t a best healthy weight loss diet. You will have to find your way. Everybody is unique, with unique needs and desires. You should make your own healthy diet plan. Choose healthy foods that you enjoy eating and create your own healthy weight loss diet. That way you make sure you will enjoy dieting for the rest of your life, eating lots of healthy foods daily.
Just eating healthy foods isn’t going to make you lose lots of weight fast. The can’t do that. You will have to exercise and become more physically active. To get some good starter tips you should read the Best Exercises to Lose Weight Quickly. I hope you will lose weight and become healthier. I wish you good luck.
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Thursday, May 6, 2010
How to Lose 50 Pounds Fast...This is for Men too!
If you want to lose 50 pound you have your work cut out for you. I won’t lie to you: it won’t be easy but the results are worth the struggle. Once you are 50 pounds lighter you will feel like brand new. Your health will be improved and you will look hotter.
The first thing you have to do if you want to lose 50 pounds is to stop eating fast food and sweets. Both are full of low quality calories that only harm your body and make you fatter. To lose 50 pounds you have to start eating a lot more healthier food. This might not sound like big deal, but trust me it is.
By eating only healthy food you will detox your body. Once you will flush all the toxins away your body will start automatically burning more calories. To help you body get rid of all the toxins start drinking lots of water. 12 cups of water should be the norm. That way you will clean your kidneys and liver. Plus you won’t feel as hungry all the time.
Did you know that your brain mistakes thirst with hunger. In 70% of cases when you feel hungry you are actually thirsty. So give your body all the water it needs and you will lose 50 pounds fast. A good idea is to drink a glass of water each and every time you feel hungry. If after 15 minutes you still feel hungry you know it is genuine hunger.
Make sure you don’t feel hungry for too long. I know this might sound counterintuitive, but starving yourself will only make you fatter. The key to losing 50 pounds is eating lots of small meals. That way you will be able to control your cravings and insatiable appetite. Whenever you feel hungry go and eat some healthy food. Make sure you don’t overeat. Regardless what kind of food you eat, overeating will make you fatter. Learn to listen to your body and stop when you are full.
I have been talking about healthy food for some time now, but what exactly is healthy food? Well healthy food is in my opinion organic and whole food. You have to eat lots of organic grown fruits and vegetables to lose 50 pounds. This is the kind of food your body is genetically used to receive and process.
Don’t worry you can still eat meat, as long as it is the right kind of meat. You can eat all the fish and sea fruits you like, as long as you don’t deep fry them. You can grill the fish or boil it. Grilled is a much tastier solution, trust me. You can also eat boiled or grilled lean meats. Chicken meat, especially the breast is a fabulous diet choice.
A great way to make the boiled meat much tastier is by making vegetable soups, which also contain meat. You get to eat meat, vegetables and drink lots of water. What can be more healthier than that. Just don’t add any fats to the soups.
Besides eating healthy food you also have to start exercising if you want to lose 50 pounds. Exercising isn’t something you can pass. You have to exercise to lose weight, especially if you want to lose a lot of weight.
You don’t have to start by doing complex workouts. Take it slow and build momentum. In fact your health might stop you from exercising too much. Go to a doctor to get his opinion before starting exercising seriously.
A great way to get more exercise is walking. Walking isn’t considered a form of exercising but it is. Think about it this way. You are hauling with you an extra 50 pounds. Walking with all that extra weight is bound to work out your muscles and get you fitter. As you lose weight you can start doing other types of exercises to compensate for the ever decreasing difficulty of walking.
The best way to make sure you will stay motivated to exercise is to start practicing a sport you like or you have always wanted to try. Find a good supporting group of people who enjoy the same type of physical activity and have fun. Who says exercising has to be boring.
These are just some basic tips to help you get started. To lose 50 pounds you will have to be determined and optimistic. For more information and weight loss tips that will help you lose weight fast check out the other articles found on this website.
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The first thing you have to do if you want to lose 50 pounds is to stop eating fast food and sweets. Both are full of low quality calories that only harm your body and make you fatter. To lose 50 pounds you have to start eating a lot more healthier food. This might not sound like big deal, but trust me it is.
By eating only healthy food you will detox your body. Once you will flush all the toxins away your body will start automatically burning more calories. To help you body get rid of all the toxins start drinking lots of water. 12 cups of water should be the norm. That way you will clean your kidneys and liver. Plus you won’t feel as hungry all the time.
Did you know that your brain mistakes thirst with hunger. In 70% of cases when you feel hungry you are actually thirsty. So give your body all the water it needs and you will lose 50 pounds fast. A good idea is to drink a glass of water each and every time you feel hungry. If after 15 minutes you still feel hungry you know it is genuine hunger.
Make sure you don’t feel hungry for too long. I know this might sound counterintuitive, but starving yourself will only make you fatter. The key to losing 50 pounds is eating lots of small meals. That way you will be able to control your cravings and insatiable appetite. Whenever you feel hungry go and eat some healthy food. Make sure you don’t overeat. Regardless what kind of food you eat, overeating will make you fatter. Learn to listen to your body and stop when you are full.
I have been talking about healthy food for some time now, but what exactly is healthy food? Well healthy food is in my opinion organic and whole food. You have to eat lots of organic grown fruits and vegetables to lose 50 pounds. This is the kind of food your body is genetically used to receive and process.
Don’t worry you can still eat meat, as long as it is the right kind of meat. You can eat all the fish and sea fruits you like, as long as you don’t deep fry them. You can grill the fish or boil it. Grilled is a much tastier solution, trust me. You can also eat boiled or grilled lean meats. Chicken meat, especially the breast is a fabulous diet choice.
A great way to make the boiled meat much tastier is by making vegetable soups, which also contain meat. You get to eat meat, vegetables and drink lots of water. What can be more healthier than that. Just don’t add any fats to the soups.
Besides eating healthy food you also have to start exercising if you want to lose 50 pounds. Exercising isn’t something you can pass. You have to exercise to lose weight, especially if you want to lose a lot of weight.
You don’t have to start by doing complex workouts. Take it slow and build momentum. In fact your health might stop you from exercising too much. Go to a doctor to get his opinion before starting exercising seriously.
A great way to get more exercise is walking. Walking isn’t considered a form of exercising but it is. Think about it this way. You are hauling with you an extra 50 pounds. Walking with all that extra weight is bound to work out your muscles and get you fitter. As you lose weight you can start doing other types of exercises to compensate for the ever decreasing difficulty of walking.
The best way to make sure you will stay motivated to exercise is to start practicing a sport you like or you have always wanted to try. Find a good supporting group of people who enjoy the same type of physical activity and have fun. Who says exercising has to be boring.
These are just some basic tips to help you get started. To lose 50 pounds you will have to be determined and optimistic. For more information and weight loss tips that will help you lose weight fast check out the other articles found on this website.
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
The Lemonade Diet for the Master Cleanse
The lemonade diet isn’t a quick weight loss diet. It is a part of the Master Cleanse diet, in fact it is the most important part. The sole purpose of the lemonade diet is that of helping your body detox itself. With the help of the special lemonade you achieve a total body cleanse.
WARNING: many recommend you do the lemonade diet for at least 10 days. I have read in some places recommendations for 40 days. That is crazy in my opinion. You don’t need all that time to flush most of the toxins from your body. I believe that 3 days is more than enough, and if you can make it you are a true dieting hero.
You see during the lemonade diet all you are allowed to eat, better said drink, is lemonade. You make the lemonade from maple syrup, cayenne peppers, pure water and of course lemon juice. That is all you eat during the lemon diet. As you can see it is going to be a good test of willpower.
You have to drink the lemonade at least 10 times a day. Each serving is made out of 2 tablespoons of fresh lemon juice, 2 tablespoons of organic maple syrup, 1/10 teaspoon of red hot peppers and 1 cup of purified water. Mix all the ingredients well and drink it. Each drink contains roughly 100 calories, so you can establish your daily caloric intake to whatever level you wish. All you have to do is drink more or less lemonade. Please don’t go under 1000 calories each day.
While on the lemon diet you should make sure to drink lots of water too. It will help speed up the cleansing process. But you shouldn’t drink more water than the amount of lemonade you drink each day.
In my opinion, if you truly want to detox your body you should do it as follows:
-for 3 days before the lemonade diet eat only organic vegetables and fruits. It doesn’t matter how much of them you eat as long as you eat just vegetables and fruits. Also drink plenty of water. Your body will start flushing out all the toxins gradually.-then for 3 days go on the lemonade diet. In this phase you will eliminate even more toxins because all the processes are already started by the 3 day preparation phase.
You should make sure to keep the lemonade diet during the weekend. By staying at home you can avoid many complications due to the lack of energy. If at any time you start feeling ill stop the diet and eat something. Fruits and veggies are great.-for 3 days after the lemonade diet eat only fruits and vegetables. In the last day you can throw in some light meat too. Some grilled fish is awesome, and it goes nice with steamed vegetables.
After the diet is over start eating fatty meats and fatty foods gradually. Don’t go out and order the biggest meal. Your stomach won’t be too happy.
If you cannot hold the lemonade diet for 3 days, try it for just 1 day. You will still benefit from it. The master cleanse is a detoxification plan but you will also lose some weight. Isn’t that good news. But I advise you not to use the lemonade diet as a way of losing weight. You will only harm your body. In fact you shouldn’t go on the lemonade diet more than twice a year. Make sure there is at least a gap of 3 months between each time you keep the lemonade diet.
If you want to lose weight, detoxing your body is a great start. After that you have to go on a healthy diet and follow a good exercise plan to lose weight. For more information read about the lemon detox diet.
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WARNING: many recommend you do the lemonade diet for at least 10 days. I have read in some places recommendations for 40 days. That is crazy in my opinion. You don’t need all that time to flush most of the toxins from your body. I believe that 3 days is more than enough, and if you can make it you are a true dieting hero.
You see during the lemonade diet all you are allowed to eat, better said drink, is lemonade. You make the lemonade from maple syrup, cayenne peppers, pure water and of course lemon juice. That is all you eat during the lemon diet. As you can see it is going to be a good test of willpower.
You have to drink the lemonade at least 10 times a day. Each serving is made out of 2 tablespoons of fresh lemon juice, 2 tablespoons of organic maple syrup, 1/10 teaspoon of red hot peppers and 1 cup of purified water. Mix all the ingredients well and drink it. Each drink contains roughly 100 calories, so you can establish your daily caloric intake to whatever level you wish. All you have to do is drink more or less lemonade. Please don’t go under 1000 calories each day.
While on the lemon diet you should make sure to drink lots of water too. It will help speed up the cleansing process. But you shouldn’t drink more water than the amount of lemonade you drink each day.
In my opinion, if you truly want to detox your body you should do it as follows:
-for 3 days before the lemonade diet eat only organic vegetables and fruits. It doesn’t matter how much of them you eat as long as you eat just vegetables and fruits. Also drink plenty of water. Your body will start flushing out all the toxins gradually.-then for 3 days go on the lemonade diet. In this phase you will eliminate even more toxins because all the processes are already started by the 3 day preparation phase.
You should make sure to keep the lemonade diet during the weekend. By staying at home you can avoid many complications due to the lack of energy. If at any time you start feeling ill stop the diet and eat something. Fruits and veggies are great.-for 3 days after the lemonade diet eat only fruits and vegetables. In the last day you can throw in some light meat too. Some grilled fish is awesome, and it goes nice with steamed vegetables.
After the diet is over start eating fatty meats and fatty foods gradually. Don’t go out and order the biggest meal. Your stomach won’t be too happy.
If you cannot hold the lemonade diet for 3 days, try it for just 1 day. You will still benefit from it. The master cleanse is a detoxification plan but you will also lose some weight. Isn’t that good news. But I advise you not to use the lemonade diet as a way of losing weight. You will only harm your body. In fact you shouldn’t go on the lemonade diet more than twice a year. Make sure there is at least a gap of 3 months between each time you keep the lemonade diet.
If you want to lose weight, detoxing your body is a great start. After that you have to go on a healthy diet and follow a good exercise plan to lose weight. For more information read about the lemon detox diet.
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010
A Lower Calorie Diet Helps Strengthen Your Immune System
It seems that low calorie diets don’t only help you lose weight. A recent 6 month study made by the Agricultural Research Service proved that a low calorie diet helps strengthen the immune system. The volunteers who followed the low calorie diet had a better immune response at the end of the study.
For the first time there has been established a clear link between cutting calories and the immune system of us humans. This is great news for all those who are looking to lose weight. Now you have more motives to go through with your weight loss plan. Who doesn’t want a better health. By losing weigh you don’t only get to look hot, you also get to drastically cut your health bills.
Simin Nikbin is the lead researcher of the study and the director of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University in Boston, Mass. This study is just a small part of a bigger one on the long-term effects of lowering calorie intake in humans. The purpose of the study is that of finding ways to reduce the decline rate of the human immune system as we age.
The inspiration for this study come from observing a boost in the immune response of animals who were on a low calorie diet. From that to doing research on the effects of a low calorie diet on humans was just a step.
46 volunteers were used in the study, all of them being overweight, not obese. They were aged between 20 and 40 years. The study split them into two groups, one following a diet with 30% less calories and the other a diet with 10% less calories.
The scientist monitored many immune markers, the most important of which is the DTH skin test. The DTH skin test offers a good measurement of the immune response in humans at a whole body level. In both groups there was recorded an increased response in the proliferation of T-cells and DTH test.
The conclusion of this short term study was that by following a lower calorie diet you get a better functioning of the T-cells of the body. For more details you should check out the Journal of Gerontology, Biological Sciences.
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For the first time there has been established a clear link between cutting calories and the immune system of us humans. This is great news for all those who are looking to lose weight. Now you have more motives to go through with your weight loss plan. Who doesn’t want a better health. By losing weigh you don’t only get to look hot, you also get to drastically cut your health bills.
Simin Nikbin is the lead researcher of the study and the director of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University in Boston, Mass. This study is just a small part of a bigger one on the long-term effects of lowering calorie intake in humans. The purpose of the study is that of finding ways to reduce the decline rate of the human immune system as we age.
The inspiration for this study come from observing a boost in the immune response of animals who were on a low calorie diet. From that to doing research on the effects of a low calorie diet on humans was just a step.
46 volunteers were used in the study, all of them being overweight, not obese. They were aged between 20 and 40 years. The study split them into two groups, one following a diet with 30% less calories and the other a diet with 10% less calories.
The scientist monitored many immune markers, the most important of which is the DTH skin test. The DTH skin test offers a good measurement of the immune response in humans at a whole body level. In both groups there was recorded an increased response in the proliferation of T-cells and DTH test.
The conclusion of this short term study was that by following a lower calorie diet you get a better functioning of the T-cells of the body. For more details you should check out the Journal of Gerontology, Biological Sciences.
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Monday, May 3, 2010
There Are More Obese Americans Than Previously Thought
Obesity is on the rise. We all hear this form the media. But did you know that the American system of measuring the level of obesity is wrong. In fact if a more accurate system would be used the number of obese people would more likely double over the night.
You see the US guidelines for determining who is obese and who is just overweight is the body mass index or BMI. The body mass index checks to see how proportional a person’s height is to their weight. This unfortunately isn’t that accurate. A more accurate measurement of obesity can be achieved by using the World Health Organization guidelines which use the body fat analysis.
For example in the case of women of reproductive age found obese using the body fat analysis system of classification only half of those were considered obese according to their BMI score. This has huge ramifications on the health care received by the obese people considered not obese by the system.
Obese people have a higher risk of getting various cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and many more excess fat related health problems. They should receive special care in hospitals and from their personal physicians.
I believe that by using a more accurate system for measuring the degree of obesity people will get more motivated to lose weight and get healthier. It’s one thing when your doctor says you are overweight and another when he tells you are obese. I know that being called obese would put a lot of people on the move towards a slimmer future.
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You see the US guidelines for determining who is obese and who is just overweight is the body mass index or BMI. The body mass index checks to see how proportional a person’s height is to their weight. This unfortunately isn’t that accurate. A more accurate measurement of obesity can be achieved by using the World Health Organization guidelines which use the body fat analysis.
For example in the case of women of reproductive age found obese using the body fat analysis system of classification only half of those were considered obese according to their BMI score. This has huge ramifications on the health care received by the obese people considered not obese by the system.
Obese people have a higher risk of getting various cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and many more excess fat related health problems. They should receive special care in hospitals and from their personal physicians.
I believe that by using a more accurate system for measuring the degree of obesity people will get more motivated to lose weight and get healthier. It’s one thing when your doctor says you are overweight and another when he tells you are obese. I know that being called obese would put a lot of people on the move towards a slimmer future.
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Sunday, May 2, 2010
Men Who Want to Lose Weight- Organic Food Makes You Overeat!
In this week’s Experimental Biology conference held in Anaheim, Calif it was revealed that organic labeled foods make overeat. It seems that the effect of the organic label is the same as the effect of the low fat label.
People who see the organic label think it is ok to eat more of the healthy food. But it doesn’t matter how healthy a food is. If you eat too much of it you will get fat and harm your body. This is due to the way organic food is perceived.
According to a study people think that organic labeled food contains 40% less calories than the same food without the organic label. The study was conducted by giving people organic cookies and asking them how many calories they thought the cookie contained. All of the participants underestimated the caloric contents of the organic cookies. This will make it easier for them to justify overeating.
The study also revealed the two major personality types that would fall prey to such a trap. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw that the people who tended the most to make these low estimates were in fact those that usually buy organic food and those that usually read the label for nutritional information. It seems that in this case believing all food equally fattening is a better way to go.
If you think about it the study is right. Home baked cookies made out of organic ingredients are still cookies. They still contain a huge amount of calories and sugar. So seeing the organic label doesn’t instantly mean it is a weight loss friendly food.
The only organic foods that could be consumed without restriction are fresh fruits and vegetables. But even overeating fruits and vegetables can sometimes reduce the effectiveness of your weight loss plan. The best thing you could do is to just avoid overeating if you want to lose weight or avoid gaining weight, regardless how healthy a food claims to be.
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People who see the organic label think it is ok to eat more of the healthy food. But it doesn’t matter how healthy a food is. If you eat too much of it you will get fat and harm your body. This is due to the way organic food is perceived.
According to a study people think that organic labeled food contains 40% less calories than the same food without the organic label. The study was conducted by giving people organic cookies and asking them how many calories they thought the cookie contained. All of the participants underestimated the caloric contents of the organic cookies. This will make it easier for them to justify overeating.
The study also revealed the two major personality types that would fall prey to such a trap. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw that the people who tended the most to make these low estimates were in fact those that usually buy organic food and those that usually read the label for nutritional information. It seems that in this case believing all food equally fattening is a better way to go.
If you think about it the study is right. Home baked cookies made out of organic ingredients are still cookies. They still contain a huge amount of calories and sugar. So seeing the organic label doesn’t instantly mean it is a weight loss friendly food.
The only organic foods that could be consumed without restriction are fresh fruits and vegetables. But even overeating fruits and vegetables can sometimes reduce the effectiveness of your weight loss plan. The best thing you could do is to just avoid overeating if you want to lose weight or avoid gaining weight, regardless how healthy a food claims to be.
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