Friday, 24 December 2010

Ways To Lose Fat Off Your Belly - These 2 Simple Tips Will Help You Burn Away Fat Lightning Fast!

Have you been searching for some of the best and most natural ways to lose fat off your belly quickly, easily, and permanently? Here are 2 simple tips that you can use starting today!
1. Drink More Green Tea - According to several studies (including one from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition), drinking at least 1-2 cups of green tea daily can help you burn up to 45% more calories every day. What I recommend for you to do is to drink REAL green tea (which you can tell by if it mentions it is natural tea leaves), and I also recommend that you avoid sweetening it. Green tea tastes just fine without any sweetener at all. But, if you need to add some flavor to it, I recommend either using stevia (the most natural alternative to sugar) or a little lemon juice.
2. Add Spices To Your Foods - Did you know that spicy foods can increase your metabolism by up to 25%... and you don't need a lot of spicy foods to make it happen? It's true! What I recommend for you to do is to include spices such as cayenne pepper and cinnamon to your meals not just for flavor, but to also help skyrocket your metabolic rate!
BONUS TIP: If you want to lose fat off your belly quickly, then what goes in your belly is of the most importance. Therefore, what I recommend that you do is place your primary focus on proper nutrition. This means that taking diet pills, JUST exercising, or doing some type of restrictive fad diet is just not going to work in order to remove stubborn fat fast. Making sure that your nutrition is in check is what will bring about an amazing body quicker, easier, and more consistent than you ever thought possible.
Proper nutrition consists of getting at least 4 meals daily (you must eat frequently to keep your digestive system active and also boost your metabolism), eating the right nutrients, and eating in the right pattern.
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Monday, 25 October 2010

ENJOY YOUR FOOD - GREAT TIPS FOR WEIGHTLOSS

Are you tired of the fad diets?
Are you tired of the yoyo diets?
Do you think you are depriving yourself of your favourite food?
Do you want to look healthy?

If yes, here are some tips
  • Then just enjoy your food in small portions. 
  • Have a good breakfast.
  • Drink a lot of water
  • If possible drink herb tea - like gree tea
  • Eat fruits inbetween meals
  • Have smaller portions 
  • Just take time to enjoy your food - don't rush through it
  • Give yourself a treat once a while
  • Most importantly, think healthy and not slim.

Thursday, 19 August 2010

Life Changing Weight Loss Tips

Have you considered what life changing weight loss would do for your life? Would you feel more confident, more attractive, more energetic and happier? Of course you would. Being over weight is no fun. So here are some life changing weight loss tips.
1. Stay away from processed foods; such as, breads, white rice, flour and sugar. These have been milled and processed so much that all the nutritional value has been stripped out and they are high in empty calories.
2. Stay away from fried foods. Replace potato chips and fried chicken with skinless grilled chicken, salad, vegetables and fruits. Eat a normal portion and stop when you begin to feel full.
3. Start the day out with a good healthy breakfast. It is the most important meal of the day to get your metabolism to start burning fat. Drinking an 8 ounce glass of grapefruit juice helps to speed up your metabolism.
4. Eat 5-6 meals a day instead of eating 2-3 large meals. This will show your brain that there is no shortage of food and help speed up your metabolism and again, start burning fat. This will go along way to helping you in your life changing weight loss.
5. Do not eat anything after 8:00 at night. Your metabolism slows down at night and anything you eat will be stored as fat in your body.
6. Drink plenty of water. Water helps to flush out your system, but it also helps to move the nutrients through your body to where they are needed most. Stay away from sodas and beer.
Life changing weight loss is achievable by following these couple of tips, but you have to really want weight loss to succeed. Stay motivated and you will watch the fat burn off your body.

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Tuesday, 27 July 2010

A HEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS DIET


What to look for in a healthy weight loss diet?
HEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS DIET
There are so many different types of diets found on television, in magazines, and online these days that it can be quite confusing when the time comes to try one. If you have come to the conclusion that you need to lose a few pounds and you want to try a diet you should make sure it contains a few simple characteristics. Do not be swayed by misinformation. Choosing a diet to follow should contain a healthy balance of the following ingredients.
WATER:
No matter what type of diet you choose to follow it should contain a healthy dose of water. Water provides many different bodily functions which are too numerous to go into. However, one thing is for certain, by drinking plenty of water throughout the day you will greatly increase your chances of losing weight. Water will give you the energy you need to keep your metabolism high and burn many calories as you go about your normal activities. Also, by drinking an adequate amount of water with meals and in between you will help your body feel fuller and in turn you will eat less. This is one of the things you can do to lose weight easy.
THE RIGHT BALANCE:
Another thing to look at in a diet is how balanced it is. A good healthy diet should be centered on a variety of low-fat foods across many spectrums. Fad diets which have you eat one thing for every meal of the day are never good for you. They may work for a very short amount of time, but this is usually because they are starving your body of nutrients. By eating a variety of low fat foods you guarantee your body receives the vitamins and minerals that it needs to function properly. If you do not believe you are receiving enough vitamins in the foods you are eating it is wise to use supplements to help fortify the vitamins and minerals you are receiving.
HEALTHY SNACKING:
Snacking is often looked at as bad when you are dieting; however, many times this is often wrong. Snacking is usually bad because people tend to choose bad foods to snack on. There are a lot of great healthy foods which are low in calories and low in fat which make terrific snacks. By enjoying these foods in small portions, you can greatly reduce the amount of calories you ingest during regular meal times. An easy way to accomplish this is to indulge in healthy snacking, keep a fruit bowl full of washed fruit. These are fast and easy snacks and are much healthier than anything you will find in the snack food aisle of the supermarket.
FOLLOW A FITNESS REGIME:
Finally, no weight loss diet plan would be complete without the addition of some form of aerobic exercise. Exercise will not only help you burn off excess calories but will also increase your heart health. You do not need to join an expensive gym or buy some piece of equipment featured on television. Simply going for a nice brisk walk once a day will do wonders for your diet plan. Combine all of these tips and you are almost assuredly guaranteed of losing weight no matter what weight loss diet you participate in.
WHAT ARE YOUR VIEWS?
We have listed few points above to make a healthy weight loss diet, what are your views on this? Do you want to add some more points to the above list in case we have missed some, please go ahead and add them by submitting your comments below.
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010

TIPS TO GET SIX PACK ABS


TIPS TO GET SIX PACK ABS

TIPS TO GET SIX PACK ABS
TIPS TO GET SIX PACK ABS
For men, losing the proverbial beer belly as a result of drinking or leading a sedentary lifestyle is always a challenge. For some women, losing the excess fat that they have gained in their stomach after giving birth, for example, is even more difficult.
What makes developing six pack abs such a challenge – even for professional bodybuilders – is the fact that the abdominal area is a pretty difficult muscle group to target. In the same vein, as people age, losing the excess fat that you have on your stomach becomes a bit more difficult, although not impossible.
TIPS TO GET YOUR ABS IN TIP TOP SHAPE:So what are you supposed to do if you would like to have ripped, sexy, developed muscles in the abdominal area? The key is to combine exercise with a healthier lifestyle. To help you achieve your goal, here are the top six tips to get six pack abs:
(1). Unlearn the myths that you have about how to develop six pack abs.
Over the years, how many words of wisdom about developing six pack abs have you learned? One of the most common is that you have to slave away in the gym doing endless repetitions of crunches if you want to develop six pack abs.  Sure, it does help to perform crunches to have lean, ripped abs, but that’s not all there is to it.
Other existing myths about six pack abs is that you cannot get it because of your genes; you need to workout everyday in order to have it; or that you cannot develop six pack abs without the help of a specific abs exercise equipment. Genes don’t have anything to do with developing six pack abs. Also, those pricey abs exercise equipments being sold on television might help in some way, but they are not necessarily the sole key to getting six pack abs.
(2). Work on losing the excess fat in your belly first.
This is actually the number one rule that you need to follow if you wish to develop six pack abs.  You cannot achieve such goal without ‘uncovering’ the muscles in your belly first, something which can be achieved by losing the fat in this area.
(3). Know which exercises target the muscles in your abdomen.
After getting rid of the fat in your belly, now comes the time to start targeting the muscles in your abdomen. Using a home gym system, you can perform muscle building exercises which target the abs like crunches, leg lifts, lying hip raise, raised leg crunches, leg cycles and cross crunch.
Rather than breaking your neck doing the classic sit-ups, performing crunches is a much better idea. For this, you need to lie flat on the floor and using your abs and buttocks, lift your feet up as high as you can. Lower your legs without letting your buttocks touch the floor – and repeat the exercise. No matter which of the aforementioned muscle building exercises it is that you will perform, make sure to take on the proper posture from the beginning to the end of the exercise to experience maximum results.
(4). Perform cardio and aerobic exercise in addition to the targeted abs exercises.
In addition to the abs-targeting exercises, you should also keep your heart healthy by doing cardio exercises and complete body workout like aerobic exercises. This is bound to get your blood pumping while keeping your muscles taut.
(5). Take plenty of rest in between workouts.
Did you know that it is actually during the time of rest in between workouts that your muscles literally grow? To help keep your stomach muscles tight and ripped, make sure to get plenty of rest in between workouts.
(6). Increase the protein content in your diet.
Lastly, protein is the primary component of maintaining muscle mass which also boosts your metabolism – so this will help greatly in letting you achieve your goal of developing ripped, six pack abs.
HOW DID YOU FIND THE ABOVE TIPS?
We have listed some very useful, tried and tested tips to get six pack abs. How did you find them? If you have some more tips which you feel are helpful in building six pack abs please put them here by way of your comments. We would be happy to receive your useful comments on the subject.
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Movement for Pleasure


Exercise has always been associated with dieting or losing weight rather than emphasizing the benefits of exercise on health and fitness. Health and fitness benefits from exercise is rather a new way of thinking about exercise and, where in the past, people were advised to exercise fiercely, join a gym, workout with weights, more spontaneous forms of exercising are now an acceptable alternative and easier to fit into people’s busy 21st century lives.
Clinicians are now advocating a love of movement to benefit both mental and physical health, taking a more holistic attitude to keeping fit.
So, where do you start? Nobody is advocating joining a gym. For one thing they are expensive and, for another, it takes commitment to keep going and you have to find time in your day to go. Hot and sweaty is for the athletic – those svelte young things who really do not need to be reading this! Any kind of activity counts as exercise. Take the dog for a 10-minute walk. The dog will thank you and you will be achieving your goal. Find your nearest country park or disused railway track that has been reallocated as a cycleway. You don’t need to be particularly fit as the disused railway tracks are completely flat. If you run out of puff, get off your bike and walk for a bit.
Gardening is always a good exercise. You pick a nice day and start pottering about the garden and, before you know it, you have got stuck in. After digging away all afternoon, your muscles might ache a bit, but your mind will feel much more alert. You could, of course, visit your nearest indoor climbing center. These are springing up all over the place, in disused churches, and other locations. You don’t have to be a climbing guru to get started and each center has a women’s group, a men’s group and even a children’s group. Learning to climb is extremely good exercise and you can learn from scratch at one of the many beginners’ courses. In fact, you don’t even have to have a head for heights as the beginners’ climbing walls are not particularly high. It is, however, tremendous fun – and good exercise. If you do, by any chance, find an enthusiastic streak, you can always hire an exercise video from the library or go and buy one. However, a word of caution: hiring the video will not count as exercise – you do have to actually use it!
If you prefer to keep your feet firmly on the ground, join a dance class: line dancing, ballroom dancing or, if you have the energy, contemporary dancing – or, just go bowling. All of these activities are valid exercise strategies and all will help you to become fitter and develop morestamina if you become involved and incorporate an interesting health and fitness regime into your daily life.
GROUP DISCUSSION
Group discussion is a way to self educate ourselves. It’s always healthy to discuss a topic and share your view point with others, this makes a win – win situation for everyone. Please discuss and put your comments on the subject.
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If you prefer to keep your feet firmly on the ground, join a dance class: line dancing, ballroom dancing or, if you have the energy, contemporary dancing – or, just go bowling. All of these activities are valid exercise strategies and all will help you to become fitter and develop morestamina if you become involved and incorporate an interesting health and fitness regime into your daily life.
GROUP DISCUSSION
Group discussion is a way to self educate ourselves. It’s always healthy to discuss a topic and share your view point with others, this makes a win – win situation for everyone. Please discuss and put your comments on the subject.
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Tuesday, 13 July 2010

The 2010 World Cup Finals and Your Weight Loss Program

As the World Cup 2010 tournament concludes in South Africa, I would have to say that I enjoy the competition and overall pageantry of the tournament. There are several memorable moments including Donovan's miraculous last second goal against Algeria, the defending champion Italy being eliminated early, Spain winning their first World Cup,and those loud horns that do not stop blowing.
Just like the Olympics, these World Cup tournaments happen only once every four years. But, in order to win or even be a part of the tournament, there is a lot happening years before the tournament begins. Your physical fitness and weight loss program is the same thing (but it does not have to take four years to achieve results). Most people will result the end results but a lot happened to make those results happen. Many of the players who are playing in this year's World Cup did not even play in the last one (or in some cases, they were still kids). There were hours and hours of conditioning and practice where no one is cheering. At the World Cup, you can hear the cheers and sneers. But, long before you can those cheers and sneers, you have to hear your own self-talk, your teammates, and your coaches pushing you to perform and to have the team qualify for the World Cup. The World Cup does not happen every four years. It happens every day for these athletes.
Most people will fall into the trap that a weight loss program is a single event. Instead, those who have succeeded in losing weight and keeping it off know that it is a process not an event. The process (and not the event) is your weight loss program. We live in a society where wealth is decided (or people think that is decided) by winning a lottery (a single event) rather than a process of earning and saving (more than you spend). This is very important to know the difference between you achieving your weight loss goals or simply arriving at your weight loss goals (not possible). This is a difference between reality and fantasy. You can win at your weight loss goals by going through the process of winning your victories such as exercising today, eating properly today, and other choices. Check out my other articles on exercise and weight loss. There are tips and reviews on exercise and other ideas that you can do to achieve your physical fitness and weight loss goals.
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Monday, 12 April 2010

WEIGHT LOSS: WATER INCREASES METABOLISM


Weight loss is directly related to your metabolism. To kick start yourmetabolism and trigger weight loss, you just need a glass of waterevery morning, how simple it is! Isn’t it? It’s often believed that drinking warm water with lemon juice early morning helps lose weight. Some people even add honey to it. Lots of people believe in it and practice this regularly. But have you ever wondered that whether it really works or not, is there any logic behind it, which really helps inweight loss, though water has lots of benefits and lemon and honey also do have their health benefits, because they give vitamins, minerals etc., but there is no documented research that they help in weight loss.Drinking water increases metabolism.
Drinking water increases metabolism.

Recent research has shown that drinking 400 ml., that is about two medium glasses, of water early morning, just when you wake up, raises your metabolism significantly. This research shows water increases metabolism.
Most of our body processes use water as a medium, and without a constant supply of water our body machinery slows down during the night and when we drink water in the morning it again revives all body processes back to normal. This increases themetabolismof the body and it helps to burn more calories. Therefore even if we continue taking the same diet, exercise and have same level of activity each day, we can be assured of losing more number of calories, just by drinking water the moment we wake up in the morning.
Some people believe in taking luke warm or hot water, is it so? No, because to boost yourmetabolism you just need to drink water. With this you can expect burning more number of calories, though you continue to consume the same number of calories, because of increasedmetabolism by drinking water and you will lose some weight in short period of time.
Once your body gets used to this lifestyle, your weight loss will stagnate, now to maintain yourweight loss you have to adjust your exercise and activity levels. Get an advice from a weight loss expert and chart out an effective diet and workout plan for healthy weight loss.

Friday, 9 April 2010

Feel Good, Look Great In Time For Summer


If you've developed some unhealthy eating habits over the last few cold wintry months, here are four tips that will ease you back into a more healthy routine and have you in shape so you'll look good and feel great in time for that beach holiday or wedding you're planning in Summertime...
1. Audit your kitchen cupboards and the fridge! Don't allow temptation to get in the way. Instead stock up on nuts, seeds and fruits and veggies even some 70% or 85% chocolate so you're not denying yourself and when you fancy munching on something you'll have something healthy to hand. That way it's easier to achieve success because those biscuits at the back of the cupboard or the milk chocolate in the fridge won't be there to sabotage your plans.
2. Fill up on wholegrains and vegetables. Aim for 50% of your plate to be covered with green vegetables, eg, kale, broccoli, spring greens...whichever you like best! Then add 25% good quality protein and 25% wholegrains, eg, brown rice, buckwheat, quinoa etc...experiment and eat the ones you love. This combination will nourish your body and keep you feeling fuller for longer.
Tiredness and stress often lead to snacking, usually on foods that give us a quick fix like coffee and sugar so keep blood sugar levels stable with wholegrains, vegetables, good fats in oily fish and a variety of the best quality protein you can get your hands on including organic meat, quinoa, eggs, tofu and legumes such as chickpeas and kidney beans.
Green vegetables are great for crowding out cravings, cleansing the blood...and they're great for digestion so feel free to include a plentiful selection in every meal!
3. Get active! Make the most of it being lighter in the evenings by getting out and about. Maybe experiment with new forms of exercise that you haven't tried before. Book a new class at the gym, try some yoga or go for a walk, you'll feel more energized than ever!
4. Are you getting enough sleep? Often we get up in the morning feeling like we can't wait to get through the day so we can have bedtime all over again! Even one hours sleep a night can impact our performance during the day so try to get an extra hour in before midnight...you'll feel much better than if you try to sleep in.
It's often the tiniest tweaks that lead to the biggest results, and those are the ones you want...diets have been proven time and time again not to last and many people yo-yo through there lives.
Believe it or not when you put healthy foods into your body, your body will crave healthy foods...and you'll get to a point where you eat something you used to think was a treat, but suddenly it doesn't taste so good any more...that because our tastes buds change, and it doesn't even take so long, so it's well worth persevering.
Don't forget to anticipate the next milestone events too. Often holidays revolve around eating and drinking so plan them in advance so that your resolve stays strong. Don't forget the 90/10 principle on these occasions too...it means you can be good for 90% of the time, which leaves the other 10% for naughtiness!
See, no guilt required! Just little gentle tweaks that integrate easily into your lifestyle that will help you optimise your health all-round.
Look Good, Feel Great | Recipe idea
Butternut Squash Soup...
This lovely soup will fill you up and leave you feeling satisfied, plus the sweet flavour will naturally help crowd out sugar cravings.
Prep Time: Less than 10 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Servings: 4
Ingredients
2 tbsp olive oil
1 medium onion, diced
1 medium squash, cut into 1 inch pieces
1 large carrot, diced
1 stick celery, diced
1 tsp fresh tarragon, finely chopped
2 pints stock of your choice
Ground black pepper, to taste
Mixed sunflower, flax and pumpkin seeds to garnish
Here's what you do...
• Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan, then add the onion, celery and carrot and saute until they are just beginning to soften and the onion has turned translucent
• Add the squash and the tarragon
• Stir to combine with vegetables and then add the stock and seasoning to taste.
• Gently bring to the boil then reduce heat and simmer until the squash is tender, c20 minutes.
• Pour into a blender and liquidise until smoothe*
• Pour into bowls and sprinkle with the mixed seeds
Tip: This recipe freezes well, so it's worth making a bigger pot than you'll eat in a single meal and then you'll have a second batch ready and waiting when you're running around and there's no time to cook something healthy!
*Do take care when pouring hot liquids as if you're splashed, they can burn quickly.
See, no need to stress about your diet...just get a new Attitude to Food!
Sarah Lantry received her training at Integrative Nutrition in New York City. She is certified by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners, leads workshops on nutrition, and offers individual health and nutrition coaching to busy professionals and families.
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