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Quick Weight Loss Methods That Are Proven

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Posted by GreenTeaFan on February 17, 2009 – 8:00 pm
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There’s no doubt that many people need to lose a few pounds.  Walk around where people gather, you’ll notice the fat.  Don’t laugh.  Unfortunately you’re likely to see it in the mirror too.  If you’ve made quick weight loss your goal, keep these simple things in mind to lose the pounds quickly and safely.

Skipping meals is one of the first things people often try when they want to lose weight.  Hey, if eating fewer calories is the goal then why not skip breakfast or lunch.  Doesn’t weight loss come with eating less calories?  That’s correct but skipping meals isn’t the right way to reduce calories.  When you skip meals your body goes into starvation mode.  It starts to retain fat to counteract what it perceives as a shortage of food.  Another problem with skipping meals is that when you finally eat you’ll be a lot more hungry.  This could lead to binge eating.  Skipping meals is the worst of both worlds that results in gaining even more weight.  Don’t skip meals.

Know how much to eat.  Portion control is just as important as eating the right food.  Too much of even a healthy food will still result in weight gain.  It’s hard to do when large portions are so common.  Restaurants and even most people in home cooking serve portions far larger than needed.  Sources such as the FDA list recommended daily allowances.  If you must eat out, keep portion size in mind.  You’ll likely have to cut down on what a restaurant serves.

Eat more whole grain foods, skip the white grains such as white bread, sugar and white rice.  Whole grains are rich in nutrients and low in fat.  The fiber in whole grains will make you feel fuller quicker and longer.  Also whole grains contain many nutrients that are often lacking in people’s diets.

Drink more water.  Drink it instead of juices and sodas which add about 90,000 calories to the average person’s diet each year.  Drink it between meals too.  The goal is 8 glasses of water each day.  It’s easily possible.  Drinking water also promotes health in general by keeping you well hydrated and cool.

In order to maintain proper blood sugar eat healthy snacks between meals since the body needs food every three to four hours.  Healthy snacks also help control eating at meal times.

Quick weight loss isn’t impossible with a little knowledge and planning.  It won’t be long before you’re slimmer and trimmer.

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A Weight Loss Diet To Help You Lose Weight Quickly

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Posted by GreenTeaFan on February 16, 2009 – 2:09 am
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Still looking for the fastest weight loss program? Besides fasting and fad diets, both of which have their drawbacks, a calorie shifting diet may be the direction to go.

Calorie cycling or calorie shifting is quickly becoming a popular weight loss method. Bodybuilder and athletes have used the calorie shifting diet for years. They’ve done this so they could lose weight without sacrificing muscle strength. With calorie shifting you trick your body into staying in at a high metabolic rate even when. What makes calorie shifting so cool is it works for weight loss even if you don’t reduce the amount of calories you eat every day.

Here’s how it works.   Every day eat at the same times, but vary the nutrients and or calories consumed. This is an easy to do weight loss plan because it’s very simple and well thought out. There are a lot resources on the Internet that will give you a comprehensive analysis and what to eat to be successful with the calorie shifting diet. 

Of course there are cautions. This diet is not balanced an reduces the amount of calcium, fat and vegetables you consume. They are all needed for a body to be in good health. Calorie shifting was put together for extremely obese individuals whose only hope was medical intervention. In cases like this you would want a medical professional monitoring your progress.   That’s not true when used at home. A calorie shifting diet is a short term fast weight loss diet. Most people end up going back to the way they use to eat before they started the diet and end up fatter than they were before.

As with any diet, or really anything in life, moderation is required.   Calorie shifting is fine for a short time, but shouldn’t extend beyond a few days. You will want to be sure every thing is followed with an all around balanced eating and exercise program. When you’ve completed your short stint on the calorie shifting diet you won’t have to worry about gaining the weight back and losing all the ground you’ve gained.

It’s wise to diet for the long haul instead of thinking my diet is going to end in a week. Most bodybuilders do calorie shifting.   But the smart ones eat well all the time, using calorie shifting only in the last few days of training before a contest. Just like anyone, bodybuilder who eat wrong, over train, and take steroids suffer serious health issues. To be healthy you need to be smart about it otherwise you will end up constantly gaining and losing weight. The food you eat every day is your diet, diets are used to usually lose weight quickly and generally don’t last very long. You don’t want to do that because the quickest way to weight loss can also become the quickest way to gain it back again.

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Losing Weight With Subliminal Messages

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Posted by GreenTeaFan on February 13, 2009 – 6:48 pm
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Karma means 'action'. It does not mean fate or a life predetermined. Your body shape and weight is a legacy from your genetic parents but the body shape you have now is the result of your karma or the sum of many thousands of small decisions that you made and continuously make every day. Decisions like, what time you go to bed, what exercise you do (or not) first thing in the morning, what you have for breakfast, how you get to work and on and on and on.

Modern lifestyles are not conducive to losing weight. All the processed foods and ready meals have given us a large obesity crisis. It is really up to each and every individual to look to their own inner resources in order to lose weight and have a healthy life. City living and cars give us all a much less active liefstyle. We sit in offices and rest rooms too much. We head off to work and come back, and on a night all we do is sit around at home - in front of the tv or the computer.

We are no longer hunter-gatherers walking and running everywhere. Working hard to obtain seasonal food from the land. Our brains are still in hunter-gatherer mode while our world has developed into a technological candy store.

Your mindset shapes the life you lead and the actions that you choose, your karma. Much of the world now is out of your control BUT NOT YOUR BODY SHAPE. You have to balance your intake of food with your output of energy. The responsibility for this “Karma” is withiny in your unconscious and subconscious mind. Subliminal messaging on either a CD or MP3 can reinforce your attitude and guide you in the right direction without your conscious awareness – yes losing weight with subliminal messages really is possible!. You will be persuaded subliminally to make the best decisions for losing weight consistently and repeatedly.

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Lose Weight Fast

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Posted by GreenTeaFan on February 13, 2009 – 6:48 pm
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You have to wear that old dress or suit and now you have to lose weight fast?  While there are many ways to lose weight quickly, losing it too fast can be a shock to your body and thus a danger.  Fad diets, diet pills, extreme fasting and other fast weight loss methods may work but they can also cause you to lose muscle, counter productive to a long term weight loss program, and can cause damage to your heart and other internal organs.  Remember Fen-Fen?

Since losing weight is simply expending more calories than you take in, figure out exactly what you take in.  Keep a written record of every morsel, for at least a week.  Don’t cheat.  Cheating on this only harms you.  Now with the help of web sites like mypyramidtracker.gov figure out the calories in what you eat.

Once you have a list of all the calories you consume, look for ways to cut them.  One great way is to eat from a smaller plater.  Remember, most restaurants and even people at home serve portions that are far larger than they need to be.  There are a lot of other easy cuts that don’t significantly change what you eat.  Soda and juice, cake, cookies, butter, lose them.  The average American consumes 240 calories a day from juice and soda.  That’s 90,000 calories a year – 25 pounds!  Getting used to the healthy taste of a salad with a pinch of lemon juice makes a big difference.  End you consumption of white bread, sugar and carbs.  These are easily replaced in your diet – try whole wild rice.

An easy place to target for calorie cutting is the side dish.  This portion of the meal often holds more calories than the main course.  Replace these items with healthy alternatives such as steamed vegetables, cottage cheese, or salad (minus dressing.)

Build up some muscle to increase muscle mass and metabolism.  That leads to burning more calories even when sitting still.  Aerobic workouts are the key.  Many experts say to enjoy aerobic activity for 30 minutes a day 3-5 days a week.  Hog wash!.  Make it seven days a week, which means an activity you can sustain day after day for the rest of your life.

There’s the plan to lose weight fast.  Now get moving!

Do you need to shed a few pounds?   Find more info at Lose Weight Fast as well as Ways To Lose Weight Fast for fantastic diet ideas that actually work.

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Find Out the Truth About Weight Loss Supplements

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Posted by GreenTeaFan on December 24, 2008 – 10:42 pm
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Guess the amount of money spent on diet supplements each year?  It’s huge!

In total, it’s sixty billion dollars.  Think about how much this is!  There’s a lot of zeros in there!

This shows you two things.  First, a huge amount of people around the globe are hoping to lose weight.  Next, these people are so anxious to lose weight that they are willing to spend their cash as a way to try to speed up the results.

Unfortunately, a lot of these products are outright scams.  Usually these “scams” come in one of two forms.  Either the product simply doesn’t work, or the price of the product is way more than it should be.

For example, I was browsing through Costco the other night and found a diet product that was selling for 70 bucks.  It had a fancy label, great packaging and all kinds of promises about the results it can deliver.

What was in this magic pill?  Nothing more than green tea extract pills……

Now - green tea extract is thought to be somewhat helpful in the fight against weight loss, but there’s no way these pills are worth $70. 

In fact, I was able to find a bottle of pills with the IDENTICAL ingredients, but it was simply being sold as green tea extract and not as a weight loss product. 

How much was this one?  A whopping $6.99. 

Sadly, the people selling the expensive pills is simply taking advantage of overweight people’s emotions and pushing their product with aggressive marketing.  And unfortunately, many people fall for it.

And trust me, this pill alone will never give you a big jump in your weight loss plans.  It might help a touch, but it definately isn’t a miracle pill.

The best diet pills or best weight loss supplements won’t only contain one ingredient.  Seek out a product that contains a good number of different ingredients or herbs.  This provides you a variety of tools that it can use to drop the weight off.

Now, I don’t want you to read this and think that no pill is worth $69.99.  In fact, there are some great diet pills that are in this price range.  {However,But} I promise you that the good ones don’t just have one ingredient in them.

 

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