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Tips for Losing the Most Stubborn Pounds
Here are several tips that will help you shed that unwanted weight and create a more healthy and attractive figure. Increase Protein When you diet, keep your protein at 55% of your calories. This will help you maintain your muscle mass and keep your metabolism elevated. Eat low-fat protein sources like chicken breasts, egg whites, and fish.
Eat 75%
When you sit down to eat, look at your plate and leave 25%, eating only 75% and thereby cutting as many as 300 calories from every meal.
Lift Some Weights
Do a small 20 minute program of lifting weights twice a week along with cardiovascular exercise to build up muscle strength, replacing fat with muscle.
Move Around More
An obese person spends an average of 2.5 hours more daily in a chair than a thin person. Try walking back and forth while talking on a cell or cordless phone, use the steps rather than the elevator, and park farther away and walk to your destination.
Weigh Yourself Monthly
Don't weigh yourself too often and become discouraged by the up and down variations from day to day. Weigh yourself at the same time every month to better see long term trends in your weight.
Buy A Pedometer
This is a very accurate way to make sure you take at least 10,000 steps a day to help you reach and maintain your weight loss goals as you walk to do your various errands and activities.
Have Your Thyroid Tested
If you are adding weight, have joint and muscle aches, have unusual facial puffiness, or are unusually tired, this could be the sign of a sluggish thyroid slowing down your metabolism, causing weight gain. This can be remedied by taking the right medications.
Reduce Stress
When you are stressed, your adrenal gland generates the cortisol stress hormone, which increases your appetite and triggers release of the insulin fat-storing hormone, causing your body to hold onto fat, even if you are eating less.
But often, stress makes you overeat comfort foods like chocolate, ice cream, potato chips, cookies and donuts. Those high carbohydrate goodies raise your serotonin levels, boosting your mood in a form of self-medication. Salty snacks raise blood pressure, which also raises cortisol levels, contributing to a vicious cycle of overeating.
To break this cycle, you should set a fixed eating schedule and stick to it. Schedule your three meals and three snacks throughout the day so you always have something to eat every three or four hours. Savor every bite instead of gulping down too much before your brain tells you that you are full. Regular exercise and relaxing meditation can also relieve your stress.
About the Author
Mark Hogan has written over 50 articles in the health and weight loss fields. He reviews weight loss products and posts excellent articles on his web site http://www.WelcomeWeightLoss.com - info@welcomeweightloss.com
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Don't Let Your Gym Membership Go To Waste
I bought my first gym membership when I turned 19 years old. I chose a lifetime membership from a local canadian franchise. After all, I enjoyed going to the gym and all of my friends at that time went to the same one. I just knew I will be able to make use of it for the rest of my life. And what a sweet deal, I could just pay a maintenance fee of under $10 a month after the third year!
Statistics say that a gym membership is the least used membership. You pay your monthly dues every single month for what? So that when you are ready to get serious about losing weight that it will be there when you need it? A close friend of mine told me that this is why he still has a gym membership. He's been a member of the same gym for about 20 years and used it for 1/10th of the time.
Sounds familiar? A lot of people join fitness gyms for several reasons - to stay in shape, to lose weight and to have a healthy lifestyle. In my case, the gym rep was great in promising me a better, sexier body for less than a dollar a day. However, that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow just does not materialize on its own. You have to work hard at getting the desired results. Even the motivation of knowing that $30 is coming off my bank account every single month was not enough to get me using that gym as often as I should.
I have heard every excuse as to why people do not go to the gym even though they have a membership. Here's been some of mine:
I'm feeling lazy today
Really, I don't even have an hour to spare
I have to work
I just can't fit it in my schedule
I had to wait for a wake-up call in order to motivate me. I woke up one day at 180 pounds at 5'2". At this point, my weight problem really was not an issue anymore compared to the onset of depression and health issues. It was much more harder at this time to say I am going to the gym and I am going to make it work. But I did it. It's all because I decided that I need to invest time on me.
And it was great that I still had the lifetime membership....
Sure. We all lead busy lives. But let me ask you - why wait until you really need the lifetime membership? What prevents you from starting today? And I mean today. Not tomorrow. Go grab your organizer and start planning your next ten workout schedules. Invest time on yourself. After all, you only get once chance to live your life. Why not kick some ass while you are at it?
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How To Eat Less Chocolate
Chocolate contains important minerals, such as potassium and magnesium. It also contains vitamins B1, B2, D and E. It even contains antioxidants, substances that protect against cancer and old age. But let's not fool ourselves, you can get all these benefits in other foods: you don't have to eat chocolate to get these important nutrients. There's nothing wrong though with chocolate in moderation, but the key phrase here is 'in moderation', because unfortunately many people find it difficult to eat chocolate in moderation.
If you're one of these people, try taking a good zinc supplement. Many people find a regular intake of zinc, reduces their chocolate craving - you need to look for a zinc supplement that contains 10 mg to 15 mg of elemental zinc, and take one each day. Tea, coffee and alcohol interfere with the absorption of zinc, so make sure you leave a gap between taking your zinc supplement and drinking any of these.
Zinc is a vitally important nutrient, so taking it is likely to have other positive health benefits. Adequate levels of zinc are vital for the immune system, for general skin health, as well as for rapid healing of burns and wounds. Zinc is important for vision, and your senses of taste and smell. It has a role in fertility and prostate health.
Enjoying a small amount of chocolate with a high cocoa solid content ( preferably 65% or more) as part of a normal diet is, for most people, perfectly acceptable, but do not let the chocolate replace more nutrient-dense foods like fruit, vegetables, seeds and nuts.
About The Author:
Jane Thurnell-Read is an author and researcher on health, allergies and stress. She has written two books for the general public: "Allergy A to Z" and "Health Kinesiology. She also maintains a web site http://www.healthandgoodness.com with tips, inspiration and information for everyone who wants to live a happier, healthier life.
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Body For Life - Take The Diet Software Challenge
 
Computers and the internet has definitely made the process faster and quicker when we search for information on line. Anything related to diet you will guarantee to find. Have you considered all the possibilities that are available to you in your quest for the ideal body? When I first started the journey of losing weight three years ago, the best tool I have ever used (and I still swear by it) is a diet journal. I liked the idea of being able to monitor the progress of my diet and fitness regimen, knowing my daily calories burned, and being able to forecast how long it will take for me to accomplish my weight loss goal.
Diet softwares are a very good resource and tool in losing weight. There are so many to chose from and they can be downloaded right to your computer, or are internet based. If you haven't taken one out for a spin, then you are missing some good stuff that just makes dieting a lot more easier, and for most part, bearable. I have put together a list of software that's available for free, and those that provide free trial before paying for a membership based on popularity. I have not used everyone of them, so if you would like to comment on how it works for you, I am sure that other readers will find it useful.
Free To Download:
Recipe Manager - A free and easy-to-use Recipe Database Management System to assist you in organizing your recipes and help you in analysing the nutritional values of your meals. It contains large database of ingredients and their nutrient values (over 100 nutrient, micronutrient, mineral and vitamin).
Free Weight Tracker for Desktop PC 6.1 - The Weight Tracker simplifies weight data logging. The software automatically saves weight, relationship to the meal, time of the measurement, and general state of health.
myCoach Personal Trainer 1.2.1 - MyCoach personal trainer is a fitness application for athletes, geeks, people on diet, Use mycoach personal trainer to keep detailed records of workouts and personal measurements and results. View, Print, Analyze, Publish your results easily. Monitor your weight loss easily. Features Easy to use training plan browser to view your training plans. Create/Edit training plans.
Free - Internet Based:
FitDay - Get your free online diet journal and start tracking your foods, exercises, weight loss, and goals. Take control of their diet and lose weight.
12 Weeks To Weight Loss with Paige Waehner - If your goal is to lose fat, have I got a deal for you. How about a free 12-Week Program you can follow?
PeerTrainer - PEERtrainer Offers a Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal. Unlike other online journals, PEERtrainer integrates the log into groups and teams. Daily logging and journaling is effective, but it is much more effective when you know someone will read the log. You enter your thoughts, goals, workouts and meals each day and your group members and team members will be reading your log and offering you daily support, motivation and advice.
Free To Try Before Paid Membership:
Workoutware - Open Fitness tracks workouts, supplement usage, diet. Open Fitness is perfect for people who want to lose weight, bodybuilders, athletes, personal trainers, and anyone else serious about fitness. Easily view a chart of how you are getting stronger or faster at any exercise, losing weight, or losing inches.
Kathleen's Diet Planner - Kathleen's Diet Planner is professional nutrition, diet, and exercise software that empowers you to take control of your diet for better health, fitness, and weight loss. It contains the expanded USDA and CNF food databases with 32,000 food entries showing 142 nutrients. Build meal plans and recipes. Track daily food intake and analyze what you've eaten.
Weight-By-Date Pro 2.9 - Weight-By-Date Pro is the most complete diet software available for your PC. It's a carb counter, calorie counter, and food diary all rolled into one. It also logs your weight, exercises, body measurements, daily notes, and motivates like no other.
I am adding a new feature to The Bikini Body Diet and building a Diet Blog page. If you have a blog or a diet journal on line, just fill in the form on the left sidebar and in the next couple of weeks the page will be live!
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Dermathol Diet Patches - Get 6 month supply for free!
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The Dermathol- Diet Patch is different to many weight loss patches you may have seen on the market, Dermathol- Diet Patch uses a matrix technology delivery system to ensure your weight loss. This ultra efficient method of delivery means that our patches are able to hold almost 4 times more active ingredients than many of our competitors patches. The only slim and detox patch able to include 10 natural active ingredients to maximise weight loss and fat reduction.
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Most drugs are taken orally and dosage intervals may be inconvenient. Some drugs are partly destroyed or neutralized in the stomach, intestine or liver before reaching the bloodstream. Accordingly, a higher dose is needed to ensure efficacy, which in turn may increase the risk of side effects.
Doctors around the world are calling these diet patches "the delivery system of the future" because it has been discovered that a high absorption rate of many supplements can be achieved when delivered through the skin. The reason for this is when supplements are delivered via the skin, they are absorbed directly into the blood stream, initially bypassing the liver, stomach and intestine. The result can mean as much as 95% of the supplement getting to the cells where they are needed.
Conversely, studies have shown when some substances are taken orally, as little as 5% makes it to the cells where they are needed. This is because of the stomach, liver and digestive system excreting and discarding much of the substances taken orally.
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Are You An Emotional Eater?
All of us experience occasional emotional eating. Celebrating with food is what birthday parties, holiday parties and cookouts are all about. Sometimes, however, emotional eating becomes something else, something that can lead to serious physical and emotional imbalance in our lives. Using food to cope with stress, grief, loneliness and boredom causes a destructive cycle that becomes an unconscious behavior. This behavior is very difficult to change and if left unchecked can lead to obesity and other forms of weight-related illnesses.
Emotional eaters are never satisfied no matter how many calories they consume. This leads to more and more weight gain, usually complicating the emotional reasons for eating in the first place. The excess weight then becomes almost impossible to lose.
WARNING SIGNS OF EMOTIONAL EATING
*Eating when not physically hungry.
*Eating when bored, angry, sad, or anxious.
*Eating too fast.
*Eating until uncomfortably full.
*Eating immediately after coming home from work.
*Feeling disgust or guilt after overeating.
ARE YOU AN EMOTIONAL EATER?
If you experience any of the following more than occasionally, you may be an emotional eater:
*You think about food a lot.
*You eat when you are stressed (sad, bored, anxious, depressed, etc.)
*You binge eat.
*You eat even if you are not hungry.
*You feel guilty and ashamed of yourself and your eating habits.
*You try to lose weight but are always unsuccessful.
*You do not feel in control of your eating.
TIPS TO OVERCOME EMOTIONAL EATING.
If you think you are an emotional eater, there are ways to overcome it. The suggestions below can help you:
*When you reach for something to eat, stop and ask yourself if you are hungry or if you are upset. If you are upset, why are you upset?
*If you are upset, do not swallow it. If someone has upset you, let that person know they have upset you and that you will not tolerate it any more. Deal with it right away.
*Focus on the solution to your problem, not the affect. Focusing on the problem will not help you solve it. By focusing on the solution to the problem, you will not be stressing about the problem itself.
*Make yourself, not a diet, responsible for what you eat. Dieting can easily lead to emotional eating and will not address the core reason for being overweight.
*Focus on feeling better. Start eating healthier foods and getting a little bit of exercise. The result will be an almost immediate sense of feeling better.
*Take up a new hobby (or an old one). Knit, crochet, work jigsaw puzzles, play games with your kids, take a long leisurely walk.
*You are in control of your life. Stop thinking about food. Get out and LIVE!
Remember, to solve emotional eating, you must change the behavior that is causing it. The next time you reach for food because you are upset, stop and think! Get out of the kitchen and go take a walk, read a book, listen to music, or call a friend; whatever makes you feel better.
If you would like additional information on healthy ways to lose weight, learn how to burn fat with one of the most effective and healthy fat-burning systems available, the BURN THE FAT program.
About the Author
Chris Chenoweth, author of the DO-IT-YOURSELF HOME, HEALTH & MONEY GUIDE, writes articles pertaining to diet, exercise, health, and business.
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