Why You Should "Just Say No" To Diets To Burn Fat (Part I)
Fad diets, they all have one thing in common. They?re diets. They are like a pair of bell bottom pants. They are in for a couple of years and they?re gone. Then they find they?re way back just when the fitness professionals know we are ready to eat ‘em up again?no pun intended. When you’re trying to burn fat, you really should avoid these things like the plague.
Now, realistically many of these diets will provide some initial fat loss for many people. So you get some weight loss initially, but you could also lose some muscle on these programs too, and you know that losing muscle can spell disaster to your fat burning efforts. But the bigger problem with these diets is that most who follow outlandish diets gain back the fat they lost, and then some! On top of that, they often recommend focusing too much on one type of food, which can lead to unhealthy eating habits. I?ve found they are too strict to be realistically followed, especially for a long period of time, and they?re no fun. And anything you can’t follow as a lifestyle will not burn fat in the long run.
You see, the very concept of a diet is doomed to fail. Why? Diets are based in a temporary mindset. The fact that someone goes on a diet means they will have to come off of the diet. This is temporary?why force yourself to lose 10 pounds when you?re just going to gain it back and then some when you go off of the diet? That may sound simple, but most people just don?t get it?they look to diets as the answer to their weight and health problems. But they?re not the answer, and they actually create more problems for you. People who are regular dieters don’t burn fat over the long haul.
If you seek life long fat burning, health and fitness in a lean body, you should take some advice from my mom, and probably your mom too. When I think about it, probably the best base of nutritional knowledge I received was from my mom. For the most part, my mom was right. She didn’t know anything about fat burning, but she made sure I got nutritious foods growing up. She especially made a point to make sure I ate my vegetables, especially the green ones. She limited sugary stuff and other junk, but didn?t totally eliminate it, making it a special treat for me on occasion. She tried to provide a balanced offering of the different food groups throughout the day. Thanks, Mom. Mom?s diet was actually quite sound, and I?ve found that heeding some of this advice in the pursuit of maximum fat burning and a lean healthy body for the rest of your life is a smart way to go.
You see, your body naturally craves foods rich in nutrients (antioxidants, phyto nutrients, fiber, vitamins, minerals, etc.) When you eat most of your meals from foods rich in important nutrients, your body will body will be satisfied and overeating won?t be much of a problem. You then begin to burn fat as a natural result of giving your body what it thrives on. On top of that, you?re lowering your risk for disease by promoting a natural alkaline environment in your body with these types of foods.
If you do the opposite and eat most of your meals from foods lacking in nutrients, you?ll keep eating and eating and eating to satisfy your nutrient needs. This leads to too many calories and a person who will just keep getting fatter and more prone to develop increased risk for disease with an acidic environment in the body. When this happens, you can just kiss fat burning goodbye.
So nutrition for fat loss, fitness, and health really all do go hand in hand. My Fat Burning Furnace students have changed their lives permanently, by simply altering what they put in their bodies?and you can do it to. Focus on foods rich in nutrients. In part two of this article, I?ll get more specific in helping you make the transition from your current lifestyle to the one you desire. One where your body seemingly burns fat 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with little effort.
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Rob Poulos is a fitness enthusiast, fat loss expert, and the founder and CEO of Zero to Hero Fitness. Rob spent the majority of the last decade searching for the most effective and efficient ways to get and stay lean, strong, and healthy. In those past 10 years, Rob experimented with and analyzed numerous exercise and nutrition strategies and protocols promoted by fitness centers, magazines, books, late night TV ads, and the so-called fitness gurus.
After several attempts that didn?t meet the high standards Rob had set for himself, he became so frustrated with the loads of misinformation on the market that he personally committed to finding the secrets that were hidden in all of the hype and sensationalism all to prevalent in the industry.
Finally, after having amassed a great deal of life-changing knowledge and truths, Rob founded Zero to Hero Fitness and created the Fat Burning Furnace fitness system so he could spread the word to others interested in seeking out life long fitness and health.
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Olive Oil - Feta Cheese and Weight Loss??
However, you really should not overlook the health benefits that you will receive whenever you use a Mediterranean diet recipe. These recipes will help you lose weight, as well as improve your nutrition and health.
Research shows that that people who will use a weight loss Mediterranean diet recipe will live long, healthy lives. This may be because the traditional weight loss Mediterranean diet recipe places a great amount of emphasis upon eating such things as vegetables, fruits, cereals, nuts, legumes and olive oil.
I should mention a note on oils here - make sure you stick with the healthy varieties of oil and don?t overdo it!
While on a weight loss Mediterranean diet recipe you will also eat a lot of fish but not much low saturated fat. A weight loss Mediterranean diet recipe also places very little emphasis on dairy products, meat and poultry. While you are encouraged to eat very little of the aforementioned foods, you are encouraged to have a glass of wine with your meal.
Many experts say that a glass of wine each day is fantastic for your health. And who can argue with that!
You will also find that there are a lot of groups that get together to discuss their favorite weight loss Mediterranean diet recipe. These groups also serve as support for people who are choosing to use this diet to create a healthy, yet comfortable, lifestyle for themselves and their family.
The reason why this is so healthy is that it will keep your cholesterol in check while enabling you to enjoy a healthy life.
So if this diet sounds right for you, it may help for you to find a group like this to help you along your way!
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Childhood Obesity - What can we do?
The European Union’s heath commision released some frightening, but not very surprising numbers, regarding childhood obesity today: More than 400,000 children become overweight each year in Europe (!). The numbers for North America is no better. The 2 leading causes of this epedemic are: poor eating habits combined with a lack of activity. No surprise there either. This is, of course, a very complex problem and not easy to solve. In my humble opinion, here are some key issues to deal with:
1. Daily activity - we need to encourage children to be more active. Much more active. One key problem is the way 90% of all kids entertain themselves - Playstation, TV, Movies etc. Instead of this, lets bring back the joy and wonder of outdoor physical activity. Lets bring our kids out into the park, forest, mountains, back-yard, whatever is available. Encourage the wonder and excitement of being outdoors, go exploring in the forest, look for animals, go fishing, skiing, you name it. Any outdoor acitivity that is fun will teach a young child to love and appreciate what lies outside the 35″ Panasonic television set. This, I believe, is one of the most important things we can do to combat the problem. It’s important that it’s fun and exciting, not a drag or boring.
2. Phyiscal activity in school - for some reason the weekly amount of phyiscal education in our schools have dropped. This trend must be reversed. Lets increase the amount many-folds.
3. Sports - when we enroll children in sports, lets focus on encouraging and establishing good attitudes towards training and living healthy and not focus so much on specialization at an early age or pressure the children into performance oriented goals. That can come later. And, we must face one very important fact: taking your son or daughter twice a week to football (soccer) practice does not fulfill the entire need for physical activity that week. Not even close. Studies have shown that adult-organized activities lead to 70% inactivity in the children. It is much better to let them “run with the ball” and only supervise.
4. Over-Protecting - I know this is probably easy for me to say, since I have no children, but parents are much too overprotective of their kids. Take a look at an average school playground, it will either be completely clear of natural obstacles (trees etc), or if there are any - the branches are all cut off to prevent the children from climbing in it. “We” are all so concerned and afraid that the kids might get hurt, that we create this un-natural environment for them. Let children explore their limitations, and yes, that means falling down from a tree, bleeding a little bit and maybe even having to go to the doctor once in a while. I think children are much more resilient then what we think. This over-protecting creates children that are, for a lack of a better word, “sissies”. They are afraid of everything, they don’t want to go outside if it’s a bit cold or rainy etc. I also think that this over-protecting will lead to the child looking for other, more dangerous, ways of getting an adrenaline rush later in life (drugs, alcahol etc).
5. Eating habits at home - we need to create a simple, good and healthy diet for children in the home. No more soda, fast-food, donuts, candy and other higher sugar and high fat content food. Lets go back to the traditional, simple diet that we used to eat. Some people might say that it is a “punishment” to the child if they can’t have a donut and a soft drink, hell no! As I was growing up - I only had soft drinks and candy twice a year (Christmas and New Years). That was it! Was I unhappy? No, I think I had the best childhood anyone could possibly ask for. I was 18 years old or so the first time I had fast-food (training camp in Southern Europe). Have good healthy meals, for breakfast, lunch and dinner. That may mean spending more time cooking, versus ordering a pizza etc, but think of what you are doing for your child (and yourself). And I’m not talking about all these “popular” diets (Atkins, no-fat and whatever else there is). No, I’m talking about a simple diet put together with good, raw products. Also, lets bring vegetables and fruit back into our lives.
6. Food in the schools - Walk into a public school now and take a look at what is available for kids to eat. It is amazing! How the heck can we let this happen???? Soft drink machines line the walls, vending machines filled with candy, VERY poor food served in the cafeteria etc. I don’t know what to say about that, other than WTF!?
7. As a society we need to make changes - force the schools to serve good food. Remove the poor food items from school property. Increase PE in our schools, teach children about healthy living habits. Let them play outside, even if it’s a bit cold…
8. And finally - food manufacturers. Take a look at McDonalds for example. What a great, great marketing plan they have. Happy-meals, toys, a clown as a spokes-man, play-rooms inside the resturant, a McDonalds strategically placed close to pretty much every school in the western world and a fantastic ad-campain on every channel that children might watch. Can you get any closer to a “brain-washing” program? How the heck can possibly a kid not want to eat McDonalds several times a week after all that? And it’s not just McDonalds, they are all doing it. Every other food product on the market is filled with unhealthy, un-natural “stuff”. Can we / should we as a society enforce what food producers can and cannot market? I don’t know. But one thing is for sure, I’m scared, very scared, of trying to raise a child in this world. I wish we could get this problem onto the international agenda more. Forget about the flu-pandemic. There is a pandemic going on right now, and it’s obesity.
I am a full-time endurance athlete, working towards the 2012 London Olympics. I maintain a blog, describing my ups and downs of training / racing.
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What’s the Peter Jackson Weight Loss Secret? Introducing the Skull Island Diet
What is the Peter Jackson weight loss secret? The image most of us have of the Lord of the Rings movie maker is a portly, bespectacled figure reminiscent of one of his Hobbit characters.
In a fact, film industry insiders and Jackson fans started noticing a new-look Peter Jackson nearly a year ago. But it’s only now with all the publicity surrounding his soon-to-be released feature King Kong that the public at large have woken up to the slim, spectacle free version of the man and begun wondering about the Peter Jackson diet.
And it’s not difficult to see why there’s so much interest. The Peter Jackson weight loss has been impressive - he’s shed some 70 pounds (32 kilograms).
So what’s his diet secret?
Was it the South Beach Diet? The Cave Man Diet? The Atkins Diet?
Obesitycures.com did some research and discovered that Jackson did not follow any of the popular fad diets. The real secret to the Peter Jackson weight loss phenomenon has been dubbed the “Skull Island Diet,” after the fictional island home of King Kong.
Jackson, bemused by all the attention his new image is receiving, insists a lifestyle change, rather than a diet is responsible for his weight loss.
“I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yoghurt and muesli and it seems to work,” Jackson told Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper.
Jackson reportedly followed no specific exercise program either, but has spoken several times of his punishing 21-hour-a-day work schedule on the King Kong set, which no doubt accounted for part of the weight loss.
Jackson said he was cutting during the day and shooting during the night for months on end, surviving on three hours’ sleep. “I thought I was some kind of Superman, but it knackered me.”
And what of Jackson new-found spectacle-free status? No, unfortunately losing weight does not improve your eyesight. Jackson underwent laser eye surgery, explaining that he had grown “tired of being outside with rain and dust on the glasses”.
Alan Cooper is a journalist with 20 year’s experience and the publisher of ObesityCures.com, a site with the ambitious aim of being a “one-stop-shop” for impartial information on obesity and weight loss solutions - including fad diets, prescription weightloss pills and natural weightloss aids.
Click on the Peter Jackson link on the home page to view for yourself the dramatic before and after pictures of Jackson’s weight loss.
Is The Jenny Craig Diet Any Good?
Jenny Craig, is it good for you or bad for you? My wife has recently restarted going to Jenny Craig and because of the popularity of Jenny Craig I thought I would write a bit of an article about Jenny Craig.
Jenny Craig is a diet that you do by going into an office and getting the full meal deal, and you pay for that. The program that Jenny Craig offers for weight loss is to have your consultant ask some questions and then put you on a specific calorie plan. In my wife?s case she started with 1500 calories a day as a food intake. The next step after the food amount is chosen is to have a weekly menu that you can take home and put on your fridge. The food on the menu is mostly taken from food that you but at Jenny Craig. Ah, you say now I get it there must be a cost to this. The big key for most people is the fact that there is one on one consulting once a week when you weigh in and buy your food.
Jenny Craig Food
This is the part of the Jenny Craig diet that I was most interested in. After looking at the diet I think that I have a good feel for what the diet stresses. First Protein, carbohydrate, fats. In looking at the food over the week I am pretty happy with the food combination, Jenny Craig diet is higher in protein and lower in fats and carbohydrates and low in fat as is very popular these days. I am guessing that the protein, carbohydrate, fat percentages are around 30-60-10 which is nice but a little bit of a shock for most people. The food is pretty good for vegetables which of course are low in calories but high in water and nutrients. The meal plan with Jenny Craig calls for eating five or six times a day which is great but the numerous small meals are a very hard adjustment for my wife?.she is OK now though. The food itself look delicious and apparently tastes quite good although there are a few food that my wife is not a big fan of at all, I can tell this by the stars beside some foods and then a big YUCK beside a star on the bottom of the menu.
Jenny Craig Costs
There is definitely a cost to Jenny Craig and this is definitely a drawback to the program. There are various plans you can be setup with including an initial $36 for six weeks but this is not the biggest cost for the diet. Jenny Craig is one of the few diets that offer its own complete menu and you are expected to get your whole week food there all at one time. I know the argument to this is that you have to buy food anyways but at least you are not buying something that you do not need but the food is a little pricy. My wife says that the food cost is around 125 dollars a week.
Jenny Craig Support
There is a lot of support with Jenny Craig which is great for most people that are trying to lose weight. There is the one on one consultation every week but there is also a very lively private discussion board that is hosted by Jenny Craig and I believe that this is a very good advantage to anyone with an internet connection and a bit of weakness occasionally.
Jenny Craig Recommendation
When my wife decided that she was going to go back to Jenny Craig I was a little apprehensive, she has done this before and it did not meet her expectations five years ago. I have a much better level of knowledge now than I had five years ago and I needed to know what is good or bad about the Jenny Craig Diet. In looking over the diet these last few weeks I am actually a much bigger fan of the Jenny Craig diet than I ever was before.
Not only this but my wife has lost over 10 pounds in the last three weeks and as an experienced dieter that is really good. The only thing that really holds me back about any organized diet company is the fact that they are making money off the backs of fat people. There is a lot of money sloshing around the diet industry and when you are looking to lose weight every one of these companies is going to part you from a significant amount of your hard earned money.
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Fitness - Back Flexibility and Strength Exercises
If you have ever suffered from severe backache you will know just what a central part the back plays in our lives. Even something as simple as squeezing a tennis ball in your hand can be extremely painful as the action uses not only the muscles of the forearm, but also the biceps, the latissimus dorsi muscles and other back muscles.
The latissimus dorsi muscles, or ‘lats’, are the large muscles that run down each side of the upper body and are what gives a man his triangular shaped.
Just about every sport requires strong back muscles to act as a ‘pillar’ to support the main limbs in movement and also to provide balance, movement, speed and coordination.
Here are a few easy exercises to help to both stretch and strengthen those important back muscles. The majority are best performed on a firm, but not hard, surface as, while you work the muscles, you don’t want to put undue pressure on bony parts of the body.
Knee to Chest
Lie on your back and clasp your hands behind one of your thighs. Pull your thigh slowly up toward your chest, while being careful to keep the other leg flat on the ground. Hold this position for five seconds before lowering the leg and repeating the exercise with the other leg. Start will about 10 repetitions of this exercise and slowly build this up over time.
Rotations
Lie on your back with your knees together and raised so that your feet are flat on the floor. With your arms extended close the body, and your palms flat on the floor, lift your feet a couple of inches off the ground and rotate your trunk by moving your knee, first to the left and then to the right.
At first, don’t strain yourself by trying to rotate your knees too far but, as you become more flexible and build strength, you can increase your range of movement. Ultimately, you should be able to touch your knees to the floor.
Pelvic Press
Once again lie on your back with your knees raised and your feet flat on the floor. Push the small of your back into the floor and hold it there for a few seconds while you feel the tension in your lower abdominal muscles. Vary the action by moving your feet together and performing the exercise and then repeating the exercise with your feet slightly apart.
Pelvic Lift
This time lie on your back with your knees raised, your feet flat on the ground and your arms crossed over your chest. Keeping your legs and knees together, raise your buttocks a couple of inches off the floor and hold the position for a few seconds. Then, lower your buttocks slowly back onto the floor, count to two, and repeat the exercise again.
Dog Stretches
Okay last one! Get down on all fours and raise your head so that you’re looking straight ahead. Lower your arms and, at the same time, arch your back. Hold this position for a couple of seconds and then resume your starting position.
Next, slowly extend one leg, as near parallel to the floor as you can and hold it up for two or three seconds before returning it to the floor. (If this particular exercise results in pain in the back, hip, or leg you should stop immediately.) Switch legs and repeat this exercise about ten times for each leg at first and gradually increase the number of repetitions over time.
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Diabetic Weight Loss Diet - The Solution to Diabetes?
The American Diabetes Association has recommended adopting a strict diabetic weight loss diet program for people suffering from Type 2 diabetes. Because nine out of every 10 diabetics are overweight, weight loss is an essential factor in managing Type 2 diabetes.
About diabetes
Diabetes is a metabolic disorder characterized by high blood sugar levels, or hyperglycemia. It occurs when the body develops a resistance against insulin. There are three types of diabetes: type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes. Each type has the same symptoms but varies in causes and population distribution.
Obesity: the main culprit
The main cause of diabetes is obesity. Obesity is characterized by being overweight and having a body mass index (BMI) of over 30. The condition leads to fat blockage and the production of hormones called adipokines which produce glucose tolerance in the body and eventually lead to diabetes.
Finding the cure
As a result, Americans are constantly finding solutions to this problem. The American Diabetes Association has recommended taking weight loss pills that help lower blood sugar levels. One example is orlistat (Xenical). Several diabetes weight loss products are being developed today, although most of them are still in the process of observation.
Possible solutions to diabetes include the following:
-Obtaining and maintaining ideal body weight
- Following a diabetic weight loss diet
- Regular exercise
- Diabetic medication, if needed
Diet: the best solution
Probably the best solution to diabetes is following a diabetic weight loss diet program. A diabetic weight loss diet program works best for Type 2 diabetics because it is the type most affected by weight gain. Employing a diabetic weight loss diet helps you prevent incurring diabetes and can help you adapt a healthier lifestyle.
The first steps
Before you start a diabetic weight loss diet, it is always important to work closely with a health professional, like a doctor or nutritionist. Your doctor can give you suggestions on how to go about your diet. Better yet, why not consult a diabetes educator? Undergoing a diabetic weight loss diet is a serious matter, because while you are dieting, your blood sugar, insulin, and medications need extra special attention. The more help you can get, the better.
Other benefits
Even losing 10 to 15 pounds can bring a load of health benefits, according to the American Diabetes Association. For starters, it can lower blood sugar, reduce blood pressure, improve cholesterol levels, and lighten the stress on your hips, knees, ankles, and feet.
Things to monitor
If you are already on a diabetic weight loss diet, your blood sugar should be given special attention. Skipping meals can adversely affect your blood sugar and insulin levels, so it is always important to work closely with an expert while you are on a diet.
The ideal rate of losing weight for diabetics is about cutting 500 calories a day. It is always best to maintain a healthy ratio of protein, carbohydrates, and fat. The ideal distribution is as follows:
? 50% to 55% carbs
? 30% fat
? 10% to 15% protein
Watch out for carbs
Carbs are probably the main thing to look out for when in a diabetic diet. This is because they have the biggest effect on blood sugar levels, since they are broken down into sugar during digestion. Eating complex carbs, such as whole-grain bread and vegetables, is good for the body because they are absorbed more slowly into the bloodstream and do not contribute as much to blood sugar levels.
However, cutting off carbs completely from your diet is also dangerous. If your body does not have carbs to burn, it leads to a metabolic change known as ketosis, the process where fat is burned. Although this is great at first, ketosis can cause serious health complications in the long run, such as oxygen deprivation and kidney, heart, and liver problems.
Exercise
Of course, there are no quick fixes to losing weight. It takes time, effort, and determination to shed pounds and curb diabetes.
Ideally, diet should be coupled with exercise. Exercise keeps up your body metabolism, so you keep burning calories even in your idle moments. It doesn?t have to be heavy exercise. A brisk 30-minute walk everyday can do wonders for your blood sugar level, as well as your heart.
Phillip England is a weight loss expert and Author of the popular report “The Ultimate Weight Loss Secret”. To receive your free information on the secret that doctors, and health companies either don’t know, or don’t want you to know, please see http://www.theultimateweightlosssecret.com/secret
The Reason Diets Fail
This year millions of people will embark upon a diet and fail to lose weight.
The usual response to this failure by the people supplying the diet is to
blame the individual for this failure. I think it is time to move beyond this
level and look at the real reason diets fail. I will use an example to make my
point.
When most people are presented with something like a chocolate (candy) bar it
is not long before they feel a desire to eat the thing. Most will simply blame
the chocolate for causing the desire. They will then try to battle the craving
with will-power. Usually they lose this battle and sooner or later give in and
eat the chocolate bar. This “giving-in” often marks the end of the diet.
Now lets look at why this happened. We know that the cognitive process that
caused the craving to eat the chocolate bar went something like this; sensory
input was received through the appropriate receptors [mainly eyes in this
case] and the mind formed some type of neural or sensory representation of the
object that will be defined as a chocolate bar. We can regard this process as
inescapable. If the sensory receptors are in working order, the mind must form
a representation or neural image of the object.
When a neural image has been formed we have been taught to assign meanings,
from memory, to these images when they are formed in the mind. The assignment
of meaning is followed by an emotional response appropriate to the meaning
assigned. In the case of the chocolate bar the meaning assigned included
memories of past pleasant experiences assosciated with eating chocolate
bars, hence the craving to eat this chocolate bar. So really it was not the
presence of the object that will be defined as a chocolate bar that caused the
craving, but the cognitive process outlined.
Specifically it was the assignment of meaning that caused the craving, and
because this assignment of meaning has become totally automatic in most
people, the chocolate bar gets the blame for the craving when in fact it only
had the power to cause the mind to form a meaningless image. For most, the
meaning and image have become “fused”, with the meaning now seen as a part of
the neural image itself rather than something assigned from within the mind.
This of course gives the stimulus the power to be the cause of the response.
Just thinking about or reflecting upon a chocolate bar can have the same
effect. A neural image is formed from that reflection and when it has
been formed the cognitive process of automatically assigning meaning to it is
exactly the same as with images caused by external stimulii. We still feel
like a eating the chocolate bar.
This all means of course that every time we are presented with a chocolate bar
or some other desirable food, the mind automatically creates a desire to eat
the delicacy. These emotional responses eventually wear us down and we give in
to this craving and the diet goes out the window.
My point is then, the only way to reduce our food intake and still feel
comfortable is to modify this process of automatically assigning meaning to
the images that come into our heads. Then we can reduce the need to eat
unnecessarily and modify our eating behaviour so that we can lose weight and
keep it off.
Changing our behaviour is not as easy as making a decision to go on a diet. We
need techniques that will help us to bring that change about. Diets fail to do this.
Rob. Jager is the founder and director of the HungerMaster Weight Management Program.
Lose Belly Fat With Low Glycemic Foods and 10 Minutes Exercise
One of the most frequent questions that I receive from exercisers, as they affectionately caress their paunch, is ?How do I lose belly fat??
Most people expect that I will recommend a series of abdominal exercises that will melt away the fat.
It’s true that you can add muscle if you do enough “crunches,” but contrary to our hopes (and prayers) “spot reducing” just doesn’t work.
The only benefit you will receive for your hours of hard work is strong muscles hiding under the layer of fat.
Is there a “secret formula” to lose belly fat? The answer is yes, but it won’t be a secret for long.
Two new concepts, when used in combination, will turn a pot belly into a skillet. And it will only take about 10 to 15 minutes per day!
The answer to losing belly fat is changing your diet to include mostly low glycemic foods coupled with Dr. Al Sears’ PACE exercise system.
Dr. Sears’ PACE? exercise system is the best fat burner I’ve ever seen. It works just as well for the novice exerciser (I’ve used it on people with congestive heart failure) as it does for the extremely fit.
According to Dr. Sears, the big mistake with aerobic exercise is that it causes our bodies to store fat. Once you pass the 15 to 20 minute mark, you start burning fat during exercise.
As a result, your body will make and store more fat to prepare for your next aerobic workout…a never-ending cycle making it impossible to get rid of that stubborn fat that never seems to go away.
The Glycemic Index diet is very easy to follow. You don?t have to give up all of your favorite foods or count calories.
You may, however, have to unlearn just about everything you thought you knew about eating and exercise.
All carbs are not created equal. Some carbohydrates digest quickly (the low glycemic foods,) flooding your blood with glucose (blood sugar.) Others digest slowly and provide a controlled, steady source of energy.
Glucose is the primary source of energy for our body and energy is good, right? But here’s the rub. Too much of a good thing ends up causing some real serious problems.
Here’s how high glycemic foods do their damage: Insulin carries a small amount of the glucose to the cells for immediate energy. Some is converted into glycogen and stored in the muscles and liver for later use.
When the glycogen storerooms fill up the over flow is stuffed into fat storage tanks on your belly and other unwanted places. No wonder it is so difficult to lose belly fat and love handles.
An increase in belly fat is only one of the side effects of these glucose excesses. Over time the insulin receptors become desensitized, and this leads to insulin resistance, fatigue, diabetes and heart disease.
The troublemakers on the glycemic index chart are white flour and other refined grains, rice and high fructose corn syrup. High fructose corn syrup is especially harmful, and you will find it in just about every liquid product that is sweetened.
The ?good guys? are whole grains, vegetables and legumes, which are lower in sugar, high in fiber and digest more slowly and provide a steady stream of glucose. Keeping your blood sugar on an even keel has many benefits.
Slow carbs not only give you a feeling of fullness for several hours but also keep your blood vessels elastic and supple, reducing the risk of forming arterial plaques that can lead to heart attack or stroke.
Researchers from Australia have created a system of low glycemic foods called the Glycemic Index, that measures how long it takes for various carbohydrates to digest and turn into glucose.
Carbs that our body quickly turns into sugar have a high GI number and those that digest slowly have a low Glycemic Index.
It is important to note that the glycemic impact of a meal can influence how your body digests, absorbs and processes the next meal.
A breakfast of low glycemic foods will keep your blood sugar low and your energy high until lunch time.
You will find more information and a free Glycemic Index Chart at http://www.heart-health-for-life.com/glycemic-index-diet.html
The cardiologist grimly stated, “You are a walking time
bomb.” Two days later Gene Millen had a six-way heart bypass
and now explains how
ten minutes exercise and a
low glycemic
diet can send surplus pounds and heart attack risks packing!
Go to http://www.heart-health-for-life.com
How To Lose Weight - Is it Possible to Lose Weight Without Exercise
It’s a common opinion that you can’t lose weight without exercising. This view is even advertised by certain “fitness gurus”. But this is simply not true. Not being able to lose weight exercise is a myth.
I am not saying that you shouldn’t exercise. Exercise is very important to your health and can also contribute to muscle tone and development. But to say that you must exercise in order to lose weight is simply not true.
I am sure you’ve seen people who work out regularly and yet seem to remain at the same weight, never losing a pound. Just as these people, who work out regularly never succeed to lose weight, some manage a good weight loss without ever going to the gym.
Wonder How? It’s all a matter of good nutrition. What you don’t put in your mouth does not end up on your thighs or stomach.
If you work around the clock or juggle a job and a family and simply don’t have the time to exercise, don’t despair. If you change your eating habits and stick to a detailed and professional menu which follows the Shifting Calories method, you’ll lose weight.
If you follow the Shifting Calories method, you will, by nutrition alone, maintain a high metabolism, literally turn your body to a fat burning furnace, and lose weight fast. Most importantly, you will maintain your weight loss.
John Davenport lost over 30 pounds in his twenties after being overweight most of his life. He is an advocate of safe dieting and fitness. To read more about diets which are based on shifting calories visit:
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