Showing posts with label weight loss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weight loss. Show all posts

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Healthy Hamster Diet 2014

My Workout & Diet Tips | Get Fit For 2014!

Thursday, May 5, 2011

A Natural Weight Loss Program - Advantages of Regular Exercise



When you are trying for results with a natural weight loss program, exercise in conjunction with the dietary aspects will increase your chances of successfully reaching your weight goals.

Some people who are beginning a natural weight loss program do not realize the benefits that can be gained by making regular exercise a form of weight loss. Taking advantage of these benefits means that you don't have to strain so hard in other aspects of your weight loss program. The exercise doesn't even have to be strenuous or difficult to the point of painful,just consistent. For example, if you spend twenty minutes on a brisk walk three to four times per week, you will gain tremendous benefits in your weight control efforts. Other forms of exercise, including those that are aerobic are equally helpful in controlling your weight.

Firms and Tones the Muscles

Natural weight loss is a great way to manage your weight and regular exercise aimed at firming and toning all the major muscles of the body is even more helpful to you. Choose your exercises with the intent of beginning gradually at a comfortable level for your existing abilities and increase the difficulty and duration gradually to gain maximum benefit. By working the major muscle group, you replace the fat cells that are being eliminated from your body with healthy muscle cells.

Burns Calories

Exercise done in conjunction with a well thought out natural weight loss program will burn calories. Each calorie that is burned from a fat cell is an opportunity to get rid of those cells forever. If you have doubts about the effectiveness of exercise in losing weight, simply look at a chart of calories burned through various day to day activities. Even some types of exercises that can be done while sitting at a desk are effective ways to help you on the path to weight control. If you have time to swim regularly, that is a great exercise since swimming a few laps raises your heart rate and helps to improve your lung function. Even perspiring uses calories to accomplish.

Resets The Metabolism

A natural weight loss program combined with regular exercise will actually help you to crank up your metabolism rate so that the food you eat will be processed more effectively. Instead of excess calories being converted into fat, they are burned up in your body's individual furnaces - the cells. It's as if you turned the thermostat of your internal furnace up a degree or two so that the fuel burns hotter and more completely.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

What Is Wrong With Fad Diets



If you do a fad diet and it helps you lose weight fast and get results, what can be wrong with that?

Surley you have seen many ads on the internet and in magazines that say that you can get a huge weight loss in only a few days time.

Is this type of weight loss really possible? Yes - but... in almost every instance the weight loss from a fad diet is temporary and usually due to loss of water weight. Our bodies are made up of a large percentage of water so as soon as your body rehydrates itself you will put that quick weight loss right back on.

What are some of the reasons a fad diet is not good for you?

1. A fad diet usually tells you to focus on a single food type and avoid all others. This means you miss out on the nutrition you really need and can get from a more balanced diet approach.

Quite often these fad diets will even tell you to take vitamins and supplements to make up for all the nutritional deficiencies you experience while on that fad diet. However, your body will not be able to absorb the nutrients from the recommended supplements unless you take them with food. And many of the foods that help you absorb nutrients are banned on fad diets.

2. Fad diets are usually so restrictive and unappetizing that after as little as one day you will begin having overwhelming cravings for other foods and most likely you will not be able to complete the fad diet. This quitting will also wreak havoc on your self esteem as you may beat yourself up for not having enough willpower to stick it out with the diet.

3. Fad diets are temporary solutions to your weight problems. Even if you do follow through to the end with a fad diet you have not made permanent healthy changes to the way you handle food in your life. So fad dieters tend to be yo-yo dieters that go back and forth between extreme lo-calorie fad diets to periods of bingeing on food groups that were missing from the fad diet. So fad dieters are on a roller coaster of gaining and losing the same darn pounds again and again.

No matter what you see in the media about quick weight loss fad diets, realize that these diets will never work long term.

The best way to lose weight and sustain that weight loss (so you never have to diet again) is to eat a variety of healthy foods, avoid overeating, and do regular exercise. This simple formula works every time.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Sugar Busters Diet

Are you trying to lose weight with the sugar busters diet. The best way to find a weight loss program for yourself is to ask yourself a number of important questions.

One of the first questions you should ask yourself is how much time is going to be devoted to weight loss meetings. If you were to join a local weight loss program, you would likely be required to attend weekly meetings.

The second question is willpower. Should you join an online weight loss program you would have more freedom as you will not have to attend weekly meetings and answer to group leaders. Although this freedom is nice, it has allowed some to go off track. If this is the case then weekly meetings may be for you.