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The best way to go about doing cardio is to make it as exciting as possible. You want to do different periods of cardio workouts.

What do I mean? Doing just one thing can become boring, and its often the least effective.

However when you combine certain cardio workouts you not only have more fun doing your workout, but you also lose weight a lot faster, and more effectively.

Also if you are overweight, you will benefit a lot more from any type of exercise.

However before you begin, make sure you are prepared.

Why? Well there are a lot of times when people that are not in great a great physical state, and they often go for biggest workout they can think of. There is nothing wrong with being confident about yourself, but when it injures you its just ignorant.

You want to make sure you are somewhat in shape before doing a high intensity workout.

Fore example... A person who rarely runs will not be able to throw him or herself into a marathon, without hitting the invisible brick wall.

You have to learn to build up your endurance so you can run faster and farther each day. Start off by running at a certain pace for 5/mins a day for a week.

Then move yourself up to 10/mins a day for a week, and so on. Keep this up and you will eventually have enough endurance to take on anyone in a race.

Stretching

Stretching is very important before you start a cardio workout. Do enough until you feel the strains in your muscles getting more flexible.

Stretching can improve your overall performance; it will also make you feel less sore after your workout.

Nutrition

I often tell people to eat smaller meals/day rather than 3 large course meals. The reason why is because when you eat the smaller meals more frequently your metabolism stays at its peak. This will help us burn fatter.

Obviously stay away from fast foods, ice cream, potato chips, and all the other junk food. Everyone knows what he or she should or should not be eating. Its common sense. If you were trying to get fit, why would you eat junk food?

The only types of people that can get away with this are people that are usually on sports teams.

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You will not become a better athlete by doing the same training regimen each day. Athletes train by taking hard workouts on one day, feeling sore on the next, and not taking another hard workout until the muscles stop feeling sore.

It's called the hard-easy principle. If you want to become stronger or faster or increase your endurance, you have to exercise hard or long enough to make your muscles burn. Then your muscles will be sore for one or more days. If you try to exercise hard when your muscles are damaged, you will tear them and the muscles will weaken. If you wait for the soreness to disappear, your muscles will be stronger than they were before your workout. As you continue to take stressful workouts only after the soreness disappears, you will become progressively stronger and faster and have greater endurance. Athletes in most sports train once or twice a day in their sports, but they do not exercise intensely more often than every 48 hours.

There is a difference between the good burning of training and the bad pain of an injury. The good burning usually affects both sides of your body equally and disappears almost immediately after you stop exercising. The bad pain of an injury usually is worse on one side of your body, becomes more severe if you try to continue exercising and does not go away after you stop exercising.

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If only we could lose weight by not doing anything differently. Unfortunately, if we want to be slimmer and healthier, changes must be made, and one of those changes on a weight loss program is saying goodbye to the booze.

But is alcohol really that bad for weight loss? Put simply: yes, but the good news is you don't have to completely eliminate alcohol from your life.

Alcohol is high in calories, it stimulates the appetite, inhibits quality sleep and the body's ability to burn fat efficiently. It also lowers testosterone levels for up to 24 hours after your last drink. An American Journal of Clinical Nutrition study found when eight men were given two vodkas mixed with low calorie lemonade 30 minutes apart, their body lipid oxidation (ability to burn fat) dropped by a massive 73%.

The main problem with alcohol is that most of it is converted into a substance called acetate, which the body burns instead of burning fat as an energy source.

Alcohol also stimulates the appetite, not something that is conducive to weight loss. Researchers from Denmark's Royal Veterinary & Agricultural University found a group of men who ate a meal with alcohol, consumed many more calories of food, than the group who did not have alcohol.

Alcohol also reduced testosterone levels. One heavy drinking session will raise the level of the muscle wasting hormone, cortisol, which increases the breakdown of testosterone.

One gram of alcohol is seven calories, almost as high as fat, which is nine calories a gram. When you consider a gram of protein is only four calories, it is easy to see alcohol is not very good value if you're trying to control your appetite.

If you like a tipple, it's not all bad news though.

A 2004 study in the International Journal of Obesity compared two groups of dieters over three months

Both groups were limited to 1500 calories a day. One group had 150 calories of white wine a day, the other had 150 calories of grape juice a day.

The weight loss of the two groups was 4.7kg, and 3.7kg respectively.

Another US survey found that dieters who abstained from alcohol don't necessarily lose any more weight than those who take a moderate amount.

A small amount of alcohol, particularly red wine, is excellent for lowering stress levels and preventing heart disease.

It seems the role alcohol plays in your life, whether good or bad, boils down to the amount. While a glass is good for the heart, more than two and you'll be doing yourself damage.

If you are trying to lose weight, and would like to have the odd glass of alcohol, limit your intake to one or two glasses a week.

You will also benefit by changing to a lower calorie drink, like wine, or using diet mixers rather than high sugar ones.

Mix your wine with soda water and drink a glass of water in between glasses of alcohol. If you drink to unwind, as most people do, try something else like an easy walk, some meditation, a scented bath or phone a friend if you've had a difficult day.

Confused yet? The short of it is, if you are trying to lose weight don't drink alcohol. If this is too much to bear, limit yourself to one or two drinks a week.

Instead of dwelling on something you can't have, think about your new svelte body when all your hard work has paid off, and remember - it will be worth it!

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Once again, here is one more person trying to tell you the greatest and fastest way to lose weight. If you are like me, youve tried everything out there and nothing works like its supposed to. Nothing is as easy as its supposed to be. Everything takes too much time and too much effort. Its not worth trying, just be happy being what you are fat.

Wrong! Its time to shape up the attitude first. Lets work on approaching this with more of a positive attitude! Okay great, where do we get one. And can we get one cheap. Not so much, just trying a little humor. Okay, lets start thinking like the Little Engine that Could. I think I can, I think I can. (Can you tell Im a mom with little ones?)

It seams everyone has the newest and greatest way to lose weight, so it makes choosing the best individual way exhausting. There are plenty of guides on losing weight, both in print and online. I think I found the site that works and it explains why it works. The plan is so simple; youve got to check it out!

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These days majority of people are concerned with their physique and want to have presentable figures. The idea is to have more of muscles and less of fat in the body. There are ways to maintain your body and to get rid of the extra fat from the body.

To burn fat and calories of the body that are extra to what the body requires is an essential practice that requires discipline and a regular maintenance of the fat burning regime that a dietitian prescribes.

The problem of obesity is a disorder where "calories in" is more than "calories out" and thus there is an accumulation of fat in the body. It may result from the incapability of the body to burn fat and calories. However, it is wrong to say that fat people get the problem of accumulation of fat in the body due to excess intake of fat.

Actually, the fat is accumulated in the body because of the lack of physical activities and exercises. One of the main factors responsible for the accumulation of fat in the body is insulin. As the insulin in the body increases, the metabolic rate in the body decreases and the fat is stored in the body as harmful deposit.

Diet is one of the main factors responsible for the weight gain or loss strategy. A diet, which is low in fat and contains more of protein, helps in the formation of a muscular body and lessens the storage of fat in the arteries and veins. A diet rich in raw vegetables, fruits, legumes and olive oils is a healthier option for the body with the problem of excess weight due to the accumulation of fats. There are exercise regimen that you need to follow daily in order to get a muscular build and a healthy body-mass index.

An adult should have the body mass comprising of mass of the muscles more than any other component. There are many other options for the person with obesity problem to go for instead of the harmful surgeries and harsh routines.

Yoga practices are amongst the most ancient methods to keep the body free from any type of problems. Yoga also has amazing cure for obesity related problems. To burn fat fast, yoga provides easy-to-follow regimes and recommends the intake of healthy food according to the need of your body. However, even if the process of burning fat and calories through the yogi process takes much more time than other procedures, it provides long-term benefits to the body.

You may see that the health centers that offer weight reduction programs in return of a large sum of money are not that beneficial and the fat returns after you leave the rehabilitation program. Thus, it is more effective if you have the self-confidence and the self-control to start your daily exercise regime at home and check weight gain by diet control and by keeping a check on your daily routines. You can easily enjoy the long-term effect of losing weight and feel great about yourself.

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So we know all about what we need to do to lose weight. How many more articles or DVDs or products are we going to see? The question is which diet is really the best for you? Which plan do you choose to stick with?

Don't just go out and try the cabbage soup or the Atkins diet! Those diets simply don't work. Everywhere you look there are some great weight-loss techniques and guides to losing weight, both in print and online with tips and methods to finally shed those excess pounds. If you really knew which plan ultimately was the best over all diet, would you really go for that one? There are always plenty of guides but the trick is to find the best ones! Many people always assume that the best way to lose weight is to diet, drastically dropping calories or change the type of food that we consume in a desperate attempt to shed the pounds. Others think that exercise is the only way to healthy lifestyle, so they exercise frantically for a few months before giving up. Can you imagine how much money Americans spend on diet pills, miracle diets, or even just exercise equipment?

These people have the desire to see immediate results, but really don't understand the way the human body works. Their attempts may result in temporary gains, but because they just don't understand, they often end up worse off than before.

Diets are a temporary solution to a long-term problem. Let's say someone, after a lifetime of eating poorly, takes up a diet. It's a rough diet, since the calories have to be cut sharply, but it's worth it, don't you agree? The diet turns out to be fantastically efficient (which doesn't really happen), and that person loses tons of weight. Then they simply go back to their old eating habits, since they're 'in good shape'. But within just a few months, their weight starts ballooning upwards again!

Others try to exercise every day either taking up sports they don't care for or running or joining an exercise class that they'll eventually skip. These people are somewhat better off than the dieters, as exercise is a good start. But what they don't realize is that exercise should be enjoyable - not so painful that it now is not fun or very uncomfortable. Break out of the cycle of diets and discomfort. You'll never have to go on another diet! Instead, you'll learn how to eat good food and lose weight - you'll be feeling great, and looking good. By establishing good health habits, losing weight will be like breathing. You won't even know it's happening!

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Today, you are bombarded and baffled with a tsunami of weight loss diet programs. Instead of educating you on what is most suitable for you, you are thoroughly confused.

Your search may be over as I have tried and tested with so many testimonies that this weight loss method works for many people. The only time it may not work according to your expectation is when you are not religiously abiding by the rules and not doing the things that the program asks you to do. This fantastic program is based on a calories shifting method. What is most interesting is it is cheap, less than 50 dollars to start with and it is scientific and most important of all is it works.

And the reward is you lose about 9 lbs every 11 days.

WHAT IS CALORIE SHIFTING?

The calorie shifting method is about tricking your body metabolism into burning fats faster and harder. This is done by varying the foods you eat each day so that your metabolism does not know what you are eating.

The plus part of this program is you are not starved of the nutrition you need and you get to lose weight by eating. You need not starve. The key is you need to follow the program for 11 days dutifully. Then for the next 3 days, you get to get a 3 day break and you can eat whatever you desire. After that, you are back on an 11 day cycle again to lose more pounds.

IT WORKS?

As you can choose to eat the foods you like to eat, there is no real dieting per se, unlike most weight loss dieting programs.

Most weight loss programs are good for a short time and you get back all those pounds back when you stop. On the other hand, this program is easy to follow. And you get results. The shifting calories diet method is definitely recommended for those looking to lose fats fast and not be bothered with calories and carbohydrates intake limits that are complicated, hard to follow and likelihood of failure.

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A resolution of you losing weight this New Year can be a good thing, but it can be difficult to carry out. For one, you will need to be extremely determined to lose weight, especially when you have never tried losing weight before. Because losing weight involves processes related to your body, you will need to do a lot of research related to weight loss and see what options are there for you in order for you to meet your weight loss goals. If you are uneasy about that weight loss resolution, here are a few tips that you may want to keep in mind as you start making your resolution.

Be specific with your weight loss goals. Before you even make that resolution, start asking questions such as: how much weight do I want to lose? Do I want, in general, to lose weight, or do I want to lose weight in specific areas of my body? How fast do I want to lose that weight?

Keep a journal. Once you have your fitness and weight loss goals in control, you can start keeping a journal detailing the facts: how much weight you want to lose, where, and how fast. As you enter into your weight loss regimen, write in this journal and document your progress: what did your doctor tell you? Are you going on a diet, are you going to exercise, or are you going to do a combination of both? How much exercising did you do today? What did you eat? How do you feel? Are you lethargic or energized? Are you confident about meeting your weight loss goals? How much weight have you lost? Have you gained any?

Talk to experts: consult with your doctor, nutritionist, and an exercise expert. You may be gaining weight because of an underlying problem with your hormones, or undergoing any weight loss regimen might be harmful to your body. If you get the green light from your doctor, talk to the exercise expert about your work or study schedule and how you can fit your exercise in. You need to admit that there are many different things that you do not know about weight loss yet, so you have to talk to the experts; it's a safe way to get what you want, too.

Do your research! Even with your doctor, nutritionist, and exercise expert in tow, you still need to know a bit more about weight loss on your own. Read up on diets and how they can harm your health if you are not prudent and careful enough in using them. Read up on the different kinds of exercise types available to you and how you can do simple exercise routines in your spare time. Read up on weight loss regimens and how they are designed for specific people. Bring these books with you to your doctor and enrich your consultation with them.

Don't be afraid to start out small. The biggest mistake that people make is to indulge in a crash diet with the hope that they will fit into a size zero in a week, or to run smack into a high-intensity exercise routine because they want to run the marathon next month. By doing something that your body is not accustomed to, you may run the risk of straining your muscles or putting your vital organs in danger. Instead, start exercising by walking for a few more miles each day than you are accustomed to, or start dieting by cutting down slowly on fat intake. By doing things slowly, you are getting your body better accustomed to healthier living. Avoid crash diets or anything that promises easy and fast weight loss. Moreover, don't be discouraged too easily. You may lose weight slowly, but at least you're losing weight safely.

Treat yourself out once in a while - prudently. You might have the urge to crunch on a snack bar or indulge in chocolates as a reward for losing pounds. Try something else instead: watch a movie and eat healthy snacks, go out for dinner to a salad bar, or ride the rollercoaster at your local park. Rewards for weight lost shouldn't translate into weight regained.

Lastly, keep your resolution for the years to come, not just this one. Weight loss and living healthy need not be a one-year affair. You might have a better body and decide to keep it, so keep that resolution!

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This article is a comparative look at some of the most popular weight loss plans, and how they measure up to the "new kid on the block" in the diet plan world...

Low Calorie

This weight loss plan basically involves lowering the quantity of food you eat in order to lose weight. Although it does work to reduce some fat, the drawbacks are well known - malnutrition, low energy levels, depression...

Low Fat

At first look this weight loss plan seems like it could work. However, it has one vital flaw - the fat of your body is not caused by the fat in your diet. Most fat on the body is caused by carbohydrates. Which leads to the next plan...

Low Carb

A step in the right direction, this diet can produce very good fat loss results if done for a duration of a few months. Unfortunately, the low carb weight loss plan is much like a low calorie diet in terms of the amount of calories most people can eat whilst on it - due to meal restrictions. As such it can cause low energy levels and depression.

A New Diet Plan...

For many years scientists have been looking for new weight loss plans that are more effective and more PRACTICAL for the dieter than the usual plans (as outlined above.) And one such diet plan has been discovered. It's called the CALORIE SHIFTING DIET...

The Calorie Shifting Diet works on the fact that the brain produces FAT BURNING HORMONES directly AFTER certain food has been eaten. With this in mind, lowering your calorie intake may not be necessary under this new diet plan - rather eating smaller meals MORE OFTEN is the way to go. Find out more about this diet plan at this website.

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"Enough is enough!" you say while scrutinizing image in the mirror one smiling Sunday morning.

Make a decision to improve health, wellness, as well as appearance and you are half way done. Next question that you may want to ask yourself is what fitness tool do I use that will help me to get to the outcomes that I desire quickly and safely?

There are many fitness toys and tools that claim that they are the one. How to decide? Which path should you take?

I will share with you a fitness tool that was known for centuries and now it is conquering United States with it's simplicity and effectiveness. Russian Kettlebells!

Today, Russian Kettlebell is the fitness tool of choice for many. And for a good reason.

Used by ancient Greeks for strength development, Kettlebells were then adopted by Turkish and Slavik people. Russians truly embraced the Kettlebell because of it's versatility and ability to produce explosive results.

Kettlebells are so effective in producing muscle tone, strength, and fat loss because classical kettlebell exercise use ALL muscles. Every single muscle is engaged and doing it's part - now that's efficient calorie burning!

Enjoy kettlebell training 3 times a week. Each workout should be 60 to 70 minutes.

Do a warm-up for 10 minutes.

Cool-down at the end of the workout for 10 more minutes.

Actual Kettlebell Workout should last 40 to 50 minutes.

Do:
Warm-up is a must
Use intervals(30 sec on, 30 sec off)
Train outside
If in trouble - DROP the Kettlebell!
Breathe
Listen to your body (if something feels wrong, it probably is)
Stop well before muscle failure
Sample Kettlebell workout for weight loss (use the same pair of kettlebells through out the workout)

How to read exercise format: First you see the exercise: Sw for Swing, Sn for Snatch, Cl for cleans, Cl&P for Cleans and Power Presses. Next comes the weight of the kettlebell 8kg, 16kg, 24kg or 32kg. Then you will see a number or reps, usually as a percent of your maximum. Next is rest in seconds. Last number is the number of sets that you need to do.

Example: Sw16: 50%(+1) / 90 sec /5

means that you need to do Swings with 16kg kettlebell. Do 50% of your maximum. Add (+1) repetition to each next set. Rest 90 seconds between sets. Do a total of 5 sets.

The workout:

Warm up, 10 minutes: light jog / walk, light obstacle course

Cn&P: 30%(+1) / 45sec / 5
Cn&P: 40%(+1) / 45-60 sec / 4
Cn&P 50%(+1) / 60 sec / 3
Cn&P 80%(-2) / 60 sec / 4
Cn&P 30%(+2) / 60 sec / 4
Cn&P 50%(+2) / 60 sec / 3
Cool down, 10 minutes: light jog / walk, light obstacle course

enjoy the results! Remember to be consistent in your training and to think happy thought!

Denis Kanygin, CPT, Postural Therapist, owner of Workout IQ specializes in weight loss, postural therapy and fitness.

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Lose the Rules: You Must be Flexible

Why is it that when you decide to get in better shape or lose a few pounds, life suddenly throws you a curve? Fact is there are constantly invitations to over indulge so you must decide in advance how you want to handle them.

1. Make a Plan
2. Implement Your Plan
3. Review Your Plan and Adjust if Necessary
4. Rinse, Repeat

Have a Planning Session First

You've decided to get back in shape; now you must have a planning session with yourself about what might change, how you might go about following through, and most importantly whether you believe you can and will follow through (are you serious or are you kidding yourself?).

To get a good plan, write it out. Include when, where, what time of day. Imagine yourself following through and see whether there are any obstacles? Will you get up earlier or sleep in? Will your partner complain you're never home? Will work interfere? Think it through. When you spot a potential obstacle you can find a way over, under or around it, or you can change your plan. Once you have a plan, implement it for one week, then at the end of the week, look back and decide whether you should alter your plan or follow through with it for another week. This way you are able to modify your plan as needed, but still have a plan.

Here's a Sample Plan: Watch What Happened:

My plan is a regular workout schedule (four days a week at home or at the gym), drinking less alcohol (special occasions and weekends instead of every night), and tightening up "weekend eating" from the current Thursday evening through Sunday to only Saturday and Sunday.

Reflection: What would this accomplish? I'd be eating a bit less (reining in the indulgence from three days a week to two), and exercising consistently (consistency is key), and drinking less alcohol saves a lot of calories (plus alcohol can cause more poor decisions, especially if inebriated).

Make your plan, then follow through and track what happens.

Here's how this plan worked in a typical first week:

Monday: All is well, worked out and ate as planned. Good day.

Tuesday: Worked out and ate as planned. Good day. So far this is easy.

Tuesday evening sister invites me over Thursday evening for home party, "I'll have something there to eat," she adds. I'm about to say, "That's okay, I won't want anything anyway," but thought better of it. (Telling someone you don't want what they're serving because you're trying to get healthy is a surefire way to be attacked with a full-frontal assault on why that is ridiculous and, "Just this once won't hurt." Who needs that? Stay quiet instead).

Wednesday: Ate fine and worked out according to plan. Very good, hump day and all. (Notice it has all been pretty easy up until now.

First obstacle: Wednesday evening another sister calls saying Friday night we're celebrating family birthdays at a Thai restaurant. I'm to bring blackberry cheesecake, mom is bringing blackberry pie.

Taking stock of the rest of this week and it's not pretty: Thursday evening workout won't happen because I need to be baking and said I'd go to my sister's (evening workouts are often waylaid); Friday evening eating is dicey due to birthday dinner at restaurant. To top it off Easter is Sunday so most of Saturday I'll be shopping and baking. I already decided to make a cake and scalloped potatoes. This is turning out to be a lousy week for my new getting in shape plan.

But, all is not lost. This is a typical week in a typical life. You must be flexible if you expect to lose weight and keep it off. You're always going to be confronted with the unexpected occasions, birthdays, parties, special events where they'll have all the yummy goodies you just can't resist. Keep reading to see what a successful dieter does next.

Thursday, ate well. Had dinner already so didn't snack at sister's Thursday event (she had chips and a vegi tray and I wasn't hungry so easy to pass up). Too busy with baking to exercise (I anticipated this so I'm not upset). Evening workouts are so often missed I'm already working on a new plan to fit in earlier workouts.

Friday: Ate great, dinner was wonderful. Had a "splurge" glass of wine with dinner at the restaurant (tasted pretty darn good too, but didn't leave me wanting another). Ate plenty but not over-stuffed; knowing we had desserts coming. Enjoyed a full piece of blackberry pie and some cheesecake and it was great. I'm fine and right on target.

Saturday: Ate well, did my exercise as planned. Shopped for groceries for Easter dinner and suddenly decided to make homemade peanut butter cup easter eggs; how's that for a healthy eating plan? Now I'm a candy maker! I enjoy candy, so sue me.

Easter Sunday: Big family dinner, potluck style. Nothing is better than good homemade food, especially when you're learning to eat better and make better choices. I ate what I wanted and felt great, satisfied, content. Did not overstuff, didn't feel the need to. You can take a bit small amount, eat it slowly, taste it, check out the texture, and really make an effort to enjoy the buffet style dinner. There's no need to stuff yourself. It's not the last time I'll ever eat. Easter eggs turned out great. I left plenty behind and took the rest to my office on Monday. I didn't actually eat but one of the homemade candies; they were good, but I didn't feel the need to eat more.

I love to bake for special events as I get to eat the goodies, but I ditch the leftovers. A piece or two of cake every so often is not a problem, but half a cake on the counter, or sweets and desserts every day for a week is a recipe for the beginning of poor eating habits.

Sunday evening (remember I had the big Easter dinner earlier) I started feeling somewhat hungry, but it was late, so I ate the leftover desserts I'd brought home for my dinner. This time it was "eat dessert first," as grandpa used to say. You make a choice, sometimes you'll overeat, and sometimes you won't and it's okay. The trick whether losing weight or maintaining weight loss is to change the equation from usually overeating and indulging and watching what I eat once in awhile, to eating well most of the time and indulging once in awhile.

Sunday Evening Reflection: Look Back at Week 1:

Lots of sweets, plenty to eat. I stuck to my overall plan for the week. I drank far less (from a couple glasses of wine a night down to just a couple for the entire week). I ate plenty of the good foods I wanted, but didn't feel the need to stuff myself, nor did I ever feel deprived. I didn't have the, "I better eat now because I'm starting a diet on Monday" mentality. Every meal stands alone, so if you overeat at lunch that doesn't mean the rest of the day is blown (why pre-blow it?).

Overall I exercised and ate according to plan Monday through Thursday then lots of unexpected events started to occur that could have been big roadblocks but weren't.

Week in Review: Did it Work? Does it Need to be Modified?

Was this week a success? You bet. Despite eating dinner out on Friday, having two desserts, and enjoying a potlock Easter dinner on Sunday. It's not any of these things individually but having them every day, or never exercising regularly. You don't have to be a fanatic, but with consistent effort and a good plan, you can and will win your weight loss race.

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Consider: the Stone Age is now thousands of years back in the past. With every passing era, early man took changing centuries in his stride. Like all animals, he was created to be on his feet. At first, he chased, hunted. Then; he combined these activities with farming. But he remained on his feet. Upright. And when the sun set, he lay down, back and legs straight out.

The Industrial Revolution ushered in modernity. That progressive element which had crept into our lives could have been used constructively. But it only made us the sedentary animals we are today. We get out of bed to sit down for breakfast. We travel, or try to travel, on our rumps to work. Once there, we work .on our seats. Coming home is a rewind of the journey to work. Then, we sit down before the TV-VCR till the calorie-chair beckons us to dine, and sleep nods us to bed. It's truly, backside to the future.

Get the picture? The operative word, the key to our lifestyle, is sit, which even as it rhymes is, the very antithesis of fit. If we are critics of your armchair, it's with reason. If by living in the lap of luxury, man is losing his spine and finds modern life a pain in the backside, the reason often is just below him. The chair and he have conspired to be on a sit-down strike against nature.

In the process, we deaden ourselves - physically and mentally - because we don't bother to break out of our numbing lifestyle. We don't allow nature's exercise - standing, walking, bending - to revitalize our muscles. We don't allow those vital active processes to pour more oxygen into us. We are our enemies - ruining ourselves in a quiet but violent way. And as terrorism breeds in a politically criminalized society, heart attacks breed in our violated bodies.

Rebels have realised that to get politicians to hear them, they have to jolt them. It begins with asking, then shouting, and finally, physical violence. Similarly, our body begins to rebel. The symptoms are many - obesity, aches and pains and finally, the terrorism of a heart attack.

You can't afford to slow down in your life in the fast lane. So, work tensions, the philosophy of all work and no play combined with a sedentary lifestyle make you worse than a dull boy.

What happens if you leave your vehicle unused for days in the garage? The battery runs down, of course. The same thing happens to an unworked body. With more than 50 per cent of his body being muscle, today it is medical men - even more than bodybuilders - who say we are what our muscles make us.

In the course of centuries, man's evolution from the leafy jungle to the concrete one, has left him with more muscles than he normally uses. Man was built for action - not atrophy.

While our historical heritage gives us an insight into our natural selves, it is scientific know-how that adds an understanding to our perceptions. And the foundation of science itself is based on observing the simple, yet wondrous things that happen all around us.

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Whether you want to slim down as part of your New Years Resolutions or get ready for the impending beach season, there has never been a better time to get in shape and lose that extra weight. Follow these simple suggestions to ensure you lose weight in a fast yet healthy manner.

Calorie Intake
Losing weight essentially amounts to burning more calories than you consume, which is done through regular exercise and physical activity. Exercising can be useless if you are still eating more calories than you burn, so you need to keep track of what your daily calorie intake is and make sure you burn more calories through physical activity.

Keep a Food Journal
Keeping track of everything you eat each day will allow you to pinpoint eating patterns and see where you need to improve. Make sure you keep track of absolutely everything; from the extra butter you smear to the extra spoonful of sugar in your coffee and all the contents of each meal. Try keeping it for at least two weeks (longer if possible).

Eat Healthier
This may seem like a rather broad and somewhat ambiguous category, but it is simply referring to finding alternatives to the unhealthy foods you eat (which you should be able to identify from the food journal you have been keeping). Little changes you make to your diet can add up in a big way. Try cutting back on the amount of soda you drink, or the dressing you drench your salad with. Substitute healthier choices when you go out to eat, such as opting for a salad over a greasy burger and fries. This isn't to say you have to eat healthy all the time; trying to do that is completely unrealistic and chances you are, you won't stick to it. But making small changes here and there can help you establish and implement better eating habits.

Meal Planning
One way to cut back on mindless munching and unhealthy eating is to plan your meals. At the beginning of each week, sit down and plan out three or four dinner meals that you will eat at home. Look through cookbooks and online cooking sites to get ideas for healthy yet delicious easy meals. This will help you eat better and reduces the temptation to go out to eat or order a pizza. Along with this, another piece of advice: do not go grocery shopping while hungry! Otherwise you will end up buying all the junk food in site!

Energy Supplement
An energy supplement can help curb hunger and boost your energy levels, when taken properly. If you do take any supplement of any kind, remember to do so in conjunction with plenty of exercise and a healthy diet.

Exercise
It is ludicrous to think you will lose any weight without exerting some form of physical activity. Whether it is brisk walking, dancing, or jogging, find something you enjoying doing to make sure you burn more calories than you consume.

Everybody is looking for easy weight loss diet plans they can follow to achieve instant results with the least amount of effort possible.

The calorie shifting diet is one such diet plan. It is one of the easiest and simplest diet plans to follow, as it requires the least amount of sacrifice and discipline to maintain. Thus, people who follow this diet plan have high-motivation due to a general sense of satisfaction, while seeing some positive, serious results. You can expect to lose 9 pounds every 11 days on this diet plan.

How do you follow the calorie shifting diet plan? Simply put, you can eat as much food as you want at each meal until you are satisfied but not to hungry. You get to eat food from each of the four food groups while you are on this diet. You never starve. Your cravings are always fulfilled because you get to eat a little bit of everything. And you lose weight quickly.

How does the calorie shifting diet plan work? Calorie shifting is based on the premise that you have the ability to manipulate your body's metabolism at will, and by eating the right combination of foods at the right intervals, you can trick it into going into fat burning mode, even though you are eating plentiful food. Your body's metabolism is what is responsible for regulating the rate at which you consume food, burn calories, and store fat on your body.

By shifting the types of calories that you consume at each meal, you can trigger the appropriate metabolic response to make this happen. Here is a sample menu plan to illustrate how this works, and to give you an idea as to why this diet is so successful for so many people... You can literally eat as much food as you want of all of these foods!

First Day:

Breakfast: Oatmeal

Lunch: Tuna Salad

Snack: Scrambled Eggs

Dinner: Any type of Sandwich

Second Day:

Breakfast: Scrambled Eggs with Mixed Vegetables

Lunch: Chicken

Snack: Milk Shake

Dinner: Cottage Cheese

Third Day:

Breakfast: Fruit Salad

Lunch: Chicken

Snack: Cottage Cheese

Dinner: Fish Filet

A couple of things are worth mentioning here. On the calorie shifting diet, you can eat each one of these four meals in any order you want during the day. Also, you should give a minimum of 2.5 to 3 hour gap in between each meal.

Now, many experts are speaking out against rapid weight loss diets like this, saying that it is unsafe to lose so much weight so quickly. That is why the calorie shifting diet requires you to take a break on the last 3 days of every 14-day period on this diet, before you resume it again. This gives your body a chance to rest from the rapid weight loss you will have been undergoing. Of course, during those 3 days, it is in your best interest to eat sensibly, so that you don't gain any weight back!

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Fad diets encompass a whole range of methods to temporarily lose weight. Many of diets are unsafe. We constantly hear about new fad diets in the market. Fad diets generally work as follows:

For a period of time you are instructed to restrict you diet to a select group of foods or to purchase prepared foods from the diet company. You may also be told to restrict your eating or to count calories. These diets vary but it is not uncommon for fats to be eliminated in these diets. The reaction to this starvation diet is that your body eliminates excess water. You'll also experience a rapid loss of weight. This initial weight loss is due to water weight.

As you continue to starve your body, after the initial water loss, you'll start to burn muscle mass. At this point it still is not burning fat. Of course, the excess fat is the problem behind your weight problem. The truth is that while you continue to avoid fats, your system will try to preserve the fat that it has stored. If you stay on this fad diet for a month your body will have no alternative but to start burning fat. This is where the difficulty begins. The dieter will get weaker, lethargic and not able to perform well at this initial fat loss stage. Burning fat requires more effort and time to produce energy from fat than it does from muscle.

Usually at this point something gives. You find it difficult to function under these conditions and return to your earlier dietary habits. The problem is that your body has difficulty adjusting to you former eating pattern. Before the body returns to restructuring your muscle, it will store most of your nourishment as excess fat.

Surprise, you're back to your pre-diet weight and possibly a bit more. This is how fad diets fail. It is not possible to lose weight with fad diets and to keep that weight off. This approach to losing weight is flawed from inception. It will never be successful in your weight loss goals.

If you're like most individuals, then chances are, you have not successfully achieved your weight loss goal yet and still looking for a weight loss plan that can lead you to a permanently slim body. There is only one approach that will work permanently. Simple lifestyle changes that you incorporate into you day to day life.

Kathryn Soloff is the mother of 8 children and a natural foods cook for over 30 years. She is co-publisher of http://www.natural-remedy-dot-com.com/fatburnerreviews/herbal_fat_burners.html where she provides additional advice, tips and hard to find information on Weight Loss

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Lets face it every regime has its own supply of useless folklore and half-truths that get passed on down the line from person to person. But I'd put weight loss up against any of them for what has to be the most time wasting and even the most dangerous myths out there.

There is a ton of free advice seen in the media these days and if it is taken seriously, can really set you back on your weight loss endeavours. This can lead to the kind of frustration that makes people think they are "destined to remain fat for the rest of their life".

This in not true, Have a look at the Weight loss myths below and draw your own conclusions.

Exercise on an empty stomach and burn more fat.

Effective weight loss is the total amount of calories burned during the day, not how or why they were burned. It doesn't matter if it is night or morning, so exercise early in the day has no advantage to exercise later in the day.

Studies show that increased metabolism induced by anaerobic exercise is actually less after a large meal. Which probably means that more energy is being used for digestion than what is being used to repair muscle.

More exercise is better.

Every exercise session is beneficial to each individual, however more is not always better. It depends on what is trying to be achieved. There is a level and frequency required to achieve results.

After this level is reached, additional exercise can have the opposite effect, not allowing the body to recuperate and adapt to the stress induced by the exercise, which can be detrimental to your results.

After stopping exercise muscle will turn to fat.

This in not possible, Muscle and fat are two different types of tissues in the body and you cannot convert one into the other. This is like trying to turn water into oil.

If you stop training, the muscles will shrink in size but they will not disappear. The more calories taken in that are not burned off will be deposited as fat.

If you're not sweating, you're not working hard enough.

Sweating is the body's way of cooling itself down. Many factors contribute to body temperature, including room temperature, types of exercise done, body-fat levels, clothing, and exercise intensity.

The intensity for exercise can't be judged by the amount you sweat. A well-trained person will often sweat a lot because their body can more efficiently regulate heat.

Taking sugar before exercise raises energy levels.

Ingestion of sugar will lead to a rapid rise in blood sugar levels. This rapid rise stimulates a release of insulin, which quickly removes the excess sugar from the blood system, often causing your blood sugar levels to drop, sometimes below the level that it started at, leading to faster exhaustion.

Gaining weight is just a part of getting older.

Getting older is not an excuse for gaining weight! As we age and begin a more sedentary lifestyle we start to lose muscle mass.

The efficiency of your metabolism is directly linked to how much muscle you have on your body. The most efficient way of maintaining your body's muscle mass and keeping your metabolism from dropping is by doing a high intensity strength-training workout once a week.

If it's fat free I can have as much as I want.

Unfortunately fat free doesn't mean calorie free. The word fat free is misleading because if you overeat on anything, even fat free foods and you don't burn off those calories; your body will store the excess as fat.

Don't drink water when you exercise or you will get cramps.

By drinking litres of icy cold water in one go while exercising you will probably suffer from cramps. This is why it is important to drink water continuously before, during and after exercising to replace the fluid you've lost and avoid any discomfort.

By not having a personal trainer I wont make gains.

Hiring a personal trainer is one way you can use to reach your goals, but you are an adult capable of making decisions and setting your own goals once you have the knowledge of how to go about it.

Following a good exercise program and eating plan does not require someone standing over you and telling you how to do it.

By exercising my abs I will lose my potbelly.

Exercising your abdominals will help to tone and firm the abdominal region, but it will not reduce fat deposits that are responsible for a potbelly. Fat reduction comes from burning more calories than you take in. Fat is reduced uniformly throughout the body there is no such thing as spot reduction.

Your next step? To take what you have just learned and the next time you hear a weight loss myth evaluate it scientifically.

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The lemonade diet is a real shocker, and here's why you should steer clear...

Written the 1970's, the lemonade diet didn't start out with that name. It was in fact a detox and cleansing plan.

It didn't take long for word to spread though, that if you followed it you would lose weight. The lemonade name stuck, it took hold as a popular diet, and gets a regular dose of celebrity endorsement.

However, this doesn't necessarily mean it's good, or even healthy, and that fact that the most current celebrity to use it, Beyonce Knowles, says she wouldn't recommend it is a sign that it's worth looking a bit closer at what's involved, so here we go...

The lemonade diet name may sound attractive, but it's not so appealing when you discover the process. You make a drink from water and fresh lemon juice, mixed with cayenne pepper and maple syrup. Now that may sound peculiar enough, but what's even stranger is that this drink is all you survive on!

You live on this for 10 days, and then you have a huge weight loss!

Hmm...

Now I'm no rocket scientist, but even I know that if this is all you consume for 10 days, there is no way you are getting enough nutrients or energy to survive. Of course you're not!

It's no surprise that the weight tumbles off, because you are basically starving yourself. It's equally no surprise that when you stop the program, the weight just goes right back on again!

What a waste of time. It's unpleasant to stick to, it's abusing your body, and as soon as you stop you'll end up right back where you started.

Unsustainable, unhealthy, unworthy of your attention. So you can see why I say the lemonade diet sucks!

Gordon Bryan is a writer from Great Britain, who hates the bad diet advice being peddled. Find out more on his blog at: http://dietfactnotfiction.blogspot.com

Let me disclose right upfront that I am not a doctor, but I have lost almost 50 pounds on medifast. A couple of months ago, I was approached by a coworker who had three pretty overweight children, who frankly were approaching being obese. After seeing my results, and noticing that I'd been able to eat snack type foods, my coworker wanted to know if medifast could work for her kids and her teenage daughter.

There's not much data available on using the medifast diet on kids or teens and I knew that children are still growing so it probably was not a good idea to severely limit or restrict their calories. But I also knew that some of this diet's foods are very carb and snack like, and I knew that she was having trouble controlling the snacks that her kids ate. In particular, the kids were very fond of junk foods and candy.

A light bulb went off in my head. I figured maybe we could start with just encouraging the kids to eat a medifast bar, pudding or shake when they reached for a junk food snack. In essence, we were trading the high sugar, high calorie candy bars and fast foods for something equivalent from the diet's offerings. Since these kids snacked several times per day, we were saving a lot of calories this way. Initially, we left their regular meals alone, just using medifast as snack substitutes. We ordered one variety package (and are getting ready to order another) and this lasted us a good while and was not much more expensive than junk food.

The kids handled this pretty well. Luckily, most of the medifast snack foods are really good, so it was not a big stretch to eat a protein bar rather than a candy bar or medifast pudding or crackers rather than chips. We always made sure we took the food out of the wrapper so they didn't have to walk around advertising they were eating diet foods.

The kids started to see some results after only a few weeks. As their enthusiasm increased even more, we decided to see if we could replace more of their daily empty calories with medifast. However, we were very careful not to restrict their calories or food choices. Basically, we added one medifast element at every meal and had them eat that in addition to and before their regular meal.

For instance for breakfast we would offer them medifast oatmeal or eggs to start. They would eat that and then if they were still hungry they could eat their regular sugary cereal breakfast if they wanted. For lunch, they'd have the diet's soup or chili before they dove into the pizza or burgers. (We'd pack this in a thermos so no one knew they were eating diet food.) And we started preparing lean and green meals for dinner. We still let them eat a bit of their regular favorite foods at dinner, but just not nearly as much.

What we hoped would happen did. The kids got filled up on medifast so they didn't eat as much of their junk and low quality foods and they continue to see really dramatic results. The teen is now able to self regulate what she eats and has cut out a lot of junk. We still don't allow them to rely solely on the diet for their calories. That may be too drastic for kids, but the teen in particular is now making really good choices with the food that she eats in addition to medifast.

I think the reason this worked is because the medifast snack foods are really tasty and kid friendly and we never restricted what the kids ate. We never told them they couldn't have anything. We just had them eat medifast first. We were adding food instead of taking it away, but by doing this, they were actually eating less bad foods because they were filling up on medifast.

I would never advocate replacing medifast for a kid or teen's entire caloric intake. However, in this case, substituting the diet's foods for junk food snacks or poor food choices has been quite effective and much easier than I thought. My coworker is very grateful and is now on medifast herself.

Lindsey Price is approaching a 50 pound weight loss on Medifast. Learn how she helped three kids lose 80 combined pounds by clicking here to view the Kids And Teens Weight Loss Website

Studies have shown that weight loss pills made from the Hoodia Gordinii plant can successfully suppress appetite. These pills are very popular nowadays and have been used by lots of people around the world with great success.

Hoodia suppresses the appetite by making the brain think you have already eaten. This way you will want to eat less, making you lose weight. The effect of this plant truly is remarkable. You will still feel hungry, especially when you have eaten very little, just a lot less. This is not a meal replacement product so you will still have to eat.

The Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert have been using the hoodia plant since ancient times. They use it to stop feeling hunger during their hunting trips. The Bushmen also use the plant as a treatment for various diseases including indigestion, tuberculosis and others.

Hoodia gordonii pills and extracts are a great alternative to prescribed weight loss medications. Hoodia does not have any known side effects and is purely natural. You can easily buy hoodia pills online and have them delivered straight to your door.

Unfortunately the popularity of hoodia supplements also come with its negative effects. Lots of fake hoodia products have appeared on the market. This is why you should only buy them at reputable sites or stores. Ask for proof that they are really selling true hoodia. It is very easy to get scammed.

While Hoodia products are very helpful they will not make you lose weight by themselves. If you want to truly be successful at weight loss you will have to combine the Hoodia supplement with a good diet and exercise program.

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How many fad diets do you have to waste your hard earned cash on before you realize that spot reduction in weight loss is nothing more than a myth. This myth was developed by the diet industry to take money out of your pocket and waste it on a product that will not deliver any results in your weight loss quest? Yes!! You have been lied to!!

If you are only interested in losing a quick twenty pounds off your butt then I suggest you stop reading here because there really is no way to spot reduce. If you want to lose weight in a specific area you need to melt away the body fat in the way an unlit candle melts in the hot sun. If you want to really be serious about your weight loss then read on because the following information is extremely relevant.

To understand why you can not spot reduce let us look at some basic human anatomy. Let us look at how your muscle and your fat develops around your stomach area. If you have spent the last few years wondering where you placed that six pack your abdomen used to have fear not because it is still there. It is under the fat, it is just hiding from sight. In order to see those muscles you need to eliminate the fat deposits that are masking them. The only way to show off those muscles again would be to not only exercise them but eliminate the fat that is hiding them. You could do crunches from dawn till dark and you still will not be able to "spot reduce" your abdomen. It just simply does not work that way. If you want to spot reduce you are wasting your time and more than likely your money.

If your desire is to lose weight because you are unhappy with your butt or your belly or your whatever... that is great! You just need to realize that you have to tune up the entire body package and not focus on one area. The best way to do this is by eating a better diet and performing some form of exercise that will allow you to burn more calories than you consume in the course of the day. Only after you get your diet under control and your attention is focused on exercise will you be able to start targeting a specific area. The muscles you desire to spotlight can only then can be developed for public display after you have lost the weight that hides them from sight.

If you want to lose weight that is great, I wish you the best. I hope you can do it and do it well. My sincere desire is that you save your money and skip the fad diet and the miracle pills. There is no modern miracle pill that will melt away the pounds. If your desire is to lose weight then plan on doing it the only way possible. That way is to eat right and burn more calories. If you want to spend some money on weight loss solutions then get a treadmill or a weight set or just a good pair of walking shoes and then use them.

Weight loss miracle? No, it will be more like a weight loss journey. That journey can begin right here and right now! It is all up to the choices you make and those choices soon become your past and your past is what you must live with, when it comes to weight loss that is!

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Keith Quackenbush is a graduate of St. John's University and a former U.S. Marine Corps officer. He and his wife (Sue) have been seeking knowledge on weightloss and have realized there is no magic pill to lose weight. http://www.IChooseThin.com is the destination achieved from the inadequate weight loss websites that really did not help others lose weight. Let the weightloss journey begin.

Who is Dr. Suzanne Gunakunst:

Dr. Gunakunst is a Arizona based physician promoting what she calls a permanent answer to weight loss and disease prevention. She has done extensive research on the subjects of colon and intestinal health. I live in Atlanta, where there is fairly strong alternative health community. I have purchased Dr. Gunakunst's research program, and I found that it fills in all the details of health theories I have heard tid-bits about in the alternative health community.

America's Weight Loss Problem:

Listen people, when you stop and think about it, the health of those of us living in the so called western world is directly connected to our body weight; which is a direct result of our diets and sedimentary lifestyles. As I write this article today my wife is currently sitting in a hospital waiting room has her sister goes under the knife for cancer.

You guessed it, she is over weight,and around 50 years old. Once her weight began to increase along with her age, the first thing was high-blood pressure, and then high cholesterol then a mild stroke and now cancer.

She was warned in no uncertain terms to change everything after the stroke,but she chose not to do so.

I know that many of you have similar personal stories. What Dr. Gundkunst is trying to do bring the truth to the masses. Like I said earlier, there are pockets of people who know this stuff, but what she is saying is no where near as well known as it needs to be; considering the condition of our health.

Countries such as Japan refuse to import our meat. Our doctors, often well meaning professionals, are caught in the middle of a drugs and surgery health care system, with very little emphasis on preventive lifestyle. To put it bluntly, the money plain and simply come before our health. We are currently in a debate on who will reform the health care system, and how they will do it. Well, I wouldn't hold my breath on that one.

With new and old deceases running rampant, we have to start to live differently. Now like I said, I have gone through Dr. Gunakunst's program and the lifestyle changes are not that extreme! People, especially my fellow Americans I know we are used to things being packaged a certain way. She has done that. The materials are laid out in a easy to read and understand 39-page e-document. We also drive a hard bargain; ok the price is less than most Dr. office co-pays.

And lastly, we are obsessed with good looking youthful people. Well not only is she young and hot, the models used in the materials are hot also.

As you can probably tell, this subject is kind of a pet peeve of mine. I do pretty good with my diet and exercise, but I am getting older myself and I know I am not doing enough. I think one of the best things we can do to fix the health care mess is to take personal responsibility for our own personal well being on a daily basis; which will result in a sharp decline in the need for drugs and surgery. How's that for an American idea?

Dr. Gudakunst is Blowing The Whistle Weight Loss In America:

I applaud Dr. G for taking on the conventional wisdom and coming out with this program. When you read it, something deep inside tells you that it really is the truth. (boy I sounded like Oprah right then)

It is rumored that she has received death threats for doing this. If you do nothing else, go to the site below and watch the video of a parasite clinging to someone's bowels. It is estimated in medical journals that millions of us are living with parasites inside us that drain our energy, allow toxins to build up in our systems and prevent us from losing weight.

Take some kind of action while you can with or without Dr. G's program. But I am telling you right now, she has put it in a very convincing, attractive and doable package for us. Just think if we can start our kids off with these type of habits....Ok I have to go now. My wife is callin.

If the content in this article somehow does not apply to you, I know that it does apply to someone you love. Check the site out yourself and then enlighten that person in your life that you know needs to make a change. We can all be more healthy to experience a better life with the ones we love. Thanks for reading this.

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Fad diets encompass a whole range of methods to temporarily lose weight. Many of diets are unsafe. We constantly hear about new fad diets in the market. Fad diets generally work as follows:

For a period of time you are instructed to restrict you diet to a select group of foods or to purchase prepared foods from the diet company. You may also be told to restrict your eating or to count calories. These diets vary but it is not uncommon for fats to be eliminated in these diets. The reaction to this starvation diet is that your body eliminates excess water. You'll also experience a rapid loss of weight. This initial weight loss is due to water weight.

As you continue to starve your body, after the initial water loss, you'll start to burn muscle mass. At this point it still is not burning fat. Of course, the excess fat is the problem behind your weight problem. The truth is that while you continue to avoid fats, your system will try to preserve the fat that it has stored. If you stay on this fad diet for a month your body will have no alternative but to start burning fat. This is where the difficulty begins. The dieter will get weaker, lethargic and not able to perform well at this initial fat loss stage. Burning fat requires more effort and time to produce energy from fat than it does from muscle.

Usually at this point something gives. You find it difficult to function under these conditions and return to your earlier dietary habits. The problem is that your body has difficulty adjusting to you former eating pattern. Before the body returns to restructuring your muscle, it will store most of your nourishment as excess fat.

Surprise, you're back to your pre-diet weight and possibly a bit more. This is how fad diets fail. It is not possible to lose weight with fad diets and to keep that weight off. This approach to losing weight is flawed from inception. It will never be successful in your weight loss goals.

If you're like most individuals, then chances are, you have not successfully achieved your weight loss goal yet and still looking for a weight loss plan that can lead you to a permanently slim body. There is only one approach that will work permanently. Simple lifestyle changes that you incorporate into you day to day life.

Kathryn Soloff is the mother of 8 children and a natural foods cook for over 30 years. She is co-publisher of http://www.natural-remedy-dot-com.com/fatburnerreviews/herbal_fat_burners.html where she provides additional advice, tips and hard to find information on Weight Loss

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