Why Do You Never See A Fat Person Advertising Weight Loss Products?

You always see the anorexic model selling the product, who thinks "weight" is spelled wait. Have you ever seen a fat weight loss trainer? Maybe someone who knows what you are going thru. I would bet that 90% of these weight loss experts have never had a serious weight problem. Do you want to know who the weight loss experts are? Fat people. They have read everything written on weight loss and used almost every weight loss product ever made . Their success, or lack of it does not disqualify them. There is something missing like...

* Lack of discipline (Because they know what to do but can not stick to the program)

* They do not understand their addiction to food and what is causing it (physiological, chemical, or medical)

* Refuse to see the health problems being caused by being overweight ( this is realized after it is to late)

* Most Fat people are great at justifying or making excuses for their Fatness (I can lose weight tomorrow. It does not interfere with life..)

This last and biggest thing missing is support from the people who love you and are in your life every day. If they have no weight problem, they do not understand what you are living with. If they are fat and are not worried about weight loss, your success undermines their life choices. These two reasons are why most people fail with their weight loss programs. Everyone needs support at reaching goals in their lives. It is the very rare person who can do it alone.

People sharing like minded experiences is the best support group for you to reach the goals you set. They might be where you are going. If someone has a road map showing the hazards along the way, why not use it? If they can show you an easier way to do something, why not do it? If they can take something that is not working for you and show you how to make it work, is that not better than setting up another excuse to fail.

Weight loss is a battle everyday for the rest of you life. It does not matter if you are overweight by 10 pounds or 410 pounds. If the extra weight affects your health and life, it is a problem. Studying, reading, and learning why you are overweight is important. Taking actions is the only thing that will make it happen. Who or what is the only thing that can stop you from being successful, Write your name here

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Live With Energy - Live With Passion

The plan has it that we work until we are too tired to contine, then 'retire'.

Doesn't the word retire say it all - 're' suggests we are just doing the same thing again - getting tired. Have you ever noticed that you never get tired doing something you love. Remember the feeling when you come home after a long days snow skiing or shopping. Your whole body just wants to collapse into that armchair. Your body is weary, but you feel great! It's been a terrific day.

With the plethora of opportunities for people to work in later years, why is it that so many retire, just to become old. For generations, we have been focused on the expectation that come 55 or 60 we retire to do all the things in life we always wanted to do. We see retirement as a passage of honor. But what if you planned you life to live with passion - and you actually love your job. Why stop just to play in the garden and take an offshore vacation each year?

For many, the reality of retirement is not as glamorous as the concept. They find themselves bored, socially isolated and unhappy. Well, after 6-12 months anyway.

Our bodies are no longer subjected to the heavy loads previously endured through more physical vocations. As our worklife today is considerably more sedentary, our bodies no longer need to stop at a certain age. Rather than use the adage retirement, why not embrace this age as a 'relive' point. That point, where you reassess the way you earn an income, the passions you have in your life and how you want to approach the next twenty years.

Rather than buy into the social norm, using age - why not let your body and mind dictate your 'relive' point. All through my life I have tried to live with passion - for those I loved, and for the things I loved doing. I have had incredible highs and devastating lows, but one thing has remained constant - I am determined NOT to live the same day over and over, like so many do.

Sure, it takes courage to make a change. And sure, not all changes are what we expected. So what! One can always make another change, and another, until you find yourself immersed in a life so rich, the hours of the day whip past you before you realise you have even passed the age of 30.

I prefer to take my 'retirement' years as I go. Once I passed age

40, I found many of my friends we falling off the face of the earth, either from accidents or illness. What is the point of leaving all those things you really want to do, until the latter years, when you may longer be physically capable of doing them.

Accept the economic cost and have the courage to take a year off to explore new horizons. You may find at the end of the year, not only are you more passionately invested in your new role, but you are actually making sufficient income that you no longer need to return to your previous mode of employment. I tend to work on seven year cycles. Five years of solid consulting, followed by two years of exploring new fields. This not only develops me as a person, but also provides me with a lot deeper knowledge and perspective for my next set of clients.

The past two years I have focused on setting up passive income streams for my retirement, in a new field for me - electronic information. I have loved learning how to use Dreamweaver and Photoshop. I have a passion for art, photography and architecture, so naturally I have a site on remodeling and renovations.

I love technology and marketing, so I have a couple of websites on that as well.

And I love success, you guessed it, I have a website on success also. I have successfully integrated all my passions into a expanding network of income.

As I embark on my next five year round of consulting I am eager to continue to expand my new areas of passion, and work them into my workday. It just doesn't seem like work.

Life is not about getting older. It's about gathering more experiences and maintaining your mind and body in the best possible state to embrace new opportunities. It's like friends - make new friends, but keep the old; one is silver, the other gold. Use the same approach with everything in your life. Try new activities, new paths of travel, new ideas, new ways to earn an income. You may surprise yourself. And your body will love you for it. The old adage - Use It Or Lose It, holds true for both the body and the mind.

Muscle loss and loss of brain function both result from lack of exercise.

Live with passion, live by your rules. Don't have time to get old!

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Age Dieting: Choose The Best Diet For Your Age Range

You probably know that it is much harder to lose weight when you are 30 than when you are 20. And if you are over 40, it is even more difficult. Every year your metabolism slows down. That is why the older you are, the more attention you should pay to healthy dieting and maintaining a healthy life style.

You are 20 – 30 years old.

It is not common to have a serious problem with weight in this age range. You can lose 3-5 pounds without trying too hard. The best way to lose extra pounds is a fruit diet. Fruits are rich in vitamin C, which will help you to stay physically active. Pectin, fruit acids and potassium burn calories and improve your metabolism and digestion.

Here is an example of an apple diet:

Breakfast: grate 1 apple; add 1 low fat yogurt and 1 table spoon of oatmeal.

Brunch: 1 apple.

Lunch: slice 2 apples and add spinach. For sauce mix 1 low fat yogurt, 1 tea spoon of olive oil, 1 tea spoon of apple cider vinegar and 1 tea spoon of water.

Snack: 1 apple and 3 walnuts.

Dinner: slice 1 apple, squeeze lemon juice on it and eat it with 5 oz of cheese.

You are 30-40 years old.

When you turn 30 years old, your metabolism slows down. You should lower calories in your dieting even if you are physically active. Do not try to lose weight fast. It will make you look a few years older because your skin will become loose and wrinkled. The older you become, the slower you should lose weight. Your goal at this age is to lose no more than 4-5 pounds a month. An ideal diet for you consists of vegetables because you will not have ‘hunger attacks’ and swaying in your weight. Also, you should add regular exercise, massage and skin care that improves skin elasticity.

Do not plan exercises on your dieting day.

Here is an example of a vegetable diet:

Breakfast: mix oatmeal and corn flakes; add low fat milk and 1 grated carrot.

Brunch: 1 cucumber.

Lunch: 2 boiled potatoes (with the skin still on them) with a lot of vegetable salad (you can use any vegetables)

Snack: 1 red sweet paprika.

Dinner: vegetable salad and 1 piece of rye bread.

You are 40-50 years old.

Almost every woman over 40 has weight problems. Your muscular mass decreases and fat increases because of hormonal changes. You should eat most of your food in the first half of the day and have very light and early dinners. You should get no more fat than 30% of your daily ration. Choose vegetable oils. Eat fish and sea food regularly.

In this age range your body starts retaining fluid. An ideal diet for you is a rice diet because it will help you to maintain a healthy fluid level in your body.

Here is an example of a rice diet:

Boil 8 oz of rice and divide it into 3 portions. 2 of them will be combined with additional protein components.

Breakfast: boiled rice with 1 low fat yogurt and 1 tea spoon of honey.

Lunch: boiled rice and 5 oz of fish or chicken.

Dinner: rice with steamed vegetables and 1 tea spoon of vegetable oil.

Do not add salt because it will lead to retaining fluid in your body. You can add soy because it will help with ‘hunger attacks’.

For snack you can eat a fruit or 3 oz of low fat cottage cheese.

You are 50-60 years old.

If you are over 50, you need less energy (about 30%) than somebody who is 20 years old. Eat 4-5 small portions a day. Do not over eat because it is harmful to your health. Limit your daily ration of salt to ¼ tea spoon a day. Sometimes you can fast, but do not do it often because in this age range your body loses its strength to fight illnesses.

The most effective substances ‘killing’ fat are enzymes. Pineapple and papaya are very rich in enzymes and vitamin C.

Here is an example of a diet for you:

Eat during the day about 4 -5 pounds of pineapple and papaya (or choose just one), including the pulp and juice. Divide these 4-5 pounds into 3 portions: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Do not eat anything else this day. If this diet is too strict for you, try this one:

Breakfast: 1 slice of pineapple and 3 oz of low fat cottage cheese.

Lunch: a half of pineapple and 3 oz of boiled chicken or fish or low fat meat.

Dinner: 1 slice of pineapple and 1 piece of rye bread with 1 piece of low fat cheese.

Also, powerful ‘fat-killers’ are kiwis, apple cider vinegar and artichokes (and the water left from boiling artichokes)

You are over 60 years old.

Your muscular mass in this age range is about 15% of your body. That is why if you want to lose weight, you should do it very slowly because fast diets decrease the amount of protein in your muscular mass.

The main rule is to eat no more than 40 g of fat a day.

Here are some examples:

Breakfast: 1 slice of bread with 1 tea spoon of low fat yogurt.

Lunch: instead of 1.5 oz of ground meat choose 1.5 oz of red beans. You will get an optical illusion of meat, but 7g less fat. If you can’t live without meat, eat low fat beef instead of pork chop. You will get 13 g less fat.

Snack: instead of cake, choose a piece of fruit pie (minus 13 g of fat).

Dinner: instead of salami choose a piece of ham (minus 10 g of fat). With a piece of 30% fat cheese you get 10 g less fat compare to 60% fat cheese.

Drink no less than 2 L of water. It will support your digestion and metabolism.

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Guaranteed Weight Loss-A Diet Sure To Drop The Pounds

My family and I have just discovered the greatest weight loss diet on the market. Collectively, we lost at least 20 pounds while laying around in bed. All this in just three days! Yes, I said three days!

What is this diet and how much does it cost? It is known as the gastrointestinal virus. Yes, it can cost you an insurance copay for taking your kids to the doctor to be told it is a virus but that is entirely different story.

Other than that, the diet is free and you even get days off of work. The benefits of the weight loss diet are endless. You are looking at spending hours and hours of time with your family laying in bed. You get to become closer as a family unit. How can a family not come close after cleaning up after one another and smelling the same stinky clothes for three days? Yes, I said three days!

So I know you are asking-how can I get one of those gastrointestinal viruses so I too can lose weight, grow closer with my family and get days off of work? Well, you are in luck because I have retraced my steps and have some tips for you to use as your very own in hopes that you too can be so lucky to catch a gastrointestinal virus.

Hang out in the church nursery.

Kids carry germs like nobody in the world. It shouldn't take much. They never cover their mouth when they sneeze or cough. I have gone home countless times with all kinds of bodily functions on me from leaky diapers to snotty substances. Extra tip: always volunteer to calm down the upset child-they are sure to snot on you.

Eat out at all of the restaurants

My father was just in town and wanted to eat out at all these new restaurants because they don't have them in the small town in which he lives. I am not saying restaurants are bad, but in some cases they can be breeding grounds for the virus. You have a dirty waiter or undercooked meat and you are set with the diet virus.

Hang out at the community pool

My goodness, this last week at our pool-I kid you not there was dirty underwear on the deck. The bathroom is always an adventure trying to get through the wet floors, soggy toilet paper and dirty diapers stacked in the stall. A mom's worse nightmare when you are in the process of potty training, but for those hoping for this new diet-it is a match made in heaven!

So get going, the summer is almost gone and you don't want to cut into your kids school time! For those who are offended by this article, it is just a little glimpse into my life over the past three days! I don't mean to offend.

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Best Core Exercise Program for Core Fitness

The right core exercises can mean the difference between great progress and definite results with your core training program or not getting any results at all.

There are hundreds of muscles in the core of your body - the abdominals (all layers), lower and mid back, pelvic region, obliques and the popular 'love handle' areas are loaded with muscles of all different sizes, shapes, lengths and angles - which require specific exercises to produce the desired strength training effect for optimal fitness.

The following exercises can serve as a core training primer for beginners or they can be added or substituted into your current core workout routine.

1 – Lying face up, hand down at your side. Bring your legs up, knees slightly bent with the bottom of your feet toward the ceiling. This is your start position. While keeping the abdominals pulled in (contracted), slowly lower your right leg, until the heel touches the ground, and then raise it back up. Do this fifteen times. Then switch legs.

2 – Lying face up with knees bent, feet off the floor. Arms are extended as if reaching toward the sky if you were standing. As you breathe out, slowly bring your knees toward you by contracting your abdominals (pulling inward). Then breathe in as you return to the start position.

3 - Lying face up with knees bent, heels on the ground and toes pointing up. Lift your butt off the ground to engage the core muscles. Now, here is where the fun starts. Lift one foot off the floor, extending that leg until it is straight, bring it back to the start position (heel on ground) and then do the same with the other leg. Keep alternating until you do a total of twenty, ten on each side.

If this exercise sequence is too easy, go through it again and see how you do. If it was too challenging, decrease the number of repetitions to about five and do this every other day. Gradually increase the repetitions as your core gets stronger.

A big mistake many people, even trainers, make is to mimic the abdominal routines of bodybuilders or power-lifters. The problem with that is most people are not bodybuilders or power-lifters - and these people tend to over-train anyway (I know this because I used to do it myself!).

The problems here range from a lot of wasted time to serious, long term injuries.

This happens every day to people who try to exercise without proper guidance and it’s one the reasons why physical therapists are so busy!

The proper workout must be designed to provide the most effective exercise training stimulus to the entire midsection, in the shortest amount of time (because we are all very busy people, right?), with minimal risk of injury. The problem is it is extremely rare to find an abdominal and core workout routine that fits all of these criteria. Use these important points when structuring your program.

These are the exact principles I follow when training my personal, one-on-one clients AND they are the same principles I follow in my own fitness training workout program. Structure your own program according to the principles outlined above, with the proper selection of core exercises for effective and safe results.

Joey Atlas, M.S. – Exercise Physiology, is a fitness consultant, trainer and writer in Jacksonville, Florida. He is the creator of ‘Abs of Stone – Core of Steel’, a complete Core Exercise Fitness Program

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Review Of The Negative Calorie Diet Part I And II

The two articles sound like a hybrid of the Raw Foods (vegan diet) and the 6 week body makeover diet by Michael Thurmond. Both experience very good weight loss if done properly. In the two programs they stress either no animal protein (vegan) or in small amounts 3 to 4oz in 5 to 6 meals per day (6 week body makeover). The Thermal calorie burning is key in both programs.

If the body is allow to burn or uses all the calories taken in at one meal before the next, weight loss will happen. Protein is much harder to metabolize than fruits and vegetables, so eating less protein allows your metabolism rate to go up. Higher the Basal metabolic rate the more calories burned and the more weight that is lost.

The important thing to remember with a strict Raw Food diet is? Because of reduced levels of calcium, iodine, and vitamins B₁₂ and D, vegans are encouraged to take dietary supplements.
On the minerals, salt should not be uses during weight loss. Any salt intake retains body fluids which hurts your weight loss program. The quicker you show weight loss the longer you will stay on the program.


No matter what diet you use Water is the key part of any successful weight loss program. The liver plays the main roll in the metabolism of fat in the human body. If the kidneys are deprived of water the liver has to pick up part of the kidneys functions, which in turns lowers it affectedness of metabolizing fat. You need at least 64oz of water a day for the human body to run like a fine tune machine.

This is a fine example of someone taking two weight loss programs and making one that works for them. Human body types are like cars, some run ok on cheap gas while others become clogged and breakdown. Not every diet fits every body type, so do the research and find out what works for you.

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The Negative Calorie Diet - Part II

What Foods Have Been Designated as Having “Negative Calories"?

The following foods are considered to have these characteristics, although this is mainly in the raw (or very lightly cooked) state:

Vegetables:

Asparagus, Beans, Broccoli, Cabbage, Chicory, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celery, Hot Chili, Cucumber, Garlic, Green Lettuce, Onion, Radish, Spinach, Turnip, Watercress, Zucchini

Fruits:

Apple, Blueberries, Cantaloupe, Cranberry, Grapefruit, Honeydew, Lemon/Lime, Mango, Orange , Papaya, Peach, Pineapple, Raspberry, Strawberry, Tomato, Tangerine, Turnip, Watermelon

Conclusions

Whatever else is true, it is clear that “all food calories are not equal" and the composition of your diet can have a significant effect on your weight loss/fat loss progress. To loose weight successfully in the long term your body has to burn off some of its fat deposits. This will require the establishment of a daily calorie deficit in terms of the energy balance of the body. This deficit is created when the calories of food energy ingested are less than the calories of body energy expended (in the form of the energy needed to maintain BMR plus the energy expended in daily physical activity: a must!!).

In other words:

Calorie Deficit (Replaced by burning fat) = Energy In (Food Calories) – Energy Out (Heat Calories)

In this equation however “Energy In" must be expressed as Net Food Calories, which are the calories obtained from food NET of the calories (i.e after subtracting them) burned in digesting/metabolizing the food eaten. Most food energy values are expressed (in calories) as their gross energy value (i.e. total heat energy value per gram or oz) and therefore make no allowance for any thermic effect. Therefore, regardless as to whether you fully believe in the concept of Negative Calorie Foods, you can be sure that the food choices you make CAN and WILL have an impact on your weight/fat loss program. This is particularly true in relation to the proportions of macronutrients (protein, fat, and carbohydrates) in your diet when a diet that has a higher proportion of protein (which raises BMR by 25%-30%) will contribute a smaller quantity of NET calories than a diet which gets its calories from quantities of either fat or carbohydrate (which only raise BMR by 4%-6%). Do keep in mind that a proper ratio of macronutrients is approximately 50% carbs, 30% protein, and 20% healthy fats. This ratio can vary slightly for different individuals, but this is a good place to start.

Therefore, it makes sense to carefully evaluate the make up of your diet and to have some understanding of the proportions of protein, fat & carbohydrate. A diet that obtains a higher proportion of its calories from protein rich foods (such as lean white meat or fish) will tend to be more effective at promoting fat loss. Whatever you believe about the claims made, the list of “Negative Calorie Foods" is principally made up of healthy complex fibrous carbohydrates and including many of these into a diet that is skewed towards more protein (30% of the diet) is likely to prove to be a winning combination for promoting steady weight loss, provided an overall calorie deficit is maintained by a program of modest calorie restriction combined with regular aerobic exercise. Please see my other articles, or visit my website, for more on this.

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