Are you an extreme dieter?
The main drawback with someone on a diet is the mind; the mind can stand in the way of progress. At the front of a dieters’ mental consciousness is their relationship with calories and the bathroom scales. This can become a vicious circle and a recipe for failure.
Dieters imprison themselves at all levels so they can reach a constant flow of progress on the scales. This is tunnel vision dieting without any concern for anything but numbers. Clever marketing has tricked and got inside the heads of the venerable dieters to the extreme where nutritional health isn’t the priority anymore.
For years the dieting industry has used the low calorie approach to answer the obesity problem leaving the public with a very shallow understanding about nutrition. This has left a very sour taste in the mouth of many dieters whose progress has vanished in thin air instead of seeing excess body weight and fat disappear.
So what can potentially go wrong for a typical dieter? If the desired bodyweight is reached it is likely to be only temporary due to the unnatural dieting methods followed. This normally leads to a lifetime of yoyo dieting with body weight fluctuations and malnutrition.
The run of the mill low calorie dieting advice has led people to do things on gut feeling rather than on actual proven formulas. For example, if someone is not losing at a rate they desire they will either cut their calories to a dangerously low level and/or increase their exercise volume to compensate for a lack of progress. It becomes a battle that can’t be won resulting in more vulnerability towards worthless quick fixes.
If something sounds too good to be true then it normally is. It is essential to approach dieting with an open mind and great care must be taken when choosing whose advice to follow. Once a basic understanding about nutrition is achieved it is easy to pick out the proper advice from the ridiculous scams. The shelves of supermarkets and health food shops are full of diet foods connected to the biggest companies in the diet industry. No matter what it reads on the label if it contains ingredients you can’t pronounce or high amounts of sugar or sodium then it cant’ be helping you fight the fat can it? Remember knowing the basics can save you years of frustration and loads of money in the process.
Are you an extreme dieter?
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Don’t Skip or Rush Breakfast – How to Jump-Start The Metabolism for Quicker Fat Loss Results
Eating breakfast will help achieve more fat loss and weight loss for dieters!
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day for fat loss and weight loss. You should never miss this essential feeding time slot if you want to get rid of man boobs and achieve a six-pack or improve muscle tone or build lean body mass. It is equally as important for dieters as it is for the above goals; especially women who want to reduce fat from the belly and arms.
Breakfast means to break the fast from the nights sleep, why is this important? During sleep the metabolism (the rate the body burns calories) slows down because of the lack of demand needed for calories. The worst thing you can do is to prolong the fasting and keep the metabolism running slow (the rate the body burns calories) by skipping breakfast. If you do this what chance do you have achieving fat loss results?
Proven by research
Research after research has proven time and time again that eating breakfast will help achieve more fat loss and weight loss for dieters, but it doesn’t stop there. The sooner you feed the muscles with quality nutrients the better, you need regular feeds to fuel and maintain as much lean body mass as possible to help keep the metabolism fire burning.
Why is this important?
Muscle has a greater calorie demand than body fat. Skipping breakfast will teach your body to store fat and rob fuel from the muscles causing them to break down and lower the rate your body burns calories. Some women get scared with any mention of muscle or maintaining muscle mass through eating smart and resistance training because of the misconceptions attached to it. It is easily achievable to get very strong and eat loads of clean calories and still lose fat if done correctly.
Setting your appetite
What if you haven’t got an appetite first thing on a morning? Don’t worry, I teach my clients to break it down if this is the case. You could start with setting your first goal so you eat breakfast before 10am every morning. Then during the weeks ahead try and bring the time closer to a more convenient time soon after rising. You should aim to get 25% of your daily calories at breakfast. It may seem like a lot at first but it is the best and only way to jump-start the metabolism for quicker fat loss results.
Eating breakfast will help achieve more fat loss and weight loss for dieters!
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day for fat loss and weight loss. You should never miss this essential feeding time slot if you want to get rid of man boobs and achieve a six-pack or improve muscle tone or build lean body mass. It is equally as important for dieters as it is for the above goals; especially women who want to reduce fat from the belly and arms.
Breakfast means to break the fast from the nights sleep, why is this important? During sleep the metabolism (the rate the body burns calories) slows down because of the lack of demand needed for calories. The worst thing you can do is to prolong the fasting and keep the metabolism running slow (the rate the body burns calories) by skipping breakfast. If you do this what chance do you have achieving fat loss results?
Proven by research
Research after research has proven time and time again that eating breakfast will help achieve more fat loss and weight loss for dieters, but it doesn’t stop there. The sooner you feed the muscles with quality nutrients the better, you need regular feeds to fuel and maintain as much lean body mass as possible to help keep the metabolism fire burning.
Why is this important?
Muscle has a greater calorie demand than body fat. Skipping breakfast will teach your body to store fat and rob fuel from the muscles causing them to break down and lower the rate your body burns calories. Some women get scared with any mention of muscle or maintaining muscle mass through eating smart and resistance training because of the misconceptions attached to it. It is easily achievable to get very strong and eat loads of clean calories and still lose fat if done correctly.
Setting your appetite
What if you haven’t got an appetite first thing on a morning? Don’t worry, I teach my clients to break it down if this is the case. You could start with setting your first goal so you eat breakfast before 10am every morning. Then during the weeks ahead try and bring the time closer to a more convenient time soon after rising. You should aim to get 25% of your daily calories at breakfast. It may seem like a lot at first but it is the best and only way to jump-start the metabolism for quicker fat loss results.
Eating breakfast will help achieve more fat loss and weight loss for dieters!
Monday, April 19, 2010
The Truth About Low Calorie Diets – Your Body Can’t Count Calories!
The hype surrounding weight loss and calories exposed!
Did you know you have to eat to lose weight? You need calories to burn calories or your metabolism will slow down (metabolism is the rate your body burns calories). Following are consequences associated with skipping meals and not eating enough calories.
1. You don’t learn anything from dieting. All you learn is how to imprison yourself for months and even years. Nutrition is a lifestyle that needs to be taught so it can be applied for a lifetime!
2. You increase the number of fat storing enzymes each time you diet.
3. You decrease the number of fat burning enzymes each time you diet and create an increase in the size of fat cells.
4. You decrease lean body mass and basal metabolic rate. Each diet makes it harder to restore normal basal metabolic rate.
5. You create insulin and blood sugar handling problems, which most of the time creates fat storage and hypoglycemic symptoms = cravings!
6. With dieting which is a stress, more cortisol is released. When cortisol goes up, insulin goes up to protect the body. Both of these are converted to glucose and into fat = fat storing hormones.
7. Most people decrease the amount of good fat when dieting. Fat deficiency causes fat cravings, the kinds of fat you find in junk food.
The 7 reasons above are pretty scary. You can’t influence Mother Nature, in other words no matter how hard you try to drop a dress size or transform the way you look you can’t do it by reducing calories because evolution didn’t build us this way.
Low calorie diets also cause many people to be MAL-nourished, even obese people. If you are MAL-nourished how can you expect to be healthy and look good? Even when on low calorie diets, if you live on processed foods it can cause toxic overload for the liver and make it difficult if not impossible to digest essential nutrients when you do finally put them in your mouth.
It is essential to detox and eliminate processed foods from your diet. The body needs nutrients from a cross section of natural foods to be healthy and work at an optimum level. Once your body begins to assimilate nutrients you need less food because the body is sending signals telling your brain that you are satisfied. Failing this you will get hungry even whilst eating large amounts if it’s the wrong food. If you get hungry you eat even more, if you eat more food you won’t lose weight and reduce fat from the places you want.
The hype surrounding weight loss and calories exposed!
Did you know you have to eat to lose weight? You need calories to burn calories or your metabolism will slow down (metabolism is the rate your body burns calories). Following are consequences associated with skipping meals and not eating enough calories.
1. You don’t learn anything from dieting. All you learn is how to imprison yourself for months and even years. Nutrition is a lifestyle that needs to be taught so it can be applied for a lifetime!
2. You increase the number of fat storing enzymes each time you diet.
3. You decrease the number of fat burning enzymes each time you diet and create an increase in the size of fat cells.
4. You decrease lean body mass and basal metabolic rate. Each diet makes it harder to restore normal basal metabolic rate.
5. You create insulin and blood sugar handling problems, which most of the time creates fat storage and hypoglycemic symptoms = cravings!
6. With dieting which is a stress, more cortisol is released. When cortisol goes up, insulin goes up to protect the body. Both of these are converted to glucose and into fat = fat storing hormones.
7. Most people decrease the amount of good fat when dieting. Fat deficiency causes fat cravings, the kinds of fat you find in junk food.
The 7 reasons above are pretty scary. You can’t influence Mother Nature, in other words no matter how hard you try to drop a dress size or transform the way you look you can’t do it by reducing calories because evolution didn’t build us this way.
Low calorie diets also cause many people to be MAL-nourished, even obese people. If you are MAL-nourished how can you expect to be healthy and look good? Even when on low calorie diets, if you live on processed foods it can cause toxic overload for the liver and make it difficult if not impossible to digest essential nutrients when you do finally put them in your mouth.
It is essential to detox and eliminate processed foods from your diet. The body needs nutrients from a cross section of natural foods to be healthy and work at an optimum level. Once your body begins to assimilate nutrients you need less food because the body is sending signals telling your brain that you are satisfied. Failing this you will get hungry even whilst eating large amounts if it’s the wrong food. If you get hungry you eat even more, if you eat more food you won’t lose weight and reduce fat from the places you want.
The hype surrounding weight loss and calories exposed!
Thursday, April 15, 2010
7 Big Reasons Why You May Be Fat
What to try before quitting!
Below is a 60 second guide to what to avoid for quick fat loss. It doesn’t cover the A to Z of fat loss but there are some very important reasons why people gain fat.
1. Did you know eating processed food and junk food will make you fatter no matter how much exercise you do?
Eating processed foods makes you want to eat excessive calories because your body searches for nutrients that isn’t in the food and this makes you feel hungry soon after.
2. Eating the wrong kind of calories in the wrong combination makes you pile on fat. Combining proteins with the correct types of carbohydrates in the correct ratio is the only way to stop your body becoming a fat magnet.
3. Our bodies aren’t designed for sedentary lifestyles therefore exercise is an important factor for fat loss. But the wrong kind can be counterproductive.
4. Not managing stress levels causes hormones to switch from repair mode to breakdown mode. In other words different kinds of stresses helps you to store fat.
6. Deprived sleep causes hormones to be out of flux. Get to bed on time or you risk stalling any fat loss attempts. If you find it difficult to sleep try meditation before bed or stretching, yoga or tai Chi, all are great ways to wind down and help prepares the body and mind for a sound sleep.
7. Stimulants such as coffee and alcohol must be avoided if you want quick fat loss, they both cause fat storing hormones to be released into the blood. As soon as you consume them they have a sugar effect inside the body.
What to try before quitting!
Below is a 60 second guide to what to avoid for quick fat loss. It doesn’t cover the A to Z of fat loss but there are some very important reasons why people gain fat.
1. Did you know eating processed food and junk food will make you fatter no matter how much exercise you do?
Eating processed foods makes you want to eat excessive calories because your body searches for nutrients that isn’t in the food and this makes you feel hungry soon after.
2. Eating the wrong kind of calories in the wrong combination makes you pile on fat. Combining proteins with the correct types of carbohydrates in the correct ratio is the only way to stop your body becoming a fat magnet.
3. Our bodies aren’t designed for sedentary lifestyles therefore exercise is an important factor for fat loss. But the wrong kind can be counterproductive.
4. Not managing stress levels causes hormones to switch from repair mode to breakdown mode. In other words different kinds of stresses helps you to store fat.
6. Deprived sleep causes hormones to be out of flux. Get to bed on time or you risk stalling any fat loss attempts. If you find it difficult to sleep try meditation before bed or stretching, yoga or tai Chi, all are great ways to wind down and help prepares the body and mind for a sound sleep.
7. Stimulants such as coffee and alcohol must be avoided if you want quick fat loss, they both cause fat storing hormones to be released into the blood. As soon as you consume them they have a sugar effect inside the body.
What to try before quitting!
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Diet Secrets That Can Reverse Body Fat
You can eat a diet full of mainstream healthy foods and still get fat!
My ethos is this, if you are not getting any results with your diet you drastically need to change something quick.
From the many years trying to get the look I wanted I overlooked my eating habits, this doesn’t mean to say I didn’t know what good foods were and ate unhealthily. The opposite was true. The problem I had was that I didn’t know how to eat for my body. I ignored the way I responded to the foods I was eating. After a long battle with my fat levels it finally dawned on me that the type of foods and how I was eating them played the major role in acquiring a toned fat free physique.
You can eat a diet full of mainstream healthy foods and still get fat. This can be down to:
Food intolerance
This leads to poor digestion and bloating. Grains, dairy and processed foods to name a few can be responsible for this.
Too many calories
Over eating is particularly bad for your fat levels if you eat infrequent meals and the wrong kind of calories.
Not balancing the ratio between the carbohydrates and protein
This habit provokes the fat storing mechanism and will keep you piling on the pounds regardless of your energy expenditure.
Eating nutritionally poor foods
If you eat processed food your body doesn’t get the nutrients from the food you eat therefore you will keep eating until you are satisfied because your body is looking for the nutrients.
Eating too soon after a meal
Not allowing ample time between meals is one way to stress the digestive system, good digestion is essential for fat loss.
My research took me to a place I would never have dreamed. The wholemeal bread, milk, low fat foods, anything processed, wheat and all the carbohydrates eaten without protein had to stop. These foods were causing havoc with my hormones and contributing to fat storage and poor digestion.
I didn’t change everything overnight because if I am completely honest I was a little sceptical. The information I was researching was new to me, so I decided to change a little at a time and couldn’t believe the response that followed.
I quickly developed more energy, tighter looking skin and a lot less overall body fat. I soon acquired the taste for other foods I hadn’t eaten for years and the variety of foods I included in a typical week sharply began to rise. This made me enthusiastic about eating and got rid of any fear I once held about certain foods.
You can eat a diet full of mainstream healthy foods and still get fat!
My ethos is this, if you are not getting any results with your diet you drastically need to change something quick.
From the many years trying to get the look I wanted I overlooked my eating habits, this doesn’t mean to say I didn’t know what good foods were and ate unhealthily. The opposite was true. The problem I had was that I didn’t know how to eat for my body. I ignored the way I responded to the foods I was eating. After a long battle with my fat levels it finally dawned on me that the type of foods and how I was eating them played the major role in acquiring a toned fat free physique.
You can eat a diet full of mainstream healthy foods and still get fat. This can be down to:
Food intolerance
This leads to poor digestion and bloating. Grains, dairy and processed foods to name a few can be responsible for this.
Too many calories
Over eating is particularly bad for your fat levels if you eat infrequent meals and the wrong kind of calories.
Not balancing the ratio between the carbohydrates and protein
This habit provokes the fat storing mechanism and will keep you piling on the pounds regardless of your energy expenditure.
Eating nutritionally poor foods
If you eat processed food your body doesn’t get the nutrients from the food you eat therefore you will keep eating until you are satisfied because your body is looking for the nutrients.
Eating too soon after a meal
Not allowing ample time between meals is one way to stress the digestive system, good digestion is essential for fat loss.
My research took me to a place I would never have dreamed. The wholemeal bread, milk, low fat foods, anything processed, wheat and all the carbohydrates eaten without protein had to stop. These foods were causing havoc with my hormones and contributing to fat storage and poor digestion.
I didn’t change everything overnight because if I am completely honest I was a little sceptical. The information I was researching was new to me, so I decided to change a little at a time and couldn’t believe the response that followed.
I quickly developed more energy, tighter looking skin and a lot less overall body fat. I soon acquired the taste for other foods I hadn’t eaten for years and the variety of foods I included in a typical week sharply began to rise. This made me enthusiastic about eating and got rid of any fear I once held about certain foods.
You can eat a diet full of mainstream healthy foods and still get fat!
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Tips About Six Pack Exercises
Can sit-ups or crunches give you a six-pack?
Exercise can be misleading to say the least, different kinds of exercises can have a different effect from one person to the next. One of the most common believes is that sit-ups or crunches will give you a six-pack because you are targeting the necessary muscles.
Take the religious gym user for instance; they do a six-pack workout regularly in the hope of reaching body transformation glory. Only to discover a few months or even years later they have made very little change in the abdominal area for all the time, sweat and sacrifice they have endured.
On the other hand some people of the same nature will look fantastic and their abs will compliment the time invested. This scenario translates to all types of exercises and workout routines.
Lets attempt to clear up why this happens. For starters people have different body shapes when they begin on any given exercise routine. Some may be a few pounds over weight and some by a few stone. This is one of many reasons why some people progress quicker than others.
Breaking this down further, some people may look the same shape but could have totally different body compositions. In other words you could have the same size clothes as your friend but have a greater percent of body fat and fat in more stubborn to shift areas on your body. It is even possible to weigh the same as your friend and still have a different body shape. The point I am trying to make is what seems like the same sometimes isn’t. It isn’t as clear-cut as we would like to think it is.
Other considerations to why some people achieve results quicker than others are to do with the levels of commitment to exercising. The perception of effort and intensity may differ from person to person giving some people a false sense of achievement with what they are doing. If you aren’t pushing yourself hard enough then you will probably never change your body shape with exercise. Contrary to that doing too much can be counter-productive to your goals.
Finally the most important piece of the puzzle is paying too much attention to the exercise regime and not enough to the diet. How many times do people rush in to a six-pack workout routine and neglect their diets? Wishing exercise will cancel out a poor diet is a disappointing experiment. Exercising on a whim and stuffing the face with the wrong foods for fat loss is something that will never work no matter how long or hard you exercise.
Can sit-ups or crunches give you a six-pack?
Exercise can be misleading to say the least, different kinds of exercises can have a different effect from one person to the next. One of the most common believes is that sit-ups or crunches will give you a six-pack because you are targeting the necessary muscles.
Take the religious gym user for instance; they do a six-pack workout regularly in the hope of reaching body transformation glory. Only to discover a few months or even years later they have made very little change in the abdominal area for all the time, sweat and sacrifice they have endured.
On the other hand some people of the same nature will look fantastic and their abs will compliment the time invested. This scenario translates to all types of exercises and workout routines.
Lets attempt to clear up why this happens. For starters people have different body shapes when they begin on any given exercise routine. Some may be a few pounds over weight and some by a few stone. This is one of many reasons why some people progress quicker than others.
Breaking this down further, some people may look the same shape but could have totally different body compositions. In other words you could have the same size clothes as your friend but have a greater percent of body fat and fat in more stubborn to shift areas on your body. It is even possible to weigh the same as your friend and still have a different body shape. The point I am trying to make is what seems like the same sometimes isn’t. It isn’t as clear-cut as we would like to think it is.
Other considerations to why some people achieve results quicker than others are to do with the levels of commitment to exercising. The perception of effort and intensity may differ from person to person giving some people a false sense of achievement with what they are doing. If you aren’t pushing yourself hard enough then you will probably never change your body shape with exercise. Contrary to that doing too much can be counter-productive to your goals.
Finally the most important piece of the puzzle is paying too much attention to the exercise regime and not enough to the diet. How many times do people rush in to a six-pack workout routine and neglect their diets? Wishing exercise will cancel out a poor diet is a disappointing experiment. Exercising on a whim and stuffing the face with the wrong foods for fat loss is something that will never work no matter how long or hard you exercise.
Can sit-ups or crunches give you a six-pack?
Saturday, April 3, 2010
3 Top Tips To Lose Weight & Fat - Burn Fat, Fuel the Body & Forget Calories!
Now you can burn fat, fuel the body & forget calories!
Do you have a history of yoyo dieting and putting weight on easily? Unable to lose stubborn body fat? Does the diet and exercise thing haunt you and are you tired of it? I have observed peoples diet weaknesses and compiled a few tips to help you with issues and hard times.
Fuel the body with natural dense foods
Banish the cocktail of processed foods from your diet and begin to reap the benefits of real foods. Real foods are foods you find in the ground or on the tress, swim in the ocean or run in the wild. Real foods are heaving with natural goodness that your body needs for optimal health. No amount of processed foods in your diet dressed in synthetic vitamins is ever going to replace what you can get from nature. Once you replace all your processed foods with natural foods you will begin to unlock one of the first pathways to automatic fat loss.
Burn fat with weights, not with a hamster wheel
Muscle tissue is metabolically active, for every pound of muscle you add to your body you will burn an additional 50 calories. Don’t make the mistake of thinking low calorie diets and loads of cardiovascular exercise will help you drop weight or fat. It will make your situation worse in the long term because you risk losing calorie hungry muscle tissue. It isn’t possible to build muscle tissue with the type of cardiovascular exercises health clubs have made popular. Training with resistance is very important for your success and needs to be the priority in your exercise regime.
Forget calories, think nutrients
Your body only knows nutrients contrary to what you may believe. If you eat a slice of cake your body doesn’t scream oh no here comes 500 calories, then says to itself, not to worry because if I only get fed another 500 calories today everything will be all right. If this were the case there would be a lot more thin people especially those who live on low calorie diets. Listen very carefully to what I am spelling out here, calories in versus calories out is out of date science. It looks like the right thing on paper but in reality it doesn’t work.
Your body sees foods as chemicals and nothing more. If you get the balance wrong with processed foods or too many carbohydrates, proteins or fats then everything changes.
Before you know it the nutrients don’t get to where your body needs them and hormones are released to cope with the biological stress. This leads to muscle loss and a slow metabolism ending with you piling on the pounds.
Now you can burn fat, fuel the body & forget calories!
Do you have a history of yoyo dieting and putting weight on easily? Unable to lose stubborn body fat? Does the diet and exercise thing haunt you and are you tired of it? I have observed peoples diet weaknesses and compiled a few tips to help you with issues and hard times.
Fuel the body with natural dense foods
Banish the cocktail of processed foods from your diet and begin to reap the benefits of real foods. Real foods are foods you find in the ground or on the tress, swim in the ocean or run in the wild. Real foods are heaving with natural goodness that your body needs for optimal health. No amount of processed foods in your diet dressed in synthetic vitamins is ever going to replace what you can get from nature. Once you replace all your processed foods with natural foods you will begin to unlock one of the first pathways to automatic fat loss.
Burn fat with weights, not with a hamster wheel
Muscle tissue is metabolically active, for every pound of muscle you add to your body you will burn an additional 50 calories. Don’t make the mistake of thinking low calorie diets and loads of cardiovascular exercise will help you drop weight or fat. It will make your situation worse in the long term because you risk losing calorie hungry muscle tissue. It isn’t possible to build muscle tissue with the type of cardiovascular exercises health clubs have made popular. Training with resistance is very important for your success and needs to be the priority in your exercise regime.
Forget calories, think nutrients
Your body only knows nutrients contrary to what you may believe. If you eat a slice of cake your body doesn’t scream oh no here comes 500 calories, then says to itself, not to worry because if I only get fed another 500 calories today everything will be all right. If this were the case there would be a lot more thin people especially those who live on low calorie diets. Listen very carefully to what I am spelling out here, calories in versus calories out is out of date science. It looks like the right thing on paper but in reality it doesn’t work.
Your body sees foods as chemicals and nothing more. If you get the balance wrong with processed foods or too many carbohydrates, proteins or fats then everything changes.
Before you know it the nutrients don’t get to where your body needs them and hormones are released to cope with the biological stress. This leads to muscle loss and a slow metabolism ending with you piling on the pounds.
Now you can burn fat, fuel the body & forget calories!
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