Author: Beck Monte

In today’s world where being overweight is becoming a commonplace condition; more worrying still is the number of school-age children that are falling into the obese category. To cure this problem, some people have resorted to surgical measures whereas others have decided that adjustments to their food intake and an increase in physical activity are necessary. Unfortunately others that can’t wait to get rid of their extra pounds decide to take the quickest way out through the use of weight loss drugs.

These drugs usually work buy telling the brain it’s no longer hungry, stimulating metabolism to aid the shedding of excess fat. It was only after scientists discovered that these drugs had side effects and were related to heart valve disease that they were taken off the shelves. Of course the manufacturers did not give up that easily and new drugs were created, these drugs are still being prescribed even though the Federal Drug Administration has not yet approved them.

You may in fact know someone who has used these pills at some time and has first hand experience of how effective they can be. It is a tempting proposition, to lose weight while still maintaining the same diet; who would say no? Many millions of dollars are spent each year in The United States alone whilst the drug manufacturers spend huge sums on further research into weight loss drugs.

An individual wishing to buy weight control pills can do so over-the-counter or have them prescribed by their doctor; however there are still health risks associated with their use. Other harmful side effects include tightness in the chest, urinary tract problems and stroke. An overdose of the diet pills can cause tremors, confusion, hallucinations, shallow breathing, renal failure even heart attack and convulsions.

The side effects will depend on the person taking the medicine and can be related to their lifestyle; a consultation with the doctor first, rather than buying them over the counter, can help to reduce side effects; stopping using the drugs completely may not eradicate all the problems they may have caused. Problems like irritability, tiredness, vomiting, stomach pains and sleep problems are all common effects reported when someone stops taking these weight control pills.

Although these weight loss drugs do work, an increase in beneficial effects occurs when regular exercise is undertaken along with a change in eating habits. The type of balanced food groups would be oats, cereals, rice, potatoes with fruit and vegetables as the best source of minerals, fiber and vitamins.

Of course this should always be combined with a good exercise routine which will use up excess calories and provide a good all round fitness workout. A good exercise plan with the use of weights will help improve the body’s ability to burn off the calories and maintain a healthy heart.

 

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Author: Jerry Leung

The Atkins diet is probably one of the most famous diets in the Western world. I bet that you must have heard about it before. According to a survey in the United Kingdom, more than three million people in the country have been trying the dieting plan in 2003!

First of all, let’s understand the basic concept behind this dieting plan. The essence of the diet is that people can lose weight by cutting down the consumption of carbohydrate and at the same time consume high fat food. This may also explain why this dieting plan is so popular. The plan allows people to have eggs and steaks. Most people will certainly go for that when they hear that they can lose weight while having steaks and eggs is allowed.

It is assumed that the fat stored in your body will be burnt or used while you cut your carbohydrates. You will not eat things such as bread or pasta. Junk food and soft drinks are not allowed either. Yet, you can eat meat, fish and chicken when you are on Atkins diets. You have to take this food for two weeks as the first phase of the dieting plan.

In the second phase, you can increase the consumption of carbohydrates by five grams each day. You will start from an intake of 20 grams per day. You have to increase the intake of carbohydrates till you cannot lose 3 pounds a week. And this is the amount of carbohydrates you will take and you should not increase the intake.

Then it comes the third stage. In this stage, the idea is to slow down the process of weight reduction. As a result, you will try to increase the consumption of carbs again by 10 grams per day. And the goal is that you will eventually consume something like 90 grams of carbohydrates per day. You will need to keep this for the rest of your life! Yet the fact is that an average person will take 200 to 250 grams of carbs a day. Taking only 90 to 100 grams a day for the rest of the life should not be an easy task.

You may wonder if there are any side effects of this dieting plan. As a matter of fact some people can lose weight with this plan. However, since carbohydrates are cut in the first stage. People who are on this diet may feel dizzy and weak. Since fruits and vegetables are generally not allowed in the first stage, you may have problems of constipation when you are on this diet.

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Author: Anne-Marie RONSEN

Today, there are plenty of weight-loss strategies that are guaranteed to backfire. This is because these nippy fixes instilled on certain diet plans are, in reality, not efficient because it does not employ the right principle and the right attitude in losing weight.

These quick weight loss diet plans are known as fad diets because that is exactly what they are, just a fad. In time, when fashion is over and popularity wanes down, people will realize that the diet they have depended on is not reliable at all.

To know more about these fad diets that are selling like hotcakes in the market today, here is a list of some telltale signs that would tell you not to try it even once.

Here are fast tips that can change an over-weight’s life:

1. Set realistic approaches. What is important is to be precise on your goals. The ability to focus and have proper mindset enables someone on a diet to quickly lose those extra pounds. With discipline and proper mind set, a dieter will never be discouraged and lose focus.

2. Develop a strategy - Strength of will does not work alone! To lose weight and stay with it, your strategy must comprise of both exercise and diet, and not either of the two.
3. Be realistic - Most people’s long-term weight loss plans are more ambitious than they have to be.

4. Eat small, healthy meals frequently. Five small-serving snacks per day is better than three hearty meals. Eating more frequently, and in small servings, can prevent over-eating. This will also increase your metabolism and make calories burn faster.

5. Keep a note of everything that you eat and drink. You do not need to estimate calories. Just write down what it was that you had and the approximate quantity. You will find that being more aware of what you are eating helps you to plan healthy meals and snacks.

6. Focus on doing, not losing - Rather than saying that you are going to lose a pound this week, say how much you are going to exercise this week. This would definitely make up of a sensible weight loss plan.

7. Build bit by bit - Short-term weight loss plans should not be “pie-in-the-sky.” This means that when you have never exercised at all, your best weight loss plan for this week should be based on finding three different one-mile routes that you can walk next week.

8. Keep up the self-encouragement - An all-or-nothing attitude only sets you up to fail. Learn to evaluate your efforts fairly and objectively. If you fall short of some goals, just look ahead to next week. You do not need to have a perfect record. After all, self-encouragement should definitely be a part of your weight loss plans. Otherwise, you will just fail in the end.

9. Limit treats containing sugar to three times per week. This includes chocolate, ice cream, desserts, cake, pastries, cookies, etc.

10. Include a lower fat source of protein at most meals: chicken, fish, beans, cottage cheese, or low fat yogurt. Have eggs, nuts and red meat occasionally but not every day.

11. Plan at least one lunch and dinner every week without meat or cheese. Build those meals around whole grains, vegetables and beans to increase fiber and reduce fat.

12. Reduce the fat content in your milk products. If you are currently drinking whole milk, reduce to 2% fat. From 2% reduce to 1%. Choose lower fat cheese and yogurt. When you buy yogurt, also check that it does not contain sugar.

13. Have at least two servings of fruit every day. This can be for dessert or snacks. Choose fruit that is in season.
14. Drink water instead of sodas, juices, milky drinks or alcohol. Avoid diet soda - the sweet taste only encourages you to crave sugar. Hot water with a slice of lemon can be very refreshing in the morning.

15. Include at least two servings of vegetables at lunch and dinner. If you are getting hungry, have more.

16. Eat slowly. The body is slow to register when you are full and it is easy to eat too much if you are racing through your meals.

17. Use whole grains wherever possible. The fiber will give you a fuller feeling and also help your digestion.

18. Engaging in Aerobics - Aerobics are not only good for the heart by increasing cardio-vascular endurance. Aerobics also help in increasing lean muscle mass while simultaneously decreasing excess body fat. Aside from these, aerobics make the metebolic process more efficient and its rate high, even after a long while.

19. Staying Motivated to Exercise - Exercise is always a do-it-yourself venture. No other person and no machine can do it for you.There are many reasons in order to keep you motivated to exercise and stay healthy for the rest of your life.Get as much exercise as you can that feels good without letting it interfere with your work or family life. If you need to, remind yourself that you are preventing many health problems when you prevent weight gain; and keeping your health is a gift to your family as well as yourself.

20. Always switch off the TV when you eat. That includes snacks as well as meals. Studies have proved that we eat larger portions in front of the TV, probably because we are much less aware of what we are eating. When you eat, only eat if you want to lose weight fast.
Healthy Eating, Regular Exercise and positive attitude are the only things you need to lose fat permanently.

Remember, if you want to lose weight naturally, you have to keep track of every food you eat and of every activity that you do. Eat healthy, drink lots of water, have enough sleep and exercise. This will give you a higher chance of losing weight and improving your health, which would result to a new, healthier you.
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Remember, if you want to lose weight naturally, you have to keep track of every food you eat and of every activity that you do. When you say natural weight loss means that you do not have to use some accessories or helpful aids just to lose weight.

Losing weight naturally is a process and not a fad. Hence, it would take a lot of dogged determination, self-control, and discipline just to achieve your ideal weight.

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Author: Luke Johnstone

Ok I admit it. I have absolutely had enough with all the dieting nonsense getting around these days. I get mad now whenever I see a new product coming out promising they are the next big thing in the dieting industry.

The Tony Ferguson Weight Loss program is the latest program that gets under my skin. It promises fast and easy results, yet is another strict, fad diet that is going to leave a lot of people unhappy with their results.

It seems the guy has got no idea what causes weight gain, and is simply out to make a few bucks.

My main complaint with the program is that it is ridiculously low in calories. The average diet contains approximately 800-1000 calories a day. (1200 for men.) This will result in fast weight loss, (great for his marketing plan) but will ultimately lead to faster weight gain in the future.

This is because low calorie diets lose more muscle and water weight, resulting in a slower metabolism. This leads to weight gain when you go back to your normal eating because you no longer burn off as many calories as you did before going on the diet.

Our body fat is stored on us for a reason. It is our energy source to survive when food is in shortage. Problem is, when we cut calories too far, our body panics.

It realises that there is a shortage of food coming in, so it is reluctant to use up its fat stores. This is because it doesn’t know how long this food shortage is going to last.

So what it does then is it breaks down our muscle tissue and uses it for energy. And since every pound of muscle helps us burn an extra 50 calories a day, losing it results in a slower metabolism.

Another way to look at it is by knowing that the body is always trying to adapt to survive. So if we cut calories, our body is going to find ways to survive on this limited supply of energy.

It does this by burning off less calories during the day. The easiest way to do this is to get rid of muscles, because muscle burns a lot of calories.

One last thing that Mr Ferguson doesn’t realise is that people are overweight because they love food! Cutting calories so far, and cutting out our favourite foods only cause our cravings to increase.

The longer we deprive ourselves of what we love, the more our cravings intensify, until sooner or later we give up, and usually binge.

So not only does low calorie diets destroy our metabolism, it increases our appetite. This extra intake of food coupled with our now slower metabolism will put fat back on us faster than we can imagine.

So forget the Ferguson diet, it is unrealistic and too tough. The bottom line to weight loss is to simply eat less calories then you burn off.

Eat foods you enjoy, keep your calories around 11-12 calories per pound of bodyweight, do regular exercise and the fat will come off much easier.

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Author: Gary Grewal

Did you know that weight loss becomes an easy task when you work out in the morning? It’s the single most important factor for an easy and a natural weight loss. So try to exercise in the mornings, it will be effective. Even if it’s just for ten minutes, it’s important that you do it. So why is it important to work out in the morning?

1. Consistency is an important factor for a healthy weight loss. Now if you want to be consistent, the odds will be in your favor if you regime in the mornings.

2. By exercising in the mornings, you jumpstart your metabolism. This keeps it going for the day which means you will actually end up burning more calories than the not-exercising-in-the-mornings regime. This is a valuable natural weight loss tip and is always helpful to those who take it into consideration.

3. Exercising in the mornings energizes your body. It provides the stamina required for the rest of the day. If you follow exercising in the mornings you will notice the change. You will be energetic and enthusiastic besides being able to handle things in a much better way.

4. Most importantly morning exercises regulate your appetite. Which means you won’t feel too hungry and thus end up making better food choices. This will pave way to easier weight loss.

5. Psychologically, exercising in the mornings puts you on a healthy mindset.

6. If you stick on to your exercise timings every morning, it gets integrated in your metabolic system. It becomes a habit, a norm. Your body’s endocrine system and circadian rhythms adjust to your weight loss regime and it makes it a whole lot easier. Before you wake up, your body prepares itself for the work out as it knows what follows. This way, it is much easier to wake up and counter the morning blues. The hormones become elevated as you sleep, thus when you wake up you already end up feeling perked up for your exercises. Bring it on, you say!

7. The hormones well prepare your body by regulating blood pressure, heart beat rate etc. this makes weight loss, quick, easy and natural.

8. Studies say that exercising increases your mental acuity. So wake up early and exercise instead of sleeping.

9. Mornings have less interruptions and distractions; you can follow your weight loss regime peacefully. This will calm you down and prove to be relaxing. You will start looking forward to spend this time on yourself taking care of your mind, body and soul. It will cure you of mental stress.

10. Regular sleep pattern builds within your system. Research proves that if you exercise on a regular basis you will enjoy a higher quality of sleep. So even if you wake up early to exercise, you won’t feel sleep deprived.

Exercising in the morning is the only weight loss tip you will ever need. Now that you know why it’s important, follow it and experience the change.

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Author: Steve Hanson

Hardcore weight trainers eat a ton of protein in a day. OK, they don’t eat a ‘ton, but just now much protein do they eat? How much protein do you eat? How much is appropriate? Can one have too much of it? If so, what are the drawbacks? The ultimate question is: how much protein should I eat in a day?

As with how much fat to eat in a day and how many carbs to eat in a day, it all depends on a couple factors:

* age
* body size
* diet
* activity level
* lifestyle

The recommended amount of protein for a healthy adult is 0.8 grams per pound of bodyweight. A kilogram is roughly equal to 2.2 pounds. An exception to this rule is the recommended levels for pregnant women, which say that pregnant women should eat 10 grams more each day than the recommended amount. Lactating women require an additional 15 grams of protein during the first six months of nursing, and an additional 12 grams after that.

Males who participate in regular vigorous exercise typically will eat from 1 to 1.5 gram of protein per pound of bodyweight. This can be both positive and negative for the body. The additional protein will assist in muscle recovery and fat loss, but the effects of digesting the protein will place additional stress on the body.

Why Should I Limit My Protein Intake?

While protein is as vital to cellular metabolism as oxygen, there certainly lies a threshold for healthy and unhealthy consumption levels especially for those in poorer health. Processing protein requires a lot from kidneys and liver which is why those with problems with either of those organs are often ordered by their physicians to eat a lower protein diet.

An indirect drawback from excessive animal protein consumption is its effect on the cardiovascular system. Since many meats contain a fair amount of saturated fat, this can lead to atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, as well as obesity. For example, only 25% of a T-bone steak calories come from protein while the rest comes from saturated fat. Even a leaner cut of beef like a flank steak is still roughly 50% fat. The same holds true for eggs. Only 31% of egg calories come from protein. Fish and chicken are certainly better sources of protein.

Remember when eating a diet higher in protein to drink plenty of water in order to replenish the considerable amount lost during protein metabolism. Try and stay on the safe side by avoiding extreme high-protein diets full of saturated fats like the ketogenic diets (Atkins) just previously discussed and you will be in much better physical standing.

Do draw a simple conclusion, I recommend 1 gram of protein per lb of lean body mass for both males and females who exercise at least 3 times per week. A 200 lb man with 10% bodyfat would aim to consume about 180 grams of protein in a day. More importantly, keeping your unhealthy fat consumption and processed carbohydrate consumption low, will go a long way to preserve your health for the long haul.

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Author: Matt Robison

When people discover that they’ve gained some weight, the first reaction of most is to eat less food. Sounds reasonable. Food is what got us into trouble, so it follows that eating less of it will make everything right again. Nearly every diet or eating plan in the magazines or on the Internet says pretty much the same thing: eat less food. Therefore the answer to this problem is very simple and handy. Sure, going with less food than usual is a challenge, but it also carries with it a sort of expiation feeling.

But simply lowering food intake doesn’t work. Over the thousands of years of evolution the human body had to face starvation many times and had to find ways of surviving. We are the offsprings of those who managed to survive periods of starvation by coping with the lack of food. Metabolism adjusts. A simple decrease in the amount of food is not going to make a big difference because the body will simply compensate for and require less energy to operate.

So eat smart, not less. Overweight people and thin people eat roughly the same number of calories per day because they share the same required amount of food. However, overweight people eat far more fat than thin people, who seem to prefer complex carbohydrates that are easily broken down and metabolized by the body. This is the biggest difference between the two groups and the best point to start when considering what and how to change in your eating patterns.

If you find that you do need to cut back on calories, of course do so. But remember this tip: splurge on the weekends. This will help keep your metabolism from getting into a funk rythem. And by splurge, I mean SPLURGE. Ice cream, pizza, fat fat and more fat. Anything you want.

Good dieting always takes time. The excess weight was not accumulated over night and will never go away in a single day. This is something that many naive dieters believe when they start, and it only leads to discouragement and quitting. And this is also why the diet pill industry is so huge. People want the quick fiz after they fail: a pill that can make fat disappear in an instant. While many diet pills can help you lose weight, and save you time, they will still not do it for your instantly. They always work best when combined with, you guessed it, diet and exercise.

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Author: Beck Monte

Products to control weight are numerous and every week there seems to be yet another ‘quick fix’ solution although the ‘Hoodia’ plant could be the exception; many people believe this could be the plant that makes a difference. Of course it was only a matter of time until the diet industry added Hoodia weight loss products to their range; each week more products containing this plant are added to the shelves. You may have heard about its properties, but what else do you know about it? For instance, where does it originate from?
Hoodia Gordonii is a particular variety of plant which suppresses the appetite. It is only this type of Hoodia cactus that appears to possess this quality, despite there being twelve other varieties of the plant that can be found in the remote regions of South Africa. This wonder plant has caused a stir and is greatly sought after. No other natural product has ever been discovered that is as effective at blocking hunger pangs.
For quite some time this remarkable cactus was studied by scientists and trials carried out on people to ascertain how effective it really was at suppressing the appetite. One particular experiment included a team of people from the BBC who were only given a single Hoodia leaf to eat. The entire team wanted nothing else to eat or drink for the rest of the day.
The most amazing thing about Hoodia weight loss products is the fact that users of the product experience no ill effects. This, however, is not the case with almost every other appetite suppressant available. Users also have the additional benefit of knowing that they will not feel tired whilst they are using it as it supplies the correct amount of energy and reduces the desire to eat.
This does not mean however, that you should discontinue healthy eating and drink regularly during the time you are taking it. The purpose of the Hoodia weight loss pill is not to starve yourself but to control unnatural and unnecessary food cravings; the body still needs food and drink however, otherwise health will be adversely affected. Hoodia is an ideal method of controlling the appetite of people who cannot control their own.
Be prepared to pay a premium for any weight loss products that use real extracts as the production costs involved are high. With a simple search performed on the Internet you will find dozens of Hoodia weight loss treatments that come in a variety of promotional offers. Be aware that many of them are forged, containing little or no real extract at all. For something as good as Hoodia, it is worth paying extra as it is the best natural form of suppressing the appetite known to man and should not be confused with cheap imitations.

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Author: Jonni Good

Fad diet have been popular for years, and every year thousands of people search the internet for the recipe for that famous cabbage soup - or they decide to go on the 3 day diet or the grapefruit diet, or the mayo clinic diet.

All fad diets claim that a certain extremely limited group of foods will help you lose weight really fast. For instance, the cabbage soup diet consists of mostly cabbage, potatoes and bananas. The three-day diet lets you eat grapefruit, a little bit of tuna, a tiny amount of meat or chicken, some veggies, and, strangely enough, a cup of ice cream. The so-called Israeli army diet only lets you eat one kind of food a day - apples one day, cheese the next, and so on.

You really do lose weight on these diets. You have to. These diets used to be called starvation diets for a reason.

But if you go on one of these diets, or any low-calorie diet, for that matter, you want to make sure you don’t want to throw away your fat clothes, because within just a few weeks after going off the diet you’ll weigh more than you did when you started.

Starvation will cause you to lose weight, there’s no question about it. But scientists have known for over 91 years that one of the almost inevitable results of starvation is weight gain. Your body objects strongly to not being given enough food to keep its internal fires burning, and it can’t survive for long without the nutrients it needs to keep all the various functions of it’s cells working properly.

That’s why you slow down when you’re on a low-fat diet. You feel tired and irritable because your body is trying to conserve the little amount of food you’re feeding it.

You also get cravings for food - almost any food will do, but the cravings are especially strong for the very foods that make us fat - the sugars and breads and pastas and other simple carbohydrates that make us store extra body fat. Since starvation is a threat to your survival, the cravings will continue to get stronger until they’re absolutely uncontrollable.

Then you go off the diet, and gain back all the weight you lost. Most people go on to gain an additional 3 to 8 pounds.

And weight gain is obviously not what you had in mind when you started on the diet in the first place.

But the inevitable weight gain is just one of the reasons why fad diets are such a bad idea.

The other reasons are considerably more serious. On the rare occasions when a doctor prescribes a very low calorie diet, of 900 calories a day or less, they almost always require that their patients get constant medical supervision. That’s because this qualified as a starvation diet, and they can be very risky.

Even ‘normal’ reduced calorie diets have health consequences. That scientific study I mentioned earlier put healthy college students on a reduced calorie diet to see how their minds and bodies would react.

The study volunteers actually ate more calories than the kind of diet that almost every doctor tells you to go on when he thinks you’re overweight, and they certainly ate way more calories than you get on most fad diets, like the cabbage soup diet and the 3-day diet. The study had the students eat from 1400 to 2100 calories a day.

A later study done in 1945 for the US army found that the symptoms would get worse if you added exercise to the program.

When I found out about this study, it made me downright angry - why haven’t we been told that scientists have known for over 91 years that low-calorie and low-fat diets actually cause the following health problems: Listen closely to this list, because this is what you may experience if you go on any of the currently popular weight loss diets:

* Weight gain.
* Depression.
* Food cravings.
* Feeling tired and listless.
* Constant hunger.
* Reduced interest in sex.
* Chronic fatigue.
* Hypothyroidism.
* Hormone imbalance.2100
* Scaly skin or eczema.
* Premature wrinkling of the skin.
* Dandruff or dull, lifeless hair.
* Mood swings.
* Chronic yeast infections.
* Poor immune system - frequent colds or respiratory illnesses.
* Digestive problems.

Most people believe that the only way to lose weight is to cut back on the calories, even though scientists have known for almost a century that those serious psychological and physical problems could result.

Let’s take a close look at some of the most serious symptoms on that list:

Depression, mood swings, and chronic fatigue. It is impossible to be motivated to stay on a diet, (or to do anything else, for that matter), when you suffer from chronic depression.

Heck, those healthy college-aged men who participated in the low-calorie diet studies even lost their interest in sex.

And many people take antidepressants, like Wellbutrin, for both depression and to lose weight.

Two important studies have found that the depression caused by a reduced calorie diet may actually get worse for a while after you start eating normally again. It takes time for the body to recover from semi-starvation eating plans.

Constant hunger and food cravings, especially for refined carbs: When you combine the lack of motivation that always accompanies depression and chronic fatigue, and match it up with constant hunger and food cravings, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to find out that most people who start a low-calorie diet will actually end up gaining weight.

The only safe way to lose weight is to eat a correctly balanced diet that gives your body all the nutrients it needs, every single day. Stop eating the kinds of foods that cause the excess storage of body fat, and eat lots of the foods that help you lose weight faster.

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Author: James Wong

It’s amazing that over 60% of the U.S. population is now considered overweight. This number continues to rise every year because something very bad and very deceptive is happening to the public.

THEY ARE BEING FED FOODS DESIGNED TO MAKE THEM FAT.

The worst part of this whole process is that these same overweight individuals are not being forced to eat the foods that are making them fat, they are doing so voluntarily!

Why would they do this you ask? Why would such a vast majority of people eat foods that are known to make them fat? Why would they eat foods that kill themselves slowly?

It has to do with an array of deceptive marketing, an abundance of conflicting and confusing professional advice, and just downright lack of discipline!

Is there hope?

Scientific research has recently determined that although it is unhealthy in general to have excess body fat throughout your body, it is also particularly dangerous to have excess abdominal fat.

The reason for this is that excess abdominal fat has been shown to increase the odds that someone will eventually end up having other lifestyle related diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or stroke.

There are two types of fat that you have in your abdominal area. The first type covers your abdominal muscles and is called subcutaneous fat. This fatty region lies directly beneath the skin and on top of the abdominal muscles.

The second type of fat that you have in your abdominal area is called visceral fat, and that lies deeper in the abdomen beneath your muscle and surrounding your organs.

Both subcutaneous fat and visceral fat in the abdominal area are serious health risk factors. However, recent studies have shown that having excessive visceral fat is even more dangerous than subcutaneous fat.

Both types of fat greatly increase the risk your risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, sleep apnea, various forms of cancer, and other degenerative or other non-specific lifestyle related diseases.

Visceral fat is particularly dangerous because it has been shown to release more inflammatory molecules, free-radicals and toxins into your body on a never-ending basis.

If you care about the quality of your life and your loved ones, reducing your abdominal fat should be your TOP priority! Consider this deeply.

Besides reducing your risk for disease, having less ugly fat around your waist will make you look sexy. You will be able to visibly see those sexy six pack abs that everyone wants.

So your probably asking if there is a secret to getting rid of extra abdominal fat? Is there actually a REAL solution beyond all of the gimmicks, lies and hype that you see in ads and on commercials for “miracle” fat loss products?

The first thing you must understand is that there is no such thing as a quick fix for any great achievement. There are no pills or supplements of any sort that will help you lose your abdominal fat faster.

Also, those infomercial gimmicky ab rockers, rollers, or ab belts will help get rid of abdominal fat either. You can’t spot reduce your stomach fat by using any of these worthless contraptions. It simply doesn’t work that way.

The ONLY solution to consistently lose your abdominal fat and keep it off for good is to combine a sound nutritious diet full of unprocessed natural foods with a specially designed exercise program that stimulates the necessary hormonal and metabolic response in your body. Having these two methods properly designed will ensure that you will lose fat.

There are numerous studies that divided thousands of participants into a diet-only group and an exercise & diet combined group. While both groups in this study made good progress, the diet-only group lost significantly LESS abdominal fat than the diet & exercise combined group.

However, your exercise program must be specially designed to lose bodyfat. The majority of people that attempt getting into a good exercise routine are NOT working out effectively enough to really stimulate the loss of stubborn abdominal fat. Just take a walk through your local gym.

Most people follow a routine that they saw last week in their favorite men’s or women’s fitness magazine and they think they have found the secret to getting skinny or ripped. They soon find out that the program delivers little in terms of results and, then they become frustrated after weeks or months of no results and wonder where they went wrong.

Well, the good news is that I’ve spent over a decade researching this topic, analyzing the science, and applying it “in the trenches” with myself as well as thousands of my clients from all over the world to see what works to really stimulate abdominal fat loss. I have made this process into a perfect science and it gets results EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Don’t waste time thinking about your past fat loss failures because the more you learn about fat loss the faster and more real your results will become.

You know exactly how much more confidence you would have if you lost that ugly stomach fat and begin getting your perfect figure back.

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About the Author:
James Wong lost over 40lbs. just by using The Secret 2 Fat Loss. You too could lose weight as easily as he did. Find out how burn fat and lose weight at www.TheSecret2FatLoss.com