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Is it Possible to Lose Weight Fast?


Is it Possible to Lose Weight Fast?
Want to slim down fast? While there are many things you can do to shed pounds, losing weight to quickly, like any sudden change to your body, can be dangerous. While fad diets, diets pills, and fasting may indeed induce rapid weight loss, these methods can cause you to lose muscles and may also injure your heart and other organs fairly quickly. The best solution? Don't go overnight miracle. It's been hilarious when people talk wildly about how they're on a diet. In reality, we're all on diets. If you eat, you're on some kind of diet. Obviously folks of diets plans they most likely want to talk about the aid in dropping a few pounds.

They want a diet plan that allows them to lose weight quickly, and not have to put much effort fourth. Well, it's a great idea and good luck with that! If you really intend to get the weight off and keep it that way, you might have to put some elbow grease into the process. A successful weight loss strategy based on reducing calorie intake and increasing activity can be adjusted to maintain your desired weight once you reach it. In addition, weight training, no matter what your age, prevents muscle atrophy and can help stave off osteoporosisis.

Losing weight is simply a matter of expending more calories, through exercise and your daily activities, than you take in. Exercise alone won't make you lose weight if you're still taking in more calories that you burn. Therefore you should exercise harder and eat more protein dense, clean foods; making your calories burned not too far off from your calories taken in well raise your metabolism and allow you to burn fat effortlessly.

Losing weight fast is not an easy as you think. The most effective way to lose weight is to diet and exercise. I've even tried weight loss with hypnosis for a while with pretty good results. Making good decisions about what you eat and how much you eat will go a long way in losing weight. Having an exercise routine that you can keep up with will ensure that you keep the weight off. Remember, you can lose weight either by decreasing your calorie intake or increasing the number of calories you burn. Any strategy should include both, but if you want to lose weight fast, exercise is essential. You need to consult on your doctor if you want to use a diet pills in order to lose weight fast because this kind too dangerous decision.

My wife and teenage daughter is an example and they are both on diet plans that will apparently help them shed body fat. These are eating plans that they both invented on their own. Even though my wife's is literally practical, since she sticks to a low-fat, low-sugar meal plan consisting of small portions at a time; my daughter's is not so realistic. She has cut fast food and sugary desserts out of her daily food consumption, but she eats too large of portions. Losing weight goal quickly is a terrible idea. She incorporates way too many carbs and condiments into her meals. It's like she can't eat without ketchup, pickle relish, mayonnaise and salad dressing. Oh, and let's not forget bread. She has white bread with every meal. I keep on telling her that condiments are not good for the body because it loaded with sugar and sodium. And the bread consists of bad carbs, which will break down into sugar and most likely get stored as fat. And she hasn't listen to me and no progress happened to her in losing her weight. In order to successfully lose weight quickly you have to adopt a healthy diet, consisting of smaller portions.

Several people look for diets that will help them lose weight fast. The truth it is that there is no diet out there that will help you lose weight fast. The goal is too lose weight fast, not just weight in general, if you are doing in strength training during your weight loss, you might actually see an initial gain in weight. Don't worry you have probably lost fat and gained muscle, which is denser than fat and it much healthier. The reality is that most people will fail if trying to follow these diets because they are not based on realistic and practical methods.

One day when I wake up I found out that vigorous exercise routine in hopes that will help you lose weight fast is not a good idea. If you are seriously overweight or not in very good shape, there is a very good chance that you will overdo it physically. Generally, you want to - with a combination of calorie reduction and increased activity - reduce and burn a certain number of calories a day, causing a net loss of calories so your body is forced to use its own stores of fat. How much aerobic exercise you need to perform depends on what you eat, how fast you'd like to lose weight, and how much muscle you gain. With regard to weights, men and women differ on their goals with weight training. Women, don't worry, no amount of weight training will make you as bulky as a man; women just don't have enough testosterone to build large muscles. Just like diet, having a realistic exercise plan that you can follow every day for the rest of your life is the only way to lose weight and keep it off for good.

On the other, hand quick fixes of surgical procedures are very risky so you must ask yourself if you are willing to die to be skinny. And drastic measures such as gastric bypass surgery or the lap band surgery should be thought out for months before you seriously consider doing it. "Quick fix" is not healthy! if you're striving to lose weight quickly and many of them pull water from your muscles and organs so that it appears you've lost weight. It's common sense that this is NOT HEALTHY. The best way to lose weight quickly is still through healthy dieting and regular exercise.

No matter what the magazine article says, spot improving is a myth! When your body burns fat, it takes it from all over your body, even if all you do are crunches. Remember your body needs 'fuel' just like a car needs 'fuel'. Your body needs the 'right' kinds of food to lose weight effectively. Crizza weight loss with hypnosis ***

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by Crizza Reyes

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Lady in Weighting


Lady in Weighting
The Biggest Loser was on last night and once again it got me thinking about the ups and downs of my own journey through weight gain and loss. I really wanted to go on the show when it first started a few years ago. I would probably have had a chance back then, but having babies prevented me from entering, and now I don't think I'd make the cut (in a good way).

When I was a kid I was a little on the chubby side. Through jr. and sr. high I outgrew my baby fat, but in my mind I still saw myself as "fat". Toward the end of high school and those first couple of years (while I was working at the airport) I might have bordered on skinny (around 120lbs)... but never felt that way then. I always remember viewing myself as heavy, even at my thinnest.

My life went through alot of changes, I graduated high school and went to work for an airline (did a little traveling), and I followed God's leading broke up with my boyfriend of almost three years. With him out of the picture my whole life plan was gone. I had assumed that I would be marrying him and become a wife and mother. I had to come up with a new plan and ended up going back to school which was a big adjustment for a "sheltered" homeschooler. With all these changes came weight gain. Not intentional, and I think it was somewhat gradual. Maybe I let myself go after the breakup... maybe it was the freshmen fifteen... maybe I just got caught up in enjoying life and food a little too much.

Around the time I got engaged (this was also about the time I started on the pill) I weighed 165lbs. I was feeling pretty good about myself not because of my appearance or weight but because I was in a good relationship with a guy who thought (and still does) that I was beautiful. Shortly after we were married I got a job at an airline call center and day after day I sat in a booth like a veal. I believe that it was primarily a combination of the pill and my job that lead to another 60lbs of weight gain. At my heaviest I weighed over 220lbs - about 100lbs heavier then my highschool weight. I think what really shook me up besides figuring out that I'd gained 100lbs was when I realized that I wasn't just "overweight" anymore... according to the BMI calculator online "I was morbidly obese". Ew.... how horrible those words sounded. Morbid... morbidly... obese... couldn't they change the name to something less awful?

I quit my job at the call center and went to work for my inlaws' counseling center where my husband works (I also went off of the pill around this time). He and I counted calories for awhile. We saw some results doing that. But we knew that our problem wasn't just with calories - it was our motives behind our eating habits.

We found The Lord's Table - an online ministry to help people with all kinds of eating disorders/issues. Together we went through the course and learned to change our eating habits and to turn to Christ instead of food for comfort during times when we were tired, hurt, angry, bored. What a blessing it was to not only go through the program together and see results but to grow in our relationships with God together. It was a good time of growth for us. I lost somewhere around 30lbs while going through the Lords Table course.

Some time went by and I gained a few pounds back. I got pregnant and did not feel that I should follow the eating plan while maintaining a healthy pregnancy. I had a little trouble with my blood sugar levels toward the beginning of the second trimester but after I began watching my sugar intake things were fine. It was hard after losing weight to watch my body expand again so soon and it did expand! But I gained a healthy 30-35lbs during the pregnancy and was pleased that I only passed my previous weight by a few pounds. What was supposed to have been a natural hospital birth turned into multiple hospital interventions and ultimately a cesarean. Despite the rough start I did breastfeed Nate for 13-14mos which helped take the weight off and then some. By the time I got pregnant with baby number two (surprise!) I was excited to be back down to my pre-married weight of 165lbs.

Again with baby number two I gained a healthy amount of weight during pregnancy (40 or so this time). I was alot more comfortable with my body this pregnancy, enough that I had maternity pictures taken in the 7-8mos of pregnancy! What a blessing to have some pictures to remember that special time when God was using my body to nourish and grow my son inside of me! This time I was pleased that my full-term weight only exceeded my pre-Nate weight by a couple of pounds. After a wonderful homebirth I once again began breastfeeding. And thankfully the weight came off again. Our Little Joe is almost a year and I'm still nursing him. I have been hovering at 165 again for awhile now.

I don't think I'll ever be "skinny" again. I'll probably always struggle with food and overeating. But I've made alot of changes and have an awareness of my weakness to food and that alone is a huge help. I am hoping with summertime around the corner (I hope!) that we'll be able to get more active outside and I can drop a few more pounds. Ultimately my goal is to get my weight into the "normal" range and not be overweight anymore (which is about 20 more lbs). But for now, I am happy to making healthier choices in my eating and knowing that I'll be a better wife and mom because of them. I did have a very exciting discovery recently. I went and did the BMI test online again. This time I found that I was no longer obese at all!

So... for those of you who watch The Biggest Loser.... when I started my weight loss journey I weighed 220lbs. Over the past couple of years I have lost 55lbs. Which brings my total percentage of weightloss to: 25%!! That puts me above the yellow line and a few of the contestants on the show!

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comments:
Amanda said...
your blog about breastfeeding definitely didn't offend me...and i completely agree! also, enjoyed this post on biggest loser...i have to admit, i watch it often...and it always makes me think about my own journey in weight loss land...a journey that continues to this day! thanks for sharing your "journey"...and by the way, funny that you stumbled across my blog, we actually don't live far from one another if you are in avon as your profile said. i am in bburg...and we "haunt" avon all the time for our shopping, etc.

Amanda said...
i would love to hear more about the playgroup...i'm not on facebook or myspace. i just found the yahoogroup and am so excited about it...always fun to find other westside moms...especially since we go to church on the northside, meaning most of our friends aren't nearby. i had heard about chick-fil-a...just haven't made it there on a wed. yet!


Leeann said...
You are fabulous! I actually sat here last night figuring out my percentage after watching it too! Sadly, I would have been below the yellow line. :( But, I am proud of my 30 lbs lost and have hopes that the remaining 45 will come off as well!

JAN said...
Good for you! I've always struggled with my weight too. So often we think our weight determines whether we are lovable or not. Accepting yourself as you are is half the battle. I think you are beautiful on the outside and the inside! ***

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Re- Evaluate
I am in a hump. Just have to really push to make the weight drop each week now. It's frustrating. I think that the time has come for me to re-evaluate what I am doing and not doing and then make some changes.

I also found a BMI calculator. My target weight when I started in October was 160. I never thought it would be possible quite honestly - I was 207 for god sake. That is a shit ton of weight to lose. Right? Now that I am here, a mere 9 pounds away, I realize that I was stronger than I thought. I also realize that 160 still shows me as being overweight. I need to be down to at least 155 to be in my healthy zone. So, now, I have not 9 pounds to lose but 14. And since I am heading down...I decided that I am shooting for 150. So new goal listed as of today, 19 pounds to my dream weight. I CAN DO THIS!!! Re-Evaluate.

I need to up my aerobic exercise and I think, I need to take the final step and get rid of all dairy. Right now, I do cheese a couple times per week. *sigh* This is going to be the hard part. LOL! I love cheese but I love my health more. Re-Evaluate. Breathe.

I also need to dig in my heels with the running program. I am doing the couch to 5k workout. It's boring me to tears. I need to either move myself outside and off my treadmill or I need to speed things up. Something has to give. *sigh* Re-Evaluate.

So there you have it. I know what I need to do. My new goals are in sight. It's not that far away. I will do this. Ciao. ***

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by Queenie

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Successful Weight Loss Program That Can Flush Out Toxins


Successful Weight Loss Program That Can Flush Out Toxins
Shedding thirty to forty pounds in a span of thirty days or less can be something of a feat for most people. If you are an overweight person, there is a big chance that you are a lover of food; and cutting back the extra baggage at such rate and in such time is like inviting a whale to walk on land. But it's true; there are many ways that can allow you to lose weight at this incredible pace. And one of these methods is juice fasting.

As the name suggests, this kind of diet makes use of water and the juices made from raw vegetables and fruits instead of solid food. It requires that nothing except juice and water must be consumed for a period ranging from three to thirty days depending on the length of the program you want to adopt.

Followers of this method choose fruits, vegetables and water because they are excellent sources of vitamins, fiber, antioxidants, and other minerals. Juice fasting is proven to benefit the body in a number of ways other than as a weight loss approach.

1. Detoxifies The Body
Absorbing nothing but pulped raw vegetables and fruits and water, your body will have an easy time digesting and cleaning out your system; as such, your organs will be able to focus in pushing out the toxins that have accumulated in your system. Most importantly, the minerals, vitamins, and other nutrients found in most vegetables and fruits are filled with cleansing and healing features that can knockout the toxins in your body.

2. Increases Vitality
Juice fasting has been proven to increase the vitality of all those who follow the diet. And it does not matter if you are twenty or seventy years old, as long as you have the will power to consume nothing but the natural goodness of juiced raw vegetables and fruits for a few days, you can look forward to a more intensified energy level.

The increased vitality that you will experience after undergoing juice fasting results from the deep cleansing that your body organs will be going through. With the absence of toxins, all the important systems in your body will be pepped up to function at their peak. Besides, all the nutrients from the vegetables and fruits that you will consume are more than enough to give you the oomph you need.

3. Burns Down Fat
Juice fasting is an extreme form of fasting. Since it requires that no solid food must be eaten for several days, your daily caloric requirements will not be met even if you have the right nutrients and vitamins. In effect, juice fasting, like all other forms of fasting, will enable your body to burn down fat to be used as extra fuel for your body. The more amounts of fat that you burn for the entire duration of your juice fasting, the more pounds will be shaved off your body.

With all these benefits from juice fasting, it is not hard to imagine how many people have tried to use this approach not only for cleansing the body of toxins, but in losing weight as well. But this approach is not without drawbacks. Juice fasting can create health complications if you are not careful or properly informed about the whole process of this diet program.

For instance, if you are pregnant or nursing your child, juice fasting is definitely not a good idea for you. Children and people who are afflicted with major diseases like epilepsy, diabetes, and hepatitis should not be allowed to try juice fasting. Also, if you are under medication, you should know that the medicines you take may draw out unwanted reaction from your body if you are under this diet. If you really want to lose weight without risking your overall health, you can always make use of the products that are specifically designed to cut down your weight.

Not all weight loss products have bad side effects. Just be sure to choose one that does not compromise your health. ***

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by Sharon Bell
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Sharon Bell is an avid health and fitness enthusiast and published author. Many of her insightful articles can be found at the premiere online news magazine:
http://www.healthnfitnesszone.com.
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Don't Go On A Diet If You Want To Lose Weight!


Don't Go On A Diet If You Want To Lose Weight!
If you are here reading this article, then you are researching ways get control of your weight. Do not ever, ever, under any circumstance, put yourself on a diet! That's right, I am telling you to avoid diets in order to lose weight. Diets are failures; diets have always been failures.
The worst thing you can do to your health is to go on a diet. You have seen it before - perhaps you even experienced yourself; people go on a diet, achieve some success, go off the diet, and regain the weight they loss - perhaps with interest.

Diets are nothing new, the ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Babylonians had diet plans to lose weight. Even the low-carb craze is not new; there was a low-carb diet introduced in the 1820s and later again in the 1860s. Virtually all diets have two things in common; they require the dieter to adjust their eating often in an unpleasant manner. This can cause nutritional deficiencies to the body. Secondly, diets are often approached with a short-term mindset - going on a diet implies one will be going off it on a later date. The end results are generally one of two outcomes.

The dieter reaches his weight goal and stops the diet, goes back to what he was doing before and then slowly regains the weight often along with additional weight. Or, the body begins to suffer imbalance, hormonal or otherwise, due to the nutritional deficiencies caused by the diet and, he or she becomes "fed up" with being on the diet and simply gives up. Binge eating frequently follows this situation. Neither outcome will help you have a successful long-term weight loss outcome and can cause harm in the long run.

Finally, when one cuts the amount of food - and it is the amount of food, not calories (our bodies do not have built-in calorimeters) that trigger these reactions - our bodies undergo several reactions. First, the thyroid gland reduces its T3 hormone production, slowing overall metabolism. Second, your body, thinking it is starving, begins to leach off your muscles, slowing your metabolism even more, and leaving you weaker. Since regained weight that follows will invariably be fat, the individual will end up having a higher body fat composition.

Diets, being temporary phenomena, will give you only temporary results. To have permanent results, you will need to make permanent changes. Instead of dieting then, change your lifestyle, which then will allow you to achieve permanent weight loss. This will involve a combination of healthy eating as well as a reasonable activity level, and still, in moderation, enjoy those foods we all love but know are fattening.

This site will show how I adjusted my lifestyle in such a way that I went from being obese to having an athletic physique (Actually it was a series of lifestyle changes, depending on my fitness goals at the time). It will also direct you to resources and products that were helpful for me. Don't wait any longer; start changing your life today! ***

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by Don Carlin
I am a weight loss runaway success story. After years of struggling with weight, I finally overcame. Now I am sharing my research to help others take control of their weight. Check out my story at: http://www.squidoo.com/fromobesetoathletic/
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Secrets To Weight Loss Success: Eliminate Food Cravings


Secrets To Weight Loss Success - Eliminate Food Cravings

There are several keys to experiencing weight loss success with any diet program, but one of the biggest is avoiding those nasty food cravings. Here are some tips to help you in this all important area. There is certainly no shortage of diet and weight loss programs that will help you lose weight, but 99% of them make it difficult, if not impossible to stay on for any length of time. This is mainly due to the fact that they leave you feeling even hungrier after eating and even worse, leave you with food cravings throughout the day.

One of the main problems with food cravings is that when you succumb to them you will always eat far too much of whatever you were craving. For example, I can remember one time I was craving Pringles potato chips. What happened? You guessed it, I ate the entire can! And you know how destructive that can be on any weight loss plan.

Why do we get cravings?
Believe it or not, most always it's because we need water. Our body requires 6 ingredients to run right; protein, fat, minerals, carbs and water. So, when your body isn't getting enough of one of these ingredients, it causes a craving for it. Think of when you were really thirsty the last time. You wanted a drink of water in the worst way. It's the same way for all 6 of these food ingredients.

How does this apply to weight loss plans and diets? Well, when a particular diet program completely eliminates a food group, it leads to you getting cravings. Your body rebels so to speak and you begin feeling miserable. Shortly after that, most everyone ends their diet. How can you prevent food cravings? As you can probably tell by now, the only way to get rid of cravings is by eating foods from all six groups. With that said though, the key to weight loss success is eating the "good" foods from these six groups and not the junk foods.

A good diet plan will include these "good" foods in all food categories. When you find this type of weight loss program, you'll most likely begin to see success, and more importantly, eliminate the cravings. ***

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by Terry Edwards
By the way, you can learn more the Secrets To Weight Loss Success as well as much more information on dieting and weight loss at http://www.FatLoss4IdiotsReview.net
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