Skinny Minnie Me|Weightloss The Healthy Way

by Daisy Profits

Let’s face it, trying to lose weight is not fun. While little miss nothing size 2 plows into a doublestack cheeseburger and a mound of greasy fries, you sit with your simple lettuce salad, dressing free, and a glass of water. Yuck! It’s just not fair. Later on when you’re starving to death you eat a whole bag of cheetos and a package of oreos, mint flavored, of course, and You have just voided out your delicious lettuce leaf salad. Dieting is hard work of sacrifice, denial and exercise. Right? Wrong! You need to know the 3 simple rules to weight loss.

What I’m going to tell you is not new mindshattering news. It’s not even my original idea. But sometimes you have to hear something many times before it starts “to take” in your brain. Hopefully, this is that time.

You really don’t have to go into complete denial and sacrifice when you decide to lose weight. You first have to be ready. How many times have you said to yourself that you’re going on a diet to lose 10 lbs. You start off great then you eat 2 cookies with your coffee saying that it won’t hurt it’s just 2 cookies. Then you eat one more. Then for lunch instead of having a lean turkey sandwich you have the double cheeseburger but don’t have the fries because you’re “being good and dieting”. Later on you put extra butter on your baked potato and eat 3 rolls with more butter.

The first mistake you made was that you weren’t really ready to to lose weight. You were fooling your self.

Here are the 3 simple rules to losing weight.

1. The Right Mindset
You have to be ready mentally. You have to be in the mindset that you really mean it this time. That this is the last straw and you are gonna do it. If you are not mentally ready, you will not succeed.

2. Calorie Count

Decide how many calories you are allowed each day for your body size and stick to that count.You don’t have to starve yourself and deny yourself your favorite foods. Put a calorie number on everthing you put in your mouth and stick to it! If you want a piece of chocolate cake for dessert than you’ll probably have to have lean turkey, salad and carrots to go with it. Just COUNT THE CALORIES. Pick your magic number. The magic number is the total amount of calories you can consume that day. If you want the chocolate cake for dessert or some cookies with coffee or a slice of pizza, just deduct the calories in the cake, or cookies or pizza from the total number of calories you can consume for the day and the balance is what you can eat the rest of the day. If you eat that slice of cake, you might have to have salads, vegetables and fruit the rest of the day but you’ve satisfied your want. Now you’ll get over it and continue on your goal.

3. Exercise

Moderate exercise. I’m not saying you need to exercise like your’re trying out for the olympic weight lifting team (unless you want to) just moderate exercise. You need to get off the couch and leave the remote control behind. Take the dog for a walk after dinner. Ride your bicycle a few miles. No big deal. Honestly once you start you’re going to want to do more because your’re going to feel great! When you drive to the mall, or doctor’s office or supermaket, don’t park next to the handicap space, park as far away from the store as you can, and walk! You’re burning extra calories! And the more calories you burn the more weight you will lose! Walk up the stairs, don’t take the elevator. Take a walk around your building at lunch. Get your metabolism going.

That’s it in a nutshell. Doesn’t sound so bad, does it? If you follow the 3 simple rules, I guarantee you will lose weight. This is just the beginning of the new you. Now I think I’ll follow my own advice and take my dog for a walk! I wish you all the best!

 Daisy Profits writes articles and builds websites on various subjects. Visit her newest site at: http://www.skinnyminnieme.com

Two of the main reasons that we find it hard to lose weight is because of the fat that is absorbed in our body and because we get hungry. If we eat a good meal then everything we eat instantly turns to fat. If we eat only small portions or “rabbit food” then we get hungry and’need to eat more. It’s a vicious circle that many dieters face everyday.

Dieting is much easier once you learn to control hunger throughout the day. Over the past decade, a variety of products have come to market to control hunger. One popular way many dieters are suppressing their appetites is by drinking protein shakes as replacement meals. The more protein you take in, the more fat your body will burn.

The question to ask today is, do any safe appetite suppressants exist? About 10 years ago there was a national epidemic of people dying because of taking a popular appetite suppressant that caused major health issues. However, there are indeed safe and practical alternatives to these dangerous hunger control supplements.

Fibers

Do you know that there are several types of foods which are rich in fiber? If you eat such foods frequently, suppressing your appetite and getting rid of hunger would be as easy as pie for you, since fiber keeps you full for a long time. Besides, fiber-rich foods also keep you from gaining weight by maintaining your normal blood sugar level. One such food is the good old apple.

Yet another fiber-rich food is legumes and nuts. Whenever I feel hungry, I often eat grams, black beans, peas, soybeans, groundnuts, etc., of course in raw forms. They are not only a good and easy way to keep hunger away for a considerable period of time but also helpful in weight loss, since they too are rich in protein content just like eggs.

Hoodia Gordonii

What is the best appetite suppressant on the market today?’ This is a question that millions of us ask ourselves every day. The best appetite suppressants are ones that contain natural antioxidants. Don’t settle for less when your health depends on the results.

Right now, one of the most trusted herbal appetite suppressants is the supplement made from Hoodia. Not only is it able to prevent you from binge eating because of its appetite reduction mechanism, it also makes you feel full. When taken properly, hunger control is possible, and your weight loss goals can be achieved with less pain.

A natural appetite suppressant without any bad side effects is what every dieter hopes for. This is a way to control your appetite without having to resort to drugs. It is possible for you to use hoodia while on a calorie controlled diet. It is always advisable to drink plenty of fresh water and to exercise regularly. Strong appetite suppressants are formulated to suppress the appetite while increasing an individual’s metabolism helping to burn more calories.

So appetite suppressants are currently the most effective diet remedies to prevent you gaining weight again. Some appetite suppressants are addictive, and their effect tends to wear off if used over an extended time, such that people need to take larger doses to produce the same result, which in turn increases the risk of addiction, which in turn increases other risks.

Most natural appetite suppressants are usually considered safer, although it is important to remember that the overuse of even the most natural, unprocessed product can still have serious side effects.

Exercise

Exercise can also help you control your appetite and weight, and it has a number of other positive health effects. Exercise and eating the right foods are instrumental as well, but if you are hungry all of the time you will likely eat more than you should.

To get the best weight loss results this medication is used in combination with a well planned diet and exercise to reduce weight. Never have there been so numerous weight loss remedies and appetite suppressants available and these tablets are employed for the short-term management of weight collectively with suitable diet and physical exercise.

Even so, to maximize the impact they could have, exercise, a healthy diet and not pigging out on your preferred foods can go a long way in bolstering the effects of taking them. When used in conjunction with a sensible diet and exercise program, it can help you lose weight more quickly.

When it comes to losing weight, it is easier said than it is to do… If you think thin and take on that very positive attitude prior to your weight loss efforts, you will have won half the battle.

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Physical training can be a fat burning workout every time you train.

A lot of people are interested in losing that stubborn, unwanted fat… and are in search of a good fat burning workout.

Burning fat is one of the major reasons people participate in a physical training program… They want to burn fat to look better.

What I am going to propose is that in order to get the most fat burning qualities out of your workout you have to make a shift in training mentality.

Instead of looking at a fat burning workout as a way to look better… View burning fat as a way to perform better.

Just forget about looks for a second… and view your physical training as strictly a way to improve performance.

Losing unwanted and unneeded fat will definitely improve physical performance.

This shift in workout mentality will guide you to choose strength, conditioning and fitness exercises and methods that will develop into excellent fat burning workouts.

I am not going to give you a fat burning workout… I am going to teach you how to make every time you train a fat burning workout.

First of all, let me tell you what I don’t think is a fat burning workout…

You go to the gym, warm up, do sets or circuits of strength training, do 20 minutes of “cardio” in your “fat burning zone” and then cool down.

I also don’t think this is a fat burning workout…

You go to the gym, warm up, do 20 minutes of “cardio” in your “fat burning zone”, do sets or circuits of strength training and then cool down.

These two examples sound like the workout programs of 98% of the people reading this… Are you one of them?

If those two scenarios were the keys to burning fat… Why are you still looking for a good fat burning workout?

OK… so what is an effective fat burning workout?

For an effective fat burning workout you need to blur the lines between strength training and metabolic conditioning and add intensity.

Let me explain…

Most people don’t think of strength training as a fat burning workout… mostly because they are doing body building isolated movement exercises at a pace that does not get the cardiorespiratory rates up and keep them up.

This is normally the same group of people that think the best “cardio” comes from extended, constant rate aerobic exercise in the fabled “fat burning zone”.

But let me suggest this… If you combined lifting weights and cardiorespiratory exercise and performed them at an intensity and pace that got your cardiorespiratory rates up and kept them up you would have everything you need for an excellent fat burning workout.

What would this type of intense strength and conditioning fat burning workout accomplish…

1) Development of lean muscle that would burn more calories for maintenance in the future.

2) Improvement of cardiorespiratory endurance, allowing you to work out harder in the future and burn more calories.

3) Increase in metabolism so that you would continue to burn calories for hours after the workout.

4) Allow you to accomplish a strength, conditioning and fat burning workout in a fraction of the time of separating the workouts.

5) Teach your body to function as one complete unit and to use strength and cardiorespiratory endurance simultaneously.

If you are concerned with improving overall strength, conditioning and fitness performance… Then you need to drop that unwanted fat that is keeping you from reaching your potential.

Ironically, if you concentrate on performance improvement by adding intensity and variety to your workouts and blur the lines between strength training and conditioning training, you will see superior fat loss than programs claiming to target fat loss.

Start training for physical fitness improvement and every workout will become a fat burning workout.

Just think of what you can accomplish in sport, work and life activities when you develop a body that performs as good as it looks.

So, don’t train for appearance.

Train for performance… and the appearance you want is sure to follow.