Best Foods For Fat Loss - Becoming Fit Was Never Easier
November 28, 2009 by Ben Pate
Filed under Weight Loss
The best foods for fat loss are close to you and simple to use in every day life. You can change a few simple steps in your daily eating habits and lose weight and shed inches by eating the Fat Loss Foods out there. These foods help you by speeding up the way you burn fat while not leaving you feeling deprived of good food.
Apples are a great source of fiber and one of the easiest ways to fight fat. They are handy when you are on the go. Kids love them so they are a great way to teach your children proper eating habits from the start. They are mostly water but taste great and are a sweet alternative to junk food.
Raw almonds are also a great source of protein, fiber and vitamin E. They help with Fat Loss Exercises by producing magnesium in your body. They give you energy as well and help you build muscle that replaces fat. Another great thing about almonds is they regulate blood sugar. Most coffee houses have almonds you can pick up on your way to work to drop in your bag to munch on the rest of the day.
The incredible egg is also a good fat burner. Eating eggs in the morning gives you protein you need to get you through the day. They also help you feel fuller longer, which is an added bonus of any food that helps you feel less hungry.
Soy is a great source for your antioxidants and has been proven to provide fat loss. Adding soy to your coffee or making a shake is great and tastes good too. It can be doubled if you are vegetarian and do not eat eggs.
Another great fruit for adding to fat loss are berries. They come in many varieties and can be purchased frozen, as well to keep in your freezer. Berries are also chalked full of antioxidants and can be added to most any meal. Be creative and fight fat by adding berries to your next meal or eat them as a snack on their own.
Yogurt is full of bacterium that is good for you and fights fat. The bacterium lines your stomach and protects it in a great way against other harmful bacteria. It has calcium and comes in many flavors for an easy choice of a healthy snack. It can also be added to recipes as well.
Leafy greens such as lettuce, cabbage or collard greens also fight fat in a great way. They are a wonderful source of calcium, which helps build muscle. You need to eat a certain amount of vegetables daily anyway so why not choose the ones that will help you burn fat? Another anytime snack that helps fight fat is veggie soup. It tastes good and fills you up while burning fat storage.
These Foods To Lose Fat will help in your fight against the bulge. The best foods for Losing Fat are available to you and easy to use every day for successful weight loss and healthy eating.
Some Easy Fat Loss Workouts That Will Show You Results In A Small Amount Of Time
November 24, 2009 by Johnny Simmona
Filed under Weight Loss
Very few of us women would claim to be 100 percent content with our bodies. Most of us have little pockets of flabby flesh that we would like to tone up and slim down. It would be great to be able to pop a diet pill and have everything become perfect, but this is not going to happen. The only really effective way is to do exercises to lose fat regularly.
Most women tend to accumulate fat around their thighs, bottom and hip areas. It can tough to shift, but there are several fat loss exercises that work very well. Squats, lunges and plies are the best exercises to do to lose fat and tone up your body. You should be careful to do the exercises properly so as to avoid injury to your knees.
To do a basic squat you start with your legs slightly more than shoulder length apart. Then you bend your knees as far as you can in a slow and controlled manner. You can stick your bottom out at the back a little too. To begin with you should try doing three sets of 10 and then as you strengthen the muscle you can increase the number of sets.
A fit ball is a great and inexpensive piece of exercise equipment that you can use at home. You can use a fit ball to do squat against the wall. Place the ball between your back and the wall. Gently roll down into the squatting position and then return to your standing position. If you have weak knees, this type of squat is a good way to start.
Lunges are the king of butt exercises and are great for your fat loss system. A simple lunge is done by starting with your toes together and stepping forward with one of your feet. The other foot stays where it is and the front foot makes a right angle with your shin and thigh. Then you return to your original stance and repeat on the other foot. To be effective the lunge needs to be done in a controlled manner using your thigh muscles. Uncontrolled movements increase the chance of injury to the muscle or joint. Try starting with two sets of 10 on each leg.
To reduce fat in the thighs as well as strengthening the ab muscles, lie with your back on the ground. Place your feet on the fit ball and then incline your body so that you form an angle from the fit ball with your tensed body. Use your thigh muscles to roll the fit ball in towards your bottom and out again. This will tone your stomach, thighs, butt and calf muscles. Start with 2 sets of ten and gradually work up to 6 sets of ten.
Ballerinas are never fat and that is because they do so many plies. A plie is done by point the toes away from each other, but keeping the heels together. Rotate your feet out from your hips, pull up your stomach and pull down your bottom. Bend your knees outwards and down as far as they will go without your heels leaving the floor. Repeat slowly for 5 sets of 10.
Squats, lunges and plies are fantastic exercises to lose fat, which will shift the fat from your problem areas and leave them toned and athletic looking. If you make them part of your daily routine, you will soon experience noticeable fast fat loss and a difference in your body appearance.
Top 3 Fun Games For Kids’ Weight Loss!
April 14, 2009 by Frances Norah Smith
Filed under Weight Loss
Suppose that you’ve never worked out in life, and all of a sudden someone tells you that if you wish to get rid of your fat belly, you would need to hit the gym for two weeks straight and spend an average of six hours there per day! How would you react to that? Your first thought would be that it is better to keep your fat belly intact and watch that cool Hollywood movie instead of working so hard.
Well, that is the exactly the same way your kids think when they are asked to workout like crazy just to lose weight! However, if you ask them to do some fun activities which would keep them cheerful and help them lose weight at the same time, then nothing like it! In this article I prescribe three such fun activities for your kids!
1. Dog walking: Walking is one of the simplest ways to lose weight, but kids won’t want to walk without any incentive. Do you have a pet dog at home? If yes, the incentive could be that of taking the dog for a walk. If your kids are particularly attached to the pets at home, this would become easier! Be a model to your kids and take the dog with you when going out for your regular morning walks, and your kids would soon follow suit!
2. The twister trick: Board games and video games make your kids fat for sure, but not all games are that bad. Consider for example the twister game! Would you call it dull and boring? Definitely not! It is one game which kids of all ages are sure to enjoy, and since they cannot play it sitting on the couch, it would help them lose weight as well!
Again you could take the initiative by playing the game for your kids at first, and since kids like to emulate adults, they would soon mimic you!
3. Let the chair be filled with music: Okay, I mean musical chairs! This is a very well known game but very few people know that it could be used to make your kids lose the fat belly immediately! The game is pretty simple: just get several hula hoops and chairs and put them all close to each other. Let the music begin!
The kids are supposed to walk in a big circle around the hoops or chairs as soon as the music begins. Immediately after music stops, the kids must jump fast into the hula hoops or the chairs; if anyone is unable to jump on the chair in time, he is sent back to the cheering section. Before the start of the next round of the game, you should take away one chair from the group!
An Absolutely Fantastic Method to Keep Your Kids Slim!
April 13, 2009 by Frances Norah Smith
Filed under Weight Loss
We all know that the only method to keep our kids from getting any fatter is by making them eat healthy fruits and vegetables as well as forcing them to stay away from junk foods. However, any parent knows that it is easier said than done! After all, which kid would want to give up on the tasty junk foods for the sake of fruits and vegetables! Well, good news is that there is a little trick which works wonders in this case! In this article I will talk about that little-known but useful trick!
The trick is that of hiding healthy foods in the guise of ‘comfort’ foods. How about a spinach burger, or a ’soft drink’ made up of just plain water with a tad of sugar and a pint of natural lemon or mango flavor? How about using margarine instead of butter for the purpose of cooking those delicious and yummy popcorn balls? There are plenty of ingenious ways you can use to make your kids eat healthy foods without much fuss!
Now, there are certain things to remember here:
1. First of all, contrary to what many parents believe, there is nothing unethical about tricking your kids into eating healthy foods; the only ‘bad’ thing which is going to happen as a result of this trick is that your child would be more and more addicted to healthy foods and his addiction towards junk foods would automatically diminish over time!
Most of the organic fruits and vegetables out there are rich in fiber, among other nutrients! Hence these foods help keep your kids full for a long time, and consequently, their appetite for junk foods is killed!
2. Secondly, while it is true that this method only works for young children, it is also true that if you make them accustomed to healthy foods right from their infancy, it would be easier for them to incorporate healthy eating habits later in life, and when that happens, you won’t really need to trick them anymore by offering healthy foods camouflaged as junk foods! Remember that habits, good or bad, are adopted by human beings right from a very young age!
3. Thirdly, in the quest of making our children eat healthy foods, we must not lose sight of the foods they may be allergic too! Milk may be good for the growth of kids, but many kids are lactose intolerant and as such, cannot digest milk properly! The only way is to offer skimmed or ‘fat-free’ milk instead!
Also there are many kids who are allergic even to the innocuous potatoes! If your kid dislikes potatoes no matter how you cook them, then there is more to it than its bland taste. However if your kid seems to prefer potato chips in place of roasted or steamed potatoes, then it is just an unhealthy food choice which needs to be taken care of. Granted that potatoes are high on carbs, but still, steamed potatoes are lower on calorie content than potato chips; plus your kids need carbs anyway!
3 Palate Training Tips to Ensure Your Kids Avoid Weight Gain!
April 12, 2009 by Frances Norah Smith
Filed under Weight Loss
If you thought your kids have acquired their junk food eating habits from peers, you may not be wholly true! Habits start quite early in the life of a human, and if your kid is taught the benefits of healthy eating right from infancy, they are less likely to indulge in junk food eating out of peer pressure, if at all, than otherwise! A formula which works very well in this case is palate training.
Contrary to its name, this formula is pretty simple and straightforward, in that it doesn’t require any expert knowledge on your part! It was invented by two members of the Good Food Village Trust, Louise Rutten and Mitzy Wilson! Palate training is all about training the tastebuds of your kids in such a way that they start loving natural and healthy foods much more than those yummy fast foods! So let’s get right on it as to how to start training the palates of your kids!
1. Let them appreciate natural foods: Your kids would eat organic foods only when they love them! From quite an early age, you should teach your children that beets or carrots don’t taste awful! Conventional preaching doesn’t work too well in case of kids for whom, seeing is believing.
So you could go a bit further, peel off a carrot and let your kid lick it with his tongue or chop it off and ask him to put a piece on one side of his mouth and keep it there for a few moments to enjoy the taste. Such small and gradual steps would make your kid addicted to carrots! In fact, you can use this formula for any food you want your kids to eat!
2. Don’t encourage bad habits at home: While it is true that you don’t have absolute control over what your kid eats when he is out of home, you could still control his eating habits in a number of approaches.
Here is an example. When he goes to school, pack his lunch box with healthy fruits and vegetables. If your kid doesn’t eat it at school, make him eat the same at home. It is still possible that your kid may have a bite of pizza or hamburger at school or a sip of soft drink at a friend’s party! However, they won’t get addicted to them if you don’t allow those foods at home, since a kid needs to eat a particular food at least 14-15 for him to get addicted to it!
3. Walk the talk: It is easy to preach the benefits of healthy eating to your kids but do YOU follow your own advice? Remember that kids have a tendency to emulate the adults, particularly their parents, and if they catch you enjoying a packet of chips on a lazy Saturday evening, why would they be contented with a carrot or cabbage? If you wish to inculcate good eating habits in your kids, you need to adopt them yourself first!
3 Lists of Negative Calorie Foods for Free-Burn Fat Rapidly with Them!
April 11, 2009 by Frances Norah Smith
Filed under Weight Loss
The concept of losing weight by consuming negative calorie foods might stump you, but trust me, it is not as complicated as you think! Truth is, with any food your body needs to expend its stored energy to digest it before it can give back some energy to the body! Compared to ordinary foods, the so-called ‘negative calorie foods’ consume more energy from your body to digest themselves than what they supply to the body.
As a result, a calorie deficit occurs which in turn forces your body to burn your existing fat deposits so as to make up for this deficit, thereby helping you lose weight! It is really a simple concept, but the tough part is identifying the negative calorie foods.
Fortunately, you won’t have to import negative calorie foods from Mars; in fact, you may already be eating negative calorie foods without being aware of it. In order to help you decide the best negative calorie foods for fast weight loss, I would offer you a free list of the negative calorie foods I highly recommend to all my clients.
1. The A-List: Those good old red apples maybe high on calorie, but they won’t make you fat as long as you consume them in moderate quantities. You would notice that regular apple consumption is recommended by doctors and nutritionists alike, and there is a good reason behind it!
Other foods in this category are asparagus and apricots. For your information, apricots taste great when eaten together with cereals; as a matter of fact, I consume them both for my daily breakfast!
2. The B-List:
My lunch is never complete without a can of blackberries. Blackberries are rich in antioxidants as well as fiber. Don’t forget beets too; they are not only rich in fiber but also Vitamin A. Thus, beets are extremely good for your eyesight! Broccoli is yet another of my favorite foods; I usually have steamed broccoli for dinner, but you can have it whenever way you wish!
Though relatively unknown, buffalo fish is yet another negative calorie food that I highly suggest!
3. The C-List: Whenever I have beets, I also make sure to include carrots in it. You would notice that eating either beets or carrots alone could be a bit boring, but combine the two and the result is fantastic! Beets and carrots are ideal mates for each other; you can have them either in raw or steamed form.
Crabs are eaten by many people but not many are aware of the fact it is also a negative calorie food! You can also add cabbage and cauliflowers to this list!
I could go on and on as there are many more negative calories foods than what I have mentioned here, but if I want to keep this article from turning into a boring novel, I need to stop right now. If you require more food suggestions, they are already available online for free!
3 Step-by-Step Meal Plans For the Fans of FatLoss4Idiots!
April 11, 2009 by Frances Norah Smith
Filed under Weight Loss
With due respect to the huge number of articles written on the benefits of calorie shifting, I just wished that the authors of those articles had also taken the time to offer a few easy-go-recipes for the followers of the diet. Regardless, I am going to fill that need with my article! If you have been searching for some good recipes that go well with the concept of calorie shifting, you would be able to find them and more from this article!
For the sake of argument, I am making a few assumptions here, the first of them being that you are quite familiar with the concept of calorie shifting method of dieting. I am also assuming that you are a member of the FatLoss4Idiots diet program, which follows the philosophy of calorie shifting diet. Now if those two assumptions are true, then you are going to profit tremendously from this article. I will offer you a 3-day meal plan based on the dietary requirements of FatLoss4Idiots.
For your information, these meal plans are only for the non-vegetarians; I cannot mention the vegetarian diet here, as it would mean infringing on the copyright of FatLoss4Idiots. If you require the vegetarian version of these meals, you can access that from within their membership area.
Also, note that you are free to consume these meals in any way and order you wish, the only exception being the meal plan of second day. Furthermore, if you don’t want to eat a particular food suggested in the meal plan, you are free to do that as well. These meal plans are as flexible as they should be, so that you can enjoy your meals and lose weight at the same time!
1. Meal Plan for First day:
Your first day should consist of the following meals:
Meal A-
I) Mixture of vegetables in steamed form: When you are starting the diet, I would recommend that you eat a bowl of steamed vegetables. You can have any number of vegetables you wish in the mix. If however, you choose to eat them fried, make sure you use as little oil as possible; I would also suggest the use of olive oil over your regular fatty oil.
II) Slices of roasted beef and hard boiled eggs: It is important to start building your lean muscle mass right from day one, as more lean muscles means speedier fat burning and a stronger and flatter body! Increasing your protein intake is a great way to build strong muscles, and good news is that both lean beef and eggs are rich in protein content!
Meal B-
Your second meal would consist of eggs, this time in scrambled form. Additionally, you should also consume broiled sea bass.
Meal C-
For the third meal, I suggest sausage links along with cottage cheese.
Meal D-
For the fourth meal, broiled orange roughy along with tuna salad would make a fabulous combo, and if you add a few pears to the mix (in fresh form of course), you cannot help but explain ‘Wow!’
2. Meal Plan for Second day:
You could have the following meals on second day:
Meal A-
For the first meal, you should eat nothing except a deli meat sandwich. To make this sandwich, you should only use the following ingredients:
-Any kind of meat that fits the deli style, such as turkey, ham, roasted beef, etc.
-2 Medium-sized sandwich breads
-Optionally, you can also add onions, tomatoes and lettuce to the mix
Meal B to D-
Your next three meals should consist of nothing but fruits. You are however free to choose any fruits from the following: peaches, pears, plums, oranges, apples, kiwis, strawberries, grapes, grapefruit, etc.
3. Meal Plan for Third day:
If you are bored of the fruit-only meals of the previous day, the meals of the third are as delicious as they could be!
Meal A-
You can start your day off with shrimps (one of my favorite foods by the way) as well as Pastrami in sliced form.
Meal B-
For the second meal, nothing could be better than having lean chicken meat. Along with chicken, you should also have the macadamia nuts, as they are rich in unsaturated fats!
Meal C-
Did I say that the third day has some interesting foods in store for you! For your third meals, you can have both cheese and turkey, although in sliced form. Along with that you can also have banana milk shake (trust me, it tastes fantastic!).
Meal D-
With this fourth meal, you would be back to square one. Remember that when you started dieting I recommended hard-boiled eggs and slices of roasted beef for your first meal! Well, you can have them again for this fourth meal. That completes the dieting cycle!
Even the best laid out meal plans could appear to be boring after sometime, which is why I highly recommend that you use the diet generator software that comes free with your FatLoss4Idiots membership! This tool would generate awesome meal plans based on your food choices.
A diet program that lets you eat what YOU want- can anything be better than that!
Calorie Shifting or Calorie Counting: Which One Would Help Me Lose Belly Fat Fast?
April 9, 2009 by Frances Norah Smith
Filed under Weight Loss
While it is vital to understand the concept of calorie clearly for the purpose of successful weight loss, the different types of calorie controlling methods adopted by different dieting programs often leave us confused and bewildered! Take for example the concepts of calorie counting and calorie shifting. Both techniques would work in their own rights and lead you to weight loss success, provided that you follow the rules religiously! But of course the obvious question is: which method is easier and better? Well that is what this article would tell you!
It is indeed hard to answer this question since both calorie shifting and calorie counting have their respective strong and weak points.
1. Calorie counting-
Strong points: The main advantage of the calorie counting method is that it offers you permanent weight loss, albeit very slowly. If you are patient enough, you are sure to get good results from its use over time. Another big plus point is that it recommends exercise along with dieting for accelerating the weight loss process.
One good thing about regular exercising is that you can build strong lean muscles with their help, with in turn translates to a higher metabolic rate! When you have a strong and muscular body, coupled with high metabolism, you will be able to burn fat not only at the time of working out but also at rest! If you are wondering how your bodybuilder friend manages to keep weight away all the year round, this might be his secret!
Weak points: The obvious weak point of the calorie counting technique is that it takes a lot of patience and self-discipline on your part to follow this dieting method for your whole life! Just imagine counting the calorie contents of each and every morsel you put in your mouth, and doing this for days, weeks, months or even years, and you would get an idea of what I mean! To be honest, most of us are too accustomed to an ‘easy-going’ lifestyle to be able to keep up with this diet for long enough!
This dieting technique is extremely restrictive regarding the types of foods you are allowed to eat. Not only you are likely to get bored of eating the same old, boring foods time and again, it also makes it quite difficult for you to eat out at a fast food restaurant once in a while, because you never know how much calorie you would be putting in your mouth through the restaurant food (dont be fooled by the calorie stats mentioned in the menu cards, as they are hardly ever accurate)!
Perhaps the worst thing about this way is that it constricts your calorie intake to an abysmally low level, thereby leaving your body begging for more! If your body doesn’t get the minimum amount of calorie, it would slow down your metabolic rate and stop the fat burning process, thereby making it difficult for you to lose weight.
2. Calorie shifting- Now let’s move on to calorie shifting. It seems that more and more people are taking a liking to this method in the recent times and not without a reason!
Strong points: The first reason behind its popularity is that it offers you fast weight loss WITHOUT restricting you to a few boring foods. In fact, with this method, you can eat any type and amount of food you want subject to a certain daily calorie intake limit! The makers of the calorie shifting method of dieting believe that when your body receives foods of varying calorie contents and your daily calorie consumption differs widely, it would always keep your metabolic rate high!
As you can see, with this method, you won’t have to spend sleepless nights if ever you happen to have a fill at a fast food restaurant. This diet needs less patience on your part, and since it doesn’t recommend daily workouts, more and more people are finding it attractive!
Weak points: That said, even the calorie shifting technique is not devoid of certain weaknesses. If doing calculations is something you cringe about, then this diet may not be for you as you would need to make a lot of nitty-gritty calculations to become successful with it!
For example, you would need to calculate how frequently you should eat, how and in what degree you would be alternate between different types of foods, as well as how to alternate your meal times in a way so as to derive the optimum benefits from your diet. All these calculations are sure to leave you quite confused and frustrated!
Also, since it doesn’t recommend workouts, you are virtually limited to losing weight solely with the help of dieting, which is an awfully slow process! Further you would never be able to quit your diet because if you do, you would become overweight all over again! Here is why-
You can remain fit and slim only if your body has a decent amount of lean muscle mass, since lean muscles keep the fat away by burning excess calories all the time, whether you diet or not. However this diet doesn’t recommend you to workout and you cannot build strong lean muscles without doing regular workouts!
For that reason, even if you are lucky enough to get rid of your fat belly, it would be very difficult for you to maintain your slim body for long unless you continue dieting forever!
That said, I recommend calorie shifting in spite of its weaknesses, since it is much easier to follow and offers faster weight loss results than calorie counting. Since calorie shifting places fewer restrictions on your food intake, you don’t feel deprived at any point of time. At the same time, I would also recommend that you add a daily dose of workouts with this dieting method in order to lose weight really fast!
The Diet Which Helped Beyonce Knowles Lose Weight - Is It Healthy?
March 25, 2009 by Frances Norah Smith
Filed under Weight Loss
Beyonce Knowles-in recent times, days she became more famous for her sudden unexpected weight loss than either her vocal cords or histrionic abilities! Once she claimed on a TV show to have lost almost twenty pounds of fat using a special diet program, everyone went crazy over it. So what is this diet program and exactly how does it work, and more importantly, could Beyonce’s results be duplicated by others? I will answer all these questions in this article.
Beyonce claimed to have lost the weight while shooting for the film Dream Girls, where she plays her real life role, that of a singer. Now anyone who is familiar with the environment of movie sets would know that it is virtually impossible to maintain a strict diet out there. Now you maybe are wondering how she lost weight despite all the odds!
Well, her nutritionist prescribed a special detox drink for her and during the following two weeks, she survived on nothing except that drink! That is a bit tough I agree; I for one cannot even imagine being on a liquid diet, that too, for two weeks straight!
But that is what Beyonce did, and whenever she would suffer from unbearable pangs of hunger, she would douse it with this detox drink. So that is how she lost weight! If you want to follow this diet plan, I would recommend that you don’t use it beyond a week or ten days at most!
Fortunately it doesn’t take a lot of skill or expertise to prepare this drink. All you need is to do is to get eight ounces of clean and pure sprint water, and then add these ingredients to it:
a) 2 tablespoonfuls each of lemon juice and maple syrup. Both the lemons and maples should be fresh and completely organic, and the juice must be made at home. Don’t buy high-calorie flavored juices from your local store!
b) If you want you can also add a little bit of cayenne pepper to the mix for flavor.
So that’s it! I would say that it would taste best if you cool it off in the refrigerator but of course you can also drink it hot! Both lemon and maple cleanse all the toxins from your body and therefore help you lose unnecessary weight!
However just like other liquid diets, this one also has several downsides, and Beyonce herself admitted to have followed it out of lack of choice; she further admitted that given a choice, she would prefer a healthier diet plan to this one. If you really want to follow this diet plan, make sure to fix an appointment with your local nutritionist just like Beyonce did, so as to make sure that your body is fit for this diet plan!
The one major drawback of this diet is that it virtually makes you starve, and that is not a good weight loss technique. When you starve, you will lose weight for sure but that would be just water weight! As soon as you get back to your normal food habits, you would gain back all the ‘lost’ weight instantly! If you want to get rid of your fat belly or flabby arms, you need to lose FAT, something which this detox diet is unable to help you with!
Fatigue and weakness are some of the drawbacks you may suffer from the use of this diet, so be careful if you decide to go for it!
Top 3 Causes Why You Should Lose Weight by Exercising
March 24, 2009 by Frances Norah Smith
Filed under Weight Loss
No matter how much money and time you spend, you are not going to lose real fat as long as you keep hating exercises. Truth to be told, there are fad diets which claim to help you achieve quick weight loss but offer nothing except water and muscle loss instead!
There are also diet pills which promise to boost your metabolic rate sky high but in reality connect you with several harmful maladies. However, exercise is one true friend which always keeps its promise of helping you lose REAL fat! With exercises, you have not one but THREE ways to achieve weight loss!
1. Guaranteed weight loss: Diets come with no guarantee; they may or may not work for you, or even if they work, they may not offer you the promised weight loss results. But exercises are guaranteed to work for almost anyone and everyone, and there is no denying the fact that as long as you maintain your regular workout routine, you would be able to maintain your slim body as well!
2. Permanent weight loss: Usually, the weight you lose with the aid of fad diets or diet pills is not permanent weight loss! With most fad diets and pills you would lose weight by way of water weight loss, and NOT fat loss. Often these diets also cause valuable muscle loss. To add to your woes, the water weight you ‘lost’ reappear as soon as you quit dieting and return to normal eating!
Plus, since you lost your valuable muscles through dieting, your fat burning capability is also reduced considerably, since the fewer muscles you have, the lower your metabolic rate would be! Obviously you cannot expect to burn fat and lose weight with a low metabolic rate! You can well imagine the end result of following such diets.
On the other hand, the weight you lose with the help of exercises, no matter how small it may be, is bound to be permanent weight loss! Assuming that you would never deviate from leading an active lifestyle, you would NEVER gain back the weight you lost with the help of exercises! This is because unlike fad diets or weight loss pills, exercises burn REAL fat which is the primary source of all your troubles!
3. Forced weight loss: You may think that by starving or crash dieting you would force your body to burn all fat quickly; however, the reality is just the opposite! People believe that when the body gets zero supply of carbohydrates (which is its primary source of energy), it would be forced to burn the existing fat deposits in order to produce the required energy!
But in reality your body burns muscles instead of fat. It is a fact that your body loves those fat deposits very dearly no matter how much you may detest them, mainly because it knows that it could use this fat to sustain itself in case a famine occurs in future.
Workouts, on the other hand, force your body to burn fat. When you start exercising, the first two or three weeks would be the most difficult periods of your life. You would find it extremely difficult to lift those heavy weights or walk on the treadmill. As such, you won’t be able to workout for long enough.
This however offers your body a message that in order to make it less difficult for you to exercise, it needs to get rid of fat. As you exercise week after week and month after month, your body keeps burning the fat deposits, and the more weight you lose the easier exercising becomes for you! Once you get rid of all the extra fat and build valuable lean muscle mass, you would be able to easily lift almost ten times the amount of weight you might be lifting at present.
Now you need to select whether you would prefer to lose weight rapidly with fad diets only to become fat all over again sometime later, or do it slowly with workouts and keep your slim figure permanently!



