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How to Get Rid of Tummy Fat

April 23, 2011 By myln Leave a Comment

How do we get rid of tummy fat?  That is the main question for so many people these days and the answer is not always so easy.  The one answer that is always suggested though is a mix of diet and exercise.  There are many diets out there and many exercises as well but how do you choose the right combination for you and your lifestyle?  The answers are plenty but here is one of the most common suggestions: lose and burn more calories than you eat.

If you eat more calories than you burn you will gain weight.  If you eat the same amount of calories as you burn your weight will remain the same.  If you eat less calories than you burn you will lose weight.  That sounds simple enough and logical enough to understand.  If you need a summary so far, just exercise and work up a sweat so that you can burn more calories than you are eating.  To make this even easier for you, cut your eating down a little bit and exercise more and this will be as easy as 1, 2, 3.

There are many ways that you can start to diet.  One of those ways is to eat healthy food: vegetables, fruit, non-processed foods, etc.  One of the only problems with dieting healthy is that in can become very expensive.  The price of healthy food just keeps on rising so that is one reason some people use for not dieting.  There are more ways to go on a diet besides eating healthy.  You can actually keep eating the same foods that you are currently eating everyday but just cut down on the size of portions that you eat.  Eating junk food can help you lose weight, sounds crazy right?  Well it isn’t, this is the truth.  If you cut down the size of the portions that you eat, you are cutting down the amount of calories and the amount of fat that you allow into your body on a daily basis.  Add those calories up and you will realize how much faster you are actually becoming healthier. Now, here are two different ways to diet and all you have to do after this is to add some exercise to burn more calories.

There are many different exercises that you can implement into your daily routine.  Some people may not even realize that they are already burning a lot of calories every single day.  Bathing, raising kids, cleaning your house, labor jobs, cleaning your yard and your daily walking are all ways that you burn multiple calories.  This is already half of the calories, maybe even more, that you need to burn every day.  Just add some exercises such as sit-ups, crunches, running, jumping jacks, walking, or even stretching to give your body the extra energy you need to burn the other half of those calories.  Any little bit of exercising helps in losing the weight off of your stomach.

Dieting and exercising are the best possible way to lose any amount of belly fat that you may want to lose.  What you have to decide is whether the time and effort involved in giving up a little bit of food and exercising a little bit more is worth the better shape that you will be in after some time.  If this exercise and small diet is worth the belly fat that you will lose, then you have just found the solution to how you will look better and lose more weight.

This is a post by Alex. Alex writes on how to lose belly fat. You can read his latest article, best foods for losing belly fat to find out what you need to eat for a leaner stomach.

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Get More Opportunities with an Attractive Body

February 5, 2011 By Lisa Leave a Comment

Our society is based on beauty and beautiful people. A harsh reality is that many job opportunities
only await those that are attractive. Women are scrambling for ways to enhance their appearance in
order to get the job advancement that they desire. One avenue that women are using is having larger
breasts.

Seizing Opportunities

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An attractive woman is going to have more attention than one that does not care about their
appearance. Increasing the size of your breasts naturally will help you advance in the workplace. You
will look better in work clothes, have more self-confidence and have a higher sense of self-worth.

> Women that do not pay attention to their appearance are less likely to be presented with
prime opportunities.
> Looking attractive lets you advance in your career.

The key to an attractive body is to use natural methods that do not put your health in danger.
Increasing Breast Size

Women can find all sorts of procedures and pills to increase the size of their breasts — everything from
creams, exercises, devices, and procedures can be found on the internet. However, you need to be
aware of the costs and risks associated with them. Cosmetic surgeries are expensive procedures and
require a lot of time off from work and many nonsurgical methods are ineffective.

One product has helped thousands of women increase their breasts size quickly and safely — Triactol!
It is a breast serum that does not contain any harmful chemicals, toxins or hormones, as it contains
only all-natural ingredients. These types of harmful toxins and hormones have lead weight gain,
insomnia, heart disease and other health matters.

The main ingredient in Triactol is Mirofirm, which is made from the purified extract of Pueraria Mirifica.
This plant is known as the Elixir of Youth, which comes from Thailand.

The product is applied to the breasts by using an airless bottle. The breasts quickly absorb the serum
into the body. Women are able to increase their breast size discreetly and will notice an increase in
size in as little as seven days.

Customers that are already using this product find that their breasts are firmer, well-shaped and
youthful because the serum has reduced the appearance of stretch marks and wrinkles.

You can experience wonderful opportunities with an attractive body. Do not hesitate another
moment to order your very own supply of Triactol. It can make the difference between having self-
confidence and having to continue to live with inadequacies. Place your order now!

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Yoga for Geeks

February 5, 2011 By Jess_S 1 Comment

Like a lot of things, yoga isn’t quite what it’s made out to be in the mass media. Super-bendy, bottle-tanned beauties in lyrca, sitting on the floor and chanting ‘Ommm’ over and over again? Far from it. Most modern yoga classes are aimed squarely towards toning the muscles, increasing flexibility, and reducing stress and tension. They’re populated by the people who need that kind of thing the most- older men and women who are beginning to find that they aren’t as supple as they once were and young professional types who spend long hours hunched over keyboards.

Sure, there’s still the odd fitness fanatic in any sport and some yoga instructors do insist on the chanting, but it’s not difficult to find a class that’s perfectly suited to practical minds looking to drop a little weight. The ones run in gyms and neighborhood sports centres are usually the best place to look for maximum workout with minimal ‘Ommm’.

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One of the best things about yoga is that most classes cater for all fitness levels. You bend as far as you’re comfortable bending and you hold the postures for as long as you’re happy doing so. The fitter folks can go further and hold it for longer and most instructors include both easy and difficult options for the tricker postures.

It is a completely no-competitive sport. There is no team, no big game to worry about, and nobody to judge your performance. No matter how unfit you are, there will probably be weaker people in the class, even if they are grannies. You don’t need any special gear or fancy clothes. Yoga is not a sport. It’s just an instructor helping a bunch of people improve their fitness, lose weight, and relax.

It won’t be long before you start to see improvements in both strength and flexibility. Yoga works the core muscles (back and stomach) as well as the limbs and it’s usually the core that benefits most, especially in those who spend a lot of their working day and leisure time sitting down. Very probably, the first thing you’ll notice is abs- hard muscle appearing where a couple of weeks ago there was only belly flab.

For many geeky yoga practitioners fitness is a side benefit. The big draw is improved posture and muscle relaxation. After a long day at even the best workstation your neck and back will get knotted up and the shoulders tend to roll forward. An hour of yoga will straighten your posture and get rid of that tension but there is no doubt that it’ll knock off some fat and give you a little extra muscle tone too.

Jess Spate spends a lot of her life on a computer, working on behalf of sites like Outdoor Equipment Online, Appalachian Outdoors, and Sustainablog. She goes to a yoga class at least once a week and swears she comes out an inch taller than she goes in, every time.

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What’s In That Bag? McDonald’s Food Dissected

February 4, 2011 By Lisa 2 Comments

What’s In That Bag? McDonald’s Food Dissected

People are increasingly afraid of the contents of processed foods. While there are easy targets, none seem to come as easy as McDonald’s, the epitome of corporate expansion, stereotypes surrounding malnourishment and obesity, and all-consuming dead-endness. Recently a woman named Sally Davies purchased a Happy Meal—a hamburger and fries—and discovered that it didn’t change at all in appearance in six months, simply losing its water content and petrifying instead of molding or rotting. 

McDonalds’ beverages and the boneless pork McRib, which will be back for a month and a half this fall, are not excluded from this. All of their shakes are made from reduced fat ice cream and a flavor syrup, but the Triple Thick shakes have a much longer ingredient list: in addition to ice cream, the shake contains nonfat milk solids, corn syrup solids, mono and diglycerides, guar gum, dextrose, sodium citrate, artificial vanilla, sodium phosphate, carrageenan, disodium phosphate, cellulose gum, and vitamin A palmitate. The flavor syrups add additional corn syrup, sodium benzoate, and artificial colors. Many of these help to bind the mixture together to ensure consistency in the product and prevent it from souring or spoiling. 

McDonalds’ smoothies seem innocuous enough when described as a fruit blend, low fat yogurt, and ice. However, the “low fat yogurt” includes protein concentrate, fructose, cornstarch, and kosher gelatin (making it vegetarian-unfriendly) to affect its flavor and sweetness when none of those ingredients are necessary to make a yogurt. The fruit blends also include cellulose powder, “natural and artificial flavors,” and xanthan gum which affects the beverages’ viscosity. 

The McRib is described as consisting of “McRib Patty, McRib Bun, and McRib Sauce.” The patty, beyond just pork and salt, contains dextrose and a mountain of preservatives: BHA, BHT, propyl gallate and citric acid (perhaps they’re made several months or years in advance). The Sauce isn’t so much made from ingredients as it is things that resemble ingredients: it includes high fructose corn syrup but also tomato paste, “natural smoke flavor,” modified starches, onion powder, garlic powder, chili pepper, sodium benzoate, beet powder, and caramel coloring, none of which apparently qualify under the catch-all “spices” listed as an ingredient. The McRib Bun is a whole lot of enriched flour, high fructose corn syrup, about a dozen oils, binding agents, preservatives, and modified soys.

While McDonald’s has to load their food up with preservatives and additives for obvious reasons—so as to ensure consistency and to ensure they don’t get sued by someone who gets a spoiled McRib—it’s alarming to think in terms of the mass production here, and if a picture says a thousand words, Davies’ Happy Meal photo can be boiled down to three: “Don’t eat this.” 

Andrew Hall is a guest blogger for My Dog Ate My Blog and maintains a list of online degrees for Guide to Online Schools.

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Can HCG Help You Lose Weight?

January 28, 2011 By Lisa 1 Comment

The weight loss industry is rife with fads, and every other day, I see a new fad coming up. Even more surprising than the rapid innovation of fads is how easily the common people are accepting these fads without thinking twice abut possible repercussions. People hope to lose weight quickly with the help of these fad products, but if you ask me, I never believe in fads, and never will! In this article I will tell you about the latest weight loss fad called HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin) and how far it can help you lose weight.

To start with, if you are wondering that HCG is just another drug, you are dead wrong! It is just a hormone which is already present in the human body. The hormone is found in abundance in the body of pregnant women. This is the reason why any woman who tests positive for it is confirmed to be pregnant.

People didn’t know about the benefits of HCG on overweight people until a notorious author called Kevin Trudeau came up with a book that claimed that HCG can indeed help people lose weight. For those who don’t know, Kevin Trudeau has already spent a considerable amount of time in jail for several violations of FTC guidelines. While Kevin Trudeau claims that HCG is a miraculous hormone that can help people lose weight quicker than any other weight loss supplement, there is no medical or scientific evidence that backs up this claim. Not even the manufacturers who produce a synthesized version of this hormone claim that it is beneficial for obese people. It is only a handful of doctors and experts who are claiming that they have proof of its effectiveness on overweight people.

For almost forty years, several tests and studies were done on HCG to prove the validity of these claims. A lot of research was done regarding the effectiveness of HCG on overweight people. No study or research done till date has been able to prove that HCG indeed helps one lose weight. So how can the doctors claim the opposite?

Well, in case you don’t know, if you opt for HCG treatment, doctors will also ask you to follow a low calorie diet. So whether it is the low calorie diet or the HCG hormone that is helping people to lose weight is not clear.
Last but not the least, HCG has been banned in the US long time ago. If you want to purchase synthetic HCG, you will need to purchase it either from the black market or import it from another country, both of which can prove very costly for you!

If you take my advice, I would recommend that until the effectiveness of HCG is fully proved, you should just follow the old method of healthy food plan and exercises. Health food plan doesn’t mean that you will have to diet; just eat lost of raw vegetables and fruits, and drink lots of water, and make sure that you avoid the fatty and junk foods as much as possible! This is a proven way to weight loss success.

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4 Tips To Fast and Easy Weight Loss

January 28, 2011 By Lisa 1 Comment

Probably one of the most difficult goals to achieve in life is that of weight loss. Weight loss is difficult, but even more difficult is keeping the weight off. While there are several ways to lose weight, not all options work for everybody. For some people, plain diet and exercise will help them lose weight. For others, simply dieting and exercising aren’t enough; they will need to take weight loss supplements and perhaps work a bit harder than others.

Remember not to get weight loss tips and advice from your friends because some of these suggestions may not work for you. Moreover, some of the suggested tips can actually be harmful for your body. Bottom line is that YOU need to decide how you are going to lose weight. If you have chosen to tread the path of the conventional diet and exercise, then I will give you some tips in this article:

1. Avoid Junk Foods: All your weight loss efforts will do down the drain if you cannot keep yourself from eating junk and processed foods. These foods have high calorie content and will add to your pounds. You should always try to eat healthy. To make sure that you don’t give in to any temptations, make sure you have a considerable stock of raw fruits and vegetables in your house. Also make sure that you cook your own meals, so you can decide how much oil to use. Keep in mind the less oil you consume, the better for you!

2. Eat in small portions: Don’t be lazy. You may think that if you eat just once a day you will survive anyway but if you want to lose weight then eating a large meal may not be in your best interest. Ideally, you should split your large dinner into five or six small meals and eat each small portion every four or five hours. Every time you eat, your metabolism will increase and you will be able to burn a lot of fat. Plus it will help suppress your appetite as you won’t feel hungry all the time!

3. Cut down calories without depriving yourself: You can lose weight only when you consume less calories than what you burn, and to make sure that you can achieve this end, you should start cutting down on your calorie intake by small percentages everyday. However, you should look to it that in the quest of cutting down your calorie intake, you don’t deprive yourself of your favorite foods, otherwise you will start binge eating which will cause weight gain!

4. Exercise: Exercises are one of the best ways to lose weight. However much you hate to workout at the gym, you must do it if you are serious about losing belly fat . Workouts not only speed up your metabolism, it also increases your muscles mass. Increase in your metabolic rate as well as your muscle mass will help you burn more fat in less time. You should also look to it that you increase your physical activity level as much as you can. If you go to the marketplace in your car, start using your legs instead. If you reach your office room using the elevator, try to take to the stairs instead!

As you can see, there is no better way to lose weight than by diet and exercise. However, if this doesn’t work for you, then your best bet is to visit a doctor and ask for advice. More often than not, your doctor will ask you either to take some weight loss supplements and pills or go for surgery.

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3 Weight Loss Myths That Can Put Your Life in Danger

January 28, 2011 By Lisa Leave a Comment

If you read health magazines regularly, you are sure to come across a lot of tips regarding to weight loss. Some of these tips actually work, and others don’t. The ones that generally don’t work are those that suggest fad diets, weight loss supplements and pills. The tips that actually work for everybody are always simple: that of diet and exercise. However, the weight loss industry is ridden with myths and misleading information, and people often tend to twist the truths, either because of their own advantage or out of plain ignorance. In this article I will discuss three such weight loss myths.

1. Myth#1: Spot reduction of fat is possible: Not at all true, and I am sure that any weight loss expert will unanimously agree to this. You cannot force your body to spot reduce your fat under any circumstances, no matter what type of workouts you do. If you do only crunches and leg lifts frequently in the hope of reducing belly fat, you will notice that instead of reducing your belly fat, you will reduce the muscle mass that resides beneath the abdomen. For this reason, your focus should not be on crunches and leg lifts alone; you should also follow a healthy diet that would speed up your metabolic rate and help you burn fat fast!

2. Myth#2: A drastic cut down on calorie intake reduces your body fat: This myth has pushed many a person on the brink of crash dieting. People take to crash dieting in the hope of shedding those extra pounds, least realizing that crash dieting harm their bodies instead of helping them. As a matter of fact, when you starve or fast, your body realizes that you are going to kill it and then it goes into the starvation mode. While in starvation mode, your body slows down your metabolic rate and burns your muscles (instead of fat, which is kept in reserve) for producing energy. This way, you don’t lose much fat at all; if anything, you lose your valuable muscles. And once you return to your normal diet, you will gain extra weight!

3. Myth#3: Cardio exercises alone will help you lose weight: While it is true that cardio exercises can help you lose fat, it is not true that this is the only type of weight loss exercises available; don’t forget the aerobics. As a matter of fact, the amount of fat you will lose doing either cardio or aerobics is almost same. On the other hand, weight lifting is better than both cardio and aerobics, in that it not only helps you burn fat during the workout, but even after that!

I sincerely hope that this article has successfully brought the real weight loss truths before you!

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15 Apps To Help You Beat the Freshman 15

August 5, 2010 By Ashli Leave a Comment

Whether you’re a college freshman or not you have at least heard about the ’Freshman 15’ – your ‘intro weight’ to college thanks to those numerous dorm room pizza deliveries, Chinese food runs, lack of time to exercise, and even the school cafeteria dinners available to you late at night.

Lucky for you there’s an app for everything and this includes helping you avoid the ‘Freshman 15’. So I have compiled a list of 15 of the best apps that will help you beat that annoying weight gain and keep you fit and healthy through all your college years.

Web

  1. Daily Burn – This app is great, it keeps track of your daily water intake, your daily caloric intake, and even your activity (or non daily activity). My only problem with this app is that it’s a little too great at it’s job. It EMAILS you when you aren’t tracking your foods and includes inspirational messages within your email. Who doesn’t feel bad when you receive that in your email as you are scarfing down a tasty Krispy Kream doughnut. This app keeps you on track!
  2. Lose A Dress Size – You’ve always imagined yourself with 5 or 10 extra pounds off of your body or you find yourself constantly looking back at what once was your body, well now with this app you can LITERALLY show you with the weight loss. This service shows you a before and after of yourself based on the pounds you expect to lose. You have to try it. I also like trying multiple services to see myself in numerous angles and photos so if you are anything like me try – Weight Mirror which is also available on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
  3. Quit Smoking – We’ve all seen and heard all the negative health effects of smoking, but the weight gain alone would make anyone want to stop. Well you can easily quit smoking with this web app. The great thing about this app is that you aren’t alone, you work as a community to get to the goal and over time can see how many years and how much money you’ve saved over time by quitting.
  4. Double Check MD - All weight gain does not come from overeating and lack of activity believe it or not, for some students, health issues are unknowingly the true issue behind weight gain and this app will help you get closer to solving the underlying problem. Double Check MD checks your problem against the symptoms of many medical issues and the side-effects of many drugs on the market. Knowing your problem will help you reach your weight goals and prevent the ‘Freshman 15’ in no time.
  5. Diets In Review - Haven’t found the right diet for you? It’s ok, this app will do it for you. It will connect you to communities of people that have tried ‘that new diet’ and give you the real feedback. Not only do you get the real deal on any diet plan you’ve heard of, but a TON of healthy recipes to boot.

Windows

  1. Weight Mania - Weight Mania is yet another app that will track your calories during the day, except it’s available on Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPod Touch, and online.
  2. GymGoal Lite – This app gives you access to over 200 exercises you can perform, which is perfect for those random dorm room spurts of energy in your dorm gym (who has room for a dorm room gym) or the late night trip to the school gym. This app is also available on the iPhone.

Mac

  1. Yummy Soup - Encourages you to actually use those helpful burners in your dorm room rather than your fingers to order your favorite pizza. Yummy Soup helps you find recipes of any type and best of all you can enter your own and keep track of it on your Mac – very cool!
  2. Calorie King – Calorie King is your ultimate Mac food diary. You can track your weight over time, input your goals, your sodium intake, and of course your daily caloric intake. This app is so feature filled, it’s just too many to mention in this post. With this app, your classmates will wonder why you look so fit!
  3. Trail Runner X – This app is for those that love everything trails – bike trails, walking trails, and hiking trails. You can plan your route for your desired distance and log how far you have traveled during the week. Now just invite the classmates or roomates on those trails with you and you have yourself a healthy field trip.

iPhone/iPod

  1. Eat This Not That - All of us need help once in while when we are out making food choices from our favorite fast food restaurants and this app is like having your own personal trainer/chef in your pocket. This app guides you in the right direction when you must make the decision between a Burger King salad and a Taco Bell 3 Layer Burrito.
  2. Lose It – Lose It! is a great app I actually use myself and fortunately and unfortunately it tracks every single think I eat easily. Lose It also tracks your daily activity and even keeps track of your fitness goals with a nice chart during the week. This app totally eliminates all your good ‘I can’t workout because….’ excuses (sadly).
  3. Whole Foods iPhone – There’s nothing better than having great, quick, tasty recipes at your fingertips to keep the weight down. It’s even better when those recipes are healthy and the Whole Foods iPhone app provides just that. The Whole Foods app let’s you access hundreds of healthy Whole Foods recipes and even has a bonus helpful grocery list inside that I use all the time. It’s very helpful!

Android

  1. Fast Food Counter – Do you notice every time you go out to eat, the only thing hard to find are the nutrition facts. Well this app makes it easy to find the nutrition facts of food from the most popular fast food chains around. Hey, if you look at the calories before you eat it, you may not commit to you favorite fattening item on the list or maybe you will just use it as a guide to figure out how many sit ups you have to do this afternoon. (Also available on the iPhone)
  2. Calorie Counter - This app also keeps track of your calories during the day, super helpful to take on the go and always have with you. No excuse to not track the food you are eating! (Also available on the BlackBerry and the iPhone)

Now that you have all the tools you need to prevent or beat the Freshman 15, actually use them. I know it takes discipline to stay in shape, but maybe these apps can help with that and your ideal body is only an app away.

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5 Video Games That Work You Out

August 2, 2010 By Liz C. Leave a Comment

Wii FitI remember back in the day when you wanted to work out, you either had to go to the gym down the road, or maybe you had to dish out $1,599 for a treadmill. This isn’t the case anymore in today’s technological era with the Nintendo Wii and everything else.

Now, granted, the Xbox, as well as the Playstation really don’t have that many games that help you work out. Unless you want to work out your thumb muscles with Guitar Hero, you will find that most games will make you gain weight, rather than lose it.

So, whether you have the Nintendo Wii, or maybe you don’t, this may be the system for you. You don’t even need to like video games to get the system, because you will soon find out that a $300 investment will be fun and well worth it.

Listed below are the top 5 games that I highly recommend. You will need the Nintendo Wii, as well as the Wii Fit set to get the full experience.

#1 Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board:
This is probably the most popular one. If you’re going to go this route, you’re going to want to get the Wii Balance Board. In this game, you can do yoga, strength exercises, as well as balance based games. Meet up with a fitness instructor and you can work out a daily routine. Log your calories and watch your weight.

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#2 My Fitness Coach:
This game had some of the best reviews online and after playing it, I can see why. The cool thing about this right off the bat is that it’s only going to set you back $20. You will get a virtual trainer that can help you with over 500 exercises ranging from cardio to strength. Customize your own experience, play music and shed off the pounds.

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#3 EA Sports Active:
I’m a big fan of many EA games. Not only do I like the fitness games, they have a lot of other fun genres as well. I know I’m a girl, but I love Tiger Woods golf! With EA Active, you can work with a partner at home, target your upper body, or whatever you please. Your own trainer will walk you step by step on what you need to do. The thing I like about this is that they have these very cool 30 minute challenges.

#4 The Biggest Loser:
If you’re a big fan of the Biggest Loser TV show, you will probably like the video game as well. You can pick out your trainer, do 20 minute workouts and even play the challenges. While it isn’t my favorite out of the 5, I think it’s worth buying.

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#5 Gold’s Gym Cardio Workout:
From the makers of Gold’s Gym, they have a game out as well that can help you get into shape. Made by the creators of Ubisoft, it will only cost you around $15 for the game. This is the price of a meal at your local Applebee’s. Box, run, as well maintain your calendar to track your fitness and calories burned.

While the selections for fitness games are rather limited with the Xbox and Playstation, it just doesn’t compare with the Wii. As with the Wii, you can interact using the fitness board, controller, and more. If you want to lose weight while having fun, as well being in your own home, consider some of the games mentioned above!

This is guest post provided by Liz C. She contributes to FindCollegeCards, a student credit card / student blog helping students get all the information that they need regarding college.

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How to Boost your Metabolism By Just Eating Right

June 25, 2010 By Lisa Leave a Comment


Sometimes you don’t want to work out- you just want to make a few changes and try to get rid of the extra weight by eating better. Depending on just how bad you are currently eating- this could work. If your eating habits include daily pizza, doughnuts, soda, and other unhealthy foods on a regular basis; then simply eating better will help get your weight loss started. It’s not easy, but it is worth a shot if you REALLY don’t want to work out.

Knowing a little bit about how your metabolism works may help you see how this can affect your body. When you eat meals, the process of digesting your food begins. Your body starts drawing out the needed nutrition and uses them to create energy to help you function. It only takes about four hours to absorb the nutrients from your food, repeated with every meal. In a typical day this means your body is processing nutrients for about 12 hours, burning calories the whole time.

Your body has to work harder to digest foods that contain carbohydrates and protein because they take longer to process. Because of this, eating more can help you loose weight, but before you start stuffing your face in front of the computer, keep reading.

While eating more will help your metabolism, you need to not only eat the ‘right’ foods, but you need to eat them at several points through the day. So no skipping breakfast or lunch then filling up at night anymore. You should aim for at least one small meal every four hours, this way you keep your body constantly in the state of calorie burning.

There are several foods that help your metabolism by using more energy to burn- carbs and protein being key. Other things like caffeine, tea, coffee, chocolate and the chemical that is found in chillies help as well, but only a little. A high protein meal can actually burn about twenty-five percent of the whole meals calories just through the digestion process.

So it may seem that starting to just eat a lot of protein would be the answer, but then you would be lacking key nutrients you body needs to keep up the fat burning digestive process. Add in some supplements? No, while taking these are great IN CONJUNCTION with actual nutrients from food, you do not want to rely on these for nutrition- that is why they are ‘supplements’ they supplement a healthy diet.

Here are ten foods that you can try to include in your diet to help speed up your metabolism naturally. As long as you are not eating these with bags of chips, ice cream, and other unhealthy foods then you should see a change in how you feel and look.

Whole grain bread
Salmon
Eggs
Chicken
Green Beans
Cabbage
Summer Squash
Fresh Cheese
Non-starchy vegetables like Asparagus
And, of course, lots of protein rich meats

Did you know that drinking cold water can temporarily boost your metabolism by as much as thirty percent? So if you also drink a full glass of ice water with every meal you help your body even more.

Depending on just how bad you currently eat and if there are no other medical conditions causing a slower metabolism then you can see changes by just eating healthier. Hopefully once you start feeling the increased energy and seeing changes you will be able to add in working out and other changes in your lifestyle to make the changes complete.

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