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How to Lose 10 Pounds and Keep It Off For Life

Did you notice that as you get older, the slower for you to shed off the pounds? It’s a biological thing. Metabolism slows down with age. What you lose in a week may take you a month five years later. But that doesn’t mean that you have to give up living healthy and just leave everything to chance.

There are few simple rules to live by when it comes to keeping fit and losing unnecessary pounds. Everything in moderation will do you good. Maintain a healthy diet. Exercise regularly. Think positively.

Exercise is a sure way to a leaner, healthy body. So sweat it out according to your body’s capacity. Little things can mean a lot in the long run. Instead of riding the car, do the 15-minute walk to the grocery or work if the weather is fine. While watching TV, do some stretching exercises. Eat slowly and do it often. Eating small meals every 3 to 4 hours is better than having 3 full and heavy meals a day.

For a little effort, add cardio exercises into your everyday routine. Top ten calorie burner exercises are walking, rock climbing, swimming, handball, running, cycling (you can get the same benefit even if you’re using a stationary bike), elliptical training, step aerobics, rowing and cross country skiing. You can combine it with your favorite exercise, better if you alternate it to give your muscles enough time to recover and for better overall body improvement. Get ample sleep and watch what you eat. Soon enough, you will not only lose 10 pounds but lose the inches as well.

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Written on 10 October 2008 by Adam under Healthy eating, How to eat healthy, eating habits, exercise tips, get rid of 10 pounds, keep weight off, lose 10 pounds, lose body fat, lose ten pounds, weight loss tips with No Comments
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5 Tricks to Eat Healthier at Restaurants

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Most people eat out 2-3 times a week. Not only is it expensive, it’s usually not very healthy. However, I came across this article with tips on eating healthier when you dine out and wanted to share it with you.

Remember, all you have to do to lose 10 pounds in a year is cut out 100 calories a day. If you can cut out a few hundred calories when you dine out, you’ll be on your way.

Here’s the article…

Dining out is a big part of most people’s lives. Maybe you have to eat out frequently because you entertain clients at restaurants. Perhaps you don’t even like eating out. Regardless, if you want to keep a nice fit body, restaurant meals will give you a huge obstacle to overcome. In fact, eating out at restaurants is one of the biggest reasons why so many people fatten up while traveling.

Below, I’ll give you a few very simple tricks you can use to eat healthier and stay lean even while dining out at restaurants…

The 3 most important things to avoid that are everywhere at restaurants are:

* deep fried foods (anything battered that got a scorching bath of trans fats)
* refined starchy foods
* any sodas, juices, or other sugary foods (except whole fruits, which are great)

If you can skip these major culprits, this eliminates the major food sources that do the worst damage in our food supply - trans fats, refined vegetable oils, refined starchy carbohydrates, and processed sugars.

This means you should try to skip the table bread, skip the french fries that come with every single sandwich on every menu known to man, and reduce all of the heaping portions of pasta and rice that are often loaded on the plates as well.

Instead, try to order just meat with side vegetables, and a salad, asking for the vegetables or salad as a substitute for the typical french fries, pasta, or rice, that most restaurant meals usually come with.

Almost every restaurant I have ever been to will always allow me to substitute vegetables or a side salad for the french fries or chips that almost always come with burgers or sandwiches.

On a side note, it always amazes me how many people scrutinize me because I substitute veggies for fries by telling me that I am “not living” because I refuse to eat french fries… are you kidding me! If that’s your idea of “living it up”, you need to get some better hobbies!

Ironically, these are also the first people to complain that they are overweight and have “tried everything”, yet can not lose weight, no matter what. I am not sure why so many people think that eating french fries equals “living it up”… hey, I am all for moderation with many things, but if there are 2 things that should be totally removed from everyone’s diet because these foods are simply that dangerous… it is sodas and fries!

Take a look at the typical difference this simple substitution makes between choosing smart and doing what most people do…

Most people will eat a meal out such as this:

* Burger or sandwich or burger
* chips or fries
* soda or other sweetened drink (and no, diet sodas are NOT healthy!)

A MUCH smarter alternative if you care about your body and health is this simple change:

* Burger or Sandwich
* Salad or veggies
* unsweetened iced tea or water (no diet drinks — unless you like to drink poison!)

These 2 simple substitutions save at least 400 - 900 calories every time you dine out (depending on drink refills and fries portion sizes)… AND you are cutting out the most harmful foods to your body as well by avoiding the evil trans fats and high fructose corn syrup from the fries and soft drinks.

Another side note: a little-known way to eat full portions of pasta, rice, and breads and actually get away with it without packing on the body fat is to make sure to schedule a high intensity full body resistance training workout (can be free weights or body weight training) before your scheduled meal time.

Sometimes it may be hard to fit the workout into your schedule right before the meal, but if you can, the meal can be your “post-workout meal”. After a high intensity resistance training workout, your body can handle a higher amount of carbs than normal to help replenish the muscle glycogen depletion you had during the intense workout.

A typical moderate intensity cardio workout will NOT cut it for this… it must be high intensity resistance training workout to deplete enough muscle glycogen to handle restaurant portions of carbs.

I hope these dining tips help you choose smarter and healthier for a leaner body next time you eat out.

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Written on 16 June 2008 by Adam under Healthy eating, How to eat healthy, eating habits, lose 10 pounds with No Comments
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yayFOOD versus Fat Loss 4 Idiots

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yayFOOD and Fat Loss 4 Idiots both have pros and cons. I’d like to explore both of them here.

To begin with, Fat Loss 4 Idiots is undeniably the more popular of the two. It’s been around a lot longer, and quite frankly is marketed a lot better.

However, does that make it better? Let’s explore:

First of all - when you get inside the member’s area for FL4I, you’re greeted with what looks like 20 or so different pages. These are mini-articles. There’s also a diet generator.

The basic concept of Fat Loss 4 Idiots is that you need to eat the same foods over and over - but they mix and match them so that you’re eating different combinations. You can only eat the same 30 foods over and over. Some examples of these foods are garden salad with dressing, green and red vegetables, hard boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, green beans, fresh grapefruit, and broiled flounder.

When you get inside yayFOOD, the member’s area is quite different.

First, take a look at a before and after photo of the owner of Yayfood - Rachel Rofe:

yayfood Rachel Rolfe before and after weight loss photo

There are calorie calculators, where you type in your height, weight, and exercise level. Depending on your specifics is how they tell you what to eat - which seems to make a lot more sense.

The first benefit of yayFOOD is that you can eat whatever you want - not the boring diet food - although they do give sample meal plans and meal ideas so that you can have some reference. There are even 7 day meal plans that Rachel herself eats. Members add recipes to the Recipe Database all the time, too - so there’s no shortage of variety.

There’s hundreds of articles, reports, and resources for you to use in there.

There’s ongoing support, too - so that you can ask a question whenever you want and get a quick answer.

There’s also a diet goal section where you can put in your weight, and it’ll automatically email your friends and family when you reach goal (if you want). You can also keep a journal, a goal setter, and more.

There’s also much more of a community with yayFOOD.

Overall, yayFOOD has much better value than FL41. The good thing about Fl4I is that it’s a one-time fee, whereas yayFOOD is $19.95 a month. However, since you get so many extra benefits with yayFOOD, it might be well worth it for you. Also, there’s an 8 week no-questions-asked guarantee, so it’s risk free.

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Written on 24 May 2008 by Adam under Healthy eating, How to eat healthy, diet programs, get rid of 10 pounds, lose 10 pounds, lose 10 pounds fast, lose 10 pounds in 10 days, lose 10 pounds in 2 weeks, lose 2-5 pounds a week, lose body fat, lose ten pounds, lose weight, lose weight fast, rapid weight loss with No Comments
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Britney Spears and the eat half of everything diet

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I read in a gossip magazine the other day about how Britney Spears has started working out again and modified her junk food cravings in an attempt to lose 20 pounds.

Here she is looking a little bit slimmer:

Britney Spears looking good on her new diet

One of the things I read was that she was still eating all the junk food shes loves but that she was only eating half of what she ordered. So if you love fast food from Wendy’s or McDonald’s you can order the Big Macs or the Frosty from Wendy’s but just eat half of it.

Let me tell you how I actually did this this past Saturday. I just finished watching my son’s baseball game and was getting some grumblings in my belly and wanted something to eat. I picked up some BBQ from Bill Miller’s and ordered a slice of their delicious pecan pie. If you’ve ever had it, you know it’s a treat. One bite of that rich, crunchy pie crust and savory filling…mmmm

It is so good but I knew it was loaded with calories and not especially a healthy choice. So I only ate half of it. I was able to push the plate away and not eat the rest of it. Go back to a couple years ago and there would be no way that I would have the self control to do that.

It has taken me that long to know that what I eat affects my weight and all the other consequences that entails. But that doesn’t mean you cannot give yourself any treats. You cannot live your life sacrificing all the desserts out there. You cannot live on salads alone. Well, unless you cover it in ranch dressing, bacon bits, and tons of croûtons :o)

So indulge yourself once in a while and just have the self control to only eat half of that delectable treasure.

Have a great day!

-Adam

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Written on 20 May 2008 by Adam under Healthy eating, How to eat healthy, diet programs, eating habits, lose 10 pounds, weight loss mindset, weight loss tips with No Comments
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