Archive for November, 2009

I have about $500 to spend but I can’t decide between an elliptical or a treadmill. Which will burn more fat and I already lift weights so I want the one that will burn fat and help me lose weight but not burn my muscle off.

1. First start by getting up earlier than usual. Around 5:30 AM to do some of you workouts. Getting up early shocks your metabolism because the body needs more energy to get going. Right? This will start your system on the road to Weight Loss. That early start with about 10 minutes of stretching. Have a cup of coffee to get the blood going also.

2. Do all the sit-ups you can. Just do them. 15 or 20 whatever, we don’t have a lot of time to work with. Rest 1 minute repeat, do this for 6 sets. Already you are breathing hard and feel worn, because the body is working extra hard at being up earlier and then going right into exercise. If the early morning hour lets you get your cardio in, go ahead and do it. 30 minutes.

3. Diet. Cut all current meal portions in half, just cut them in half, nothing fancy or complicated, CUT IN HALF! Cut out all bread products, all gravies, candies, chips, night snacks, etc. If you crave at night eat a banana, other fruit or best a non-fat yogurt. There are some tasty ones out there.

4. In the evening do another 6 sets of sit-ups maxing out each set. Cardio again. The trick is to stay with getting up earlier. Yes it’s hard, that’s why it is so effective. Why do you think the Army gets up so early, it is intense training to the max.
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I have about 25 days to lose a jean size and get a flat tummy. I’m on a 1000 calorie diet and I work out every day (running) I’m wondering if the sauna belt will help my Weight Loss. ( I don’t really care how much weight I lose on the scale) I really just want a flat tummy, not a specific weight goal. I’ve read all about the "scams" blah blah blah. No offense but I just want a true review of the product from someone who has used it thanks
i used a sauna belt a couple of years ago but it didn’t flatten my tummy. however, i was neither exercising, nor on a strict diet.

The single most important fact that you should know about losing abdominal fat is that there is no magical formula that can make your abdominal fat vanish in a jiffy. Losing abdominal fat permanently requires patience and commitment to some basic tips. But do notlose heart. It is a feat anyone can accomplish the easy way if one understands the reasons why abdominal fat develops and why it seems so frustratingly resistant to all those exercise or diet plans you have tried out but given up too soon to see results.

The first thing you must understand is that there is no physical exercise that can reduce fat from a specific part of the body. When you burn fat for energy, as during an aerobic activity, fat loss will occur systemically, i.e., from all over the body. But since fat distribution naturally varies from person to person, depending on inherited genetic factors, some people will tend to lose abdominal fat faster while others may lose fat at say hips or thighs faster. So do not compare your abdominal fat loss graph with others.

Another thing, doing countless sit-ups and leg-raises or slogging out day in and day out on the latest abs equipment without paying heed to your diet and an aerobic activity is not going to make your abdominal fat go away. What these exercises do is to shape up and tone your abdominal muscles, but do nothing to metabolize away the layers of fat covering them. That is why the shaped and toned muscles remain elusive to the eye.

There is one and only one way of losing abdominal fat the easy way, and that is with the combination of a balanced and nutritive diet, aerobic activity, and strengthening exercises for abdominal and other muscles. The best kind of workout to burn the layers of abdominal fat along with overall fat comprises a cardiovascular or aerobic exercise like brisk walking, jogging, cycling, dancing, swimming or stair climbing, combined with abdominal exercises like crunches and hip lifts, and also weight training for other muscle groups. Weight training increases your lean muscle mass and hence your metabolic rate, implying that you burn more fat even while resting.

Glycogen (stored carbohydrates) is the primary fuel source during the first 10 minutes of an aerobic exercise. Substantial fat burning starts only after stored glycogen is depleted. Hence, the key to fat loss is working out at moderate intensity continuously for about 45 to 60 minutes. However, this comprises only 50% of the abdominal fat loss plan. The remaining 50% contribution comes from diet control. Abdominal exercises will help strengthen the muscles and give definition to the reducing midsection.

However, if your calorie intake is higher than your calorie expenditure, you are bound to put on abdominal fat as well as general body fat regardless of how diligently you work out and how many abdominal crunches you do a day- it is simple mathematics in action. Ideally, spread your calorie intake into five small meals a day instead of 2 or 3 big ones. Include a variety of foods that are rich in fiber and low in fat and sugar, with about 55% of the calories coming from carbohydrates, 30% from protein, and 15% from fat. Avoid carbohydrates late in the evening.

Remember, when it comes to losing abdominal fat, you have to adopt a holistic, whole-body approach as there are absolutely no shortcuts. A surgical shortcut like liposuction also becomes meaningless if you are not going to control to your diet, because removing fat cells from the abdomen by liposuction will lead to excess fat storage elsewhere and perhaps under the chin or on knees or shoulders- where it may look even worse than at the abdomen.

Lastly, here is a fact that is not exactly what you would want to hear: even if you are on a holistic exercise-cum-diet fat loss plan, abdominal fat is most likely going to be the last fat to leave your body.

Kelvin Ho
http://www.articlesbase.com/fitness-articles/losing-abdominal-fat-the-easy-way-106414.html

I’ve been doing a lot of research into HGH (releasers), but I haven’t found a reliable source or product. I mainly need to burn some baby fat in my face.

The best supplement to build muscle and burn fat is FOOD.

Sorry for the tough love, but looking for a supplement should be the final icing on the cake - once you are already muscular and lean, then some supplements might help you go a step further. But too many people forget that your regular eating habits have the biggest impact on body composition. I’m not saying that regular food is twice as effective as supplements. I’m saying it is 100 times more effective.

In terms of your face, there is no supplement, or eating habit, that will change that. If you have a fat face it’s because of one of two reasons: a) your whole body is fat and so when you lose overall fat your face will too, or b) the rest of your body is lean but you have an unusual genetic predisposition to carry fat around your face. Either way, supplements won’t help you.

How to Lose Fat Fast Naturally

The first thing you need to know if you want to lose fat is that you need to BURN fat. Burning fat is all about using up more calories than you take in. If you eat more calories than your body uses throughout the day, these additional calories will be stored as body fat.

To prevent a build up of body fat you need to either reduce your calorie intake or increase your daily activity levels - doing both will have the best effect on reducing body fat.

This simply means that the more fat you want to lose then the greater the amount of calories you have to burn off. To help you achieve and speed up your fat loss, here are few things that help.

Speed up your metabolism. Exercise speeds up metabolism. The more active your lifestyle the more likely you are to have a quick metabolism and lose weight.

Metabolism - What is it about?

Metabolism does control weight, this is true. What most people don’t know is that they do in fact have the ability to control and adjust their metabolisms and thereby control their weight. Exercise does speed the metabolism up.

The more active your lifestyle the more likely you are to have a quick metabolism and lose weight. It may not be healthy for all of us to get into a highly active lifestyle all at once but it is possible to get there as quickly as you safely can as an individual.

Eat healthy balanced diet. Be sure to eat a variety of foods, including plenty of vegetables, fruits, and whole grain products. Also include low-fat dairy products, lean meats, poultry, fish, and legumes.

Drink lots of water. and go easy on the salt, sugar, alcohol, and saturated fat. A large part of the battle in fighting fat and a slow metabolic rate is the western world’s view of food as entertainment.

In addition to taking on an active lifestyle you will need to stop looking at food consumption as a means of gratification. This is what causes us to be gluttons. Instead of stopping when our hunger is sated we continue on until we are stuffed to get more enjoyment out of it.

Get plenty of rest and sleep. Sleep and other lifestyle patterns can help or hinder the rate at which we metabolize foods. An active lifestyle should lead eventually to being able to exercise to exhaustion; this in turn should keep your metabolism quick and your fat content low. By extending oneself to ones limits you fully utilize the lungs, heart, and muscles and burn fat most efficiently.

Be strong mentally. Try not to be obsessed by your weight. Everyone has a bad day. Do not punish yourself. Try to lose any guilt feelings towards the mistakes you have done. Instead, just move on, start again and enjoy life as it comes.

Jason Rich
http://www.articlesbase.com/weight-loss-articles/how-to-lose-fat-fast-naturally-69651.html

Ok, so i have read a bunch of positive reviews for the Acai Berry weightloss products and i am ready try it. Which is the best Acai Berry Product? The Pills? Powder? Juice?
Are Healthfood stores, like GNC, the best place to get these products? I only want to lose like 20 pounds, so how fast are the results? And how much should i take a day? Are diet and excersise also helpful in acheiving weightloss?? Any information from actual users of this product would be really helpful!!!! Thanks!!!! =)

Acai berry is a waste of money and doesn’t work for Weight Loss. The juice may taste nice but won’t help you lose weight, nor will pills.

Please don’t fall for all the spam adverts you see. No pill, potion or supplement will help you.

All you need to lose weight is a good healthy diet and exercise - it takes time

There is so much talk these days about how to lose fat weight.  We get bombarded on a daily basis with advertisements, magazine and newspaper articles, product marketing, and more telling us all the various ways about how to lose fat weight.  Despite what many of the ads, products, and articles may say, there is only one tried and true method that will help us to lose fat weight.  It is through diet and exercise.  And while the diet plays a major role in fat loss, exercise is a key factor in helping you to reach your Weight Loss goal.

There a two ways to exercise that will help you to get the results you want.  If you are looking to drop some pounds, applying these methods is how to lose the fat weight you want to lose.   One method involves time. If you have the time to spend multiple hours exercising through the day, the result of the calories burned over the course of that time will help you to lose fat weight. This assumes that the contribution of the calories burned helps create a overall caloric deficit. This occurs when the total calories consumed in a day are less than those that were burned and used as energy by your body.  

Exercising in this manner doesn’t require a high level of intensity.  Keeping your heart rate at 55% to 65% of its maximum qualifies as low intensity.  Maintaining a low intensity effort yet performing the exercise for an extended period of time will use primarily fat stores as an energy source.  Your goal should be to burn 300 to 500 calories per workout depending on your diet.  Accomplishing that total caloric burn using this method would take approximately 3 to 4 hours, and possibly a little more depending on how much you limit your intensity level.  

The second, and sometimes more preferred method of exercising to lose fat weight is to increase the level of intensity of the workout.  Doing so abbreviates the amount of time that is necessary to workout in order to achieve the desired goal caloric burn.  A high intensity workout would typically be one where the heart rate is approximately 70% to 80% or more of  maximum during the exercise.  A workout at this effort would cut the necessary exercise time essentially in half.  The energy sources used in this type of workout are carbohydrate and fat stores.   

One thing to remember is that no matter which energy source is used as fuel for the body to workout, it still takes burning 3500 calories to lose one pound of fat.  So regardless of the energy source used, it still requires that specific amount of caloric deficit to lose one pound of fat weight.    Following a good diet and applying these two principles of exercise is the real answer to how to lose fat weight

Jo Chris
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/how-to-lose-fat-weight-680479.html

The first thing you need to know if you want to lose fat is that you need to BURN fat. Burning fat is all about using up more calories than you take in. If you eat more calories than your body uses throughout the day, these additional calories will be stored as body fat. To prevent a build up of body fat you need to either reduce your calorie intake or increase your daily activity levels - doing both will have the best effect on reducing body fat.

This simply means that the more fat you want to lose then the greater the amount of calories you have to burn off. To help you achieve and speed up your fat loss, here are few things that helps.

Speed up your metabolismâ??Exercise speeds up metabolism. The more active your lifestyle the more likely you are to have a quick metabolism and lose weight.

Metabolism does control weight, this is true. What most people donâ??t know is that they do in fact have the ability to control and adjust their metabolisms and thereby control their weight. Exercise does speed the metabolism up. The more active your lifestyle the more likely you are to have a quick metabolism and lose weight. It may not be healthy for all of us to get into a highly active lifestyle all at once but it is possible to get there as quickly as you safely can as an individual.

Eat healthy balanced dietâ?? Be sure to eat a variety of foods, including plenty of vegetables, fruits, and whole grain products. Also include low-fat dairy products, lean meats, poultry, fish, and legumes. Drink lots of water and go easy on the salt, sugar, alcohol, and saturated fat. A large part of the battle in fighting fat and a slow metabolic rate is the western worldâ??s view of food as entertainment. In addition to taking on an active lifestyle you will need to stop looking at food consumption as a means of gratification. This is what causes us to be gluttons. Instead of stopping when our hunger is sated we continue on until we are stuffed to get more enjoyment out of it.

Get plenty of rest and sleepâ?? Sleep and other lifestyle patterns can help or hinder the rate at which we metabolize foods. An active lifestyle should lead eventually to being able to exercise to exhaustion; this in turn should keep your metabolism quick and your fat content low. By extending oneself to ones limits you fully utilize the lungs, heart, and muscles and burn fat most efficiently.
Be strong mentallyâ??Try not to be obsessed by your weight. Everyone has a bad day. Do not punish yourself. Try to lose any guilt feelings towards the mistakes you have done. Instead, just move on, start again and enjoy life as it comes.

MAIKEL WOOD
http://www.articlesbase.com/weight-loss-articles/losing-fat-fast-is-it-possible-493690.html

Include fat burning foods in your daily diet and you can lose weight. You can even reach your goal of losing that extra 8 lbs in just two weeks. So what are fat burning foods? These fat burning foods contain calorie levels that are low enough that it requires more energy from the body when you eat and digest them. They are also known as negative calorie foods.

Celery is an example of a fat burning food. It takes energy from the body for digestion, because it does not contain enough calories to burn it. Cold water has a negative calorie. In fact, water has no calories at all but when you drink cold water, the body takes more energy to bring it up to body temperature. Everytime we drink a glass of cold water we burn up a little more calories and lose a little weight. But foods like this should be used wisely and should be taken in moderation.

Those who are anorexics are mostly inclined to eat negative calorie foods. Negative calorie foods, if taken in excess would result in starvation and nutritional deficiencies. The calories used to burn negative calorie foods will be taken from the body’s muscle mass, and this will be really dangerous to your health.

For a healthy way, you can take advanctage of fat burning foods by fasting or detox. You should start a detox diet after big holidays such as Christmas, New Year or Thanksgiving when you have eaten so many rich and fatty foods. A negative calorie diet with fat burning foods is a great way to clean out your system. Do it for three days or so, but make sure that you have your doctor’s approval.

Read some important points to remember when on a negative calorie detox diet:

1. Do not eat one type of food in huge quantities, most particularly fruits. There are fruits that contain bad substances for your body, so you should not eat them in excess. Such examples are grapefruit and pineapple which can cause damaging effect to your stomach lining. Other foods will cause diarrhea or burden your liver. You should eat different foods in small amounts.

Some examples of fat burning fruits are: Apples, Blueberries, Cantaloupes, Cranberries, Grapefruit, Papayas, Pineapples, Prunes, Raspberries, Strawberries and Tangerines.

2. Do not spend all your day eating. You will become bloated and feel sick. Make at least four or five salad meals every day, and let your digestive system rest in between.

3. Eat your food slowly and chew it thoroughly. You will bu more calories that way.

Some examples of fat burning vegetables are: Asparagus, Beets, Broccoli, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celery stalk, Celery root, Cucumbers, Eggplant, Endives, Garden cress, Green beans, Green cabbage, Lamb’s lettuce, Lettuce, Radishes, Spinach, Tomatoes, Turnips and Zucchini.

4. Detox diet and fasting may cause some uncomfortable symptoms like headaches, tiredness, depression and irritability. If the symptoms become worse, stop the detox diet and see your doctor immediately.

5. Return to a normal diet gradually when you are near the end of your negative calorie detox diet.

Garlic and onions are also examples of fat burning foods. If you want to lose 9 lbs in one week, then try the Fat Loss 4 Idiots diet program, which is guaranteed to melt your stubborn fat easily. Visit the website now and start losing weight!

Xylene Belita
http://www.articlesbase.com/food-and-beverage-articles/lose-8-lbs-in-2-weeks-with-fat-burning-foods-756091.html

By: FitNRG.net

The most common issue you find among people who wish to lose weight and reduce fat is “How to lose belly fat?” For most people, the abdominal area is one of the most problematic areas when it comes to unwanted body fat. As you get older, your metabolism slows down, and you tend to get a build up of fat around your stomach area, hips, buttocks, triceps (back of your arm), and thighs.

The bad news, is that there is no miracle to help you lose belly and get rid of those love handles fast - you simply CANNOT spot reduce. There’s just no way for you to target the belly fat area, burn them off, while leaving the rest of your body fat in the same condition. Your body just doesn’t work that way.

You know those infomercials you see for fitness equipment that targets your abdominals? It doesn’t work to get rid of your belly fat. How about those ab toning belts that you can wear around? They don’t work either. How about doing a few hundred ab crunches everyday, will that help me lose my love handles? Nope. It’ll help you build a strong mid section, and develop your abdominal and oblique muscles, but that still won’t get rid of your belly fat.

Losing your belly fat will depend on your diet, your cardio training, and your strength training for fat burning.

Do you know how much calories you burn each day and how much calories you consume each day? For sustained fat loss, you should aim for a slight daily calorie deficit. Your goal should be to increase your metabolism by increasing your frequency of meals - aim to eat 5 to 6 small meals each day. Calorie shifting is another way to help maintain or increase your metabolic rate.

To lose belly fat and love handles, your goal is to create a calorie deficit on a daily and weekly basis, and this can be achieved through a combination of slightly reducing your calorie intake, and increasing your amount of calories burned through cardio vascular exercises. Doing cardio training will improve your cardio fitness, help increase your metabolism, and ultimately help you reduce body.

Finally, one of the best ways to burn fat, is to lift weights and follow a strength training program. This not only helps you build muscles, but it will also help improve your overall physical fitness, and increase your metabolism.

If your goal is to lose belly fat and lose love handles, slightly change your goal to lose body fat on your entire body. Get setup on the right foot and learn the real method behind true fat loss, and keep the fat loss permanent.

Jim Yang
http://www.articlesbase.com/weight-loss-articles/how-to-lose-belly-fat-and-lose-love-handles-994524.html