[ Note: This article was written by my friend Jon Benson the author of the only diet and nutrition plan i will ever use or promote. I have his permission to share it with you. ]
I took a big, huge, massive sigh of relief today.
Finally… the FDA did something right when it comes to bogus “magic” diet-fatburn pills.
A panel of experts reviewed Vivus Inc.’s new wonder-pill “Qnexa” today.
They gave it the thumbs-down.
Why?
Oh… pesky little reported side-effects like… (are you ready for this?)…
Heart Attacks
Stroke
Increased Risk of Suicide (yikes!)
Memory/Concentration Loss
You know… “minor” stuff like that.
GEEZ. What the hell are these drug companies thinking?
Oh, right…
Quick-Fix =
Big-Bucks
Got it.
So, I am going to believe that YOU are much smarter than the morons who tried to get this drug past the FDA.
I’m going to assume you want a solution to this obesity pandemic and your own fatloss issues (if you have them) that do NOT involve risking your life for a thinner you.
“Oh, Marge… she looks so thin in her casket…”
THIS IS NOT A GOOD EULOGY! : )
Listen: I get it. I really do.
I’m an athlete and we are always looking for tricks to help increase our performance. But your body is simply too smart for these fatloss-pills people are trying to pass off as “a break-through medical discovery.”
Nonsense… more like heart-breaking medical waste of time.
One day… perhaps even in my lifetime… someone will invent a chemical that actually works to shed bodyfat without harming the body. That will be a great day for all of us.
Even so, I can all but promise you that this chemical will have its nasty side-effects and/or be limited in duration or power.
Nothing, repeat NOTHING you can pop in your mouth will give you the JOY that managing your dietplan and bodyweight can give you.
NOTHING!
It’s one of the greatest feelings in the world.
And here’s a fantastic clue for you: The reason we want to be thin is because of the FEELING it gives us. Most everything we do is based on feelings.
Quick-fixes negate the most powerful thing about feelings: Earning the right to have them!
Think of it this way: Would you feel more alive and powerful if you climbed a mountain or if you took a helicopter ride to the summit?
Sure, the helicopter is easy… but which is more personally rewarding?
Think of your own body transformation goals as your personal mountain to climb.
No helicopters… just really good guides (I volunteer) and solid climbing tools (like a great real-world dietplan, solid workouts that work WITH your schedule, and realistic but exciting goals.)
Your goals will become your base camps along your summit of your personal journey to the best you possible.
Color me silly, but I think that sounds FAR more empowering and rewarding that popping pills.
As you probably know I wrote one of the top books in the world on “real-world” weighttloss (spelled that way so the spambox won’t eat your email… : ) I made this dietary System as easy as possible… but NO plan is “easy” and there is NO quick-fixes out there without serious pricetags.
That said, I have some “rebel tricks” to share with you today… and they won’t put you six feet under before your time.
Just click on the page below and then click on “Articles”… then you’ll see it. It’s the first article, “3 Diet Secrets Revealed”.
You can’t sell this stuff in a bottle… but it works to get the bodyfat off and keep it off.
Remember:
Don’t Quit… Get Fit.
Sincerely,
J O N B E N S O N
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[ Note: This article was written by my friend Jon Benson the author of the only diet and nutrition plan i will ever use or promote. I have his permission to share it with you. ]
Another good article appeared today in the fitness section of MSNBC.
Since you’re busy, I’ll do a quick summary of the article — the good stuff, the bad stuff, and what you need to do today to get started…
First, you need to know this…
And this will probably shock you…
Rarely, if EVER, do you need to suppress your appetite!
The real secret is to increase your metabolism… the rate at which your body uses food for fuel.
Then being hungry is a good thing… as long as you’re eating the right foods at the right time.
My “Favorite Foods” plan is a great way to do this…
But let’s say you want to curb your appetite at night…. that’s the time most people really lose it on a dietplan. Even on a plan that ASKS you to eat frequently like mine, there are times where night-time cravings need to be put to sleep.
So use these tips from the article to ease the urge to eat at night:
1. Protein First
As I say in my dietplan, “Rise and shine with protein.” What does this have to do with night-time cravings you ask?
Everything.
Set the body up to use your own fat-stores for fuel by eating protein in the morning and your appetite FOR fatty foods goes way down during the day and the night. Protein is “thermogenic”, meaning it helps increase your metabolism. It also acts as a natural appetite regulator.
Notice I said “regulator” and not “suppressant.” That’s because you only need to regulate your appetite, no matter how much bodyfat you desire to drop.
In a study at the Nutrition and Metabolic Research Center at the Scripps Clinic in San Diego, people who ate half a grapefruit with each meal lost an average of 3.6 pounds in three months. That doesn’t sound like a lot (and it isn’t) but that’s ALL they changed.
It doesn’t matter for our purposes… we want to lower insulin at night. Why? Insulin is not only dangerous for your health in excess but it also can cause a LOT of fat storage if secreted too much at night. Enter the lowly grapefruit.
A great snack, especially if you have a few bites of lean protein with it.
3. Smell This!
This is a trick I didn’t know about until recently.
Smelling food can trick your brain into thinking you’ve eaten.
A recent study found that those who inhaled peppermint in scent form every 2 hours at (get this) 2700 calories LESS per week than they normally did.
Let me put that in perspective: That’s a fatloss of more than half a pound a week… from sniffing peppermint!
Vanilla also works. You can keep vanilla-scented drops or even candles around the office and take a wiff every few hours.
How easy is that?
The Bad Part
The MSNBC article goes on with advice like “eat potatoes” and “eat just a little bit of fat”, both of which are nonsense.
Potatoes may fill you up, but they are still starch – and starch should be consumed on your “off” days.
Potatoes are especially bad due to the higher-than-desired glycemic index of 85 (anything over 50 is too high.)
You also need dietary fat… and not just “a little.” You need a moderate amount to stay healthy and keep insulin regulated.
Olive oil and even coconut oil are excellent sources, as are naturally occurring fats in fresh fish, grass-fed beef, farm-raised chicken and whole eggs.
The rest of the article is common sense stuff: Workout, eat dense food that requires you to chew a lot (tire out the jaw muscles and you naturally eat less), etc.
Do you want to have a physique like the sexy girls with the television show, Gossip Girl? Thanks to shows like this, women are trying too tough to acquire that flat stomach in record quickly time. They’re undertaking hundreds of ab crunches per day and going to metabolic weight loss center since they think it’s the finest way to obtain rid of tummy weight.
You’ll be really sorry to know that you’re actually working harder than you ought to! Losing pounds and getting rid of large, fat tummy is really a lot simpler and simpler than what you believe! In this article I will tell you about 3 straightforward means to shed weight quickly.
1. Proper meal planning is half the battle won: Believe it or not, you can win half the battle against excess fat just by eating healthful meals! When you eat nutritious and keep your stomach full, there’s no room for temptation of any kind. When no temptation exists, you won’t eat junk foods. When you eliminate this temptation for junk foods you will see that losing fat is very much simpler than what you thought!
Unlike junk foods, nutritious meals will help you in several means: they’ll supply your body with the much required nutrition and energy; they will also detoxify your body by ridding it of all the waste deposits left by junk meals. Once you get rid of this junk, your metabolic rate will automatically improve, which means that you will burn much more weight at less time!
2. Cardios will enable you to win the other half in the battle: Although you are able to losing weight with diet alone, this course of action is quite slow. If you will be like any a single else, you want to get rid of your tummy weight as rapid as feasible, right? Well, cardios will accelerate the bodyweight loss course of action by skyrocketing your fat burning rate. Even should you manage to burn just 500 calories per day, you can shed at least 1 pound of excess fat per week (3,500 calories make a single pound)!
What are cardios? Cardios are not something that you have not been performing already! Straightforward activities like walking, running, swimming, dancing, cycling, etc, all fall under the category of cardiovascular activities!
3. Work on your tummy: Your tummy, or abdomen, consists of 3 sorts of muscles: upper abs, lower abs and side abs. If you ever do a couple of sets of crunches and alternately target each of these muscle groups, you’ll see that you can not only acquire abdominal muscles, but also a flat tummy. Remember though that you simply don’t need to do hundreds of crunches per day; in reality performing a few crunches everyday is much better than executing 100 once in a while!
If you have been watching your weight go up and you’re worried concerning the rising pounds, you may possibly be wondering whether weight-loss surgery treatment definitely works. Is it possible to prevent future fat gain by putting yourself on a well-known fat loss surgical operation?
These days, weight-loss surgeries are gradually gaining recognition when it comes to losing bodyweight. A lot of health professionals contend that individuals who are excessively overweight or has slower metabolism would usually need some surgical operations.
Surgery treatment at Present
The greatest progress within the care from the surgical affected individual has taken place since the beginning on the present century. An increasing knowledge of illness and disorder as a result of analysis has permitted the development of quite a few diagnostic aids. Some of these depend upon roentgenograms, laboratory procedures such as chemical, bacteriologic, and pathologic determinations, as well as monitoring devices and personal computer aids.
Hence, the result is that the diagnosis of illness and disorder is made with more exactness and certainty than was probable from the easy clinical examinations of previous days.
Which is why those who wish to undergo fat loss surgical treatment should no longer be afraid of the process since medical weight loss high standards are now getting implemented in each and every surgical operation.
The Concept of Weight reduction Surgical procedure
Health authorities contend that weight loss surgical procedure is a “major surgery.” One of the most common reasons why folks would like to shed bodyweight is to enhance their physical attributes. Even so, it will need to not be the underlying motivation that they will need to undergo the process of weight-loss surgery.
What men and women don’t know is that fat loss medical procedures is especially generated to help obese men and women live longer, healthier, and greater.
That is certainly why its significant for an individual to meticulously analyze his or her situation, do some research concerning the method, and analyze if fat loss surgery treatment is the ultimate option for his or her physiological affliction.
Moreover, it’s crucial to gather further data about weight reduction surgery treatment by consulting an experienced and knowledgeable bariatric surgeon or even just an expert family physician who knows the ins and outs of weightloss surgery.
Furthermore, the sufferer will need to also consult the other well being experts such as the psychiatrist and dietician with regards to some psychological advices on long-term goals soon after the operation.
Generally, patients who have undergone weight loss surgery treatment are said being successful if they were able to lose 50% or more of their added body fat and will probably be in a position to preserve that condition for the next five years or so. Nevertheless, the results from the operation may well still vary depending about the clinical data of the patient plus the skills of the bariatric surgeon.
Usually, the patient will likely be in a position to lose at least 30% to a maximum of 50% during the first six months immediately after surgical procedure; and within the year immediately after the operation, the patient has the potential of losing pounds up to a maximum of 77%.
Finest of all, folks who were able to lose fat through surgical operations can truly preserve a continuous weightloss of as much as 50% to 60% inside the subsequent 10 to 14 years following surgery treatment.
Elements to Look at
As using the other weight loss management programs, there are numerous aspects to take into account previous to the patient should decide to undergo weight-loss surgical procedure.
Consequently, the actual weight that will probably be lost is reliant about the fat prior to surgical procedure, surgical procedure, patient’s age, capability to exercise, total well being affliction of the affected individual, dogged determination to keep the needed follow-up nurture, along with the enthusiasm to succeed using the assist of their loved ones, friends, and their colleagues.
For those who have just put on a few added pounds and wish to avoid gaining a lot more, these weight reduction surgeries for superior health may possibly seem convincing. But, moreover to becoming convinced, you may well also have to take some action to ensure that your bodyweight does not creep upward.
As a result, it could be concluded that losing fat isn’t just a question of deciding to be strong-willed and determined or upbeat and positive. Lifestyle changes are where it’s at for long-term success with your fat specially soon after weightloss surgery treatment.
For the past years, much has been revealed about the advantages of teas. It can be branded as a “wonder drug” by several and regardless of whether it’s true or not is still a controversy in the wellness industry. Though going back to ancient times, tea has already been employed by numerous countries particularly in Japan, China, England, and India to name a few.
The buzz in regards to the gains of teas is becoming far more and additional complex that it can no longer be ignored. Testimonies after testimonies of people who are discovering the health effects of tea can no longer be put to silence. Properly, no a person can in fact deny the fact that countries who consume teas probably the most also have essentially the most number of individuals who live the longest life.
Teas is acknowledged to become rich in antioxidants which can be generally identified to combat the appearance of wrinkles, age spots, and other signs of ageing. Experiment carried out shows that mice fed with tea display lesser signs of ageing than those which are just fed with water.
Advantages of Tea in Bone Strength
Teas flavonoids can aid strengthen the bones. Those who regularly drink green, black, oolong teas have higher bone mineral densities compared to those who aren’t tea drinkers.
Gains of Teas in Cancer Prevention
Tea is now known to be one particular from the greatest cancer fighting drinks in the planet. Black teas and green teas top the list of teas that are beneficial to cancer prevention. The compounds found in teas are reported to assist keep cells from turning malignant. Simply put, individuals who drink tea get lesser chances of getting cancer.
Bad cholesterol levels can be lowered down by tea. In a single exploration where patients are asked to eat healthful meals and drink five cups of tea, levels of terrible cholesterol dropped up to ten percent.
Gains of Teas in Bodyweight Loss
More folks are looking for a less expensive and easier strategy to lose excess weight. Teas has made its way on the spotlight when investigation shows that it can increase metabolism hence reduces the odds of one gaining excess weight. Tea is also regarded to accelerate the burning of calories which includes fat calories. Aside from its bodyweight loss benefits, teas diets encourage a dieter to exercise and eat nicely.
Positive aspects of Teas on the Heart
Tea drinkers have reduced blood pressure, reduce cholesterol, and lesser chances of suffering from heart disease. Black tea is extremely recommended to decrease negative cholesterol.
Teas is a single of essentially the most consumed drinks from the whole planet. Its advantages are several and differ from individual to individual and from teas to teas. Tea’s antioxidant polyphenols are regarded to combat many health ailments including cancer, blood clotting, high cholesterol level, allergies, and a lot of a lot more. Pick the very best teas for your diet and reap the benefits of a healthy drink. Don’t forget to consult your doctor for advice on which a person is right for you!
If you ask many Americans today about the biggest problem in their lives, many would say that they still can not find a way of getting rid of all the annoying fat on their bodies. Worse still is the fact that the trend continues to grow in the wake of excess calorie consumption combined with the fact that so many folk in the USA are physically unfit. If you are caught with this serious condition then you need to find an answer sooner rather than later to make sure that you are not the victim of the many health problems that being overweight can cause.
There are numerous proven approaches for the fastest way to lose weight and you’re likely to have come across one or more of them. Dieting is a huge industry and receives a lot of media attention when it comes to weight loss. But is it the best method? Physical exercise is the major natural alternative to dieting but many prefer to avoid the inconvenience of putting time aside for exercise. Or is it just that these days many of us are too lazy to bother?
Sit-ups are a popular method of exercising to lose weight. In fact it is one of the oldest methods as well. There are many advantages in doing sit-ups while there are drawbacks as well. A major advantage would be that you will not need any machine or an initial investment. Also you do not need a gym or a properly arranged place to do such exercise. You can even try it out in your bed. So it is considered to be very much the fastest way to lose weight with minimum cost. Like many specific exercises there are downsides in doing situps if they are not done with the correct techniques. Back and neck problems, in particular, can result from poor situp technique.
Lifting weights is another contender for the fastest way to lose weight. More calories will be burnt by weight lifting than in any other form of exercising. Get proper advice from a personal trainer at your local gym who can work with you to develop a schedule to suit your needs. Again safety is paramount and you will need coaching on proper technique to avoid injury problems.
Another candidate for the fastest way to lose weight, should you be an active individual, is always to briskly walk or jog around the city or your neighborhood area. There probably isn’t a better way to boost your cardio fitness and heart health while you get lots of fresh air.
Do some research in your quest for finding the fastest way to lose weight and how to become successful in implementing it. Once you begin, you’ll only regret it if you give up!
You know the drill: you’ve got some special event coming up, whether it be a wedding or an anniversary party or a work-related event, and also you realize you require to lose just a little weight so you’ll be able to get into your favorite dress or your greatest business suit. Or maybe a trip to the beach is on the agenda, and you want to become ready to fit into that teeny new bikini or those cool new board shorts. Properly, you may be surprised to know which you can basically get rid of weight inside a week, just in time to be ready for that big occasion or so that you simply can appear your very best on the beach.
Very first, remember that you just shouldn’t modify your eating plan or embark on a eating habits or workout strategy without having consulting your doctor or medical specialist. Changes in your every day eating habits or adding strenuous workout may be problematic, thus expert advice is important to make certain for which you approach your plan to lose lbs inside a week in the balanced and secure manner.
If you maintain a balanced eating plan but still discover that you need to have to lose weight in a week, you ought to look carefully at your every day food intake plus the amount of work out you get. You may well be ready to cut back on your regular calories by a reasonable quantity, maybe ten percent, and in that way you’ll be able to force your system to burn some of your stored fat. Decreasing your every day intake of calories too drastically can put your physique into starvation mode, and you’ll uncover that you actually don’t reduce any additional weight simply because your physique believes that food supplies are scarce. Thus, you may discover which you begin to store up fat for future use — and that means you won’t be in a position to get rid of weight in the week as you hoped.
Additionally, you may perhaps be in a position to burn a lot more fat by improving the volume of exercising you get. Again, a reasonable improve — maybe ten percent much more activity — is all for which you must expect to take on. Dramatically increasing your exercise without having proper preparation can be dangerous to your system and your overall well-being. In case you intend to lose pounds in a very week you ought to take great care to guarantee which you don’t strain your body’s limits via unreasonably harsh or strenuous physical exercise. You may find that the added anxiety ends up doing much more harm than very good.
Despite what you may think, it is feasible to lose pounds in a week. To be able to get the very best result, you will need to carefully examine your eating habits and work out routine, and consult with a qualified medical professional. Together you possibly can plan a short-term program of diet plan and exercising that may enable you to reach your goal in a wholesome and secure fashion.
For years, involved customers and watchdog organizations are screaming {that the} U.S. labeling laws are full of loopholes and in would like of significant revision. After years of speak, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says they’re planning to thus something about it. But can it be enough?
There are various food labeling issues we have a tendency to could complain concerning, but one of the biggest issues (thanks to its direct relationship to the corpulence crisis) is serving sizes.
I’m not simply talking regarding supersizing. What’s worse is that the actual calories are being disguised with serving size sleight of hand.
Let me demonstrate you some examples:
Tostitos touch of lime. Calories per serving: 150. Not too dangerous for tortilla chips, eh? Not therefore fast. Check that serving size: 1 ounce. That’s a whopping half-dozen chips. There are ten servings re container. That’s 1500 calories within the bag.
Most guys might knock off 0.5 that bag for a cool 750 calories. Ok, suppose you’ve got some control and you merely eat a third of the bag (20 chips). You continue to get 500 calories. But who stops at 6 chips?
Supplement Water. While I may rant regarding how sugar water is being marketed as health food, I’ll stick with the serving dimension sleight for now.
The sticky tag says there are 50 calories regarding serving. Wow, only fifty calories! Plus they add all those vitamins. Should be smart for you and good for dieters, right? Think again. Observe the serving size and servings per container: eight oz re serving and 2.5 servings per container.
Excuse me, but is there ANY reason for making it 2.five servings other than to disguise the actual calorie content?
When you see that the entire bottle is twenty ounces, you realize that it contains 125 calories, not 50. Although 20 ounces may be a giant bottle, I don’t recognize several guys who wouldn’t chug that whole thing.
Sobe Lifewater? Same trick in their twenty ouncesbottles.
Healthy Choice soup, country vegetable. They make these in convenient very little microwavable containers with a plastic lid. Simply heat and eat.
It says 90 calories and 480 mg of sodium re serving. Wow, but a hundred calories. Wait a second though. Flip the container around and you see the serving size is 1 cup and so the servings re container says “concerning 2.”
Huh? It looks pretty obvious to me that this microwave-prepared container was designed for 1 person to eat in one sitting, thus why not just put one hundred eighty calories per container on the label (and 960 mg of sodium). I guess ninety calories and 480 mg sodium sounds… well… like a healthier choice!
Ben and Jerrys chocolate fudge brownie ice cream.
This infamously delicious ice cream with its own facebook fan page has 270 calories regarding serving.
We generally tend to all recognize ice cream is loaded with calories and ought to only be an occasional treat, but 270 calories regarding serving, that’s not too terrible is it?
Look a little closer at the ticket. The serving size is ½ a cup. Who eats a 0.5 a cup of ice cream? After all, who hasn’t polished off an entire pint by themselves? (the “comment confessional” is below if you’d prefer to answer that)
According to Ben and Jerry, there are four servings in that one pint container. 270 calories times 4 servings = 1080 calories! That’s concerning [*fr1] a days worth of calories for an average female.
I might last and on – crackers, chocolate chip cookies, muffins, pasta, boxed cereals (who eats ¾ cup of cereal), etc. But I suppose you get the point.
What’s the solution to the current mess? News reports within the last week say {that the} FDA could be cracking down. Count me among those that are pleased to listen to this news. One of their concepts is to post nutritional information, together with the calories, on the FRONT of the food labels.
The problem is, this move by itself could really create matters worse. Suppose Tostitos started posting “150 calories re serving” right on the front of the bag. Most people would assume the chips were low in calories. Putting calorie information on the front of the ticket would help only if it clearly stated the quantity of calories in the entire package or in a very traditional human-sized serving!
Ah, but the FDA says they’re on top of that too. They also need to standardize or re-outline serving sizes. Sounds nice, but there are critics who say that customers would take it as approval to eat larger servings thus the strategy would backfire.
Suppose for example, the governing bodythe govt. decides that no one eats ½ a cup of Ben and Jerry’s so they make the new serving dimension one cup, or [*fr1] the pint-sized container. Now by law the sticker says 540 calories regarding serving instead of 270. Is that prefer obtaining official permission to eat twice as much?
I’m not against the FDA’s latest initiative, but what we really want is a few honesty in labeling.
Food makers should not be allowed to govern serving sizes in an exceedingly method that may trick you into thinking there are fewer calories than there really are in a very quantity that you’re certain to eat.
It’d be nice to have calories for the entire package listed on the ticket at a glance. A whole new rating scale for caloric density would be cool too, if it could be simply interpreted. It might even be nice to have serving sizes chosen for quantities that are presumably to be commonly eaten. But standardization of serving sizes for all varieties of foods is difficult.
My friends from Europe tell me that food labels over there are listed in 100g parts, creating comparisons easy. But when you assume about how way every individual’s day by day calorie needs can vary (easily 3-fold or more once you run the gamut from totally sedentary to elite athlete, not to say male and female differences), standardization that applies to everyone could not be possible.
I suppose the recent laws such as requiring calories on restaurant menus are a positive move that will influence some people’s behavior. But no tag changes by themselves will solve the obesity crisis. A real answer is going to possess to incorporate personal responsibility, nutrition education, self-discipline, hard work and lifestyle change.
Changes within the labeling laws won’t influence everybody as the folks presumably to care regarding what labels say are people who have already made a commitment to vary their lifestyles (and that they’re least certain to eat processed and packaged foods – that have labels – in the primary place). Really, for those who care, all the data you would like is already on the labels, you only have to do a very little math and watch out for sneaky label tricks.
There’s one true solution to this portion distortion and ticket lies downside: Become CALORIE AWARE. After all that includes educated sticker reading, but it goes way further. In my Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle system, here is how I outline “calorie counting:”
1. Get a sensible calorie counter book, chart or electronic device/software and find to understand the calorie counts of all the staple foods you eat on a daily basis. Look up the calorie values for foods you eat occasionally.
2. Necessarily have a day by day meal plan – on paper – with calories printed for each food, every meal and that the day. Use that menu as a day by day goal and target.
3. Educate yourself concerning average caloric needs for men and women and learn how to estimate your own calorie desires as closely as you’ll be ready to primarily based on your activity, weight, body composition, height, gender and age.
4. Get a smart kitchen food scale and use it.
Keep counting calories and doing nutrition by the figures until you are unconsciously competent and eating the proper quantities to simply maintain your ideal weight becomes second nature.
Clearly, saying that calories are all there’s to nutrition is like saying that putting is all there’s to golf. Calorie quality and amount are each important. But ,, it’s a mistake to ignore the calorie amount aspect of the game. Serving sizes matter and even healthy foods get stored as fat if you eat too much..
You’ll play “blindfolded archery” by guessing your calories and food parts if you want to. Hey, you may get lucky and guess right. Personally, I wouldn’t recommend depending on luck – or the governmentthe govt. – for something as important as your body and your health. I would advocate the non-public responsibility, nutrition education, self-discipline, hard work and lifestyle amendment…
The most helpful piece of advice you can ever be handed regarding losing weight and actually keeping it off for many years to come is right here: motivation goes hand-in-hand with commitment!
The Difference Between Motivation And Commitment
Having weight loss motivation simply means you have something in mind or physically in front of you that is driving you to take actions that lead toward weight loss. For instance, if you were out for a jog and two snarling dogs started nipping at your heels you would be very motivated to run faster. This is the same as than hanging a pair of size 8 jeans on your bedroom wall as a visual motivating tool that makes you want to skip dessert and hit the treadmill for an extra half hour.
Commitment to losing weight is something very different. instead of looking to outward objects or focusing on things you would like to achieve in the future, you focus on your own strength and determination. A genuine commitment will mean that you cannot be detered from your goals. You go to the gym whether you feel like it or not, and you eat a bowl of fruit instead of the cheeseburger and fries regardless how deprived you feel in the moment.
Have you cut-off mentally and given yourself no way of backing out – You have your goal and nothing is going to stop you from achieving it? That is commitment.
Without a steely commitment to achieving your goal your chances of keeping the weight off long term are very slim. You need a devotion to yourself in order to pull you through those difficult moments when motivation simply escapes you. Those periods are going to come, and it is a solid commitment to your plan that will keep you on course, even if you are kicking and screaming all the way.
Motivation will return and stimulate you to keep running but commitment is the boost that gets you through the challenging times.
Boosting Your Motivation To Lose Weight
You have to count on having times when things that usually motivated you no longer work. For instance, what happens when you get into those size 8 jeans? You will need a new motivating factor, right? The motivation that works today is not guaranteed to work tomorrow.
Commitment to your plan is the boost that will see you through these difficult moments when you feel like you’ve lost your motivation to lose weight. Every single day you must stick to your plan and do all of the things you have vowed to do in order to lose weight. This may mean going to the gym as planned but with the condition that you can leave fifteen minutes early. Once you get going with that workout, chances are high you won’t actually want to leave early! Small, simple changes combined with commitment can have a powerful impact both on your motivation, and on your weight loss success.
Essentially, commitment to weight loss equals out to day to day action. Just commit to doing something each day that will move you closer to your weight loss goals. Some days you will feel your weight loss motivation in overdrive while other days you want nothing more than a tub of fried chicken. Commitment is there through it all!
Use all of your goals – such as losing 50 pounds, fitting smaller jeans, or impressing your husband in bed as motivation… but never let go of your commitment!
Having a double chin can be very frustrating, especially since it is displayed in the most prominent part of our body – the face. The truth is that when compared to other body fat like flabby arms, a double chin can be harder to remove. In fact, if you want to learn losing neck fat, then you should be prepared to lose weight all over – because that’s the only way you can get rid of it. You see, the usual fat storage parts we notice are the thighs, the stomach and the arms. Once people notice the double chin, it’s a sure sign that the body has started to really store too much body fat. The good news is that there are exercises to lose double chin and they are quite easy enough to do. The bad news is that target exercises are not enough. You will have to do full body exercises to lose double chin and at the same time lose the fat from other body parts. When it comes right down to it, it’s actually a win-win situation.
So, thinking that you are already aware of the exercises and diet plan to lose body fat, following are the exercises that will help you with your double chin problem.
Upper body straight, gently open your mouth and extend your tongue downwards as far as you can without feeling any discomfort. Hold the pose for about fifteen counts and then close your mouth.
Stand comfortably and gently stretch your neck out at a comfortable angle. Hold the pose, count for a few seconds and then get back to the original position.
Combining the previous two exercises, sit at a comfortable position and slowly tilt your head backwards. When you’re comfortable with the angle, open and close your mouth to make the neck muscle stretch.
Do this about 15 times before relaxing.
It may look useless, but when done faithfully it actually makes a difference. However, keep in mind that the exercise is not meant to reduce the body fat but to stretch the skin back into its original shape. Cardio exercises and proper diet will reduce this fatty chin portion for you, the exercises will be the ones to tone the chin and prevent the skin from sagging.
Keep in mind that the neck can be vulnerable to sudden or snappy movements. When exercising this body part, make sure to remain in proper posture to prevent undue damage. Do everything slowly and deliberately. Unlike some exercises, you are not aiming for intensity here but rather moderate repetition. What you must keep in mind here is the movement of the muscles, how they contract and expand.
With a bit of perseverance and willingness on your part, you should be able to learn how to lose neck fat, double chin as well as the double thighs, double stomach fat or even the double flabby arms. With a bit of willpower, you’ll manage to remove that double chin.
