If you need to lose a few pounds, I'm sure you've been given the advice that you should get a gym membership and run on a treadmill for hours a week to burn off the fat. While all activity is better than none (well...mostly), running on a treadmill may not be where you should put all your focus.Starting a cardio routine like the one stated above is a huge time sink and if you start it out of nowhere it will throw a wrench in your life to need an...more
It seems like low-carb diets are all the rage lately, almost everyone I know has either been on one before or is trying it right now. But did you know the low-carb diet is actually a terrible choice if you want to lose weight permanently?Here's why...if you start a low-carb diet, your goal usually isn't to eat that way for the rest of your life. In fact, most people just go into the diet with the plan to be on it for 3 months or lose 15 pounds...more
What do you think is the most important factor that will help you lose weight and keep it off permanently? If your answer is to eat healthier or workout a lot, then you're on the right track, but that's not it. No doubt what you eat and how active you are play a role, but this is the real key to permanent weight loss.You can learn all you want about your body and know everything there is to know about working out and exercising, but what good is it if you don't use that knowledge in your life. The most important factor to help you permanently lose the weight is consistency. If you eat perfectly and workout hard for a week, you're likely not to see any results. Even though you did it perfectly, it won't matter because you didn't stick to it.On the other hand, if you eat just a little better, and workout just a little harder, but do it consistently you'll start to see real results and they'll stick with you. Only when you decide to stick to something for good will you begin to reap the rewards.But this is really hard to do isn't it? That's why you have to make small changes in your life that you can stick with for the rest of your life. If you try to do everything at once like that...more
Low-carb diets are extremely popular these days. They can give people near instant results (in weight loss terms anyway) so it's easy to get excited about them. However, not many who do a low carb diet will stick to it or keep the weight off permanently. This is because it's not a life change that you are likely to live with for the rest of your...more
Losing weight. Everybody wants to do it but getting there is a drag. Diet and exercise don't work overnight. Maybe there's an easier way?Here's 3 offbeat ways of losing weight for your consideration:1. Take diet pills. There's an obvious attraction to taking a pill to lose weight. There's no tedious exercise involved, no hunger pangs due to cutting...more
In case you are a woman above 40 you need to have heard the oft quoted saying that you simply need to pick among your figure or your encounter.Traditional wisdom has it which you cannot possess a more youthful seeking figure along with a youthful encounter.Lately the aesthetic surgical treatment business has picked up on some study that seems to back up the well-liked suggestions.In accordance to some customer survey published final year - dieting might do wonders for the figure nonetheless it will age your encounter. So will fat damage push you towards aesthetic surgical treatment?Documented in the reputable plastic-type material medical procedures journal - the investigation study was carried out on 200 pairs of identical twins.Comparing the BMI and appearance of the twins the survey concluded that losing the equivalent of one dress size can age women by four years.Women with plumper cheeks and softer features - in other words with fatter faces - were found to look younger than slimmer women.Dieting was found to be up there with divorce, depression, sunbathing, smoking and drinking as a major factor in making women look older.As an individual who has just lost a total of 28 lbs...more
We all fluctuate in weight throughout our lives and while it is a frustrating fact, it is sadly a reality of life. At any given moment most of us are probably on a diet, trying to lose weight or shed the extra pounds that we put on while on vacation....more
The healthiest way to lose weight is neither crash diets nor bursts of exercise. The body likes slow changes in terms of food and exercise.For example, someone who has not exercised for years should not rush into running miles a day or pounding the...more
HCG diet is not an easy diet. There is more to complete the HCG weight loss program successfully than simply relying on the HCG injections or HCG drops. Dieters are required to remain true to the HCG diet and follow the protocol strictly. They must...more
Here are some real dieting myths! I am sure you have heard your fair share of dieting myths, some of which you probably do not know are actual "myths". The main one we are going to discuss today is below: BIG FAT MYTH: You have to have a good...more
There is no other way to gain weight unless you eat a lot more food.The standard advise for those who want to lose weight is that it is important to eat less food, but eat more often. If you want to gain weight, then you need to eat more food more...more
The very popular HCG diet was researched and developed in the 1950s by Dr. A.T. W. Simeons. Thousands of people have successfully lost and kept off significant amounts of weight with the HCG diet.The reason the HCG diet is so popular is that people...more