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Saturday, September 1, 2007

How To Lose Weight Without Hurting Yourself

Does panting on the treadmill give you nightmares? For
many, the prospect of losing weight can be a scary thing.
However, it's important to first understand that there are
many ways to lose weight, without having to exhaust oneself
totally.

Myths of weight loss:

There are some popular misconceptions associated with
weight loss. Before you actually start an exercise regimen,
it's important to remove all pre-conceived notions. We have
listed out some of the most popular ones:

Myth 1: Ab exercises flatten the stomach.

Fact: Ab exercises only tone and firm the lower layers of
stomach muscle. If you happen to have layers of fat above,
it won't make any difference. Therefore do aerobic
exercises to shed the fat.

Myth 2: Drinking water before exercise is harmful.

Fact: Water is essential to replenish fluids lost during
strenuous exercise. Therefore, drink water in equal amounts.

Myth 3: Eliminating fats helps shed weight faster.

Fact: Fats in small amounts can help you feel fuller during
the day. This avoids binging.

Myth 4: High protein, low carb diets burn fat faster.

Fact: Ingesting too much protein can result in high fat and
cholesterol levels in the body. Too many carbohydrates in
the diet can result in the formation of Ketones which lead
to kidney stones. The trick lies in a balanced diet.

Myth 5: One can lose weight no matter what one eats.

Fact: Not watching what's eaten can lead to alarming weight
increases

Myth 6: Skipping meals burns fat quickly.

Fact: When you skip meals, your body goes into a
conservation mode where its metabolic rate starts dipping,
resulting in weight gains.

Myth 7: Weight training doesn't shed weight.

Fact: Weight training can actually be a great way to lose
weight in a short time span.

Myth 8: Consuming nuts and dairy products can be fattening.

Fact: If taken in small doses, nuts can actually be good
for health.

Myth 9: Counting calories isn't really necessary.

Fact: It is absolutely necessary to keep track of
everything you eat "" right from sugar to tea or even
snacks.

Myth 10: Salads are a great health snack.

Fact: Yes salads are great but not with the fatty dressing.

Cardio to help shed fat It has been clinically proven that
cardio exercise is your one and only ticket to effective
and quick fat loss. Cardio exercises involve any form of
exercise that raises heart rate to higher levels.
Especially when it comes to fat loss goals, the higher the
intensity, the greater the chances of your slimming down
quicker!

Why high intensity cardio is so great There are many
reasons why cardio helps shed weight fast:

- High intensity cardio rapidly raises your metabolic rate
- This increased metabolic rate remains at the same rate
even after exercise - Increases lean muscle mass which
contributes to increased resting metabolic levels

Other benefits include:
- Greater lung strength  
- Strengthens your heart
- Improves blood circulation.

Timing and its impact The best time of the day for any
cardio exercise is early in the morning, before you've had
any breakfast. This is because in the morning hours, muscle
and liver glycogen levels are really low. This means that
with lower blood sugar levels, your chances at burning fat
at this time is much more than later in the day.

Top 5 cardio exercises to shed fat If you think a 30 minute
morning walk at moderate pace will help, then you're wrong.
While it certainly will help you lose more calories over a
period of time, if you're looking for fat loss - you need
something extra!

1.Jump rope: On an average if you jump rope for 15 minutes
you burn 174 calories!

2.Swimming: The forward crawl stroke seems to burn fat the
best and it's also non-impact.

3.Sprinting: It will burn tons of calories, beats fat like
none other and reduces stress and tension in the body.

4.Step aerobics: Burns a whopping 400 calories in a 30
minute time span.

5.Cycling: It exhausts carbohydrate reserves in the body
resulting in enhanced metabolic rates.

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The Diet Industry Doesn't Care If You Lose Weight!

In the Western cultures, we are bombarded by advert after
advert promoting this healthy eating food, or this gym, or
that celebrity's new fitness video / diet program / recipe
book / miracle weight loss program.  The images are
everywhere, together with a press that extols the virtues
of being so thin you look ill.

"Weight Loss Help" is at hand, bleats the diet industry,
"Just buy our product" ... but does the diet industry have
your best interests at heart?

The simple answer is a highly resounding NO, they do not.

They have only one interest, and that is money.  Money to
make profits, to pay their shareholders.  The diet industry
has minimal interest in you losing weight and ABSOLUTELY NO
INTEREST in you keeping the weight off.  Just think about
it.  If people actually lost weight using their products
and kept it off, what would happen to their profits and
business?  It would be decimated!

The diet industry needs dieters to keep buying and
consuming their products so they can make fat profits to
pay their shareholders with.

The real problem with the diet industry is that in order to
make maximum profits they need to cut their costs down to a
bare minimum.  And they do this by padding out food with
fillers and cheap components.

One of the first things to go in diet products is sugar.
Refined sugars are bad for us, which is perfectly true,
they are.  However, instead of putting in a decent, healthy
alternative (such as Stevia) the diet industries put in
artificial sweeteners such as Aspartame.

Now, you may say, "But it's not sugar so it's healthier" or
"It's FDA approved" or any other pre-programmed component.
Let me tell you what aspartame is - it's a neuro-toxin,
plain and simple.  To make this even easier to understand -
it kills your brain!  It's dangerous!  Aspartame is already
banned in numerous countries with many more considering a
ban, yet it still appears in diet foods particularly in the
USA and UK.

Even worse, aspartame will actually sabotage your diet as
it seems to make people crave carbohydrates.  If you are
dieting and are after weight loss help then avoid aspartame.

One of the big diet industry fillers is wheat.  The diet
industry love padding out food with wheat protein because
it is cheap!  And cheap means more profit!  An awful lot of
people have a wheat intolerance to some degree, and this
tends to cause bloating and the feeling of being fat, which
doesn't help your diet and doesn't help you feel any
thinner.

So all in all, the diet industry doesn't have your best
interests at heart.  They want to you stay miserable and
fat because then you contribute more to their profits!

What can you do to get weight loss help?  Learn about
eating a healthy, balanced diet and low-glycemic products.
Search, search, and search, about all the market options in
the market. Remember, after all, its your health.

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