Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Top 3 Simple Food Tips to Burn Fat Like Crazy!

Some people wrongly believe that food is the culprit behind their weight gain. To be honest, this is just another misconception. Just as a tool can be used both in right and wrong ways, the same can be said about food. Assuming that food is a 'tool', if you use it wrongly you would gain weight for sure, but it is possible to use that same 'tool' for the purpose of losing weight, provided that you learn to use it right! In this article I will tell you how to use food in order to lose stomach fat

1. Snacking ain't bad, but check your snacks closely: If you thought that snacking in between meals is not favorable for weight loss, you couldn't be further from the truth! In fact, experts actually recommend snacking in-between meals as it is a good way to keep yourself full at all times! If you are hungry, you are more likely to gorge on junk and fatty foods than otherwise.

However, you need to make sure that the snacks you are eating are not unhealthy. It is easy to see the difference between a carrot or an apple and a packet of chips; the former is healthy and the latter is not! While chips would add more unwanted pounds to your body, apple would help you burn those fat deposits! Now you know which snacks to go for and which ones to avoid, right?

2. Choose the right fats: Fat is not all bad, as some think. Cutting down drastically on your fat intake may affect your health negatively, while on the other hand consuming fat in the form of junk and fatty foods would make you overweight.

As a matter of fact, there are two types of fats out there: the saturated or 'bad' fat and the unsaturated or 'good' fat. Saturated fats are available in plenty in junk foods, and they do nothing except expanding your body in inches and pounds! On the other hand, unsaturated fats found in canola and olive oils keep your body healthy!

Needless to say, you should prefer unsaturated fats over the saturated ones; unsaturated fats can also be found in fishes such as salmon and tuna.

3. Choose protein over sugar: Do you eat sugary foods simply to become more energetic? Here is the real truth about sugar: while it provides you a sudden outburst of energy, that energy lasts only for a temporary period, after which you feel fatigued and hungry all over again. What follows next is gorging on more sugar-rich foods like a hungry wolf.

And the fun part is that the more sugary foods you eat, the hungrier you feel! And do you know what does sugar do once it gets inside your body? It immediately converts itself first into glucose and then fat!

Here is a better and healthier way to gain the same amount of energy: eat protein-rich foods. Protein would help you burn fat by building muscles, and the more fat you burn, the more energetic you become! Foods such as lean chicken meat and eggs are rich in protein; I usually have eggs for breakfast and chicken for dinner!

Friday, March 6, 2009

Exercising or Dieting-Which One Would Help You Achieve Fast Weight Loss?

When it pertains weight loss virtually all experts would unanimously concur that there's no better way to accomplish your goal than following a diet. However, they do not appear to be focusing much on the exercises! I'm sure you've heard of a lot of fad diets but do you ever get to hear the words 'fad workouts' or 'fad exercises'? I have not heard of one in the past 4 years I spent in researching weight loss!

Remember that while diet is important, building a strong athletic body is equally essential, something which diets can't offer you. In this article I will tell you how a strong body could assist you burn more fat than what you are burning now!

In fact, a strong body is one which is built upon strong lean muscles groups. I'm not sure if you already know about it, but the more muscles you have, the quicker you can burn fat and lose weight.In Addition muscles also make weight maintenance easy for you.

For instance, most of the conventional diet programs would restrict your carbohydrate consumption to a very low level. Without any carbs around, your body would burn your muscles for the propose of energy production. The more muscles you lose, the harder you would find it to keep the fat way. Sooner or later your metabolic rate would be so low that you will not be able to lose weight no matter how hard you diet!

Nevertheless, this problem will not happen if you've a muscular body. People with strong and well-built bodies generally find it easier to maintain their lost weight and keep the fat from coming back when they start consuming normally. This is since muscles help them burn fat even when they're not dieting! That's the advantage of building strong lean muscles. And only intense workouts could assist you acquire lean muscle mass inside a short time period!

The other day I was counseling an acquaintance on how to start the workout regimen on a step-by-step basis. Here is in essence what I told him:

1. Firstly, there are 2 types of workouts: one which helps you slim down by burning your fat deposits, and another which builds strong lean muscles for you! For optimum results, you'd prefer to accomplish both goals and in and of itself, you should not focus on any one type of workout!

For the aim of losing fat, you can begin lifting light weights but make certain that you do several repetitions of this workout day-after-day! The aim of this exercise program is to boost your body's metabolic process to such a high level that you would be burning fat like mad!

2. For the aim of building a strong muscular body, chin-ups, ab crunches, squats and dead-lifts are pretty good. The purpose of these workouts is to make your body so strong that you could lift almost four or five times the amount of weight you're presently lifting!

But on a easier level, the stronger your body is, the easier it would be for you to keep the pounds away! Plus you'd feel a good deal more energetic than before!

I'd strongly discourage you from doing long boring cardios as they do nothing except wasting your useful time and energy!

Note that having a good meal is as crucial as doing the proper workouts! I advocate a protein-rich diet. Protein is available in foods such as eggs, lean chicken meat, etc. You are able to even take protein supplements if you want!

Along with protein, your body also needs fat, which you could get from nuts, fish oil, etc. In order to eliminate hunger, you should include raw vegetables and fruits in your diet also because they're high on fiber and complex carbs.

At no point of time should you even think of consuming junk foods, as they'd ruin all your hard work!

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

3 Fast Weight Loss Secrets-Lose Weight Happily in Seven Days!

What? Can you really lose as much as five pounds of solid fat in just seven days? Sounds unbelievable I know, and that is because you have been taught over and over again by the so-called 'weight loss experts' that you cannot lose more than two pounds of fat week.

However there are certain underground weight loss tactics which, unknown to many, could accelerate the weight loss process to such a high level that you would find it difficult not to lose at least five pounds of fat in that same week, if not more. So how do you do it? Well that is what this article is all about! Read on to find out the weight loss secret.

Oh okay I probably forgot to mention that you can lose weight by drinking one of the most delicious drinks out there! If that doesn't sound exciting to you, I don't know what else will!

1. Green Matcha Tea: You have surely heard about the tremendous benefits of green tea with regards to weight loss. It is a known fact that green tea not only helps you lose weight by boosting your metabolism but also acts as a natural appetite suppressant. Now if you add a bit of matcha powder to it, the effect could only be mind blowing! Why? Just like the famous acai berry, matcha powder is also rich in antioxidant.

While it is true that green tea itself is rich in antioxidants, you could make the situation even more favorable for you by using the dual strength of green tea and matcha powder to make the Green Matcha Tea! Green Matcha Tea is obviously more powerful than plain Green Tea, in that it helps you burn fat unlike any other weight loss super drinks you might be familiar with! Try it, and I am sure you would not only like its fat burning capabilities but also the delicious taste!

2. PGX: Carb blockers serve a very important function: that of preventing carbs from getting deposited in your body as fat and making you overweight. Carb blockers do this by binding themselves with the carbs your body receives from your food. PGX is one such carb blocker. Even if you don't eat sugary foods at all, you still need this because even natural foods contain carbs in varying degrees. It is also a good remedy for those who are suffering from Type2 diabetes. All in all, it is an indispensable tool for your arsenal!

3. A diet that makes you burn fat and lose weight: In case you are curious, it is called the 'calorie shifting' diet. Calorie shifting is a technique which doesn't believe in focusing on any single food group; rather it burns fat by making you consume foods of different calorie contents. In effect, you are not limited to eating just 'low-calorie' or 'low-fat' foods all the time.

Studies have pointed out that when you vary your calorie consumption level instead of restricting it to one fixed percentage, your body has no way of knowing whether to keep your metabolic rate high or low, with the result that it would keep your metabolic rate high at all times just to be on the safe side!

Do I need to tell you that the higher your metabolic rate is, the faster you burn fat and lose weight? The famous diet program FatLoss4Idiots is based solely on this 'calorie shifting' method of dieting, and no wonder it has so many raving fans around the globe! If you haven't given it a try yet, I highly recommend you do!