Is Eating out Sabotaging Your Progress?...

If you don’t eat out when trying to get in shape, your social life is likely to atrophy. After all, eating out has become an integral part of our culture.

Unfortunately, eating out can make you store body fat very quickly.

Thus, here is how to make sure prepared food at restaurants doesn’t sabotage you:

1. Don’t let yourself get ravenously hungry: Letting yourself get really hungry beforehand so that you can eat more is a very poor strategy for your health. Instead, eat your meal with a normal level of hunger. This will prevent you from overdoing it.

2. Take half of your plate home: And stash half of it away before you start eating. This will make sure that you don’t have the opportunity to misbehave. After all, if the food isn’t on your plate you can’t eat it. And keep in mind that a single meal can have an entire days worth of calories.

3. Avoid carb loading: This mainly happens when you get served a bread basket before eating. Not only will this load your system with carbs, but it will also spike your blood sugar and by extension, insulin. So avoid bread at all costs.

4. Avoid processed meats: Things like hot dogs, hamburgers and fatty steaks are loaded with calories and saturated fats. So make sure you opt for leaner sources of protein like chicken and turkey. These will be much better choices.

5. Avoid deep fried platters: Anything that is deep fried will not only have lots of calories, but it will also have rancid fats. You see, oils exposed to high levels of heat become rancid rather quickly. So avoid these types of foods no matter what.

6. Have more roughage: Increasing the amount of roughage you eat can really help you stay full when eating out. And the fuller you get on vegetables, the less likely it is that you will overindulge with calorie heavy items.

Eating out doesn’t have to be a nail in your fat loss efforts.

Just make sure you take heed on the advice here, but more importantly, take action!

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Quit Making Excuses and Get Moving!...

by Carolyn Hansen
A Healthy lifestyle means a good diet, nutrition and exercise

If you want to get into better physical shape and improve your strength and fitness, sometimes the best thing to do is ‘quit.’ Quit? Yes, that’s right – quit. Health and Healthy weight loss starts with quitting more than just fast food. Sometimes the easiest way to make things happen in a positive fashion, for example…

* Get stronger so all of your daily activities and tasks are easier

* Lose some weight

* Slow the aging process

* Reduce your disease risk

* Feel better about yourself

* Create more energy

* Improve quality of life

…is to quit doing some of the things that are getting in the way of your progress.

Here are some healthy exercise ideas to get you quitting:

* What low return projects could you quit spending time on?

* What people who are not supportive of you could you spend less time with?

* What television shows can you quit watching?

* What websites can you quit spending time on?

* What telephone chit chat could be eliminated?

* What expenses that are not providing a good return on investment can you eliminate?

And here is one that may ruffle your feathers somewhat…

* What excuses can you quit making?

Sometimes the best motivation for becoming physically active comes from people who were once unmotivated to workout.

Any of these sound familiar?

* If I exercise, I won’t have enough energy left to do more important things.

* I get enough exercise at my job/around the house/with the kids.

* There is no time to exercise

* Exercise is hard, boring, tiring etc.

* Exercise does not work for me.

* I am too old to start now.

* I plan to start exercising when… (You fill in the blank)

Quit making excuses for not feeling good and being healthy!

There are many excuses used by individuals less inclined to look after themselves with the self care of a proper exercise program. It is a shame that many people have developed misguided notions that incorporating regular exercise into their daily lives is more burdensome than productive. As a result, they neglect the most important aspect of their life – their health.

But it is time to toss aside the excuses and make a commitment to getting more active.

You simply need to make physical activity a priority in your life and quit making excuses about why you can’t get the proper exercise that includes mostly strength training exercise that you need to stay healthy and lose weight throughout your life.

We all must take responsibility for our own health and that includes helping protect ourselves from preventable disease and premature death. Once you are active on a regular basis, you will enjoy many benefits, physically, mentally and emotionally.

So, instead of quitting the way most people do – they quit thinking big and they quit well before they even reach their lofty goals, go a different route and quit doing some of the things that are standing in your way and you might see a different outcome than you expect.

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Lasting weight loss or Fast Weight Loss?...

There are many reasons why you may wish to lose body fat. Among the top are to simply look better and improve your overall health. Losing weight should always be regarded as a long term proposition. Quick weight loss plans can help you lose weight but will not give you the longer term results you crave and deserve.

I want “instant” not “fast”!- yeah right!

Fat will be lost in any diet where the calorific intake is lower than expenditure. However these “crash” diets and low-energy diets will result in a muscle loss in addition to the fat burned. It is estimated that the maximum fat a typical human body can burn in any one week is 2 pounds. This means that any weight loss over and above 2 lbs in a week will be mainly muscle or water.

Crash dieting slows down your metabolism .

If you don’t eat enough food your ancient survival instincts take over and the body enters “starvation mode”. In this mode the metabolic rate slows to conserve energy and thus the speed at which weight is lost is reduced. Thus ultimately less fat is burned using “crash” methods.

In addition the body has lost muscle during this crash phase. Muscle burns calories and the more muscle, the more calories and burned. Crash dieting therefore delivers the double whammy of a drop in metabolic weight and a drop in calorie burning muscle tissue.

This is the reason why so many dieters who rely upon fad diets regain weight quickly after losing it. The only safe reliable and long term way to reduce weight is to do it over a period of time. Change your thinking, eating and habits for best results. Don’t skimp on nutrition either! Lose pounds not nutrients. Many people have experienced lasting success with meal replacement drinks.

Make sure your choose a healthy all natural meal replacement plan with organic ingredients  (like Amino acid meal replacement by EnerHealthBOtanicals)

A gradual reduction in calories maintains muscle tissue, burns only fat and allows you to maintain healthy weight loss in the future.

So , If you really want to make a difference in your life, lose weight and feel great then change your actions: start eating healthy today, take a walk and breath deep. You can do it !!

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