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3 Basics That Help You Lose Weight In 2 Weeks

Muscle Builder Guy — Mon, 16 May 2011 19:30:48 +0000

Losing weight in 2 weeks is a prospect that many of us embark on, but there is a learning curve that needs to be addressed. If you have not lost weight in the past, you may find that the curve is steeper than you planned because of unforseen difficulties. Many people find that experiencing a failure can make it that much more difficult to make the next attempt successful. Over time, the cycle of failure can make people lose hope in the idea of success, but there is no reason to think that weight loss is an impossibility. In order to make the process an easier one, the following tips outline a few basic changes that you can make.

Look at the different aspects of your plans for weak points. Some people find it helpful to look at their weight loss efforts as being similar to a war against their own habits. When it comes to winning a battle, victory is largely a matter of exploiting any weaknesses your enemy may have. Maybe your weakness is that you use food to medicate yourself when you are stressed or upset. Maybe going out with your friends always results in your drinking several beers and eating a lot of unhealthy food. People who are serious about losing weight in two weeks are able to determine your exact causes of overeating.

Next: learning to avoid your temptations. When you know why you overeat in the first place, you have taken a big step toward making the changes necessary to avoid them. One example of a trigger is a powerful craving for cake every time you pass a specific bakery. Doing this ensures that the temptation is avoided. It may be very difficult for you to do this at first, but eventually you will be able to walk past that bakery again without temptation. Conquering that temptation will be the final goal, but at first avoidance can give you similar results.

Now it is time to develop some new habits. Having it in your mind to avoid those habits once you know what they are is the first step in actually changing them. There are many possibilities as to how this may be done. For now, let’s take a step back and look again at the cake craving example. Every time you feel that craving take hold, decide instead to take a walk or do a few lunges. Do something else with the nervous energy of that trigger.

If you are determined to lose weight in 2 weeks, you have to back up that drive with action. Identify the areas in your diet where you are weakest. Work to avoid any temptations that may come up. Finally, increase your changes of success by working to replace old, bad habits with healthy new ones. Too many people fall into the trap of looking at weight loss as little more than a temporary change that will only last until their goals are met. You have to avoid looking at this as a temporary fix and instead as a real lifestyle change if you want the success to last.

On How to Reduce Belly Fat

Muscle Builder Guy — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:54:17 +0000

I have yet to meet a person who is truly and happily obese. Being fat means you cannot wear the clothes that you want nor can you engage in physical activities that require stamina and endurance. Let’s face it, unwanted fats, especially those accumulating in the mid-section, are a serious cause for frustration, stress and low self-esteem. We can all use more tips for losing fat. If you are interested, then read more here on how to reduce belly fat.

The first thing that you need to consider is having a paradigm shift when it comes to your lifestyle. One proven and tested method is engaging in exercise. Having a daily routine of rigorous work out can do wonders in burning up those accumulated body fats. Focused abdominal work-outs, like modified sit-ups, can do wonders to your obliques and mid-section. Brisk walking and/or jogging can help burn those calories expeditiously. The childhood game of skipping rope is also quite effective.

Essentially, any exercise will not work without complementing it with diet. Enhancing your diet plan with healthy foods, like fruits and vegetables, can give you essential vitamins and minerals to help ensure a healthy body. On top of that, they are also natural appetite suppressants in that they aid in simulating the feeling of fullness and cause you to reduce your food intake. Eat up and have no fear of caloric gain.

If you’re interested of employing medical intervention, there are numerous dietary supplements around to suppress your appetite which are called Nootropics. They reinforce the feeling of stomach fullness, making you voluntarily limit your food intake. Anti-obesity medications reduce your body’s absorption of fats.

As with any weight loss program, it is always best to consult a health professional. Doctors and nutritionists, especially, can help design a regimen that will work best for you in terms of diet, the kind of exercise and medical therapy to employ.

At the end of the day, it’s always been fats.

Myths of losing weight quickly

Muscle Builder Guy — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:21:03 +0000

There are a lot of myths when it comes to losing weight and getting healthy. Unfortunately, these myths often get in peoples way of their real goals and often set them back. When it comes to weight loss, if an idea promises immediate results without the science to back it up – it’s often incorrect.

A great example of this would be fasting to lose weight. This is a dangerous way to lose weight that can be seriously harmful to your body. Not only does it not work, but the science behind it doesn’t support its claim – your body will turn to muscle as fuel before fat, so you will only be losing muscle mass if you fast.

Another myth to watch out for is skipping meals. Some people think that if they eat less frequently and in smaller amounts that they will lose weight. Skipping meals, especially breakfast, can seriously hinder your ability to lose weight and keep it off. The opposition is actually the truth. You should be eating more frequently throughout the day, upwards of 4 or 5 small meals a day is a great way to boost your metabolism. If you are someone who does not like eating this often, try introducing meal replacement shakes to your daily routine which can easily replace a breakfast or lunch.

Most of these weight loss myths get so popular because they are the easy way out. They promise quick results with little work. As most people understand, life usually is not like this. Losing weight and staying healthy is not easy. If you break it down piece by piece and focus on eating healthy and increasing your daily exercise although it’s still not easy, it is quite simple.

Don’t be tempted to take the easy way out when it comes to your health and body – it can come back to haunt you later and only set you back in your long term goals.

Weight Loss Tips; The Bodybuilder’s Secret

Muscle Builder Guy — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 09:59:05 +0000

Weight loss is a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States, and becoming ever more present worldwide. You see regular people adopt unsustainable diets all the time, and only the extraordinary seem to be able to keep the weight off. When was the last time you saw a fat gymnast or fat bodybuilder on the cover of a magazine? Well, in this article, rather than promoting a bunch of weight loss tips, I will share the nutritional key that all top performing athletes know for maintaining muscle and warding off fat.

What do bodybuilders eat when preparing for a competition? They eat very few calories, but the calories they do consume come from healthy natural fats like almonds or cashews and flax seed, and a serving of protein every two or three hours. Consuming regular protein helps you keep your metabolism revved up for calorie burning goodness, and gives your body more essential vitamins and minerals than any natural combination of vegetables will. You can live on meat indefinitely, but only a few years before a strict vegetarian will need to supplement for what they miss from meat, or they will run into all kinds of health problems from vitamin deficiencies.

What else do bodybuilders do? Well, they often use all kinds of hormone altering drugs that I do not recommend, so let us think about natural bodybuilders instead of bodybuilders in general. Natural bodybuilders enjoy great health, but do not get as big as pharmaceutically enhanced bodybuilders. They can become just as lean, though it requires more work. Your goal is not to attain the leanness of a bodybuilder that is ready for a photo shoot or competition; this kind of body fat is not sustainable for long periods of time, but you can get to a much lower body fat by simply doing complex exercise movements with heavy weights in the gym, having a serving of protein every couple hours, and avoiding calorie dense foods like breads, cereals, pasta, fatty sauces and calorie-dense drinks.

I went from a very fat 235lbs to a very lean 165lbs just through diet alone. When I started exercising and eating as described above, I gained 30lbs of muscle and now hover around 200lbs with a very athletic physique. The bodybuilder’s secret is no quick fix or magic elixir, but it is sustainable (i.e. no yo-yo diets) and will serve you well for a lifetime.

The author is a self improvement fanatic and writes articles on everything from acne scar treatment to weight loss and everything in between.

7 Smart College Weight Loss Rules

Muscle Builder Guy — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:47:18 +0000

If you find it very difficult to lose weight while in college, I can totally relate. When I was in college it was easier to grab some take aways when I was short on time and not to mention what exam stress did to my waistline. That’s why I have constructed a set of rules that made it easier for me to lose weight. Here they are:

Pack your own lunch
Control what you eat by packing your own lunch. That way you will avoid the unhealthy foods of the college cafeteria and take aways.

Watch your drinks
Make sure that you don’t drink too much – alcohol contains lots of empty calories that go sit on your waist and don’t fill you up at all. Stick to diet drinks and don’t have more than 3 drinks per night.

Prepare lots of healthy meals in the weekends
Prepare healthy meals in the weekend and freeze to use for dinners the next night. That way you will have a healthy waistline friendly dinner for the week, no matter how busy you are.

Snack smart
It is very easy to reach for unhealthy snacks when you are stressed or busy. Employ a smart snacking strategy by only snacking in healthy snacks like fruit, nuts, veggie sticks, fat free yogurt and raisins.

Make time for regular exercise
Book regular time out of your diary for exercise and see those appointments just like any appointment that you can’t miss. Make sure that you do the best exercises to lose weight and that you don’t waste your time.

Limit the fast food and treats
Include a cheat meal once or twice a month where you can have what you want and limit fast food and treats to that meal only.

Control your cravings
Control your appetite and your cravings with the help of some nutritional products – just read the precautions first.

If you implement these weight loss rules for college you will ensure that you don’t pick up weight and if you follow them together with a healthy diet and a regular exercise plan, you will start losing weight.

What are the Best Tips for Weight Loss?

Muscle Builder Guy — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:00:46 +0000

It is an interesting question that a surprising amount of people will ask at some time or another when they make that snap decision to lose some weight. They have probably read a bunch of articles on different websites or blogs but they are all saying different things or trying to sell you the latest must have pills or potions. But eventually, they’ll get around to wondering what the best weight loss tips really are and whether they are even going to believe what the see in front of them in black and white, or what ever the color scheme happens to be of the website they’re reading it on.

The short answer to this, and there really is a short answer despite all the thousands of articles that have been written and are still to be written upon the subject, is that the very best tips are those that will provide a means to not only lose weight, but to lose it in a healthy manner so that your body looks good, toned and slim while enabling you to keep that good looking, healthy body for a very long time to come.

Anything else is not a particularly good tip, especially if it means that you will have a high percentage chance of putting the weight you lost back on again, and some.

So what is this magical formula that evades most dieters and leaves them losing weight only to gain it again, then lose it again only to gain it again and so on and so forth? Well, the basic formula is not magical or secret even. It is very mundane and the reason so many people miss it completely is because it it staring them right in the face and is so obvious they simply don’t see it!

It is all about calories in to the body and calories out of the body. It is a basic law of nature that you cannot gain weight if your body is burning at least as many calories as you put into it through your diet. How you achieve that balance is up to the individual. But another pretty basic formula is that by doing sufficient daily exercise to keep your metabolism working to burn off the calories you consume through food and drink, then you will not gain weight. Increase that level of exercise so that your body consumes more calories than you eat and you will begin to lose weight while slimming down and toning up your body. The food you eat is important because it needs to be healthy, but it is not as critical as most diets try to tell you it is.

So there you have it. Probably the best tips for weight loss you are ever going to see and they didn’t cost you a penny!

Four Fat Burning Foods

Muscle Builder Guy — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:36:18 +0000

Are you more interested in losing weight or getting rid of your chubby belly? I think most of you reading this would opt for both but if you were hard pressed to choose just one it would probably be the latter. Body fat is that tissue that hides those well defined muscles that are lurking underneath. You can either burn body fat or store it. The goal of course would be to burn more body fat than you store and keep it off.

It’s tough to burn fat these days when you’re bombarded with billboards such as these on your way to and from work “44 ounce soda, 99 cents” or “Any size soda, one dollar.” The product that retailers want you to over consume they under price. These and other types of foods and beverages are what helps lead to obesity and excess body fat.

Today I’m going to reverse the trend and give you four items that you can pick up at any local grocery store that will help to burn more fat and achieve the body you want. These fat burning foods won’t do everything for you, but they can definitely help you along the way.

1. Coffee (Caffeine) – Our first caffeine is coffee which is consumed by more than 80% of the population, drinking on average 3-6 cups per day. Although coffee is enormously popular for its ability to increase alertness studies have also shown that it has calorie-burning properties. One cup of coffee has been show to increase the metabolic rate as much as 4% for a little over 2 hours. Overtime this small increase can lead to small drops in overall body weight.

2. Hot Pepper – Have you ever had beads of sweat congregating around your forehead after eating hot red peppers? Well, you’ve just experienced the calorie burning effect of hot peppers. This is a process called thermogenesis where the body releases calories in the form of heat. Of course, once these calories are released there is no chance of them every being stored in your body as fat.

3. Cinnamon – I love the taste of cinnamon and to learn that it has fat burning properties is a plus. Cinnamon and rich carbohydrate diets go hand in hand. Cinnamon helps reduce the blood glucose levels, which help keep your insulin in check. A spike in your insulin level increases fat storage.

4. Green Tea – The fat burning abilities of green tea is mainly because of its high caffeine content. Not only does green tea burn calories but many of the calories they burn are known to be fat calories. Having a cup of green tea extract 3-4 times a day will increase your calorie burning rate by as much as 3% or higher which will help you to burn more calories.

Easy Ways to Walk Your Waistline Away

Muscle Builder Guy — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:45:18 +0000

Study after study concludes the same thing time and again; walking is good for you. It’s a low-impact exercise that, even in moderation, can help you to maintain or lose weight. The problem with this and most other exercises, though, is that it is hard to find the motivation to do it.

Exercise simply for the sake of exercise is boring. Even if you can find the motivation to start, it can be a real challenge to recapture that early enthusiasm and keep it up day after day, month after month. The trick with all forms of exercise is to find a way to keep it interesting. Two ways to do this include mixing up the type of exercises you do and incorporating everyday activities into your life that have the added benefit of burning calories.

To help you start walking and to keep walking, take the time to plan walks you’ll enjoy. Don’t look at your walks as exercise. See them as outings. For example, you might plan several picnics that require 30 to 60 minutes for you to walk to your destination and 30 to 60 minutes back to your car or home. With the addition of a picnic backpack, you and a friend can enjoy exercising together without thinking of it as a workout. Just remember that your picnic supplies should include light fare so you don’t defeat the benefit of burning calories by consuming too many of them when you stop to dine.

You could also shop till you drop. While shopping may include a lot of stops, you can offset the frequent breaks by staying on your feet and block-circling. Every time you see a store that interests you, force yourself to walk around the entire block before entering.

Finally, get to know your neighborhood, town or city. Some of us spend years where we live without really exploring the area around us. Get out and take in your surroundings. Enjoy the effort your neighbors have put into their gardens. You’ll get to know the people who live around you and may be surprised by how much you discover.

Schedule your walks for convenient times and plan to be on foot for a brisk 30-60 minutes for maximum benefit. Your heart, bones and waistline will thank you.

Exploring the Cambridge Diet Phases

Muscle Builder Guy — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:09:24 +0000

The Cambridge Diet is a popular weight loss plan that is used fairly consistently in the United Kingdom for treating the morbidly obese. It isn’t as popular in the United States, in large part because it is much harder to find the necessary support system to see the diet through until the end. This is a very low calorie diet, and in the UK it is a phased diet that requires support from a Cambridge Diet coach who checks up on the dieter at least once, if not twice, a week and monitors their progress, watches health, and also determines when the patient should move to the next Cambridge Diet phase.

This support is especially important because the Cambridge Diet starts out as a pretty extreme very low calorie diet (VLCD) in phase one, where eating only CD supplements like soup, porridge, and shakes, the dieter only takes in 450 to 550 calories a day on the first week. As the dieter progresses, they move to the next phase. Each phase is based on a certain amount of calories only coming from the Cambridge Diet foods and supplements, while a few hundred more calories of very specific food can be added each week.

So while phase one is only CD supplements, phase 2 could be 810 calories, with the extra 200 coming from steamed veggies or skim milk. After a week or two of that, phase 3 moves to 1000 calories and adds a light salad for lunch and dinner. Eventually as the weight loss progresses the diet keeps moving from a very low calorie phase to a more reasonable “maintenance” phase of 1,500 calories a day.

While that is called the maintenance phase on the Cambridge Diet weight loss plan, for many people 1,500 calories will still result in slow and gradual weight loss of up to one pound a week. This eating plan is not one to take on lightly, and because of the low number of calories, it can be dangerous to “improv,” so if you’re going to even consider it, follow the plan as it’s laid out.

Using Tummy Tuck Jeans With Weight Loss

Muscle Builder Guy — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:19:10 +0000

Weight loss and nydj tummy tuck jeans are used in union because the jeans are designed to trim the waist, tummy, hips, and so on. If you are trying to lose weight, ladies may want to consider the jeans to contrast your hips, buttocks, tummy, and waistline and to give you an idea of how you will look after all the hard work at the gym or following a diet. In this way, the jeans can provide that added motivation.

If you have a diet plan and exercise routine set up, ladies may also wear the jeans with a built-in girdle to boost your confidence by making you appear more attractive. The tummy tuck jeans today are specially designed with inter-weaved front panels. The jeans were made this way to give you that extra stretch around the bottom. You can wear the jeans to appear slimmer around the lower stomach area. While wearing the jeans, you will appreciate the new contour of your hips and the lift of your buttocks.

The jeans have a unique way of replacing the girdles that women once wore to make them look slimmer. However, since the low-rising jeans came out it became difficult to wear girdles because the girdles would show beneath the pants. The girdle is built-in to the tummy tuck jeans to offer you support.

Weight loss and tummy tuck jeans go well because many women want to slim their stomach while lifting the buttocks. You can choose from a selection to jeans including boot cut jeans, buy the jeans one size smaller, and still get the look you desire.
Women who are trying to lose weight will benefit from wearing the jeans to any occasion since you can hide that bulge around the stomach area and get a buttocks lift too. The pants are designed to make the midsection look flatter and the jeans will shape your hips.

Finally, to choose your type of tummy tuck jeans go online and look through the line of boot-cut and other lines designed by NYDJ, Not your Daughters Jeans.