Blog on weight, How to Lose Fat on the Cheap

Good for you: You’ve achieved your desired weight. Next up? Keeping it off. Yes, you can! Have a positive attitude. The changes you made can stick. Most people who have lost weight put the weight back on, and that’s why they lose the will to diet again. Even those who diet again and again always seem to put the weight back. You can keep the weight off. People who gain the weight back are those who return to their old way of eating. They seem to thing this time they can beat the odds. This time they can keep the weight off. You can but there’s some simple rules to follow. Use these five tips to help you stay on track: Don’t skip meals. Skipping meals can slow your metabolism down; that means you'll burn less calories.  Skipping meals can also cause overeating later in the day. Weigh yourself daily. A daily weight-in may seem like overkill but research shows the method is more effective than getting on the scales less frequently. If  your keeping a record of your weig...

This post might be a little technical but, and I have written about this several times, you have to be serious about your weight loss and you have to know why your overweight. And most of all remember that you can't exercise away a bad diet. So having said that, read on. The one thing that's so hard about exercise and weight loss is this: It's  hard  to burn enough calories with exercise to make a serious dent in your weight. In fact, the workouts that are most effective for weight loss are the hardest ones:  High intensity interval training, tabata training or metabolic conditioning.  If you're a veteran exerciser, you might enjoy torturous workouts on a regular basis. If you're not?  You may find any amount of exercise hard to accomplish. Unfortunately, that may end up hurting your weight loss efforts. So, how much exercise do you need and how can you fit it in? Use these tips below to make the most ou...

I believe you have to understand why you have a weight problem if your going to lose weight. And this you might be able to blame on your parents. But in defence of your parents, they became mentally programmed by their parents, that would be your grandparents who learned to live, eat, and become adults from their parents during a time when life was must different that today. Also your ancestors may have lived with very little were as today we have food anywhere any time we want. 60 or 70 years ago when the blue collar workers could first start to afford more stuff, food became a way to celebrate the families success. Families started to move to the suburbs and buy their first home with a garage. Buy that bar-baque for the back yard and maybe own a car for the first time. It was the best of times for those that can remember. But with the success the average person was enjoying came all the food you can imagine. We had dessert on the table every night. We made food with lots of butt...

This is a great article, it confirms the same things I write about. Losing body fat is a big part of being healthy and doing exercise while you diet can speed up the weight loss and I've wrote about this before, exercise has a two fold purpose. Your speeding up your metabolism when you exercise and your increasing your muscle mass. Now increasing muscle mass does two things. First your body burns calories even if you do nothing. Muscle mass will burn more calories than fat. So by increasing your muscle weight and reducing the weight of your fat you actually will burn more calories just doing your normal routine. And as this article explains the more muscle and the less fat you have, the longer you'll live. HealthDay Reporter The more muscle older adults have, the lower their risk of death, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed data from more than 3,600 older adults who took part in the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 1988 and 1994. Th...

Yoga is more than just exercise. We talk about stress a lot of how stress can cause weight gain, and that's where Yoga can help.  Yoga will actually relax you. After you get accustom to doing Yoga, you will find that the poses that stretch your muscles will actually relieve built up stress in your muscles. When your muscles tighten up like when you get a stiff neck, that's a form of stress and many people do Yoga to relieve those tight muscles. Workout fads come and go, but virtually no other exercise program is as enduring as yoga. It's been around for more than 5,000 years. Yoga does more than burn calories and tone muscles. It's a total mind-body workout that combines strengthening and stretching poses with deep breathing and relaxation. Some forms of Yoga are for meditation but the trend today is using Yoga for exercise. There are more than 100 different forms of yoga. Some are fast-paced and intense. Others are g...

Get active. It's one of the best things you can do for yourself. "Exercise is an antidote to aging," says Barry A. Franklin, PhD, director of the cardiac rehabilitation and exercise labs at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, MI. A well-rounded routine, as part of a healthy lifestyle, may help you avoid things like falls, heart disease, and osteoporosis. Experts say many of the conditions people think are due to getting older have more to do with not moving enough. At any age, these are the types of exercise you want to get: Aerobic: good for your heart and lungs Strength training: good for your muscles and bones Flexibility and balance: helps prevent falls Don't avoid exercise because you're afraid of getting hurt or think it's too late to start. It's a good idea to talk to your doctor for advice before starting a new exercise program. If you have a condition like heart disease, osteoporosis, or arthritis, you may need to tweak your exercise...

Exercise is a big part of losing weight, but I don't mean you have to sweat it off. You can lose weight without any exercise just by maintaining a proper diet. But if you don't do some exercise half the weight you lose will be muscle. It happened to me, so if you want to look like a pear then don't exercise. But if you want to look like you did when you actually weighed 30 pounds less, then you want to do some upper body exercise besides walking. Generally, the oldest fat on your body is the fat that's the hardest to get rid of. But muscle will eat up fat, that's why people go on high-protein diets to lose weight. If you build enough muscle, the muscle will eat up the fat just to maintain. In another post I wrote that a stunt man that had the "perfect body" would cut back in the off-season but when he was getting back in shape for a movie he would eat protein and good fats to bulk-up for his role. If you're going to build muscle you need to eat or ha...

Grit. Determination. Willpower. Fortitude. Do you have what it takes to persist in the face of challenges? To pick yourself up and carry on even when it seems like you have hit a brick wall? Mental toughness is a term used in psychology to refer to the resilience and strength that people possess to soldier through struggles and succeed. Often experts find that people with a weight problem will also have other problems in their life. It is this mental toughness that gives some of the world's athletic superstars the ability to push past exhaustion, opposition, and injury to score and to win. It is the same quality that gives even weekend warriors the strength to finish that last mile and power through that final set of reps. I'm not talking about your workout, I'm talking about taking more control of your life and make the decision to eat the right foods and get healthy. It does take will power to change your lifestyle. Stop being the person you are now and decide to li...

Concentrate on improving your health and the rest will work out. What do I mean? Worrying about the problems in your life will cause you to forget about you. Worrying about money is the main contributor to obesity. Worrying starts a spiral downward that you can’t stop. Worrying starts by causing depression. You have a big problem that you have no solution for. Maybe it’s about money or maybe something with your marriage, or maybe a problem with a child. Yes, these may seem like insurmountable problems. And these types of huge problems in your life will cause you to change your routine. You’re not thinking about your health, you’re not making time for exercise or relationships, instead you’re worrying. If you’re worried about money or your job, then your worrying about how you can cut your budget and that usually starts with the food budget. Now, I probably don’t need to tell you that eating low cost food, is simply eating food with bulk and very little nourishment.  Foods that...

 You might be surprised at some of the email I get from people who have been deiting for years and not getting Losing weight is a balancing act between the amount of calories you eat and the amount of calories you burn. For example, a women depending on height should stay in a range of 1500 to 2000 calories a day. A man depending on height can consume say 1800 to 2500 calories. Those estimates will depend on your age and activity levels ( how much you workout ). Weight loss comes down to burning more calories than you eat. This is important, you can’t exercise away a lot of calories or a bad diet. I bet you didn't remember that, and this is a common mistake, if you just cut back on the foods your eating, like skipping meals, but don't change those foods that cause you to gain weight, than you probably won't lose anything. A normal workout, say a combination of running and walking for an hour, will only burn about 300 calories and that’s based on someone who is experie...

Losing weight is a balancing act between the amount of calories you eat and the amount of calories you burn. For example, a women depending on height should stay in a range of 1500 to 2000 calories a day. A man depending on height can consume say 1800 to 2500 calories. Those estimates will depend on your age and activity levels (how much you workout). Weight loss comes down to burning more calories than you eat. This is important, you can’t exercise away a lot of calories. A normal workout, say a combination of running and walking for an hour, will only burn about 300 calories and that’s based on someone who is experienced at this type of workout. Someone new at this type of routine, you might only burn 100 calories. If your counting your calorie intake and don’t forget the drinks, You can balance the "consumption to burn" ratio by cutting back on sugary beverages and snacks. Once you understand the equation, you’re ready to set your goals. Remember you don’t have to do...