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Things about fat cells

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

Men typically have excess weight in the waist (around the belly). So if you gain weight, most of the weight taken will go directly to your belly first. A big belly increases the levels of bad cholesterol (LDL), raises the excess fat in the bloodstream, and increases blood pressure and blood sugar levels. In addition, abdominal fat tends to be more and more deeply into the body, unlike fat thighs or hips, which is stored under the skin.

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The fat cells located inside the abdomen is metabolically more active than fat cells located in other parts of the body. They release more fatty acids, which can cause diabetes (also read our article “Eat healthy with diabetes type 2: 7 tips), coronary heart disease, heart attacks, and some cancers . Abdominal fat cells could affect the smooth functioning of the liver.

Unfortunately, there is no way to target weight loss in a particular area of skin (eg weight loss in the abdomen first is impossible, we must lose the weight of the body first). So, to lose your ring, you should exercise and work every muscle in your body in more than one system. The good news is that excess weight that is around the belly is usually the weight you lose faster thanks to regular workouts.

If you do not eat fat at all, you will bypass your body
If you do not eat all the fat possible, you’ll short-circuit the natural system of transportation of vitamins in your body so that the system regulating cholesterol levels. As said before, fat is very important to maintain natural transformation steps of your body, such as the absorption of vitamins and energy production. Without these fat soluble vitamins (vitamins A, D, E and K), the body can not properly absorb calcium, hormone production could be negatively affected, and the blood may have difficulty learning or clot properly.

A lack of fat soluble vitamins can lead to serious health problems, including night blindness (difficulty seeing where the excessive brightness decreases), rickets, anemia and internal bleeding. Moreover, when the body can not absorb calcium, bones become weaker and more fragile. Fat, unsaturated kind, may also play a role in regulating cholesterol and lower your bad cholesterol (LDL cholesterol).

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Sticking with The HCG Diet Plan – It’s Worth It!

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

The 500 calorie a day HCG diet plan can be a challenge, but it is well worth the effort. It helps to review the plan in advance and only keep what you are allowed to eat in your home. Naturally, if you have a family to feed, you cannot easily do this. Try a separate section of the fridge if you can. Your kids probably won’t want your organic food anyway. The important thing is to keep the foods you can have in the house so there is no temptation to eat food that is not allowed.

Since you are probably taking HCG diet drops, your appetite will be suppressed. Once the first 10 pounds are gone, you will have a great incentive to continue. Sure, it can be tempting to cheat, but yo already spent the money for the drops, why waste it by not following the diet?

This is an unusual trick, but it does work, at least for women. Dig in your closet and find clothes that you have been saving and hope to fit into one day. Make sure you can get them on, they should just be very tight. When at home, wear the. The jeans pinching your waistline will keep you from putting junk food in your mouth. It’s easy to overeat when you sit around in comfortable, loose clothing. Try it, it works!

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Balanced diet: review of the basics of food

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

Observe the effects that food has on the body and let us know why is it so important to eat healthily, adopt a balanced diet.

To better understand what a balanced diet, start with the word “diet” for short. Power is defined as the food consumed by a human being or group of human beings, considered (s) as a whole, as opposed to sub-division of foods into proteins, carbohydrates, lipids or individual items as meat, fruits, vegetables, etc.

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Food is necessary to produce the energy to maintain body heat in order to work, and to provide essential substances (such as proteins, minerals, vitamins, etc..) That are important for growth, tissue repair and reproduction, etc.

The proteins, in combination with minerals, are the main source of materials needed to repair and ensure the healthy growth of the body.

Vitamins are needed to assist various physical and chemical mechanisms that make up the life of body cells (about 17 vitamins are deemed necessary in this task, although the action of some of them are still unclear).

Water, brought the body with food, does not just entering the composition of body fluids, but is also an essential part of body cells. Water can also help detoxify the body.

Oxygen is necessary to convert ingested food into energy. The human body is similar to the internal combustion engine in which gasoline between before being mixed with oxygen and be converted into energy and produce heat. The chemical potential energy contained in food is converted, with the aid of oxygen, heat. Body temperature is maintained at a constant level and any excess heat is relieved through the mechanism of regulation of body heat that operates primarily through the skin.

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Losing Weight with so easily

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Take the brainstorm all the reasons you can think of to NOT do everything so that your system works and that objectives are met, including the doubts, fears and insecurity. He also apologized to find. Then, drill holes in your excuses until they are more tight-cons arguments for all the excuses you could find. Write them, you all seem clearer, and you can fight the “excuses” more easily.

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Plan your dreams
Dreams can be wonderful and full of vitality, but you need a plan of action to make them real. Write your goals and design the steps you will take to get there. Include contingency plans (if things do not go as you want), then follow up your progress. You must you watch. Take the time to start to develop the tools you need to get there. With this attitude and emotionally charged choices, you will reach your desired weight – and stay there.

Use the power, not just the willingness to
Do not believe everything that you need is a good dose of determination to go against your nature is to want to eat fatty foods and sugary.

To avoid unhealthy foods that tempt you, keep junk food out of your home. Do not go to the supermarket when you’re hungry, eat something before you go. Over time, healthy food and non-fat unsweetened become good taste in your eyes.

Create new ways of “healthy”
Meet your new automatic feeding and your new eating habits by repeating them again and again. You should not need to take a break from your “diet”. If you were to take a break, you made too many compromises in the first place, and your regime will not last. New eating habits must be comfortable and not too restrictive, otherwise they will lead to failure.

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Tips not overeat because of stress or emotions

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Stress and your emotions do not find refuge in your thighs or belly because you overeat. Some tips to avoid over-consumption due to stress or emotions:

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1) Recognize that being stressed is normal. Talk about stress with your family and friends.

2) Know that the recession is beyond your control. Concentrate on what you can control.

3) Find ways to soothe you healthier than eating. Some people walk. Others focus on their hobbies. Listen to your favorite music or read something unrelated to work.

4) If you’re at home, do not eat in front of the TV or computer. Eat at the table during the times when you’re supposed to eat.

Eat as often as possible in family, around a table in the quiet and not watching television is part of the changes in behavior to lose weight without dieting.

5) Do not feed your social outlet. Meet friends in a park, go see a movie, visiting a family member that you have not seen for a long time.

6) Change the wrong foods for healthy foods. If you need to eat something crunchy, try carrot sticks.

7) If you feel an urge to eat come, practice deep breathing. Once you slow your breathing, your blood pressure goes down and you will decrease the production of stress hormones.

8) Do not deprive yourself of food. Sometimes the answer may be a small pleasure, as a few spoons of ice cream (no more).

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How to lose weight without stress

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

However, during periods of stress, it is important to feel that you have a certain level of control over your life, especially when your external environment is unbalanced. So, being able to look inward and take control of your health is very important.

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This is the tips how to lose weight without stress :

1) Do you have a vigorous discussion with … yourself
Start by creating affirmations, very positive statements affirming desirable things to you (which is true in every way). The idea is to use your own words to help you succeed by “talking to you you” in a positive light.

A study published in the Journal of Sports Sciences “divided golfers of various skills (high to low) in two groups. Members of these two groups have different skills (good golfers were mixed with the “bad” golfers). The first group was asked to repeatedly tell themselves they are well run a series of strokes (the putt), while the second group was instructed to tell themselves that they will not go successful these moves. The researchers found that players who have spoken negatively played less well than those who used a positive way to talk, whatever the level of competence.

If you’re constantly curse you, to tell yourself that you do not use anything, you push down too, try to be aware of your own thoughts, to replace those negative thoughts with more positive . Try to reinforce positive thoughts and feelings with affirmations.

2) Find the real reason
You need a very clear and precise reason for which you want to lose weight. One reason that your apology will shoot the most powerful.

It is not enough to say “my health”, “to look better”, “to feel better. Be specific such as “I want to lose weight because I want to be present to celebrate graduation of my granddaughter in 30 years.” Keep in mind that if you are unsure or if you treat casually because there is a high probability that you do not reach your goal weight loss. You think you already know and it is useless to tell you? Make sure you really know your reason and write it.

3) Make compromises but do not be consistent
Any good weight control program should be based on compromise and not on compliance.

What does this mean? What you need to compromise with yourself, but not meet the definition of someone else who you should be.

If you follow, you follow the rules of someone else – an order which may seem attractive on paper and that might work short term but for long term success, you must find your own ideal, a how to eat and live custom made for you, not something that has been taken in the range ready-to-eat “food. And you do that by making compromises with one person that is really important: you!

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Woman’s mistake in diet

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

lose-weight-290x300You’ve heard it before. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But you do we never said why?

When you wake in the morning, you have fasted for eight hours or something like that. Your body is in search of nutrients. When you do not give anything, it begins to melt your muscle mass for energy (your body is like a machine, it can not function without energy). This is bad because your muscle is your metabolism. So you literally destroy your body’s ability to burn calories.

Studies have also shown that if you eat a healthy breakfast and balanced, you are much less tempted to overeat later in the day. And when you start your day with a healthy meal, you are more likely to make good choice of food from that moment.

Too trusting slimming pills
The slimming pills are another approach that women use to lose weight. There are different types of slimming pills, but little or none of them work efficiently. The only time you see women get a great shape and a beautiful body with pills, it will be advertising for this pill even. A natural approach, full of good sense is the strategy most effective, safe and sustainable weight loss.

Drugs like weight loss pill Alli have side effects and significant risks.

Eating too little
Eat three meals is really the bare minimum for a healthy body and fit. You should eat three meals and two snacks a day.

Most women eat too little. They jump or skimp on breakfast and then often do the same with lunch. This leaves their bodies operate with reserves throughout the day with a feeling of dissatisfaction (due to lack of satiation). When dinner arrives, these women are greedy and susceptible to overeating.

If you eat too little in this way, eventually you will take your heaviest meal at the end of the day when there are fewer opportunities to burn calories. This is the perfect recipe to store more fat (fat accumulation).

Eating out too often
If your busy schedule or your desire for a convenient meal you are eating out most of the time, you have little to virtually no control over the foods you eat. And more simply, you have little control over how you look and how you feel about yourself.

If you want to look and feel better, you need to start doing the kitchen. This does not spend hours cooking gourmet meals, this may mean finding a variety of delicious recipes that you can put together in your pot or skillet to a plate. And before you go to a restaurant, ask about the pitfalls of eating out poses and how to avoid them.

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3 mistakes that prevent women from losing weight

Monday, July 26th, 2010

You feel that you make mistakes during your diet, which prevent you from losing weight? You feel like an endless struggle to reduce dress size or power to finally bring this sexy dress (but not too small, you cracked during sales and you still purchased without yet being able to put it) for dinner? Are you perplexed to see your diet and exercising regularly give average results?

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You might think you do the right thing for your diet but it is possible that diet and your fitness program really prevent you from reaching your goal weight and get the body you want. Read on to find the 3 most common mistakes that women are often in the schemes, which prevent them from losing weight:

1) Make a plan without a resistance training
What is one of the most common methods being adopted by women to lose weight? The ultra low calorie diets (eat less than 600 calories per day for women). If these operating systems, all women were healthy and in shape.

There are two big problems with ultra low calorie diets. The first is that much of the weight loss is found in muscle tissue (you lose muscle, which melted during this type of plan). This means that even if you weigh less and can put you in clothes of smaller sizes, you’re soft.

The second problem is even worse. Ultra low calorie diets slow your metabolism. The longer you go on a diet ultra low calorie and less you eat, your metabolism slows down. Muscles are your body’s metabolism – if you lose, you reduce your metabolic capacity.

When you finally stop the ultra low calorie diet (and you stop, your body can not follow such a diet long), you may find very much on the weight lost as fat. Worse yet, you’ll probably take more weight than you have lost.

2) Too much focus on the scales
What you see in the mirror and sees the people at the beach? Do they see the way your body appears or the number that appears on the scales? Most women focus on the number of scales, although this number is not always representative of how they actually appear.

If you do the exercise correctly, you build muscle and lose fat at the same time. If you lose two kilograms of fat and build muscle 2 kg, the scale will not move into the number it says, but you will look more pleasant in the mirror and your clothes fit you better, because the muscle is more dense and takes up less space than fat. The truth is that how you look and feel has nothing to do with how much you weigh.

3) Too much focus on the cardio
When you decide to do some physical exercises, you always choose some form of cardio (all exercises performed “inside”, either in a hall or at home, such as stepper, rower, the bike, etc..)? Well, guess what? The cardio is the form of exercise for lower body sexy and well shaped.

The key to getting and keeping a beautiful body is to increase your metabolism. In other words, you need to focus on activities that not only burns calories during the workout, but also make you burn calories for hours and days after your workout . Making the metabolic resistance training and interval are more effective than cardio exercises only in the objective of boosting your metabolic rate.

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Eating too little for weight loss: what are the dangers?

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

stomachWhat are the potential hazards from eating too little to lose weight? We often hear that the best program to lose weight once and for all is to limit the intake of calories (eat less than the daily requirement of calories) and exercising regularly.

If you eat too much when you try to lose weight or stabilize your weight, the calories you eat will be used to ensure your survival, and very little muscle glycogen is stored. Muscle glycogen (with reserves from the carbohydrate consumed) energy is preferred for most exercise, and when there are few, you feel exhausted and are obliged to reduce the intensity of your exercise accordingly.

You might know that muscle glycogen depleted gradually during prolonged endurance exercise such as running a marathon. However, few people still know the depletion of glycogen may also occur on several days of training, when the break (out of reserves) exceeds the replacement of glycogen (filling of reserves), as happens when you follow a calorie diet too.

Your glycogen stores fell more and more over time when you go on a diet too strict and before you know it, your legs might be as petrified as tree trunks and you have pain when you do the exercise. As a result, you might end up doing less and less physical exercise before giving up completely. It is therefore a great danger associated with eating too little to lose weight.

Chronic fatigue is not the only danger on account of wanting to eat enough to lose weight. When you eat too little, your body slows its metabolism (the rate at which it burns calories) for up to 30%. The slowdown continues even during a time after the end of your plan.

Another danger from eating enough to lose weight when you stop a restricted diet (a diet too low calorie or excludes many important nutrients), you may find that you gain more weight than you have lost even if you don ‘have not eaten more than you did before starting the diet. Once your body gets used to getting fewer calories, your calorie intake above are higher than what you need now.

You may also lose a number of problems if you ever plan. Repeated cycles of weight loss and weight gain (called the yo-yo) can get your body resist degreasing extra weight. It is a phenomenon already observed by studies on animals as on humans.

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Foods that increase metabolism

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

balanceddietFeed your metabolic fire and burn calories faster with food compatible with the plans. Put this list on your refrigerator next to a shot of you when you had the desired weight. Also make a copy and take it with you when you shop. Remember that just the calories and portion control are important, and there is no substitute for a healthy and balanced diet plus regular exercise.

This is 4 foods that increase your metabolism :

1) Grapefruit
The grapefruit is a great result for people who are dieting. The grapefruit has the ability to lower levels of insulin, which triggers your body to store fat. In addition, the grapefruit is filled with beneficial fibers, which will require your body to work harder to transform.

A U.S. study found that participants who ate half a grapefruit with each meal in a period of 12 weeks lost an average of 1.6 kg. The study indicates that the chemical properties of this unique citrus filled with vitamin C reduced the levels of insulin, which promotes weight loss.

2) Soup
Eat a bowl of hot soup as an appetizer or snack can be a great way to boost your metabolism while filling the belly. The soup is a great appetite suppressant because it consists of a mixture of liquid and solid breaks hunger. Soup fills the belly, and you can eat less during the day. The simple soup with beans and vegetables are the best, they give you valuable protein and nutrients. Stay away from creamy soups varieties rich in calories.

3) Green Tea
Green tea is the main source of what is called “epigallocatechin gallate”, more commonly known by the name of EGCG. The catechin healthy for the body accelerates the functioning of your brain and nervous system, allowing your body to burn more calories. Studies show that green tea extract boosts metabolism and may help to lose weight. This tea also enhances the mood of anti-cancer and may help prevent heart disease. It is also a fashionable drink among the celebrities who are watching their weight.

4) Apples and Pears
The overweight women who ate the equivalent of three small apples or pears per day lost more weight during a low calorie diet than women who did not add fruit to their diet, according to a study by researchers at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Women who ate the fruit also ate fewer calories in general. So next time you need to satisfy a sweet tooth, take these fruits low in calories, high in fiber (read also our article “9 tips to reduce sugar consumption). You’ll feel satisfied longer and eat less.

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