Take healthy food to lose weight

Well if you ask me one of the best ways to lost weight is actually controlling your diet. Of course I am not asking you to stop eating completely but watch what you eat. Restricting yourself too much in terms of food intake can be more detrimental then beneficial. That is why i would advise you to try taking more healthy foods. By this I mean good healthy food like fruits and vegetables and I am definitely not talking about junk food or oily food or anything that screams totally bad to the human body. I know healthy food usually tastes bad but no pain no gain right? So keep it up folks….

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Supervisor Training~ 29 Jan 2010, JB

I just realized it’s about time I share with everyone the great results our products had on Xuan Wei thus far!!

“After being on Herbalife nutritional programme for 4 months, I’ve actually lost 4% body fat, gained 3% muscle mass and shaped up 10 inches! 3 years ago, I was on medication for 9 months to regulate my periods. After stopping the medication, the problem was still not solved. But since I started taking Herbalife cellular nutrition, my condition of irregular menses of 10 years has been improved! Amazing! What’s more, I’m enjoying greater vitality and energy too! =) ” ~ Xuan Wei

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My Diet Diary

day 13

no breakfast

for lunch 1/4 grilled chicken sandwich Oo chicken and chilada soup

with ice tea half liter of water

i exercise for 30 mints today

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Thinking about a crash diet..? Think again.

There isn’t a magic pill for quick weight loss, so to lose weight, you must exercise and watch what your eat. Many turn to fad diets, but the results are often fleeting. The best type of weight loss plan is one that it teaches you to make lifestyle changes towards healthful eating and an active lifestyle, and not to attempt to shed pounds overnight.

 Quick weight loss can have a number of effects on the body. 

Weight Gain:

Weight gain is an unfortunate effect of quick weight loss. It might sound odd, but after the “miracle diet” is over and you resume regular eating and exercise patterns, the weight will come back on faster than it came off. Yo-yo dieting is a cycle when dieters end up heavier than they were before they started one or more quick weight loss diets. It is a wiser choice to eat healthfully, count calories, exercise regularly and responsibly, and to lose no more than 1 pound per week.

Sagging Skin and Stretch Marks:

 The skin only has so much elasticity (and this decreases with age) so weight gain and weight loss usually result in both sagging skin and stretch marks. The quicker the gain or loss, the greater the effect on the skin.

Fatigue:

 Fatigue of the muscles and overall mental and physical exhaustion are side effects from quick weight loss diets that restrict calories and don’t encourage a balanced diet. Many diets focus on what you eat but not what you do. Nutritionist Kimberly Snyder does not suggest skipping meals, but encourages dieters to have a “green smoothie” as a meal replacement. The smoothie will provide valuable nutrients for dieters in addition to cleansing and detoxifying the body. A regular exercise program not only burns calories but also increases resting metabolism and boosts energy.

Reduction in Metabolic Rate:

 The body has amazing ways of protecting itself. If you suddenly reduce your caloric intake, your metabolic rate will also slow itself down as your body slips into conservation mode. This is why some people lose a lot of weight quickly, but then, even though they are still eating the same greatly reduced amount of calories, their weight loss stalls and they are unable to lose another pound unless they drop their caloric intake again or amp up their exercise program.

Gallstones:

 Quick weight loss can add stress to organs such as the heart, liver and stomach, but gallstones have been specifically linked to both obesity and rapid weight loss. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as many as 20 million Americans have gallstones. Gallstones can be painful (symptomatic gallstones) or they may cause no pain at all (silent gallstones). Silent gallstones are often the result of a very low-calorie diet (VLCD) or from recurrent weigh loss of gain of more than 10 lbs. Silent gallstones are most likely the result of the constant change in the balance of bile salts and cholesterol. Bile salts are responsible for breaking down fat, and bile breaks down cholesterol. Gallstones form out of excess fats and cholesterol when bile and bile salt production is hindered.

Positive Effects:

 There are other positive effects, in addition to boosting self-image with a slimmer physique, but these are usually attributed to responsible weight loss and not to quick weight loss. When your body is at a healthy weight for your height and frame, there is less stress on the heart, lungs and joints and you are less at risk for many disorders and diseases that result from being overweight and inactive.

Think about it.

Rachel Benton & Associates

Personal Training, Bedford UK

info@rachelbenton.co.uk

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Using Exercise To Speed up Your Metabolism

Common Exercise And Training Excuses

Exercise and training programs can take some motivation and effort in order to make into a habit. And building such a habit out of exercising can be pretty difficult especially if you see it as just some other task that needs to be done. Looking at a fitness program this way can easily make one give up trying just before one has really started. And in the course of the situation, excuses can be made not to exercise anymore.

The Hating Exercise Excuse One of the most common excuses people make by not exercising is that they simply hate doing it. But exercise is simply not just those things that you hate to do on a regular basis. Exercise can be any fitness regimen that can range from the usual calisthenics to more enjoyable sporting activities.

There are certainly different forms of exercise and fitness programs that people would like. It helps to match up a kind of physical activity to one’s own personality. For those who like the outdoors, going on a hike or biking around would be a worthwhile fitness activity. For those who like it simple, home fitness training or just simply walking on a regular basis would do just as well.

The No Motivation Excuse Doing exercises for some time now can really leave you feeling tired and stressed just as easily. Not having the right motivation can eventually make you feel bored with your workouts and keep doing them on a regular basis. And with boredom for company, it can be really hard to keep going. And hence, no motivation to do the exercise program regularly becomes the excuse.

In order to fight off boredom, it may be good to change your exercise routine every 4 to 6 weeks. Changes can mean trying out something new or just trying to change the intensity or duration of your exercises for variation. It is also important to remind yourself of your fitness goals and try to keep track of them. Rewarding yourself for a job well done can also be very effective to prevent becoming an unmotivated and bored fitness buff, if there is such a thing.

The Can’t Afford Gym Membership Excuse Some people believe that the only way to stay fit is by going to the gym. And just because they can’t afford the membership into one gives them reason enough not to exercise. This can be quite a foolish excuse not to keep fit and exercise.

Getting fit does not necessarily require that one needs to go to the gym regularly. Getting fit is not always becoming a gym member. A fitness regimen can be done just about anywhere. What can be important is by always trying to get the body to become physically active by giving it quite a regular workout. And there are many ways that this can be done. It can be as easy as just walking around the block everyday. You can also purchase exercise and training videos for guidance. Putting them in the player and doing the exercises is something that you can do at home without ever having to spend your money for a gym membership to stay fit.

Start increasing your metabolism and losing weight today…

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carbohydrates, fats, and protein: make sure you are getting enough for your body.

Healthy Carb, Fat and Protein Ranges The Numbers You Need to Know – By Becky Hand, Licensed & Registered Dietitian

Based on years of research that examined the relationship between nutrient intake and disease prevention, generally-accepted ranges have been established for carbohydrates, fat and protein intake. These healthy ranges also help to ensure that a person is getting a sufficient intake of other essential nutrients, vitamins, and minerals. The recommendations are:

• 45% to 65% of calories eaten should come from carbohydrates.
• 20% to 35% of calories eaten should come from fat.
• 10% to 35% of calories eaten should come from protein*.

The SparkDiet takes a middle-of-the-road approach with these ranges. Our specific breakdown is approximately 50% carbohydrates, 20% fat and 30% protein, all of which fall into the healthy ranges above. *Because our members are striving to meet weight loss goals through calorie restriction, we also recommend a minimum level of protein—at least 60 grams daily for females and 75 grams daily for males. This requirement will help prevent muscle loss and promote feelings of fullness among dieters. Both your Nutrition Tracker and the chart below reflect this recommendation.

Your intake of carbohydrates, fat and protein may be somewhat higher or lower than the SparkDiet recommendations, due to your taste preferences, cooking style, culture, fitness routine, health conditions and day-to-day changes in diet. Does that mean that your intake is bad or dangerous? No!

Do your best to meet at least the minimum recommendations for calories, carbohydrates, fat and protein as outlined on your Nutrition Tracker. The table below converts these percentages into grams needed each day based on calorie intake:

Nutrient Carbohydrates Fat Protein (Women) Protein (Men) Healthy Range 45%-65% 20%-35% 10%-35% 10%-35% 1200 calories 135-195 g 27-47 g *60-105 g N/A 1500 calories 169-244 g 33-58 g *60-131 g *75-131 g 1800 calories 203-293 g 40-70 g *60-158 g *75-158 g 2100 calories 236-341 g 47-82 g *60-184 g *75-184 g 2400 calories 270-390 g 53-93 g *60-210 g *75-210 g

Monitor your diet in these ways:

• Eat a healthy, nutrient-packed diet.
• Watch your calories daily and try to keep them in your recommended range.
• Check your carbohydrate, fat and protein intake based on your SparkDiet recommendations. As long as they fall in the healthy range listed on this chart above, you will be meeting your nutrient needs.
• Choose whole grain carbohydrates like brown rice, whole wheat bread and pasta, oats, and avoid refined carbohydrates like white rice and white bread.
• Choose heart-healthy fats and avoid trans fats found in processed foods.
• Choose high-quality protein sources such as lean meats and plant-based proteins instead of fattier cuts of meat.

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Top Ten Tips To Natural Weight Loss

If you are like most people, you want a quick summary of what you should do to lose weight. We Americans are programmed for “instant gratification”. Unfortunately, since it took years to gain your current weight, it will take at least weeks and months to loss that weight. So set some realistic expectations. But to satisfy your need for “what can I do right now”, in as few words as possible, I have compiled a top ten things to do to start your weight loss program.
1. First, adopt healthier eating habits. You can use natural low calorie seasonings such as scallions, peppers and onions to enhance the taste of your food. I try to use spicier things, like jalapenos to substitute for the fat and butter tastes. This is proven for long term health and fat maintenance, and masks the overall diet. A good rule of thumb is…if it looks like it has lots of calories, it darn well does!
2. When preparing chicken, pork or meat, trim off the fat, or remove the skin in the case of chicken.
3. People tend to be more dedicated when they know they need to report their results with someone. Find someone to exercise with, a friend or even someone on a diet. Share your goals! Doing things like dieting and exercising with a buddy creates the common goal attitude.
4. Write down what you eat and I mean everything you eat. You’d be surprised at how many extra things you are eating when you start to see your total intake on paper. Plan ahead with your food intake and simply don’t eat anything not on your plan.
5. If you must fry things, use a non-fat cooking spray. The difference in these two products is almost 10 fold in calories.
6. Don’t ever give up! Take pride in your ability to stand alone in the decision of what you put in your mouth. Change your lifestyle. Adapt to those around you, but do it positively. Don’t let someone take you off your game. You can only fail if you quit. Nothing can take the place of dogged persistence! Not intelligence, not talent, and certainly not Cheetos!
7. Blend in exercise with reduced calorie consumption. Start exercising slowly and build up. Remember that exercise cannot remove the need to watch your intake completely. There was a time when I was running 60 miles a week where I was eating anything and everything I wanted, but that level of exercise is very hard to build up to that level, and even harder to maintain. Aerobic exercise burns fat! Find the heart rate for you that optimizes fat burning. As you lose weight, your exercises become easier and you can extend the duration. The duration of an exercise is more important than the intensity of the exercise when you are trying to burn fat.
8. Alas, cut back on alcohol intake. As my doctor said (and I hated him for it), those are empty calories. Sure doc, but they help with the post work day relaxation. If you really want a drink, have a glass of red wine, which has several known anti-aging and other positive health attributes.
9. Do not weigh yourself every day. Fluctuations in fluid levels will cause short term ups and downs, and make you feel like you failed when you are really sticking to your diet. Weigh yourself once a week at the beginning, and less frequently as time goes on. This is a marathon, not a sprint!
10. The real key to losing weight is consistency. If you mess up one day, climb back on the horse and get back with your program. One bad meal, or even one bad day isn’t reason to quit your overall goal.

If you want more depth on Weight Loss and Fitness…..check out Your Fittest Year

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Rick - Day 16

Hello all!!

Day 16 is over and done.  Things are still going well.  I really have to show Melanie how to post on here!!   Anyway, I’ve added exercise into the regime.  One thing that I know, for me, if exercise has become a chore, it won’t get done.  This is one reason why I really don’t care for the gym.  It cuts into my family time and I hate sharing my time with people while I wait for them to finish their exercises on the equipment that I want to use.  I’m convinced that I can get into shape fairly decently doing various exercises at home and I can do them with my family, so it’s a win-win situation for all!

Food

• Toast with margarine – 4
• 1/2 Banana – 1
• Coffee (Double Double) – 4
• 2 slices of Roast Beef – 6
• Salad with spritzer dressing – 0
• Pear – 1
• 1 Vietnamese Spring Roll – 2
• 2 Salad Rolls – 4
• Rice Vermicilli (no meat because Carter ate it all….lol!) – 6

Exercise

• 45 Minutes of Dance Dance Revolution on the Wii – +4 points

I highly recommend this game because you really get a good cardio work out.  I’m not sold on the Wii Fit because I don’t feel that I get near the workout I do with DDR.  Another great Wii game that gets the heart pumping is Outdoor Extreme Challenge.  There’s lots of running in place and jumping.  One of the best parts of these games is that I can play them with my family!

Supplements

• Nutrilite Daily Multi-vitamin (more stuff and cheaper than Centrum).  I ran out of the Mens-Daily pack and had a bottle of the multi which is part of the pack anyway.
• Nutrilite Anti-oxidant squeeze tube
• Hydroxycut Green Tea

Mentally, I’m pretty focused.  I’m staying busy and not focusing so much as I used to on being hungry or feeling like I need to be eating.  I find that I’m staying fuller longer after my meal.  Plus, eating more fruit and veggies are pretty good at filling me up more.  There are times where I can’t handle them and have to have a granola bar or something different but I am surviving.

Keep fighting the fight and let me know if we can help.

Rick

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7 Fat Habits

The journal Obesity did a study on eating habits at an all-u-can-eat buffet and came up with 7 habits of obese people.  Here they are:

1. They choose bigger plates and bigger cups over smaller ones.
2. They ate while looking at the buffet (i.e. more food).
3. They eat with efficiency and chose not to use chopsticks.  They would eat fast.
4. They cleaned their plates.
5. They chewed less before swallowing.
6. They didn’t look over the buffet before dishing up – instead they started loading up from the get-go where as lean people scouted out the buffet and picked their top-fav dishes.
7. They skipped breakfast.

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Apology From LA Weight Loss ex-counselor

I took great pride in my work as a counselor and center manager for LA Weight Loss.  Waking up every morning feeling empowered, knowing that “I” was going to help someone get slim and healthy each day!

Then I learned the truth about LA Weight Loss.    Almost everything they taught me was bogus!

The training I received was mostly guerilla sales techniques.   In training class we were taught to lie to clients!   The trainer made us practice quoting bogus phrases to each other; such as:

“The LA Lites nutrition bars have secret  ingredients that will firm your skin during weight loss”

“Buy all of the supplements and you will lose one extra pound every week”

When I asked if these statements were true, the trainer said  ”No, but you want to earn commissions don’t you?”

The worst thing they made us rehearse was “How to make a client cry during a sales presentation”   Claiming “If they cry, they will buy!”   We were forced to ask personal questions to dig and find what the potential client’s breaking point was—-what brought them there today.     They knew the client was already vulnerable just for showing up, and coaxed them into releasing their private thoughts in order to use them against them in vicious sales techniques.    We were taught to then loudly emphasize the phrases that the client choked out.   The trainer demonstrated by loudly yelling:  “YOUR HUSBAND CALLED YOU A FAT PIG?”  while explaining that this will make her cry, and instantly open her wallet.  Then they charted this phrase, to make her cry again months later when they wanted to sell her additional products!

Have you ever read the nutrition label on the so-called nutrition bars they sold?   They are so hydrogenated that they do not need an expiration date!   They could be 20 years old for all you know.   But they were cheap to make, and made huge profits.

I want to apologize to everyone that was hurt financially and otherwise by LA Weight Loss.  As much as I took pride in helping people, I will also take my share of the blame for being an employee there.   I should have resigned as soon as I realized clients were being cheated, but I was recently divorced and raising a neurologically impaired five-year-old on my own, needing the employment.

However, I found a way to turn the bad into good.  Each client I have ever helped over the years, taught me something unique and different during their personal weight loss journey.    You could never learn this stuff in any text book—-well not until now anyway!

I have developed an “honest” weight loss system, where I improved the weight loss plan, and share all of my unique personal tips and motivations derived from years of experience, and made it affordable for everyone in a book.   The book is titled “Counselors Weight Loss Program” and is available in both paperback and kindle format on Amazon.com,  link:      http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=counselors+weight+loss

The PDF format ebook is available on ebay:  link:   http://tinyurl.com/yh5qtdf

“Here’s to a Healthy & Happy 2010!”    I hope those who enjoy my book will keep in touch along their journey.

Taralyn

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Lose Some Weight...With Taco Bell?

When I think of Taco Bell, I think of the time I got really drunk and woke up with a chicken soft taco in my bed. And then ate it for breakfast.

I think about their sweet, delicious churros. And how everything there is smothered in ooey, gooey delicious processed cheese. Then topped with sour cream. I think about how I learned my first Spanish phrase from their little spokes-dog.

What I don’t think about is diet or weight loss. I mean, it’s Taco Bell – who would?

Well, someone did. 

Apparently some lady with a deep love for burritos lost 50 pounds eating Taco Bell (from the drive-thru – homegirl couldn’t even get out of the car). And now, thanks to her tremendous success, the head honchos over at Taco Bell HQ are trying to make us all think about Taco Bell in a new way. As in a healthy-after-workout option and not in a only-when-you’re-black-out-drunk sorta way.

I don’t know about you, but I just don’t buy it. I want to lose my muffin top (which has made its way to Costco-size) just as much as the next girl who spent her first three days of 2010 eating some variation of noodles and cheese, but at Taco Bell? Let’s be honest – any weight lost  “thinking outside the bun” will be lost on the toilet. I know you know what I’m talkin’ about. And I know for a fact that’s not the way any of us want to spend our 2010.

I applaud Taco Bell for their attempts to introduce vegetables to their loyal Gordita-guzzling patrons, but pushing the Fresco Fourth Meal as a weight loss option? That’s just insulting.

Stick to what you’re good at, Taco Bell: low grade meat smothered in fake cheese and gobbled up by drunk people who’ve long abandoned their dreams of weight loss.

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Make your 2010 resolution a 2010 REVOLUTION! This is the year you WILL make a change!

Hey guys! I haven’t disappeared totally but life has been UPSIDE DOWN! YIKES :O:O I have just now begun to recuperate from the holidays (well, at least the last 2 weeks of them!) I was doing really well with CE, not dropping this weight but at least seeing the scale stay the same and toning up and then…

Anyway, it looks like we might be a couple steps closer to finding out what is going on with me. I’ve been being my own advocate (like everyone recommends) and doing my own research. It appears it’s as simple as perimenopause?!?!?! Or at least similar. It may be as simple as an excess of estrogen or defenciency of progesterone. Anyway, I have a follow up with the gyno next week so hopefully we’ll get some answers then because this is getting old.

My husband is happy that the girls have returned however LOL!:D:)

Anyway, the main reason I wanted to post tonight on here was because I wanted to let you guys know that I started a new thread. This one has nearly 2000 posts and is taking a long time to navigate. So let’s start our new decade with a new “Revolution” thread!

[url=http://teambeachbody.com/connect/message-boards/-/message_boards/message/39013483?_19_delta=20&_19_keywords=&_19_advancedSearch=false&_19_andOperator=true&cur=92]Make your “resolution” a 2010 REVOLUTION…[/url]

So that’s where I’ll be doing all my posting from now on…all in one place! Head over and let’s start decorating the walls!

Tina

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