Saturday, November 6, 2010
Foods To Reduce Tummy Fat
Diet and exercise are essential when working to lose tummy fat. Making the proper food choices is often a large part of the process. Becoming informed or reminded of certain foods to reduce tummy fat can help you change your eating habits. Below are some foods which you should incorporate into your daily eating plan.
Try adding more fiber to your diet. Fiber is difficult to digest and passes through the digestive tract slowly. A slower digestion has been shown to balance sugar levels and reduce fatigue. It also makes you feel more full and for longer periods of time.
Good sources of fiber are legumes such as peas and beans, vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. Eating oatmeal in the mornings is an excellent way to incorporate fiber into you diet. It helps lower cholesterol and makes you feel full until lunchtime. The complex carbohydrates it provides are slower to digest which are more beneficial than some of the refined sugars in many breakfast cereals. Also consider cooking oatmeal with skim milk instead water. Calcium has been shown to aid in weight loss thereby reducing tummy fat.
Increased levels of Vitamin C have been shown to help with fat oxidation and metabolism to help reduce tummy fat.. Unfortunately, the body has a difficult time storing this Vitamin but there are many foods you can incorporate into your diet.
Consider eating more berries such as strawberries, blueberries, goji and acai berries. They contain good levels of Vitamin C and as an added benefit they provide antioxidants which help reduce free radicals and promote increases in metabolism. Apples and grapefruits are also excellent choices because they contain less calories than other fruits while providing goods sources of Vitamin C. If you don't like these fruits then perhaps you may enjoy eating more tomatoes, which happens to be a fruit as well.
Stay clear and refrain from drinking fruit juices. They are often packed with sugar and many are not 100% juice. Fruits are excellent foods to reduce tummy fat because they also ensure you receive some added fiber in your diet.
Eating lean white meat such as chicken, turkey, and certain fish provide excellent sources of protein and help build lean muscle. Increased lean muscle mass helps maintain elevated metabolic levels. As we age, we begin to lose lean muscle and this becomes more especially important. Consider steaming, grilling, baking, or poaching instead of frying when cooking these foods.
Look up additional meals and recipes to incorporate these foods to reduce tummy fat. By making healthier foods choices you can increase your metabolism, stay healthy, and promote your weight loss goals.
Try adding more fiber to your diet. Fiber is difficult to digest and passes through the digestive tract slowly. A slower digestion has been shown to balance sugar levels and reduce fatigue. It also makes you feel more full and for longer periods of time.
Good sources of fiber are legumes such as peas and beans, vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. Eating oatmeal in the mornings is an excellent way to incorporate fiber into you diet. It helps lower cholesterol and makes you feel full until lunchtime. The complex carbohydrates it provides are slower to digest which are more beneficial than some of the refined sugars in many breakfast cereals. Also consider cooking oatmeal with skim milk instead water. Calcium has been shown to aid in weight loss thereby reducing tummy fat.
Increased levels of Vitamin C have been shown to help with fat oxidation and metabolism to help reduce tummy fat.. Unfortunately, the body has a difficult time storing this Vitamin but there are many foods you can incorporate into your diet.
Consider eating more berries such as strawberries, blueberries, goji and acai berries. They contain good levels of Vitamin C and as an added benefit they provide antioxidants which help reduce free radicals and promote increases in metabolism. Apples and grapefruits are also excellent choices because they contain less calories than other fruits while providing goods sources of Vitamin C. If you don't like these fruits then perhaps you may enjoy eating more tomatoes, which happens to be a fruit as well.
Stay clear and refrain from drinking fruit juices. They are often packed with sugar and many are not 100% juice. Fruits are excellent foods to reduce tummy fat because they also ensure you receive some added fiber in your diet.
Eating lean white meat such as chicken, turkey, and certain fish provide excellent sources of protein and help build lean muscle. Increased lean muscle mass helps maintain elevated metabolic levels. As we age, we begin to lose lean muscle and this becomes more especially important. Consider steaming, grilling, baking, or poaching instead of frying when cooking these foods.
Look up additional meals and recipes to incorporate these foods to reduce tummy fat. By making healthier foods choices you can increase your metabolism, stay healthy, and promote your weight loss goals.
Friday, November 5, 2010
Hop on a Bike For Fitness
This is what I do often.
Riding a bike!! This term used to be such a peaceful term for most of us!! It comes from our childhood where a bike was basically a toy rather than a transportation mode!! Eventually, it became our way of moving around as a child until we reached the age where it wasn’t cool!! There went the bike!! Sometimes when we went to university it came back as our transportation vehicle primarily because of economics!!! After we graduated, there went the bike again until we started a family and went out on peaceful family bike rides with a child seat on the back!!! Talk about full circle!!
Here’s your next step and millions are taking it up and for good reason!! Runninghas so many positive effects for all of us but there are so many negatives such as the pounding on our joints, etc.. Biking eliminates that as an issue general although not completely!! People are biking everywhere you look!!! Cities and states are adding bike paths and lanes to promote the sport!
Bike riding is an incredibly great workout, more than just transportation, more than an environmental saving device!! It can be a fat burning machine!! You can burn as many as 500 calories in an hour of moderately hard bike riding and this is for a smaller person!! The bigger you are the more calories you will burn!!
It can become a means of transportation especially if you live close to your work!! Weather is a factor so it can’t be your only way, but consider it!! Cycling works your total body! Legs being the most obvious as they do a lot of the work but the quads, gluts and calves are projecting you along!! Any pursuit of exercise increases energy and in the long run, will reduce fatigue!! Exercise tricks your brain into energizing your whole body!!
Biking saves the joints that were deteriorating when you ran!! It puts a lot less stress on your system than running, perhaps even than walking! Your core gets lots of great work especially as your climbing up hills and you have to stand on your pedals to make it up the hill!! Your triceps get work as well stabilizing the bike!!
The main benefit from bike riding, and I mean strenuous riding, is the cardiovascular benefits you receive!! Your working your heart which offers lots of positive benefits! Hard repetitive riding on a regular basis can lower your blood pressure and their cholesterol! It’s important to achieve the most benefits from riding that you try to ride for at least 30 minutes at a sustained high speed. Find a path, trail or route that will allow that!!
Many, many benefits from bike riding as there are with lots of great exercise programs!! The key is to exercise and hop on a bike because it’s something you can enjoy while helping you!! Theenjoyment is vital in any program as I have always said because if a program is torture, you won’t stay with it!! Some might disagree but I’d love them to prove that to me!! Good luck on your two-wheeled workout program!!!!
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Excercise - November 4, 2010 5:00 PM on 11/4/20100
Situps. Light day. Legs sore from yesterday's bike ride and shoulders hurt from day before in gym.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
The Single Most Effective Type Of Diet For Losing A Lot Of Fat Fast - I Lost 25 Lbs My First Month!
Below is something I tweeted today. It's not what I did to lose my weight, just someone else's opinion. I don't think there really is a magic formula, everyone is different. What might work for you won't work for me. I'm not going to knock anyone from making money pitching how they lost weight, I just think you should be mindful of your situation.
Your body has two different types of hormones: Fat Burning and fat Storing. The type of diet for losing pounds of fat fast you choose to go on will decide which hormone is activated. If you want to know which kind of diet works best, then read on to discover the most effective type of program that had me drop an amazing 25 pounds... in my first month... permanently!
As I mentioned above, your body has fat burning hormones and fat storing hormones. If you want to avoid having your body release the fat storing ones then you MUST by all means necessary avoid fad dieting. Fad dieting such as the reduce-calories, reduce-fat, reduce-carbs, celebrity-diets, meal delivery programs, etc. are all based on unnatural diet methods that are sure to cause your body to start STORING fat instead of burning it off!
What makes the body store fat? A slow metabolism. Fad diets slow your metabolism down since the body does not recognize unnatural restricting of calories and nutrients... contrary to what those programs tell you.
Now, the most effective type of diet for losing pounds of fat fast that will skyrocket the release of fat burning hormones is a diet based on first getting 100% proper nutrition (this means ALL nutrients that the body needs), second, eating more than 3 times a day, and third, eating meals in a special pattern to trick your metabolism into STAYING elevated throughout the entire day.
Unfortunately, finding a diet such as the above is very difficult these days. Most programs that you see are nothing more than a fad. However, I recommend that you look carefully at each diet you are interested in and make sure that it is based around this method.
I'm recommending this kind of dieting because not only is it more effective for losing a lot of weight as quickly as possible and also permanently, but also because this type of dieting will improve your overall health as well. Not to mention, this is more of a lifestyle change as opposed to some "quick diet" to drop pounds.
Just remember, as with anything else related to getting in shape (exercise, sleep, drinking more water, etc.), you must stay 100% consistent with this if you expect to get amazing results. The good news is that since it is so easy to do, this way of dieting is very easy to stick to on a consistent basis.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Choosing The Best Weight Loss Diet - Here Are The 5 Types Of Diet Programs To Avoid Like The Plague!
Choosing the best weight loss diet is becoming more and more of a challenge these days! Why is that? Well, there are an array of diet programs out here based on methods that are doing nothing but making folks more unhealthy, having their metabolism slow down, and end up regaining weight they've just lost!
Most people end up settling for these crazy programs because they are "the new thing"... better known as a "fad diet". I wound up going on many of those fad diet programs myself once before, and what happened with me makes me angry still to this day! I felt miserable, I regained weight, I spent a fortune, and so much more!
Listen, if you want to avoid unnatural and ineffective dieting, then place make sure you avoid the following 5 types of programs:
1.) Low-Calorie - This type of program is very difficult to stick to and very ineffective. It's hard to stick to because you are going to be hungry all day and suffer from agonizing cravings! It's ineffective because the body needs a proper amount of calories to prevent the metabolism from decreasing... otherwise, this will cause your metabolism to decrease.
2.) Low-Carb - Yes, carbs are evil! However, not all carbs are evil. The type of carbohydrate you should avoid as much as you can is the bad type (sugar). The problem with these low-carb diets is that they want you to avoid ALL types of carbs... including the good type (fiber). What happens with this type of program? Digestive problems, low energy levels, and more!
3.) Low-Fat - These types of programs want you to reduce all types of fats... including the good kind (monounsaturated and Omega Fatty Acids). Not getting enough healthy fats in your diet will not only make it very difficult to get in shape, it can also cause many other health issues as well. This is because healthy fats will not only help with metabolizing body fat, they will also improve your heart health and more!
4.) Starvation-Diet - A starvation-diet will basically be a program that is based around severely lowering your calorie intake (such as eating just one meal a day). My friend, I can not stress enough how much you should avoid this type of program by all means necessary.
5.) SUPER Fad-Diet - What's a "super" fad diet? Well, this type of program basically is something that usually is Hollywood sponsored such as eating nothing but grapefruits all day, eating banana's all day, drinking nothing but "special lemonade", etc. Those kinds of programs are based on a "quick fix" and not a long-term healthy solution. Consequently, these programs will certainly cause ping-pong weight loss and you can definitely count on being miserable with these types of diets (excessive hunger pangs, cravings, extremely low energy levels, and more).
Monday, November 1, 2010
New Beginnings
Today starts what I consider New Beginnings! Last month was a test, this month is reality. I'm in it to win it. Follow me.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Last Supper!
That's what I call the last time I eat "The Last Supper"! Today I will eat all the stuff I'm trying to give up starting tomorrow. If you know me, you know I'm always on a diet on the 1st! Follow me and see how I make out.
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