If you have never failed, You have never lived!

How many times have you read it? “I tried everything and nothing worked.”

How many times have you said it?  Me too.

It’s true, people try “everything”, even silly and dangerous things to lose weight, but often times they fail. For all of you that have failed here’s a link you have to follow . It will make you feel better and will help you to succeed next time.

I promise! http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2008/05/18/if-youve-never-failed-youve-never-lived/

Also please visit www.cleansemyself.com to find out what finally worked for me.

Dear Diary

May 27, 2009

Dear Diary,

I weighed myself this morning after breakfast and I was at 161lbs.  So happy.  Work it paying off!  It was cold and rainy so I didn’t bike.  I almost slept in.  I ran out of oatmeal so just had scrambled eggs, berries and coffee.  I had my veggies for snacks and roast beef for lunch.  A coworker brought in cookies and made me take one at like 8am!  I had a few bites but decided it wasn’t good and threw it out.  NOT like my usual self.  I had my protein shake when I got home and will have an omelette with peppers and onions, and asparagus for dinner.

I did take the stairs 7 times today.  They are wearing me out but in a good way.  Ass and calved hurt by the 6th and 7th time up the stairs but it’s the good burn.  Also my calves are looking pretty good.  The calf raises with heavy weight and high reps have helped.  They are “endurance” muscles and require lots of training.  I did go do the gym and routine is below. 

All in all, a good day!

How much protein after a workout for muscle growth?

I read a while ago in some magazine that the body needs only about 20g of protein after a workout to aid in muscle growth/repair.  I told my bf who I think didn’t quite believe me until he read it in Men’s Health today.  Men’s Health is his bible…until it’s in MH, it’s not the truth.  Anyways, in the latest issue he read it and passed it on to me.  Page 42 of the June issue of the Canadian Edition of Men’s Health: “Canadian researchers have found that just 20 grams of protein following your workout is enough to speed muscle growth.  While more protein didn’t do harm, it didn’t provide any further benefit to the participants’ muscles”.

This is interesting because most protein powders say to use 2 scoops which equal about 30-40 grams of protein.  Now you can use just one scoop, get the same benefits and the (expensive) powder lasts twice as long.

By the way, I turned my bf onto Men’s Health because it’s such a good magazine.  I used to read my brother’s when we were roommates.  So guys, check out Men’s Health.  Ladies, buy your own or buy your partner a subscription.

Men’s Health: http://www.menshealth.com/cda/homepage.do

3 Steps to Burn the Fat, Lose Weight and Gain That Killer Body

Losing weight is something that many people are trying to do and whether they are sweating in the gym running circles around the park or eating that last celery stick for the day, they are involved in many methods that they think are helping them to burn the fat. However, what most people must know is that they have been doing the wrong thing for a long time and it is just because of that they are still fat and have not lost much weight, or everything they have lost, they have put back on.

We will disucss three of the greatest mistakes that people always make and set them right for the combination for effective weight loss and insane metabolism. The first thing that most people think to do when trying to lose weight is to actually eat less, and some of them try the crash diet, which means starving themselves and the body.

This is actually the worst thing to do because not only do they slow down the metabolism by doing this; they also prepare the body to just gain back the weight in a few months. Indeed, dieting the incorrectly will only make yourself more and more sluggish and cause your body to start transforming everything into fat. What you need to be doing is to increase the amount of meals that you are eating daily, meals that contain good protein, good healthy carbs, fibres and vitamins.

These meals should be equal in size, about half of a standard meal, and eaten about 5 6 times a day. By doing this, you will be able to fully exploit your body’s potential to burn fat and hence increase your metabolism rate. Another misconceived myth is running everyday. People go through their running routine daily and expect themselves to lose weight. This is wrong. Running is bad on the knees and after a while your body will get used to this, and the fat will stop burning. You need to have more variety in your exercise and include a muscle building exercise routine. Lean muscles help to burn fat, because the muscle consumes fat and calories in order to work. The more lean muscle you have, the more fat you burn.

Toss up your cardio routine and you will find yourself breaking through the plateaus and making large gains. The last mistake that people are making is they are not consuming enough vitamins and minerals, especially protein to form muscle and lose fat. According to the greats out there, you should burn the fat and feed the muscle! This means a quality nutrition programme that is more than 70% of your whole weight loss programme. With these three tips in mind, you will be able to get rid of that belly fat, burn pounds, raise your metabolism and look great! These tips will help you lose weight quickly and transform your body into what you want.

Cindy Crawford Still Looks Good

Ah, to be a supermodel.  And in the early 90s was the best era of supermodels…Cindy, Helena, Naomi, Christy… Anyways, Cindy is 43 and still looking amazing.  Back in the Pepsi ad days I wished I could grow up to look like her.  Still wishin’!

References:

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20041669_20042482_20010598,00.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1182188/Still-super-43-Cindy-Crawford-puts-killer-curves-black-bikini.html?ITO=1490

http://hotcelebrity.name/tag/cindy-crawford/

8 Sneaky Culprits which might be making you Fat

Various environmental factors, such as packaging size, portion size, and the size of your plate can influence your weight loss results. It seems like no amount of food can help us resist some of the most common hunger temptations. For example, how many times have you gone to the movies after a dine-out experience and the smell of popcorn made you go from full to hungry? Even the simplest little culprits, such as smell, can lead us to overeating and weight gain. In this article I will reveal 8 sneaky culprits which might be making you fat.

 

1. Scents. Scents can make us go from full to hungry in a matter of minutes. Sometimes we just can’t resist the smell of freshly popped popcorn or sizzling bacon. These scents lead us to overeat.
2. Distracted Eating. When we are doing something we tend to overlook the fact that we are constantly munching. Think of a dinner out with friends, do you pay attention to how many appetizers you consumed?
3. Food around every corner. Almost every stop we make, from the gas station to the office, provides some sort of food, beverage of pastry at our fingertips.
4. Convenience. Fast food joints around every corner make it easy to just pick something up rather then prepare a healthy meal at home.
5. Portion distortion. Knowing what a proper portion size is crucial to healthy nutrition.
6. Large packaging. Buying stuff in bulk leads to eating in bulk.
7. Improper dishware. Using plates that are too large is one of the easiest ways to overeat.
8. Too much variety. Avoid places such as buffets. Too much selection leads to overeating.

 

Some weight loss aids to help you along the way include all natural hoodia appetite suppressants, whey protein shakes and various herbal remedies.

The Evolution of Cardio

I’ve been meaning to write this email for a long time. Today I’m

going to give you the story of how I solved the problem of getting an efficient and effective fat loss program finished in 45 minutes. Essentially, how I invented Turbulence Training.

And then I’ll end with a sample TT workout for you…

But first, let’s take a trip down memory lane to the winter of

98-99. I was but a lowly grad student, studying the effects of

androstenedione (the supplement taken by the might Mark McGwire during his record-breaking home run quest in ‘98).

In my study (which was published in the Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology for any science nerds like myself out there), we had guys use the supplement and go through a couple of weight training sessions. By February of ‘99 I was stuck in the lab, analyzing the blood samples using some fancy radio-active isotopes.

And when I say stuck in the lab, I mean STUCK. I’d get there at

7am, and record my last data point at 11pm. Sixteen hours of

mad science. And if I wasn’t there, I was downstairs in the

medical library, studying papers on testosterone and training.

Now coming from a very athletic background, this sedentary

lifestyle didn’t sit well with me. But there I was, studing for a

degree in Exercise Physiology and left with no time for exercise.

Or so I thought.

Fortunately, I actually had a 50 minute window once per day of

“down-time” while the lab’s gamma-counter analyzed blood samples.

That left me 50 minutes to get to the gym (5 minutes across campus) and get a workout in the remaining 40 or so minutes. I knew that if I applied my studies to the workout, I could get maximum results in minimum time.

As a former athlete, I knew that I had to find a way to stay fit

and to avoid the fat gain that comes with working long hours in a

sedentary environment. And I also had to stay true to the

high-school bodybuilder I once was, so there was no way I was

willing to sacrifice my muscle to one of those long-cardio, low

protein fat-loss plans that were popular at the time.

Instead, I had to draw on my academic studies and my experiences working with athletes as the school’s Strength & Conditioning Coach.

I knew that sprint intervals were associated with more fat loss

than slow cardio, and I knew that you could also increase aerobic fitness by doing sprints (but you can’t increase sprint performance by doing aerobic training).

So clearly, intervals were (and ARE!) superior to long slow cardio.

I had seen first hand the incredible results of sprint intervals in

the summer and fall, as the athletes made huge fitness improvements and shed winter fat in a short time using my interval programs. I knew that intervals had to be the next step in the evolution of cardio.

The biggest benefit of intervals? A lot of results in a short

amount of time. I knew that I only had 40 minutes to train, and

therefore I could only spend 15-20 minutes doing intervals.

Now onto the strength training portion of the workouts. I knew that a high-volume bodybuilding program wasn’t going to cut it – I just didn’t have time. But in the past year I had read so many lifting studies, that I knew exactly what exercises I needed to do to maximize my lifting time in the gym.

Those exercises were standing, multi-muscle, movements such as squats, presses, rows, power cleans, and plenty of other standing single-leg exercises. I knew that those exercises would bring me far more results than those people sitting on machines would ever achieve.

And I also knew that I had to lift heavier than the average Joe or Jane Gym-goer lifts. I just knew that doing lighter weights and high-reps wasn’t going to cut it. And a research study from 2001 later showed that I was right – when women did 8 reps per set, they had a significantly greater increase in post-workout metabolism than if they did 15 reps per set.

So I had my plan. Bust my tail over to the gym, through the cold, dreary Canadian winter afternoon, and do a quick but thorough warmup (specific to my lifts – none of that 5 minutes on the treadmill waste of time).

Once I got through the warm-up, I did as many sets as I could in the remainder of the 20 minutes for strength training.

At that point, I knew that supersets were the only way to go if I

wanted to maximize the number of sets I could do…so the

non-competing superset of Turbulence Training was put in place.

By non-competing, I mean that the 2 exercises in the superset don’t interfere with one another. So you can use upper and lower body exercises together, or pushing and pulling exercises. Just be careful not to use two grip-intensive exercises together in a superset – otherwise, one exercise will suffer, if not both.

And then I followed up the strength training with intervals, as I

knew these had to follow the lifting, otherwise it would not be the correct exercise order. Remember, intervals first leads to

premature fatigue. Lift first, cardio later. Forget that old wives

tale about doing cardio first to burn more fat. That’s junk.

You know, I remember the exact day and exact workout that this all came together into the Turbulence Training program. It hit me as I was finishing my intervals. I knew I had found something that was like fat loss magic.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a way to put it in a pill. But I’ve

been able to put it down on paper in all of the TT manuals.

The exact workout I used that day went like this…

Warm-up

1 set of Bodyweight Squats

1 set of pushups

1 set of Squats with the empty bar

1 set of light dumbbell chest presses

1 set of moderate weight barbell squats

1 set of moderate weight dumbbell chest presses

Strength Training Superset #1

Barbell Squats paired with Dumbbell Chest Presses

3 supersets, aiming for 8 reps per side per set

Strength Training Superset #2

DB Rows paired with Barbell Forward Lunges

3 supersets, aiming for 8 reps per set

Stationary Bike Intervals

After a warmup, I did 6 intervals of 45 seconds work and 45 seconds rest, finishing with a cool-down.

And from that point in time, I’ve tried to share this and all the

other Turbulence Training workouts with as many men and women as possible. The same men and women that I would see day-in and day-out performing the same ineffective slow-cardio fat loss programs, and not making a darn change month after month. And every day they would see me, soaked in sweat, feeling great and looking lean, and finishing another TT workout.

Eventually I noticed these other men and women weren’t around as consistently as before, and then soon enough they would drop out completely – after all, they weren’t getting results with their slow cardio and aerobics classes (yep, those were still around in ‘99!).

And so here we are today…thousands of TT users later, with

national fitness magazines like Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, and

Shape spreading the good word about Turbulence Training.

Thousands of TT users, dozens of personal trainers, and even

several national fitness magazines all agree with me, Turbulence

Training is the #1 way to fast fat loss.

Thanks for being a part of the TT Lifestyle Revolution, and for

sharing this new and improved fat loss training and cardio system with the world.

So when you see someone frustrated with their ineffective fat loss program, tell them there is a better way. It’s research-based, efficient, and most of all, effective. And yes, it goes against the crowd. But it works.

And it’s now better than ever,

Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS

Author, Turbulence Training

PS – Don’t know where to start?

If you are a beginner, start by reading Dr. Mohr’s nutrition

guidelines…eating properly will be the biggest factor in your

early success.

Beginners should also start with the Introductory TT workouts to prepare their muscles for the upcoming intense training.

For others, it’s best to start with the Intermediate Level TT

workouts. If those aren’t enough of a challenge, you can move onto the Original TT workout and follow the 16-week advanced program right through.

If at any time you need a break, try the TT Bodyweight 4-week plan.

And then finish off with the bonus programs to cap off a full 24 weeks of Advanced TT fat loss workouts.

Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS

Author of, Turbulence Training for Fat Loss

Different types of effective weight loss

Whilst some weight loss programs are willing to make you believe that the only route to effective weight loss is through endless hours at the gym, or by cutting out all fat or carbohydrates from your diet, there are in fact other ways to lose weight.

Methods that are in fact natural and easy to incorporate into your every day lifestyle: fat binders.

Now before you jump the gun, and state that weight loss supplements do not work, just listen to this point for a moment.

Yes it may be true that there are hundreds of weight loss supplements on the market, that have got no backing or clinical trials to prove they are the genuine article. But if you look a little closer you will find that this is not completely the case.

It is just a matter of learning how to find the real deals whilst keeping a conscious view of all the others tips available.

Take the Telegraph’s recent article discussing their top 5 recommended ways for losing weight in 2008.

In this one article they touched all the different bases that you can consider:

• Eat 6 times a day – in other words, monitor what you eat. By breaking breakfast, lunch and dinner into 6 smaller meals you can prevent snacking and keep your body’s metabolism high.

• Fat binders – now we know fat binders are commonly found in weight loss supplements, but compared to chemically enriched supplements that affect the nervous system, fat binders are 100% natural. All they do is work to make 28% of your fat indigestible in your digestive tract, whilst also being effective appetite suppressants. And one clear example the Telegraph gave of a real and credible fat binder was natural weight loss supplement Proactol.

Visit Proactol.com and offer your body a natural solution to weight loss – Click here

• Online support – as the Telegraph proves not all effective weight loss is about taking a supplement or exercise. Surrounding yourself with a strong support network can give you the confidence to keep pursuing your weight loss goals whilst helping you to keep it off. Many online weight loss supplements can provide you with that network. On Proactol.com for example consumers can benefit from advice and tips from their online discussion forum whilst having access to a 27/7 support team.

• Eat Breakfast – sometimes losing weight doesn’t even have to involve changing your diet, as the Telegraph proves. By simply ensuring you eat a healthy breakfast every morning you can set your metabolism up for the rest of the day, and keep it burning fast.

• Realistic exercise plan- exercise and weight loss can often come hand in hand in terms of successful weight loss, but one of the most common mistakes people make is setting themselves unrealistic targets which they cannot keep up. The best way is to build up your fitness levels beginning with a 10 minute walk until you are able to take on more.

So as the Telegraph’s clearly points out there are numerous other alternatives that you can choose from to ensure that you experience natural easy weight loss. Food, exercise, support groups or natural weight loss supplements, each and every one of these can make your journey to successful weight loss, easy, fun and accessible.

Top 5 Fat Loss Tips

Men’s Fitness magazine recently asked me for 3 of my best fat loss secrets. Since most times the magazines just don’t have enough space to run my full tips, I thought I’d give you a more detailed explanation of my secrets here (plus a few extra bonus tips that I didn’t send to the magazine).

Secret #1 – Focus on burning carbohydrate, not fat, during your

fat-loss workouts.

Sounds backwards, right? But not when you look at how I structure my workouts. Remember that Turbulence Training focuses on resistance training and interval training. Both of these use carbohydrate as the main source of energy. So it’s obvious the workout is designed to burn carbohydrates during the training session.

I have no interest in you trying to train in your “target heart

rate zone” for fat burning (aka – the fat burning zone). The whole idea of a fat-burning zone is an over-simplified idea of how the body works during exercise.

Leave the inefficient fat burning zone to the mis-educated

trainers in the commercial gyms (that not surprisingly, also want to sell you a heart rate monitor so you can stay in your “fat

burning heart rate zone”).

If you want to get the most results in the least amount of time,

focus on burning carbohydrates, not fat.

Why do my fat loss workouts focus on burning carbohydrate rather than fat? In order to burn more calories after the workout, that’s why. When you exercise with intervals and heavy resistance training, your body uses more calories in the hours after exercise than it would if you did traditional cardio and lifted lighter weights.

Alwyn Cosgrove calls this ‘afterburn’, and I call it ‘Turbulence’.

By any name it gives you the same results – maximum

improvements in your body composition (helping you lose fat while gaining muscle).

Secret #2 – Use a range of repetitions in your strength training

workouts.

In order to train more muscle fibers and burn more carbohydrates, I have clients use a range of repetitions within the same workout. My workouts now use 6, 8, and 12 reps per set in order to work the muscle the most effectively.

This will burn more carbohydrates and promote as much muscle growth as possible when you are keeping the calories low.

Secret #3 – Use the stationary cycle for interval training.

I choose the stationary bike for intervals whenever possible

because cycling against a resistance can help maintain muscle mass.

Cycling against a resistance also allows you to perform a large

amount of mechanical work, and that is a key determinant of the Turbulence in my training.

But please note: I don’t use low-intensity, fast pedaling

’spinning’ intervals as I’m convinced that the hard, resistance

based intervals are more effective for fat loss. My clients only

cycle against a strong resistance in their intervals.

I really like the bike, but there are many other ways to do

intervals. Use what works for you, but if you are at a plateau, try the bike.

Secret #4 – Increase meal frequency

Okay, so this isn’t really a secret to anyone that has read about

fat loss. But a 2005 study from the American Journal of Clinical

Nutrition showed that eating 6 times per day was associated with eating fewer calories per day, lowering cholesterol levels, and lowering post-meal insulin levels.

Combine an increased meal frequency with an increased protein and fiber intake, and you’ll see your body composition improve rapidly.

If you need more nutrition help, then you’ll love the new

Turbulence Training Nutrition Guide for Men & Women – written by Dr. Chris Mohr, Ph.D.

See below for more details…

Secret #5 – My Synergistic Turbulence Training Workouts

My Turbulence Training Fat Loss workouts are fast becoming the most effective way to burn fat, build muscle, and get lean. The synergistic strength training-interval training workouts are

efficient and effective – getting you in and out of the gym in

under an hour.

Here are some tips that you can use for an advanced training phase

- use these tips for 2 weeks then return to your normal training

schedule:

a) Add 10 seconds to each interval but maintain the intensity

b) Add in some bodyweight circuits (10-20 minutes per day) done in the morning or evening (if you do your regular workout in the AM, do your bodyweight circuits after dinner; otherwise, do the bw circuits first thing in the AM, and then do your regular workout at lunch or later in the afternoon or evening)

If you are advanced, you can use squats, pushups, and bodyweight rows for your circuit.

If you are a beginner, you could use lying hip extensions, modified pushups, and stick-ups.

c) Add an extra set to each exercise in the first superset you do

in each workout.

Again, use these three tips for an advanced fat loss period of two

weeks, then return to a normal training schedule.

But always stick to the best fat loss nutrition plan possible.

If you have any other questions, just let me know.

Sincerely,

Craig Ballantyne

Author, Turbulence Training

P.S. Big Nutrition Announcement!

The Turbulence Training Nutrition Guide for Men & Women – written by Dr. Chris Mohr, Ph.D., is ready for you.

Here are just some of the things you’ll learn from Dr. Mohr…

1) How to calculate your calorie needs (p. 6)

2) Calorie recommendations for obese individuals (p.7)

3) The 23 types of sugar (many hidden!) to avoid (p. 9)

4) The 20 whole-grain sources to fuel your fat loss program (p9)

5) Over 60 fruits and vegetables that should be added to your diet (p. 10)

6) The 16 protein sources you should select most often (p. 13)

7) Shocking trans-fat content of 18 common foods – find out which food is the deadliest in terms of fat content (p. 16)

8 ) The 9 Fat Sources you should select most often (p. 17)

9) Dr. Mohr’s 12 Rules for Fat Loss (p. 18)

10) The TT Nutrition Plan for Men (p. 19)

11) The TT Nutrition Plan for Women (p. 23)

12) Bonus Supplement Report: The Truth About Fat Loss Pills (p. 27)

Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS

Author of, Turbulence Training for Fat Loss

Remember that a Low Caloric Intake and a Fresh Mind are the Pillars to a Healthy Body!

Since we are talking about getting into the right frame of mind in order to get in shape, I would like to talk about also the second step. This is as important as your mental attitude towards training; I am talking about your mind and your diet.

What I mean is whenever you have decided you have gotten enough with your beer belly, people making fun and talking behind your back, or your buddies not picking you for Sunday’s flag football team. They might be right though, since you have not worked out since high school a police cone may move faster than you.

So if you are ready to hit the gym or a daily training routine and you are committed to a healthier way of life then keep these advices in check:

-         It is all about the diet: a good looking body is all about dieting. A healthy well balanced diet makes up for 75% of a good looking body. It does not matter how much you workout if you hit pizzas and burgers like there is no tomorrow. Keep your caloric intake healthy and balanced.

-         Keep it fun and varied: always looking for new and fun ways to stay in shape. Since this is a mental endeavor more than anything else, keep your mind guessing and vary your training. This will help you burn more calories since your body does not get used to the same routine and it will keep your mind fresh, avoiding mental fatigue.

So after you have made up your mind about becoming healthier keep these two advices in sight. I know you will be on your way if your mind is fresh and you are keeping your caloric intake low and well balanced.    

Next posts I will be letting out some routines to work on to start lowering those fat levels, until then start picking some new shorts because we are going to get you in shape!

FJ

Unleash Your Abs Now

It’s that time of year to sear off belly fat for razor-sharp abs. You see, it didn’t take too many weight-room visits for your muscles to start bulging. But maybe your jelly-belly is still nursing some leftover fat. So the question is. How can I uncover my abs faster?

Now, in order to uncover your abs in a hurry, you have to pull off multiple exercises in one sweat session.

The reason you’re hesitant to take your shirt off is because your belly harbors the junk you’ve fueled your body with—and you can’t get rid of it with just abs moves.

To create suspense for your big reveal, you’ll need to work your middle twice a week with an advanced workout. Cycling through three to four moves heats up those calories—but cramming in six will toast fat.

To blast the last bits of lard, keep on filling your clothes with fat-incinerating muscle. Add occasional high-intensity cardio to your weekly workout plan for calorie-burning boosts, and you’ll be ready to peel off your shirt by summer.

Plateaus, protein and pasta

Despite a good week food and exercise-wise, my weight on official weigh day today was up a pound on last week, with only a 0.1% drop in body fat. That would have bothered me once, but now I generally don’t sweat the scales too much. Despite being unhappy with my body and wanting to lose a lot of weight, I have made the decision to go about this by improving my lifestyle, and not necessarily following a strict programme that would no doubt get me there quicker.

At the moment, my weight seems to be hovering at the 15 stone point (210 pounds). Possibly, I may need to get stricter with my nutrition - the first step would be to increase meal frequency, as I currently only eat three meals a day, plus snack, although I have started to try and add some protein to my snacks instead of just fruit. Having said that, my weight loss seems to have followed a pattern so far of plateau, large-ish drop, plateau, large-ish drop. So I will give it a couple more weeks before I decide to alter my eating patterns.

Later today, hubby and I jet off to Italy for a week, which should provide some interesting challenges. I probably won’t be posting again till a week on Monday now. Hope you all have a good week.

2/04/09

It was a fantastic morning this morning. No workout last night, but today I hit the iron for workout #3 in supersets.

• Kettlebell clean + press - 5×5
• Kettlebell snatch - 5×5

5×5 felt pretty good, I felt like the last rep was well and truly the last rep I could possibly squeeze out. Maybe another week or two and I will need to move up weight.

I also swung by dads place today and picked up his old dumbbells and about 150kg worth of weights which should open up some new possibilities. Heavy squats, dead lifts and the like.

I also wanted to mention a good friend of mine has started a blog recently. He’s recently lost a ton of weight pretty much unassisted (except a few guiding words from me ) and is now working hard on bulking up. His reasons for fitness are slightly different from my own, but he’s motivated and dedicated so I hope you’ll all check out his blog at http://www.groupfit.com.au.

Diet to help you lose ten pounds weight

A diet is a prescribed selection of foods meant or intended to help you stay healthy or lose weight. People keep a diet because they want to get rid of some pounds, or need to feel better about themselves. There are very many types of diets available and recommended; however, some of them can be too harsh to be healthy. Here are some tips for a lose 10 pounds diet that are more than acceptable and easy to follow.

Basically, if you want to lose 10 pounds, diet and the need to practice a sport go hand in hand. However, this means that you’ll have to adjust some of the eating habits and take up healthier foods. To begin with, avoid using bottled dressing for salads. If you were to scan the label to see how many calories one such bottle contains you would surely decide on your own to give it up. Do a bit of research concerning calories and the way they work.

Don’t eat chocolate. If you cannot do without sweets then go for such alternatives as jelly, hard candy and sweet fruit. Yet, even if you can have some of these, keep them under control in order to stick to the lose 10 pounds diet. Four or five candies per day will do.

It’s become a habit to avoid fat meat and this is great. However, when it comes to chicken, we seem to forget to remove the skin before eating or starting to cook it. Chicken skin can bring lots of extra calories. Moreover, we tend to buy a great deal of canned food and to give you an example, canned corn is something that supermarkets sell a lot. Use the raw corn on the cob for your salads if you want a viable lose 10 pounds diet.

Other things that need to be avoided if you go for the lose 10 pounds diet are peanut butter, mayonnaise, pies, cookies, fat fruity yogurts, fried foods, salted peanuts, cream and so on. Consequently this lose 10 pounds diet is not that harsh after all. It causes one you to eat healthy things but then encourages you to give up those items that lead to fat deposits accumulation. If you want to lose 10 pounds, diet plans are plentiful, but the one we’ve covered here is definitely a bit more lax and realistic.

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