Just another short video I made to inspire for my website www.BornPowerful.com
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Nutrisystem has proven to be effective but the costs are more than you might think. Their plans do not include milk products, fruits and vegetable so you have to purchase that plus the cost of their meal plans can be as high as $500 per month. As a comparison, I can buy about $150 to $200 per month of fresh foods from my local grocery store.
In this video, I talk about eating natural and healthy foods and how a CPT named Mike has designed a much superior program which is more sustainable in the long run. Learn more a My Ultimate Weight Loss.com
In this video, I talk about eating natural and healthy foods and how a CPT named Mike has designed a much superior program which is more sustainable in the long run. Learn more a My Ultimate Weight Loss.com
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Truth About Abs
Nutrisystem is an effective weight loss meal plan that has grown due to it's to success but as pointed out in the video, there are a few flaws that cause most dieters to fail. On the other hand if you want to lose weight fast for a few months, it could work for you.
Nutrisystem is also big in Canada. From what I have learned, they recommend steady and regular exercise for best results but are mainly in the business of selling portion controlled meal plans so I suspect many clients are still not exercising regularly. As an alternative, I show there is a healthier longer term solution if you want to stay thin for years instead of months. To go directly to my preferred choice, visit Truth About Abs
Nutrisystem is also big in Canada. From what I have learned, they recommend steady and regular exercise for best results but are mainly in the business of selling portion controlled meal plans so I suspect many clients are still not exercising regularly. As an alternative, I show there is a healthier longer term solution if you want to stay thin for years instead of months. To go directly to my preferred choice, visit Truth About Abs
The biggest trend in weight loss plans these days are called "low carb" diets. But do they really work? ...And if so, are they the solution to losing weight that everybody is looking for?
Judging by the results, after many years, No! Most low carb diets are so difficult to maintain that the "average" dieter cannot keep on the program for a prolonged amount of time.
For example, I tried the the Atkins diet (a very popular low carb program created by Dr. Atkins) and found the restriction on carbs for the first couple weeks was very severe.
The Atkins program allows just 20 grams of "net carbs" per day (equivalent to one large apple) during the first phase of the diet. All white foods like bread, wheat, pasta, potatoes, even most fruits are not allowed in the first two weeks of the diet.
I felt "weak", "tired" and "miserable" all day long even if the bland Atkins foods was enough to keep me full. Two weeks of giving up most carbs was too much strain on my body so I never made it to the next phase (which was much less difficult)
Your body needs more carbs than that for energy and to function properly. Even the South Beach Diet, another low carb diet, is not that easy to follow (although I hear it is not as harsh as the Atkins Plan.
Since most low carb diets make you feel tired & terrible (for the average person), how can anyone stick around to become successful at losing weight. Dieting should be easy to follow & not mean you have to spend the rest of your life feeling hungry and week.
“low carbs” is not the answer to losing weight, since your body needs a reasonable amount of all 3 types of calories to lose weight consistently (protein, carbs, and fat and in the right proportions).
The truth is that your body needs a reasonable amount of protein, carbs and fat calories too, even if you are not trying to lose or gain weight. Maybe the trick is, finding which portions of protein, carbs and fats should be eaten and at which times of the time rather than cut one type of calories out all together.
Judging by the results, after many years, No! Most low carb diets are so difficult to maintain that the "average" dieter cannot keep on the program for a prolonged amount of time.
For example, I tried the the Atkins diet (a very popular low carb program created by Dr. Atkins) and found the restriction on carbs for the first couple weeks was very severe.
The Atkins program allows just 20 grams of "net carbs" per day (equivalent to one large apple) during the first phase of the diet. All white foods like bread, wheat, pasta, potatoes, even most fruits are not allowed in the first two weeks of the diet.
I felt "weak", "tired" and "miserable" all day long even if the bland Atkins foods was enough to keep me full. Two weeks of giving up most carbs was too much strain on my body so I never made it to the next phase (which was much less difficult)
Your body needs more carbs than that for energy and to function properly. Even the South Beach Diet, another low carb diet, is not that easy to follow (although I hear it is not as harsh as the Atkins Plan.
Since most low carb diets make you feel tired & terrible (for the average person), how can anyone stick around to become successful at losing weight. Dieting should be easy to follow & not mean you have to spend the rest of your life feeling hungry and week.
“low carbs” is not the answer to losing weight, since your body needs a reasonable amount of all 3 types of calories to lose weight consistently (protein, carbs, and fat and in the right proportions).
The truth is that your body needs a reasonable amount of protein, carbs and fat calories too, even if you are not trying to lose or gain weight. Maybe the trick is, finding which portions of protein, carbs and fats should be eaten and at which times of the time rather than cut one type of calories out all together.
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As a fan of Dr. Phil's "straight talking, in your face" method of psychology, I usually believe that everyone should take responsibility for their own choices in life. As some examples, Dr. Phil actually says that "if you are in a bad marriage, you choose to be in that bad marriage. If you are overweight, you choose to overeat and avoid exercise and that is why you are overweight". Your life is based on your own life choices and you are one hundred percent at fault, right?
Not in this case, Dr. Phil. I believe that there are so many forces conspiring against us, that we should not be surprised that most of us are overweight. From what we eat to how we eat it, between our daily work and social activities to the mass consumption of advertising and product placement, HOW CAN WE NOT AVOID BEING FAT?
Here are some facts:
In less than two decades between 1990 and 2005, the number of adult Americans who are overweight has increased from 55.9% to 67% and the number of Americans who are obese increased from 22.9% to 34%. And that is not just adults, in 2009 the CDC reported that 32% of U.S. Children fit the definition of being overweight, 16 percent were obese and 11 percent were extremely obese. (Stats for Canada & UK are similar, from www.CDC.gov)
I remember growing up in a time when fat children were a tiny minority, each class or neighbourhood had one and the "normal" thin children made fun of them and that was only twenty years ago. So what happened?
Blame both human biology and clever marketing from American corporations as two overpowering forces that have virtually taken the choice to be thin away from us. Against years of innovation & research designed to making pleasurable consumption irresistible to the average person, how can an ordinary person flight back against such magnetic power?
Bad Advertising
We are constantly bombarded with images of delicious ready made food through television, billboards, magazine and newspaper ads, day after day, hour after hour, you think that we are really good at filtering them out and getting on with our lives. But the truth is, advertisers are very very smart, they know how to associate their product with happy, pleasurable images, and so eventually when it comes time to make choices, you will reach for that highly processed, fatty microwaveable meal or fast food bag because, subconsciously, it feels so good to do so.
Our diet has changed drastically over the years. Instead of coming home to a meal made by mom or eating a packed lunch, we are eating highly processed foods loaded with trans-fats, sugars, starches and other fats. Why? Because they taste so much better than regular food. Because cheap food has gotten less expensive and easier to obtain. Because the majority of what we eat is loaded with sugar (which raises insulin), which makes us want more sugary food.
Bad information from the weight loss industry
On the other side of the equation, we are much less physically active at work and school. Computers and machines have taken away all the heavy lifting and dangerous, sweaty work has been outsourced to Asia. Our attempts to try to exercise and diet are just sad because most gyms, personal trainers and weight loss experts offer us unpleasant training routines that are so hard to do with little results to show for it.
So if eating is so pleasurable with our family & friends encouraging us to overeat with them and diet/exercise so painful (almost none doing it right), it is not surprising that most of us are overweight.
But there is hope, this is only part of the conspiracy story, bookmark this page to read more in future posts or sign up to my free newsletter course & receive one of my free weight loss guides.
Not in this case, Dr. Phil. I believe that there are so many forces conspiring against us, that we should not be surprised that most of us are overweight. From what we eat to how we eat it, between our daily work and social activities to the mass consumption of advertising and product placement, HOW CAN WE NOT AVOID BEING FAT?
Here are some facts:
In less than two decades between 1990 and 2005, the number of adult Americans who are overweight has increased from 55.9% to 67% and the number of Americans who are obese increased from 22.9% to 34%. And that is not just adults, in 2009 the CDC reported that 32% of U.S. Children fit the definition of being overweight, 16 percent were obese and 11 percent were extremely obese. (Stats for Canada & UK are similar, from www.CDC.gov)
I remember growing up in a time when fat children were a tiny minority, each class or neighbourhood had one and the "normal" thin children made fun of them and that was only twenty years ago. So what happened?
Blame both human biology and clever marketing from American corporations as two overpowering forces that have virtually taken the choice to be thin away from us. Against years of innovation & research designed to making pleasurable consumption irresistible to the average person, how can an ordinary person flight back against such magnetic power?
Bad Advertising
We are constantly bombarded with images of delicious ready made food through television, billboards, magazine and newspaper ads, day after day, hour after hour, you think that we are really good at filtering them out and getting on with our lives. But the truth is, advertisers are very very smart, they know how to associate their product with happy, pleasurable images, and so eventually when it comes time to make choices, you will reach for that highly processed, fatty microwaveable meal or fast food bag because, subconsciously, it feels so good to do so.
Our diet has changed drastically over the years. Instead of coming home to a meal made by mom or eating a packed lunch, we are eating highly processed foods loaded with trans-fats, sugars, starches and other fats. Why? Because they taste so much better than regular food. Because cheap food has gotten less expensive and easier to obtain. Because the majority of what we eat is loaded with sugar (which raises insulin), which makes us want more sugary food.
Bad information from the weight loss industry
On the other side of the equation, we are much less physically active at work and school. Computers and machines have taken away all the heavy lifting and dangerous, sweaty work has been outsourced to Asia. Our attempts to try to exercise and diet are just sad because most gyms, personal trainers and weight loss experts offer us unpleasant training routines that are so hard to do with little results to show for it.
So if eating is so pleasurable with our family & friends encouraging us to overeat with them and diet/exercise so painful (almost none doing it right), it is not surprising that most of us are overweight.
But there is hope, this is only part of the conspiracy story, bookmark this page to read more in future posts or sign up to my free newsletter course & receive one of my free weight loss guides.
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Don't believe everything you hear on late night television, especially those fitness infomercials. These infomercials are largely slick marketing stories to teach the public to believe that they can “flatten” their stomach by doing twenty or thirty minutes of ab exercises each other day.
As important as the machines themselves in these ads are the super attractive, smiling fitness models who demonstrate how these fantastic products have made their incredible abs possible. These hot people almost make it look like it is fun and easy to use their ab machine.
However, what these super-healthy fitness models don’t tell you is that they were born with super-lean bodies and had great looking abs even before they used an ab machine.
The Truth About Ab Machines
Ab machines do one thing well, they strengthen your ab muscles. But that is all they will do for you, they will not make your waistline slimmer. Let me put it another way, ab machines make your ab muscles stronger but do not make your stomach smaller.
Are you having an "ah, ha moment" right now? You could actually have rock hard abs packed under layers of fat and no one would know (unless they punched you in the gut).
My favorite example is the offensive and defensive lines of any football team. American Football players are huge, many are overweight, their stomachs are bulging under their uniforms. However they can take a hit like anybody's business partly because they have got a massive amount of fat tissue over hard muscle. Football players are very strong but many are also very fat and they all work out all the time on weights and even ab crunch machines.
So should you not buy or use Ab Machines?
Of course not. If you want a thinner, smaller waistline then you must first lose the fat around your mid section using a good diet plan and exercise. Then your stomach muscles will be visible. Once the fat is gone, then you can firm up your stomach and build those rock hard abs you always wanted. Remove the fat tissues over your tummy and then build and strengthen your abs.
So the truth is, ab machine companies just want your business and if one model does not work for you, they are happy to sell you another. But if they revealed that you needed to go on a diet first most of them would be out of business because most overweight people want to lose weight first before building a muscular body.
To begin losing weight fast (and to get a slimmer waistline) I think using the new Fat Burning Diet from Fat Loss 4 Idiots is more effective. This is a brand new type of diet never seen before and you can read more about it & also receive special offers by joining my free weight loss newsletter which has more great articles and stories to help you lose weight.
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Let's call this one the friend's flu. According to a study done by the New England Journal of Medicine (a magazine written by smart doctors) obesity is a contagion you catch from your friends.
This totally makes sense to me. Remember how your mother told you to stay away from "so and so" because she or he was a bad influence. Turns out pothead Dan was not the only problem, skinny people make their friends skinny and fat people can turn their friends fat. As a 2007 Time Magazine article stated "instead of you choosing your friend with six pack abs, you chose a friend with a six pack of beer."
Pictures of Elvis Presley show that as he got fatter and fatter, everyone in the pictures around him got fatter too. Talk about the Memphis Mafia emulating the boss.
The co-author of the study, Dr. Nicholas Christakis of the Harvard Medical School, claims the obesity affliction is not just people with the same habits befriending one another. "It's not that obese or non obese people simply find other similar people to hang out with."
But common sense says people with similar vices tend to come together. Food and drink is part of hanging out. We drink together at the bar, eat popcorn together at the movie, gossip over pizza, celebrate anniversaries and birthdays over three course dinners. Eating and friendship go hand in hand.
This is not to say you need to get new friends, however you should be aware that if spend a lot of time with overweight buddies, you will unconsciously eat more than if you hang out with fit and trim friends. My conclusion is that if you are dieting, you should seek new activities with your chubby friends like walking or shopping rather then the usual fast food hangouts, bars and eating establishments. And if your fat friends don't get it, find people who are health conscious or are trying to lose weight like yourself.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1649321,00.html#ixzz0gTVSrdYU or leave a comment below. What do you think?
This totally makes sense to me. Remember how your mother told you to stay away from "so and so" because she or he was a bad influence. Turns out pothead Dan was not the only problem, skinny people make their friends skinny and fat people can turn their friends fat. As a 2007 Time Magazine article stated "instead of you choosing your friend with six pack abs, you chose a friend with a six pack of beer."
Pictures of Elvis Presley show that as he got fatter and fatter, everyone in the pictures around him got fatter too. Talk about the Memphis Mafia emulating the boss.
The co-author of the study, Dr. Nicholas Christakis of the Harvard Medical School, claims the obesity affliction is not just people with the same habits befriending one another. "It's not that obese or non obese people simply find other similar people to hang out with."
But common sense says people with similar vices tend to come together. Food and drink is part of hanging out. We drink together at the bar, eat popcorn together at the movie, gossip over pizza, celebrate anniversaries and birthdays over three course dinners. Eating and friendship go hand in hand.
This is not to say you need to get new friends, however you should be aware that if spend a lot of time with overweight buddies, you will unconsciously eat more than if you hang out with fit and trim friends. My conclusion is that if you are dieting, you should seek new activities with your chubby friends like walking or shopping rather then the usual fast food hangouts, bars and eating establishments. And if your fat friends don't get it, find people who are health conscious or are trying to lose weight like yourself.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1649321,00.html#ixzz0gTVSrdYU or leave a comment below. What do you think?
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