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Your Metabolism Is Your Body’s Engine

January 31, 2014 By Leave a Comment

metabolismExcess weight…if you want to take it off and keep it off a healthy metabolism is your best friend. It’s about making sure your metabolic motor (your metabolism) is running smoothly so you do not have to become a yo-yo dieter on a never ending merry-go-round of weight loss/gain.

Losing weight is like running half a marathon. You are only half way there. You must change your metabolism right down at base level or you will continue to gain weight and as the years pass it will only get worse.This jeopardizes not only your looks but your health is at risk because being overweight increases the risk of al disease.

Strength training is by far the best answer to resetting and boosting your metabolism so it can burn more fuel around the clock. It is vital in cases of slowed metabolism as it may be that way if you have not been doing enough muscle building and maintaining activity. [Read more…]

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Toxins Can Cause Your Body to Be Weight Resistant

January 24, 2014 By Leave a Comment

toxic chemicalsThere are a few very important issues that cause people to be “weight loss resistant”, one of the prominent reasons is that our bodies become overburdened with toxins and our health suffers.

The level of pollution that we are exposed to compared to our ancient ancestors is like night and day. They experienced an occasional run-in with an odd toxic plant but today it’s hard to escape being exposed to these toxic substances on a daily basis…they are everywhere. [Read more…]

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Slim People Have Different Habits…In Their Minds and Activities

January 20, 2014 By Leave a Comment

stop weight loss resistanceThe way you feel and think about yourself manifest outwardly into your world. But even more importantly, your beliefs color your perceptions of food, exercise and living a healthy lifestyle.

When you once quit living in daydreams about what you would like to achieve and take the reins, take control of your life, you quickly realize that the solutions you’ve been searching for outside of yourself are inside yourself. [Read more…]

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Leptin Resistance and Weight Loss

January 16, 2014 By Leave a Comment

leptinYour body needs two important hormones functioning properly if you hope to lose that excess weight you might be carrying around. These two important weight loss hormones are insulin and leptin.

Insulin’s job is to control sugar and fat levels in the body, while leptin’s job is to burn fat. Leptin is one of the many hormones that regulate energy in your body…it also tells you when you’re full. As you gain more weight, you produce more leptin which is supposed to tell you to when to “stop eating”. [Read more…]

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12 Weight Loss Tips to Taking It Off and Keeping It Off

January 14, 2014 By Leave a Comment

12 tips to weight lossThere are no magic bullets to weight loss but here are 12 steps you can follow that will help you to lose the weight, keep it off and feel good doing it.

12 tips to help you curb your appetite take weight off and keep it off… [Read more…]

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Benefits of Slow Weight Training

January 13, 2014 By Leave a Comment

slow exerciseThere are many different ways you can go about using resistance exercise but one version that seems to work well for many people is called Slow Weight Training.

By simply slowing things down, you actually turn your present exercise into a high-intensity exercise. The slow movement allows your muscle, at the microscopic level, to access the maximum number of cross-bridges between the protein filaments that produce movement in the muscle. The objective of this type of weight training is to create more tension in a muscle for a given workload which is accomplished by decreasing the speed of movement. [Read more…]

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Muscle Matters

January 11, 2014 By Leave a Comment

muscle mattersFrustrated dieters take notice…

The true key to successful and permanent weight loss is not about restricting food – it is about improving metabolism, your body’s engine. Your metabolism is responsible for turning the food you eat into energy so it can be burnt up rather than building up your tummy, hips and thighs.

The only way to boost your metabolism is to get your muscular system in better condition so you can burn more fuel (calories) both day and night. Proper strength training exercises are the key. [Read more…]

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Health Benefits of Flax Seed and Chia Seed; Ancient Super Foods

January 11, 2014 By Leave a Comment

super seedsMeet your two next best friends…two little seeds – chia and flax; ‘Ancient Super Foods of The Future’.  If you replaced 50% of the processed or refined foods that you are now eating with these two types of foods, you would experience unbelievable good health, energy and easy and effortless weight loss.

Some people call flax seeds the new wonder food and consider it the most powerful food on the planet.  Studies show that flax seed helps to fight everything from heart disease to diabetes to breast cancer.

This tiny little seed carries one of the biggest nutrient payloads for your body. Even though you can’t technically call it a grain, it has a similar vitamin and mineral profile to grains. But that’s where the difference ends. [Read more…]

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Cut Out Sugar to Manage Your Blood Sugar Levels and Control Weight

January 11, 2014 By Leave a Comment

sugar freeThe first thing that we need to get under control when trying to manage weight is blood sugar levels. Yep, that means cutting out sugar in all its forms. Let’s face the facts, sugar is destructive and most people eat far too much of it. And there is no substituting with artificial sweeteners. They will not work either as they can damage your health even more quickly than fructose.

It is recommended that you keep your fructose consumption below 25 grams a day. This includes all sources, from beverages to condiments, including the fructose you get from whole fruits. [Read more…]

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The Importance of a Nutrient – Dense Diet

January 11, 2014 By Leave a Comment

nutrient-dense foodsIt’s not about eating less but better – what we need is nutrient-dense foods.

What are nutrient dense foods? They are foods that have a ratio of high nutrient to calorie value as opposed to empty calorie, nutrient – poor foods that are common place in our modern world.

Refining and processing foods removes nutrients. Once these processes are applied to fresh foods, you no longer receive nutritional benefit out of them (very little at best). [Read more…]

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