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Great Tips for Keeping Fat Away

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Fat Away

1. Drink more coffee or tea.

If caffeine does not bother you then have a little coffee or tea in the morning to give you a boost to get you started in your day!

2. When on vacation, try to exercise.

When on a vacation try to get some exercise each day to help you burn off those excess calories you consume and help you not feel so guilty when you get home.

3. Keep you carbs low, but your protein high!

You do not want to cut carbs out altogether, because you will need them for energy. Just choose from healthy complex carbs such as sweet potatoes, brown rice, whole grain bread, and veggie pastas! Choose from chicken, turkey, white pork, lean red meat, fish, and egg whites for your lean meat and low-fat protein choices.

If you want to try some low-carb protein bars.

4. When you eat out, go lean.

When you do have to eat out get a lean meat and veggie meal and no fries, smothered potatoes, fried chicken and gravy or greasy burgers!

5. Get 8 hours of rest per night. Take a nap if needed.

Make sure you get at least eight hours of rest per night and a half hour to an hour and a half nap in the afternoon preferably! This will keep you immune system strong and help you be stronger and livelier throughout your day!

6. Eliminate stress.

Keep stress to a minimum so you will not gorge yourself with food to help you deal with stressors in your life!

7. Keep an active social life.

Keep an active social life so you will not stay around the house all the time and be tempted by food constantly.

8. Eat 5 – 6 small meals a day.

Always try to eat at least five to six small meals per day to help you keep your metabolism running high. Never miss meals because that would slow your metabolism down and you will store more fat!

9. Do yard work to burn extra calories.

Get out and do some good old yard work to burn some extra calories!

Buy a push mower instead of a riding mower to get some more exercise!

10. Make your healthiest meal, your last one!

Make your healthiest meal of your day the last one before bed, which is usually dinner. Try to have a lean white meat and a green vegetable! No carbs and no sugars would be a great idea since your body is slowing down for the day and you have that eight hours of sleep in front of you!

11. Cut back on sugar!

12. Take walks or perform other types of cardiovascular activities at least twenty to thirty minutes per day!

13. Walk more.

Do not park up-close to a store when you can park a little farther away to burn more calories walking in!

14. Take the steps instead of the elevator or the escalator!

This will help you to get your blood flowing and burn some extra fat!

15. Start a weight-training program on your own or with a trainer!

Try to start with a total body routine two to three times per week with 10-15 repetitions. Make sure to stretch often to improve you flexibility and improve circulation. Weight training will give you added muscle which will help you burn fat all day even when you are sleeping!

16. Drink more water!

Staying hydrated is important to having a healthy immune system, healthy skin, and a quicker responding, less cloudy brain.

17. Know The Facts.

Know what kind of calories you are eating by cooking and preparing your own meals instead of getting take-out or eating out! Who knows what you get when you eat at a buffet!

18. Cut back on fats.

Cut back on saturated fats such as fat from red meat and greasy or fried foods!

19. Don’t Believe Everything You See.

Stop believing in FAT-FREE foods because most of them have hidden fats, which are synthetic or fake fats that actually hurt you more than ordinary saturated fat! These bad fats are called trans fatty fats or hydrogenated oils/fats!

20. Eat in moderation!

Too much of any food will be too much for your body to use for energy, so it will be stored as fat! Listen to you body and when it says it is satisfied it means it!

Obesity & Corporate gyms

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Corporate-Obesity

“Obesity is a global problem and not one that can be solved through institutional exercise programs. More than half the Australian, Canadian and of course the American populations are overweight. Do we really think we are going to get them all into the gym every week?

While there is still a consensus that inactivity rather than overeating is responsible for the current obesity epidemic, the terms of the debate are shifting. Exercise as most people understand it is no longer the main focus. It is activity that matters, While the difference may seem a matter of mere semantics, in practice it is the crucial distinction between going somewhere special to get and keep fit. Until you live a life that does it for you until you die.

“We have lost so much physical activity from our everyday lives that an hour or two in the gym a week can’t possibly compensate. I don’t know of a single society in the world where the gym or equivalent has made any difference to a national obesity problem.”

Institutionalized exercise is rather like crash dieting: it is a means to an end that can rarely be sustained. Gym attendance relies on discipline and a concomitant belief that somehow the more you spend financially, the more you will expend calorie wise. Lose the discipline or re-evaluate the cost/ benefit, and your membership lapses.

While exercise is clearly vital, there is an absurdity about the way we try to do it: driving to the gym to get on a treadmill or exercise bike; standing on the escalator on the way to a step aerobics class. And then going home to what they euphemistically call “compensatory behavior” – having a session in front of the telly, or eating a sugary snack.

Clearly, a core of devotees do demonstrate that the gym can be a very effective way to build muscle, lose fat and increase stamina. But they are in the minority. A number of consumer surveys have put the gym drop-out rate at more than 80% in the first eight weeks of signing up. Some figures are more optimistic, showing that 60% of gym members are still paying their subscriptions after a year. But while they may be paying up, are they still turning up?

Payment of the membership fee clearly does not always equate with gym attendance. A recent survey identified gym subscriptions as typical of the direct debit payments that ex-users forget to cancel. Then there are those who keep paying because, well, tomorrow is another day.

Membership does not determine regularity of attendance, either. A survey has found that one in five gym members goes just once a month or less. This equates to 100 calories a week. You could burn up more energy than that doing some gardening every weekend or taking a brisk 20-minute walk every week for a month.

A number of consumer surveys have put the gym drop-out rate at more than 80% in the first eight weeks of signing up.

Protein Shakes or Real Food?

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Regardless of what many ads tell you, protein shakes do not offer any muscle building benefit, nor “secret muscle building ingredient”, above and beyond what real food offers you. Yes, I have read the ads too with all sorts of speedy muscle building promises but I can assure you through experience that most of the ingredients advertised as miraculous have not been proven to work neither by science (even though most ads of this nature usually talk about research studies that usually do not exist) nor by actual results at the gym. These products however have been proven beyond the shadow of any scientific doubt to shrink the size of your wallet and bank account.

In addition, real food has what is called a “thermic effect”. A “thermic effect” is the impact that real food has in your metabolism. Because real food requires digestion, your body burns more calories in processing it; as opposed to shakes which are already pre-digested.

There are so many nutrients that real food contains, many of which have not even been discovered yet, that you would be doing yourself a disservice by limiting the amount of real food that you are eating.

What protein shakes do offer the bodybuilder and fitness enthusiast is a convenient way to ingest your protein, thus allowing you to have your five to six meals every day without having to ingest real food in all of them. In addition, the best protein shakes in the market offer a protein blend of different sources of protein, something that introduces amino acid variety into your bodybuilding diet, thus making your diet more complete. However, do not ever think that protein shakes are superior to food.