Five Fat Burning Tips
November 14, 2008 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
These five fat burning tips will help keep you on track to lose weight.
- Avoid eating at least 2 hours before you go to sleep at night. This will help your body’s metabolism overnight and will allow it to burn fat instead of any foods that you recently ate.
- Limit your salt intake. Too much salt forces your body to retain water, which makes it more difficult to flush the fat and toxins from your body.
- Gradually cut your caloric intake. Don’t go from eating 3000 calories a day to 1200 calories a day. This will only force your body into starvation mode and you will not lose fat. Allow your body to get used to lower calories slowly and give it time to adjust.
- Train with weights. Muscle mass helps boost your metabolism throughout the day, not just during exercise.
- Drink plenty of water. You want the body to flush out toxins and fat, and the water also helps you feel full so you don’t reach for a snack.
Keep these tips in mind as you start to lose weight.
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Find Help Losing Weight
November 13, 2008 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
If you need help losing weight, consider finding a weight loss buddy. A friend who is also trying to lose weight can help motivate you to stick to your diet and get out and exercise. It’s especially helpful if the two of you can make plans to exercise together. If you meet at the gym even once a week, it can help you in your efforts.
Look for a friend who is trying to lose around the same amount of weight as you are, and that has a similar approach to eating and exercise plans. It won’t be much help if your friend follows a strict 1200 calorie vegan diet, if you don’t. To have help losing weight, you want someone to bounce recipe ideas off of, who will try new exercises with you, and to help you make the best choices.
Having help losing weight can often make the difference between sticking to a new diet or giving up.
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Foods That Burn Fat
November 12, 2008 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
Jump start your weight loss journey by including foods that burn fat into your daily diet. You should eat a balanced diet and exercise regularly, but why not include a few of these foods that will help your body metabolize foods better?
- Vitamin C rich foods. Eating foods like oranges, grapefruits and other citrus have been found to help burn fat. Foods that burn fat that are high in Vitamin C also include: broccoli, carrots and watermelon.
- Oatmeal. This is a food that burns fat and gives you long lasting energy to help you through your busy day. It is high in fiber, which helps stabilize your blood sugar and allows you to feel full longer.
Fit a few of these foods that burn fat into your weight loss plan, and you’ll fit into your skinny jeans in no time.
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Lose Weight Naturally
November 11, 2008 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
You can lose weight naturally by approaching the task ahead of you in an old-fashioned way. You want to eat less and move more. That is the secret behind weight loss!
Of course, it is more complicated than that. You need to change habits, find motivation, and put forth a great deal of effort in order to lose weight naturally. The advantage of losing weight naturally is that you will not have to deal with any of the side effects from weight loss drugs or a recovery period from weight loss surgery.
Your results may not be seen as quickly when you lose weight naturally, but you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you did it on your own. When you lose weight naturally, you will eat fewer calories in a day, exercise more, drink more water, and eat more fiber. Following those four steps will put you on the path to a slimmer self!
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Exercise to Burn Fat
November 10, 2008 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
When you are trying to lose weight, you should exercise to burn fat. Getting (and staying) active is the key to long-term weight loss. While you should be limiting your calories, that alone won’t provide the quickest results.
When you exercise to burn fat, you are helping boost your metabolism throughout the day. The best type of exercise to burn fat is cardiovascular exercise. You want to get your heart and lungs pumping to help boost the fat burning in your body. Maintaining a steady effort over a 30-60 minute period is very effective.
When you are choosing an exercise to burn fat, don’t limit yourself to walking or running. You can do that a few days a week, but vary it with rollerblading, dancing, swimming, or any other cardiovascular exercise you enjoy (or think you might enjoy!)
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Burn Fat, Not Muscle
November 7, 2008 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
When you’re trying to lose weight, you want to burn fat, not muscle. As you build muscle mass, your metabolism increases and it becomes easier to lose weight. When you’re burning fat, your muscles are working and growing stronger.
Exercise is the key to helping you burn fat, not muscle. Cardiovascular exercise is great for promoting fat loss, as your body burns calories while your lungs and heart get a good workout. Weight training is important to help support and strengthen your bones, but it will not do much on its own for weight loss.
To burn fat, not muscle, you should aim to perform cardiovascular exercise 5 days a week for 45 - 90 minutes. This will help your weight loss efforts tremendously!
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Fat Loss Diets
November 6, 2008 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
Aren’t most people looking for a fat loss diet? Obesity rates in our country keep climbing, and fat loss diets are popular internet searches. When you are looking for fat loss diets to help you in your desire to lose weight, decide if it is reasonable.
Some of the popular fat loss diets encourage followers to restrict their calories so much that they are doomed for failure. If you are currently eating 3000 calories a day, and try to follow a 1200 calorie a day diet, you are bound to feel deprived and stop following that fat loss diet. If, instead, you gradually decrease the number of calories consumed over a period of time, you will likely find more success.
Remember, too, that no matter what fat loss diets you find, if you aren’t currently motivated to lose weight, chances are you won’t. Take the time to look into your motivations to lose weight, and then choose a fat loss diet that will support your efforts.
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How Many Calories to Burn in a Day?
November 5, 2008 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
How many calories to burn in a day when you’re trying to lose weight? It’s important to burn more calories than you consume in order to lose weight. When you consistently eat more calories than you burn, you gain weight. If you want to lose weight, you need to be sure that you know the calories to burn in a day.
If you are eating 3000 calories, then you need to burn 3000 calories to maintain your current weight. In order to lose 2 pounds a week, you need to burn an additional 7000 calories per week. That may seem like a lot, but it’s not too bad if you spread it out over a week.
Decrease your food intake by 500 calories, so you’re eating 2500 calories a day. Then, get up and exercise to burn 500 calories a day. By the end of the week, you will have burned an extra 7000 calories, which should result in a 2 pound weight loss.
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Should You Count Calories or Fat Grams?
November 4, 2008 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
Whether you count calories or fat grams, you will need to pay close attention to the foods you eat. Reducing your fat intake can result in weight loss, but takes a very limited view of your entire diet. When you count calories, you should be considering every food that you eat and it’s nutritional content. If you eat only low fat foods, but they are high in sugar, they are not necessarily healthy.
Watching the number of fat grams should be a component of your weight loss efforts. You should also watch the sugar, fiber and total calorie counts in the foods you choose to eat to maintain healthy weight loss and a healthy body.
You should count calories and fat grams in your quest to get healthy!
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Calorie Burn Chart
November 3, 2008 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
When you’re choosing which exercise to perform, sometimes it’s handy to have a calorie burn chart. You can choose an exercise that fits into your time constraints, or even your mood, more effectively by knowing how many calories you’ll burn. There are many calorie burn charts available, but I thought I’d share just a few common exercises and their expected calorie burns if you performed the activity for an hour:
- Running, 10mph (6 minute mile) — 1126 calories
- Running, 5mph (12 minute mile) — 563 calories
- Walking, 3mph, moderate pace — 246 calories
- Swimming, freestyle, vigorous pace — 704 calories
- Bicycling, light effort — 429 calories
- Aerobic, low impact — 357 calories
- Aerobic, high impact – 500 calories
The chart assumes a person weighs 150 lbs, as most calorie burn charts do. If you weigh more, you will burn more calories and if you weigh less, you will burn fewer calories. Keep in mind, too, if you track your calories burned on a piece of exercise equipment. If it doesn’t ask for your weight, it assumes calorie burn for a 150 lb person.
