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How to Lose Belly Fat and Lose Love Handles

February 26th, 2010

By: FitNRG.net

The most common issue you find among people who wish to lose weight and reduce fat is “How to lose belly fat?” For most people, the abdominal area is one of the most problematic areas when it comes to unwanted body fat. As you get older, your metabolism slows down, and you tend to get a build up of fat around your stomach area, hips, buttocks, triceps (back of your arm), and thighs.

The bad news, is that there is no miracle to help you lose belly and get rid of those love handles fast – you simply CANNOT spot reduce. There’s just no way for you to target the belly fat area, burn them off, while leaving the rest of your body fat in the same condition. Your body just doesn’t work that way.

You know those infomercials you see for fitness equipment that targets your abdominals? It doesn’t work to get rid of your belly fat. How about those ab toning belts that you can wear around? They don’t work either. How about doing a few hundred ab crunches everyday, will that help me lose my love handles? Nope. It’ll help you build a strong mid section, and develop your abdominal and oblique muscles, but that still won’t get rid of your belly fat.

Losing your belly fat will depend on your diet, your cardio training, and your strength training for fat burning.

Do you know how much calories you burn each day and how much calories you consume each day? For sustained fat loss, you should aim for a slight daily calorie deficit. Your goal should be to increase your metabolism by increasing your frequency of meals – aim to eat 5 to 6 small meals each day. Calorie shifting is another way to help maintain or increase your metabolic rate.

To lose belly fat and love handles, your goal is to create a calorie deficit on a daily and weekly basis, and this can be achieved through a combination of slightly reducing your calorie intake, and increasing your amount of calories burned through cardio vascular exercises. Doing cardio training will improve your cardio fitness, help increase your metabolism, and ultimately help you reduce body.

Finally, one of the best ways to burn fat, is to lift weights and follow a strength training program. This not only helps you build muscles, but it will also help improve your overall physical fitness, and increase your metabolism.

If your goal is to lose belly fat and lose love handles, slightly change your goal to lose body fat on your entire body. Get setup on the right foot and learn the real method behind true fat loss, and keep the fat loss permanent.

Jim Yang
http://www.articlesbase.com/weight-loss-articles/how-to-lose-belly-fat-and-lose-love-handles-994524.html

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Burn That Fat- Weight Loss Diets That Won’t Starve You

February 26th, 2010

If you want to burn that excess fat, weight loss diets that cut your calorie intake to the bone aren’t the best way to do it.

Many diets require extreme calorie reduction, to 1,500, 1,200 or fewer calories. They leave you hungry all the time, living on a diet of salad and crackers that just isn’t enough to get you through your day. They also slow down your metabolism, the furnace that burns calories in your body.
 
So why is cutting calories so popular to lose fat? Weight loss diets that employ fat burning methods are more effective. They also give you more energy, making you sharper and more focused, because they convert that fat on your body into energy you can use as you go about your day. fat burning methods leave you feeling better, while calorie reduction makes you hungry.
 
The best way to lose fat is to employ strategies which will stimulate your metabolism. Change your eating schedule and portion sizes. Eat the correct foods in the morning to stimulate your metabolism, and eat lighter foods at night so your body doesn’t convert too many calories to fat while you’re sleeping. Techniques like these are known as calorie shifting, and there’s an entire diet built around them.
 
The FatLoss4Idiots diet is a simple way to use calorie shifting and make your metabolism as strong as it can be. With a healthy metabolism, you feel alert, alive, and active at all times of day-and the fat practically melts off of your body at amazing rates. Many FatLoss4Idiots users have reported losing up to 9 pounds during the diet’s 11 day meal cycle. Take action now and change your diet-take the first step by reading this FatLoss4Idiots review and start creating the body you’ve been wanting.

Aaron Patterson
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More Tips to Improve your Weight Loss

February 23rd, 2010

If you are like me you are probably totally sick of dieting because every time you stop the weight comes flooding back on and you just cant stop it!

I have put together 10 more weight loss tips to try and sway you away from the dieting run around and to try and put you on a more steady and healthy course of weight loss.

Lets have a look at them:

Move More – Take every opportunity to expend more energy. Don’t drive if you can walk, don’t walk if you can run. See activity as an opportunity rather than an inconvenience. General moving burns a big 70% of your daily calories so try to Eat Less and Move More.

We keep looking for a fast, magical, fat loss, weight loss, health and fitness miracle but what would happen if we applied the simple concept of eating less and moving more.

Eat less junk food, eat more fruit and veggie foods, Get some regular cardio based exercise, Get stronger to protect your body, improve your quality of life and turn your body into a fat burning machine and stick with it rather than giving up after one week.

Don’t Diet – If you’re thinking of going on a diet to lose those extra pounds think again. Long-term weight control through dieting is near impossible, for the simple reason that diets promote only short-term solutions.

On a diet you’ll certainly look lighter on the scales, but in most cases this is because you’ve dumped a few pounds of body fluid, and not because you’ve lost any significant amount of body fat.

Diets Don’t Work – One of the main reasons diets don’t work is because they send the body into starvation mode – a survival mechanism for times when humans faced periods of famine.

Cutting back on our energy intake causes the body to lower its metabolic rate, which reduces its ability to burn fat. At the same time, hunger signals increase and we quickly start to crave high energy foods loaded with fats and sugars – the exact foods we are trying to do without!!!

Diets Put On Weight – Alarmingly, research has shown that repeated dieting actually makes it harder to lose weight and easier to put it on!!

This is because when you dump the diet and return to normal eating habits, the drop in metabolic rate caused by the diet means that your old eating habits actually represent excess in calories. Not only do you regain the fat stores just lost, but also you may even gain a bit extra.

Diets Are Unhealthy – A cycle of rapid weight loss followed by weight gain can lead to loss of lean tissue from your muscles and calcium from your bones.

It also strips the body of essential vitamins and minerals. Too little food means not enough energy for physical activity. Dieting causes your body to conserve energy, making results harder to achieve.

Diets Make Food The Enemy – Food provides nourishment and comfort. Diets can make you afraid to eat, depriving you of one of life’s pleasures.

Going from one failed diet to the next can leave you feeling depressed and create a cycle in guilt battles against food.

A Lifelong Plan – Regular physical activity and a healthy, balanced diet aren’t as glamorous as the quick fixes, but they do get better results.

Start with one extra exercise session and one less fatty takeaway meal per week, and gradually work towards a lifelong plan for achieving your best weight.

Sticking With It – If you change the way you eat or exercise to lose weight, ask yourself this question. Can I see myself sticking to this routine for life!! If the answer is “No” then it’s time to change what you’re doing.

Be Realistic – A realistic weight loss plan is around one to two pounds per week. Fast weight losses are not fat loss but glycogen and water. If you lose weight quickly then you will probable return back to the weight at which you started as quickly as it was lost.

Healthy Eating – Increase the amount of fruits, vegetables, non-fat dairy products, whole grains and beans that you eat. Eliminate calorie-dense foods such as cookies, sugary desserts, chips, fries, pizza, candies, crackers etc.

Research on people who have successfully lost a lot of weight and kept it off long term, shows that the vast majority succeeded by consuming a low fat diet high in fibre coupled with strength training and cardiovascular activity.

Your goal is to start utilizing these tips into your everyday weight loss regime to start losing weight consistently and for good.

Gary Matthews
http://www.articlesbase.com/weight-loss-articles/more-tips-to-improve-your-weight-loss-131220.html

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Best Exercise To Lose Belly Fat – It’s Not What You Think

February 23rd, 2010

You might think that the abdominal crunch is the best exercise to lose belly fat. You’re probably doing hundreds of crunches, different types of crunches, every day and wondering why you still have a fat belly.

While crunches are great for toning your abs, they won’t do a thing to “uncover” them from under the layer of fat on top them. There is no such thing as “spot reducing.” By working out a specific part of your body, like your abs,  you won’t just lose fat over that part of the body. You may get stronger, which is great, but you can do a million abdominal crunches and still have fat covering your belly. In order to lose the fat in your midsection, you need to burn fat at an increased rate so that you lose it everywhere.   

The best exercise to lose belly fat is, believe it or not,  any strength training exercise that targets the big muscles of your body. Why? Because the big muscles make up your fat burning engine, and when toned and trained, will burn fat 24 hours, 7 days a week, from every part of your body. The big muscles of your body are those in your legs and chest. Because they are big muscles, they demand more fuel, and thus will burn more fat, leading to a tighter, more toned physique.

Examples of exercises that work the big muscles of your body are:

1: Squats
2: Leg lifts
3: Lunges
4: Bench press
5: Push Ups

Ideally, you want to exercise all of your big muscles, at least three times a week. This amounts to once every other day, with a day of rest in between. Rest is important, too, because while you’re resting, your muscles are repairing themselves and getting more efficient at burning fat.

If you’re a woman, don’t worry that doing strength training will cause you to look like one of those female bodybuilders. The types of exercises you’ll be doing, and the quantity of them will make you look leaner rather than bulkier. You need to train a heck of a lot more than 3 times a week as well as have the genetics or maybe some male hormone injections to “bulk” up.

Kathy McGraw
http://www.articlesbase.com/fitness-articles/best-exercise-to-lose-belly-fat-its-not-what-you-think-1061216.html

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How to Safely Burn Fat Fast

February 23rd, 2010

There must be tens of thousands of ways people suggest to burn fat. Just go out on the Internet and search on burning fat and you will see everyone’s opinion on how to do it. Anyone can burn fat but how to do it safely is the key. Some people will suggest starvation diets but obviously you will only lose water weight and can put yourself at risk for some serious health problems. Then there are the low-carbohydrate and high-protein diets. These are dangerous for people with serious conditions such as gout where the last thing needed is a high – protein diet. And the list goes on from energy drinks to herbal supplements boasting to help you with your weight loss. But no matter what is out there on the market, it all comes back to one way to safely burn fat fast and that is to burn more calories than you take in. And the only way you do this is through exercise – especially if you have a sedentary lifestyle and work at a desk most of the day. You can exercise effectively as well without having to buy expensive gym memberships.

First of all, before you start an exercise program, you need to make sure that it is okay for you. Walking programs are fairly safe for anyone to get started with. In fact, most doctors recommend walking for cardiac patients quite frequently. So walking is a great way to get started right away. Walking uses up oxygen and when you do that, the body turns to other energy sources to feed itself and this would be the stored carbohydrates in your system in the form of fat. One source says that walking a mile will burn 100 calories and that 3,500 calories equals one pound. But you cannot walk 35 miles a day. So you have to combine your scheduled walk with many unscheduled walks such as walking to the grocery store, walking to work, walking upstairs instead of taking the elevator, and looking for every possible opportunity you can to walk.

So walking is good to get started but you will want to safely increase the intensity of your exercise in order to burn fat faster. This increase needs to be gradual especially if you are seriously overweight and have not exercised in quite some time. To increase the intensity of your walking, try climbing stairs. In fact, look for every place where there are stairs and use them. Stadiums are a good place to find stairs. If you have access to a stadium you can spend your time running up and down those. Cardiac doctors recommend that patients start stair climbing very gradually. If you are a cardiac patient then consult your doctor.

And as you get into better shape, you can intensify your exercise program by maybe running or doing wind sprints. No matter what, the key to burning fat quickly and keeping it off is through activity and resistance activity is the best. Resistance activity is where you push against some force. For example, walking up and down stairs is a resistance activity because you are resisting the downward pull of gravity. This is how you burn fat fast. Activity burns those extra calories. There is really no other safe way around it.

Terence Young
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Am i fat and what are good weight loss tips?

February 20th, 2010

I am 13 years old and i am 5 feet 2 inches and weight anywhere form 107 to 110 pounds (it changes everyday) I have belly fay which you can really only tell if i am sitting. I have big thighs which i hate! And i want more muscular calves. Please tell me if you think i’m fat and also give tips on how to slim down before school starts next mont!!! Thank you so much!

Your weight is perfectly fine, but if you want to shed a few pounds, then you can do that by diet and cardio.

If you want to lose weight, the best way is by diet and cardio. Dieting is eating less and eating healthier. Cardio is a type of exercise that raises your heart rate. Diet, which lowers your calorie intake and cardio which burns extra calories.
If you want to go on a diet, you must reduce the amount you eat and change what you do eat to something healthy and nutritious. Begin by not eating more then 1500 calories a day. This will ensure you dont take over the amount of calories which will increase body fat.

For cardio, the best is using elliptical machines. I recommend this rather then a treadmill because after doing some testing, elliptical trainers burn twice the amount of calories you burn on a treadmill. I would use it for 30 minutes daily. If you cant afford either one, then just jog or walk outside every night.

Good Luck!

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Anybody have any tips for quick weight loss?

February 20th, 2010

I have already lost 25lbs in the last 45 days. I have totally cut out the junk food, fast food and pop. I have been drinking tons of water and watching my calorie intake. Along with daily exercise. I would like to lose another 5lbs in the next month because my husband is coming home for R&R. I was at 190 and now I am at 165. If anybody has any advice please help.

I don’t know if you already do this but the best time to exercise is the morning before you eat anything. That way you burn stored fat rather than energy you already consumed for the day. Don’t stress about that extra 5lbs. Do spray tan get a manicure/pedicure, buy a new outfit, get your hair done….He will think your more sexy the more confident you are:)

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What is a fast and effective way to get muscles and lose weight?

February 20th, 2010

Hey can someone tell me how to lose weight fast and also to get some muscles? I’m already planning to wake up one hour early to run and I’m also swimming at the Y.

Besides that what can I do? I don’t have time to go to a gym. What else can I do? I really wanna gain some muscles and look fit cause I gained some weight over summer.
And I don’t mean just muscles for show, but actual muscles that makes me strong.

You don’t have time to go to the gym? My a$$, how many hours a day do you spend on the computer? How about watching tv, Im sure you have time to go to the gym. Stop making excuses and go.

You can’t really lose weight fast, it takes time. Muscle does to. If you wanted to look fit before summer ends, you should of thought about that before.

Eat a balanced diet, don’t go for sugary carbs. Eat your veggies.

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Do I have cellulite on my stomach because of fast weight loss?

February 20th, 2010

Ive lost about 18-20 lbs in the last 3 months and i noticed a bit of cellulite. I’m only 14, 5′1 and im 121 lbs now. I work out, eat healthy and am planning to lose 10-15 more lbs. Will it go away when i lose more?

a healthy life style should definately help. don’t freak about it just yet. the most important thing to stay away from is caffine. 14 years old, dont be so worried…just maintain a healthy life.

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What do you think are the best weight loss pills?

February 20th, 2010

Trying to find the best weight loss pills that are the most effective with the least side effects.

phentermine or meridia

I am currently taking the 30mg (blue pill) of Phentermine
it is working nice lost about 10 pounds the first week but most of that is probabliy water weight.

Meridia is good too but it is too expensive for me.

Don’t try Diethylpropion it is worthless compared to the other two
its not time released so you take it and it works for like three hours then your really hungry and end up bingeing out.

I would say Phentermine but don’t forget while you take it even though you aren’t hungry still try to eat some healthy stuff every 4 hours of so nothing big. I do like an apple or a few pieces of Beef Jerky. Beef Jerky is a miracle with Diet pills cause its not very filling but still has the protein to kick start your metabolism.
always eat some protein about an hour after taking it.

and don’t listen to that James Guy he probabliy has never had weight issues but you should only take them if your Morbidy Obese which means its a matter of prolonging your life.
Diet Pills WILL help you get where you want to be just don’t abuse them and be smart.
Once your down to your healthy weight ween yourself off slowly.
one every two days, three days, four days and so on.
Take them about 12 weeks tops then take a month off if you still need to get down.

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