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22 Jan 10 No Nonsense Long Term Weight Loss

If you’re trying to lose weight, exercise is really only about half the battle.  Exercise alone isn’t going to burn enough calories to really make you lose weight quickly.  If you really want to lose weight you have to combine exercise with a more healthy lifestyle.  The phrase “you are what you eat” is more true than you imagine.

If you’ve started an exercise routine recently, remember that more exercise is going to increase your appetite.  You have to counteract this by being strong, and not in taking more calories than your diet allows.  One mistake that many weight loss seekers fall into is allowing themselves to eat more calories after a workout, because of the appetite they’ve worked up.  That’s a mistake, as exercise on the whole doesn’t burn very many calories unless you’ve done a ridiculous amount.  Eating more calories after a workout is going to erase your workout, and keep the pounds piling on.

Remember to be diligent about working out.  You have to keep working out to make a big difference.  You can’t try for a few days and then take a week off.  In order to lose weight and really make a difference, you need to be working out 3-4 times a week, featuring fairly intense sessions.  That’s the only way to force your body to change, and whip yourself into shape.

Eating healthy is probably the biggest hurdle, and most important practice of all.  Only by eating healthy can you ensure that all the other steps you’ve taken will be effective.  You need to eat nutritious, low calorie meals, cutting your overall normal calorie intake.  That way you’re losing weight from cutting calories, and also from exercise.  That double threat is the fastest way to lose weight, and keep the weight off.  You don’t need crazy diets, just diligence to perform the most tried and true method.

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15 Oct 09 Break A Soda Addiction

Drinking soda can become an addiction.  The caffeinated carbonated beverage is basically designed to become addictive.  Any way you drink it you’re basically doing damage to your health, and that’s something nobody wants.  But breaking that cola addiction can be hard, because an addiction to caffeine is really a chemical dependency.   You’ll notice that going without caffeine after drinking it regularly will give you a headache, and have you feeling extra tired.  Something that does that to your body is a chemical you don’t want in there.

So part of the key to breaking your soda drinking habits, is realizing that like any other chemical dependency, this is no different.  So your first step to curbing the behavior shouldn’t be cutting soda out of your diet altogether, but rather limiting the amount you drink.  Cutting caffeine cold turkey can leave you feeling extra tired, and suffering a few headaches.  So to avoid those negative effects, keep drinking the caffeine, but try cutting your portions in half.

This way you’re teaching your body to learn to work again without caffeine.  By going slowly you limit the negative effects it will have on your system, and your body will adjust to a caffeine free lifestyle.  Keep halving your portions week to week until finally you’re essentially drinking almost no soda, or only one every few days.

While you cut the soda consumption, try substituting a more healthy beverage in place of the cola you’re not drinking.  Try something like water or juice.  Both of which are caffeine and are better for your health.  These can also help you in the long run, as juice or water can become your long term substitute for the soda you used to drink.  Before you even know it you’ll be soda free, and find yourself feeling great!

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