The Best Ways To Lose Fat

The South Beach diet is good for people who are looking to restrict carbs but still enjoy fruits and vegetables.  With its many frozen meals, it’s well suited towards the hectic lifestyle.

Like many other weight loss plans, there are three phases of this diet–the first restrictive, short-term one to rapidly lose weight, the second to get you to your ideal weight, and the third to help you maintain your weight for life.

The First Phase

The first phase lasts for two weeks.  You eat meals of lean meat, low carb vegetables, eggs, nuts, and low fat cheese. High carb foods such as pasta, cereal, bread, fruit, and starchy vegetables like potatoes or carrots are not allowed during this phase.

The Second Phase

Some of the foods that aren’t allowed during the first phase are introduced during the second.  Fruits such as strawberries, apples, and blueberries are recommended.  Whole wheat grains and brown or wild rice are also added in during this phase , but should be should not be used often for maximum weight loss.  If you like chocolate, you’ll be happy to know that it is allowed in this phase. It should be bittersweet or semisweet and used occasionally.  Avoid or rarely eat refined grains.

The Third Phase

When you get to this phase, your “target weight”, this lifestyle of eating will be both enjoyable and natural.  This is the easiest of the three phases, but it still focuses on good carbs and good fats. Your body takes its time to digest these carbs and they are slowly turned into sugars.  Good fats include olive oil and are polyunsaturated or monounsaturated.  The bad fats that you are avoiding are saturated and trans fats.

With the South Beach Diet, you are eating three meals with snacks between each meal.  It is great for those who don’t have much time to cook.  There are a wide variety of frozen entrees available that fit with the South Beach Diet plan.  Of course, making your own food can be the best reward and you’ll be able to plan your favorite meals.

Dave.

Hi guys:

Okay, here is one “secret” to accelerating your fat loss regime. Well, I’m sure some of you know this already, but for those who don’t, it’s easy and makes a lot of sense.

When you wake up in the morning after a nights sleep, your body is both dehydrated (drink at least 2 glasses of water right away) and hungry. In fact, you often feel ravenous, right?

Well, according to research, this is the BEST time to do your workout, be it cardio or weight training. Why? Because during the night, your system has used up its ready supply of nutrients. There are few if any carbs floating around in your body to supply easily burned fuel. Fuel that your system will need if you do a workout.

So what’s the body to do? Well, it has to dig deep and start converting its fat supply into energy. Not only that, but if you do a high intensity workout, your body will continue to burn fat at an accelerated rate for several HOURS after your exercise…and up to a pace 300% times normal! How cool is that?

So, if you want to fast track your fat burning, wake up, drink some water, stretch a bit and jump into your routine. Trust me, it’s amazing and the results will energize you and keep you motivated.

Dave.

Okay, this is the second 8 minute workout. Again, just bear with the music (it kinda grows on you after a while!). And this too is a killer routine, takes all of 8 minutes and not only works the arms but the upper body as well. Check it out and enjoy!

Hi folks,

I found a couple of great workout videos on YouTube, Now, they are old (made in  1994, I believe) and the music is…well, the music is interesting. However, the exercises are killer and all routines can be done in 8 minutes! Take a look, you might be inspired. I know I was!

Hi folks,

We all know we should use weight training as part of our fat loss program, right? Yes, ladies, you too!

But the idea of spending hours in a crowded, smelly gym isn’t exactly appealing, is it? So what’s the answer? Well, if you are like me, a little shy about working out in front of others, the answer of course is to work out at home.

At home? Are you kidding? I can’t afford a (home gym, bow flex, insert hugely expensive piece of equipment here). Yeah, I know. Me too. But it really doesn’t have to cost much.

I work out at home with just some free weights (dumbbells), an adjustable bench (that slants when I do my crunches) and a stationary bike. That’s it.

Sure, I’d love to have a full home gym to work out in. And a personal trainer. And a dietitian. And a cook. The list goes on. But until I win a lottery, that’s not going to happen. So I make do with what I can afford. And guess what? It works…and here’s why.

When you work out at home, you have to do it smarter. That means more intensity, shorter workouts. Easy as that. I will give you an example of my workout routine at the moment.

I work out every other day, three days a week. The days between I do HIIT cardio. And on the seventh day I rest. Never forget to give yourself a day off, so your body can heal. Hey, we’re losing weight here, we haven’t joined the marines!

I separate my workouts into upper and lower body days. Upper body is chest, back, shoulders, triceps and biceps. Lower body is quads, calves, hamstrings and abs. And the routine is pretty simple. I do 12 reps with light weight, followed a minute later by 10 reps with five more pounds (your poundage may vary). Rest a minute, 8 reps with more weight. Rest, 6 reps with the most weight I can do…and when I say do I mean I can barely finish the final rep. I rest a minute then finish with 12 reps of light weight.

That’s it. I choose one type of exercise for each muscle group. The next time I exercise that muscle, I change to a different exercise to keep my muscles from adapting. See? Short, intense and done in less than an hour.

Work smarter at home and you can achieve your goals as well…without breaking the bank!

Dave.

Okay, as we’ve already discussed in an earlier post, spot reduction of body fat DOES NOT WORK. Sorry but I needed to emphasize that! However, if you, like me, want to see real progress in your workout and diet program, then you want to see your abs, right?

For guys, it’s the ultimate proof that we are doing it right. For ladies, a slim, curved stomach adds a femininity that catches the eye…and holds it!

So in doing some research, I’ve found a great new program that will get you there from here. It’s called Truth About Abs.

The author, Michael Geary, walks the walk. He is a fitness expert (a real one!) who has discovered some great techniques to reducing fat and really developing the abs that we all want.

He publishes an online fitness newsletter that is read by more than 320,000 people in over 150 countries and has written several books on fitness and physical health. His program is straight-forward, no mumbo-jumbo and it works.

If you want to take a look and judge for yourself, just follow the link below. Enjoy!

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Hi all,

A terrific exercise regime that I’ve been using for a while now is call Body-FOR-Life. It was originally designed by Bill Phillips, a bodybuilder and expert in exercise and nutrition. They have a 12 week challenge that helps to motivate those of us (like me) who sometimes need a kick in our complacency to get started on a program.

The theory behind the program is simple but profound. You see, the body reacts to physical stress by adapting and strengthening itself. That’s why lifting weights helps to not only build lean muscle but strengthens the bones as well.

But many of us make the mistake of thinking that if we spend 2 hours in a gym doing light to moderate lifting, that this will give us great results. Uh-uh. Doesn’t work that way. You NEED to stress your body beyond its comfort zone in order to burn fat and build muscle.

And that’s where the Body-FOR-Life program comes in. You only need to less than an hour of weight training, every other day, to build muscle and transform your body. The days in between you do cardio…20 minutes worth. And one day a week you rest. Sounds easy, right? Well, IT IS! But, there’s a caveat. The workouts are intense. You do heavy sets in a short amount of time and when you’re done, if you are pushing your limits as you should be, you are basically a pile of jello.

But you feel great, your body changes quiickly and, if you dislike gyms as much as I do, you can do all the exercises at home with some basic weights.

That’s it. Check out the link below and see what you think. I highly recommend this program.

Body-for-Life

Hi all:

When I first started my latest diet and exercise routine, I decided to follow the advice of a lot of “diet gurus” when it came to my eating habits. And that is to eat more often to lose more weight.

Yeah, sounded crazy to me too. But the logic behind the idea is sound. And it goes like this…people evolved as hunter/gatherers. We roamed around, hunting whatever we could find and gathering roots, berries, whatever edible foodstuffs presented themselves. We basically foraged constantly. So we’d have a handful of berries, then a few hours later we’d be munching on some roots. Maybe we’d score a rabbit or whatever and eat that.

Basically we were always on the lookout for food and ate it as it came our way. Now scientists believe that obesity, heart disease and all that other nastiness that comes from weight gain is a fairly recent development. Once our society became more industrialized and we no longer had to hunt for our food, instead we just went to the store and bought it, we started to over-eat and gain weight and the consequences of that followed soon after.

And we also developed this bizarre (to our evolved bodies) habit of eating three meals a day, at set times. Now I don’t know about you, but if I eat at 7:00 am, I’m quite hungry by noon. And by 7:00 pm, I’m starving again. So naturally, since your body thinks it’s starving, you tend to over-eat at these times. The body gets too much energy and decides to store the excess for a rainy day (hello fat).

The solution is to go back to the beginning. Eat more often but consume smaller portions. My routine is something like this…I get up, drink some water, do my workout. Then about an hour later (let your body burn some fat from your exercise) I eat my first meal of perhaps 200-300 calories. When I’m hungry again, in about three, three and a half hours, I eat again, usually a protein bar or a shake, again about 200-300 calories. And I continue that for the day. I’m never really hungry nor am I ever bloated by over-eating.

This isn’t really rocket science, folks. It’s straight forward, easy to do and it’s working. I’ve lost 12 pounds in the last 4 weeks. Obviously some of that is water loss, but I drink a LOT of water so it isn’t that much. Also, although I eat throughout the day, I still eat a few hundred calories less than my body needs to maintain my weight. Because to loss weight, you have to burn more calories than you consume.

Anyway, there’s an option for you. Try a lot of small meals through the day instead of 3 massive ones and see if it doesn’t work for you too!

Dave.

Okay folks, this one drives me crazy…probably because I used to believe it myself! It’s the myth that you can reduce fat in certain areas of your body while retaining it in others. Sort of being able to self-sculpture your body.

Well, I gotta tell ya right now…it is not possible! Nope, no way, no can do, etc. Now I totally understand why some folks, including myself once upon a time, might think spot reduction works.

You see, when the body begins to store fat and gain weight, it does so in specific areas. On men, it goes mainly to our stomachs first. On ladies, the butt, thighs and chest are prime fat storage areas. So natually people think that if they target these areas, with crunches for men’s stomachs, or (God forbid) the thigh-master for ladies, that they will be able to burn off this fat first.

But the body is a contrary creature. While it likes to store fat where it chooses, it loses fat at a basically equal rate all over the body. Nope, it’s not fair, but you can’t fight nature. And we do try, don’t we?

Anyway, when you start off on a new regime of diet and exercise, concentrate on total body fat loss, and don’t attempt to spot lose the fat. All it will do is frustrate you and keep you from achieving your goals.

Dave.

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Here we are. A new day, a new blog and a new way of looking at fat loss. I’ve had it with fad diets, thigh masters and gimmicks that not only don’t work, but that give hope needlessly.

Well, no more…at least not here! I’ve been researching the net and a lot of other sources, searching for products, tips and just plain facts on weight loss that work. And this blog is my way of passing these tidbits of information on to the public.

If you see something recommended here (or trashed here for that matter!), it’s because either I’ve personally tried it, received feedback from those who have tried it, or trust the source of the info implicitly. That’s my criteria and I intend to stick to it. So please, sit back, relax, check out the blog and enjoy!

Dave.