The Best Ways To Lose Fat

Hi all:

I found a great article at Snacks.Com about a study confirming what we pretty much already knew…that it’s not what you eat but how many calories you eat that puts on the weight. And the reverse is true as well…reduce your calories and lose weight. Check out the story here and enjoy!

Take care.

Dave.

Hi all:

Here’s some info I found researching supplements on the net. Hope you find it useful!

When you are learning about the vitamins your body needs to survive, you may notice that there are a number of vitamins listed. However, each is important in specific ways. Vitamin B12 is another part of the vitamin B complex, and without it, our metabolism would be affected. Vitamin B 12 is also important in helping form red blood cells, which carry oxygen throughout the body, and in maintaining the nervous systems, which sends messages to and from the brain to tell us that things are hot, painful, itchy, moving, and so forth.

Vitamins fall into two general categories. The first are called fat-soluble vitamins and include vitamins E and K, among others. These vitamins can be stored in the body and, in some cases, produced by the body, so deficiency is very rare. However, vitamin B12 is a water-soluble vitamin. While is can be stored, in some cases, it cannot be used properly. Therefore, eating is every day is very important to our bodies. If we do not, our bodies cannot function properly. If you believe that you are not getting enough vitamin B12, you should talk to a doctor he or she can help you find the right vitamin supplements to take, so this will not be a problem.

Of course, your diet is the best way to get vitamin B12 into your body. If you eat a healthy, balanced diet, you should not have to worry about not have to worry about have lower or higher than normal levels of vitamin B12 in the body. However, if you have special dietary needs or medical conditions, vitamin supplements may be needed. You can find fairly high levels of vitamin B 12 in eggs, poultry, beef, pork, shellfish, and dairy products, especially milk.

Because vitamin B12 is one of the few vitamins that can be stored in the body, extreme deficiency is very rare. However, if you body cannot use vitamin B12 properly or absorb it from foods in the intestinal tract, you may need vitamin supplements to help your body. Vegans are especially prone to this and should take vitamin supplements, since most of the vitamin B12 we get in our diets is found in meat.

If you don’t get enough vitamin B12, you could develop a condition known as pernicious anemia. Symptoms include numbness and tingling in your arms and legs, weakness, low of balance, and other neurological symptoms. If you are worried about developing pernicious anemia, you should talk to your doctor about beginning to take vitamin B12 supplements today.

Take care.

Dave.

Hi all:

When you have to fit an exercise routine into your schedule, you might be tempted to skip the warm up routine, even though you’ve heard stories about people (like me!) getting injured while working out. But don’t! Really, just don’t. When you skip your warm up, you are not only putting your body at risk of injury, but you’re also making the workout more difficult and less effective. For best results, it is important to warm up every time you work out.

Warming up doesn’t have to use up the time allotted for your exercise. A decent workout only has to be 5 to 10 minutes long to do its job. And it doesn’t have to be boring. You can mix up a number of moves to make your warm up fun. Remember that a good warm up gets all of your muscles moving. Warming up is also important regardless of if you’re doing cardio or weight training.

The moves you do for a warm up shouldn’t be difficult or make you break a sweat (but sweating a bit is quite acceptable!). The main goal of the warm up is to slowly move the muscles to wake them up. Good movement includes jogging in place, doing jumping jacks, lunging, and skipping rope.

A good warm-up can also including slowly stretching your muscles. This is also effective as a cool-down. And consider exercises that work on balance and form in order to prepare you for the exercises you will be doing in the workout.

If you’re really short on time, try warming up before you get to the gym. Slowly jog or power walk to the gym, park as far away as possible and jog to the door. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Then, when you get to the gym to work out, your warm up is already half way done.

Good workouts always builds in intensity. This is the best way to shed pounds and maintain a healthy weight. Weight loss workouts are only risky if you don’t warm up. Otherwise your body will respond to prevent injuries. Although you may be tempted to skip this step, that is never a good idea.

So remember, a few minutes of warming up can save you a lot of future pain. Remember my rotator cuff!

Take care.

Dave.

Hi all:

By now, I’m sure most of you have heard of green tea and it’s supposed benefits. Is it good for you? And if so, why? Good questions.

Green tea is loaded with antioxidants. Meaning it helps to fight free radicals in your system that affect your health, are (perhaps) cancer causing agents, affects the body’s aging process and many more nasty detriments to good health. It is reputed to help fight not only cancer but rheumatoid arthritis, high cholesterol levels, cardiovascular disease, infections and impaired immune functions.

So what’s in this magical elixir anyway? The antioxidant is called epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). The main benefit to those of us interested in weight loss comes from a study done at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, which found that men who consumed green tea and caffeine burned more calories than men who just consumed caffeine and a placebo. Cool eh?

So get on with it, drink your tea! And enjoy the benefits of an incredibly easy and tasty way to help in your weight loss program!

Take care.

Dave.

Hi all:

Okay, this one is probably a no-brainer, but amazingly there are still people who believe that if you work out for hours upon hours every day, you will achieve your fitness and weight loss goals faster.

Wrong, wrong, wrong! Don’t do it! If you are looking for the best way to sabotage your weight loss journey, over-working your system is probably at the top of the list.

Yes, I know that there will always be “gym-rats” out there. People who just love hanging out all day in the gym, slamming their muscles til they bleed and chatting with all the other rats. Well, good for them. Personally I have a life and spending a large part of it watching other people sweat isn’t part of it!

Here’s why quality is always better than quantity. Your muscles are a finite resource. They can only do so much. Hitting them hard with heavy weight (but not more than they can handle!) for a short period of time will encourage them to repair the damage to the muscle fibers, with proper rest and nutrition between work outs, much more than slogging weights constantly for hours.

Long workouts, especially when using significant amount of weight, encourages muscle and joint injury. It can also be self defeating, as those who workout for long periods tend not to get enough rest in between gym visits to allow their system to heal and regenerate.

Anyway, I hope you will realize that short, intense workouts are the way to go. You will see gains faster and will recover much more quickly using quality over quantity.

Take care!

Dave.

Hi All:

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Take care.

Dave.

Hi all:

When do you work out? Not which days, but what time of day. We’ve all heard the theories: work out as soon as you wake up on an empty stomach so that your body burns more fat or work out after a meal so that your body has the energy for an intense effort, etc.

Well, I can tell you what I do, whether it’s right or not is for you to decide. But it works for me. =)

I work out in the evening, an hour or two after I eat dinner (which is usually around 7 o’clock. Now, my main reasons for working out then are 1) if I work out in the morning, unlike some people I don’t feel energized all day, I feel tired, sore and laggy. 2) I believe that if I work out in the evening, and then go to bed an hour or so later, my body spends the night healing from the exercise. I’m not dragging my ass around all day as my muscles try to do more on top of the beating I gave them in the morning.

Plus, I’m half asleep in the morning till about noon (not a morning person, folks). I just don’t feel like beating myself up at 7 a.m. If you do, hey whatever floats your boat!

In the morning, I’m doing well finding both my socks and having them turn out to be the same color! Anyway, that’s when I work out. When do you work out?

Take care;

Dave.

Hi folks:

I wanted to list the supplements, vitamins, etc. that I take in answer to some of you who were curious. Now what works for me may not work for you, as I’ve mentioned in the past, but here they are for what it’s worth!

I take a LOT of vitamins and minerals. Mainly because on a calorie-restricted diet you may not be getting all the nutrients your body needs to stay healthy, build muscle and lose fat. My list is as follows: Vitamins B (B3 to B12), C, D (very important these days…D seems to be almost a miracle vitamin if you believe the research), E, Folic Acid and Omega 3’s.

I also take glucosmine sulphate for joint health. It takes a while to kick in but well worth it in my opinion.

For muscle building and health, I take creatine. This isn’t essential but the data is there and points to it being able to help the body lift more weight with less chance of injury. And who doesn’t need that? (Especially us “older” folk?).

Finally I use a fat burner. Now, I won’t recommend any brand. Frankly I think they are all fairly comparable. Do your research on this and see which ones are reputable. I can’t promise that you will lose more fat by taking these, but it’s under the category of “it can’t hurt!”.

And that’s it. My calorie-reduced diet is still in place and I’m down 42 pounds as of this writing, to 188 pds. I don’t have the “Fight Club” body yet but I’m no longer embarressed to wear tighter clothing in public, so that’s progress!

Talk to you soon,

Dave.