Posted by admin on Monday Aug 22, 2011
Filed under :Exercise, Food & Drinks, Health, Weight Loss
If you’re pregnant, whether you know it or not you need a pregnancy diet plan. Many moms-to-be think, “Oh, good, I’m pregnant;that means I can eat anything I want”. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. A pregnancy diet plan is about ensuring you eat the right things for you and your baby to have a healthy pregnancy, it doesn’t mean “losing weight”.
While you do need SOME extra calories during pregnancy, you only need about 300 extra per day which really isn’t that much, it’s the equivalent of a small sandwich. You can have a treat every so often but, do not consume alcohol, tobacco, or illegal drugs during pregnancy, these can be harmful to your baby’s development.
Pregnancy and Weight…
It goes without saying that when you’re pregnant, you will gain some weight, for most women, that’s about 30 pounds (13-14kg) as long as you are of normal weight to start with, you should gain a little more if you were under weight when you became pregnant and a little less if you were overweight when you became pregnant. That weight gain, by the way, should come from healthy baby growth and good nutrition on your part, not because you ordered out from Domino’s Pizza every night.
Pregnancy Diet Plan
Your pregnancy diet plan should focus on good nutrition. When you’re pregnant, you need to make sure everything you eat gives you a good nutritional “bang for your buck,” so to speak. Food to include in your diet includes:
Lean meats, chicken and fish (avoid fish high in mercury
Dried beans and Lentils
Nuts and Seeds
Green Leafy Vegetables
Lots of: Fruit, Vegetables, wholegrain breads and cereals
Medium amounts of: Low fat dairy foods and lean meats
Small Amounts of: Foods high in fat, sugar and salt
Eating small meals more often is best.
Especially in your first trimester, you may have difficulty eating because of nausea and morning sickness. Therefore, your pregnancy diet plan should include small meals eaten frequently instead of large meals eaten infrequently. In addition, you may have some digestive problems such as heartburn because of your pregnancy, and eating small meals will also help keep this at bay.
If you do suffer from morning sickness, make sure you eat something light and carbohydrate rich, like crackers or rice cakes, before you get out of bed. This should help negate the effects of morning sickness and perhaps even keep them under better control.
A pregnancy diet plan is one part of managing your pregnancy and weight. Proper nutritional diet needs to be combined with a well-structured exercise routine to help you keep your weight gain to a healthy level. Of course before you begin or continue any exercise during pregnancy you must get your doctor’s or your family’s health care provider’s approval.
Exercising when pregnant will also keep you healthier during your pregnancy,help make your labor easier and get you back in shape quicker after your pregnancy.
Finally if you keep to your pregnancy diet plan, avoid certain foods which could be potentially harmful to your baby and take exercise approved by your doctor you can look forward to a healthier pregnancy and weight under control.
Be healthy, look good, feel great and enjoy this wonderful time.
Posted by admin on Sunday Aug 21, 2011
Filed under :Food & Drinks, Health, Weight Loss
Recent studies show that green tea can help greatly in the process of losing weight. It does it by increasing the body’s metabolism. If consumed regularly, it can help you burn as much as eighty calories extra. In a year, that’s about 8 pounds; you lose that much just by drinking, even without diet and exercise.
To further enlighten you as to how green tea works, read on below:
1. Green tea slows down the absorption of fats and regulates glucose. The same substance, cathechin polyphenol, restrains the transition of glucose into fats. By doing that, experts believe that green tea is an effective glucose regulator. It effectively prevents insulin spikes and slows the rise of blood sugar after every meal. Insulin, as specialists agreed upon, promotes the storage of fats as it deals with the body’s blood sugar.
2. Green tea has the ability to reduce appetite. Because green teas have regulating effects on the blood sugar, people who drink it are observed to eat food as much as 60 percent lesser than usual. This particular hypothesis was proven when green tea was injected into laboratory rats for experimentation. Researchers believe that it has the same effects on humans.
3. Green tea is a good alternative to coffee. If you drink tea instead of coffee in the morning or throughout the day, your body gets fewer calories in the long run. The sugar and the cream included in your daily cappuccinos add inches and bulges to the waistline. But with green tea, instead of accumulating fats, you are actually reducing its build up.
4. Green tea affects the bodily systems positively. A parallel research about green tea brings forward its overall effects in the body. The systems benefiting from it include cardiovascular, respiratory, circulatory, nervous, urogenital, immune, lymphatic, and musculoskelatal systems. With this, green tea shows to have a very broad effect on the body. Only a few types of food can boast of this characteristic.
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Posted by admin on Monday Aug 8, 2011
Filed under :Food & Drinks, Health, Weight Loss
We know that dieting is a necessary part of losing weight and dieting is all about eating healthy foods, but we still get it wrong primarily because of our lack of knowledge about the foods we should choose from and eating habits we should adopt. ‘Easy Veggie meal plans’ is your source to helping you discover how to quickly lose weight the healthy way with new simple, easy, and cheap Veggie Meal Plans.
The difference between vegetarian and vegan is that Vegans eat no animal products at all; no eggs, milk, cheese or anything that has been cooked in animal fat. Vegetarians, on the other hand, will generally eat those things, or some plus or minus combination of those things.
Kardena Pauza is a former Ms. Fitness America; she will show you which foods to eat to lose body fat and which ones’ you should avoid. She will also teach you how to get enough complete protein sources so that you can maintain and even build muscle on vegetarian or vegan diet.
With easy veggies meal plan you’ll get a 90-day meal plan for men or women that is full of vegan meals that will save you time and money. It will teach you how to begin a new vegetarian life style.
Some people may struggle when they start a vegetarian diet and even some people reportedly gain weight while starting vegetarian diets but it is all because they don’t know right vegetarian life style. The beginner vegetarians often eat all their meals from boxed foods found in the freezer section at the grocery store, and before they realize it, they gain ugly belly fat from the excess sugar and sodium in those so-called health foods.
She shows you how eating too much meat can be harmful to your body and she also blows the myth away that you cannot satisfy your protein requirements without eating meat. She will tell you that how eating the right vegetarian diet – full of healthy living foods, anti-oxidants, and nutrient-rich meals – will make you have more energy than a teenager, plus the complexion of a cover model and the healthiest body of anyone at any age.
The vegetarian life style is becoming popular because it really works, most of the celebrities of Hollywood for example Brad Pitt, Christie Brinkley, Jerry Seinfeld, Gwyneth Paltrow, Carl Lewis, Bodybuilder Bill Pearl, Alicia Silverstone, Martina Navratilova, Liv Tyler and Anthony Robbins have adopted the vegetarian lifestyle.
This program also teaches you that how you can adopt to vegetarian foods with convenience and how they can be cooked faster and more conveniently than meat meals. Moreover the program comes with a 60-day money back guarantee if you are not satisfied with the program so that you don’t have anything to lose other than Fat!
Posted by admin on Sunday Jun 13, 2010
Filed under :Weight Loss
Nick Nilsson
I’ll share with you my top-secret technique for burning ONLY the fat off your stomach. This is spot-reducing at its best…you can even apply this technique to ANY other specific areas you want to tone up!
Yep, it’s exciting and I know you’re curious so I’ll get right into it!
To perform this technique, you’re going to need a roll of duct tape, 3 double cheeseburgers, a set of jumper cables and a housecat…
Ok, you’re going to hate me for this…
The truth is there IS no top-secret technique for spot reducing and burning only the fat from your stomach. I made that headline up in hopes that you would at least read far enough into this article to learn the TRUTH about how your body burns fat and WHERE it burns fat from (and I’ll try to keep it entertaining so you actually want to read the whole thing 
).
And honestly, this type of question is one of THE most frequently asked questions I’ve gotten in all the years I’ve been answering questions online…
“How do I get rid of fat from just my stomach?”
Bottom line is, you can’t. And even those stupid creams and lotions won’t do it (one of these days I swear I’m going to get one of those creams and put it only on the left side of my abs and not the right and see what happens…I’m sure I’ll have a ripped 3 pack within days).
To lose fat from any one specific place in your body, you’re going to have to lose it from EVERYWHERE ELSE, too. There’s really no getting around it.
I like to use the analogy of a swimming pool (I “borrowed” this one from fat-loss guru Tom Venuto)…
When you’re filling up a swimming pool (the pool is your total amount of body fat), the deep end fills up first, right? Then the shallow end fills up as the water level rises.
Generally speaking, the deep end can be compared to the areas where you put on fat FIRST. The shallow end is where you put on fat LAST.
When you go to lose fat, look at the swimming pool again…when you drain the swimming pool, you can’t drain water from just the deep end! It drains from the whole pool at once…the shallow end shows it first, THEN the deep end last.
So basically (and fairly depressingly!), the fat you want to get rid of FIRST is the fat that’s going to come off pretty much LAST. To burn just stomach fat (or thigh fat or back fat), you’d have to figure out a way to defeat the entire system your body uses to store fat.
Sticking a vacuum into your belly with surgery is one way to do it – taking useless pills like Acai Berry definitely WON’T do it, no matter how many “simple rules” you follow (in that case, the simple rule is “give us all your money so you can’t afford food anymore” – I guess that one actually WILL work).
And that’s not even all your options for losing stomach fat…
1. Starvation dieting – this is THE best way to lose weight…of course, it’ll be mostly muscle, which will send your metabolism into a nosedive, which will make it harder to continue to lose weight, which will make it easier to REGAIN weight, which will keep that lovely stomach fat firmly where you left it, even though the precious scale shows a smaller number…oops, somebody changed the calibration on it…you actually weigh more now…never mind.
2. Diet pills – pretty much all of these will work for you, especially the ones that say you can eat anything you want and still lose weight (just make sure you’re never more than 15 feet from a bathroom). You know the manufacturers are only interested in your success and well-being, after all! And don’t forget, the heart is a muscle and the faster it goes, the more calories you burn, right! Who wouldn’t want to have their heart-rate up in the “training zone” while they’re sleeping…talk about efficiency!
3. High Impact Aerobics For Beginners – the good news is, soft tissue injuries require a LOT of calories to heal up, so bust out those Step Tae Bosu Dance tapes and go nuts!
Okay, let’s move on to some of the more “radical, unproven” stuff 
…
1. Eating natural, wholesome foods – what a crock! The only thing anybody has ever lost from eating this garbage is fat. Oh wait…
2. Weight training – even more useless than good nutrition, weight training is something to stay away from. All it will do is build muscle and increase your metabolism. Total B.S. Same with interval training…it’s the worst.
3. Supplementing with multivitamins, minerals, fish oil and protein – I know…I can’t make this stuff up! Some people actually USE these things to support their nutrition while eating natural foods and training with weights for fat loss. I guess their quack doctors wouldn’t write out a prescription for Orlistat or Xenical or Gottapoopital.
So bottom line, fat loss isn’t rocket science…just don’t eat anything, take a lot of pills and thrash around for hours on end until you hurt yourself.
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Nick Nilsson has a degree in Physical Education and Psychology and has been innovating new training techniques for more than 18 years. Nick is the author of a number of bodybuilding books including “Muscle Explosion! 28 Days To Maximum Mass”, “Metabolic Surge – Rapid Fat Loss,” “The Best Exercises You’ve Never Heard Of,” “Gluteus to the Maximus – Build a Bigger Butt NOW!” and “The Best Abdominal Exercises You’ve Never Heard Of”, all designed to maximize the results you get for the hard work you put into your training.
Be sure to grab your FREE copy of Nick’s 30-day “Dirty Little Secret Program for Building Muscle and Burning Fat FAST,” available HERE!
Posted by admin on Thursday Jun 10, 2010
Filed under :Weight Loss
Like most people, I have been suckered more times by empty promises than I care to admit. Especially when it comes to that seemingly eternal problem of weight control and how to build a pair of hot shapely legs. You can probably relate to what I am about to tell you. We all know that weight loss diet plans, pills and supplements have been around for years. The people who push them use terms like ‘rapid’, ‘fast’, and ‘easy’, and of course our ears prick up right away. We start taking these things, go on and off diets, and start and stop the latest exercise fad. In short, we are a lot like those mice you see on the wheel, going around and around but never really getting anywhere. Sound familiar?
Yet no matter how many failed programs we have participated in, we still desire that toned firm body, and for most women our lack of a pair of hot legs can almost seem to be our downfall.
Many diet pills and weight loss supplements work by suppressing your appetite. The problem is, this works against the body and it can never provide you with a strong, lean healthy body – which is what we all really want, right? Suppressing your appetite is likely to send your body into ‘survival mode’, forcing it to hold onto every scrap of fat, and in the process become even fatter than it was! This ancient mechanism is hardwired into our genes, because when food was scarce the human body was able to use this mechanism to protect itself from starvation.
The World Heath Organization states that a diet consisting of anything below 1800 calories per day for women and 2400 for men is a starvation diet. Yet millions of people, right at this very moment, are forcing their body to make do with even less than this meager amount of food in the hope they will lose body fat. But any diet with calorie levels this low will trigger the slowdown of the metabolism and put the brakes on fat loss.
Worse yet is that even if some weight is lost this way it will unfortunately be at the expense of some of your precious fat burning machinery – your muscle tissue. This makes future fat loss almost impossible since damage has now been done to your metabolic engine, causing it to permanently burn less fuel (calories).
There is a far better way to lose excess body fat and it is the opposite of trying to force your body into doing something that works against our basic biology. It is called getting healthy, and it simply involves exercising your muscles with proper exercise, and also eating enough natural food to supply the energy needed for your exercise program. This is the only way you will ever get that firm toned body and a great pair of legs.
This natural approach to weight loss works better because it makes your body work more efficiently. Your metabolism is boosted, and causes more fuel to be burned per unit time. It is the most successful method of long-term weight loss simply because you are using your body in the right way.
The fact is that no amount of low intensity activity such as walking, jogging, or cycling will give you the metabolism boosting benefits that strength training will give you. These activities will never be intense enough to build a strong, hot pair of legs – which is the one thing most women would love to possess.
You can control your weight with regular strength training, and, over time, bring your body fat percentage into a healthy range. And as a bonus with this special type of exercise, remember that strong muscles will improve your looks, because when muscles get stronger they give us a more pleasing body shape – tighter and firmer.
The bottom line is that natural physique development works the best. There is not a pill, injection, implant, or surgeon in the world that can give us what we can give ourselves – a strong, lean, shapely, energetic, and healthy body with a pair of hot shapely legs.
To get started on your own plan to kick off the pavement with a pair of smoking hot legs, check out ex-bodybuilding champion Carolyn Hansen’s product Hot Legs Workout.
Next time, I will talk about the 3 workout mistakes that you should be avoiding to get those hot legs.
Until then …
Posted by admin on Friday Apr 2, 2010
Filed under :Weight Loss
Designed by Rob Poulos, Fat Burning Furnace is a weight loss program that demonstrates how you can get rid
of fat and instructs you the 5 facts of permanent fat loss. Having spent years on looking for a good fat loss program, Rob came up with his own program based on his experiences.
The Fat Burning Furnace is 128 page e-book and contains three different sections. The first section will give you some basic information about fat loss and introduces the whole system. The second section covers the fitness feature of the program and gives you important information about exercises. The last section of the book talks about nutrition, so you know exactly what you need to eat with the exercise schedule. You’ll also get many great bonuses and free tools, including email support so program users are not left high and dry.. The book and bonuses costs $39.97 and you get a 60 day iron clad 100% money back guarantee in case you don’t like it. Fat Burning Furnace does not believe in long and drawn out workouts, or any kind of cardiovascular exercises, so his method involves just weights and can be accomplished in as little as 15 – 25 minutes a day.
Fat Burning Furnace System is basically a set of exercise routines merged with a basic eating plan, that is intended to keep demands on your body to burn fat even when not exercising!. The author of
The main idea of the system is to perform some specific exercises for example curls for your arms, but execute them very slowly to maximize the impact they have. This means that you have to finish one set of the exercises, unlike the 3 sets most people are encouraged to do, thus enabling you to complete the workouts quickly.
Since Fat Burning Furnace is not just any trendy diet, you should expect to see more modest fat loss results. This does not mean you won’t see great results fast. Most people show great results after only a week, losing around 3-5 pounds. After about a month, many lose 10-15 pounds. These seem to be pretty normal results for people following the program. While the outcome depend on many different factors, you should see results close to these if you follow the program properly.
The system includes good information on diet and nutrition, and it looks like this was added afterwards to complement the exercises Fat Burning Furnace is a fat loss guide that provides an easy to follow plan that is suitable for people with busy lives. You will not need to many any big changes to you life to see big changes in your weight but you do need to follow up on the system to see results. Put in the effort and be determined, then you should see great fat loss results.
Posted by admin on Friday Mar 19, 2010
Filed under :Weight Loss
I know a lot of people want to lose fat super fast. Yes! That is a dream! I can put myself there but I must tell you that there are no real short cuts to losing weight. Hey, but don’t lose hope. Today, I want to write a post about some ways that you CAN lose fat easily.
I am not going to tell you to eat less as losing weight is NOT about eating less. But taking the right kind of food in the right time and at the same time enjoy eating what you like – now that is the real diet, right? Wow that was a mouthful!
IF you want to lose weight fast, then you have to opt for drastic methods. I will mention a couple:
Liposuction – this procedure involves inserting a tube into the fatty area and then the fat is sucked out, thus reducing you to complete slim shape.
Stomach ballooning – this is a funny kind of procedure where a balloon is inserted into the stomach inflated continuously with water. The balloon stays in the stomach for about six months and then removed so that you can slim down easily and fast.
Those two procedures is not something I want to do for obvious reasons. I would rather lose fat by diet and regular exercises. Noni fruit juice is something that I particularly like; it is a complete natural juice and helps to reduce weight, diminish stress, decrease obesity, enhance beauty and provide you with an overall feeling of well being. Now does that beat those operations or what?
Okay here are some natural tips
I know you have heard it many times but what really works is often repeated several times. I cannot stress enough when I say that walking is THE most important things you can do for your body. Walk early in the morning or in the evenings.
Following are the other natural fast weight loss tips:
- Eat more of vegetables, salads, fruits and soups than fatty solid foods.
- Eat less of fried or oily/greasy foods.
- Eat slowly and practice some regular exercises in both morning and evening.
- Reduce calories-in and calories-out by taking dietary foods.
- Try to have less of chocolates, cookies, chips, and ice creams. I am not saying avoid these but eat only in moderation.
- Eat three sensible meals with more of salads and fruits.
- Regularly visit some gyms, or lift some weights or do any light exercises as this will help to burn down fast calories.
- Avoid fast foods at all costs or any outside foods specially those found in restaurants, hotels and roadside snacks.
- Try to have whole grains instead of refined grains. These are more nutritious.
- Instead of sugary drinks, use a latte with nonfat or low fat milks.
- Get plenty of sleep as this will help to decrease hormone levels of cortisol and insulin, which allow more of fat storage.
- Reduce foods like butter, jam, sour cream, syrup, salt, sugar, salad dressings, potatoes and soft drinks from your diet. I said reduce not stop.
I will writing more tips that will help you in reducing weight so stay tuned.
Posted by admin on Wednesday Jan 6, 2010
Filed under :Weight Loss
What is it about fish and Nezine? I hear you! I have this love-hate relationship with fish food. Sometimes I just love it and other times I can’t stand it. I am aware of the various benefits of fish and sometimes I think that the moments where I have the love of fish, I should make maximum use of it!
Here are some more benefits:
Healthy Heart
A healthy heart is a blessing. The heart is the “heart” of the body. So keeping it healthy should be important. One way of doing that is eating food that contains fish oil.
A research studying the relation between high fish diet and the heart diseases, showed that people who ate more fish had lower substances (mainly C- reactive protein and interleukin-6) in their system. These substances are commonly used to measure the possibility of blood vessel inflammation.
Fish to Become Thin
Another study showed that fish consumption can be used against hypertension and obesity. Researchers of the UWA (University of Western Australia) have discovered that a diet to reduce weight which includes a regular amount of fish can be effective in reducing blood pressure and improving glucose tolerance.
Fish Oil and Asthma
People suffering from asthma and other respiratory problems can find relief in fish oil. So that’s
Researchers at the University of Wyoming studied a number of asthmatic children to see the effects of fish oil. They found out that children with a high-fish diet were less prone to asthma attacks and were able to breath easily while another group of children with regular diet suffered breathing problems.
Having said all that, it is always better to consult your doctor for the amount of fish oil that is right for you. I always say that everything should be in moderation. Same goes for diets and eating habits. Even if something is good for you, excess of it can be harmful.
Posted by admin on Tuesday Jan 5, 2010
Filed under :Weight Loss
We always hear about how good omega-6 and 3 are but what are they? Numbers always confuse me and it is not easy to remember them. I think it is easier for scientists to code food with numbers. Who are we to complain!
What are Omega-6 and 3? Today we can see more people with heart problems, high blood pressure and various other health issues. Sometimes I wonder why people are more sick now than ever before. Can all these be attributed to life changes and the way foods are packed these days? But that I another subject for another post, perhaps.
Physicians and scientists concur that an not taking proper omega-3 and omega-6 is causing increasing cases of heart disease, hypertension or high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, premature aging and certain kinds of cancer. Unbelievable! So is it lack of certain kinds of food that is making us sick more and more. It is beyond comprehension.
Omega-6 can be found in vegetable oils such as corn and soy oils. Omega-3 can be found in marine plankton, walnut and flax seed oils.
It is interesting to learn that a study don Eskimos in the 70’s revealed that they rarely suffer from heart diseases. The reason for this is probably the higher intake of high-fat diet mainly from fish. Fatty fish and fish oils contain eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) – which provide many health benefits.
What these fatty acids (EPA and DHA) do is that they help in preventing atherosclerosis, heart attacks, depression and various forms of cancer. Back when I used to take fish oil daily (made to take by parents), I was not aware that fish oil is useful in treating rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, and ulcerative colitis. Heck, I would not even understand what these were back then! No doubt fish has proven to be beneficial to a lot more other illnesses.
This past few weeks I had a lot of fish that I am getting tired of it. I tell myself that I can’t go back to being 100% veggie. I need to rekindle my love affair with fish. I think talking more about it will help.
My next post will probably be about – guess what? Fish!
Posted by admin on Sunday Jan 3, 2010
Filed under :Weight Loss
The other day, while cooking mutton stew, my mind strayed away from the project on hand and drifted to the time when I used to be strictly a veggie. So I thought today I will write on something that is not really far from this topic.
I have always been a health freak and as far back as I could remember, I have always been a vegetarian. Back then I didn’t know any better but not eating any meat or eggs was just a choice that I got used to. It was only vegetables for me. I was not aware of that completely banning these food products was not really that healthy. My parents didn’t really force me into eating meat or chicken or my diet kind of stuck into adult life.
To a dieting person or a health-conscious individuals, when the words oils and fats are mentioned, they will run for cover. However there are such things as good fats and bad fats. Complete avoidance of intake of oils and fats would actually be damaging – rather than beneficial – to their health.
What About Fish Oil
Being vegetarian as a kid did not help much. A growing body needs to have all the necessary nutrients to grow healthy. So my limited food did not keep me all well; I was sickly. So I was kept on fish oil for a while. This kept me going, so to speak!
We need fatty acids and it has to be included in our diet.
Fatty acids are divided into two groups: omega-6 and omega-3. Omega-6 can be found in vegetable oils and omega-3 in fish oils among other foods.
There are only very little difference between these two groups. However, researches in this topic reveals that too much on omega-6 leads to blood clotting and tumor growth. The opposite is true for omega-3.
Tomorrow I will continue this important topic on fish oil. Be sure to come back!
