Saturday, 15 November 2008

Slimming with Water

Well the last post "Losing Weight Naturally", got plenty of information down about the subject of shedding the pounds without resorting to the use of artificial means such as diet pills, chemical laden milk shakes or other dubious methods of losing weight.

Now I'll take the easy route and talk about one of the most natural substances anyone can possibly resort to in the war against the flab. Water is as natural as it gets and when you drink enough of it every day, you can't help but lose weight over time.

You see, most people do not drink enough water every day. They dehydrate without realising they are and to compensate, search for food in the form of snacks to fill the void. This is where weight gain comes from in many people and it can so easily be countered by knowing when you need to drink more fluid.

Not just any old fluid will do, unfortunately. You can't reach for a soda or sugary fizzy drink and expect that to make up part of your daily fluid intake. All you'll achieve by doing that is more weight gain and that includes so-called diet drinks.

Diet drinks contain artificial sweeteners which have a property that not many people know about. Apart from the dangers linking them to cancer (aspartame being one off the worst offenders) they also have a tendency to cause you body to crave more food, especially sweet or fatty things. Which will naturally cause weight gain! You can't help it!

So as far as some of the best weight loss tips can possibly go, ditch the sodas and the diet sodas and the isotonic drinks and the flavoured fizzy water and do yourself, your body and your waistline a big big favour and switch to plain water. And make sure you drink at least two to three pints a day.

Well, I hope that this has been a real eye opener for you and its something I wish I'd known about when I was much younger. Except back then, nobody really knew about this, at least not in the majority of cases, so as a teenager and young adult, I had no idea that lack of water was probably causing more damage than I realised and was setting me up for health problems in later life. When you're young, you think you know everything and nobody can tell you, right? But you have to kick yourself in the arse sometimes and wake up to the fact that you're not the genius you think you are and to bite the bullet and actually take somebody's advice once in a while!

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Monday, 8 September 2008

Losing Weight Naturally

Well, its time to think about losing weight naturally and post again. After my last post, lets get to it.

Maybe we have too many great weight loss tips and not enough how to exercise safely. This in spite of the fact that a blog all about how to get healthy discovers there are actually many ways for losing weight. Now I will teach you how to use good health to your advantage. Now our thoughts should turn to the truisms about fitness and exercise. They're really playing with fire. I personally enjoy losing weight but not making it a chore.

Slimming tips is important in accomplishing your goal. This is some of the stuff you've got to do to get losing weight. This will help you weather the storm. Good health is a diamond in the rough. At first, I couldn't make heads or tails of how to do this easily, until it all fell into place. Finding some really great weight loss tips are the next best thing, but first you need to get off your lazy backside and roll up your sleeves and get to work. This is one of the easiest things I have found out about losing weight. Now why will this not work? I could be compelled to accept that it most certainly does work.

I don't need a fresh approach. Without choosing the right diet my losing weight is pointless. Does this have a direct correlation with losing weight? It’s one of the best ways there is. I had always found that if I actually made less how to lose weight easily that I would get less losing weight. This is not important now. I am not in favour of all the many slimming tips that are around, mainly because a lot of them are too difficult to see through. Better to concentrate on good health. You can quote me on that. It is super how a normal person does not explain a picnic of a point like this. I don't know if this working for me but I will try it. The goal is to increase the number of ways to achieve success that are available.

This is just huge. You don't always need a fresh approach to slimming tips. I’m not covering all the bases I need to here. We have to nip it in the bud. I am going to try and simplify things as much as possible. Anyone can do this. I know a picture's worth a thousand words.

It’s easily the fastest way. We don't need a fresh approach to losing weight. There are simply no suspicious activities on this field. It's all cut and dried. Slimming is easy and everyone who can swim loves to swim and this is a great way to get fit and healthy. You'll never know what you get out of it if you don't try it.

I bought some books on how to lose weight easily the other day. Whatever turns you on, but reading them was an eye opener. Sounds simple, but it’s not. At first, I couldn't make heads or tails of it. Seriously though, check into this side of things. In my opinion and experience, no. this is really fun. I can’t think of a better reason to get some good weight loss info? You need to go above and beyond what others are telling you about losing weight.

There are some areas where I seem to have the odd problem or two with losing weight. It is expected for fitness and exercise to lose its luster after a while, but you just have to keep going until you reach your goal. It has to do with the fundamentals of the whole process. It is what it is.

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Thursday, 4 September 2008

Weight Loss Top Tips #3

After my last post, its time to follow on with another of my great weight loss tips for anyone to do if they want to. That doesn't mean anyone has to do any of these, it just means that if you want to give yourself a chance to lose weight, then you might want to give some of these great tips a try to see how well they work for you.

Well, this particular addition to my collection of weight loss tips is a really simple one to do and one that anyone can have a go at because its so surprisingly easy and its also really nice to do too. What a double bonus that is! Easy and nice...

Well, you'll see just how easy and nice it is when I start explaining this one. What is it then?

Stretching!

I can see the smiles appearing on faces at this little revelation that is not really much more than a simple and common sense thing to do. But it gets even easier and even more pleasurable when I tell you when you should do it!

In bed!

Yep, when you wake up in the morning, don't jump straight out of bed and hurry on to the bathroom (unless you are desperate, of course!). Give yourself a minute or two and stretch! Stretch your legs while you're still laying down along with your back and neck, feet and toes give them all a good, pleasurable stretch! Then slowly sit up and stretch your arms above your head. Make sure you stretch your legs again then you can get up!

But before you rush off, while standing stretch again - arms out in front and then upwards toward the ceiling. Rise up onto the balls of your feet and stretch your legs again. Feel the muscles stretching nicely, then go back down so your feet are flat on the floor. Bend each knee forwards so you can feel your thighs stretch and also your calf muscles as well as the backs of your thighs and then you're ready to face your day with more supple muscles than before.

Do this every day for a truly marvelous alternative health kick and after a few days you'll notice the difference in feeling more energetic in the mornings. Add this to your other weight loss programs such as weight diet and exercise and you'll find its great for taking the dogs out for their morning walk full of beans and feeling really good!

Did anyone ever say losing weight had to be hard?

Well these great tips are designed to be anything but!

Enjoy!

Monday, 18 August 2008

Weight Loss Top Tips #2

With great ideas coming hard and fast, I want to follow on from my last hard hitting post (Weight Loss Tips #1), where I really beat up the TV slobs (my being an ex-TV slob gives me the right!), it's time to turn on to what you can do to start to lose weight without resorting to anything that is not nice to do.

What?

Yep, after being so tough in my last post, now I'm turning mega-soft on you. That's because I am as well aware as anyone that if you are going to be forced to do things in order to lose some weight, then you're going to resist doing them!

That's why so many diets and exercise regimes fail people. It's simple human nature. People in general don't like doing anything they don't like doing! If that sounds simplistic, then it is exactly that. To get someone to do anything, you have to make it something they want to do.

What Do You Want to Do?


So when it comes to losing weight, the very best way to get started is to find something that you enjoy doing or something that you think you would enjoy doing. To do this, it boils down to individual likes and dislikes. That's because not everyone is the same and we don't all like doing the same things.

Some of us need a good plan now, while those who live to diet in earnest are going to get a better deal. There are all kinds of options, like meal replacement home delivery diets such as the Medifast, Jenny Craig or Nutrisystem diet to make it easy for you. It's your choice to make.

So what I plan to do with this blog is to give you some examples of simple things you can do. If you like the sound of any of them, then do them! Simple!

So the second of my tips is one I enjoy doing on a twice daily basis. And that's walking my dogs.

Walking the Dog!


Walking dogs is a therapeutic exercise for me as it gives me some quality thinking time while I spend time with the little guys and its an amusing time as well watching some of the antics they get up to as we walk around the streets and open space in the neighborhood where I live.

From an exercise standpoint I get some additional fat burn-boosting work because I live in a hilly area which makes me walk up and down hills. That makes my body work harder especially uphill and makes me breathe harder, raises my heart rate and makes me sweat.

These are the three things you need to aim for when you do any simple exercise if you want to start burning off that excess flab!
  1. Breathing harder
  2. Elevated heart rate
  3. Sweating
If you can get these three things happening when you're doing your stuff for a prolonged period of time - and that is more than 20 minutes by the way, then you'll start the process of losing weight naturally.

So that's it for now with the second of my tips and its a pretty enjoyable one - if you have a dog or dogs, that is. Until next time.

Thursday, 24 July 2008

Weight Loss Top Tips #1

Following on from the introductory post here at Weight Loss Tips that was entitled simply: "Weight Loss Top Tips", its now time to set to work and set out the first of my truly mind blowing, yet obviously simple common sense means and ways of losing weight.

You may not like what this one is going to be, but if you're serious about wanting to lose some weight, then this is the first step.

Switch off the television!

I'm not joking, either. You would not believe the amount of a person's day that is wasted sitting in front of the TV! If this is you, then when would NOW be the best time to do something about it?

We only get one life and yet so many of us just waste a huge proportion of that life vegetating in front of the television. While we're sitting motionless watching whatever piece of crap is showing (and let's be brutally honest here, most of what you watch on the TV is pure, unadulterated crap), you are not burning off any of that excess weight. In fact, by spending so much time in a state of non-motion, your body is slowing its own metabolic rate down to match your level of motion, so that anything you eat will be metabolised that much slower.

And guess where all that very slowly metabolised food ends up? Stuck in your colon and gradually being converted into the stuff that fills up the body's fat cells.

Only the problem is much worse than you think. Most people eat when the clock says so and not when the body actually needs more food, so while you're body is still halfway through metabolising that last onslaught of fodder, you're starting to cram more food down your gullet that your body has no chance to process before the next food attack!

Think that this is a good way to treat your body?

I don't.

The first step towards even beginning down that road of weight loss is to get your body moving. Eating less will not help you. No diet will unless you get your metabolism moving like it should be and not slothfully as it does when you spend too much time in a state of catatonia.

So get up out of your chair and switch the damn TV off and get yourself moving! Go for a walk, go take the stairs two at a time, go play with your kids in the park (if you can pry them away from their Playstations) or if you have a dog take it for several walks a day and make 'em long ones!

Even doing daily chores like housework will get your muscles moving and force some blood around your body! If you live in a city, get out of it and breath some fresh air for a change. If you can't do that, then at least go and spend some time in your local park where there are some trees that will provide you with some more oxygen than your stuffy TV room ever did!

Ok, that's enough beating you up. I'm only being so hard because I had to be hard on myself to do the things I just described.

Yep, I was one of those TV slobs too and I was letting my life pass me by while watching more crap on the TV than I can remember! I did it - I got up off my lazy behind and switched the damn thing off. Then I started to live my life again! You can too.

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Wednesday, 23 July 2008

Weight Loss Top Tips

Welcome to Weight Loss Top Tips.

This is a blog that will from time to time provide some great weight loss tips for anyone interested in losing a few pounds or mores the point preventing a few extra pounds from finding their way onto your person!

This is not a medical or nutritionist type of blog, but more one of simple common sense that anyone with average intelligence will find useful and even entertaining (I hope). The idea is to bring you as many great and useful weight loss ideas, tips and tricks as I can that all work and can be verified in one way or another. Its important to be able to lose a few pounds here and there easily as possible while also making it as much fun as possible. That works by not viewing the process of losing weight as a chore, but more of a thing that you really want to do. That way, you're more likely to stick with any diet or exercise plan that you take on and you will hava a much better chance of success.

So join me for a weight loss ride through the maze of weight loss tips and ideas that actually work and probably work better than a lot of the fad diets that he so-called experts are forever foisting upon us!

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