When it comes to men health and fitness, America as a country is getting further and further behind the rest of the industrialized world. More men in the United States are overweight than any other country in the world, and it's time we did something about it. Fortunately, there are a ton of options when it comes to losing weight. For example, there are plenty of gyms in cities across America. If you're not a fan of getting all sweaty and gross in front of strangers, you can always order your own home gym or get a treadmill. Nowadays, you can even watch television programs and get fit! There are entire channels devoted only to giving you a trim figure.
If you want to learn more about men health and fitness, you could always start subscribing to a men's magazine. In addition to having in depth consumer reports on various electronics and doodads, they also have health and wellness sections. From telling you the best times of the day to go running if you're looking to increase your metabolism to showing you how to shape your triceps, men's magazines have just about everything you could hope for.
If you'd like a more engaging kind of activity, you could hop online and check out some of the men health and fitness forums that are everywhere. These forums allow you to discuss men's health issues in an anonymous fashion without the embarrassment of talking face to face with your primary care physician. They also can act as support groups, with everyone encouraging one another to stay on track in terms of diet and exercise. The only thing to remember when you're dealing with forums, however, is that you can never be sure of who you're talking to. Take all of the advice you get on the forums with a grain of salt, because the people may or may not know what they're talking about.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Weight Loss Reviews - Know the Key Secret of the Best Slimming Program
Out of the hundreds of weight loss programs out there, you can be sure that there’s one that will suit you best. However, finding the right one can be downright confusing and frustrating. Is it any wonder that time and again, diet programs fail and you’re in a much terrible condition than when you first started?
Every new diet program on the block claim they are better than the rest yet fail to emphasize where and how they should be used.
The question most asked by failed weight losers is: why is it so tiresome and frustrating to find the best weight loss regimen THAT WILL WORK?
The answer is surprisingly simple: diets don’t work because they are too restricting. They limit your food intake. Man needs to feed on a variety of food in order to function normally and survive. When you go on a strict diet, your body sends out a lot of warning signals that says it’s not getting enough!
No To starvation Diets
Look for a weight loss program that doesn’t advocate a crash diet. Avoid those revolutionary diets where you have to divest yourself of your favorite food and have to go hungry throughout the program.
The best slimming programs will allow you to eat the right amount of food, enough to make you function and exercise normally without feeling weak and famished. The best program is one that will make you lose weight safely.
That’s the bottom line. The best weight loss program should promote healthy weight loss. It will not allow you to lose weight too fast and it will let the body get the essential nutrients it requires to function normally. This program won’t allow you to go hungry, you’ll swear you're not on a diet at all.
Lose Weight Gradually
Now you might be wondering where on earth can you find such a program where you lose weight safely without starving yourself. Is there really such a program?
Of course, there is. Its rules are really simple. It has no fancy gimmicks, no fad diets and no long hours in the gym. If you want to shed those pounds safely, and keep it off, you need a well-balanced program that includes eating a proper diet and the right exercises.
The safest way to lose weight is to lose it safely and at a moderate pace. Rapid weight loss produces undesirable effects on the body. If you shed weight too fast, you have the tendency to gain it back sooner or later.
If you are still allowed to eat your favorite foods, this means your body is not deprived of its essential building blocks. On the other hand, starvation diets lets you eat only the foods they allow and lets you go famished all the time. Starving yourself can make you slip and send you on an eating binge.
The Big Secret
The secret of the best weight loss program lies in burning off what you have consumed. If you ate a lot of fried chicken, then the best way to compensate for it is to burn off the excess calories through exercise. That’s it. That’s the big secret.
Don’t be lazy to exercise so there won’t be an accumulation of fat in your body. This is the best weight loss formula. Eat well and exercise. Avoid exercise and you will remain overweight for the rest of your life.
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Every new diet program on the block claim they are better than the rest yet fail to emphasize where and how they should be used.
The question most asked by failed weight losers is: why is it so tiresome and frustrating to find the best weight loss regimen THAT WILL WORK?
The answer is surprisingly simple: diets don’t work because they are too restricting. They limit your food intake. Man needs to feed on a variety of food in order to function normally and survive. When you go on a strict diet, your body sends out a lot of warning signals that says it’s not getting enough!
No To starvation Diets
Look for a weight loss program that doesn’t advocate a crash diet. Avoid those revolutionary diets where you have to divest yourself of your favorite food and have to go hungry throughout the program.
The best slimming programs will allow you to eat the right amount of food, enough to make you function and exercise normally without feeling weak and famished. The best program is one that will make you lose weight safely.
That’s the bottom line. The best weight loss program should promote healthy weight loss. It will not allow you to lose weight too fast and it will let the body get the essential nutrients it requires to function normally. This program won’t allow you to go hungry, you’ll swear you're not on a diet at all.
Lose Weight Gradually
Now you might be wondering where on earth can you find such a program where you lose weight safely without starving yourself. Is there really such a program?
Of course, there is. Its rules are really simple. It has no fancy gimmicks, no fad diets and no long hours in the gym. If you want to shed those pounds safely, and keep it off, you need a well-balanced program that includes eating a proper diet and the right exercises.
The safest way to lose weight is to lose it safely and at a moderate pace. Rapid weight loss produces undesirable effects on the body. If you shed weight too fast, you have the tendency to gain it back sooner or later.
If you are still allowed to eat your favorite foods, this means your body is not deprived of its essential building blocks. On the other hand, starvation diets lets you eat only the foods they allow and lets you go famished all the time. Starving yourself can make you slip and send you on an eating binge.
The Big Secret
The secret of the best weight loss program lies in burning off what you have consumed. If you ate a lot of fried chicken, then the best way to compensate for it is to burn off the excess calories through exercise. That’s it. That’s the big secret.
Don’t be lazy to exercise so there won’t be an accumulation of fat in your body. This is the best weight loss formula. Eat well and exercise. Avoid exercise and you will remain overweight for the rest of your life.
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Dieting – Permanent Weight Loss?
"The inn is not as comforting as the journey." – unknown
For those of us who've battled our weight our whole lives, dieting is often a life-long companion, one we sometimes both love and hate, one in which we first grow giddy with excitement at the potential, but more often than not, one in which we feel has lets us down in the end.
But is it really the "diet's" fault? There are certainly dozens of diets that come and go only to resurface again over the years. Fitness guru's found on late-night infomercials are all too willing to take your money with the promise of giving you a model's body in six weeks or less using their simple and fun program for just twenty minutes a day three times a week! Over your lifetime you have probably tried more than one diet and may have even tried the same diet several times.
Even with all these promises you see people, ordinary people, who have lost significant amounts of weight through dieting and exercising though not with any particular diet or exercise but using any one of the current diet "fads" or exercise machines on the market. Dieting does work and it has probably worked for you one or more times.
People can and do lose weight on whatever their diets of choice is. It's clear there's no one perfect diet but rather each person has a diet that's perfect for them and their body. For one person's body it might be low fat and high carb, for another it might be low carb and high fat. The actual diet itself doesn't matter nor do the specific exercises that you do. What is important is finding the combination of the right diet and exercises the you can and will do and that work for you.
However, the single most important factor in determining your chances of success is in your mind and not your particular diet or exercise program. Your mental "game", above all else, will determine your level of success. You must have a burning desire to reach your dieting goals, you must also create a plan, have faith in attaining that goal, review the goal frequently, and consistently overcome all obstacles until your goal is reached.
Only once you've mastered your mental "game" can you be assured of successfully reaching your dieting goals.
The mental factor may be the most important part of succeeding, but it is just the start. There's one other factor most people do not realized about dieting and it's almost as important as the mental game for long-term success. This one factor contributes more to your dietary and fitness failures than perhaps any other factor besides lacking a correct mental game.
Dieting, which is setting and reaching a goal, is only the first half of the process. Once reached, your goal is not the end of your journey. It's only the beginning of a new goal, the second half of your complete success. It's kind of like going through school as a child. Each year you reached toward the end of the year when school was out and you had successfully completed that grade level. But there was always another grade level to complete.
The other half of your "dieting" journey is now applying and maintaining what you've learned along the way to reach another goal: maintaining your new healthy lifestyle. This is not just for the short term but it is purposefully making a lifestyle change for a permanent improvement in your health and fitness.
Only once you've realized that all permanent health and fitness changes in your life are really two parts, reaching your dieting and fitness goals and then maintaining them with a new ongoing goal, can you then come to understand that the most important parts aren't the goals, it's the journey to your goals. Then and only then will your health and fitness decisions be successful for the rest of your life.
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For those of us who've battled our weight our whole lives, dieting is often a life-long companion, one we sometimes both love and hate, one in which we first grow giddy with excitement at the potential, but more often than not, one in which we feel has lets us down in the end.
But is it really the "diet's" fault? There are certainly dozens of diets that come and go only to resurface again over the years. Fitness guru's found on late-night infomercials are all too willing to take your money with the promise of giving you a model's body in six weeks or less using their simple and fun program for just twenty minutes a day three times a week! Over your lifetime you have probably tried more than one diet and may have even tried the same diet several times.
Even with all these promises you see people, ordinary people, who have lost significant amounts of weight through dieting and exercising though not with any particular diet or exercise but using any one of the current diet "fads" or exercise machines on the market. Dieting does work and it has probably worked for you one or more times.
People can and do lose weight on whatever their diets of choice is. It's clear there's no one perfect diet but rather each person has a diet that's perfect for them and their body. For one person's body it might be low fat and high carb, for another it might be low carb and high fat. The actual diet itself doesn't matter nor do the specific exercises that you do. What is important is finding the combination of the right diet and exercises the you can and will do and that work for you.
However, the single most important factor in determining your chances of success is in your mind and not your particular diet or exercise program. Your mental "game", above all else, will determine your level of success. You must have a burning desire to reach your dieting goals, you must also create a plan, have faith in attaining that goal, review the goal frequently, and consistently overcome all obstacles until your goal is reached.
Only once you've mastered your mental "game" can you be assured of successfully reaching your dieting goals.
The mental factor may be the most important part of succeeding, but it is just the start. There's one other factor most people do not realized about dieting and it's almost as important as the mental game for long-term success. This one factor contributes more to your dietary and fitness failures than perhaps any other factor besides lacking a correct mental game.
Dieting, which is setting and reaching a goal, is only the first half of the process. Once reached, your goal is not the end of your journey. It's only the beginning of a new goal, the second half of your complete success. It's kind of like going through school as a child. Each year you reached toward the end of the year when school was out and you had successfully completed that grade level. But there was always another grade level to complete.
The other half of your "dieting" journey is now applying and maintaining what you've learned along the way to reach another goal: maintaining your new healthy lifestyle. This is not just for the short term but it is purposefully making a lifestyle change for a permanent improvement in your health and fitness.
Only once you've realized that all permanent health and fitness changes in your life are really two parts, reaching your dieting and fitness goals and then maintaining them with a new ongoing goal, can you then come to understand that the most important parts aren't the goals, it's the journey to your goals. Then and only then will your health and fitness decisions be successful for the rest of your life.
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Permanent Link: http://www.isnare.com/?aid=88730&ca=Wellness%2C+Fitness+and+Diet
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