Showing posts with label burn calories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label burn calories. Show all posts

Saturday, July 4, 2009

What's Your Weight Loss IQ?



To achieve a healthy weight, let’s take the weight loss IQ quiz to see whether your “healthy” habits are actually hurting your waist size.


1. True or false: You can save calories by having your cereal without milk.


2. True or false: You should pick diet soda over regular to lose weight.


3. True or False: Fat-free dressing is the healthiest.


4. True or False: Breathing through your nose instead of your mouth during a workout burns more calories.


5. True or False: Dieting can be bad for your health, even if you succeed in slimming down.


6. According to the Health and Human Services Department, how long should you be vigorously exercising every week to stay healthy?
A. 45 minutes
B. 1.5 hours
C. 2.5 hours
D. 5 hours


7. At what point in your workout should you do cardio?
A. First
B. Last
C. Your entire workout should be cardio
D. It doesn't matter


8. A study found that people can eat up to what amount less to lose weight without triggering feelings of hunger?
A. 5%
B. 10%
C. 20%
D. 40%


9. If you're just starting to work out, what's the best way for you to burn fat?
A. Work out as hard as you can, for as long as you can.
B. Start slow with a short workout and increase your exercise time over a few weeks.
C. Do a short workout in the morning and a short workout in the evening.
D. Do interval training.


10. How soon before a workout should you eat to improve your performance?
A. 30 minutes
B. An hour
C. 90 minutes
D. 2 hours


What are the answers you get? Want to know whether you are healthy enough? (Ha-ha), I will release the answer after you finish the test later on.


Source by Marie Claire /By Diana Vilibert
http://www.marieclaire.com/health-fitness/news/articles/weight-loss-quiz

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Joel Marion's Cheat Your Way Thin blueprint for success

Absolutely today is the last day that you will be able to get Joel Marion's Cheat Your Way Thin blueprint for success for less than half price.

If you’ve already heard enough about the program, go grab your copy risk-free right now. If not, let me just “talk” to you and be real with you for a minute.

Every so often an opportunity comes along that can literally change the rest of your life. Looking back over your own life, I’m sure you can think of a time or two in which you made a pivotal decision that proved to change EVERYTHING from that point onward.

And you know what? Just before you did, just before you decided to leap in and go for it, you probably sat there and battled back and forth in your mind for quite some time.

And perhaps that’s exactly what you’re dealing with now while thinking about whether or not you should invest the money (and the TIME) in yet another diet program--AND I DON’T BLAME YOU.

If you’re like most people, you’ve been on more diets than you can count and NONE of them worked. But that’s the point! Dieting, calorie restrictive dieting as we’ve come to know it, can not, does not, and WILL NOT work.

This program is different, because it’s literally everything “typical” dieting isn’t. It’s fresh, it’s new, and it’s scientifically based.

You’ve seen the research firsthand, you’ve witnessed the powerful success stories, you KNOW it makes sense, and I know deep down you know that this could be the one program that changes EVERYTHING for you.

The only thing left for you to do is make that one pivotal move, that one critical decision--the decision to act.

Here’s my advice to you: go grab your copy now before the price doubles at midnight, go through the information, evaluate it, and if it’s not everything you hoped it would be, RETURN IT. This is your ONE last chance to give it a full evaluation, 100 RISK-FREE, before the price literally more than doubles tonight.

I’m telling you, once you see all the success stories rolling in from people who are completely changing their lives through this program, you’re going to want to try it.

Elly123

Monday, June 22, 2009

13 Tips to increase your metabolism


There are many discussions on how to burn fat and lose weight fast. But before talking about losing weight, boosting the metabolism rate is the first thing we should concern. Having a higher or faster metabolism rate has several advantages. Not only enables us to burn fat and lose weight fast with less amount of activity, but also allow our body process food much faster which prevents our body from having unwanted fats during workouts. In addition, metabolism rate allow body produces and consumes energy and calories to support life.
However, there are many factors that affect the metabolism such as age, gender, weight, hormonal changes, diet, genetics and the daily physical activities. Therefore, here is a list helping to increase the metabolism rate and burn fat fast.

1. Build up lean body mass-Metabolism decreases with our age. To improve the metabolism, exercising is one way to offset this problem. Lean muscle burns calories and the more we have the more calories we burn, even while resting. The amount of muscle we have is a strong determinant to the ability to burn calories and fat. Doing cardio exercises can boost our metabolism rate, and doing the resistance or weight training can help building muscle. Building muscle is one of the key ingredients in losing fats and it is more effective than any weight loss or diet plan. Besides doing the cardio exercises, you might first take some simple tasks as walking or going up and down stairs to burn off calories.

2. Eat breakfast daily-Many people do not eat breakfast. Most of them think that it might help losing weight if they consume as less meals as possible a day. However, they don’t realize that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Breakfast boost our metabolism rate and provides energy for the day. Alternately, the metabolism decreases if we don’t eat breakfast or eat later in the day. Haven’t you notices that those people who eat breakfasts are thinner than those don’t?

3. Don’t skip meals-Skipping meals is a wrong concept to most people who want to lose weight. What they realize that is skipping meals can take in less fat and weight. However, skipping meals not only slower the metabolism and lead to over eating, but it also causes gaining more fat when you have the next meal.

4. Have a well planning meal-It is much easy to lose weight if you have a daily or weekly meal plan. You may plan what, when, where, and serving size daily. Also, you might write down what you have eaten for every meal, and check whether it is as healthy as possible.

5. Have smaller portion meals-Consume 4 to 6 meals a day every 2 to 4 hours can increase our metabolism rate. It also gives body steady supply of energy and prevent over eating. You should better take in healthy meals rather than junk food.

6. Drink more water-Water is not only a lubricant of the body, it also flushes out of the body and keeps the kidneys operating at maximum efficiency. Lack of water causes the operation of body’s functions to decrease and lower the metabolism rate. We should drink at least 8 glasses of water a day.

7. Sleep well-Getting a good night’s sleep can boost the body operation and metabolism. According to some researches, it stated that people who do not get enough sleep tend to gain more weight. In addition, body use sleep to heal and muscles are regenerated.

8. Sugar is bad-Taking too much sugar might overload the body and causes many serious health problems such as obesity and diabetes. Sugar might transform into fat and stick onto our body if it is excess. The human body cannot deal with a large amount of refined sugar include in their meals.

9. Spicy food-Spicy food is a good friend to boost the metabolism rate and help losing weight because of its ingredients. Therefore, eating some spicy food is good for our body.

10. Green tea is good-As we all know that Japanese have a healthier body weight and live. Drinking green tea is one of the keys. Both green tea and coffee contain caffeine, however green tea can boost metabolism within any side effects to the body, and it can prevent the oxidation to skin.

11. Take higher energy foods including whole grain, beans, fruits, and vegetables-Taking these as our meals can provide more balanced energy to our body and assist us on losing weight. Also, it can improve the function of digestion.

12. Increase daily activities-Increase the daily activities not only resulting in higher level of metabolism rate, but also tend to burn more calories.

13. Reduce fat consumption-Increasing metabolism and losing fat is a simple equation. The question is that you must always burn more fat than your intake, so let’s start by reducing fatty and oily food. And reduce taking in sugar or over intake of carbohydrates.

These 13 tips seems very simple and easy to stick to, I guarantee you will see results in 3 weeks if you follow them faithfully. By doing the above, it might improve your metabolism rate. Don’t stress over each little thing but if you eat right and exercise, you should see a decrease in body fat. Most importantly, is having a healthier lifestyle and a much more energetic and happy you. Can't you?