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Weight Loss – Smart Goals for New Year’s Success

Posted by admin on November 29th, 2009 Comments Off

The New Year is almost here, and with it comes the opportunity for each of us to examine where we have been, where we are, and most importantly where we are going as we head into the future. After some reflection on our lives, many of us use the New Year as a chance to wipe the slate clean. We make a resolution to do something different or new with our life.

By far the number one New Year’s resolution most people make is to drop a few pounds and get into shape. Ask any health club manager and they will tell you stories about the mad rush of people eager to join their club. People full of enthusiasm that push their bodies to the limit hoping for instant results and magical physique transformations. More often than not, this enthusiastic crowd will return to their old habits by spring. Why? Because they didn’t have a plan. When life throws you a curveball, it’s easy to get knocked off course. However, with a well laid plan and realistic goals, it is much easier to knock life’s curveballs out of the park and successfully follow through on your New Year’s resolution.

Before you begin your exercise and weight loss program, you need to determine what your goals are. The most effective method that I have used for this is called the SMART goal setting method. SMART is an acronym for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Timetable.

Specific – When you think about setting a goal, be as specific as possible. The more specific you can be the better. If you want to lose weight, how many pounds are you going to lose? If you’re going to go to the gym, how many days per week will you go? How long will you exercise while there? At what intensity will you exercise? (Use a heart rate monitor for cardio; use a stop watch to measure rest periods, work intervals, etc.)

Measurable – Have you ever heard the saying “you can’t manage what you don’t measure”? You must measure your progress if you want to reach your goals. When you exercise keep a log book to record each training session. Write down the distance and speed with which you completed your cardio session. If you use a heart rate monitor, record those readings as well. When weight training, record weight, reps, sets and type of exercises performed during your training. Once a week weigh yourself and record that as well. As you build a log over time, you’ll begin to see patterns develop and progress being made. It feels good to look back over months of hard work and see in black and white how far you’ve come. Remember, the numbers don’t lie.

Attainable – Are your goals attainable? Be honest with yourself. If you need to lose 25lbs, but in your mind you just don’t feel like you can do it, then start with a lower goal like 10lbs. Remember, a goal should take you out of your comfort zone; However, you should still feel confident that it’s attainable.

Realistic – Let’s say that you’ve decided to lose 10ibs; However, you want to do it in two weeks. Or maybe your goal is to spend an hour and a half in the gym six days a week even though you have two young children, a husband and a full time job. These goals are not realistic. A better option would be to lose 10 pounds in 5 weeks or go to the gym for an hour four times a week. Again, be honest with yourself and set realistic expectations.

Timetable – A goal is not a goal unless there is a timetable attached to it. Setting a timetable provides you with accountability and a sense of urgency. It also allows you to continue setting new goals. Your journey never ends when you reach the date you’ve set for achieving your goal. You should continue setting new goals to build upon the foundation you’ve laid.

If you follow the SMART method for goal setting, you can go into the New Year with confidence that you’ll finally succeed at accomplishing your New Year’s resolution!

To Your Success,

Lee Daugherty

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Four Weight Loss Secrets

Posted by admin on November 25th, 2009 Comments Off

If you are struggling with your weight you probably know how difficult and frustrating losing those extra pounds can be. However, there are four secrets that many people don’t know that can make weight loss that much easier. Weight loss is never easy, but if you work hard and set yourself a weight loss goal you should easily start seeing the results.

The first secret to weight loss is to talk to your doctor. This is not a secret, but it is something that most people don’t either think of doing or actually do. If you talk to your doctor, he or she can to check your health and medical history and determine exactly what the cause of your problem could be. In some cases, your medical condition can go beyond the reach of a healthy diet and regular exercise. If you talk to your doctor, you can easily get to the bottom of the problem and pick up some helpful advice to lose weight.

Another great secret to weight loss is to improve your posture. Ok, that is not exactly a way to lose weight, but it will certainly make you look thinner! Good posture, whether you stand or sit, will immediately give you a more slender look. In many cases when we are trying clothes on in a dressing room, you always stand up straight to get a better idea of how they look. if you really want to look like you have lost weight good posture is essential at any time. This can also help with the weight loss process itself, for instance good posture when exercising leads to more effective and safer workout.

The third secret to weight loss is to get your whole family involved. It can be very tempting to have a hamburger with your husband or a double helping of fries with your wife, but if the whole family is eating healthy food, weight loss will not seem so depressing. Keep the junk food out of the house completely, and everyone is healthier.

Finally, one of the biggest secrets to weight loss is to think your weight in relation to everyday life. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Park in the last parking space in the mall or at work and walk to the front door. In the morning cut out coffee and replace it with tea. Go play outside with your children rather than stay in the house watching tv. Go out dancing instead of a movie. These small things may not seem so significant at the time but they will make a big difference in the long run to your life in general. It’s simple, less calories and more exercise equals weight loss.

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Different types of effective weight loss

Posted by admin on November 23rd, 2009 Comments Off

Whilst some weight loss programs are willing to make you believe that the only route to effective weight loss is through endless hours at the gym, or by cutting out all fat or carbohydrates from your diet, there are in fact other ways to lose weight.Methods that are in fact natural and easy to incorporate into your every day lifestyle: fat binders.Now before you jump the gun, and state that weight loss supplements do not work, just listen to this point for a moment.Yes it may be true that there are hundreds of weight loss supplements on the market, that have got no backing or clinical trials to prove they are the genuine article. But if you look a little closer you will find that this is not completely the case.It is just a matter of learning how to find the real deals whilst keeping a conscious view of all the others tips available.Take the Telegraph’s recent article discussing their top 5 recommended ways for losing weight in 2008.In this one article they touched all the different bases that you can consider:• Eat 6 times a day – in other words, monitor what you eat. By breaking breakfast, lunch and dinner into 6 smaller meals you can prevent snacking and keep your body’s metabolism high.• Fat binders – now we know fat binders are commonly found in weight loss supplements, but compared to chemically enriched supplements that affect the nervous system, fat binders are 100% natural. All they do is work to make 28% of your fat indigestible in your digestive tract, whilst also being effective appetite suppressants. And one clear example the Telegraph gave of a real and credible fat binder was natural weight loss supplement Proactol.Visit Proactol and offer your body a natural solution to weight loss – Click here• Online support – as the Telegraph proves not all effective weight loss is about taking a supplement or exercise. Surrounding yourself with a strong support network can give you the confidence to keep pursuing your weight loss goals whilst helping you to keep it off. Many online weight loss supplements can provide you with that network. On Proactol.com for example consumers can benefit from advice and tips from their online discussion forum whilst having access to a 27/7 support team.• Eat Breakfast – sometimes losing weight doesn’t even have to involve changing your diet, as the Telegraph proves. By simply ensuring you eat a healthy breakfast every morning you can set your metabolism up for the rest of the day, and keep it burning fast.• Realistic exercise plan- exercise and weight loss can often come hand in hand in terms of successful weight loss, but one of the most common mistakes people make is setting themselves unrealistic targets which they cannot keep up. The best way is to build up your fitness levels beginning with a 10 minute walk until you are able to take on more.So as the Telegraph’s clearly points out there are numerous other alternatives that you can choose from to ensure that you experience natural easy weight loss. Food, exercise, support groups or natural weight loss supplements, each and every one of these can make your journey to successful weight loss, easy, fun and accessible.

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New Method for Weight Loss

Posted by admin on November 20th, 2009 No Comments

From the very first day you made up your mind to lose weight, you should make that commitment and go into it with a positive attitude. losing weight can be quite a challenge. In fact, for some, it can be very tough. It takes time, practice, discipline and support to change lifetime habits. But it’s a process you must learn in order to succeed.

Your emotions are like muscles and the ones you use most grow the strongest. If you always look at the negative side of things, you’ll become a depressed, pessimistic person. Even slightly negative thoughts have a greater impact on you and last longer than powerful positive thoughts.

No good thing comes out of negative thinking, it just holds you back from accomplishing the things you want to do. When a negative thought creeps into your mind, replace it reminding yourself that you’re somebody, you have self-worth and you possess unique strengths and talents. Contemplate what lies ahead of you. Losing weight is not just about diets. It’s about a whole new you and the possibility of creating a new life for yourself. Investigate the weight loss programs that appeal to you and that you feel will teach you the behavioral skills you need to stick with throughout the weight-loss process. First you should look for support among family and friends. It can be an enormous help to discuss obstacles and share skills and tactics with others on the same path. You might look for this support from others you know who are in weight loss programs and you can seek guidance from someone you know who has lost weight and kept it off.

There are success stories across the country today. On television and in newspapers, magazines and tabloids about people who have miraculously lost untold pounds and kept it off. In all instances they say their mental attitude as well as their outlook on life has totally changed and LOW GLYCEMIC DIET and this method works!!!

You will probably need to learn new, wiser eating skills. You will want a weight loss regimen that gives you some control, rather than imposing one rigid system. Look for one that offers a variety of different eating plans, so you can choose the one that’s best for you.

Keep in mind, too, that your weight loss program will most likely include some physical exercises. Look at the exercising aspect of your program as fun and recreation and not as a form of grueling and sweaty work. The fact is that physical fitness is linked inseparable to all personal effectiveness in every field. Anyone willing to take the few simple steps that lie between them and fitness will shortly begin to feel better, and the improvement will reflect itself in every facet of their existence.

Doctors now say that walking is one of the best exercises. It helps the total circulation of blood throughout the body, and thus has a direct effect on your overall feeling of health. There are things such as aerobics, jogging, swimming and many other exercises which will benefit a weight loss program. Discuss the options with your doctor and take his advice in planning your exercise and weight loss program.

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Weight Loss and Money

Posted by admin on November 20th, 2009 No Comments

A new weight loss product enters the market and you think ‘perhaps this will work for me,it looks easy’.The fact is that there is nothing easy about weight loss and the sooner you face up to that, the more chances of success you will have.

It takes time to lose weight, just as it took time to gain weight. Nobody has ever gone to bed thin and woke up overweight the next morning. It takes a long time to put on a lot of weight,so it stands to reason that it will take some time to lose weight.However people want instant results.Unless they change this way of thinking they will not find any long lasting success.

Many industries that have sprung up around the issue of weight loss, produce and try to sell products that are claimed to be the holy grail of weight loss. The truth is that no one product is going to achieve what it promises. Successful weight loss is based on a combination of actions which will include:

Eating smaller meals more frequently, replacing unhealthy foods with healthy foods, being more active in your life, having a varied exercise plan, changing the way that you think of yourself.

Unfortunately people hang on to the small hope that the next miracle product will help them to lose weight. They buy it then when they realise that it is not working for them,then what do they do? They wait for the next product to appear, and they continue to follow the same process again and again.

Deep down most people will know what they have to do to lose weight, but on the whole they tend to ignore this knowledge, and while they keep doing this, they will keep failing. If there was one particular product that could guarantee the results it promised, then everyone would use it and weight issues would not be a problem. However there is no such thing as a miracle weight loss product that is going to work for the majority of people.

we will look at 2 different products that basically act as cash cows for the people that try to sell them to you.

Fitness DVDs

The industry of fitness DVDs is huge. people star in them and try to persuade you that you too can look the way that they do. They tell you that a certain method of exercising has helped them to get the bodies that they have, and now you too can get the same body by buying their DVDs. Admittedly many of the exercises on these types of products can be beneficial, but that is not the whole story.

Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that these people look the way that they do because of the product that they are trying to sell you, because they don’t.

Keep in mind that they probably keep their bodies in shape with expensive personal trainers.

Remember that they can afford to buy the healthiest foods.

Remember that they can afford to have their homes equipped with professional gym equipment.

Remember that the main reason that they initially became celebrities was because they already were beautiful and had great bodies. Not all of us are fortunate enough to have great genetics.

Remember that if all else fails, they have the money to pay for all their fat to be sucked out of them through medical procedures.

Buying some celebrity’s DVD is not going to guarantee to give you the body that they have unless you fall into the majority of the above.

Have you ever thought why these people make these DVDs?

Do they really have your best interests at heart? Did they suddenly get this selfless thought during an expensive facial? Do they really want to make life better for you? Do they know you? Do they care about you?

My guess is that most of these celebrities make these products to make life even better for themselves by persuading you to give them your money. Perhaps I am being too cynical; perhaps they do genuinely care about your welfare. I know! after purchasing one of their products try contacting them personally. Ask for some advice on exercise or weight loss. I’m sure they would be more than happy to help you; after all they do want to help you. They tell you as much on their DVD.

Exercise products

More people waste money on exercise gadgets than anything else. People see the adverts, the persuasive hard sell, and the selfless endorsements. In a trance like state you telephone in your order without any logical thought. You wait religiously for 28 days for your product to arrive. You have visions about how great you are going to look after using this product.

The reality is very different to your visions. The reality is that you will use the product a few times, realise that it’s harder than you thought, and you will hide it away in some dark corner so you don’t have to be reminded of how much money you have wasted.

Have you ever noticed how well muscled and toned the people in the adverts are? Did these people really get 18in arms by pulling a few cables 5 minutes a day? Did these people really get toned and tanned bodies just from the product that they are using?

Of course there are other people on these advertisements who used to be overweight and are now slim. They imply that their results came directly from the product. Did they achieve what they did without changing their diets and lifestyles? Why would these people say that they owed their success to a particular product?

If i had lost some weight and someone offered me lots of money to say that i did it using their product, it ould be extremely hard to turn down.Obviously they wouldn’t want me to mention any other methods that i would have used? I know that I wouldn’t.

The fact is that people can be persuaded to buy anything through clever advertising. Focus on the fact that it is you that is going to make sure that you lose weight and not some gadget that you can slide under your bed. Any product is only going to be a part of a weight loss plan. The most important parts of any weight loss plan are going to be motivation, commitment, determination, and perseverance. Focus on these 4 factors and you will lose weight. Without these 4 factors you will not.

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Weight Loss Diet Program Failure Overcoming Two Leading Problems

Posted by admin on October 28th, 2009 No Comments

1. They could not follow the program.

2. They lost some weight but could not maintain it.

These two problems are the biggest ones that most people face but this does not mean that they are the only ones. Both of these problems are related to the human mind and not human body. Your exercise plan or diet has got nothing to do with the failure. The main cause of this failure is the mind state of a human being; he is expected to follow the program with consistency which for some people is not possible. Another reason for this failure is the conflict between a person’s unconscious and conscious state of mind. These two are the reasons due to which a person fails to lose his or her weight. If you are not prepared then nothing can help you get the required results.

The only solution to this problem is to change the entire life style of a person. This will help his sub-conscious mind to accept it and he will be able to follow the plan with more consistency. This shift will solve all the problems and the person will adapt to the new settings. Now this will be more of an adopted life style than a forced on. Now the person will follow the whole diet and exercise program without any trouble. There are numerous advance mind trainings that can help you achieve this state of mind, magically slim being one of them. With the required mind state in place a person will easily follow all the weight loss programs and will be able to maintain it for a long period of time.

With the mind state in place you will need to find yourself a good diet and exercise plan. You can only lose your weight if you are able to burn more calories than you take in. For this reason you need to have a good diet plan. You can ask a doctor to tell you about healthy foods with low calories or you can ask your friends who are already following a plan. You can also use the internet yourself and then evaluate the food items. This way you can eat what you want and you will know how much calories it contains. With your diet plan in place it’s time to get yourself a good exercise plan. You can go for some basic exercises or advanced exercise but this depends on your level of experience. You can buy the necessary equipment or join a gym for this reason. You also have another option! If you don’t want to follow exercises then you can go out for walking, cycling, swimming or running. They don’t require any specialized equipment so they are much easier to adopt.

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