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Everyday Weight Loss Advice 8

Welcome to another in my ongoing series of weight loss advice. Once again, we will explore some of the many ideas you can implement in your life to help you with your weight loss program. Let’s get started. Today we’ll continue our focus on exercise.

1. It is important to stop exercising when your body has had enough. There is no sense in pushing it. When you have worked out for a considerable time, your body will start giving you signals. Heed those signals. This is particularly true in the initial stages. Take it one step at a time. Stop when you are out of breath or when a certain part of your body tells you that it has had enough. It is the cumulative amount of exercise over time that will help you with weight loss. Take it slow and easy.

2. If you want to increase your exercise time or the number of reps you do, do it gradually and not in sudden steps. This is easier said than done. Most of us have such hectic schedules that we think it is quite impossible to fit in time for exercise. This could not be further from the truth. Your body needs proper exercise. Just do it!

3. Select an exercise pattern to suit your lifestyle. All of us have different lifestyles and professions, so there is no sense in trying to follow the book strictly. Try to follow an exercise routine that is suitable for you. You have to understand that, even more important than the exercise itself, is sticking to it. So unless you choose something that can suit your lifestyle, you are not going to stick on to it.

4. Are you standing right now? Don’t just stand there. Walk!. If you can walk around then do so. Do not stand in a fixed position. Pacing around is a good thing to do. If you are thinking deeply about something, try pacing around, it will aid in your thinking.

5. Are you sitting down? Don’t just sit there. Stand up! If you can stand, then do not sit. The golden rule is to choose a position that is less comfortable.

6. Are you lying down? Don’t lie down. Sit! The rule that we mentioned above rings true here as well.

7. Stop being a couch potato. It is the easiest thing in the world to become a couch potato: that shapeless thing that sits or reclines on a shapeless chair in front of the television and stupidly munches away at something fried!

If you are inclined to become a promising old couch potato, break the habit. What is the best way to do that? Take away that favorite chair of yours. In fact, it would be a very good idea if you could keep a chair that isn’t too comfortable in front of the TV. This will discourage any tendency to become a couch potato.

I hope these daily advice articles are helping you with your weight loss program. Keep up the good work!

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Bill Brine

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Everyday Weight Loss Tips 080901

Here we are once again in my ongoing series “Everyday Weight Loss Tips”. Here are today’s tips:

1. Believe it or not, you will each your weight loss goals if you make carbohydrates 50 to 55% of your diet. It is a myth that you should try to avoid carbohydrates when you are on a diet. Carbohydrates are a ready source of energy. But be sure to pay attention to the quality of the carbohydrates.

2. Proteins should make up 25 to 30% of your diet. Various processes are taking place in your body. Things are broken down and being rebuilt. Resistance has to be built up, recovery from disease is needed. For all this the body needs plenty of proteins.

4. Fats should only be 15 to 20 % of your diet.

5. Consider adopting a vegetarian diet. A vegetarian diet is a very healthy weight loss plan. There are a lot of advantages of keeping to a vegetarian diet. Make non-vegetarian food a weekend or once in a while event if you find it impossible to give up eating all that meat.

5. If you do eat meat, choose white meat rather than red meat. White meat, which includes fish and fowl, is much healthier than red meat, which includes beef and pork.

6. High fiber multigrain breads are better than white breads. This is a great way to increase the fiber content in your diet.

7. Reduce or eliminate your intake of pork. Pork is not something that can help you with your weight loss goals. So the less pork you eat, the better chances you have of losing weight. Remember that pork includes the pork products as well, like bacon, ham and sausages.

8. Limit your sugar intake. If you can’t have things unsweetened go for sugar substitutes, or, better yet, Stevia.

9. Graze 5 to 6 times a day. Instead of sticking to just three meals a day, try grazing. Grazing means try having 5 or 6 smaller meals instead of three king sized meals. It is an excellent way of eating smaller quantities of food.

Stay tuned for more everyday weight loss tips in future articles.

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Bill Brine
PO Box 121, Amherst, NS B4H 3Y6 Canada
Ph: 902.667.0798
Fax: 760.280.8685
Skype: billbrine

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More Everyday Tips to Lose Weight

Welcome once again to my series of articles presenting tips to lose weight. Here are some more tips to help you with your program:

1. Include foods in your diet that contain more water, such as tomatoes and watermelons. These foods contain 90 to 95 % water, so that there is nothing that you have to lose by feasting on them. They fill you up without adding to the calorie count. Cut the calories and you lose weight!

2. Stay away from sweetened bottle drinks, especially sodas. All those colas and fizzy drinks are sweetened with sugar, and sugar means calories. The more you can cut out on these sweetened bottle drinks, the better for you. So if you must drink sodas, then stick to diet sodas. Even better: just drink more water!

3. Eat fresh fruit instead of drinking fruit juice. Juice is often sweetened with sugar, but fresh fruits have natural sugars. When you eat fruit, you are taking in a lot of fiber, which is needed by your body, and fruits of course are an excellent source of vitamins.

4. If you do have a craving for fruit juice then go for fresh fruit juice instead of those that contain artificial flavors and colors. Or even better, try making your own fruit juice. Take care not to sweeten it with too much sugar! Instead of artificial sweeteners, try Stevia.

5. Choose fresh fruit rather than processed fruits. Processed and canned fruits do not have as much fiber as fresh fruit and processed and canned fruits are nearly always sweetened.

6. Increase your fiber intake. Your body needs a lot of fiber. Try to include in your diet as many fruits and vegetables as you can.

7. Go crazy on vegetables. Vegetables are your best bet when it comes to losing pounds. Nature has a terrific spread when it comes to choosing vegetables. And the leafy green vegetables are your best bet. Try to include at least one salad in your diet daily.

8. Eat intelligently. The difference between man and beast is that we are driven by intelligence while beasts are driven by instinct. don’t just eat something because you feel like eating it. Ask yourself whether your body really needs it.

9. Watch what you eat. Keep a watchful eye on everything that goes in. Sometimes the garnishes and accompaniments can be richer than the food itself. Remember that it is the easiest thing in the world to eat something without realizing that it was something that you should not have eaten! Discipline yourself and you will lose weight.

10. Control that sweet tooth. Remember that sweet things generally mean more calories. It is natural that we have cravings for sweet things, especially chocolates and other confectionary. Go easy on these things and each time you consume something sweet understand that it is going to slow down your weight loss plan.

Stay tuned for more everyday tips to help you in your quest to lose weight.

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Bill Brine
PO Box 121, Amherst, NS B4H 3Y6 Canada
Ph: 902.667.0798
Fax: 760.280.8685
Skype: billbrine

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