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Author:Wendy D Hearn

It’s eight o’clock at night and you had plans on working out. The television is on. Federal agent Jack Bauer is dealing with another problem during one of his long days on the television show ‘24′. Workout…Kiefer…workout…Kiefer. You just caved in and are now parked in front of the tube watching another hour in the life of a fictional character.

Six o’clock at night and traffic is backed up. You were going to go home and eat a healthy meal of measured out chicken, rice, and carrots. You were going to add a nice fresh fruit for dessert and start eating healthily. One problem: your stomach is growling and the smell of Kentucky Fried Chicken is wafting through your car window. You swerve into the take-out lane, your hunger overriding your head.

The check book is low on money and your plan of buying healthy food has been blown to shreds in an effort to keep food in the house. Your cart is full of ‘broke food’ like macaroni and cheese, peanut butter, and frozen dinners. You have no time to workout. You can’t afford the gym membership. The weather sucks and your walk has been canceled.

Does any of this sound familiar? Well, if it does, then you’re playing the excuse game. You’re using an excuse to keep from starting that weight loss regimen that you wanted. If you were serious about losing those few extra pounds, you might as well forget it. At least until you can stop making excuses and get your butt in gear and get motivated.

This is the biggest obstacle for anyone to face when they have good intentions about dieting and losing weight. While we all want to lose weight, human nature makes us notorious procrastinators. We will do everything we can to say, ‘I’ll start tomorrow’ or ‘I’ll get to it tonight’. Instead, we need to be just biting the bullet now and get going.

Once we stop making excuses, we find our motivation. It’s just like quitting smoking. We have to take that first step and throw the cigarettes away. The same applies here. You have to take that first step and walk into the gym. You have to take that first step and exchange the doughnut for a bowl of healthy cereal and milk. Once we stop procrastinating and take that hard first step, everything becomes a lot easier.

Stepping into the gym and attending that first aerobics class is the motivation you need. Once you get into class and start jazzercising, you’ll find how much fun it really is and then you’ll start to look forward to the class. You will have found the motivation you needed to get started on the path towards losing weight.

The same goes for eating healthier. After you get the first few days of healthy food under your belt, you’ll find the cravings for all the things you shouldn’t eat start to dwindle. In addition, once you start to see the weight coming off and you’re looking better, you will have found your motivation. I encourage you to stop making excuses and start losing weight and feeling better all around.

Author:Steve R Robbins

Any weight loss plan, to be successful long term, should be done gradually, and, depending on the amount of loss needed, under a doctor’s care. Having said that, MOST people could stand to lose 10% of their total current weight, and that can be done safely, and surprisingly, fairly easily, totally on their own. I’ve done it. Here’s how.

The absolute first and most critical step is to adopt “responsibility, accountability and consequence”. There are predispositions for body shape, a genetic plan for you. I can not be 7 feet tall. Maybe you can not have a 30 inch waist as a man or wear a size 2 as a woman. But I can stand with better posture, wear heels and be taller than I am. And you (and me) can be thinner than we are. Whatever that is. What you eat, how much, and what you do activity wise determines your WEIGHT. NOTHING ELSE. Accept that, BELIEVE that, and you can lose weight.

Calories in, calories out. It is that simple. A pound of weight is 3500 calories of intake that exceeds your needs. Consume 3500 calories less than you need and you will lose a pound. How to eat 3500 less than you need is the trick. Use both sides of the equation. Eat less, need more. I have done three simple life style changes to help me consume fewer calories.

First, reduce caloric drinks. I would rather eat my calories than drink them.

Second, reduce bread, potato, pasta and rice consumption. Not eliminate (unless fat loss is the goal), but center every meal around vegetables and protein.

Lastly, anything I can reach into a bag or bowl and grab to snack on is no where near me. That’s it.

How can you make your body need more calories? Increase activity level is one way. But not the best. While you are doing anything more physical than resting, your body is consuming more calories than it would otherwise. If this happens to be a cardiovascular workout, even better (makes for a healthier heart they say). Contrary to what you may think though, you can’t burn THAT many more calories doing cardio exercises. But it helps and you should do it (remember that healthy heart thing). The BEST way to burn more calories is to have more muscle. Two men, same weight, one with 10% body fat, the other with 25%, the more lean muscular man will burn 10-15% more calories 24 hours a day just living. That translates into 250-375 MORE calories he can eat every day and NOT GAIN WEIGHT. Your metabolism rises after any workout. But within 2 hours of a cardio session it’s back to normal. After a weight training session it stays elevated for 24 hours. Muscle mass requires 50 more calories per pound (should be protein) to exist on your body than fat.

To get the full benefit of weight loss, incorporate muscle building into your plan at some point. The people you see walking around with bodies you wish you had, were not born that way. They have CHOSEN to look that way. Responsibility, accountability and consequence.

Author:Eliza Maledevic

Obesity and overweight are serious medical conditions that lots of people are facing right now. It is a fact that these are threatening conditions that can affect people’s health and well being.

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Author:Steve Estes

Is this a question you’ve been asking yourself? I think I have an answer for you and I think you’re going to like the answer. Because I believe it is possible to easily and safely lose 20 pounds in a month.

But let’s look at the reasons you might have to lose weight. Is it just cosmetic? Do you imagine that those love handles or side saddles make you look a little too heavy? Will losing 20 pounds give you the extra confidence you need to spice up your romantic life? Maybe you want to fit into some nice outfit for a special occasion. I have to admit for me it was a little bit of each of things.

A lot of people want to lose weight because of health concerns. I’m sure almost everyone knows the health benefit of dropping excess pounds. The incidences of obesity in our country are going up alarmingly fast.

So, what are you going to do about it? Maybe you’ve tried one of the latest fad diets, seen the chunky actresses on T.V. hawking the weight loss food, or joined a gym you never go to. I’m sure these things may be fine, except for the gym (which I still try to go to…more), I haven’t tried these methods because I found something that I think works better.

What you really need is a new way of looking at food. In my opinion it’s not what you eat but how, and more importantly, when you consume it. You see, your body has a certain type of memory to it. It remembers and anticipates exactly what sort of calories that you put into it. Your metabolism expects that you will continue a particular pattern of calorie consumption.

Let me ask you a question. Do you have three meals a day? I certainly hope you’re not eating less than that. If you want to lose 20 pounds you can’t just have a cup of coffee for breakfast. I know because that’s exactly what I used to do. Ever since I learned how and when to take in the right sort of calories I don’t suffer from mood swings. But here’s a little secret- I get more than three meals in a day. And I managed to still lose 20 pounds in a month. Now I eat a very pleasurable maintenance diet that includes all the food I love.

Do yourself a favor. Learn exactly how to eat for effectively for fast and safe weight loss.