Battling Obesity

By Ross Harrison

Setting goals is unquestionably one of the most useful ways to create and maintain high levels of motivation, but it only works if the goals are appropriate for your ability level. Goals need to be both challenging and attainable; otherwise they can hurt your motivation and impede long-term progress.

If you set goals that are unrealistic or unattainable, you may start feeling as though you are failing when you are actually making progress. For example, if your goal is to lose 5 pounds of fat in a week (unrealistic for almost everyone), and you end up losing 1 pound of fat, you think you failed and lose motivation. In actuality a 1 pound fat loss is realistic for most people and this achievement means you are on the way to reaching your ultimate goal.

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By Craig Ballantyne

The #1 reason for not working out is a lack of time.

If you get up at 5:30am to drive an hour to work, only to get home at 6pm and then have to launch right into carting the kids around, who can blame you for not working out? Not when it takes 45 minutes to do cardio, and another 30-45 minutes for isolation bodybuilding workouts.

If that’s the way you have to exercise to lose fat, then practically no normal person is going to be able to pull that off.

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By Kim Jamieson

I was at the salon recently and made this observation. I am astonished that people take better care of their nails, than they do their bodies. What is wrong with American people? They are not concerned with their health and wellness, but seem very concerned about chipped and polished nails. Why do they take care of their nails and go weekly to the salon for their manicures and pedicures, but would never set foot in the gym, or do any physical exercise to improve their health and well being. Do they think that people look at their nails, before they notice their fat, unfit, unhealthy bodies? They are wrong. People are very critical of each other, and notice everything about each other. I think it is about time that we put the same amount of time and energy into our bodies each week, as we do our manicures and pedicures.

To do this we first need to change our mind set. Trust me, if you feel good with a manicure and pedicure, imagine how GREAT you will feel when your body looks fit, healthy, and you feel trim and self confident. I do not want to forget to mention how your life will change and you will start to soar in every aspect of your life.

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By Michael Huddleston

Here’s a list of specific foods that raise your metabolism and help burn body fat.

Cayenne Pepper -

Oxford Polytechnic Institute proved that cayenne pepper stimulates the metabolism approximately 20%. It not only stimulates the body’s metabolic rate, but also cleans fat out of the arteries. Cayenne pepper also adds great zip to foods such as spaghetti sauce and soups.

Salsa -

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By Gregg Gillies

Summer is a great time to easily burn extra calories and finally lose the weight you’ve been wanting to get rid of for a long time.

Forget the stationary bike, the elliptical trainer or the treadmill. Get out of the gym and into the fresh air. Take advantage of the fat burning weather by participating in great outdoor cardio activities like tennis, basketball, walking, jogging, swimming, road biking or in-line skating.

You’ll find that participating in exercises like this won’t even feel like working out. You’ll enjoy yourself, the time will fly by, and you’ll most likely burn more calories than if you were sitting on a stationary bike in the gym.

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By Jason Conley

The way your metabolisms works is largely based on how you eat. It only follows then that if you change the way you eat, you can change your metabolism. Fat loss eating plans are not a new concept. There have been hundreds or thousands of diet plans that tell you exactly what to eat, but if you’ve ever tried a no carb diet, or a no fat diet, or if you’ve ever been desperate enough to try the grapefruit diet, then you know they are not a long term solution for most people. It seems that everyone has a different opinion on how to lose weight, but there are a few things that almost all experts agree on. When you are on a fat loss eating plan, you must do several things. You must eat four to eight meals a day. You must drink lots of water, and you must start now.

One big mistake people make when tying to lose weight is going to far in cutting the amount they eat. They skip meals, and then wonder why they aren’t losing weight. The truth is, skipping meals is one of the worst ways to lose weight. By skipping meals, you are putting your body into “starvation mode” and it will try to store as much energy as it can. Of course the way the body stores energy is as fat. By eating small meals throughout the day, you keep your metabolism high because it takes energy to break down the food. Frequent meals also help to regulate your insulin levels. Excess insulin can lead to increased fat. When selecting your fat loss eating plan, be sure it recommends four or more meals a day.

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By Dan Clay

Fat Loss Tip 1 - Total Body Workouts
If fat loss is your goal you need to train the whole body every workout. The more exposure each muscle has to exercise the bigger the adaptation it makes, so don’t just train each muscle once a week. If you do train the whole body every workout just remember to give yourself 48hrs rest between sessions to let you body recover. Why train each muscle only once a week? Would you do cardio once a week and expect results?

Fat Loss Tip 2 – Supersets
Superset means performing two different exercises in sequence rather than doing all the sets of a particular exercise one after another, e.g. squats then chin up’s. The good thing about using supersets is that you are using different muscles in succession. Each muscle gets a chance to recover while you work another muscle, therefore you can decrease the rest periods which will keep your heart rate high and supercharge your metabolism. Another benefit of supersets is that your recovery rate will increase and you can perform the same workout in a shorter amount of time.

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By Paul Foley

Burn fat secret way is one of the most popular terms searched on the internet. The United States is gradually becoming an obese country, and there are several countries around the world that are following the U.S.’s steps. As a result, there are people looking for a secret way to burn fat.

Sure, there are the monotonous television commercials saying you can lose a certain amount of weight in just a few weeks. There is a plethora of weight loss programs and pills that are calling your name out. But these are not secrets by any means, at least based off of the publicity they get throughout our society. So what are the burn fat secret ways?

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By Kuan Chee Hong

Despite what you may think, losing weight isn’t a mysterious process. In fact, weight loss doesn’t even have to involve strange diets, special exercises or even the ‘magic’ of pills or fitness gadgets. Want the secret to weight loss? Make small changes each and every day and you’ll slowly (but surely) lose those extra pounds.

There are many reasons why should we lose weight. The following reason is what we think of:

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By Bryan Lee

Introduction Breakfast is the first meal of our day after we wake up, and is also known as the KING of all meals – the most important one. Not only does breakfast provide us the energy to jumpstart our day, eating breakfast also plays an extremely crucial role in fat loss. This article will further investigate why and how the king of all meals will promote fat loss in our bodies.

Skipping Breakfast Many people on a fat loss diet choose to skip breakfast for one very simple reason – to remove some calories from their diet. After all, by taking in lesser calories than we need, we will be losing weight, right? Not in our case, and we shall see why.

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