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Best Exercise for Weight Loss

What exercise is best for weight loss? Honestly, the best exercise is what ever you like to do. Yes it is true that some types of exercise burns more calories than others but if you try to force yourself to do something you don’t enjoy how many times are you really going to do it? At one point I really wanted to be a runner. It burns lots of calories and I just thought it sounded cool to say I went for a run. Guess what? I hated it. I kept trying to force myself to do it. I was trying one of those programs to work up to a full 30  minute run- walk a couple minutes then run for a minute and repeat. You are supposed to work up to walk and run in even amounts and begin to transition to all running. Nope, not happening for me. I love to go for walks outside but sometimes I want to push myself a little more than that so I walk as fast as I can and to bring my heart rate up a little I will take off and run when I feel like it for as long as I want to. Sometimes I run for 30 seconds, someti
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The 15 Minute After Dinner Walking Secret To Weight Loss

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The Biggest Small Change that Can Help You Lose Weight and Feel Better Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, wrote "walking is a man's best medicine". Walking is a basic part of our human experience but with our busy lives and all of our modern conveniences not many of us take the time to do much of it. We spend our days driving from one place to another, looking for the closest parking spots and taking the elevators not the stairs. We get home from our busy, stressful days to make dinner and settle in front of the T.V. or computer. We mindlessly pass the time for the rest of the evening flipping through the channels or scrolling Facebook. Most of us say we have a problem with snacking in the evening or even think that we are hungrier at night but the truth is we often overeat because we are bored not hungry.  Even those of us that are busy in the evenings shuttling kids to activities, we still spend a lot of time sitting, waiting and staring at our p
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Why You Should Never Go Below 1500 Calories to Lose Weight

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How Many Calories Should You Eat a Day?  When you start looking into the best ways to lose weight one thing that comes up often is to cut your calories back to 1200 per day. Yes, that will cause you to lose weight however, that is definitely not the best way to lose weight and keep it off permanently. When you cause your body to go into that much of a deficit, it will adapt quickly to save energy and at that point that is the number of calories your body will come to expect. When you return to eating more calories, which you will need to do at some point, your body will still be running just fine on 1200 calories so all the extra calories you eat will turn to fat and cause you to gain all the weight back plus more.  Your body will also start eating away at your muscle for fuel causing you to lose the lean muscle mass that gives your body form. Plus, lean muscle is metabolically active which means it burns fat so you will burn less calories per day when you lose muscle. 
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Low Carb Diet Food Planner

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What To Include in Low Carb Meal Plan When you start a low carb way of eating it might be confusing trying to figure out what you can and cannot eat. There is a common misconception that low carb means eating all the eggs, bacon and cheese you want. I am not sure where this started but I know I definitely fell for it the first time I tried Keto. I read that I could just eat a bunch of things I love, and the weight would magically fall off. I ate bacon, cheese, olives, beef jerky, lunch meat wrapped around cream cheese, big portions of all kinds of meats. A few weeks later not only did I hate the sight of eggs, but I had lost very little weight after the initial water weight. This was not a healthy way to do low carb. What You Cannot Eat on a Low Carb Diet Let’s start out with what you should not be including in your low carb diet.   First on the list is sugar and that means ALL sugar in cakes, candy, cookies, baked goods and even honey. If you are a sugar addi
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Everything You Need to Know About Low Carb Diets That No One Tells You

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First, What Exactly Is Low Carb Dieting and Why Does It Work? First things first- you need to understand what a low carb diet is and a basic understanding of how it turns your body into a fat burning machine. A low carb diet restricts the type and amount of carbohydrates you eat. All carbohydrates are either simple or complex. Simple carbs include sugar, lactose in milk and fructose in fruit. Complex carbs include whole grains and beans. A cross between is white processed breads and pastas which are complex refined carbs. Your body prefers to use carbs as its main fuel source. Complex carbs are broken down into simple sugars just as simple carbs are during digestion. They are then absorbed into your bloodstream as blood sugar or glucose. Natural complex carbs break down more slowly and have less of an effect on blood sugar but will still raise blood sugar levels just as simple sugars do. Rising levels of blood sugar signals to the body to release insulin. Insu
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How You Can Visualize Yourself to Weight Loss Success

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How do you see yourself? Do you really believe you can lose weight and achieve your goals? Self-image defines what you think you can or cannot do. You always act according to the person you believe yourself to be. How you view yourself dictates all your actions, behaviors and abilities. It also sets boundaries and defines what you cannot do. To achieve a healthy body, you must change any limiting beliefs and replace with the vision of what you want in your life. If you have limiting beliefs about becoming healthy and losing weight you are setting yourself up for defeat before you even get started. If you believe you have a slow metabolism your brain says, “okay if that’s what you want here you go”. If you believe you will always carry extra weight than your body will agree with you and hang on to the fat.   If you see yourself as an overweight person then you will always gain back any weight you lose because that’s what your brain expects so it guides you to make de
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Why Number On Your Scale Should Not Be Your Weight Loss Goal

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How to Set Weight Loss Goals and Why a Number on the Scale Isn't a Good Goal Now that you know your big why and have turned it into your Super Power affirmations it is time to set some goals. Having a specific goal can mean the difference between success and failure. A well-planned weight loss goal keeps you focused and motivated. How do you set weight loss goals that will set you up for success? A good weight loss goal should follow the S.M.A.R.T. formula S = specific: a general goal to lose weight or exercise more is not specific enough to have any impact. A specific weight loss goal example is 30 pounds, an exercise goal could be to walk 5 days per week. M = measurable: eating healthy is not measurable but a goal to eat 3-5 servings of vegetables can easily be measured. A = attainable: a goal needs to be one that you have the time and resources to reach. If you work a very demanding job with lots of hours than a goal to go to the gym everyday for an
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