Why Is Losing Weight Hard or Should We Focus On Losing Fat?

By Paul Thacker 

I must say that I do have a problem with listening to skinny people who never had no more than 15 pounds to lose tell me about obese. I believe the best teacher is one that has had the experience or extensive training and their work is proven to be effective.

I wasn't always obese. I was once in my younger days very athletic. I played football, wrestled, lifted weights and trained in Boxing, Kung-Fu and later on Tae Kwon Do (Korean karate) and as of today hold a 5th degree black belt in Shotokan Japanese Karate.

Years ago I would get upset when the Doctor asked how I gained the weight. This was an expert obesity doctor asking me the question. That's why I chose to see him searching for an answer.

I was scrambling my brains trying to return an answer. The best I could say is - maybe it's the sweets and bread. He replied that it's probably because I most likely eat 4,500 calories daily! WOW! I really could not accept that! I thought he was crazy diagnosing me with an eating disorder.

My daily meals were the average. I followed the Food Pyramid which the Food & Drug Administration approved except for a few honey buns over the weekend.

I was about 25 years old and barely knew about counting calories and carbs. All of that was a foreign language to me at that time.

20 years later and plenty of unwanted fat, I've learned quite a lot. Why? Because it's my duty to correct the problem and the only way to correct the problem is to be educated, build legitimate tools and resources to win the battle of obese!

There are so many pills, potions and magic powder over the counter to try for weight loss. The question is should we focus on weight loss or fat loss?

YES! There is a difference.

Our body is created with a survival mechanism to store FAT when it thinks we are starving. This is the reason why diets don't work. Most of them restrict your caloric intake by lowering the amount of food to eat.

This method of losing weight throws a rod in your hormones which causes hormonal imbalance. Your hormones don't see food and calories like the naked eye. Therefore it should make sense to say the less food and calories you receive the more weight you should lose. WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!

THE TRUTH! The less food and calories the more fat your body will store to survive! You just turned on your survival mechanism to STORE FAT!

We have six fat burning hormones and three fat making (storing) hormones. The one we all should know about that stores fat is "Insulin" and it's a serious problem when you eat the wrong type of foods, it's not so much of the quantity that matters!

If eating small amounts of food were the problem why do some smaller people eat more than big people (and never gain weight) and why some big people eat less than small people? And have the hardest time losing weight!

OH! Their metabolism is good, right? Okay!

Question: What controls the metabolism? Answer: Hormones!

Hormones are chemical messages produced by glands. They send messages such as I'm sick in the liver therefore fluid could be retained in my pot belly, I'm sick in the adrenaline therefore too much cortisol is causing my outrageous belly fat! 

Yet so many scientist and big pharmaceutical create magic pills to lose weight. And the doctors drill us on taking the synthetic poison that killed millions a few years ago by blowing heart valves, and the manufacturer countered by saying the people already had the heart problem prior to taking their (poison) medicine.

The type of foods we should digest and control the hormone "insulin" is called "Low Glycemic" and we should also eat meat in the fish, turkey and chicken family because it's less fat, sugar and sodium. Food that are high in sugar, fat and sodium will trigger the insulin by spiking the levels up and dropping very fast and send a false signal of hunger.

When this happens you lose the ability to recognize satiety. You never feel it and over consume the appropriate quantity of food. The reality is - you consume an extraordinary amount of high glycemic foods. 

The results - Obese - Morbid Obese - Super Morbid Obese!

What we are taught is to visit our primary physician and then they ask you - how did you get like that? WOW! Doc that is why I'm here sitting before you!! I thought maybe you could use your expertise and provide the answer oppose of me scrambling my brains hoping to produce an answer.

Next the physician warns you about the high risk you are in because of the excessive weight gain;

·         Kidney Failure 

·         Stroke 

·         Heart Attack

·         Diabetes

·         Cancer 

·         Short Life Span

·         Low Sex Drive 

·         Sleep Apnea 

At this point you would like to respond with this magic question. Hey Doc if that's the case then why do small people suffer the same sickness and diseases?

NOTE: Disease - an abnormal condition that affects the body of an organism.

We should be focused on losing fat by eliminating the over consumption of fat, sodium and sugars which causes the glands to send chemical messages to the SIX FAT BURNING hormones to release the fat! THREE FAT STORING hormones to hold on to the fat! 
  
Obesity is a sign that you are sick, even if you don't suffer any of the sickness and disease aforementioned. That's right; some obese people don't suffer the specific unhealthy problems. Yet some smaller people do.

This means the body needs healing to lose the fat. This is done by learning the triggers and how to turn on the fat burning furnace. I lost 40 pounds in 60 days when I learned how to turn on the fat burning furnace!

I'm still obese and have many more pounds to lose however; it's going in the right direction. I started a special program eating fresh vegetables and one fruit a day and very little meat twice a day and drinking plenty of purified water. I also did one hour of exercise four or six days a week. That was Nov. - Dec. 2012 and my last weigh in was Jan. 2013. 

My wife and I both are losing the unwanted fat at a greater speed because we have accelerated our fat burning hormones eating Cookies, Cup Cakes, Soups and Bars! They are low glycemic, 80% Organic, Gluten Free and taste great!

It's a process of taking in less chemically refined food and keeping the insulin levels low from spiking therefore less fat is stored and more food is burned off as energy.

Food should produce ENERGY! Create GROWTH! And Sustain LIFE!

If you don't feel like that after you eat, you are eating the wrong type of foods and you are turning up your fat storing, surviving warehouse.

We use a structure of eating called macro pattern. Some days we eat the healthy cookies and some days we eat fresh green vegetables and salads with 4 ounces of meat. And some days we eat both on the same day.

This is how we keep our fat burning furnace on HIGH!!

You want to drink plenty of purified water mixed with Braggs Apple Cider Vinegar and Un-sweeten Organic Cranberry Juice. It is good digestive drink and liver detox. GNC sell a 7 day detox for approximately $49.95 and it's not hard on your stomach and bowel. You also want to purchase a bottle of Probiotic sold at The Vitamin Shoppe for approximately $19.95 and it's good for removing bad bacteria out of the bowel.

My wife has lost five pounds in six days and I normally double her lost and that's a fact. We usually check our weight at my primary doctor every month. I was preparing to have gastric surgery but I changed my mind. The surgery is not a quick fix or magic formula for weight loss. You must learn how the body/hormones function and EAT TO LIVE!

We sacrificed 30 days of extensive training, eight hours a day - Sundays off at the clinic celebrities pay $7k a month! I lost over 65 pounds in 45 days. They cooked the food and provided a team leader to assist you.

As soon as we completed the 30 day course the weight came back and it's normal for the average person who attends the trainings because they return every year for a quick make over. Some eventually consider gastric or lap band surgery.

Even with the big price and professionals we still never were taught about hormones and fat triggers. They teach the traditional calorie counting, well balanced diet plan according to your weight.    

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Overcoming Social Anxiousness And Shyness

By Jason Ellis 
 

Shyness often starts in childhood, it can come from your upbringing, the environment you grew up in or perhaps you inherited it through a parent as a personality trait.

There are many factors for shyness. Feeling scared to do or say what you truly want is extremely restrictive with people. You may find yourself often choosing to opt out from all social situations.

Other People Around You

Maybe people are telling you to just "get over it". Maybe are giving your advice as if social anxiety is like turning on and off a light switch.

It's not a realistic approach.

Trying to simply block out the fear won't get you very far. But fear not. There is hope. With the right understanding and action, the majority of people trying to overcoming social anxiety and shyness can gain self-confidence and feel more comfortable in social situations. That means - you.

Shyness or intense social anxiety can have an impact on every part of your life. From just hanging out with friends and family to dating and forming mature relationships.

Worrying Too much

When by yourself, your thoughts have lots of time to wander.
You might for example sit and consider your past, with unhelpful thoughts about your self, others and the world. When this was me, my self-confidence in dealing with situations felt like it was in the gutter.

I worried about things and felt extremely low and anxious, nearly to the point where I thought about ending my life. The less I did, the worse I felt. The worse I felt, the less I did. It was a vicious cycle.

The Vicious Cycle

The less you do, the worse you really feel.

This really is frequently the cycle of social anxiety. The much less I did, the more I worried or chewed over the past. This in turn made me feel paralyzed with sadness and I would make even fewer attempts at connecting with people.

This is damaging to you and you do not deserve that. You're as good as anybody else and also you deserve to be the best and be treated nicely by yourself and others. Stand in front of a mirror, take a good long look at yourself.

You're worth being with people who love and care about you. You have to accept yourself first.

Speaking to Individuals About How I Felt

This was a significant hurdle for me. To inform one individual how I felt was a significant leap forward.

When I was overcoming social anxiety and shyness I avoided all possible social circumstances I could get away with. I thought I wasn't good enough for anyone.

How could I even start a conversation? What interesting things could I possibly have to say? It was easier to not go but avoiding each gathering made the feelings worse and also the anxiety increased.

Finally Facing the World

Fantastic things come from little beginnings. One little step can really feel like a giant leap. Repeatedly, taking that same small step makes that stage manageable and the anxiousness is reduced. For example I was invited to my neighbour's home for a cup of coffee.

The idea of creating conversation with a stranger filled me with panic, he was a brand new neighbour and worry filled my thoughts. What if he met me and did not like me, he would have to deal with me for years, possibly. What if he told other neighbors that I was the weirdo on the street.

It was far safer to stay at home. To try and break this cycle I decided to attempt to talk to him as his vehicle pulled in the driveway. I used a strategy of counting in my head whilst considering a beach scene which I found relaxing.

It created a calm place for me to being a conversation. Initially I found this thinking technique difficult but over time it worked for me.

I began by exchanging a hello and some polite basic conversation. More than a number of times my anxiousness levels had been decreased and I was in a position to move onto the following stage before finally having that coffee.

Speaking Your Mind

This really is frequently an area of fantastic difficulty in overcoming social shyness. Telling individuals how you really feel for a lot of sufferers of social anxiety is very difficult. A great starting point would be to make a list of feelings. How many words connected with feelings can you verbalize?

Try to begin a sentence with 'I feel', for instance simply telling the neighbour you feel let down when a parcel didn't arrive is really a good starting point in expressing your self and realising you have worth within the globe.

Your feelings count as you are essential. Reminding your self that you have value is important in taking the first steps to overcoming social anxiousness and shyness.

Jason Ellis has been showing people strategies for dealing with social anxiety for years. Be sure to check out his free video series for overcoming social anxiety and shyness at http://www.SocialAnxietyFix.com.

Why Are Fitness Poles So Popular?

By Samuel D Payne 

The dance pole workout is very popular these days because let's face it going to the gym can become a mundane task that takes a lot of motivation. Working a full-time job only to reward yourself by subjecting your body to physical torment is one reason America is the fattest country on earth.

Everybody is looking for a way to get physically fit without going through the pain we have all been trained must be endured just to look good. Well a few intelligent people are coming up with ways to get a vigorous workout and not even realize it. Some of these workouts are actually designed for people to enjoy themselves.

Quite the novel concept, have fun and get in shape. That has been a long time coming for many.
The negative connotation associated with fitness poles is that they are only for strippers. As if strippers are somehow less than human. Luckily this garbage kind of thinking has waned as our society has become more enlightened. Anyhow have you ever seen the bodies most of these women have.

Maybe jealousy was rearing its ugly head. I do not know and that is beside the point.
These are great workouts for women that work the abs, legs and even the upper body. The upper body is an area many women lack muscular endurance and strength. Doing the pole tricks, as they are called, often requires lifting one's own body and relying on the strength of the arms, a difficult and physically challenging premise.

While doing this the abdominal muscles are acting as stabilizers and are kept taught or tense, so few people truly focus on the core muscles when working out, maybe a few sit ups or side crunches but nothing that really works the core.

By nature the abdominal muscles act as stabilizers. That is the reason we are able to stand upright. So any workout that promotes the stabilization process by the abdominal muscles is exactly what the doctor ordered. There is no better way to work your core than the way it was designed to be worked. That is just simple logic.

Thirdly and lastly the legs receive tremendous benefit from all of this as well. The legs are often used to grip the pole and even just the dance moves that are included promote muscle tone.
I guess the conclusion is why isn't everybody doing a dance pole workout? We know why men are not and that is because they are embarrassed but it would serve them well. It is an undeniable powerhouse of a workout and that is why it is so popular because it gets the job done.

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How to Avoid Water Weight Gain

By Boyce Henry 

Being overweight is different than being bloated and carrying a few extra pounds of water weight. Being overweight from too much of a bad diet takes work, time and patience to work off. Water weight, on the other hand, can usually be managed much more easily.

The caveat here is that there are no medical conditions that could be causing that bloated feeling. As always, check with your doctor to verify there are no additional problems. Assuming you have plain old water weight gain, the solutions are normally fairly straight forward.

The natural instinct is to take in less water. In fact, the opposite is true. Water is the lifeblood of your metabolic system. Make sure your getting those eight full glasses a day. As you begin to drink more water and expel that water, your body no longer feels the need to horde what it has. Because when you don't drink enough, that's exactly what your body will try to do.

Next, take a hard look at your sodium intake. Yes, our bodies need it, but not in the quantities that we normally consume. If you are taking in too much sodium, it will act like a clog on your system and cause you to retain water..

Also, watch your calcium and potassium. Make sure these two are in balance because they can have an effect on how your body processes water. Not having enough or too much of either one can throw your system out of whack and fool it into holding onto water it doesn't necessarily need.

Some people use diuretics to aid in the process of shedding excess water weight. These can be obtained by prescription or over the counter. Again, talk with your physician about the pros and cons of using these. But, if you drink enough water, watch what you are eating and make sure your nutrients are balanced, everything else being equal, you should no longer have an issue with excess water weight.

Also, cut out the sodas.They are not water! They are in no way a substitute. As a matter of fact, there really is no substitute for just good, clean water. And for most everyone, what comes out of our tap is just fine. If you are paranoid, by a plastic bottle, a filter for your tap and refill as needed. No sense spending a fortune on bottled water. Don't even get me started down that road.

If you feel bloated, aren't drinking enough water and are generally fine medically, chances are you need to drink more water. Have a look at your sodium, potassium and calcium and get some exercise. A brisk walk will do wonders for this condition as well.

HTML:With 15 years of researching and managing weight loss, Boyce Henry has some great healthy weight loss advice for anyone wishing to live a more fruitful life without all the torture of radical change.

The Pros and Cons of Getting A Flu Shot

By Amanda Maynes 

Around the same time every winter, the flu season comes around and people start talking about whether or not to get a flu shot. Many communities offer free flu vaccines as a preventative measure, and yet people are often hesitant to get one, but why? While many rumors abound about the possible side effects of getting a flu vaccine, the real scientific evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of the vaccine. In this article, we discuss the benefits of getting a flu shot as well as the side effects, both real and imagined.

What is the flu shot?

The flu shot is a vaccine against the influenza virus that causes the flu. Every year, a new vaccine is developed that is specifically targeted to protect against the flu types that researchers predict will be most prevalent that flu season. The vaccine contains remnant particles of individual viruses, and may also contain live attenuated (weakened) viruses. These foreign bodies cause the immune system in your body to produce antibodies, which strengthens your immunity against the flu. In recent years, a nasal spray has also been developed with a similar level of efficacy as the shot.

Benefits of a flu shot

The primary benefit of a flu shot is that it greatly reduces the possibility that you will contract the flu this season (by as much as 75%). Even individuals who receive the vaccine and eventually do contract the flu suffer milder symptoms of the disease than do those who have not received the vaccine. The vaccine becomes effective two weeks after administering the shot, and can provide protection for up to three years. Even people who received vaccines decades ago may experience increased immunity if the strain of influenza for a given year is similar to that used to produce the flu shot.
Preventing flu infections can be particularly important for certain groups of individuals. You should especially consider getting a flu shot every year if you belong to one of these groups:

• Children 1-18 years
• Adults older than 60 years of age
• Adults with chronic heart or lung conditions or diabetes

In addition, those working or living in conditions that would expose them to an unusually high risk of infection, such as schoolteachers, health care workers, and people living or working in nursing homes should also get vaccinated.

Possible side effects

While getting a flu shot is generally a good idea, there are certain side effects that may arise. These are mostly due to the body´s reaction to the virus particles in the vaccine, and include:

• Fatigue
• Muscle and joint pain
• Headache
• Runny nose
• Sore throat

While these symptoms are similar to the flu, they do not mean you have been infected, just that your immune system is reacting to the vaccine. The rate of infection from vaccines is almost 0%, and very few serious complications have been reported. However, you should discuss whether or not to get a flu vaccine with your doctor if you have ever suffered from one of the following conditions:

• Egg allergies. Chicken eggs are used to create the vaccine, and so this might produce an allergic reaction
• Guillan-Barre syndrome. This syndrome creates paralysis and other neurological symptoms following infections. While the flu vaccine does not cause Guillan-Barre, it might cause recurrence.
• If you are currently ill
• If you have suffered an adverse reaction to a flu shot in the past.

Amanda Maynes is an aspiring writer with a wealth of knowledge in the areas of health and fitness. She enjoys researching and writing about different topics with the aim of benefiting her readers.

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The Worst 5 Foods to Avoid to Lose Weight and Elude Disease

By Mike W Edminster 

The biggest problem that this author sees, in the US today, when it comes to what foods are optimal for weight loss and health, is the confusion over the subject. One expert says one thing, while another expert completely contradicts the first one and says something totally different.

I feel that a little bit of thinking and common sense goes a long way towards solving the dilemma of what foods are beneficial for weight loss and our declining health statistics.

If we lose the weight, but in the process, ruin our health, it is all for nothing as we will soon gain it all back plus some and our health will be closer to the brink of serious, possibly debilitating disease. This is the situation I was faced with about 2 years ago, and it caused me to get really serious about my health. I did a lot of research on the subject.

What I found when I started looking at the data and the conclusions I reached were really common sense, and I think if you will do the same, you will most likely come to the same commonsensical conclusion.

When you look at the graphs of escalating levels of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, celiac disease, cancer, autism, ADD, IBS and many other "modern" diseases that are far too numerous to mention here with the increasing consumption of refined foods, High Fructose Corn Syrup, sugar, genetically modified crops, feedlot animal products, dairy where the cattle are injected with growth hormones for increased production, meat that is treated with antibiotics to offset the diseases caused by unnatural grain diets and vegetables that are treated with pesticides the graphs are almost identical in their rise from 100 years ago to today.

What is going on here?

Medical Science has progressed by millennia with the advent of super computers that can do in minutes now, what used to take years. So why, with all of this "progress" are we regressing when it comes to our health as a whole?

Why is obesity and diabetes increasing, why is heart disease progressing, why are cancers more commonplace? Why are ADD, Celiac Disease, autism and countless other maladies going through the roof, when only 50 years ago many were almost unheard of or at least extremely rare?

What is different? When you do a little research, it is overwhelmingly obvious. Our food is different. What we eat on a regular basis as normal American food has undergone monumental changes for the worse in the past 50 years.

We are a society that values and embraces progress. I propose to you that we are regressing, not progressing as far as weight gain and health matters are concerned.

So, what do you do about it and how does this concern weight loss?

The answer is, you rewind the clock about two hundred years when it comes to making food choices. It really is as simple as that. The wheat we eat today is far different from the wheat our grandparents ate and that applies to soy products, corn products and many others. It also applies to mass production feedlot animal and their products, refined oils that are touted as "good for you" because they are easy and cheap to produce, and vegetables that have pesticides sprayed on them to increase production.

Many, extensively researched books could be written concerning this subject, but that is beyond the scope of this article and my only goal here is to bring to your attention, what I have found to be the worst offenders of abnormal weight gain and worse, diseases caused by diet in the western world.

When I changed my diet to line up with this, the weight fell off and all of my biomarkers of health improved drastically. It is up to you to further research what I am proposing as a fit and healthy lifestyle. A lifestyle change that has done wonders for me, my family and many friends.

The Worst Offenders

1) Wheat, Corn and Soy Products. (Read "Wheat Belly" by Dr. William Davis M.D.)

2) Sugar and High Fructose Corn Syrup and the many products where these are hidden.

3) Refined Foods (Read "Samurai Diet" by Nate Miyaki)

4) Processed Foods (Read "The Fat Burning Kitchen" by Mike Geary and Catherine Ebeling)

5) Feedlot Produced Animals and their Products. (Chose instead grass fed, free range, cage free and wild caught)

I encourage you to research what I propose as a fit and healthy lifestyle. If you do, I'm sure it will all start to make sense to you too, and hopefully spare you the agony of unnecessary diseases brought on by our diet in today's world.

Mike Edminster is a frontline soldier in the war against bad nutrition advice. For more detailed info on this subject, visit myfitandhealthylife.com

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Will a Diet Cleansing Help Weight Loss?

By Imran Nasir 

 

Various schools of thought will vary from one onto the next and work hard in trying to classify and determine the types of physiological mechanisms behind the secret to maintaining a healthy balanced weight.

To find the right set of clothes, on any given special occasion, a person is coupled with a few questions before diving into finding out just exactly where, in what shopping outlet or store, the right fit of clothes can be bought and worn for that one special occasion. The idea of clothes, before a person goes out, is obliged to careful gauge the style it needs and wants to fit and be deemed proper by all measures and costs yet equally, a dietary plan is determined very practically so on specific body type. Not all people are fit for the same dietary plan and bound from equal rounds of different factors.

Old theories regard a close relationship knit between a person's metabolism and the food-intake from the daily meals, and point out to the determining key to ensure the quality of a safe and outstanding lifestyle. Mainly, it concerns itself with two clear aspects as such to adjust with prudence and control the body fat weight gain. However, new studies suppose new beliefs regarding which factors are key amongst choosing a healthier lifestyle of living.

Holistic experts now believe poisons, or toxins drenched upon foods may deliver that painful additional weight as a blow to off-scale the proportion of weight scaled in the overall frame of person's body. Common misconception previously fed on the belief at which calories were accepted as the culprits behind body-fat weight gains. Instead, preservatives, MSG, and artificial flavorings, have proven itself as a new challenge to overcoming weight loss plans. According to new studies, they are toxins in the body which can be very harmful and produce ill effects surrounding the body.

Toxicity is a great concern for many living presently amongst our day and age. Where stronger and new chemicals are undefeated challengers amongst anew environment proliferated through air pollution, radiation, and nuclear power. More drugs, more foods, refined and processed heavily ultimately abusing our body's with more a various stimulants and sedatives. A cleansing diet eventually turns a better picture from a harmful one, as filled toxins leave through the waste of the body-either by perspirations or an efficient detox program.

According to Holistic Theory, the human body is made up of an intrinsic web of network systems overlaying each other in an ingenious capacity for organism chain-of-event form, which often must rid itself of by-products like toxins, poisons, and other various waste. Exposure and access to additives and other dangerous chemicals often lead to fatal strikes of toxins, found stored in the liver---the central organ for fat-burners.

Weight loss, then is all about the cleansing diet, Detox. It helps the body clean its toxins and make sure every vital organ of the body is up to capacity. The body is congested at times by the chemicals processed into all the goods one eats, and often they are not entirely eliminated from the body in one day. To all contrary, it may take upon a specially designed detox diet program to clean itself thoroughly of hidden deposited toxins found spread around the body.

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