Lose Weight after Giving Birth - How to Start during Pregnancy

Filed Under (Weight Loss) by Teresa Brown on 20-10-2008

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by Teresa Brown

We can live without exercise before pregnancy so why bother to do so now that you’re pregnant? Good question. Before your pregnancy what you ate and how much you exercised only affected you but now that’s not the case. Your unborn baby is relying on your body for proper growth and development. Love it or hate it, exercise throughout pregnancy is the source of many benefits such as being able to lose weight after giving birth more easily. Why pass up on a good thing for you and your baby?

We all know the drill about consulting the good doctor before beginning your pregnancy exercise program. Pregnant mommas who are fit to begin with will have to tone down their workouts and the other not-so-fit-mommas should choose low-impact exercises.

One of the good things about enrolling in a yoga or calisthenics class designed for pregnant women is that you get to socialize and form bonds. You can workout solo with some light weights or go for a swim. Why not learn some relaxation techniques with your husband or partner? The choices are there and all you have to do is to commit to some form of exercise and do it at least every other day. It’s not a bad deal and you get the added bonus of getting your body ready to lose weight after giving birth.

The most important benefits of staying in shape throughout your pregnancy are the following:

1. It can result in less time in labor and in recovery. It can also strengthen your body to better withstand the rigors of labor.

2. It can improve your mental fitness by lowering your stress. This will help you to absorb the emotional and mental shock waves that comes with motherhood.

3. Being physically fit prepares your body to lose weight after giving birth more readily.

4. Exercise improves your circulation as well as enhances the transport of oxygen and nutrients to your unborn baby.

5. Exercise can help minimize these common side effects of pregnancy such as fatigue, headaches and backaches, swelling of hands and feet, and constipation.

6. Being in shape could additionally lower the danger of premature birth by about 50%.

A healthy exercise schedule includes staying hydrated and eating right. Choose the less strenuous exercises that can be sustained for twenty to thirty minutes. Also, if you are not feeling well during your workout, stop right away and rest.

We all want a fast labor and delivery but nature beats to it’s own drum. You can move to nature’s drum by helping your body to withstand the hard grind during labor and delivery. Exercising strengthens your body for that special time in the delivery room and gets you on the fast track to lose weight after giving birth sooner. Women who aren’t in shape are more likely to experience an arduous labor when the time arrives.

Exercising throughout pregnancy is an essential component of maintaining a healthy pregnancy for you and your baby. Because you have given your body a head start, you will also reap the benefit of being able to lose weight after giving birth in less time. Remember to choose exercises that are appropriate for you and doctor recommended. Have fun and make exercise an integral part of your lifestyle.

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Hidden Techniques to Burn Fat faster

Filed Under (Weight Loss) by John Hartie on 20-10-2008

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by John Hartie

Stamina training and strength training influence the structure of your body differently and how you burn fat . Stamina training increase your muscles capacity to produce and use the energy they need to contract,since you are adding more powerful cyclers,but muscle is a different matter this requires strength training that builds you up,making you a bigger stronger and sturdier muscle fiber structure,this is because when you do any resistance training pulling or pushing some kind of weight ,you create tiny tears in your muscle fibers,your body reacts to this by saying if tear down my frame i will build a stronger and bigger one next time by doing this regularly you will body will burn fat faster because muscle serves as a primary energy consumer for the body.

In your mid thirties if you are stable in your weight ,but do any kind of strength or resistance training you will put fat on that’s fact,when your muscle ages you lose the protein that makes up your muscle,this is what gives your the ability to have strength and stamina,when you are exercising this rebuilds and maintains protein and muscle mass which prevents you from putting on weight which will burn fat. walking for 30 minutes a day will build stamina and strength based proteins this will prepare you for strength/resistance training session of thirty minutes training a week required to rebuild the strength based proteins.

Exercise increases the metabolism so that you burn fat faster at a higher rate than if you didn’t exercise,it also reduces your appetite by turning on your sympathetic nervous system,which activates your flight or fight response.Do the experiment yourself,take a quick walk or jog when you feel the first burst of hunger it will be gone when you get back.

When you are exercising regularly you will burn the fat that’s stressing your joints this will cause less pain in your knees,hips,ankles and back and this will give you a more positive outlook on life.which will cause you to keep the training up.

When exercising you will stimulate the release of endorphins which will give you a feel good factor and a sense of being in control,which will it turn control the amount of food you take in.

Depression can be relieved by training regularly you will then make better choices about your food and not use it to change the way you feel.

To decrease your risk of obesity related morbidities like high blood pressure,elevated lousy cholesterol,memory problems and heart attacks you will need to exercise and eat the right fat burning foods this keeps your blood vessels open and clog free.

To your health John hartie

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Is your body really calling for that fast food?

Filed Under (Weight Loss) by Matt Sison, C.Ht. on 19-10-2008

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by Matt Sison, C.Ht.

About 25 years ago, I started my venture into the health and fitness industry. I eventually received my certification as a fitness trainer and did that for about 10 years. I thoroughly enjoyed helping my clients reach their health goals. It’s a feeling of joy that I get to day as a hypnotherapist.

In fact it’s my career as a fitness trainer that gently “pushed” me into this world as a Hypnotherapist. Even though I was getting excellent results where most fitness trainers have failed, I wanted to push the envelope with my clients. There were times when a client would get “stuck” even though we did numerous fitness programs to get them past the hump. Then there were those clients that were even more difficult. The ones that were doing everything “right” - eating healthy, working out 3X plus a week, wrote a food journal and never cheated, but still couldn’t lose a pound! I didn’t get it and it frustrated the heck out of me. Then I added hypnosis into the whole mix.

So I went ahead and became a certified hypnotherapist and used my new found skills on my “difficult” clients and zoom! It was exactly what we needed. I was pleasantly shocked to see how started to make everything easier. Now, many fitness trainers would have been very happy with the success I had but still, there was still that 2 or 3 clients that couldn’t reach their goals.

My colleagues and my employer advised me to simply relax because I was doing a great job with my list of clients. But, I wanted for all my clients to be successful. After about 9 years of fitness training I decided to focus my attention on building a hypnosis practice, so off I was transitioning my fitness clientele to my hypnosis clientele.

But, the same thing still happened in the Hypnosis world with weight loss clients. There were a few clients here and there that would be doing everything right - including exercising and still not getting any closer to their goals! Again, even though I was doing great work with the majority of my clientele I felt terrible when I couldn’t help those few that were stuck, despite doing everything “right.”

Then it struck me like a lightening bolt. What if the food choices they were making were a result of not being in alignment with thier true body needs? Which brings me to Hypnosis and listening to that inner voice.

We are so inundated with this diet or that diet, even worse, this pill or that pill. But what if the body is rejecting these diet programs no matter how “good” or “scientific” they may seem? We’ve been so brainwashed with a plethora of eating plans that we’ve moved away from our instinctual information and entrusted our lives to “professionals” (sometimes ones that are overweight themselves), even though it may seem to go against our instinctual nature.

Whenever I work with someone, I encourage them to come back to basics. To come back to trusting thier bodies and thier instincts to let them know what is healthy for them. Specifically with those clients that did everything right but still could not reach thier goals. When they did finally start trusting thier body, the weight finally started to coming off for those clients that were having such a difficult time. This gave me that old feeling I had when I helped a fitness client get through to thier goals when everything else failed.

Now adays, having my clients listen to thier inner voice for guidance is what I center my weight loss program around. But, at times it is difficult to get clear enough to hear that voice, so we have to go through other forms of hypnosis to clear the “clutter.” After they clear the “clutter” and listen to that inner voice, results have been consistent and astounding. More so, it fascinates me that after this process, they naturally go back to whole foods as the source of thier diets. This left them feeling more energetic and lively. After all, isn’t what weight loss is really about?

So, remember, that voice of calm and peace. That voice can get you what you want if you just pay attention!

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Dangers of Obesity and its affects on Diabetes

Filed Under (Weight Loss) by Louise Servage on 19-10-2008

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by Louise Servage

Television channels today are constantly churning out more news about the perils of diabetes and its rise in the population in the United States. Thus it hardly surprises anyone to learn that obesity and diabetes are closely linked to one another.

The truth is that the leading cause of diabetes is obesity. When you look at the two together you will no doubt find that obesity does more than make diabetes it is also associated with all manner of diseases such as heart disease, strokes and heart attack.

According to the Center for Disease Control or CDC, obesity and diabetes are so closely linked as to result in obesity being the primary reason why people develop diabetes.

The actual size of the problem is growing, and it is proven by figures constantly released by the surgeon general. These figures worryingly show that the size of our populations have grown, in fact doubled in the last 10 years. The problem is as we have grown so has type 2 diabetes, the scourge of the 21st century.

Bad Food Choices

To get to the bottom of why people are becoming diabetic we only need to look at the root of the problem and a primary reason why obesity and diabetes go hand in hand is that the food that we eat plays an important role in each case.

Eating fast foods is certainly detrimental to one’s health since they are loaded with high fats, calories and also carbohydrates that only end up making you put on weight, and thus increases the risk of developing diabetes.

Bad Exercise Choices

If a diet has soft drink and fast food in it you have a compounded problem, double whammy in fact fast foods have tons of fat and when you add the drinks you get loaded up on sugar which is proven to cause problems in excess amounts. This type of diet will make you obese.

Another important thing to remember is that people who partake in the diets mentioned above they are in general proven to neglect exercise which inturns contributes to diabetes, obesity and heart troubles.

Thus, it will be in your best interests to become educated about obesity and diabetes and whether or not you are at risk of contracting either disease, you should always be on the lookout for warning signs. You need to understand that excessive soda will make you diabetic and that, the hamburger that you can’t do without may end up making you obese thereby worsening your health and causing more complications including a deteriorating diabetes condition.

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When You Understand Belly Fat, You Can Get A Flat Stomach?

Filed Under (Weight Loss) by Christine G. Shannon on 19-10-2008

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by Christine G. Shannon

The older we get, the harder it might seem to lose fat by dieting. Many times, weight gain is in our belly and it gets harder to take off the fat. If you have ever had somebody comment that you’re getting a beer belly when you don’t drink beer, then you are on your way to understanding belly fat. Most of your fat cells settle around the mid-section.

It is part of the body’s natural defense mechanism against famine-to store belly fat. In modern times, our metabolism has not changed to tell it that it is alright to get rid of that belly fat, we don’t need the fat stores to fight famine, and we can run to the ice cream stand or a fast food restaurant if we need belly fat storage.

What happens when we attempt to lose fat through a diet, our body interprets this as a sign that we are experiencing a famine, meaning that your body will try to hold on to as much of the food energy as it can. It stores this energy in the form of fat. The key is to trick your metabolism by eating a variety of foods so that your body will not think that you are starving.

When you are stressed, you may not have time to eat much, yet you have gained a pound from what little you did eat. This is a symptom of the famine, fat store metabolism and Cortisol, a belly fat storing enzyme.

Many diets do not give the brain enough variety, and it will decrease the fat burning hormones and metabolism to meet the calorie intake. So, if you drop from 2,500 calories a day, to 1,000, your metabolism will drop from burning 2,500 calories to 1,000 and your weight will plateau. If you are trying to lose fat by dieting, then you need to eat a variety of foods, changing every couple days, since it will take a couple days for your body’s metabolism to catch up.

To lose fat by dieting, you may have to “fool” the brain and fat hormones into thinking that it will continue to receive enough calories to fuel the metabolism and it is alright to burn excess fat from fat storage when needed, causing you to lose belly fat.

If you are trying to lose fat by dieting, eating nutritional calories, and fat burning calories, several times a day, will cause your body to operate under normal conditions, and your fat hormone levels will be balanced and allow you to lose belly fat with calorie reduction, even in high stress periods. Because the body burns fat from the fat cells, only after it has burned the fat from what is taken in, you will need to take in fewer calories while maintaining your metabolism high.

The best way to understand belly fat and to begin losing that excess fat is to eat a variety of foods more than three times a day to keep your metabolism operating at a high rate, like the Fat Loss 4 Idiots diet.

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Natural Weight Loss Approach

Filed Under (Weight Loss) by Ron Cripps on 18-10-2008

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by Ron Cripps

Natural weight loss means lowering your daily calorie intake while increasing the amount of calories you burn through exercise; few ever listen to this suggestion. This advice should be easy to comprehend - at least you would think it was; however, currently 35 percent of Americans are unable to prevent being overweight! Of course, once you are overweight, you usually want to trim down for a whole lot of reasons, some related to health, others having to do with looks.

The strange thing is though that it is so much easier to stay trim than it is to lose weight because as soon as you start putting on weight, many things become more difficult. Nevertheless weight maintenance is something that has to be worked on and planned otherwise we will put on extra pounds.

For some reason even when dieters who have become used to, and enjoy, a low calorie diet, they eventually drift back to old habits and start piling the pounds back on again. Extra weight often results in health issues and can negatively impact on one’s emotional state and self-esteem but all this can be cured with a healthy, natural weight loss program.

There is a large number of health conditions associated with weight gain and the greater the increase in body weight the more that problems occur. The annoying part is that natural weight maintenance is not difficult to understand but overweight people choose to ignore this.

If you are planning to use a natural weight loss approach then its success will depend on the meals you eat which should be low in fat, high in fiber, some protein and carbohydrates. A typical meal like this would be a jacket potato with vegetables and some lean meat, which would be healthy and give the balance you require.

Dietitians also say that the body has a capacity to retain dietary fat more than calories for regular foods so weight gain is more likely. Food manufacturers have been quick to react and have provided a huge range of low or no fat foods but despite this the American people are getting larger, the simple reason for this may surprise you!

The weight a person puts on isn’t always as a result of high fat foods, although they obviously do not help, but a result of too many calories turning into body fat. The term fat-free can be a trap if you start to believe that you can eat any amount of fat-free food when it is far better to respond to hunger with healthy snacks.

Schools of thought differ on this subject but many nutritionists agree that eating smaller meals with a snack every 3 to four hours or between meals could be beneficial providing main meals are not missed. The secret to natural weight loss is easy if you just obey it; do not eat more than your body requires through normal activities and exercise.

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