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Is it your thyroid? Is it that lurking hormone cortisol? Maybe it’s menopause, your hectic lifestyle or even your genes. But, the true reason you find yourself battling those last 15 or 20 pounds all comes down to how you handle five major issues. Use these five tips to handle the issues that could otherwise keep you fat. Weight Loss Issue #1: Understand how weight loss works

Slim Fast, South Beach, Weight Watchers, The Zone, Dr. Phil, Atkins, …You could waste years testing new weight loss programs that hit the market daily. How do you simplify things? How do you know you’ve found the right diet?

Even though this fact may burn the ears of many women, the truth remains that if you want to lose weight, eat less and exercise more. Ouch! I just heard some lady scream from the pain of realization. But that’s how a diet works.

Just like you can find medical documents that praise and persecute popular diets, you will always find that most medical studies prove that this weight loss formula is just as effective as it was some 3.5 million years ago when Lucy used it- eat less, exercise more.

So don’t put so much power into the name of your diet as to the nutritional content of the diet. In short, each and everyday you need to eat proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.

Weight Loss Issue #2: Know how much you need to exercise and do it

Your personal trainer told you and now the FDA is barking down your throat, “Exercise more!” The only way to divorce cellulite from those thighs is to create a fat deficit. That’s the only way your body will utilize those excess fat globules.

My favorite way of knowing that I vacating unwelcome cellulite, or encroaching cellulite, is feeling the tingle in my legs as I exercise for 40-50 minutes at a time. You don’t need to run yourself dogged, just exercise smarter as researchers at the University of Pittsburgh suggest.

After monitoring 201 overweight women using various exercise methods from high-intensity and long, to low-intensity and short, this study featured in the Canadian Journal of Health & Nutrition found that women who exercised briskly for at least 50 minutes, five times a week while using a sensible diet, lost an average or 25 pounds in six months.

Weight Loss Issue #3: Watch for signs of caving in You’ll hear it in gyms and offices all across America. “I didn’t lose 20 pounds in two weeks so that diet obviously sucks.”

As shocking as it sounds, too many women believe that weight loss should be fast. While “Cosmo” and “Star” will promise to divulge the starvation secrets of how models lose mounds of weight in days, don’t buy it.

That stuff might work on Mars, but if you want to see real results, you need to give your body at least eight weeks, or ideally 12. This is because, when you diet, your body wholly resists this change and it is actually going to test your dedication to sticking with the diet.

While you can try to trick your body with get-skinny-quick-diets like ketosis induction or protein diets, you can’t stay on such diets for life. Eventually your liver will exhaust from handling excessive amounts of protein. Plus your breath will stink. Yuck! Remember, patience, while repulsive to some, is a dieting virtue.

Weight Loss Issue #4: Why are you trying to lose weight anyway

In a world of too much to do and too little time to fit it in after soccer practice, how are you going to stick with a diet? You have priorities. You wake up everyday, maybe go to work, eat somewhere and collect a paycheck somehow. You will only “do” the important things.

Moreover, you will only do what gives you visible pain or pleasure. If your diet is not actively moving your away from pain and etching you closer to pleasure, you’ll relegate you diet to the trash, because the diet proves psychologically useless to you.

Priorities on the other hand, give you real benefits or punishments if they’re not respected. For example, wouldn’t it suck this weekend if you couldn’t buy those Nine West shoes because you ditched work on Wednesday and Thursday.

The same applies to your diet, won’t it suck when you can’t fit into that $250, two sizes too small dress you caught on sale at Neiman Marcus?

Weight Loss Issue #5: Where’s the confidence

There’s a great line in Don Miguel Ruiz’s Beyond Fear, “We only need to protect ourselves from ourselves.” This is certainly the case when dieting.

Whether or not you maintain your self-confidence and self-trust while dieting will determine your dieting success. Don’t base your self-confidence on outside events or those mean people that call you “fat” behind your back. Safely house your confidence within, and base it on who you are, not on what you succeed or fail at doing.

Ruiz, penned another cool line, “The normal state of the mind is hell.” I just heard an “Amen!” from the audience. Dieting will be hell if you let your self-confidence slip.

Ok, so go get your pen and jot down these five dieting keepsakes and place them in your purse as a reference.

What’s that now? Silence? I don’t hear a single dieting excuse coming from anywhere. My work here is done. Here’s to getting the pounds off, and keeping them off long-term.

About the AuthorNaweko San-Joyz helps people look better. You can get started by using her free weight loss tool located at http://www.noixia.com/blog

Want to lose a lot of weight? Then you’re in the right place. I’m going to reveal the best, easiest, most powerful way to lose weight and get in great shape. It won’t even tire you out, and you’ll probably even enjoy it. It’s called “walking”. Why do I recommend this? Here’s why… Walking is the Most Efficient Fat Burning Exercise EVER!

Simpler is better. We are meant to walk. We’ve been doing it for thousands and thousands of years and as far as I know we haven’t started evolving away from the heel-toe type transportation. If you do it, you will lose weight. It brings your heart rate into a fat burning zone, which means you are using fat as fuel. This is great news for anyone who needs to burn anywhere from 5 to 500 pounds.

I’ve come across many people who’ve lost a bunch of weight on their own. I’d say about 80-90% say that they just started walking–no free weights, no trainers, no cross trainers, just a pair of shoes and a road, sidewalk, or trail. When you do it, you are generally in a fat-burning metabolic zone. This means that your body is using the by-products of fat synthesis as a fuel. You can know you’re in a fat-burning metabolic zone if your heart is beating steadily and you’re able to carry on a conversation easily while you’re walking.

Moving at a fat burning mode not only burns fat, but it also releases fat soluble vitamins into your blood stream–which have been stored in your adipose tissue (fat cells). Some of these fat soluble vitamins are powerful antioxidants. These anti-oxidants will neutralize the free radicals–cells damaged by activity through oxidation–you naturally create when you exercise. Talk about a well-oiled machine! This is one reason you feel great after a brisk walk. So before anything else, make this your priority.

Walk after dinner, when you get up, up the stairs, down the stairs, to the store and so on. By doing so, you’ll strengthen your heart and your circulation, your muscles, your mind and your mood.

How to Walk More During the Day

Here are a few tips that will help you get more out of your waking hours!

There are thousands of ways to walk more and you just need to get creative. City dwellers, suburbanites, and country folk all face different challenges. Distance, no sidewalks, the car culture, or time, are just a few. Regardless, getting more motion into your day is a success for any one of these people.

About the Author

Ruck Stewart is a professional weight loss trainer with decades of experience. Visit his website right now at Burn The Fat Review to see the best weight loss course on the planet. Go there now –> Guide To Weight Loss.

For the buyer, its always better to have too many options that to have too less. However, today’s treadmill industry makes it hard for a buyer to compare. When making treadmill comparisons, you should consider understanding the essentials of the equipment. The budget usually decides which treadmill to get. While comparing treadmills, it is always a strong factor in the checklist. Unless you are buying a treadmill for a gym, hotel, or other commercial use, you’d find that a limited budget can be frustrating.

Here are some of the essentials that you have to look into when making comparisons. Make sure you have considered them strongly when looking for the best buy.

- Check the treadmill motor. If you are just looking for a treadmill that you could use at home, a 2.0 hp motor is recommended. Some may cost more but that’s because other brands have more features added to it. Understand the motor’s purpose first before checking on other features.

- Go for the treadmill with sturdy walking belt. The belt is another part of the treadmill that is expensive. Make sure that you choose the brand that is easy to maintain. When the belt breaks down, complications arise. Ensure that the user manual is easy to understand.

- The treadmill’s cushioning is another essential point of consideration. At this point, it can be a bit difficult to make a judgment about the cushioning of a treadmill. Reading treadmill comparisons may not be enough. So it’s best that when you finalize your checklist, you try them out yourself and see if all the claims are justified.

- Select the treadmill with a good frame. This is important too because when your treadmill starts running, vibrations occur. If a treadmill doesn’t have a strong frame construction, it may not last long enough. Go to a store and verify this component as well.

- Look for the treadmill with a good deck. This part of the treadmill works hand in hand with the belt. So when you do some cushioning and belt test, check on the deck also. Compare it between brands and your budget.

- Choose brands that offer a warranty. A treadmills warranty offering and service often determines the quality of the equipment your buying. When doing treadmill comparisons, get the brands that offer a 5 year warranty on the motor, 2 years on the parts and at least a year of labor.

- Ask about added features. Practically, all treadmills do the same thing. Manufacturers compete in the market with treadmill extras such as console features, water holders, and other stuff that you can live without. However, not all extras are trivial. Some are useful too.

It also helps if you read consumer and expert reviews of treadmills. It makes it much easier if you have a list of brands already. But even if you are on a limited budget, do not make comparisons between a motorized and a manual treadmill.

Generally, treadmill reviews tell you which are bad treadmills to buy and which are the good ones. Check if what you have in your list has positive feedbacks. Change your list if you have to then base your treadmill comparisons there.

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