New information on Fat Loss....
Today's post: Thursday, 9-25-2008
There are two parts to this post. The second part has the key to fat loss success.
1. Being fat not only makes you look less sexually appealing, it tends to turn off your sex drive.
2. A little known fact is one of the most important reasons people who try to lose fat weight fail to lose it all and keep it off. But there are three ways to overcome it. If you want to lose all the fat you should & would like to lose and keep it off, it’s definitely worth trying all three together.
1. Being fat not only makes you look less sexually appealing, it tends to turn off your sex drive.
Most people know being fat makes you look less sexually appealing. But few people know it also tends to turn off your sex drive.
Last Friday, 9-19, in the Yahoo News health section online, Reuters Health had a story titled,
"Obesity may diminish a man's fertility ."
They found married fat men tended to not have as many children as married men of normal weight. They found that measurable in differences in hormone levels in the fat men caused this effect.
The fat men had below normal testosterone levels. And, some of the fertility related hormones that were low in the fat men caused the researchers to believe that excess body fat likely also tended increase the conversion of testosterone to estrogen in a man's blood. They measured higher estrogen levels in the fat men.
They also said that previous studies found that fat men had lower libido and increased risk of erectile dysfunction when compared with men who were not fat.
The good news is two fold.
One, if you are fat now, you can increase your testosterone level right away, even before you lose very much fat, AND increase your chances of losing the fat and have it stay off. Doing progressive strength training and/or interval cardio regularly -- releases testosterone.
Doing these two kinds of exercise also boosts your metabolism for hours after you exercise and increases your muscle mass. So since the increased muscle burns more calories than fat does, you burn more calories in two ways and tend to both lose fat and increase muscle. This helps ensure that not only do you lose only fat as you lose weight, you may well lose MORE pounds of fat than you lose pounds on the scale.
You can also have more testosterone by preventing some of it from being converted to estrogen. According to Dr Al Sears, taking the supplement DIM or eating lots of broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables that contain it or both does exactly that.
Now, here’s the really interesting part of this post.:
2. A little known fact is one of the most important reasons people who try to lose fat weight fail to lose it all and keep it off. But there are three ways to overcome it. If you want to lose all the fat you should & would like to lose and keep it off, it’s definitely worth trying all three together.
As often happens, I read some key information earlier today in the health article in today’s Early to Rise.
“This article appears courtesy of Early To Rise, an e-zine dedicated to making money, improving your health and quality of life. For a complimentary subscription, visit http://www.earlytorise.com.”
“Don't Diet TOO Much
By Craig Ballantyne
Bodybuilders have long known that if you eat too little for too long, you can actually decrease your resting metabolic rate (the number of calories you burn at rest).
Now, scientists are catching up to our muscle-building friends. Researchers from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana studied long-term dieting in 48 normal-weight subjects.
For six months, one group of subjects reduced their calories by 25 percent. A second group reduced their calories by 12.5 percent and exercised to burn another 12.5 percent of their calorie intake each day. A third group consumed only 890 calories per day until they lost 15 percent of their body weight, and then went on a weight-maintenance diet.
The researchers found that resting metabolic rate decreased after only three months in the subjects who'd reduced their calories by 25 percent. The 890-calorie-per-day group and the diet + exercise group also had a decreased resting metabolic rate, but it took six months for them.
The conclusion: When you diet too hard and too long, your body starts to conserve energy by reducing your metabolism and by decreasing the number of calories burned in any exercise you do.
To keep your resting metabolism high, follow these three guidelines when trying to lose weight:
1. Don't cut your calories too much. A 10 percent reduction - combined with regular exercise - is plenty.
2. Permit yourself a "reward meal" once a week. Eat your favorite foods, but don't go over the number of calories you had been eating each day before you started the diet.
3. Every eight to 10 weeks, take a few days off of dieting, and go back to your pre-diet caloric intake.
[Ed. Note: Supplement Craig Ballantyne's diet rules with a fat-burning exercise routine. Learn how to build muscle and blast fat with his Turbulence Training program.
And for more advice on how to lose weight, eat right, and exercise better, sign up for ETR's free natural health e-letter.] “
(Their “natural health e-letter” comes out currently twice a week and you can sign up for it at:
www.totalhealthbreakthroughs.com .)
X* X* X* X* X* X*
Here are the 3 other ways to prevent this effect.:
1. A combination of: eating less or hardly any of the foods and drinks that tend to make you fat;
and eating more green and nonstarchy vegetables;
and a 10 percent reduction or even a bit less in your total calories while keeping a dairy before the reduction and every week after it.
-- Will remove fat from your body. And, doing it in ways that allow you to eat other foods you enjoy and only cutting back that much, will enable you to keep doing it.
(I only had to cut my beer and wine intake a bit and ate more vegetables and was already avoiding fattening foods and drinks and exercising each week. But I’ve been able to maintain my fat weight loss since that’s all I had to add & subtract. So I’ve just kept doing it.)
Cutting back more than that tends to lower your metabolism and tends to make you feel bad to the place you both stop losing fat and tend to give up. Why do that? Upgrade your diet to health supporting foods and drinks and cut back the calories just a little. That both prevents the decrease in metabolism and makes it doable to continue.
For me this is not theory. I set out to lose just 10 pounds. But since I was able to keep up the changes easily, I lost 30 pounds.
2. Doing progressive strength training and/or interval cardio regularly not only releases testosterone and improves the sex lives of BOTH men and women, doing these two kinds of exercise also boosts your metabolism for hours after you exercise and increases your muscle mass. So, since the increased muscle burns more calories than fat does, you burn more calories in two ways and tend to both lose fat and increase muscle.
This also tends to prevent this drop off of metabolism that can slow or prevent losing fat.
3. There may be a way to improve this protection against having your metabolism drop even more. It does nothing by itself to lose fat. So people who don’t eat a bit less calories and upgrade how health supporting their foods and drinks are AND do both progressive strength training and interval cardio can use it with little effect.
But the people who do the things that cause fat loss, apparently get quite an effect if they add this third method too. I just discovered it existed a few days ago. And today’s Early to Rise article explains why it can be such an asset in fat loss.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have something you could take that would both totally prevent this drop in your metabolism AND cause you to lose most or all of your excess abdominal fat?
What if it also was safe to take and produced no “speed” or over-stimulation effects as well?
It’s a bit on the pricey side. It costs $50 to $60 a month to take it. And, it’s likely useless if you don’t do the other things and keep doing them.
But if you have the money and are doing the other things, I think it looks worth doing.
An active ingredient in wakame seaweed and some other kinds of seaweed is called fucoxanthin.
Wikipedia has this.:
“Fucoxanthin reduces fat because of its increase in cell energy expenditure. This is important because fucoxanthin helps to increase your metabolic rate, which becomes progressively slower as you age, explaining why normal dieting doesn't always have the desired long-term results. There have been recent studies in both humans and animals that showed taking fucoxanthin supplements helps to reduce body weight as well as significant losses in visceral fat, decrease in liver and abdominal fat, and an increase in energy expenditure. Subjects taking the fucoxanthin supplements lost an average of 14 pounds, 11 pounds more than the placebo group.”
The supplement most readily available in health food stores is Garden of Life Fuco Thin.
(from http://palmbeachnutrition.com/Garden-of-Life/Fuco-Thin/tabid/229/Default.aspx ):
“Garden of Life Fuco Thin
Fuco Thin by Garden of Life is for anyone who is seeking to manage body fat and support a healthy metabolic rate while following a balanced diet and a regular exercise regimen.
All-natural concentrate with fucoxanthin levels 250-500 times higher than wild seaweed
Supports the metabolism or breakdown of fat in white adipose tissue, including belly fat
The first marine algae-derived ingredient with clinically proven thermogenic effect
Does not stimulate the central nervous system and will not cause jitters or lost sleep.”
The Garden of Life literature reports that many of the people who do the other things and also take Fuco Thin lose inches off their waist in addition to pounds on the scale.
I lost 30 pounds without taking it and only lost 2 inches from my waist. I’d love to find that taking this would trim off another 2 to 4 inches off my waist.
So I intend to try it myself soon.
If you try it and it works for you, please leave a comment here.
Today's post: Thursday, 9-25-2008
There are two parts to this post. The second part has the key to fat loss success.
1. Being fat not only makes you look less sexually appealing, it tends to turn off your sex drive.
2. A little known fact is one of the most important reasons people who try to lose fat weight fail to lose it all and keep it off. But there are three ways to overcome it. If you want to lose all the fat you should & would like to lose and keep it off, it’s definitely worth trying all three together.
1. Being fat not only makes you look less sexually appealing, it tends to turn off your sex drive.
Most people know being fat makes you look less sexually appealing. But few people know it also tends to turn off your sex drive.
Last Friday, 9-19, in the Yahoo News health section online, Reuters Health had a story titled,
"Obesity may diminish a man's fertility ."
They found married fat men tended to not have as many children as married men of normal weight. They found that measurable in differences in hormone levels in the fat men caused this effect.
The fat men had below normal testosterone levels. And, some of the fertility related hormones that were low in the fat men caused the researchers to believe that excess body fat likely also tended increase the conversion of testosterone to estrogen in a man's blood. They measured higher estrogen levels in the fat men.
They also said that previous studies found that fat men had lower libido and increased risk of erectile dysfunction when compared with men who were not fat.
The good news is two fold.
One, if you are fat now, you can increase your testosterone level right away, even before you lose very much fat, AND increase your chances of losing the fat and have it stay off. Doing progressive strength training and/or interval cardio regularly -- releases testosterone.
Doing these two kinds of exercise also boosts your metabolism for hours after you exercise and increases your muscle mass. So since the increased muscle burns more calories than fat does, you burn more calories in two ways and tend to both lose fat and increase muscle. This helps ensure that not only do you lose only fat as you lose weight, you may well lose MORE pounds of fat than you lose pounds on the scale.
You can also have more testosterone by preventing some of it from being converted to estrogen. According to Dr Al Sears, taking the supplement DIM or eating lots of broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables that contain it or both does exactly that.
Now, here’s the really interesting part of this post.:
2. A little known fact is one of the most important reasons people who try to lose fat weight fail to lose it all and keep it off. But there are three ways to overcome it. If you want to lose all the fat you should & would like to lose and keep it off, it’s definitely worth trying all three together.
As often happens, I read some key information earlier today in the health article in today’s Early to Rise.
“This article appears courtesy of Early To Rise, an e-zine dedicated to making money, improving your health and quality of life. For a complimentary subscription, visit http://www.earlytorise.com.”
“Don't Diet TOO Much
By Craig Ballantyne
Bodybuilders have long known that if you eat too little for too long, you can actually decrease your resting metabolic rate (the number of calories you burn at rest).
Now, scientists are catching up to our muscle-building friends. Researchers from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana studied long-term dieting in 48 normal-weight subjects.
For six months, one group of subjects reduced their calories by 25 percent. A second group reduced their calories by 12.5 percent and exercised to burn another 12.5 percent of their calorie intake each day. A third group consumed only 890 calories per day until they lost 15 percent of their body weight, and then went on a weight-maintenance diet.
The researchers found that resting metabolic rate decreased after only three months in the subjects who'd reduced their calories by 25 percent. The 890-calorie-per-day group and the diet + exercise group also had a decreased resting metabolic rate, but it took six months for them.
The conclusion: When you diet too hard and too long, your body starts to conserve energy by reducing your metabolism and by decreasing the number of calories burned in any exercise you do.
To keep your resting metabolism high, follow these three guidelines when trying to lose weight:
1. Don't cut your calories too much. A 10 percent reduction - combined with regular exercise - is plenty.
2. Permit yourself a "reward meal" once a week. Eat your favorite foods, but don't go over the number of calories you had been eating each day before you started the diet.
3. Every eight to 10 weeks, take a few days off of dieting, and go back to your pre-diet caloric intake.
[Ed. Note: Supplement Craig Ballantyne's diet rules with a fat-burning exercise routine. Learn how to build muscle and blast fat with his Turbulence Training program.
And for more advice on how to lose weight, eat right, and exercise better, sign up for ETR's free natural health e-letter.] “
(Their “natural health e-letter” comes out currently twice a week and you can sign up for it at:
www.totalhealthbreakthroughs.com .)
X* X* X* X* X* X*
Here are the 3 other ways to prevent this effect.:
1. A combination of: eating less or hardly any of the foods and drinks that tend to make you fat;
and eating more green and nonstarchy vegetables;
and a 10 percent reduction or even a bit less in your total calories while keeping a dairy before the reduction and every week after it.
-- Will remove fat from your body. And, doing it in ways that allow you to eat other foods you enjoy and only cutting back that much, will enable you to keep doing it.
(I only had to cut my beer and wine intake a bit and ate more vegetables and was already avoiding fattening foods and drinks and exercising each week. But I’ve been able to maintain my fat weight loss since that’s all I had to add & subtract. So I’ve just kept doing it.)
Cutting back more than that tends to lower your metabolism and tends to make you feel bad to the place you both stop losing fat and tend to give up. Why do that? Upgrade your diet to health supporting foods and drinks and cut back the calories just a little. That both prevents the decrease in metabolism and makes it doable to continue.
For me this is not theory. I set out to lose just 10 pounds. But since I was able to keep up the changes easily, I lost 30 pounds.
2. Doing progressive strength training and/or interval cardio regularly not only releases testosterone and improves the sex lives of BOTH men and women, doing these two kinds of exercise also boosts your metabolism for hours after you exercise and increases your muscle mass. So, since the increased muscle burns more calories than fat does, you burn more calories in two ways and tend to both lose fat and increase muscle.
This also tends to prevent this drop off of metabolism that can slow or prevent losing fat.
3. There may be a way to improve this protection against having your metabolism drop even more. It does nothing by itself to lose fat. So people who don’t eat a bit less calories and upgrade how health supporting their foods and drinks are AND do both progressive strength training and interval cardio can use it with little effect.
But the people who do the things that cause fat loss, apparently get quite an effect if they add this third method too. I just discovered it existed a few days ago. And today’s Early to Rise article explains why it can be such an asset in fat loss.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have something you could take that would both totally prevent this drop in your metabolism AND cause you to lose most or all of your excess abdominal fat?
What if it also was safe to take and produced no “speed” or over-stimulation effects as well?
It’s a bit on the pricey side. It costs $50 to $60 a month to take it. And, it’s likely useless if you don’t do the other things and keep doing them.
But if you have the money and are doing the other things, I think it looks worth doing.
An active ingredient in wakame seaweed and some other kinds of seaweed is called fucoxanthin.
Wikipedia has this.:
“Fucoxanthin reduces fat because of its increase in cell energy expenditure. This is important because fucoxanthin helps to increase your metabolic rate, which becomes progressively slower as you age, explaining why normal dieting doesn't always have the desired long-term results. There have been recent studies in both humans and animals that showed taking fucoxanthin supplements helps to reduce body weight as well as significant losses in visceral fat, decrease in liver and abdominal fat, and an increase in energy expenditure. Subjects taking the fucoxanthin supplements lost an average of 14 pounds, 11 pounds more than the placebo group.”
The supplement most readily available in health food stores is Garden of Life Fuco Thin.
(from http://palmbeachnutrition.com/Garden-of-Life/Fuco-Thin/tabid/229/Default.aspx ):
“Garden of Life Fuco Thin
Fuco Thin by Garden of Life is for anyone who is seeking to manage body fat and support a healthy metabolic rate while following a balanced diet and a regular exercise regimen.
All-natural concentrate with fucoxanthin levels 250-500 times higher than wild seaweed
Supports the metabolism or breakdown of fat in white adipose tissue, including belly fat
The first marine algae-derived ingredient with clinically proven thermogenic effect
Does not stimulate the central nervous system and will not cause jitters or lost sleep.”
The Garden of Life literature reports that many of the people who do the other things and also take Fuco Thin lose inches off their waist in addition to pounds on the scale.
I lost 30 pounds without taking it and only lost 2 inches from my waist. I’d love to find that taking this would trim off another 2 to 4 inches off my waist.
So I intend to try it myself soon.
If you try it and it works for you, please leave a comment here.
Labels: dieting success, fat loss, increase your metabolism, lose abdominal fat, lose belly fat, lose fat, lose weight successfully, permanent fat loss
posted by David at 2:05 PM
3 Comments:
I have found in my own personal experience is it is not important to diet. All you need is a vigorous old fashioned walk for 40 to 60 minutes daily.
While talking about diet of course it is important to cut all those soft drinks and junk foods. If you eat the right vegetarian foods no dieting is required.
I think so many people cut their calorie intake too much, which is why they end up going of their diet. I've read food journals online that were barely over 550 calories a day. That's a lot of muscle burning and no fat.
1. 40 to 60 minutes a day of walking is about 200 to 300 calories a day or 1400 to 2100 calories a week.
Getting that much regular exercise every week will help lose fat and keep it off.
If you have time to walk that much, great. But strength training and interval cardio can burn that many calories in less time. And, you get other health benefits.
2. Permanent fat loss requires upgrading what you eat and getting enough exercise. Eating way too little to even think of sustaining it produces fast initial results OK. But it also will add the fat back when you are forced to stop doing it.
The interesting thing about this new information is that a combination of eating and exercising right with cutting back just a little not only CAN be sustained, it will actually allow you to lose MORE fat.
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