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Excess Weight and Body Fats? Laugh Them All Off
By Ismael Tabije

Have you ever heard of the truism “jokes are half meant”? If you have, do you believe in it? If you have not, then now, you have read of it and maybe if you read on, you’d be able to think of a joke of your own which could be half or full-meant.

I gathered some of the most popular jokes on health and fitness over the Internet and after laughing about them, I thought maybe I could tell something that would prove that these jokes were born out of the sometimes painful and bitter realities of life.

It would really be nice to have a slim and really fit body but not everybody is blessed with such. There are some people, no matter how much food they take, including calories, fats and all, who never gain weight or grow fat. But to those who are blessed with tons of excesses in fats and weight, trimming down is one of the most difficult tasks in the world. Especially if “exercise” and “dieting” are alien terms for them, this humorous analysis of how the human body was arranged is just right:

I don’t exercise at all. If God had wanted me to touch my toes He would have put them up higher on my body.

Sometimes, in the lowest point of your weight-loss campaign wherein only your weight doesn’t go down and the rest, most especially your ego, has dropped down beyond the base, you find ways to console your ultra-bruised and dying ego. And one is to consider that every shape is accepted in the society:

I’m in shape. Round is a shape.

And then there’s the matter of aging. To some, the question is: why change the course of time? A person’s age adds up and along with the increase of the age is the gradual decline of the body. It is just a normal process. Why put pressure on yourself and your failing body? Age, time and fats are ganging up on you, three to one:

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat have become such inseparably good friends.

To choose whether to follow what you think or what you feel is another difficult task. It is an honorable and praiseworthy thought of working to get into shape. But, what would you do if the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak?

Every time I get the urge to exercise, I lie down till the feeling passes.

And then there are some people whose form of exercise is sharpening their wits. They could utter one-liner wisecracks that could make it to the funniest sitcom on TV:

The only exercise you get is jumping to conclusions.

And who said that only the adults are having a hard time being friendly with exercising? Take a trip to a school PE schedule and you might be surprised to hear some outrageous quips coming from the tots that you think are advocates of physical fitness:

My gym teacher told me to touch my toes. I said, “I don’t have that kind of relationship with my feet. Can I just wave?”

Excuses are the most popular forms of escape from the campaign towards getting fit and healthy. Here are some excuses that you may have sheepishly used once, twice or maybe more than thrice:

· But it was my birthday, so I had to eat the whole cake.

· I had to get the bitter taste out of my mouth from eating the so-called dish, so I had an ice cream.

· If you eat something and no one sees you eat it, it has no calories.

· If you drink a diet soda with a candy bar, the diet soda cancels out the calories in the candy bar.

· If you fatten up everyone else around you, then you look thinner.

· Only eat things that have been broken into pieces; that way, all the calories fall out.

· Chocolate is a vegetable. How, you ask? Chocolate is derived from cacao beans. Bean = vegetable. Sugar is derived from either sugar CANE or sugar BEETS. Both are plants, which places them in the vegetable category. Thus, chocolate is a vegetable.

And there’s just the hardheaded approach, the I-really-don’t-care-whether-I’m-fat-or-slim attitude that you may pronounce as a hopeless case. It’s actually very easy to tell, once you hear this line, it’s it:

I’m not into working out. My philosophy is no pain, no pain.

Getting fit and staying healthy is not a laughable matter – or is it? One thing sure is that it isn’t an easy task. It involves determination, hard work and some light moments on the side. After all, laughing – for a long period – can help shake those excess fats off. And even the doctors agree it’s the world’s best medicine.

The writer, Ismael Tabije, is the editor of the book, “The Man Who Grew Younger: Secrets to Natural Fitness and Beauty”. This book, which can be accessed at http://www.growyounger.e-mart4all.com, has complete descriptions and illustrations showing unique but proven effective exercises for maintaining youth and total vitality. He also runs the related website, http://www.fitness.e-mart4all.com, a wide collection of health and fitness e-books written by world-renowned fitness experts and authors.

Carol Solomon

One of the mistakes people make is turning a lapse into a relapse.

We all have lapses.

How well you manage it depends on how you think about it, what you focus on and what you do afterwards.

First, think about it as a temporary lapse, not as a relapse that erases everything you have been working for. If you think about it in this way, you will be less likely to go into a downward spiral with eating.

Second, focus on getting back on track as quickly as possible. Do not give yourself permission to keep eating since you “have already blown it”.

This is an excuse.

Be realistic – we all get off track many, many times over the course of getting to where we want to be.

Accept it.

This is a normal and natural path.

There is also a lot to learn in getting OFF the path.

You can learn what DOESN’T work, what triggers your eating, and you have an opportunity to create a new strategy for that situation in the future.

So don’t sabotage yourself.

Third, just like when you have an angry outburst, what you do afterwards is often more important than what you have already done.

That means thinking clearly, acting rationally, being kind and recovering as quickly as possible. You may be upset or frustrated with your own behavior, but it is not the end of the world.

It can be fixed.

You can get right back on the path without too much damage done. So FORGIVE YOURSELF and keep taking steps toward your goal.

Count as a win your ability to recover quickly, and keep going.

Carol Solomon, Ph.D. is a psychologist and personal coach who specializes in helping people who want to lose weight and eliminate food and weight issues.

By going from food obsessive to charge neutral (i.e. Did I eat today?), she became dedicated to making it easy for others to step off the vicious cycle and live free of anxiety about food and weight.

She is the author of “Lose Weight Now Stay Slim Forever,” a practical “how-to” manual for learning to lose weight without dieting.

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By Terje Ellingsen

Which food should you eat and which drinks should you drink to increase your metabolism and thus increase your weight loss? Is there a connection between food and metabolism? Actually there are many types of food and drinks that increase your metabolic activity. We will describe a few foods that surely could be incorporated in a fat burning diet. Why not start with them?

Green Tea has proven to increase metabolism. This has been showed in quite a few studies now, and most conclusions are that this drink seems to raise metabolic rates with fat loss as a result. It also contains significant antioxidant components, which protects you from heart disease, stroke and even cancer. Add this to is a metabolism boost, and you’ll get real value for your money.

We all know that lean muscle mass increases metabolism. The more muscles the higher metabolic rate. Protein builds your muscles. If you add about 5 grams of protein per pound of your body weight, you’ll cover your daily need for protein.
There is a drink that your should consume less of if you want increased metabolism. Research has showed that alcohol may suppress your body’s ability to metabolize fat. When drinking alcohol, your body metabolises fat more slowly than without when having a meal. So slow down your alcohol intake.

These were only a few tips of what to eat and drink to increase you metabolism. Start here and follow more tips later.

Terje Brooks Ellingsen is a writer and internet marketer. He runs the website 11-Weight-Loss.net.
Terje enjoys to give advice and help people with fat burning diets like negative calorie food and high protein diets.

By Rob Cooper

I’m often asked what is the best diet, or the best food program, best exercise program and which single best book to recommend to improve your health, fitness or weight loss.

The answer is that there is no best way to do it. There is no best book, and there is no right way or wrong way to do it.

The 5 Critical things you must do to achieve your health are these

1. Continue to learn about health, fitness, nutrition and weight loss from a wide variety of sources

The single most important thing to do right from the start is to take action and begin learning about health, followed very closely by putting what you learn into practice. We are a very diversified bunch of people and what works for you may not work for the next person. You have to find what works for you from a wide variety of sources, expand your knowledge and accept no one thing as being the best for your health. Keep reading, keep learning and keep what works for you and discard what doesn’t.

Knowledge isn’t power, but “knowledge in action is power!”

Some very simple things to keep in mind is that the body runs on food and if you give it the best quality food, in whatever manor that happens to be, then you’ll probably get some good results in general. Keep the nutrition to a maximum by eating as close to nature as possible, organic where possible and eliminating processed foods and trans fats.

2. Find a mentor.

Someone who’s been there, done that and that you can model .

I realized at quite an early age that if we can model someone who’s been there and done that and gotten results, then you can “cut to the chase” as it were to find out what works for your health and weight loss – what doesn’t and in doing so get results faster.

Find a mentor, a role model for the things that you’re looking for. If it’s weight loss or to improve your health, find someone who’s walked in your footsteps and knows what you’re going through. Model them. Do what they did, repeat their process and contact them to ask what worked and what didn’t. You can save yourself a lot of time and effort by doing what works and skipping what doesn’t.

3. Apply the knowledge you learn about health on a daily basis

This is where the taking action part comes in. You must begin to apply the knowledge you’ve gained from what you’ve read about health or watched and by talking with people who’ve been there before you. If you do not put it into practice then you’ve become an information junkie and not someone who follows through on their knowledge. You must begin to work the principles you’ve learned on a daily basis and keep at it.

Without the trial and error, you get nowhere fast and won’t truly know what works and what doesn’t.

4. Repeat steps one, two and three

Remember, there is no right way or wrong way to lose weight, improve your health or get what you want. You must continue to learn and challenge what you’ve read. I’m told that what I teach is wrong and I ask what were your results when you tried it? Well, they didn’t try it and so I then ask “what right do you have to tell me what I teach is wrong”. It may have worked for me or for many people I coach including yourself, but without trying it and challenging it, you won’t ever know.

Keep learning about health, keep reading, keep applying what you’ve read and this new knowledge. Begin the process of filtering for yourself what will and won’t work for you. Remember this is about you, not me or the other guy, but what will help you achieve your weight loss goals or your health. This may very well be about applying certain fitness principles that sound so controversy that you figure they can’t possibly work. One of my favorite sayings is “believe nothing I say, but I challenge you to prove me wrong”. My intent is to have you try it.

When I first begun my journey to lose 300 pounds, I read one book and I preached the principles like they were the gospel. I was finally told to “shut up” and read something else, so I took it upon myself to learn whatever I could about health and weight loss. I began to apply my new knowledge daily, found people who had used the info before and what they believed about it, what worked for them for their health and then discovered for myself what worked.

Finally, I discovered the ultimate secret to health and weight loss.

5. Never give up.

It never ends. In the large scope of your life, the next 30, 40, 50 or more years, what is a few days if you happen to get off track. Get right back on doing what you were doing, keep learning, keep trying new things, go back to what worked when it was working and keep up with your daily fitness routine. Probably the single most important fact about exercise or fitness is that our body is designed to move and we’ve gotten away from that. We must do something on a daily basis to exercise our body.

Never give up. Never lose sight of the health you want and keep working towards your goal.

Rob Cooper shares the secrets to his 300 pound fat loss so that you too can lose weight, get and remain healthy. Subscribe to his newsletter for simple, effective tips. http://www.formerfatguy.com

Some benefits of the Atkins Plan include:

• Consume Carbs Intelligently
• Low Glycemic Impact
• Low in Sugar, Balance of Fats and High in Fiber
• Weekly Meal Plans that are Personalized for You
• Shopping List that You Can ‘Print and Go’

Nov. 10, 2004 on the Oprah Winfrey show Dr Perricone and Oprah discuss food that will make you look younger and lose weight.

Look 10 Years Younger in 10 Days

Dr. Perricone promised Oprah she would lose weight if she would just replace her coffee with green tea. “Coffee has organic acids that raise your blood sugar, raising insulin. Insulin puts a lock on body fat. When you switch over to green tea, you get your caffeine. You’re all set. But you will drop your insulin levels and body fat will fall very rapidly. So 10 pounds in six weeks, I will guarantee.”

If you do nothing else differently, except switch from coffee to green tea, you will lose 10 pounds in six weeks.

Green Tea and Research

Studies on green tea still come to the same conclusions. Green tea aids appetite suppression, burns calories, and increases your energy. By increasing activity and decreasing your calorie intake, weight loss is a natural process with green tea.

The only catch with these studies is the amount you would have to drink every day. Experts say people would have to drink quarts of green tea every day to obtain these benefits. That’s impossible. I don’t know anyone who has the time to make and drink about 15 cups of green tea every day.

Green Tea 300

Now you can join Oprah, drink green tea and lose weight. With Green Tea 300 you get 30 cups of green tea per serving. The Green Tea 300 instant drink provides the perfect way to obtain all the benefits of green tea. The extract in Green Tea 300 is from the entire green tea leaf. This process cuts down on the actual amount necessary, while giving you the most potency. Each Green Tea 300 serving contains 300 milligrams of phenols, the potent anti-oxidant in green tea, and only 45 milligrams of caffeine. Green Tea 300 is the best way to get the maximum health benefits of green tea.

Try a Green Tea Collins. Find the recipe on Oprah.com.

Individual results vary, but people have had some exciting results. Because the Tsu Noni Weight Loss Program is not a fad or crash diet, weight loss is gradual and healtht, like it should be. When used with a healthy diet and exercise, people typically lose 1-3 pounds a week.

Green tea has less caffeine than oolong or black tea. The amount of caffeine can vary depending on how the tea is brewed, what part of the tea plant the leaf/bud comes from and the size of the leaf. Tea bags usually have smaller leaves or pieces of leaves and ends up with more caffeine when brewed. The Tsu Noni Patch and Instant Drink Packets have 63 milligrams of caffeine in each dose, which is less than half of a cup of coffee.

The ingredients

The patch contains:

Noni (Morinda) Green Tea (Camellia Sinensis) Bladderwack (Fucus Vesiculosus)

The Instant Drink Packets:

Morinda Extract (Noni), Green Tea Extract, Potassium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Malic Acid, Sodium Bicarbonate, Fructose, Sucralose Natural Grape Powder, Natural and Artificial Grape Flavor, Grape Skin Extract, Beet Root Powder (Sparkling Grape only) Natural Apple Powder, Natural Apple Flavor (Sparkling Apple only) Cranberry Powder, Cranberry Flavor, Grape Skin Extract, Beet Root Powder (Sparkling Cranberry only) Orange Powder, Orange Flavor, Beta Carotene, Mango Flavor, Orange Flavor (Sparkling Citrus Mango only)