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Weight loss has become an obsession in a nation where 63% of the people are overweight and a startling 31% are obese. Clearly our modern lifestyle is not healthy. Many people are desperate to make a change and will try any lose weight fast ‘magic-bullet’ or cure that is offered – still the obesity rates climb. What are the reasons behind this trend? The stress of our lifestyles, toxicity in the environment, unhealthy processed food, improper nutrition habits, and lives spent in our cars, small offices and houses with little or no time in fresh air. Our lifestyles seem designed to make us fat.
People desperate for weight loss will try any diet, take any pill, and even resort to surgery to try and get their weight under control, but if they don’t deal with the underlying issues that lead to obesity in the first place they are bound to regain the weight leading to an ever increasing waistline. There is no ‘magic-bullet’ to take away obesity. In order to counter the effects of our unhealthy lifestyles it is necessary to deal with the underlying issues that are causing the obesity in the first place. We can learn from the lifestyles of ancient cultures where the diet is predominantly fruits, grains and vegetables and where fasting or nutritional cleansing is an accepted practice.
We are surrounded by more chemicals with higher levels of toxicity than ever before. These chemicals can build up in our body and compound the problems of improper nutrition leading to obesity. Nutritional cleansing is a great way to help our bodies deal with toxicity. By eating healthy meals, predominantly of vegetables and lean protein, and by taking regular cleanse days to flush the toxins from the system our bodies will re-set the natural balance and weight loss will automatically follow. Unlike fasting, nutritional cleansing is not simply a process of not eating. When you undertake nutritional cleansing you drink a specially prepared vitamin and mineral packed supplement that will help increase your energy, cleanse the toxins from your body and even help your skin and hair regain the gloss of health.
Some of the benefits you may see from a nutritional cleansing diet are:
• A nutritional cleanse may provide FAST safe weight loss
• A nutritional cleanse may help your body to cleanse itself of impurities
• A nutritional cleanse may help replenish the body with high quality nutrients
• A nutritional cleanse may promote beautiful skin, hair and nails
• A nutritional cleanse may increase energy and vitality
• A nutritional cleanse may help build lean muscle
Simply by reprogramming your life to eat healthier food, drink plenty of water and cleanse the toxins from your body you will see results. Not only will you lose weight, but you will have more energy, feel healthier and best of all, have reduced cravings for those unhealthy foods. The best thing about nutritional cleansing is that you can achieve weight loss without going on a diet!

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It is a good thing that even young people are getting conscious about their weight. They want to sport trendy and sexy clothes. At a young age, physical look is very important to them. This is a fact. They wanted to be accepted in the society and as much as it is sad to admit, some people gave overweight teens a hard time.
There are a number of weight loss products that you can try in the market today. But the most important thing to look for is safety. Since you are at a younger age, adult weight loss pills may not always do your body good. This is why it is a good thing to talk to your doctor and ask him to recommend a weight loss pill fit for your age.
If you are looking for an effective, yet safe weight loss product, you can try all natural weight loss supplements that can be bought in your local drugstore. These natural health supplements can also be bought online and in any place where alternative medicine and herbal products are being sold. Some of the popular weight loss products for teens include hoodia and acai berry.
Ask the experts, and they do not recommend rigorous workout programs at this young age. It is best to do regular exercise that doesn’t really do your body too much strain and pain. Adult workouts are not recommended because your body would have a drastic change that may be inappropriate for you at this stage.
It is advisable to have a good and healthy diet to achieve the body that you want. Watch what you are eating and stay away from foods that are high in sugar and in salt. Say no to junk foods and have a habit of eating fruits and vegetables. As much as you can, stick to home cooked foods and avoid fast food meals.
Instead of doing adult exercises, try to engage in sports and other physical activities. Biking and jogging would do your body a lot of good. Play your favorite CD and do some basic aerobics. You can also take your dog out and walk him around. Small physical activities can help you burn those unwanted fats. Join various sports that are part of the curriculum of your school. This would help you lose weigh and gain friends!
Taking health supplements can also help you in losing weight. In choosing a weight loss product, it is important that you pick something that is made of all-natural ingredients. This would ensure that the pill would do your body no harm. Aside from that, natural supplements also would not give you any major side effects.
So if you wanted to lose weight- start with a healthy lifestyle. Have a daily exercise routine. Engage in sports. Pick a weight loss natural supplement that you feel is right for you and take it on a regular basis. In time, you would have the body that you always wanted.

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I remember when I first learned about Microwave ovens, and the fact that they heat the food not the container. What a cool idea.

Why couldn’t a fitness program be like that–build the body without wearing it out?

Microwave ovens are so easy to use. You stick food in, then turn or press the timer. Or, what’s even cooler is that with one press of the popcorn button in a couple of minutes you’re munching on popcorn.

I’ve always wondered why, with all the marvels of our age, fitness isn’t as reliable. You can’t just start a fitness program and say, “Today I want to grow one inch on my arm. Tomorrow I’ll lose an inch of fat around my waist. And maybe this weekend I’ll build up some extra strength so I can help mom move the refrigerator next month.”

We all know it doesn’t work that way but, then again, before microwaves popcorn didn’t work that way either. So what’s the issue? Are we not demanding enough of our fitness programs, or do we just have a higher standard for kitchen appliances than for our own bodies?

This really hit me in a big way one day when I had to tie my shoes to go to a funeral. Until this funeral came up I had been wearing velcro shoes, the kind you don’t have to bend over and tie. I have to tell you, there is nothing like having trouble tying your shoes, in the context of going to someone’s funeral, to make you start thinking about fitness seriously.

That was almost 10 years ago. And you know what I’ve found out? People are far more demanding of their kitchen appliances than they are of their fitness programs. (Oh, not you, I mean other people.)

So why doesn’t fitness work better? I figured out that it has a lot to do with the words people use. People talk about getting fit, but it doesn’t have a clear meaning–not something you can test. It’s not like popcorn, where you can tell if it has popped or not.

The same concept applies to losing weight. The way most people talk about losing weight they make no distinction between losing 10 pounds of water weight, 10 pounds of muscle or 10 pounds of fat. It’s not the same you know.

For the average person it’s pretty easy to lose 10 pounds of water weight for a few days, only to gain it right back. And, for the average person, losing 10 pounds of muscle is disastrous. It will slow you down, make you tired quicker, make it harder to get around, and it won’t look much better. On top of that, it makes it easier to gain fat afterwards.

Losing 10 pounds of fat is harder, and takes longer, than those other two. But it isn’t that hard, and doesn’t take that long, if you know exactly how to do it. I once lost 40 pounds of fat in 70 days, mostly watching TV while doing it, because I knew exactly where the fat loss button was. It’s not as convenient as the popcorn button, but it is far more rewarding than the weight-loss of any type button.

So, what is the fitness equivalent to the microwave approach of cooking the food quickly but leaving the container cool to the touch? There are three things to focus on.

First, you have to know what a fitness goal is. Losing weight isn’t clear enough. Losing weight can make you less fit and make the change you are striving for less permanent.

If you burn both fat and muscle to reach your goal, you have destroyed the pan to cook the meal. You don’t have to do that. You can lose the unsightly, uncomfortable fat and keep lean muscle.

Next, you need to know your buttons. You can’t cook a turkey with the popcorn button. And you can’t build muscle with the endurance button.

The third point is to know the limits of what can and can’t be done. You can heat a turkey sandwich in a microwave, no problem. But for a thanksgiving dinner it is probably not the best tool for the job.

Even more important than those three items, though, is this: start demanding that your fitness programs work. Demand that they actually do something and not only accomplish something specific but that it is what you wanted to accomplish.

When you push the popcorn button you aren’t trying to heat up the popcorn and you aren’t trying to burn it. You are trying to pop it. And if the microwave does anything that you don’t consider successful, you get a new microwave. You should be as demanding on the tools you use on your own body.

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It was February of 2001 and there I was, about to turn 41, when it hit me: “I’m not 20 any more!”

OK, self-realization has never been my strong suit. Not only was I out of place on the basketball court, I was out of place climbing 2 flights of stairs. There were lots of friends telling me, “you’re not as young as you used to be, you have to give up on that stuff.”

Give up? I grew up watching a nation decide to land on the moon, and then they did it. This was a country that had less computer power at all of NASA than most people have today in their cell phones, and yet they decided to go to the moon, and then did it.

So I figured that surely by 2001, 30 years after the moon landing, people had figured out how to make fitness easy. Well, 6 months, 5 magazine subscriptions, 2 gym memberships, 3 personal trainers and a basement full of fitness equipment later… I realized that fitness is a different kind of problem than landing on the moon. It’s a problem that people lie about.

I’m not even talking about the intentional lies that some marketers make about products they know won’t work. I’m talking about the lies people tell themselves, that government agencies tell us all.

People treat fitness like it is solved, like all you have to do is work out 3 times a week and you are set.

Well sure, someone who works out 3 times a week is better off than someone who doesn’t work out at all. By “better off,” what they mean is that they don’t deteriorate as fast.

But I wanted more than that. I wanted an actual solution, like when you put toast in the toaster and it gets toasted, reliably.

I looked and saw people going through the motions. Maybe they were looking better than they would have looked and feeling better than they would have felt. But, they weren’t feeling good, weren’t getting strong, and weren’t becoming athletes.

I didn’t see 40-year-olds playing full court basketball, or taking up extreme sports, and at first I thought that was just because they weren’t trying hard enough. But then I started trying, started following the plans: doing the workout programs, taking the vitamins, and following the diet formulas.

They didn’t work. And that’s when I learned the big lie.

The big lie is that fitness is easy if you’ll just get up and move. It’s not true. Fitness isn’t easy, not at 40. Your body is complicated. It’s not as simple as standing in line and waiting your turn on the elliptical.

Here’s what my 40 years of life experience had taught me:

- If you Want to build a straw hut, trial and error will get the job done.

- If you Want to build a skyscraper, you need to understand the problem and put the right pieces in place.

OK, I was 40. Maybe I should have wanted to just be able to get around better and to fit into clothes well. But I wanted to play full court basketball, to learn to play ice hockey and how to downhill ski, and to actually accomplish things that most 40-year-olds gave up on. I wanted fitness to be as solved as using a microwave oven.

Well, it can be. But there’s a lot I had to learn to determine that. Here are some of the things I figured out.

1. The foundation, just like in the skyscraper example, has to be there before you start worrying about what paint to put on the exterior. For fitness this is muscle.

Aerobics worked fine for me when I was 20-years-old because at 20 I naturally had a high percentage of lean muscle mass. But, at 40, I had to focus on it and had to build that foundation first before focusing on aerobics. The reason is that aerobics, while great for your heart and your waistline, slows down muscle growth and even stops or reverses it at extremes.

So the first trick is to begin by causing your muscles to grow. And overshoot your muscle goals before layering on the aerobics. Understanding this can save you lots of frustration, and get you back to the “I want it all” mindset that we all deserve from our fitness efforts.

2. All workouts are not created equal. Different methods of working out accomplish different things. Just like you wouldn’t take art classes to learn business, you don’t run to build muscle, and you don’t lift heavy to burn fat. Knowing, and planning for, the different types of effects of different types of exercises can save you tons of wasted time.

3. Your body isn’t on internet time. I’ve tried for a long time to find a different way to put this, but I still haven’t come up with a clearer analogy: from conception of a baby to birth takes nine months. This is true regardless of how many couples there are or how enthusiastically they try. In each case it simply takes nine months.

Your body’s transformation takes time as well. Knowing what is realistic will put you on the consistent improvement track. Trying to do things that aren’t realistic will not achieve faster results, but worse ones.

You can have it all. I’m about to turn 49 now and last year I learned to ski. In fact, I not only learned, but I was swooshing down the black diamond slopes along with the 20-year-olds. I haven’t slam-dunked a basketball yet, but it’s just a matter of time.

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