Friday, September 5, 2008

THINK you know about weight loss? READ THIS!!! by Alwyn Cosgrove

The Problem with Weight Loss: Your Body Will Do The Opposite. By Alwyn Cosgrove http://tinyurl.com/6nh7mb

Homeostasis is the property of a living organism, that regulates its internal environment so as to maintain a stable, constant condition.

When you don't drink enough water in the short term -- often the body retains water. It attempts to maintain homeostasis by counteracting the stresses we put on it.

When you drink a lot of extra water - your body excretes more water to maintain balance.

When we weight train -- we actually break down muscle tissue. And the body responds by building new muscle. It attempts to maintain homeostasis by doing the reverse of the stimulus we placed on it.

When a male takes supplemental testosterone -- the body shuts down its own production in a bid to maintain homeostasis.

When we immunize children against disease -- we actually inject them with a small dose of that disease. The immune system recognizes the vaccine as foreign, destroys it, and 'remembers' it. When the virulent version of an agent comes along, the immune system is thus prepared to respond. In order to prepare the body to defend against a disease - we expose it to the disease - and it responds by doing the opposite - it destroys the disease.

In almost every situation I can think of, the body tries to maintain homeostasis by "doing the opposite" of the stimulus.

How does this apply to weight loss?

Now we know that while you are doing it -- low intensity exercise burns primarily fat.

Higher intensity exercise actually burns more carb stores than fat.

But in every head to head comparison, high intensity exercise results in more fat loss than low intensity exercise - even though the more intense work may burn a lesser percentage of fat during the exercise session.

Burning glycogen results in a larger amount of fat lost than burning fat directly.

The body responds by "doing the opposite"...

Break down muscle to grow more muscle. Burn glycogen to lose more fat.

I designed Warp Speed Fat Loss training program to specifically take advantage of this ‘law’ of nature so that when your body “does the opposite” you’ll end up with faster and greater fat loss.

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Warp Speed Fat Loss is a complete 28 day diet and training system crafted to help you lose 10,15, or 20lbs of body fat in just 28 day. To start losing weight fast visit http://tinyurl.com/6nh7mb . Alwyn Cosgrove, M.S., C.S.C.S. is a nationally renown fat loss expert whose work has appeared in magazines such as Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, Muscle & Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Men’s Journal, Self, Oxygen, and Muscle & Fitness HERS. His Warp Speed Fat Loss system is a complete Done-for-You A-Z Fat Loss Blueprint that gives you exactly everything you need to eat and exactly what to do for exercise to lose weight in record time.

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Willpower For Weight Loss by JB Pennant

If you are wondering whether you have the willpower to follow your dieting regime, the answer is, YES, you can have and will have the willpower to acheive your weight loss goals. Actually decicing to start losing weight is a hurdle in itself, as you are confronting a personal problem. Starting a diet might be easy, sticking to it can be a lot harder.

So how do you maxamise your willpower to lose weight. First, you must remmember more important than your willpower, will be the motivation of having a better figure and healthier lifestyle when your acheive your target weight. Having willpower isn't as simple as just saying no. Not everyone has the same level of control over our willpower, but this is not the case. If we had a strict upbringing, we may find it easier to keep a element of control in our lives. If our background was a bit more relaxed as a child, we may find it a struggle to accept restrictions placed upon us, even by ourselves. But that does not mean we cannot re-tune our bodies and brains to bolster our willpower.

Willpower can change depending on our feelings, hormones and emotions. If we are feeling low through emotions like rejection or hurt, we often look for certain foods for comfort. This again stems from our childhood. When children are feeling hurt they are often comforted by foods high in sugar or carbohydrate. Later in adulthood we look to the same types of food again for comfort when we are feeling low. Which is bad news if we are looking to lose weight. You can be prepared for when you do feel a bit peckish. Instead of going to the vending machine when you are at work, always carry a healthy food item, like fruit or a cereal bar, for you to snack on.

You can change the way you decide to treat yourself. You could go for the "food" treat, where the feelgood factor will be over all too soon only to be replaced by a guilt feeling. Or maximise your willpower and have the real treat of having a great slimmer figure when you resist temptation.

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How to Lose Weight Fast by Pharmacy Online

So what should you do about weight control?

Being healthy is really about being at a weight that is right for you. The best way to find out if you are at a healthy weight or if you need to lose or gain weight is to talk to a doctor or dietitian, who can compare your weight with healthy norms to help you set realistic goals. If it turns out that you can benefit from weight loss, then you can follow a few of the simple suggestions listed below to get started.

For many people, efforts to lose weight mean intensive dieting, obsessive calorie counting, self-deprivation, and hunger. This type of dieting usually leads to failure because you suffer through it. For the most part, people who lose weight and manage to keep it off do so by adopting healthy habits that stay with them for the rest of their lives. Weight loss is not an isolated, one-time activity, but part of a lifetime of better health.

Rimonabant: Weight Loss PLUS Smoking Cessation Rimonabant (also known as Zimulti, Acomplia, Slimona or Obitone) is an anorectic anti obesity drug. It is a CB1 cannabinoid receptor antagonist. Rimonabant has been found to stop food craving enough to help people lose weight, and could also help curb other unhealthy urges, such as smoking. This is a non-control weightloss solution that in one study, helped people who were overweight drop an average of 20 pounds, and was found to be very useful for patients who suffer from obesity.

Xenical (Orlistat) is indicated for obesity management including weight loss and weight maintenance when used in conjunction with a reduced-calorie diet. It helps the body eliminate unwanted fat. Xenical is also used to reduce the risk for weight regain after prior weight loss.

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How To Loose Weight Fast Setting Yourself Up For Success by Steve Roberts

There are a plenty of options available on how to loose weight fast. Combinations of diet and exercise plans.
All of these programs will be able to show you testimonials from people who used them and have achieved great weight loss.
The key element in all of those testimonials is that the people who achieved their weight loss goals, had the right mind set to start with, or they achieved it along the way.
A central problem we face in weight loss, especially in the struggle to keep weight off after losing it, is that we don't concentrate on the right things.
Generally, we turn our attention to the diet or exercise program's results. The key is to focus not on the details of how to loose weight fast, but on our own mindset; this positive outlook ensures that we are setting ourselves up for success.
This list is of some typical weight loss reasons that are unlikely to work;
* When someone convinces you to diet.
*A short term goal is the only focus. (Often an occasion such as a marriage or reunion.) and not having a view to the future.
*To make some other person happy.
*As a result of peer pressure.
The best way to set yourself up for success is to really have a good think about your reasons for wanting to loose weight. If you don't really have a compelling reason then it might be best to leave it until you are ready and have the determination to succeed.
For the best chance of success, it is best to concentrate on one or possibly two really major reasons. Then you can start to see how good your life will be when you succeed, and also remind yourself of the cost of failure.
Only then is it really worthwhile learning about how to loose weight fast, and what diets and exercise programs you are going to use to achieve your goal.
Sticking with the program is important, so get on with it and I wish you well.

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Steve Roberts Is an Industry expert on Weight Loss and writes regularly on how to loose weight fast. You can read more about how to loose weight at his blog, http://mmolbiz.com/howtolooseweightfast/