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Weight Loss Supplements Guide

Weight loss supplements are a craze among multitudes of people looking to shed excess body fat. Weight loss supplements and Fat burners and are a huge industry everywhere you look.

This has brought about a proliferation of diverse weight-loss supplements, making people who struggle with weight problems wonder what the top weight loss supplements really are.

Weight loss supplements are chemical or natural substances, which when consumed with a proper diet and exercise program, helps you lose weight quicker. The many different diets, patches, pills and other options available over the counter constitute the leading sources of income for the diet and weight loss industry.

Weight Loss supplements – Appetite suppressants

Appetite suppressants are possibly the most sought after of all the weight loss supplements. Those who are looking for a “magic pill” make these types of supplements really popular among the masses. The more effective products however, are those that increase the body’s metabolic rate.

Weight Loss Supplements Guide

Weight Loss Supplements

A huge mistake consumers make when choosing a trendy or alternative slimming plan is to assume they’re all created equally. Like any industry, some manufacturers of weight loss supplements and nutrition products are vastly superior to others, so research is the order of the day while shopping.

Another huge, and potentially harmful mistake consumers make is to rely on weight loss supplements to obtain quick weight loss without changing their lifestyle or daily routine.

Any weight loss method’s goal should be to not only take off the fat, but to sustain the reduction indefinitely and they can’t do it alone. Used without a healthy diet and exercise, any progress you make will reverse itself within a few weeks at most.

Weight Loss Supplements – Don’t replace meals

A lot of times, weight loss supplements are added to a glass of milk or juice to be taken instead of eating a nutritious meal. It’s extremely important to remember that these supplements should not be used as a replacement for nutritious food, because some over the counter goods are very high in caffeine and include other stimulants which may make them a bad option for people with heart disease or high blood pressure.

Are weight loss supplements effective? This question goes way beyond the bathroom scales. These products can provide a quick fix, but just won’t solve obesity on their own. It can’t be stressed enough that supplements are simply a way to bolster regular exercise and a healthy diet.

Even then; weight loss supplements offer a beacon of hope for some who are overweight, yet they still remain a suspicious scam to others. After all; most doctors will tell you that supplements are not required at all; that the only proper, long term way to lose weight is with daily exercise, along with a good, controlled, nutritious diet.

Using Weight Loss Supplements can create healthy weight loss

Numerous health problems are caused by being overweight, yet many weight loss supplements are just as damaging to your health as being overweight. Some supplements may be even more so; as our hearts and our livers are extremely vital to our lives. One of the problems is that some of these weight loss supplements are untested, unproven and are neither effective nor safe for weight loss use.

At the same time, saying that all weight loss products are unsafe and ineffective while ignoring the great handful of supplements that have been clinically proven to aid in weight loss among other health benefits is a gross misrepresentation.

While being the least glamorous of them all, natural weight loss supplements are the safest way to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle, if you choose to go this route.

The very best weight loss supplements are those that don’t contain artificial preservatives, harsh chemicals or any substance that will be damaging to the body. These supplements don’t cause harmful side effects such as dehydration and headache, and provide minerals, vitamins, and other nutrients that the body needs to operate under “low fuel” conditions. So please, no matter which if any you use make sure you use weight loss supplements with care

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Do artificial sweeteners make you fat?

Artificial sweeteners are everywhere. And I used to think a calorie is a calorie but maybe I was wrong. There is a good chance that your diet soda is making you fat.

Diet Blog has just posted the results of a study done on rats that shows that eating artificial sweeteners in the form of saccharin will actually make you gain weight faster then using the sugar itself.

Artificial sweeteners Research

I know that I have seen these kinds of results before and have always been confused by how it would work but essentially the thinking by the scientific community is that your brain notices the “sweetness” of the food and think that the artificial sweeteners it is sugar. and stores food as fat because the brain thinks that the body has more than enough fuel (calories) to keep it going.

I know that some people will say in seeing this that people are not rats but still physiologically this makes sense to me. Also, if you look at all the diet pop that is sold and people in North America just seem to be gettng bigger and bigger then maybe there is some merit in the conclusions of this research.

Do artificial sweeteners make you fat?

Does this jive with any other research? Well yes I remember that the University of Texas did a Diet soda study that showed that drinking one Diet Soda caused people to get fat and drinking two definitely caused weight gain. This was not a short study either, in fact the results were based on before and after 8 years. There would be a lot of other factors involved including the fact that people try to lose weight by replacing regular soda with diet for lower calories.

The conclusion of the artificial sweeteners study actually points this out as well

A common interpretation of the direct correlation between increased use of artificial sweeteners and increased incidence of obesity is that people have turned to calorie-free sweeteners as a means of reducing energy intake and controlling body weight.

However, our findings and theoretical framework are in closer agreement with the possibility that increased intake of no-calorie sugar substitutes could promote increased intake and body weight gain, which is consistent with recent data from prospective human clinical studies that have documented increased risk for obesity and metabolic syndrome in individuals consuming beverages sweetened with high-intensity sweeteners (e.g., Dhingra et al., 2007; Liebman et al., 2006). Although much research has been directed at selecting among these alternatives, a consensus opinion about the effectiveness of consuming artificially sweetened substances as means of weight control has yet to emerge

I have always been against diet soda anyway because they are usually sweetened with the artificial sweeteners Aspartame which as we all know is poisonous according to lots of studies, even in small doses.

So what can you take from this kind of study? Maybe that you should try to cut out all sodas or at the very least cut back and just drink regular sugar sweetened soda and take the calories for it instead. By all means look at artificial sweeteners as a problem and stick to non sweetened drinks or just water.

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Tony Robbins Tips for 2012

Tony Robbins is a guy that I have listened to for years but I took a break from him for the last few years thinking that the last thing that I need is motivation and the big thing that I needed was action.

Well times maybe changing for me. I watched this Tony Robbins video last weekend and it really fired me up, I was sharing it everywhere I could

Be warned the Tony Robbins video is 35 or 40 minutes long but I think this is a great break to inspire you. When I say inspire I mean that watching this video is not just to get you fired up and ready to take on the world but instead this video will give you actionable ideas for how to make sure that you know where you are going and why. I think mostly of this as a planning session and brainstorming and it should lead to another session for you to make sure you know what you need to do over the rest of the year.

How Tony Robbins Helps Build Standards

Looking at this video by Tony Robbins I just want to mention one thing and that is the idea of setting standards that you live by. By saying standards I mean that I think of myself as living a certain way, decisions to live by. Here are an example of 5 of my standards that I live by.

  1. I drink water all day long
  2. Exercise is a high priority everyday
  3. I never eat after dinner
  4. Fruit and veggies are great snacks
  5. I make sure I have goals for the week all the time

I know this list is just an example of a few things and I know I still come up short. I scramble around from task to task and leave a lot of things unfinished and I get distracted easily so I still have a lot of work to do.

I hope that Tony Robbins video as well as my own examples here can help you to set your own standards as well as look at, like I do, parts of your life where standards are missing. Tony Robbins is more than just a motivational speaker, I think that watching these Tony Robbins videos can help you build some needed structure in your life.

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