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Men’s Health Diet for Weight Loss


You need a healthy diet and regular exercise if you want a flat stomach and strong muscles. The Men’s Health Diet was created to help men achieve a sculpted body by getting rid of belly fat fast. If you stick to the rules in the diet plan, you can become fit and experience weight loss while eating great food.

As a rule, men hate going on diets that are too restrictive. Some diets leave them feeling hungry and deprived. In contrast, the Men’s Health Diet encourages healthy eating and developing new eating habits that can be used beyond the program. It requires you to eat a wide variety of foods that will boost your energy level and provide all the nutrients you need. The program also includes an exercise plan that will help you lose fat faster and develop bigger muscles.

Men’s Health Diet: The Rules

This weight loss program consists of seven down-to-earth rules that are easy to follow. If you follow these rules, you’ll be able to cut down on calories and burn fat while you continue to eat foods that you enjoy.

The first rule in the diet program is to eat proteins with every meal and snack. The reason for this is that your body needs protein to build muscles that will help you burn fat more quickly. The program also requires you to eat before and after exercising. This will ensure that you have enough energy to do your workout properly. When you eat after working out, your body will have the nourishment it needs to restore and rebuild itself.

The diet program also encourages you to eat more plant-based foods. Fruits, vegetables, beans and whole grains are rich in vitamins and minerals but low in calories. You are also advised to avoid drinking “sugar water” or soda, sweetened fruit juices, iced tea, etc.

You Don’t Have to be Perfect

Mens Health Diet for Weight Loss

Men’s Health Diet

One great thing about the Men’s Health Diet is that it recognizes the fact that nobody’s perfect, so you are asked to follow the rules only 80% of the time. If you try to follow the rules all the time, you are more likely to throw in the towel and give up.

But if you know that it’s okay to break the rules once in a while, you won’t have any guilt feelings about breaking them and will continue to follow the program.

Diet and Nutrition

The diet program includes recommendations for the best foods for men, including recipes that will help you fight fat while providing fuel for your muscles. You are provided with great food choices plus the advice to eat only the best.

Exercise

The best diet programs always include exercise. The Men’s Health Diet implements an exercise program that is exciting and challenging. It includes circuit training, aerobics and strength training to help you lose belly fat in a matter of weeks.

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Isnt This A Scary Way To Think About Anorexia?

Really? You want to be anorexic? My sister was anorexic for about 2/3 of her life, so I’ll tell you what she did. It started when she was 13. Due to some horrid events out of her control, she somehow got psychologically twisted into believing that the only thing in her life she *could* control was her weight. And the best way to do that was by controlling the amount of food she ate. She began to cut way back on the amount of food she ate. At a time when her age, height and activity level dictated her eating between 1800 and 2000 calories a day, she was probably eating more like 1000/day. As she started to drop weight, she got excited because she realized her new-found weight loss method was really working fast! Never mind the fact that she was losing the ability to think properly.
Have you ever gone a day without eating? 1/2 a day? You start to shake, get snappy, lose focus on little things. Keep that up for a day or two and your body begins to understand something critical: it’s not getting any nourishment and probably won’t be any time soon so it better do something fast to preserve itself. “Hmm. . . ” it thinks. “If she won’t feed me, I will!” So it starts to consume fat, then muscle, then eventually, if you let it go long enough, it starts to consume your organs. All the while, you’re not feeding your brain so you have no ability to think for yourself. You lose the ability to reason. . . you can’t see that you’re actually allowing your body to consume itself. You can’t even think to try to reverse the process you’ve already begun. Eventually, someone has to do the reasoning for you. Wow! talk about control! But hey! you’ll be skinny, oh yes!
Back to my sister. When people start noticing how skinny you’re getting, pressure is brought to bear on you to gain some weight. Nobody is ever happy with the weight you are. You’re either too heavy or too skinny. So you learn tricks to fool people. Push food around on your plate. . . make them think you’re eating. But when you are forced to actually eat something, then you make a bee-line for the bathroom to vomit. Ahhhhh!! now THERE is a great solution to your problems! You can have your cake AND throw it up too! If you decide to go that route, you’ll feel so in control of yourself! “Hey look what I can do! I can eat but not gain a pound!” Just be aware of the consequences (and these aren’t “potential,” these are guaranteed consequences):
1) the hydrochloric acid, the acid that lines your stomach used in digestion, the acid that gives you that burning feeling in your esophagus when you vomit, will eat away the enamel of your teeth with repeated exposure. Eventually, you’ll start to get tooth decay. Mmmmm now there’s a pleasant side-effect! Ever smell the breath of someone with tooth decay? But hey! you’ll be looking hot in those size 1 jeans! Not really. . . anorexics are never happy or satisfied with their body image.
2) Electrolytic imbalance – your body is a marvel. It’s like a well-oiled machine when you take care of it. It knows exactly how much you need of certain nutrients to keep it cooled, warmed, functioning properly, etc. When you starve yourself and/or purge (the soft word for vomiting), you throw your body’s chemistry off. Sugars, salts, potassium, other minerals and vitamins. . . all those things a body needs for proper functioning get out of whack. The only way to bring them back into alignment is a stint in the hospital whereby they force-feed you those nutrients through a needle stuck in your arm and a feeding tube stuck down your nose, if you refuse to eat. That’s if you’re lucky and it’s caught in time and you haven’t yet suffered heart failure or slipped into a persistent vegetative state a la Terri Schiavo. Remember her?
15 years in a coma before her husband and parents battled it out in court for the right to let her die or let her live. In the end, her husband won the right to pull the plug. I’m guessing he thought that was a small price to pay because she was so thoughtful in life that she starved herself to give him a skinny wife.
3) A third consequence binging/purging cycle is your face changes shape and your skin becomes nasty. Your jaws, right where they hinge below your ears, start to enlarge. I’m not sure what causes that (I think it may be a glandular thing), but the overall effect is you start to look a bit like a chipmunk. Your face gets round, an ironic twist for someone who wants to look super skinny. Your skin also goes bad. It gets dry, flaky, and you have breakouts galore. These aren’t necessarily acne; sometimes they’re just sores. But that’s what happens when your body isn’t getting what it needs to survive. It starts the early stages of decomposition.
4) One more consequence of anorexia is lanugo. This is a fine, downy like hair that starts to grow over your whole body, including your face. It’s usually very pale, but at roughly 1/8″ to 1/4″, it’s quite visible especially because there is so much of it. This happens because of your body struggles to survive and keep you warm as you strip it of its protective fat and muscle layers.
All of these things happened to my sister. It’s guaranteed to happen to anyone who goes down this road. But hey, looking like a hairy chipmunk with bad skin and teeth is a small price to pay for fitting into that dress or those pants. Just ask my sister. . . oh wait, you can’t. She’s dead. )
Rewind a little. By the time my sister was about 26, she had spent half her life starving herself. She was down to an apple, a piece of bread, and a couple leaves of lettuce a day. That’s about 200 calories. And she was running 7 miles a day. How in God’s name her legs were able to carry her is beyond me. She was also doing a bazillion crunches and push-ups a day. It was only a matter of time before her 84 lb. body gave out. She was in and out of the hospital for years because her internal organs were suffering severely as a result of her neglect and mistreatment. She had numerous abdominal surgeries which resulted in rather lovely scars that criss-crossed her tummy. She was always in severe pain from the strictures caused by the repeated cutting and closing of her abdomen. (Strictures are spaghetti-like scars that grow inward and intertwine with your organs. . . especially your intestines. When these grow, more surgery is required to remove them. A rather viscious cycle. )
Well, to make a long story short, her heart finally gave out on her. She died alone. But hey! she was wicked skinny when we buried her! I’m so glad she chose to lose all that weight because it made her coffin much lighter.
Honey, I spent a lot of time writing this not to be flippant with you. I did it to scare you senseless. Anorexia is not a glamorous thing. It’s not pretty. It’s not beautiful. Vogue and Cosmopolitan will not be banging down your door to sign you as their next hot thing. The fact that you are contemplating (no, desiring!) such a horrid path is very frightening. At 6’1″, 167 lbs. , you are perfect. . . exactly where you should be. You should be concentrating on healthy habits, instead. Eat lots of fruits and vegetable, whole grains, lean meats, low-fat dairy products. Exercise. Find an activity that gets your blood pumping and that makes you happy and feel good about yourself. It could just be hip-hop dancing. . . doesn’t have to be anything formally organized. Just move. If you do these things everyday, you will not have a weight problem. You’ll be as you are: a lovely young woman. . . one with a little meat on her bones.

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Fat Loss 4 Idiots – Weight Loss That Works!

There are many products on the market today that promise this and guarantee that!  How do you know what will work? How do you know what to choose? This is a universal problem. What I turned to after losing maybe 5 pounds and then gained it back depending on what day it was, I swear to God I would not buy another fat loss pill. I have stayed true to my promise and went in another avenue to address my weight problem. Oh, where did I go you want to know?  Fat Loss 4 Idiots a sure cure because it is natural, it does not involve taking a pill an hour before you eat several times a day. It is not a powdered drink that needs to be mixed at different intervals in a 12 hour period. It is not synthetic with numerous side effects.

 

Do you think diets work? The fact is you cannot lose weight by counting calories, low carb or low fat intake. Also, the human body cannot be starved to death, all it does is go into survival mode because it needs to retain nourishment for the future. The other fact to starving yourself everything that passes your mouth down to your stomach will turn into fat. Another option is diet organizations that claim to help you lose weight for XXX amount of dollars. How do I know this? Been There! Done That Too!  I openly admit I have probably tried most of the weight loss fads and did not experience any desired results until I discovered the secrete behind losing those nasty inches and literally watched the pounds being shed and they stayed off.

 

This weight plan is about fixing your diet not starving yourself naturally. You eat small portions several times a day for 11 days  then you take one day and eat anything you want. ( I love that day) This is to fool your body that you are not dieting. Then you are ready to start anaother 11 days on this affordable diet not spending hundreds of dollars on auto shipment for diet pills, or food delivered to your door from a diet organization. I don’t know about you, but my wallet was exhausted from auto shipments!

The mystery is taken out of what foods to eat; it is all set up with instructions. Every 11 days you log into your members account and choose another set of foods and you are on your way again. How easy is that? This weight loss plan is not only easy to follow, it teaches you exactly what to eat to lose weight/fat in the shortest amount of time and acturally keep it off. I know this works. I am now at my desired weight and keeping it off. . . . . It is Heart Healthy to keep your weight gain at a minimum and also health wise because of other issues it can cause.

To Your Health!

 

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