Categories
Weight Loss Exercise

Best Tips To Lose Weight Found By Accident

Finding best tips to lose weight is not difficult. In fact there are so many tips, so much advice, that it can be hard to find a consistent way forward. One of the best tips I ever came across was something I found by accident, and it works a treat.

Best Tip Comes By Accident

First, remember that old fashioned advice comes in many forms and some of them are little gems, using smaller plates for example. How about eating more slowly? Plus of course there is the evergreen of watching how many calories you eat.

shoulder dumbell pressSure you have heard best tips to lose before but the reason they have stuck around for so long may be simply because they work. You can use any or all of them on a long term basis, and all of them allow you to keep on eating the same types of food you ate before.

Exercise is sure to be included in any great fitness list. The more exercise you do, the more calories you burn, but you need to be careful which type of exercise you do. If you build too much muscle without getting rid of the fat, the muscle may develop *under* the fat, which will not get you the body shape that you want.

There are two types of exercise that you can do and surprisingly maybe the best tip is to do weights hard so that you have lots of muscle to burn your calories. Also there is cardio, moving at any time is a great way to lose weight

In my case it was when I took up running, I found a plan which included a lot of walking, because it’s less jarring on the body.

Running may cause injury to joints that aren’t used to it, so in fact the simplest exercise can often be the best. Walking still burns a high amount of calories. So why not include it in your daily schedule?

Walking for Half and Hour

A simple half hour walk, at a pace which doesn’t leave you panting, may burn a couple of hundred calories, which is great. What I discovered though, was that it helps if you think of those calories in terms of actual food that you might be tempted to eat.

For example, I knew the walking was burning about 200 calories, and I also knew that a chocolate bar would add all those calories right back on, plus maybe a few more. It changed my mental outlook hugely, and of all the tips to lose , this one has stuck.

To develop the point, it meant that if I ate the chocolate bar, I knew I would have to do another half hour walk to ‘pay’ for it, or from another angle it was wasting a half hour walk I had already done.

It meant that I was now viewing the chocolate as something that spoilt my hard work, so I was less inclined to eat it. Yes, I still eat chocolate occasionally, and love it, but even now I view each bar as a big pile of calories that needs to be accounted for.

I found that concept by accident after taking action with short walks, just going to show that reading tips to lose is nothing like as effective as actually acting on them.

So remember if your are looking for the best tips to lose they maybe just the thoughts in your head.

Share this so your friends can see it too!
facebooktwittergoogle_pluspinterestmail

Related posts:


text_ad_with_cover35 Tips To Lose Weight – Some tricks you never thought of


delosrios8 Simple Tips to Lose Weight


Count your CaloriesWhat Calories Really Are and How Understanding Them Will Help You Lose Weight


christmasseason_SWH_400x300How Can I Lose Weight For Christmas?

YARPP

Related Blogs

  • Related Blogs on Fitness
Categories
Weight Loss Exercise

Interesting Articles On A Quiet Day

I have been quietly catching up on my RSS feeds today and getting inspiration and knowledge from all the bloggers out there writing about health and fitness issues.

Instead of writing an article today I thought I would point you at some things that I have found interesting. And no pictures (Maybe I need to find an inspirational picture or an infographic for the bottom)

Non-celiac gluten sensitivity is real

The Wheat Belly Doctor Dr William Davis has a study that shows that even if you don’t have Celiac disease (fancy for gluten intolerance), you can still suffer from sensitivity to gluten. This means all those grains that you eat may be causing you imflamation.

5 Rules To Foolproof Your Paleo Diet

I’m not very Paleo although I pretend to strive to be. This article though on Robb Wolfs great Paleo blog goes really down to the basics of what Paleo is and why people trip up on the Paleo diet

Could There Be Human DNA In Your Hot Dog?

I saw this story a couple of days ago and it is the grossest thing in a while. During a study it was found that Hot Dogs often contain lots of what they don’t state, including 2% human DNA. Would that be fingers? Animals eating people? I try not to think to hard about this, good article anyway though.

Seven Things I Did To Reboot My Life

This is an article Written by Wil Wheaton. Ex-child actor and now very nerdy guy that writes and acts as well. He got tired of how his life was a few months ago and made some big changes and wrote a long article about how these changes manifested in his life.

Strong evidence of mental health benefits in delaying kindergarten

This study was interesting in that it seems to say that concentration is better if you delay sending kids to kindergarten for an extra year. Not sure why yet but any study that points to why ADD is such a problem with kids always gets my attention

What do you think about these kinds of posts? I read a lot of articles and sometimes I want to share, which I do on Twitter, but sometimes I think it would be better on the blog. Let me know if you want to see more of these types of posts

Share this so your friends can see it too!
facebooktwittergoogle_pluspinterestmail

Related posts:


Fitness articles from around the web October 9th


Paleo_Diet_CoverPaleo Diet ebook


Health articles that you may have missed


loss studyNew Interesting Diet Results

YARPP

Categories
Weight Loss Exercise

Echinacea for Anxiety?

I received an email a little while ago on the power of Echinacea for Anxiety. I did not know this before but we have all heard in the past that Echinacea taken just as you are getting a cold can cut the amount of time that the cold lasts.

A new breakthrough in treatment for anxiety comes from a surprising place. One of the best-known herbal remedies in the world is Echinacea, widely-known for support of the immune system.

Recent clinical studies by scientists at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences found that anxiety relieving compounds from a unique strain, Echinacea angustifolia, can significantly reduce feelings of anxiety and tension with no side effects.

Echinacea Research

echinacea flower

echinacea flower

The scientists report that Echinacea angustifolia root contains substances that bind to specific brain receptors that signal our bodies to reduce anxiety and restore calm. Dosage levels have been found to be very important. At high levels (hundreds of milligrams), echinacea acts as an immune stimulant.

However, anxiety relief only occurs at low doses. Typically, no more than 20 mg at a time is necessary for significant stress, tension and anxiety relief.

An extract of this special echinacea was tested in human volunteers experiencing increased anxiety and tension. After only one day of use, the participants experienced a significant reduction on the anxiety measurement scale, which increased to a 25% reduction by day 7.

The participants did not have issues with drowsiness or confusion, and there was no interference with their daytime activities.

In another scientific study, echinacea extracts were compared to the prescription anti-anxiety drug, chlordiazepoxide (Librium). Echinacea angustifolia extract reduced anxiety comparable to the prescription drug.

It was found to not only meet or exceed the drug anti-anxiety effects, but did not cause drowsiness, a common side effect of prescription drugs for anxiety. So perhaps it is time to try using echinacea flowers for anxiety.

Share this so your friends can see it too!
facebooktwittergoogle_pluspinterestmail

Related posts:


boy-blowing-noseSurvey Says Echinacea No Help for Colds


valerianHerbs For Anxiety


acupunctureAcupuncture For Anxiety And Panic Attacks


Anxiety After Quitting Smoking

YARPP

Related Blogs

  • Related Blogs on Fitness