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Stop Emotional Eating with The Orgasmic Lifestyle
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Monday, August 2, 2010
Strength Training ESSENTIAL for Long-Term Weight Loss
People often try and lose weight by just dieting and doing cardio. They don’t care about strength training.
The problem: When you put your body in fat-burn mode (by decreasing your calorie intake and/or doing cardio), your body is also in muscle-eating mode. For every pound of fat you lose, you’ll also lose a pound of muscle…unless you do strength training.
Muscles are “use ‘em, or lose ‘em.” If you don’t use them, they’ll deteriorate, especially if you’re dieting.
At first, dieters don’t care they’re losing muscle. They keep their eye on the scale and are elated as their weight decreases.
But if you let your muscle atrophy, you also let your METABOLISM shrink. Which means you’ll have to eat like a bird to maintain your weight loss.
This common dilemma explains America’s depressing diet statistics: About 95% of dieters end up re-gaining their weight…PLUS some. That “plus some” is because they allowed their muscle to deteriorate, which lowered their metabolism. After all that hard work, a dieter ends up even fatter in the end.
Note: 50lb dumbbells are not required for strength training. If you can lift a lot—that’s great. But strength training could be simple bodyweight exercises, like squats, lunges, and push-ups.
Rest assured that strength training will burn just as much fat as a good cardio session. This was tough for me to believe at first. Cardio made me huff and puff and sweat like a beast the entire workout, whereas strength training involved little bouts of rest after each tough “push,” and it didn’t make me sweat as much. So it felt like strength training was a waste of time.
But it wasn’t until I added strength training to my workouts that I FINALLY lost weight. Then I added the orgasmic lifestyle…and my weight dilemmas were pretty much obsolete! :)
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Fat Loss Made Simple
Losing weight can happen through a lot of different strategies (eat less sugar, eat lots of steamed vegetables, take the stairs, etc, etc), but all of these strategies work because they create a calorie deficit. In other words, they cause you to eat less calories than you burn.
All body fat loss comes down a simple math equation. There are 3,500 calories in a pound of fat, so if you want to lose 10 lbs, you have to create a 35,000 calorie deficit over time. It will take some effort, but it might be much easier than you think.
Write a list of all the foods you normally eat, then calculate how many calories each item contains. Read labels and check the free database at http://www.CalorieKing.com. This research will take some work but it will be EXTREMELY helpful in controlling your weight for the rest of your life! Knowledge is power.
Once you have your list, decide what foods are worth minimizing or cutting out of your diet. Research similar foods, as they may have fewer calories. Note the calories in different brands of cheese, in butter vs. butter sprays, white vs. red sauces, thick vs. thin crust pizzas, mayo vs. ketchup vs. mustard. Little substitutions can have a big impact over time.
Calculate how many calories you normally eat each day, then figure out the easiest way to cut 500 off that total.
As long as you keep your metabolism the same (do a little strength training to maintain your current muscle mass), you’ll lose a pound of body fat each week.
Make the process even easier: Drink water to help you eat less. Make the rest of your life happy and enjoy frequent orgasms to avoid emotional eating. Get enough sleep.
Pretty simple, right? Of course, you can lose even more body fat each week if you add more exercise and/or cut more calories off your daily intake. But avoid losing weight through habits you cannot maintain. For example, if you lose weight by suddenly eating like a bird and exercising 24/7, there’s no way you’ll be able to maintain that strategy. Therefore, the weight will come back.
Slow and steady wins the weight loss race.
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