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Working Out Weight Loss: Positive Steps To Take Today

August 12, 2020 By lyndsinreallife Leave a Comment

If you Googled ‘weight loss,’ you’d be greeted with pages and pages of links, articles and ads. There is so much information out there, and so many remedies and therapies purporting to be miracle cures that it can be confusing to know where to begin with weight loss. The good news is that it is possible to work out weight loss. In this guide, we’ll cover some positive steps you can take today to shed pounds safely and keep weight off.

Understanding the Calorie Equation

Calorie counting often gets a bad rap, but it can be extremely useful when trying to drop pounds and sustain weight loss. If you don’t have a clue how many calories you consume on an average day, taking a closer look at your diet and using an app to keep a food diary is a great idea. You don’t have to devote hours to reading labels and making calculations, but having an accurate idea of your daily calorie consumption will help you lose weight. Using apps can also provide important information about your diet, which can help you improve nutrition. To lose weight, you need to burn off more calories than you consume. Nutritional guidelines recommend around 2,000 calories per day for women and 2,500 for men (if trying to lose weight, for women, 1,200 calories are often recommended). You’ll need to adjust this figure to fit in with your activity levels. If you’re inactive, you’ll need fewer calories. To lose weight, lower your calorie intake slightly and increase your activity levels.

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Take Good Care of Your Body

We often talk about dieting as a means of losing weight, but the most important reason to think about what you eat is to improve nutrition. Your body relies on the food you consume for vital nutrients, minerals and vitamins. Aim to ensure your diet is healthy, balanced and nutritious, as well as working towards weight loss goals. Often, the two go hand in hand, but crash diets have become very popular. As a general rule, it’s best to avoid any fad diets that encourage you to try and survive on 500 calories a day or cut out all fats or carbohydrates. You might lose weight rapidly, but it’ll be very difficult to keep it off, and your health will suffer. Look for healthy eating plans online, ask your doctor for advice and look into using supplements and body cleansing systems that are designed to boost general health and wellness as well as contributing to weight loss. You can find details of the full Isagenix range online, and you can also browse the aisles and shelves of health stores. In addition to eating well, it’s crucial to get enough rest and to try and exercise frequently. Moving your body burns calories, but it also makes you feel fantastic. When you exercise, your body releases endorphins and the levels of serotonin and dopamine in your brain increase. Regular exercise also improves sleep quality, increases energy levels and reduces stress.

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Don’t Deprive Yourself

Most people have been in a situation where they’ve been dieting and they’ve given in to temptation, which has prompted a return to bad habits. When you change your diet to adopt a healthier menu and try to lose weight, don’t deprive yourself. It’s brilliant to stick to healthy, nutritious, calorie-controlled meals, but you don’t have to resign yourself to a lifetime of eating leaves, or promise to never eat a pizza or a plate of nachos again. It’s about finding a healthy balance and getting used to a new way of thinking about food and how it affects your body and your mental and physical health. There’s no reason you can’t treat yourself to a burger on a Friday night from time to time or go out for brunch on a Sunday morning. Plan a menu in advance for the week, focus on including foods that are beneficial for your body and use treats to motivate you. If you know that you’ve got a chocolate cake waiting for you at the end of the week, or you’ve booked a table at your favorite restaurant at the end of the month, this will help you stick to your healthy eating plan. Make your meals tasty and vary your diet. Look for simple, quick recipes online or buy recipe books if you find that you cook the same dishes over and over again.

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Many people find it tough to lose weight because they’re swamped by information and they lose interest in following restrictive diets. If you’re hoping to drop pounds and keep them off, keep an eye on your calorie intake, focus on nutrition and healthy eating, look after your body and don’t deprive yourself.

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Sneaky Reasons Why You’re Not Losing Weight

November 4, 2019 By lyndsinreallife Leave a Comment

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When it comes to losing weight, everyone struggles. Although it might seem like others drop pounds without trying, that just isn’t the case. After all, the body isn’t happy about weight loss. Instead, it fights back, so even if you can lose weight quickly at first, it gets harder before long. Regular workouts and food journals will only get you so far. When weight loss begins to slow down, you must reassess. With that in mind, here are six reasons why you aren’t losing weight.

Staying Up All Night

Quality sleep is necessary for good physical and mental health. Even if you’re happy staying awake all night working or playing video games, your body likely isn’t. Lack of sleep is linked to many harmful health conditions, including obesity. Because of this, you must make sleep a priority. Get yourself into a sleep routine, as well as other healthy habits, like avoiding caffeine.

Eating The Wrong Foods

Everyone knows you must avoid overeating to lose weight. However, this will be difficult if the foods you eat aren’t filling you up. Rather than ingesting empty calories, you should add more Umami foods to your diet. Umami is one of the basic tastes and is often found in high-protein foods. Just remember that eating these foods won’t help if you’re also indulging in junk food.

Missing Out On Weights

Many people, when trying to lose weight, stick to cardio workouts. After all, this is known to burn calories and fat. Nonetheless, you must spend time strength training too. Lifting weights is an effective way to reduce body fat, as well as maintain muscle mass. Without weight training, you might lose some muscle mass too. Lifting weights will also help to prevent metabolic slowdown.

Drinking Too Little Water

The 8×8 rule might be outdated, but you must still keep yourself hydrated. Drinking water is incredibly important when it comes to shedding pounds. Not only does it help with portion control by suppressing your appetite, but it can improve metabolism too. If you have trouble drinking enough water, then carry a water bottle around with you. This will remind you to take sips.

Letting Stress Build Up

Trying to lose weight can definitely be a stressful process. Along with this, you might have other problems to worry about in your life. The trouble is, this stress can make losing weight more difficult. Stress hormones affect your body in many ways, but will directly impact fat storage. For this reason, you must learn ways to tackle your stress and keep it from overwhelming you.

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Accepting Drug Side Effects

Every medication has side effects. The trouble is, most people don’t pay attention to them. If you’re having trouble losing weight, or, worse still, have been gaining weight recently, then look at the drugs you take. One might impact your energy levels or increase your appetite. Thankfully, there are often alternatives you can try, so speak to your doctor for advice.

Losing weight can be difficult, but the advice above should make the task much easier!

What do you do to lose weight? Comment below!

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5 Real Ways To Lose Fat Fast

March 30, 2019 By lyndsinreallife 25 Comments

Many of us are keen to lose as much fat as possible. If you are like most people in this position, you probably find that you often go up and down in weight, and when this weight is primarily fat you should probably try and do something about it as soon as possible. As well as it being a physical or unsightly problem, you should also be aware that fat is unhealthy for you, and it is absolutely a good idea to try and keep it to a minimum at all times. But it is one thing to want to do that, and quite another to make it a reality. In this article, we are going to look at some of the best real ways to actually lose fat fast. As long as you consider some of these, you should find that you are able to do that much more effectively than you might have hoped.

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Eat Lots Of Fiber

If you want to lose fat, you will of course need to focus on a good diet, but what that actually entails is something that a lot of people find hard to understand. There are many things to consider here, some of which we will look at later, but one in particular you should aim for is to eat plenty of fiber every day. In particular, you want to focus on eating soluble fiber, as this is much more likely to be beneficial for any kind of fat loss. Soluble fiber absorbs water and forms a kind of gel which in turn helps to slow down the food breaking down in the body. This invariably leads to less fat, especially if you eat a good two or so portions of it every day. It also helps you to feel full, because of the way that the food takes longer to break down, so you are less likely to gorge on something fatty to feel full. There is also some evidence to suggest that eating soluble fiber actively helps specifically fight belly fat, so that is clearly something you should consider if that is where you are trying to lose fat from.

Increase Your Exercise Regularly

Obviously enough, you will need to be exercising a lot if you hope to lose fat, and this is one of the two basic points along with diet which you need to focus on. You also need to appreciate what kind of exercise regime is actually going to help here, as not all are made equal. The most important thing to remember here is that you need to gradually increase the intensity of your exercise as you progress. If you do this, you will actively burn off more fat over time, whereas if you keep the intensity the same it is much less likely that this will happen. Whether you achieve that by extending the session time or just increasing the weights, or whatever else it might be, you will find that it is a hugely powerful way to make sure you are burning plenty of fat.

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The Simple Act Of Walking

That being said, it is not just high-intensity workouts that work well for losing fat. One of the simplest and most important things you can do too is to simply go for a walk regularly. Walking is a great exercise for losing fat, especially around the belly, so it’s something you should make a point of doing regularly. You can easily incorporate this into your daily life, moreover. Most people these days have apps on their phones detailing how many steps have been taken. You can make use of this in order to ensure you are walking the recommended ten thousand steps – or whatever other target you might wish to go for. As long as you are walking enough, you will find that losing fat is going to be a much simpler thing to do, and it is so easy to make sure that you are doing so, even if you don’t like to exercise much.

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Noninvasive Procedures

If you are looking for a particularly quick way to lose your fat, in particular your belly fat, then you might want to look into having a procedure done. While some people might be a little worried about such ventures, the truth is that they are relatively simple and easy to use, and that they are likely to make a huge difference to how much fat you have on your body very quickly. The noninvasive procedures are obviously the best, and if you go for something along the lines of Metropolitan Dermatology CoolSculpting you will find that you are able to get rid of whatever belly fat you have in a safe and efficient manner. This is certainly something to consider for most people, especially if you are genuinely struggling to lose fat through the more traditional means, and you wish to have it over and done with as soon as possible.

Cut Your Alcohol

If you drink more than a few units of alcohol a week, then this is one of the first things that you will want to look into changing in order to lose fat. It is incredibly difficult to be able to drink alcohol and keep fat off you, so you should make it learn in your mind that it really is a choice between one or the other. This should make it obvious how much of a binary choice it is, and hopefully over time you can drink less and less. Of course, it is a potentially addicting substance, and therefore you might find it hard to quit entirely. Consider cutting down slowly, and maybe getting help if you need to at some point along the way. It will be worth it in so many ways, not least the fact that you will lose some fat fast.

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All of these are great methods for losing fat, and you should consider combining a number of them into one program if you really want to make a big change to your physical health and appearance.

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Get A Limited Edition Bulu Box: Best of 2014!

January 7, 2015 By lyndsinreallife 2 Comments

Have you ever subscribed to Bulu Box? If so, this is a great recap of 2014! If not, now is the PERFECT time to sample the best products of 2014!

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. I receive a commission if any sales are made using my links. I received a free limited edition Bulu Box to review on my blog. All opinions are 100% my own.

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Welcome to the New Year

January 3, 2014 By lyndsinreallife Leave a Comment

Happy 2014 everyone!

I hope you enjoyed your NYE and NY day! I was in Ohio for Christmas with my family for two weeks, and it was great for reminding myself what is important in my life. I was able to get my head clear and my priorities straight, and I came back to LA with great vision of why I do what I do.

I work hard with my nutrition and fitness business because I want to have the opportunity to fly home whenever I want.

Although, maybe not in the winter, because my flight back to LA was canceled, and then I traveled for 17 hours to next day to make it back. It was definitely an interesting day!

So, new year’s resolutions. I used to have resolutions every year, and I would write them down in my journal on January 1st. Then I got to a point where I thought it was silly to change something just because it is a new calendar year. I thought that a new year wasn’t an actual reason to SAY I was going to lose weight, or whatever I picked that year. People on Facebook are very vocal about their thoughts on this as well. I see so many people posting “why now and not before?” etc etc.

I totally understand their point, however, I now disagree.

Who cares if you’re deciding to lose weight, get healthy, stop smoking, WHATEVER just because it is a new year. YOU ARE STILL DOING IT! Which is AWESOME!! Say your goal is to lose 10 lbs in January. You’re going to bust your butt to lose those 10 lbs. And guess what? You’re already going to be doing way more than the people who don’t want to make a resolution. I’m not saying you have to have a resolution to lose weight or be awesome, but sometimes for certain people, it is easier to have an actual reason to lose weight, or stop smoking, or learn to play the piano, and so on.

I will admit that I am one of those people. Having a reason, having something specific to look forward to, that helps me. And I have finally figured that out and embraced it.

Whether you like the idea of a “new year” or not, I believe we all secretly love new beginnings, even if it’s just because a calendar says so. So I suggest using the new year as a reason to improve yourself in some way. It doesn’t matter what it is, just something that makes you a better person this year.

What are you going to choose?