I was going through some material today to post on here for the benefit of all of the people struggling with their goals (be it in life or weight) and I came across this website that claims to pay people to shop and eat. Interesting… It’s almost as interesting as the “take this pill and your penis will grow” scam or the “wash yourself with this soap and lose inches!”

What if I told you it was possible to get paid $10 to $50 an HOUR just to go to your shopping at your favorite mall … eat at your favorite restaurants… golf at your favorite golf courses… or enjoy a movie at your local theater … AND get it all for FREE!! PLUS, not only do you get everything for FREE and recieve a great paycheck for your time, but someone pays for the gas to drive your car!

THIS IS A MUST FOR ALL STAY AT HOME MOMS!

I hate to be taken for a ride and in this economic crisis I don’t think you’ll like it either. So stay away from “get paid to shop and eat” schemes because we all know with hard work it pays off eventually and you won’t be dissapointed. Money and family problems go hand in hand, and guess what, it effects your weight as well!

I am hugely optimistic about 2009. I don’t just mean for myself, either, I mean for everyone. I mean for YOU! Why? Because no matter what’s going on in the world, in the economy, or in the news, there is a way to reach your goals!

I have no doubt that a scientist somewhere just read the title of this article and said out loud, “YES! Venuto is right! That little thing in your head – the hypothalamus – it IS the thing that is keeping you fat!….

People choose different methods to build muscle lose fat, even though they are all after the same goal. There are three major factors that play a part in each person’s goal; nutrition, exercise and mindset. However you choose to balance them, is up to you and what your major goal is?

You should set smaller goals at first to obtain your desired goal to build muscle lose fat. This will help you establish a well balanced view that you can achieve these goals, this is critical to your mind set. You don’t have to have a personal trainer in order to meet your goals, but they can be extremely helpful in pushing you to succeed.

The process to build muscle lose fat can be challenging when you first start out, with some people the first five pounds are the hardest to lose. After you get past that point the fat seems to melt off, giving you the desire to do more.

You can find varieties of different ways to go about weight loss exercise online, as well as your local gym. For those of you who are not comfortable about exercising around others it would benefit you to do a good aerobic exercise routine, followed with a simple weight lifting exercise to tighten up those muscles, giving you a more cut look.

There are videos that are available, offering you the opportunity to have a proper weight loss exercise that will work all areas of your body. These videos are put out by professional trainers that want to help you meet your goals. You will begin to notice when using these videos that your buns, abs and thighs tend to tighten up first. In most cases you will feel the effects before you actually see them.

There are many benefits to fat loss. Your body not only looks and feels better, but you greatly reduce your risk of serious health complications such as; heart attacks, strokes and diabetes among many more. It’s not always what you see that matters most, but what you can’t see. By being fit you add more years to your life.

There can be no hope for a project that begins with the expressed intention:

“I WANT to LOSE…10 pounds”,

“I NEED to LOSE…20 pounds”, or

“My GOAL is to LOSE…100 pounds”

Even though they are all noble and achievable goals, what the mind hears is “I’m gonna LOSE”; and 99 times out of a hundred that is exactly what happens.

You LOSE; your wasteline GAINS…following your instructions exactly.

Most of us veteran dieters are already on our 5th, 10th or 55th attempt to achieve that ideal weight.

But no matter the activity or your skill level, if you keep repeating mentally and verbally that you want to LOSE…YOU WILL!

It doesn’t matter if the activity is golf, grade point average, or baking a cake. A desire to LOSE soon becomes a reality.

Weight control is a mental activity as much as a physical one.

In fact, all human activity involves the mind first, whether it is to achieve that ideal weight or to put a person on the moon.

First the idea is born…then the mind and body go to work to make the idea a reality. Over the last half century we have seen innumerable “impossibilities” become realities and become parts of our daily lives:

How about the digital watch you are currently using; or

Fed Ex—overnight delivery anywhere in the world; or

Microwave cooking?

The list goes on and on.

They all began as an idea; and you can be sure that none of the minds behind these seeming “miracles” ever pursued their dreams with an “I will LOSE attitude.

The challenges became stepping stones, learning experiences, and eventual progress toward the goal.

It’s been the WINNERS not the LOSERS who have made the biggest difference in the world; and in their own personal lives.

Back to the original premise of this article: If you started your any diet program to LOSE, you already have.

You probably can find, somewhere in your house, a chart that lists your current weight in the UPPER left hand corner, with your goal weight listed in the BOTTOM right hand corner.

That chart literally screams out at you, “If you LOSE enough, you will get DOWN to your goal”. LOSE…DOWN…LOSE…DOWN–hardly an inspiring rally cry.

It’s not completely our fault. There are over twenty-nine million diet and diet related pages on the Internet. Most of those pages probably revolve around this “LOSE…DOWN” idea.

Everything from the “first stop” cabbage soup diet to the star-studded commercials for Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, or NutriSystem; all proclaim LOSING as a desirable goal.

Forget LOSING. We “going on ANOTHER diet” (another one that is almost definitely destined to fail), why not simply IMPROVE your current eating habits?

Instead of SACRIFICING your favorite foods, how about listing all the foods you ENJOY, and then picking from that long list the foods most likely to help you ACHIEVE your WEIGHT GOAL?

And finally, are you more likely to continue an activity that is pleasant, positive, and produces almost instant results; or would you prefer an endless horizon of tofu and cabbage soup?

But where to find such a list of healthy foods that you truly enjoy? And how to build a diet around them?

Here’s a couple of links that have helped us along the way. See for yourself at: Lose Weight At Home and Lose Weight Guaranteed

Many people are searching for that perfect way to jump start their weight loss results. Choosing the right diet plan is made much more difficult by the sheer number of different diets you can choose from. low carb diets are among the most popular choices. They are a great way to get the numbers on the scale moving down in a shorter amount of time. Before starting any weight loss program, you should be in good health. Before you start, you should know how the diet works, what you should not eat, and what you should.

Knowing how low carb diets work is important if you’re going to be successful with this kind of diet. Since our bodies can convert excess carbohydrates into fat, and store that fat for future use, eating too many carbs can lead to unwanted weight gain. If you eat less carbs, your body will start burning some of the fat it has stored, and you will start to lose weight. You’ll probably find that you start to lose weight right away, and that you lose it quickly, at least at first.

low carb diets are really pretty simple. The main thing is that you need to avoid certain foods. The foods you should avoid are the simple carbs, which include refined sugars, refined flours and grains, and white potatoes. So white rice, white bread, and other refined flour products are out, but you can eat whole grain products like brown rice and whole wheat bread. You also need to eliminate refined sugars, which might be difficult if you have a sweet tooth. This means sugared soft drinks, candy, and desserts are off limits, but you can have naturally occurring sugars like those in fruit and fruit juices.

In addition to knowing what not to eat, you need to know what foods to eat. So when you’re reducing your carbs, you should increase your protein consumption. You will help to build up your muscle, while you are using up your fat stores. If you add some strength exercise into your exercise routines, it will help you to burn more fat and build more muscle. Since muscle tissue burns more calories than fat tissue, this will provide an extra boost to your weight loss efforts. Get your additional protein by eating more dairy products, lean meats, fish, nuts, seeds, and beans. These foods will give you the necessary energy that you will need to get through each day of your diet.By increasing your proteins, you’ll be sure that your body gets enough calories and you’ll have plenty of energy. You won’t feel hungry or deprived, and soon, the weight will start to come off, which will help your motivation to stay on the diet.Your body will be able to function at its normal speed, if not better than it did before.

Speaking nutritionally, a diet is simply “the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism.”

No pain stated or implied.

Every organism alive is on a DIET…has been since it’s life began…and will be till it’s life ends.

A human infant thrives on a diet of milk alone–natural or “formulated”. Soon enough that diet expands to include strained thises and thats; and before long the transition to solid food. Somehow these youngsters know when they have had enough and they turn instantly to some other diversion.

Never bored, and living in a relatively stress free world, they simply eat to live rather than “living to eat”.

Living to eat comes later, and is a learned rather than instinctual response to hunger.

Exposure to the all pervasive world of advertising comes along at just about the same time as the transition to solid food. Now instead of being satisfied by the healthful and nutritious offerings from a loving parent, they are tempted and re-tempted by a constant barrage of sugary delights.

Prove it to yourself. Watch an hour or so of what is currently being offered as and see for yourself. A few dozen empty calorie messages later, you will probably find yourself very “hungry”; and it will be a totally misguided hunger that has nothing to do with “eating to live”.

And thus begins the “eating in response to” experience. Some of us eat “in response” to boredom; for many it is stress; for some it comes with frustration. For a lot of us it is simply a response to suggestion–TV, and radio, magazine ads, billboard blasts,–you name it. It often seems that the world is conspiring to cause overeating.

Just how effective that “conspiracy” can be is borne out by the fact that over half of the world’s population is overweight. Over HALF–and increasing (poor pun intended) every year. And that’s in the face of natural selection–nature’s way of “thinning the herd”. We who are overweight tend to die sooner–the ultimate “double whammy”. We pay a dear price for these extra kilograms; and our kids are practically assured of the same fate.

Since you’ve read this far, it’s safe to assume that you’ve already been around the “dieter’s world/hell” long enough to be familiar with the buzz words: NEW MIRACLE DIET, LOSE WEIGHT FAST, THE LAST DIET YOU WILL EVER NEED, GREEN/BLACK/WHITE TEA DIET, etc.

Just when you think you’ve seen and heard it all, put things in a new perspective. Google returned 29,500,000 results for the word “diets”. That’s TWENTY NINE AND A HALF MILLION.

Can they all be effective? Sure. Because the bottom line for all of them…at least the legal ones…is simple: EAT LESS…EXERCISE MORE. Twenty nine and a half million pages condensed into four words. And you thought this was gonna be tough?

Sure, lots of those millions of pages suggest that you: EAT LESS…EXERCISE MORE and “drink this magic tea” or “eat this magic supplement” or “drink gallons of cabbage soup” or some such.

The question that so many of us fail to ask is: “What happens if I just EAT LESS…EXERCISE MORE and also save a gazillion dollars by not buying any of your magic pills, potions and soup recipes?”

We all know the answer; yet we continue searching for the quick and easy diet, routine, and/or supplement.

At the risk of short circuiting over twenty-nine million other suggestions, it’s time to accept the fact that the only “magic” is in us–programmed there since birth. We simply need to get back in touch.

For the continued purposes of this blog and accompanying web site, we’re going to expand the theme a bit:

EAT…MORE OR LESS AND EXERCISE…MORE OR LESS.

I have embarked on a realistic and achievable goal.

For some answers to where? when? how? Here is my “magic pill” I found: Lose Weight Guaranteed and Lose Weight Diet Plan

PS Don’t let the pictures frighten you…..

A controlled diet to control cholesterol is necessary for people diagnosed with high cholesterol heart disease. Many new dietary guidelines for people suffering from cholesterol related heart disease have been created because the risks of heart disease increase substantially if the blood cholesterol level is not lowered.

The body needs basic cholesterol to manufacture bile salts for fat digestion, human hormones, and vitamin D. The liver is largely responsible for producing the cholesterol supply that our bodies need to function. There are two primary blood cholesterol types: HDL and LDL. LDL cholesterol is the dangerous molecule since high amounts of it will collect on the walls of arteries. The resulting sticky LDL deposits may eventually restrict or even stop blood flow.
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At first reading, Strip That Fat seemed like a pretty silly name. Now, two months into the program we realize that it is totally appropriate for a process that does exactly what it says.

Working together, and we can’t recommend the “buddy system” highly enough, my friend and I have rid ourselves of nearly 8 kgs of problem fat.

My friend started out merely overweight. I, on the other hand, fit into the “morbidly obese” category. Between the two of us we had, at the beginning, a total of 125 kgs to “strip”.

We knew from our past attempts(many, many, experiences) that we never lasted long enough on any of the highly restrictive (low carb, no carb, low fat, no fat, cabbage soup only, etc) diets to achieve any significant or lasting results.

Determined to someday achieve our rather ambitious weight goals, we kept looking and looking for the “magic diet plan”.

We tried the teas, the pills, the Atkins, the South, North, East and West-sides, even the colon assaulting powders–all to no avail. If you can imagine a 230 kg  yo-yo…that’s been us for years. Somehow we always missed, or chose to ignore, the fine print on the sales page of every new diet plan. You know what we’re talking about: the line that reads “These teas, pills, and/or potions are effective when used with a program of eating less and exercising more.”

Regardless of any carb, fat, fruit, or cabbage soup intake, EATING LESS…AND EXERCISING MORE will have a desired effect on a weight problem. Of course, we knew that; and so do you.

So why keep searching for the quick fix? In our case at least, it was a combination of laziness, impatience and frustration. You can fill in your own motivations; but the bottom line is that after all those unsuccessful attempts, each January first when we vowed to make this our year to achieve a healthy weight, we found that we were heavier than the previous January… when we had made the exact same vow. Sound familiar?

So, we’re excited. For the first time in years, our January resolution (yep, same one) will be starting at a much IMPROVED level. And we are getting there by EATING MORE (often) and EXERCISING (within our comfort level). We are two months “in” instead of the usual “two weeks and out”. And the results are beginning to show.

Just try explaining to an ultra thin teen-ager that you’re not “on a diet”–just a simple and pleasant “lifestyle change”; that we’re not “working” as much as “learning”; and that we haven’t “lost” a thing. Bottom line is that we have “gained” so very much.

Click the following links for a couple of “resources” that helped us to get inspired:

Strip That Fat and Smart Diet

Weight loss and fat loss is not the same thing. You ought to learn to distinguish between the two. The scale can be very misleading if it’s the only criteria you use for measurement. For instance, a woman could weigh 105 pounds and have 33% body fat. That’s what I call a “skinny fat person.” In contrast, a female bodybuilder could weigh 160 pounds and be quite lean, with body fat in the low teens. With this in mind, your lose belly fat target should never be weight loss. Your goal should be losing fat while maintaining muscle. As long as your body is solid muscle, then you shouldn’t worry about what the scale says. Your ratio of muscle to fat is what really counts. Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle will clarify to you all the common methods of body fat testing and teach you how to use body fat to measure your results and chart your progress.
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