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Natural Nutrition – Start 2010 Living A Healthy Lifestyle

by Editor on January 14, 2010

Natural Nutrition

After making up my mind that I wanted to lose weight naturally, I went probing for something hassle-free where I didn’t have to count carbs, fat or calories.  But here is the thing: there are so many yo-yo diets, weight-loss products and quick fixes out there it was difficult to get my head around who to believe and what to believe?

Who do I believe?

Anybody that tells you that dieting will help you lose the weight, well they are wrong… According to Eating Disorders Foundation of Victoria ‘recurrent dieting can eventually lead to weight gain’. In addition, 95% of individuals who go on easy weight loss diets get back everything they have lost and more within two years.

There are plenty of people who are going back to the simplicity of natural nutrition and losing weight slowly and successfully. Experts in fitness like Paul Check and Donal Carr are providing portals distributing valuable information about our health, fitness and nutrition and its significant change in modern society. Their sources stem from leading nutritionists like Sally Fallon who have researched, tested and challenged the media and diet dictocrats on politically correct nutrition and how modern food and its harmful processes are creeping into our society causing threatening and unavoidable diseases.

What do I believe?

I believe that the above mentioned experts are right! Truth about how modern nutrition and current food processing is affecting us in ways that we could never have imagined and have triggered diseases like obesity and diabetes. At present in Australia, the overweight and obesity percentage has spiked from 19% to 22 % in the last year-a growing obesity epidemic among adults and increasing among children as well along with its harmful obesity-related illnesses.

Weight Loss and living a healthy lifestyle

At the end, your lifestyle is going to cost you! I realised this when I was not making mature decisions about my mind and body a couple of years ago when I developed all sorts of ailments and gained unnecessary weight. Only now have I become conscious about how important it is to incorporate a balance of exercise, nutrition and positive thinking into ones life.  As a personal trainer I predominantly work with new clients who are battling to lose weight and give up their unhealthy lifestyle. Perhaps you are at this phase-and I can tell you…there is HOPE!!

All it really takes is to find somebody you can trust to help you build the confidence you need to just keep going on. Somebody who can teach you about your body and what you can change in order to achieve the best out of it and to support and inspire you to get your life and fitness back!

When you start understanding the truth of what I am saying for yourself so that you can instil and maintain what you have done into a healthy lifestyle and not just as an extension of yourself but rather something that you can sustain no matter what the season, that is when you really succeed over and above what you expected.

So the question is…where do you start? Well, this is my passion, this is what I do every day and I get people the results they are looking for. So let’s start off right now by looking at how you can begin this journey of natural nutrition and health for yourself….

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How To Lose Weight Should Be A Natural Focus

by Editor on November 24, 2009

The latest weapon in the battle of weight loss is not how to lose weight BUT how to lose weight naturally and effectively. So let’s get cracking with some guidelines of where to start when you want to lose weight in this way.

Firstly we need to detoxify our system naturally by learning how to breathe correctly. Our breathing should ideally and mainly be done by the diaphragm and if done properly will remove 70% of the waste in our bodies.

Secondly we need to assess your energy in and energy out values. ‘Energy in’ basically refers to your meals and snacks and what you put in your mouth. ‘Energy out’ refers to exercise, thermic effect of food, basal metabolic rate and environmental temperature. Thermic effect of food is the energy needed to digest, take in, transport, and store food. Basal metabolic rate is the amount of energy needed to sustain the body at complete rest fourteen to eighteen hours after eating. You will be able to calculate your basic calorie needs according to your age, height, weight, sex and medical needs with an allowance for exercise. Note that calorie restriction should not exceed 500 calories below weight management target values. Take a moment also to read the article on a weight loss meal plan to find out more about avoiding low fat fad diets.

If you want to learn more about types of food to eat, calories and metabolic rates read our burn the fat feed the muscle review.

Thirdly, we need to look at exercise type and what is working for you or what will work for you. Resistance training is an absolute key ingredient to effective weight loss. Lifting weights gives you a metabolic spike for an hour after a workout because your body is trying hard to help your muscles recover. That means you’ll burn off an additional 25 percent of the calories you just scorched during your strength session. So if you burned 200 calories lifting weights, it’s really closer to 250 overall. A recommended balance would be to include a cardiovascular training session after your resistance training session to increase overall stamina and strength.

And lastly, make sure that you have sufficient water intake and sleep in order to keep up the energy and self will to reach your realistic weight loss goals

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