Fatso to Muscles

I am back! Sorry about the delay. My mother had a stroke and the weight on my shoulders were too much so I had to stop writing for a while. Now my mother is getting better, I can write again!

Summer is getting closer and closer, pretty soon, the beaches will be packed with people from all over. If you decide to hit the beaches this summer, will you be ready to show off your body from all the hard work you had started at the beginning of the year or did you slack off sometime in the middle? Or did you even started at all? Well, it’s not too late to begin, in fact, it’s really never too late. So get off your computer or put down that remote, it’s time to get in shape for the Summer!

So you’ve started to exercise again at the beginning of this year but you got side tracked and never got back to it. Or, you never started because you don’t believe in resolutions. What ever the case is you want to get back in shape or just get in shape for that matter.

It’s not too late to get that beach body you’ve wanted. All you have to do is to commit to exercise and eating healthy. Simple right? But yet so many people have trouble with losing weight.

Exercise an average of 4 times a week starting with minimal effort and increase the resistance and duration. In other words: increase weight and intensity of exercise, and increase sets or reps and time of cardiovascular exercises.

Increasing resistance and duration will help burn more calories over the course of the day thus eventually lose weight.

Eat healthier for at least 6 days a week and give yourself an off day. Eating healthy will definitely help you shed those pounds because most foods that are healthy doesn’t have too many calories in them compared to something that isn’t. Fruits, vegetables, lean meats: chicken and fish, and unrefined carbohydrates: brown rice, wild rice, and wheat bread.

Off days are giving yourself an opportunity to eat what ever you want once a week. Because we are human, our urges for sweets, fats, or basically junk food are always in us, there is no point to deprive yourself of this urge, so instead, consider it a reward day, only if you followed your own rules for the week.

Overall, you have to have a calorie deficit in order for you to lose weight. So the time is now, and not tomorrow or the next day, because tomorrow or the next day will never come. Summer is approaching fast, so takes what I said into consideration and apply it to what you are doing or not doing.

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You seen them advertise on bill-boards, afternoon television commercials, and celebrity gossip magazines. They seem to be making tens of millions or even hundreds of million a year by selling their product to desperate consumers that want to lose weight. Yes, I’m talking about weight loss supplements or to be more specific, weight loss pills, so the question is: does it work?

After work, you drive home and passed a few bill-boards along the way. It’s a little over 4 P.M. when you get home, and you turn on the television to see what’s new, but instead, the first thing you saw was a late afternoon commercial about a product that you’ve seen a thousand times. You turn off the television and pick up a celebrity gossip magazine that your girl friend left a few days ago. You start flipping through the pages and yet again you seen this familiar product.

If not millions of people, hundreds of thousands, buy weight loss supplements for the simple fact that they want to lose weight…the fastest and easiest way possible. The advertisements on bill-board, televisions, and magazines claim how their tested products work and it can also work for you too.

Look, it’s not a secret that we want to look go, but sometimes we sacrifice our health just to lose some weight is just dumb. I have to admit; I have bought weight loss pills before, and have used many different brands, and the result was still the same as it had been before.

Two things that I’ve notice when I was on one of the products: The first was, when I had used their product, during my dosage, I felt my heart racing like never before, especially during my exercises. I had been a little concern because I had heard some negative things about using Ephedra, but I didn’t seem to worry that much at the time. And during that time, Ephedra wasn’t illegal yet.

The second was, I worked out during the evenings, and so I would take it around 6-7 P.M. I had taken the recommended dosage that the label provided and I had never had a good night sleep. I was usually tossing and turning in my bed most of the time until 4 or 5 A.M. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t fall asleep. So I had to dump the whole bottle of pill because those were the negative things that I had experienced.

However, even though I had those negative experiences, I have to admit that I did lose some weight during a course of a few weeks that I had been on it. But after a few months, the weight that I had previously lost had came back.

There are not short cuts in losing weight permanently except for surgery. But even after surgery, the persons’ body will never be as conditioned and healthy as the same person that exercised to his or her weight loss.

In the end, weight loss pills may help us to lose some weight but will never give us permanent results unless we take the supplements for rest of their lives. And don’t forget, the side effect that contributes to taking weight loss pills far exceeds the benefits of losing weight

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This may seem to be common sense, but sometimes we get so wrapped up in our exercise routines that we forget to slow down a little or just stop and rest. It is true that once we build a routine, it is hard for us to stop, even when we are about to get injured. So stop and rest when you need to and continue when ready.

It is only natural that some of us get into the routine of things and forget that we have physical limits; because some of us built this habit and made it into a routine, we get wrapped up in our own world that accidents may occur more often than not.

It’s also that our mindset, willingness, or determination, call it what you will, is limitless, so we tend to push our selves harder and harder until our bodies are the ones that give.

I have had many injuries, not because I wasn’t aware, because I was so into the rhythm of my work out I didn’t care if I got injuries or not, I wanted to finish it because if I didn’t I felt like I would have failed.

I use to think this way, maybe because I was young and immature, or maybe because I was a fool, either way, it was dangerous and I had injured myself many times and had suffered the consequence.

I have had sprained ankles, pulled muscles, and almost a dislocated left shoulder. It’s not as bad as some other people I know that put themselves through hell to achieve their goals, but it’s pretty bad because it had set me back and I had to wait for my body to naturally heal it self, and that my friends, that a long time.

When my shoulder was injured, I had to wait for my body to heal it self for a little over 10 months. I was pushing myself to the limit, quite possibly, and that limit had been reached and my body gave in.

So never again shall I push myself to the maximum limit if I know, particularly, when the little man, some call it your subconscious, tells you to stop, you should listen to it and rest. Because if you get injured, all that hard work at the gym or track for months would go to waste in a matter ignorance.

If you know that you’ve pushed yourself to the max and a little more, you should stop and rest for a bit, then proceed when you feel that you can go again. Your body will tell you if you can go or not, otherwise you may get injured because our bodies have limits.

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When I turn on the television these days, I see that there are more and more weight lose products. I don’t watch T.V. that much anymore, but when I do, there seems to be a special about the new weight loss product, and it seems to be very common now. But one thing is for sure, I am tired consumers and companies blaming each other about how their product don’t work and how consumers fail to follow everything.

Since Summer is approaching, there are many advertisements about weight loss book, six-pack equipment, and fat burning pills. I’m guilty of buying more than a few of those products in the past, but that was when I didn’t know anything about the science of fitness and nutrition.

And they exist because we buy into the idea that some book, machine, or pill is the easiest and fastest way the lose weight. We are so desperate to look like those models they have on the infomercial, that we will practically believe almost everything those companies are saying that we buy into their products.

I am not here to say that all products sold on the media is useless, but it is only some of them. Most people that watch those weight loss products miss the whole point of the product. Which is they don’t follow the guide lines that the weight loss product had provided for you.

Most consumers that do buy into those products fail because they fail to follow the diet part of the plan, which is the most important part, and discredit the companies. Look, the companies have some blame to it, but mainly it was yours. Because you fail to follow everything the product said to do.

The reason for this is because the products being sold on television emphases too much on their product and not on the diet part. They only speak a little about the diet part of the product and fail to emphasizes the diet part to be the most important part. It is also in the companies best interest to sell their product and NOT use words like “diet” too much because they know that most people are don’t want to go on diets because going on a diet means sacrificing unhealthy foods that we all love.

There is a strict diet that comes with almost all weight loss products and that is: eat healthy or eat right. Now what does that mean to most of us? Well, if you understood the science of nutrition, what that means is eat foods that have the most nutritional value for us but have the fewest amount of calories.

Losing weight is not easy and fast, but if you know the science behind weight loss, then it could be easier and faster than if you didn’t. Here’s the truth to losing weight…you ready? You have to burn more calories than you consume or have a calorie deficit. That’s it! Plan and simple right?

Well, if it’s so easy then why do most people have a hard time doing it or know about this? Well, it’s the simple fact that we’re lazy. Because to have a calorie deficit, we have to exercise right and eat right, or in other words…hard work and sacrifices.

So you see…it’s not the media fault that most of those product fail, it’s your fault that you’ve failed to realize that it takes hard work and a little dedication in-order to lose weight.

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