Advice About Losing Weight - Tips to Overcome Diet Obstacles

by: Anthony Chapman

Do you have a history of yoyo dieting and putting weight on easily? Unable to lose stubborn body fat? Does the diet and exercise thing haunt you and are you tired of it? I have observed peoples diet weaknesses and compiled a few tips to help you with issues and hard times.

Fuel the body with natural dense foods

Banish the cocktail of processed foods from your diet and begin to reap the benefits of real foods. Real foods are foods you find in the ground or on the trees, swim in the ocean or run in the wild. Real foods are heaving with natural goodness that your body needs for optimal health. No amount of processed foods in your diet dressed in synthetic vitamins is ever going to replace what you can get from nature. Once you replace all your processed foods with natural foods you will begin to unlock one of the first pathways to automatic fat loss.

Burn fat with weights, not with a hamster wheel

Muscle tissue is metabolically active, for every pound of muscle you add to your body you will burn an additional 50 calories. Don't make the mistake of thinking low calorie diets and loads of cardiovascular exercise will help you drop weight or fat. It will make your situation worse in the long term because you risk losing calorie hungry muscle tissue. It isn't possible to build muscle tissue with the type of cardiovascular exercises health clubs have made popular. Training with resistance is very important for your success and needs to be the priority in your exercise regime.

Forget calories, think nutrients

Your body only knows nutrients contrary to what you may believe. If you eat a slice of cake your body doesn't scream oh no here comes 500 calories, then says to itself, not to worry because if I only get fed another 500 calories today everything will be all right. If this were the case there would be a lot more thin people especially those who live on low calorie diets. Listen very carefully to what I am spelling out here, calories in versus calories out is out of date science. It looks like the right thing on paper but in reality it doesn't work.

Your body sees foods as chemicals and nothing more. If you get the balance wrong with processed foods or too many carbohydrates, proteins or fats then everything changes.

Before you know it the nutrients don't get to where your body needs them and hormones are released to cope with the biological stress. This leads to muscle loss and a slow metabolism ending with you piling on the pounds.


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Red Eared Slider Turtles - Tips on Care and Diet

by: Karma Williams

Taking care of Red Eared Turtles takes more than just a container decorated with colorful pebbles and filled with water. These animals have specific housing needs, and require special diets and close monitoring; all this in order to ensure their health and safety, and allow them to live out their maximum lifespans. The following tips about the Red Eared Turtle should help you come to a decision as to whether you are ready to become an owner, or, if you are already one, give you useful advice on how to take better care of your pets.

If your are just in the planning stages of purchasing a red eared turtle, there are a few things you should look out for to make sure that your pet is in perfect condition and not ill before you bring it home. Healthy turtles of this species should be alert, responsive, and bright in appearance. You will know if the turtle is alert and responsive if it pulls its legs back into its shell when you pick it up. Otherwise, Red Eared Slider Turtles that seem to be passive when you do this are most likely to be stressed out or sluggish. They are in great shape and health if they have clear, open, and clean eyes. Their noses should be free from discharge or mucus, which are signs of respiratory sickness.

Red Eared Slider Turtles may appear delicate and cute when they are just hatchlings, and many novice owners may assume that small, plastic containers or tanks would make adequate housing for them. This theory is a mistake; as the turtles grow into their adult size, they will reach up to twelve inches in length. You must, therefore, prepare a suitably sized dwelling place, ideally a large tank or pond. A red eared turtle that has received the right kind of care and monitoring can live for forty years.

One should always remember that it is never wise to try to return a turtle to the wild when it becomes an adult, because it will not be equipped with the skills necessary for self-preservation and survival, especially if it had been kept captive most of its life.

A red eared turtle can excrete a lot of waste material, and you must keep its housing clean, by placing a good filter into its tank, and by feeding it in a separate tank or container.

Red eared slider turtles are omnivorous, although as young turtles, they show a preference for small animals, such as earthworms, shrimp, mealworms, crickets, and krill. These may have to be cut into smaller portions when fed to the hatchlings. If your pet is already an adult, you may offer it larger prey, such as tadpoles. As the turtles mature, you should shift to vegetables for the majority of their diet; for example, collard, dandelion greens, and green beans.

You can determine the sex of your turtles only when they have become mature. You should allot a nesting area on which the females can lay their eggs. Be sure that this area, and the entire place in which the turtles dwell, are escape-proof and free from predators.

These facts about Red Eared Slider Turtles should serve as sound and helpful advice on how to take care of your turtle pets.

Karma Williams is a pet turtle care enthusiast who has raised turtles for over 23 years, and enjoys helping others get started in this amazing hobby. You can discover more about turtles by visiting the turtle pets and Red-Eared-Slider pages of her website. Get your free 10 part Pet Turtle Care mini couse, valued at $49, by visiting her www.PetTurtleCenter.com website and requesting it.

Her newest eBook entitled "The Ultimate Guide to Pet Turtle Care" teaches turtle lovers everything they need to know about acquiring, caring for, and feeding pet turtles so that they stay healthy, contented, and will thrive for years and years to come!

Dieting Groceries: A Little Diet Advice and Must Have Items For Diet

The Top 5 Tips to Guaranteed Weight Loss!

by: Patrick Shelley

Truly effective weight loss doesn't have to be a struggle. In fact it can be rather easy when you know it's secrets.

1st why would you want to take tips from a fitness & bodybuilding coach? Well, if you see a Body Builder or Miss fitness finalist on the stage are they fat? Of course not, they are some of the leanest people on the planet! So their coach, the guy who got them into that kind of shape might just be the person to get some weight loss tips from.

Now before we begin with the top 5 tips let's dispel one common misunderstanding. Many people believe they can't use my tips and tactics because they don't want to look like one of those people. They just want to look fit and trim.

That would be like saying you're a Golf enthusiast but you wouldn't want to take free Golf tips from Tiger Woods because you have no desire to play in the PGA. Trust me you have absolutely nothing to worry about. You will never look like a professional Body Builder without years of unrelenting dedication, lot's of steroids and way too many protein shakes. To be your best always learn from the best. Now after getting that off my chest, without further adieu here are the Top 5 weight loss Tips as promised.

1. Never go on a diet! When you hear a body builder of fitness competitor say " I'm on my diet" they're not using the word the same way you are. The ones who are successful at their sport eat very clean year round. They almost never eat any junk at all. Then when they are "on their diet" they make a few simple weight loss adjustments and the fat begins to melt off. You see, a diet is something you go "on" and get "off" of. This won't create long term success and it usually only leads to failure. Instead, focus on eating clean all year long. Then use only little tiny, painless adjustments to keep making progress month by month.

2. Yes at the close of the 1st tip I said "month by month". And guess what, I meant every word. Chances are you didn't put on the extra weight you now want to lose in 30 days or less, am I right? So why would you expect that you could safely take it off in just 30 days despite what all diet pill pushers say. Think of it this way, if it took you 5 or 10 years to put it on, it may take 6 months or a year to safely take it off again.

3. You must eat more not less. The meaning of this is that you must consume more volume, but fewer calories overall. The simplest way to do this is each time you eat make 1/2 of your meal vegetables. So, if you look at your plate 50% are vegetables. 30% of what you see is a high quality protein source such as chicken, fish or beef. Then the remaining 20% is complex carbohydrates like brown rice or yams not pasta and bread.

4. You need to eat all the time. This is to say that you need to eat a minimum of 5 or 6 small meals per day. This will help satisfy your hunger, control insulin and supply your body with a constant steady flow of nutrients.

5. Follow the hydration equation. You absolutely need to drink enough water to stay properly hydrated and flush out all the bad toxins you need to get rid of each day. Personally I drink a gallon a day. But the one easy rule is; your body just told you that your dehydrated if and when you ever get thirsty. The trick is to continually sip water all day and never actually become thirsty.

One extra bonus tip. If you happen to get a flat tire while heading down the highway, please don't get out of the car and just shoot the other 3 tires. In other words, if you're doing really well with your weight loss plan and have a piece of cake at a birthday party don't throw up your hands and say the heck with it and go eat 2 pints of ice cream. Admit you splurged, even enjoy the fact that you splurged, but for Heaven's sake get back in the car and get back on the road to success.

Disclaimer: please seek the advice of a licensed Physician prior to engaging in any diet or exercise plan. This article is for informational purposes only and is in no way intended as medical advice or as replacement for a proven therapy.

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Pure O OCD - The Best OCD Advice I Have Ever Seen

by: Derek Soto

Pure o OCD is something that drives most people insane. I'm not talking about clinically insane, rather as an expression to describe how unpleasant it is to suffer from this condition. I would like to make it very clear that this is not a disease or anything like that. No matter what you have heard, I have been working with people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder for years and I can tell you that I have seen people who suffered major with it not suffer anymore. I have seen people become OCD free and I have seen how this has dramatically changed their lives for the better!

When I talk about pure o OCD I am talking about the rituals that people do in their heads such as count things or think repetitive thoughts. It's tough to deal with this when you really have no clue the inner workings of OCD. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is like a child and if you pay attention to it, it will just want more of your attention. On the other hand, if you ignore it, then it will flee from you. Just like the Bible says, resist the devil and he will flee from you. Although I have to say that getting rid of OCD is slightly harder than just "ignoring" it. You cannot just ignore it until you know how to change the underlying thought process.

If you continue using the same faulty equipment, you will continue to get the same faulty result. When it comes to pure o ocd I can assure you that if you keep using the same paradigm shift that you have, you will be in the same rut. Now what do I mean by paradigm shift? What I mean is that your current set of beliefs and interpretations of the information around you. You need to learn how to interpret things differently before you can ever expect a "natural" change to happen in your life. I'll let you in on a little secret: Most OCD programs just tell you to depend on willpower but we both know that willpower is bull. That is why most diet programs also fail, because they lean on something that itself is weak.

No, instead what you want to do is lean on changing your understand of the world around you and your brain will automatically change the way it interprets things. Pure o ocd will not be able to stand a chance! For example: If you are throwing a ball a certain way and you can't seem to control it, then you may interpret ball throwing as tough. If however, you learn some techniques on how to throw the ball more powerfully, all of a sudden you may find that what you once found hard is actually very easy! Now your paradigm or state of mind has shifted! Now you are ready to do the task! See, in your current state of mind, not giving into rituals is just too hard because you are doing it wrong and you don't know how to do it the right way. You know that you need to learn this skill, but you also know that you need to learn how to do it the right way! I have some great information on OCD below that will help you a lot, enjoy!

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Derek Soto is an ex-sufferer of OCD who teaches people how to overcome their OCD for good in a very short time using little known techniques which are usually ignored by the medical field altogether.

Derek Soto also mentors people on a wide range of subjects including how to control your thinking naturally, how to defeat anxiety, phobias and how to change your thought processes so that you will be happier and live a more fulfilling life, period.