You Can't 'Out-Exercise' A Bad Diet

You can’t change your body just by exercising. As a matter of fact, I’d say you are wasting your time in the gym until you clean up your diet and implement a sound fitness nutrition protocol. It would be nice if we could work off last night’s junk meal with some extra cardio. Despite what some trainers would have you believe, it just doesn’t work that way. When you are about to cheat and eat that slice of pizza or bowl of ice cream, remember the Fitness Nutrition 80:20 rule. What goes into your mouth accounts for 80% of how you look. -Source

Eat More Veggies

If there is a secret to weight loss it would be to 'eat more veggies', loads more (and cut down on processed foods). Veggies are high in nutrients and low in calories, plus they fill you up, and if you also include working out hard several times a week, you WILL lose weight.

Drink More Water

We can never get too many reminders of this...

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Hungry For Change - You Must Watch This Video

Disclose.tv - Hungry For Change

I am only about 10 per cent through this video at the time of posting but it is so good that I had to stop watching just to post it on here for you to watch too. It is mind-blowing! I'm sure the content will resonate with most of you seeking real solutions to your own healthy weight loss.

Spoil Your Appetite For Junk Food By Eating Healthy Food Instead

Remember when you were little you were told, "Don't eat that before dinner it will spoil your appetite". Why not try to spoil your appetite for junk food by filling up on nutritious food instead?  Think about it...there is only so much space in your stomach. If you fill up on healthy food there'll be less space in your stomach for the unhealthy stuff you're usually tempted to eat.

Weight Loss Begins On Your Plate

Weight loss is about 80% diet and 20% exercise, so make sure you're eating the right quantity and quality of food that will make success a certainty.

Water Helps You Lose Weight

Drink at least eight glasses of water daily.

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Drink More Water

Water is your weight loss friend - it acts as an appetite suppressant and has zero calories.

Stay Hydrated

Over 70% of the Earth is water.
Over 70% of the human body is water.
Over 70% of most fruit is water
Over 70% of most vegetables is water.

Isn't that trying to tell you something? Drink more water!

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Swap High Calorie Foods for High Water Content Foods

Cucumbers are vegetables with high water content and few calories per serving. Watery vegetables can help you lose weight when they are used to replace higher-calorie foods. Use cucumbers strategically as part of a low-calorie diet plan to reduce hunger and stimulate weight loss.You can use cucumber to add volume to meals without adding a lot of calories.

Cucumbers' high water content can help you feel full, leading you to consume less food at meals. Cucumber acts as a natural diuretic, making you urinate more often, which reduces bloating and water retention, notes Mayo Clinic nutritionist Katherine Zeratsky.

Information Source: Livestrong.Com

Drink More Water

Water helps you feel full; flushes toxins from your body; gives you clearer skin; aids digestion and all this for zero calories.

Is Emotional Eating Making You Overweight?

I urge you to watch this video interview with Kris Carr a nutrition expert who explains why we overeat and what we can do to stop it. There is some sound advice given here that could help kick-start the next phase of your healthier lifestyle.

Kris regularly lectures at medical schools, hospitals, wellness centers, corporations such as Whole Foods, and Harvard University. She is a Contributing Editor for Natural Health Magazine and writes for many online publications.

Almonds Are Good For You

Almonds may not be considered a typical diet food because they have a reputation of being high in fat and calories. These nuts do contain fat, but most of it is the heart-healthy unsaturated kind, which can help you feel full. MayoClinic.com adds that a diet that includes nuts such as almonds may also reduce your risk of heart disease by helping you lower your LDL, or dangerous, blood cholesterol levels. Adding almonds to your weight loss plan will provide a healthy amount of fiber to keep you full and enable you to reduce your overall calorie intake. -www.livestrong.com

Eat Foods With A High Water Content

Water has zero calories so foods with a high water content tend to be very low in calories and therefore are very useful to include in your diet when trying to lose weight:

• Red tomatoes 94% water
• Watermelon 92% water
• Strawberries 92% water
• Spinach 92% water
• Broccoli 91% water
• Carrots 87% water
• Blueberries 85% water
• Apples 84% water

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Drink Green Tea

• Associated with reduced heart disease
• Decreases cholesterol absorption in the gut.
• Reduces blood pressure
• Reduces cardiovascular risk
• High antioxidant function

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Soda Is Bad For You

Check out these links on the negative effects of drinking soda

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/18/health/jampolis-dangers-drinking-soda/index.html

http://www.kriskris.com/is-diet-soda-bad-for-you/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/14/soda-and-heart-attacks_n_1343163.html

Vitamins and Weight Loss

People lose weight when they consume fewer calories than they burn. But scientists are finding that even outside of a low-calorie diet your food choices may help you drop those unwanted pounds. A few everyday options, specifically cinnamon, honey, Vitamin D and multivitamins, have been linked to lower body weight and body mass index, or BMI.

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/300064-cinnamon-vitamins-weight-loss/#ixzz21QbIPqFt

The best way to get fiber is naturally, from whole foods in your diet. Most experts encourage eating foods naturally rich in dietary fiber – such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, and nuts -- because they also provide many other health benefits. But most people struggle to eat the recommended 25 to 38 grams of fiber each day. When you can’t get all the fiber you need in your diet, taking fiber supplements or eating foods and beverages with added fiber is one way to fill the gap
Read more: http://www.webmd.com/diet/fiber-health-benefits-11/fiber-supplements

For every 10 grams of soluble fibre that you consume a day, you lose 3.7% abdominal fat over a period of five years, according to a new study. Furthermore, if you exercise moderately you can double the loss of body fat.
Read more: http://www.multivits.co.uk/news/2011/08/fibre-removes-dangerous-abdominal-fat/

Create Your Fitness Kingdom

Exercise is your king and nutrition is your queen. Together they create your fitness kingdom - Jack Lalanne

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The Water Cure

Nothing substitutes for water -- not a thing. No drink -- no coffee, no tea, no alcoholic beverages. Not even fruit juices. Each one of them has its own agenda. Your body is used to a fluid that has no agenda, because the body depends on the freedom of that fluid, water, because there are two kinds of water in the body. There is already occupied and engaged water, which is no good for new function. The body needs new water, or free water, to perform new functions. Now, when you give them sugar containing beverages, or caffeine containing beverages, both sugar and caffeine have their own chemical agenda in the body. They defeat the purpose of the need for water. -The Water Cure: An interview with Dr. Batmanghelidj

Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/Report_water_cure_3.html#ixzz1v3XHWQa4
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Any time Is Salad Time

Any time is salad time - I recently developed a love for and fascination with salads. Whenever I made salads in the past I never really put much thought into them; salads always felt a bit like a medicine I had to take rather than a tasty, filling dish to enjoy. I have recently discovered so many salad ideas online that have inspired me to create and experiment with my own. I now eat salads every day sometimes twice a day. So if you're not eating a salad a day, check out online recipes, you'll be pleasantly surprised at the variety of salad ideas that are bound to make you fall in love with salads too.