Category Archives: Weight Loss

10 Ways to Drop 100 Calories Now

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Greg Asseff

If you are trying to lose excess body weight and sculpt your overall physique, your initial fitness goal should be to create a daily caloric deficit – specifically, expending more calories than you consume in a given day.

While considerations such as developing a total body fitness routine and carefully monitoring your dietary intake are excellent objectives and will place you on the path to living a healthy lifestyle and, more than likely, create a caloric deficit. However, many individuals often wonder how their other daily activities contribute to obtaining such a goal.

Fortunately, there are a number of physical activities that you might not typically associate with exercise that will quickly allow your body to burn 100 calories or more.

By incorporating several of our 10 ways to lose 100 calories into your daily routine (and, bonus, you might be doing so already), you can naturally create a caloric deficit without spending every waking hour in a gym or starving yourself of the foods you enjoy.

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6 Exercise and Eating Myths

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Greg Asseff

Engaging in regular physical fitness activities leads to a vast array of health and fitness benefits, including a more well sculpted physique, increased physical strength, a lower percentage of body fat, improved cardiovascular endurance and stamina, increased levels of mental concentration – the list is virtually endless.

However, exercise can have negative consequences as well. For example, some individuals feel that by regularly performing an exercise routine that they, in essence, have a license to ignore the basics associated with consuming a solid dietary intake regimen that is focused on nutritionally rich whole foods. In fact, in some case, they overestimate the calories burned during their workout, and overcompensate by eating rich, fatty, sugary foods that they’d normally avoid on rest days.

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Looking to Curb Hunger? Try Exercise, New Study Says

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Greg Asseff

For many individuals that consistently lead an overall healthy lifestyle, regularly exercising, consuming a well balanced diet, and getting plenty of rest are all part of the equation.

However, several recently published reports have posed a difficult question to many individuals that regularly exerciser: if regularly performing an exercise workout makes you hungry, and you end up eating more calories than you just burned (or more), then why bother with exercising in the first place?

Indeed, many fitness enthusiasts notice the exercise hunger effect, or, in other words, craving junk food after performing an exercise routine. For some individuals they actually do consume more food on the days that they exercise when compared to the days that they do not.

Although, and fortunately for some individuals that this scenario, the exercise hunger effect, does not apply to everyone. In fact, newly published clinical research is indicating that regular exercise can actually curb hunger instead of increasing it.

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6 Great Ways to Add Fruits and Veggies to Your Diet

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Greg Asseff

Practically everyone knows that regularly consuming a diet that is rich in fruits and vegetables is important for their overall health and well being. however, far too many of us fail to consistently meet the minimum daily requirements set by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Regularly consuming a variety of fruits and vegetables, as part of your overall dietary regime, is an outstanding way to ensure that you are providing your body with a wide array of vitamin and minerals.

Not only will regularly consuming fruits and vegetables assist in providing you with the nutrients required to appropriately and efficiently perform a whole host of necessary bodily functions but, they also tend to be low in calories as well.

According to new nutritional guidelines, approximately half of your plate for every meal should consist of vegetables and/or fruits, which can be a tall order for individuals that are accustomed to getting most of their calories in the form of proteins, carbohydrates and fats.

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After-Dinner Snacks: Is it OK to Eat in the Evening?

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Greg Asseff

For many individuals that regularly exercise, focus on consuming healthy and nutritious whole foods and continually strive to lead an overall healthy lifestyle, the latest and most recent health and fitness news can be quite confusing.

More specifically, like most things in life, there are multiple studies that contradict one another and differing perspectives and opinions on virtually every topic imaginable. One such question, related to nutrition and dietary intake, is “should you consume foods later in the evening when it is close to bedtime?”

Generic dietary advice usually indicates that weight-conscious individuals should stop eating at night, or approximately around 6:00 PM to slightly later if your schedule forces a dinner in the later hours of the evening.

However, a large number of health and fitness seekers find themselves regularly feeling hungry and starved by the time they are ready to go to bed when following this advice, especially if they routinely stay up until 10:30pm, 11:00pm or even later.