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You’re not hungry…

Tags: activity, cause of hunger, dehydration, health, hunger, water

Article by Devani Alderson

Did you know that 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated?  And when it comes to weight loss and fitness, this can actually slow down metabolism by 3% or more.  You’ve probably heard the advice to drink water to help stave hunger pains.  Well, 37% of Americans are reportedly disconnected enough from their thirst mechanism that thirst is often mistaken for hunger. So next time you feel hungry, try a glass of water, and see if that quenches the appetite.

In our family, we are big water drinkers, starting each morning with a tall, cool glass of water with a fresh lemon wedge.  It’s a sort of “inner shower” to flush the system first thing, followed by a steady water bottle companion filled throughout the day.

In fact, just writing this is making me thirsty, so cheers, and bottoms up!

Devani Alderson is an aspiring writer and artist and works in social media and SEO marketing.  

The Best Investment!

Tags: exercise, Fitness, health, investment, roi

To health…

Tags: health, motivation

Alluring. Seductive. Destructive.

Tags: health, Nutrition

It’s everywhere. Like a drug, yet fed to kids. Don’t be fooled. (Here’s an alternative)

Invest Time, Increase Years

Tags: health, youth

According to a recent article over at LiveScience — “Many Women Would Trade One Year of Life to Be Thin” by Stephanie Pappas — almost one third of young women would give up years in order to have the perfect body.

Hmmm…..wonder how many of these same respondents are currently investing any time toward working on improving their health and fitness…?  With a little time daily or several times a week devoted to exercise, it would actually take MUCH LESS than a year, AND give back so much more! (Full article here)

How?  Well, a year is 8,544 hours, right?  Exercising for one hour seven days a week (using 7 instead of 5 days to add in some extra time for active lifestyle).  That’s 356 hours per year.  How many years does that buy?  TWENTY FOUR YEARS!!!  So exercise and/or being physically active just one hour a day, every day for a year and in 24 years you’ve arrived at that year’s worth of time.  But that’s just the beginning because we know that exercise and activity increase your odds of living longer and living more fully each day and each year because you feel better, look better, and have more energy for starters.  You will be absolutely and unequivocally healthier, because you’re following nature’s design for your body:  daily dynamic activity!

So, what’s the trade off to your best body…?  Your best self…?  we’re talking just one hour a day, MAXIMUM, and alternating between actual exercise and other active lifestyle choices like hiking, biking, walking, sports; you know, enjoying LIFE!  Any investor can tell you this is a no-brainer absolute best return on investment,  (ROI) you could make, and these are just the more obvious benefits, yet there are so many more, including how much more you can do with your life when you feel comfortable in your skin, have more energy and feel good about yourself.

Five Things You Can Do Today to Increase Your Fat-burning Potential

Tags: better workouts, burn fat, health, healthy living

Sometimes simply getting in the gym or cleaning up your diet slightly is simply not enough to boost your body-change efforts.  And though we typically think of these as our bread and butter, perhaps the way in which we exercise or eat is more even important.  Also, there are some surprising additional ways to help increase fat burning throughout the day.  Here are our tops!

1. Get 8 hours of sleep per night, period. Unfortunately, in today’s day we tend to associate sufficient sleep with laziness.  Eight hours a night is hardly being lazy, and in fact, Jill associates it with fat-burning.  There are 2 primary ways to naturally increase the fat-burning, muscle-building, anti-aging human growth hormone, and sleep is one of them.  Limiting food consumption to 2 hours prior to sleep and getting at least 8 hours per night will help burn significantly more fat during sleep than going to bed completely stuffed and only sleeping a few hours.
2. Hit the weights. People always ask us, if I only have 30 minutes, what’s the best exercise to do?  The answer is always the same: circuit weight-training, like the circuits featured in My Gym Trainer.  We like to think of circuit-training as “the new cardio” because when done correctly, it elevates the heart rate and breathing similar to cardio exercise.  Only, the weight training aspect yields the additional burn in the muscles that is necessary to release testosterone and human growth hormone (yes, weight training is the other way to raise it naturally).  Don’t believe us?  Go to a set of walking lunges holding 25-lb dumbbells and tell us you’re not burning fat!
3. Up your fruit and veggie intake. This may seem obvious, but acquiring your 9 servings of fruits and vegetables each day will not only boost your health, but help you burn more fat by providing more fiber with less sugar than grains and optimizing your metabolism.  A diet high in refined sugars, grains and fatty proteins only (like the standard American diet) will create a very acidic environment in the body, stifling the metabolism.  The alkalinity provided by fruits and vegetables helps buffer and optimize the metabolism.  Try our favorites: spinach, asparagus, broccoli, peppers, onions, other leafy greens, all berries, apples and pears.
4. Take a fish oil supplement.  So easy, yet so effective!  Fish oil contains unsaturated omega-3 fatty acids (DHA and EPA) that pack a powerful fat-burning punch.  As counterintuitive as it seems, you need to consume fat to burn fat!  Good omega-3 fatty acids from fish not only help decrease inflammation in the body, but optimize cell membrane function to accelerate efficient metabolic processes and brain function.  Be sure to find a supplement that is PCB-free, without environmental contaminants.  If you don’t like to take supplements, try to eat 6 oz salmon 3-4 times per week.
5. Take some “me” time. Something that many of us struggle with, or simply don’t give ourselves permission to do, is to take time for ourselves to do something that we enjoy, away from work, responsibilities, chores, etc.  Allow yourself time to engage in an activity that helps you unwind, relax and let go of responsibilities even for 20 minutes a day, and it will act as a natural stress-reducer.  Lowering stress through restorative activities like reading, going for a walk, taking a Tai Chi class or simply sitting quietly can dramatically lower cortisol levels.  Excess cortisol can lead to fat storage in the mid-section, so finding ways to decrease it will help with fat loss.

Optimal Health using My Gym Trainer

Tags: health, my gym trainer

Exercise is one of several important health foci.  Most experts agree that the key to optimal health is a combination of:

• physical activity
• sound nutrition
• sufficient rest
• stress management

Tough workouts like those in the My Gym Trainer books require proper nutrition to rebuild stronger muscles, bones and joints, and are more productive if the body is well rested.  All of these in balance contribute significantly toward stress management.

See your body composition change into a leaner, tighter, more toned form and you will feel better about yourself and your life.  A healthier you is achieved through persistent practice of these key behavioral steps.

The more you practice the easier it becomes, and the closer you’ll come to that desired state of optimal health, great immune function and increased energy, in addition to improved body composition: leaner, tighter, more toned and feeling great!

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Keep it up…look good…feel great!

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