Monday, November 12, 2007

Burn That Fat Fast - Here's How to Do It!

Burn that fat fast!

Isn't this the rallying cry of everyone who's ever been overweight?

"Just show me a fast easy way to get this darn fat off. I hate it. I hate how I look. I hate being a fattie, often the secret brunt of other people's jokes. I hate being discriminated against because of my weight… but losing weight is always such a struggle".

And usually it is a struggle isn't it?

But it doesn't always have to be…

We first have to decide that it's finally time to do something about it… often after a lot of snide little digs from friends, spouses or significant others. Often we get shamed into doing what we want to do anyway. But we resist because we just don't want to go through all that pain and torture and denial and the ongoing struggle to be strong.

Only you can make the decision to go ahead and do it! Why not now? Why not start today?

Eating is a physical addiction with an emotional trigger. We eat to stay alive obviously… but we also eat for emotional comfort. We want to ease the stress from the often overwhelming busyness of our lives, the struggle to raise our children, money fears, feelings of inadequacy… the list is endless. I'll just stop here or I'll need to write a book.

And then overeating becomes a comforting habit that we engage in without thinking.

We feel overwhelmed and we reach for a snack.

But it's even more than this. Eating is also a powerful physical addiction usually brought on by eating the wrong sorts of foods. High Glycemic foods like processed carbs, sugars and potatoes (our favorites) are what created this whole overweight condition in the first place… they screw up our metabolism and get turned to fat much more readily than slow release foods. We love them because they just give us so much bang for the buck.

The impact from high GI foods is instantaneous and we love instant gratification. To hell with this: "wait 20 minutes and you wont feel hungry garbage". I want it… and I want it now.

I have learned that if you can remove the carbohydrate addiction then the rest is easy.

I can show you how to do this!

If you're interested I can show you a plan to make this a reality in your life; you'll lose weight and you won't be hungry! I have recently written a book entitled "Lose Weight - Never Go Hungry" which lays out a plan for overcoming carbohydrate addiction and losing weight.

You can download it FREE here: "Lose Weight - Never Go Hungry"

Jim Keayes, EzineArticles.com Platinum Author

Friday, November 9, 2007

Fast Weight Loss - No Hunger - Here's A Surefire Plan!

There should be "no hunger" while you're trying to lose weight.

Hunger is the killer!

Hunger will knock you right off your program!

Here's what happened to me…

I was out of town visiting with my son and his wife last week. We had some great meals. I ate whatever I felt like. I came home and I had gained 5 pounds… not a disaster but this is how it all starts again.

I determined to blow those 5 pounds off and began on a weight loss program of a protein meal replacement drink in the morning plus minimal processed carbs throughout the rest of the day.

That was fine for 5 days but this morning I was rushed and busy so I had a mug of tea and a banana. Oh-ohh! Bananas are high GI foods.

It's important to avoid those High Glycemic Index foods like processed carbs, potatoes and sugar. I call them "High GI" to make the typing easier. They spike your blood sugar and start off the carb craving yo-yo.

And that's exactly what happened to me!

An hour later I was hungry… so I was planning a coffee plus some nuts. The next thing I know I'm putting two squares of dark chocolate in with the nuts!

And I'm eating them too, while I type this… I'm not a masochist. Dark chocolate is barely acceptable, but I'm hoping the nuts will create enough slow release blood sugar that I won't be triggered to go for more carbs later.

So what happened here?

I let myself get hungry!

But here's where I went wrong. Instead of starting the day with a low GI shake or a handful of nuts… some form of low GI protein… I went for a banana and caffeine and I spiked my blood sugar.

And then I wanted more carbs or sugar.

I had spiked my blood sugar, the insulin kicked in and pretty soon I was craving carbs.

Studies show that if we start the day with a high GI breakfast we will on average eat 80% more calories that day.

There's a good lesson here for me!

Avoid high GI foods and I won't spike my blood sugar. If I don't spike my blood sugar I won't get the carb craving. If I start the day with a "high protein-high fiber" meal I won't get hungry enough to slip off the plan.

If you're interested I can show you a plan to make this a reality in your life; you'll lose weight and you won't be hungry!
I have recently written a book entitled "Lose Weight -
Never Go Hungry" which lays out a plan for overcoming
Carbohydrate addiction and losing weight.

You can download it FREE here:

"Lose Weight - Never Go Hungry"



Jim Keayes, EzineArticles.com Platinum Author

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Burn That Belly Fat Fast - Without All That Exhausting Exercise!

Do you hate your Belly Fat?

I think we all do! This is the era of looking good, feeling good and having fun... and belly fat just doesn't fit that picture.

And have you noticed how everywhere you turn there's some health nut telling you it can't be done without the sit-ups and crunches and all that other torture?

Sure you'll get great abs that way, if you work hard enough at it. But you give up half your life and if they're still hidden under all that belly flab you've pretty much struck out. In my book it's better to look slim with just average abs than have all that lard on my belly.

Let's take a look at how the body works and how we can use that information to help us burn off that fat.

The job of insulin in the body is to act as a key that opens up the muscles and lean tissues to accept glucose from the blood.

One interesting fact is that regular medium-cardio exercise will stimulate the muscles to start letting your insulin do its work again, so the blood sugar starts to go into the muscles instead of on your belly.

So this could be step one… think about gradually building up to walking 20 to 30 minutes, 3 to 5 days a week. But just think about how you would handle this for now-you can take the drastic step of actually doing it in a while.

When you don't exercise or you eat too much for a protracted time, one of the areas which naturally shows this excess more than others is the belly. This is because when the muscles become insulin resistant the fat is first deposited around the belly area.

But it takes an enormous amount of exercise to take off weight… way more than most overweight people can get their mind around.

Modern scientific thought is that obesity is mainly caused by insulin insensitivity in the muscles, brought on by a steady diet of high glycemic foods as occur in the North American fast food diet. These foods spike your blood sugar repeatedly which causes huge shots of insulin again and again until the muscles simply become acclimatized to that much insulin and stop taking up the blood sugar. So it goes onto the belly as fat.

So the trick is to change your eating habits, do some reasonable exercise and take food supplements so you get the minerals the body needs to help reverse your insulin resistance.

Cutting out carbs for 5 days in a program that doesn't create hunger and then gradually re-introducing complex, low GI carbs is a plan that has helped thousands to recover from chronic overweight.

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I can show you a plan to do that!

I have recently written a book entitled "Lose Weight -
Never Go Hungry" which lays out a plan for overcoming
Carbohydrate addiction and losing weight.

You can download it FREE here: "Lose
Weight - Never Go Hungry"



Jim Keayes, EzineArticles.com Platinum Author