Showing posts with label Weight Loss Program. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weight Loss Program. Show all posts

Monday, June 22, 2009

Weight Loss Program-The Calorie Shifting Method

There are many weight loss program in the market and they are some which are available through the internet. All the weight loss program say that they can make you lose weight in a fast and easy way. However losing weight is really dependent on you. If you are not dedicated to lose weight than you may not lose weight at all.

The weight loss program may give an array of different result from one person to another because one person’s body is different from the other. The standard of living, food plans and genetic characters should also be considered. The results might be just in a few months for some person and for some, it may be a little longer.

A weight loss program to lose your weight, that you may look into is Calorie Shifting Weight Loss System.

In nature human body make use of a stable amount of calories every day. The idea of Calorie Shifting Weight Loss System is to deceive the metabolic mechanism of the body by alternating your usual caloric intake. Your body cannot get used to the shifting procedure of calories within the body on a regular basis. Therefore this will improve the metabolism to respond on the altering procedures.

First and foremost, you must uphold a steady amount of 2000 calories in about 30 days and then adjust that into the shifting method for the subsequent weeks. The procedure will involve a shifting upward or shifting downward of calorie content being consumed. The system ought to have a variation of meal each day throughout the span of the program.

Generally, it is necessary for a human body to have 2000 calories in each day. Move around on shifting your calorie intake up or down every day in one week. The ups and downs of caloric intake do not matter as long as you observe varying quantities taken for successive days. Keep in mind to retain the best total caloric content of about 14,000 within one week to avoid deficiency.

With this weight loss program, you will be able to lose 9 pounds in 11 days.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle

By Tom Venuto
www.BurnTheFat.com

QUESTION:Hi Tom. I have your BURN THE FAT ebook; it’s great thanks, but now that I’m lean enough my aim is bodybuilding and muscle gain. I read your information on body types in chapter 5 of your book and it was very interesting. I am definitely an ectomorph body type. I am getting good results gaining about a pound and sometimes 2 pounds a week, but I’m pretty skinny so it’s going to take a while to get where I really want to be, but that’s fine, I’m patient and determined. My question is, can I use all the guidelines in your BURN THE FAT ebook for gaining muscle mass?

ANSWER: It’s true that BURN THE FAT, FEED THE MUSCLE is primarily a fat burning program and as you’re reading through the book, you’ll see that the entire manual is written with references to getting leaner.

However, with a few simple tweaks, the program can definitely be used for gaining muscle. The primary adjustment would be an increase in the calories.

To gain lean body mass, you need a calorie surplus. The biggest dietary reason most people fail to gain lean muscle is that they’re simply not eating enough. Many times when they come off a fat loss program, they are completely paranoid about “losing their abs.”
Of course, that’s a legitimate concern because it’s VERY easy to lose your abs if you get lazy with your diet or you think that a muscle gaining diet means eating everything in sight. To gain muscle and stay lean it takes continued discipline and dietary restraint, but the fact is, you just can’t gain any muscle if you’re afraid to eat more.

The trick in gaining lean muscle without fat gain is to select a small calorie surplus. Overeating, even on clean, bodybuilding foods is going to make you gain fat along with the muscle.

Gaining fat and muscle weight at the same time is commonly known as “bulking up” and that’s the old school approach to building muscle. We don’t want to do that. The whole idea is to Feed The Muscle and build lean body mass only.

Although BFFM is written with a fat loss slant, all the calorie formulas are included in chapter 6, so you can figure out exactly how many you need to lose, maintain, OR gain weight.

A typical male maintains on about 2700 calories per day and a typical female at about 2100 calories, but it’s good to plug your stats into the formulas to individualize, and you need to recalibrate calories anyways, after you come off a long fat loss phase.

What I would recommend for lean gains is to add a 10-15% calorie surplus on top of your maintenance level as your starting point. You will probably need a second increase in calories after a few months or after you’ve begun to add some lean mass in order to keep the lean gains coming.

The only other major adjustments for gaining lean mass would be the protein-carb-fat ratios (covered in detail in chapter 8) and of course, the amount of cardio.

Weight gain programs require more carbs in the macronutrient mix and less cardio. Endomorph types may need to keep 3 days of cardio in the mix to avoid losing their abs. In some cases for ectomorph “hard-gainer” body types, they should cut the cardio completely during the muscle gain phase.

For the endomorph body type who tends to gain fat easily, I recommend continuing to use a carb or calorie cycling method even for the muscle gaining phase. The difference is in the number of calories.

For fat loss, I typically recommend a carb cycle with a 20-30% caloric deficit for 3 days, followed by one full day at maintenance or even maintenance + 5-10%, with ALL the caloric increase coming from carbs.

For lean muscle gain without fat gain, I’d recommend a cycle with 3 days at a 15% surplus, followed by 3 days at maintenance or a small caloric deficit of 5-10% below maintenance.

These are just guidelines. They are not written in stone. I have seen all types of calorie cycling variations work for different people. Any non-linear calorie approach is superior, in my opinion, for keeping the gains lean.

All the other principles in BFFM, such as eating the “foods that burn fat" and avoiding the “foods that turn to fat” apply as equally to weight gain programs as they do to fat loss programs.

In fact, many BFFM “graduates” quickly reached their fat loss goal using these techniques, and then with a few simple adjustments, shifted into a “muscle-gaining phase.” Same program, but one change in calorie levels.

Using the BFFM techniques for muscle mass gains, most people can expect to gain 1/2 pound to 1 pound per week of lean body mass with no increase in body fat, (1/2 to 3/4 of that for women).

It’s not that hard to put on the first 10-12 pounds of lean muscle. After that, gains tend to slow down a bit.

These types of gains can be achieved completely natural - and in fact, natural is the only way I’d ever recommend you do muscle gaining programs.

Train hard and expect success,
Tom Venuto
Fat Loss Coach
http://www.BurnTheFat.com

About the Author:

Tom Venuto is a natural bodybuilder, certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS) and a certified personal trainer (CPT). Tom is the author of "Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle,” which teaches you how to get lean without drugs or supplements using methods of the world's best bodybuilders and fitness models. Learn how to get rid of stubborn fat and increase your metabolism by visiting: www.burnthefat.com

Thursday, February 5, 2009

What Are Calories?

Calories are units to measure energy. It is similar to any other units such kilograms which measure weight, inches measure distance between two points.

Energy is very important to our body. Our body however does not know how to differentiate between a good energy and bad energy and where it comes from. So, in order for you to boost your metabolism and lose weight, you have take control of your food intake and your choices. Your body will not do this for you as its job is not to distinguish food and healthy and unhealthy source of energy. Your body will take and absorb whatever type of food and energy you choose, whether it is healthy or unhealthy. Whether it is potato chips, fruits, ice cream and so on.

When the body gets the calories, the body will react to the energy. Let’s say, for example the body receives 1000 calories from cakes, the body will metabolizes the calories by way of anabolism or catabolism.

Anabolism is the creation of new cellular material, such as enzymes, proteins, cells, cell membranes, and tissues. Anabolism is necessary for growth, maintenance, and tissue repair.

Catabolism is the chemical reactions that break down complex molecules into simpler ones for energy production, for recycling of their molecular components, or for their excretion. If energy is produced, it is stored as glycogen or fat.

In the event there is an excess of energy and the body is not able to use this excess energy, this excess energy will be turned into cells and you will have an extra weight in your body, hence the overweight. This is what happened when there are too much calories or energy from food. Those extra calories will end up becoming extra fat in your body. This is why when you are on a weight loss program you’ve heard the advice not to take food with too much calories in it unless you have enough workout to burn those extra calories. However, sometimes those extra calories will also end up becoming muscles. As muscles require calories to maintain, people with strong tone muscle tone burn calories without actually doing anything as their metabolism burns the calories for them.
This is the primary reason why exercising and building lean muscle is part of an overall program to boost your metabolism; because the leaner muscle you have, the more places excess calories can go before they’re turned into fat. So it is advisable to have a workout program with an overall workout which includes cardio workout plan, biceps workout plan, chest workout plan, shoulders workout plan, legs workout plan and triceps workout plan. These plans shall be from someone who has the knowledge of fitness plan. If you do get these plans from someone who really does not know what he or she is talking about, then you might injure yourself doing the plans.

As guidance, calories in food can be calculated with this formula:

1. Carbohydrates – 1 gram = 4 calories
2. Protein – 1 gram = 4 calories
3. Fat – 1 gram = 9 calories

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

How To Increase Metabolism?

Metabolism is the set of chemical reactions that occur in living organisms in order to maintain life. These processes allow organisms to grow and reproduce, maintain their structures, and respond to their environments. Metabolism is usually divided into two categories. Catabolism breaks down organic matter, for example to harvest energy in cellular respiration. Anabolism, on the other hand, uses energy to construct components of cells such as proteins and nucleic acids. In short the burning of certain amount of energy (calories) by your body to maintain itself is called metabolism. Your body is constantly burning the calories no matter what you are doing be it eating, drinking, sleeping, cleaning just to maintain itself.

Metabolism is affected by your body composition i.e the amount of muscle you have versus the amount of fat. The muscle in our body uses more calories to maintain itself compared to fat. People who are more muscular than others that are less muscular (and have a higher percentage of body fat than muscular people) are said to have a higher metabolism. For example, let's say you have two people who have the exact same height and weight. One exercises on a regular basis with weights, in addition to aerobic exercise, and has a low percentage of body fat. The other never exercises and has a higher percentage of body fat. The first person who exercises will have a higher metabolism than the second person. What this basically means is that person number 1's body will use more calories to sustain itself than person number 2.

To increase your metabolism, you should start to exercise and get the right diet plan. To increase your muscle mass, start doing some type of resistance work such as lifting weights, rubber bands etc. For you to lower your level of body fat you should do some type of aerobic exercise at least 30 minutes a day 3 days a week. This could be activities such as walking, jogging, step aerobics cycling, swimming. These activities will increase your heart beat rate into the training heart rate and keep it there for the duration of the exercise session.

Apart from the workout, you need to have the right diet plan that does not starve you. As you are burning a lot of calories working out, you need to replenish your body by drinking plenty of water and you need to take your regular meal which is breakfast, lunch and dinner. The right diet should cover what you eat, the size of your meals, the time of day in which you eat certain food groups, the time between meals, and the number of meals you eat each day. All this can have a bigger effect on your weight than the amount of calories that you consume.

If you do not eat, or you eat a very low-calorie diet, your metabolism will decrease because your body thinks it is starving and your body will burn less calories. This happen so that your body can survive.

Monday, February 2, 2009

Easy Fat Loss Diets

There are many ways to lose weight. From doing exercises to following diet plans. It is not easy however to lose weight and keep the weight off. The most important factor in losing weight and keeping it off forever is to make changes in your daily diets and ensuring that you have daily physical activities. It is also important to avoid negative attitude such procrastination.

Sad to say, we all do it! People put dieting off. It is way too easy to wait until next week or tomorrow to start your diet. Don’t fall into this trap and don’t put things off. Don’t wait until tomorrow to start your diet. Don’t wait for it to get sunny outside or for a wedding invite to start losing weight. Don’t even wait till later tonight to start (after you scarf down that Pizza!). Right now is just as good of a time as any and you could be starting this as quickly as your next snack or meal!

It is easy to understand why we procrastinate. Mainly it is because our mind has in advance anticipated the torture that our body has to endure in our quest of weight loss. So how do we overcome this?

We can overcome this by affirming in our mind that by not losing weight we will suffer in the future. You know telling our mind that by being overweight or obese, it will lead you to many complications and leads to many health problems.

Another way to do this is get a good and easy fat loss diet plans in the market. This way you will only have to follow a certain easy fat loss diet plan by only making adjustments to your diet. It’s just not only about changing what you eat, but also changing your eating habits, the way you eat, the size of your meals, the time of day in which you eat certain food groups, the time between meals, and the number of meals you eat each day. All this can have a bigger effect on your weight loss quest. Exercising can be done together with this easy fat loss diets but not to an extensive state. If you are not really into exercising, half an hour per day, three times a week should do it. The major weight loss will be done by the diet which causes a metabolic effect which maintains the rate in which your metabolism runs. This causes your body to burn calories faster than you minimal workout and causes your body to lose weight faster.

One Easy Fat Loss Diet system that is highly recommended is Strip That Fat Diet System. It has a reasonable price of USD47.00 and it has an unconditional guarantee. If you do not lose pounds, inches and feel better about yourself after using the Strip that Fat Diet System, they are returning your money back. They are so confident that their system works that they can afford to offer you our Iron-Clad, 60-Day Money Back Guarantee!

If you are not happy with your results, they will give you your money back. Plain and simple! However if you if and when you do lose weight, they want you to send in your success stories. You could be famous and they may put your testimonial on their web page (and send you $100, full details in the book)!

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Why Are You Still Overweight?

You are still overweight even though you have been eating low carbohydrate food, low fat diets, following starvation diet, following Pre-package Diet Programs and Hollywood Diets. All these are not going to make you lose weight. For the simplest reasons, you are probably eating the wrong foods, the wrong type of calories per meal and also eating meals in the wrong patterns each day.

Food is the major cause for you to gain weight or lose weight. It can make you thin and it can make you fat. Simply by eating right, you will lose weight in 14 days, but not eating the right food at the right time can easily make you fat. For most people they are afraid of eating simply because they think eating makes them fat. So, they start to starve themselves. They simply stop eating and their body start to develop problems such as gastric. The stomach will also start to eat itself and the organs will shutdown. Once you start eating again you will gain weight more than before.

Your eating pattern also contributes largely to your weight loss. Because your body is like an "engine" and it only needs certain foods at certain intervals throughout the day, you have to adhere to your body needs to lose weight. Not eating certain foods at certain intervals each day will not burn your calories, instead you will be ending up storing more calories as fat tissues.

So, in order for you to lose weight, you need to eat the right food at certain intervals throughout the day. It's not that hard to lose weight if you are eating your way to lose your weight. By doing this you could lose weight real fast and lose up to 9lbs in 10 days.

Even if you do cardiovascular activities such as jogging every day, you will not lose your weight in the shortest period such as 10 days. However, jogging is good for your health and in the long run it will eventually make you lose weight.

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Calorie Shifting


Weight Loss Program
Why is it that you are not losing weight even when you have been on a strict diet? From losing weight fast, you are now gaining weight. We have already known that the following diets will not work for you :-

  1. Eating Low Carbs
  2. Low Fat Diets
  3. Starvation Diet
  4. Following Pre-package Diet Programs
  5. Hollywood Diets
So, what is the best diet that you could possibly have? The answer is Calorie Shifting.

Calorie Shifting weight loss program will help you to lose weight fast, from less than 14 days. In Calorie Shifting you will be making adjustments to your diet. It’s just not only about changing what you eat, but also changing your eating habits, the way you eat, the size of your meals, the time of day in which you eat certain food groups, the time between meals, and the number of meals you eat each day. All this can have a bigger effect on your weight than the amount of calories that you consume.

Researchers have discovered that the human body takes several days to "sense" any change in calories, so if you SHIFT your calories (in a VERY special way and eating pattern) then your body gets "confused" and begins burning extra fat .

Here are the basic principles of Calorie Shifting weight loss program :-

1. You eat 4 reasonable sized meals each day based on a specific and personal menu.

2. These 4 meals contain all food groups (carbs, protein, fat).

3. You need to eat the meals at least 2.5 hours apart so they’re spaced out throughout the day.

In Calorie Shifting, the menu spreads the 4 meals throughout the day which causes a metabolic effect which maintains the rate in which your metabolism runs. This causes your body to burn calories faster than it does with other diets and causes your body to lose weight faster. If you follow the menu exactly you will be losing 9lbs in just eleven days.

With Calorie Shifting method you will be eating more than 3 times a day and you will not be starving your way to a slimmer you.

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