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Do you want to lose a few pounds or half your weight? If you wanted to lose half your weight in 6-months, while eating everything you wanted, would you believe it could be possible? It is possible!! I am Alicia Weber a nutritionist and fitness trainer here today to tell you about a very exciting way to lose weight the natural way. While there are no Universal Laws to weight loss the “Gastric Band Without the Band” way to weight loss really works wonders!

Each person needs to find his/her own exercise routine that works. They may want to hire a fitness trainer to develop a program. As far as exercise goes, a person will want to do exercises and exercise intensities that are comfortable. There are no real rules to exercise, but there are rules to nutrition.

RULES
1.) Eat 5 meals a day the size of your fist (i.e. fish would be fist size, while a salad would be less than a fist size as you will imagine it condensed.

2.) Drink as much water as you want.

3.) Eat anything you want as long as it’s the size of your fist or smaller! (i.e. chocolate, desserts, etc)

Restrictions: No alcohol allowed! It’s useless with no nutrient value and empty calories.

Results: A 300 lbs Nevada man lost half his weight in 6-months by following this plan! He says that eating the fist size meal servings was key to massive weight loss! Fred, a recreational athlete into running and aerobics, wished to lose 10lbs. Due to his high intensity exercise and high metabolism, he got away with eating 6 meals a day the size of his fist. In a short amount of time, he met his physical appearance goals! A person with a higher activity level and metabolism could safely eat 6 fist size meals and achieve great results.

Alicia’s Weight Loss Jokes

Q. The obese people attending the Fat Farm rebelled against their fitness trainer one day and demanded that they be in a “weight free” environment. Now, where do they meet for fitness training?

A. Outerspace

Q. The 400m runner had finally “settled into the blocks” and put on 25lbs and threw in the towel! However, after taking a trip to Atlanta he rekindled his flame for Track and Field as he passed the Atlanta Olympic Stadium where Michael Johnson won double gold in sprints! He began aerobic training to get back on track. He began with fist only speed bag punching in sets of 5 strikes at a time. Why?

A. He wanted a constant reminder of the 25lbs he needed to lose through fist size eating 5 meals a day (see above article for details).

Walking away from diabetes is something that anyone can do. You can decrease your chances of developing type 2 diabetes, and reverse its course. By taking the appropriate steps as in walking, you reduce your chances of developing Type 2 diabetes by 50%.

Exercise is physical gold. It is the key force in managing the fundamentals of health. By performing Physical activity you lessen the chance of becoming disabled from all causes.

Activity

The factors to consider are two fold. One, activity normalizes glucose levels, and two, it energizes. Calories are said to be used for energy. If that were true the more you eat the greater amount of energy you should have. Remember how energetic you felt after a Thanksgiving dinner. This will tell you the fleeting and unreliability of scientific sounding insights.

Highly nutritious foods that fuel your body are usable for cellular energy. The other source of energy comes from activity. This vitalizes your lymph, and cardiovascular system.

Getting Started

Leisurely activity is a way to get started. Actually the best way to look at it is that not doing anything is risky. It is tough to start when you are sitting on the fence for so long. The thing to remember is that you are in control of meeting the challenge. Not exercising your option is at your own risk.

The total amount of activity is more important than the intensity in lowering blood pressure in children. This was reported by United Kingdom researchers in the Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Activity that works for blood pressures means it works for all the systems. The frequency of activity is important. More urgent is getting your foot in the water. Likewise, while exercise is important, many people don’t place enough value on activities from performing everyday tasks like lifting and chasing children, lugging groceries and cleaning house. Anything beats sitting around without moving around.

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Collapsing onto the couch in front of the television is only O.K. if you are winding down from increased activity. This is a personal investment which most people seem to put off with dire consequence. To change your outlook in 2010 we will have under construction a rookies guide to exercise.

We will show how to walk away from diabetes, and become healthier, with step by step instructions. We have some highly regarded fitness experts, which will do everything but do it for you.

Alicia Weber is a fitness instuctor who will give you an idea of how simple it is to start an exercise program.

This exercise overview is quite surprising, since it shows that we are not well informed. The coverage of all topics on health is usually not complete. It is many times slanted, biased and published before the verdict is in. Exercise advice is many times just tips on how to build muscle, without creating a healthier lifestyle.  There were two experiments that were published in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, which are eye openers.  

The first experiment had mice divided into two groups. One group was allowed to rest in their cages, the other group ran on a little treadmill until exhaustion set in. This was kept up for three days, and then the mice were exposed to an influenza virus. A few days later the mice that exhausted themselves came down with the flu in greater numbers with more severe symptoms.

The second experiment published in the above mentioned journal, scientist from the University of Illinois and other schools first infected the mice with the flu. Then one group of mice rested, while a second group ran leisurely for 20 to 30 minuets, the third group ran for a two and a half hours. Each group repeated this routine three days until they showed flu symptoms. The strain of flu used was one that is devastating to rodents. More than half of the sedentary mice succumbed, and only 12 percent of the gently jogging mice did. The prize goes to the group that spent the most time exhausting themselves on the treadmill they lost 70 percent of their group.

These are mice, and it does not take into account meditation time, positive thinking, and a slightly different immune system. However, the message is moderation. Movement is important straining and grunting may be another issue.  

Newer scientific research into immunity and exercise show that having a severe reaction from an infection “drop if you exercise moderately.” This is from Mary P. Miles, PhD, and associate professor of exercise sciences at Montana State University and the author of an editorial about exercise and immunity published in the most recent edition of the journal Exercise and Sport Sciences Review. Both the ability to catch an illness and have the worst symptoms is if you exercise intensely for a long period. The sedentary group does better, and the moderate exercise group does even better.

“The longer the duration and the more intense” the exercise “the longer your immune system remains suppressed. The time frame can be from a few hours to a few days. This is from Nicolette Bishop, an associate professor of sport and exercise sciences at Loughborough University and the author of a review article about exercise and immunity published in January.

This is the exercise overview. The most important thing to remember is moderation. The key is to remain active and be fit. The hard facts for work out fanatics is right here, they are the first to fall, second is the couch potato, and the last one standing will be the actively fit. I guess these studies should not be surprising. Short spurts of high intensity exercise are what we are built for. To run from or after some game while hunting takes at the most 15 minutes. That is not a grueling hour long marathon in the middle of a heat wave. What determines what is over the top exercise is how it makes you feel.

Staying physically active is moving your body to be fit. All bodily functions depend upon this. This means circulation, lymphatic system, nerves, digestion, assimilation, and elimination. These are the same systems the fight off infection. Doing what is natural works, we are meant to keep moving; when it takes hours to recover from a hard workout you just lowered your immunity