3 Day Diet Reviews Forthright Opinion About The Program
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Are you considering going on the 3 day diet? Reviews are hard to come by, but I’m going to give you my honest opinion of the program. The 3 day diet is a very low calorie diet that claims you will lose anywhere between 3 and 10 pounds (depending on the writer) in just 3 days. Here’s my 3 day diet reviews.
First of all, I’m going to start my 3 day diet review’s with the good points.
The diet is very low in calories. Some versions of the diet include ½ a grapefruit at every meal which means the diet has 900 calories. Others feature it at just one meal which takes the diet down to 750 calories. Obviously, these calorie levels are not sustainable, but remember this is just a 3 day diet. You can fast for that long, so having some food to keep you going won’t harm you.
The second positive thing I’m going to mention in my 3 day diet reviews is that there is no fancy cooking required to sustain this diet. If you can boil an egg and cook veggies in the microwave, you can go on this diet. The foods required are basic: cottage cheese, saltine crackers, carrots, apples, etc.
The third thing that is nice about this diet is that the food you are asked to eat in no way harms you. You’ll be eating fruits, vegetables, lean meats, etc. In many ways, you are better off with this program than you would be eating a couple of meals at a fast food joint. There’s no “trick” to the 3 day diet, it’s just very low in calories.
But there are some downsides to the diet. For instance, you may only lose a couple of pounds for all of your starving, not the 10 pounds some proponents claim.
Also, I would be remiss in not mentioning that extended use of this diet program would surely lead to anorexia. The name of the diet is “The 3 Day Diet” for a reason – it should only be used for three days.
Another thing worth mentioning in this 3 day diet reviews is that you are probably going to be hungry on this program. The meals are quite small. Breakfast and lunch are about 200 calories a piece and dinner is about 350 calories. If you are used to 2000 to 3000 calorie diets (what most Americans eat), you are going to be famished. If you can suck it up and say “it’s only 3 days” you’ll survive. But, if you are not mentally prepared for the hunger challenges on the 3 day diet, you are likely to give in to your urge to eat more.
In short, the 3 day diet does work. You will probably lose between 3 to 6 pounds. The 10 pound claims are from very large people who try it. Most of the pounds lost will be from water weight. You can’t go on the diet on an extended basis.
My 3 day diet reviews overall picture is that if you want to lose weight for a specific purpose in the very near future (a wedding next weekend, an upcoming high school reunion), it’s worth doing. As an extended diet plan, it won’t work.
Fitness Alternatives For Those Who Hate Exercise
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A few suggestions for getting a workout for those of us who abhor exercising.Yes, that's right. Exercise can be enjoyable!
If one hates exercise, how can they make it fun, then? Well, it takes a little creativity. Here are a few suggestions for ways to work out that will keep you entertained at the same time.
Dance Dance Revolution
Though you might feel a little silly doing this at first, the popular video game Dance Dance Revolution has the potential to give the player a fantastic cardio workout. The game itself is fairly simple: you step on the arrows as the corresponding arrows on the screen match up. It takes a great deal of practice to become good enough at it so you're drenched in sweat after every game, but it gives you something to work for. That's the beauty of it: it's a game, and that factor keeps you going even when you get tired.
Eyetoy: Kinetic
Yet again, the Playstation is the way to go to make exercise entertaining. Utilizing the Eyetoy camera, Kinetic reflects your image back at you on the screen as you perform various activities in this virtual workout world. You kick, punch, and jump your way to fitness in a way that's challenging and fun!
Mini Stair Stepper
The beauty behind this invention is that it's compact, portable, and can be done just about anywhere. You can use this miniature stair stepper while you work, study, or watch TV. You could even put it in front of your Playstation and play what would normally be a sedentary game as you step! Can it get much better?
iPods and TVs
Do you get easily bored on the treadmill? There's an easy solution, then: television. Either load television shows onto your video iPod or set your treadmill in front of a TV. It'll keep you occupied while you work out so you don't realize how much time as passed. I personally used to speed walk on the treadmill while watching reruns of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The hour-long episodes kept my mind off of how tired I was or how boring and repetitive working out can be.
Workout Buddies
Having a friend to work out with can be the best thing for your motivation. Not only is it a great time to socialize, but the fact that you've made a commitment to another person that you will work out at this time on these days will motivate you further. You can't just sleep in when you know you've got a friend waiting for you at the gym.
Furry Friends
Walking the dog can not only be an enjoyable pet-and-pet-owner bonding activity, but it's also a way in which you can motivate yourself to exercise because that dog needs to be walked daily. There's no avoiding it. This way, both you and your furry friend get a workout and both of you will feel better about it. Plus, it's much like the concept of a workout buddy in the fact that you have someone to socialize with. Sure, they may not talk back, but that doesn't mean you can't talk to them!
If you don't see anything here that works for you, get creative! Be imaginative. If you've got the will to get in shape and improve your health, you'll certainly find the way that's right for you.
Cardio Training for Fat Loss
Training for fat loss is not easy and proper cardio training is an important part of the process. But if you're doing your cardio at the wrong time, you could be shooting yourself in the foot! Find out the best time to do it and why.Physiologically speaking, if maximum fat loss is your goal and you want to incorporate cardio into your training schedule, you're better off doing your cardio training immediately after your weight training. Here's why:
1. When you do weight training first, you have more energy and strength for that weight training.
I know cardio junkies won't want to hear this, but intense, quality weight training is actually more effective for fat loss than cardio training. Why the emphasis on quality? Well, if you go to the gym and just flail around with light weights for 30 minutes, it's not really going to be very effective for fat loss. However, if you really put some effort into it and train hard, the metabolic boost you get from weight training (in terms of not only calories burned while doing it but the increase in metabolism after and the increase in muscle mass you get from weight training) is greater than the boost you get from cardio training. And, when compared to slow, long-duration cardio training, that boost is much greater.
So by performing your weight training first, while you're fresh, you're going to have more energy to put into it and you're going to be stronger. This will increase metabolic and muscle mass stimulation and therefore overall fat loss. It's a win-win situation! That's not to say you can't do a couple of minutes of cardio as a general warm-up before starting into the weights...just don't do an entire cardio session before weight training. Always keep in mind that the weight training is the real engine behind your fat loss efforts. And if that isn't enough to convince you to do cardio after weights, I've got another reason for you…
2. Performing weight training first decreases available blood sugar and puts the body in "fat burning" mode.
When you train with weights, you're performing short, intense muscle contractions. Glucose (blood sugar) is the preferred fuel for driving these intense contractions. As you go through your workout, your body gradually uses up its readily-available supply of sugars and starts mobilizing fat for energy. Here's the key… mobilizing bodyfat for energy is a process that takes time. If you do your cardio first, your body will be initially working on that blood sugar before getting started on the bodyfat. By the time you're done with cardio and move to weights, that is when you're in the optimal fat-burning mode.
But the problem is, fat is not an efficient fuel for weight training. By doing cardio first, you use up all the "good" stuff for weight training and force your body to make do with a less powerful fuel source. Your weight training workouts will decrease in quality and your cardio efforts won't be as effective for achieving fat-burning, which is your primary goal! So basically, you're shooting yourself in the foot twice! Think of your body as a hybrid gas-electric car. This car uses gas to provide more power for acceleration and electricity to provide long-term power for maintaining speed.
Now think of blood sugar as gas and weight training as powerful acceleration. When you press the pedal (performing weight training), you're going to get much better acceleration when you're using the proper fuel (i.e. gas). If you try and power the acceleration with electricity, you'll go forward but not nearly as quickly as if you were using gas.
The bottom line is this…perform your weight training first so you use up the "fast" energy first. Then, by the time you hit the cardio, you're already in fat-burning mode and every single second you're doing that cardio is going to be burning more fat than if you did it first.
These two reasons apply no matter if you're doing slower, long-duration cardio or high-intensity interval training (which I recommend). The key thing to keep in mind is that weight training is what's going to help you change your body fast… cardio is a useful tool for improving your results but it's not what drives your fat-loss results. And that being said, if you absolutely feel you must do your cardio first, I'm not going to tell you it's the worst thing in the world…the fact that you're doing something trumps doing nothing any day of the week! But if you're looking for maximum impact for the time and effort you're putting your training, definitely hit the weights first and cardio after.
Why Fat Loss 4 Idiots might be Wrong for You
Fat loss 4 idiots is not for everyone. I have found a few flaws in the diet that may make it not good for you.First you eat until you are satisfied so there is not binge eating. Next there is the whole cycled diet where you stay on the diet for a few days and then you go off the diet for four days. And finally there is a diet generator that creates a good diet for you by asking you what you like and what you do not like.
But of course there are drawbacks to anything and this diet is especially tough for some. Here are the drawbacks and why Fat Loss 4 Idiots may not be for you.
The dreaded all fruit day - Some people just do not like fruit a lot and there is one day where you eat nothing but fruit. This does make things difficult as you need to follow the diet exactly
Not a lot of exercise - If you live a very active lifestyle you will find that you may not have the energy that you are used to on the fat loss for idiots diet. There are not enough calories for an athlete and as a bodybuilder you would find the carbs too high still if you are cutting up for a contest.
No Alcohol allowed - Actually you can have one drink a day but for many people used to consuming 2 or more drinks a day this cutback along with the weight loss and the stress of a changed diet may be too much to bear.
Other than these three restrictions to the fat loss 4 idiots diet , I believe you will probably find that the diet works for the majority of people trying to lose 20 or 30 pounds.
Well I was proven wrong. I posted a review of the fat loss 4 idiots diet -you can read those reviews,and was buried in responses from people telling me that they were skeptical as well but the diet did work for them. Once I dug deeper into Fat Loss 4 Idiots I found that there were a couple of things that made the diet make sense for losing weight.
Under the theory that "seeing is believing", people continue to buy books and pills for dramatic weight loss in 7 days, or 4 weeks, or some other rather short interval. What should be checked is how much weight loss remains effective in one year.
There are several reasons for this caution.
Recognize that the ability to store calories as fat is pro survival, when the food supply various a lot throughout a year. With steady food supplies, this is anti survival. Eat more calories than you need, of whatever type, and you will put on fat. Even excess protein consumption is stored as fat. Note that high meat diets are high in saturated fat as well as protein.
Most people who try to lose weight do not make permanent changes to life style. They can lose a few pounds in the short term, but not keep them off.
Many fast diet schemes are tricks, some even dangerous. Especially bad are those plans which emphasize weight loss, but ignore what component of weight is lost.
WATER LOSS: many plans show quick results because they cause the body to drop water. The medical term for such pills is diuretics. Weight-wrap clothing makes one hot, and sweat. The same is achieved with steam rooms, saunas, and the like. Any professional athlete knows that a typical workout can cause the loss of 1 to 10 pounds of water, or more, which must be replaced to prevent heat stroke, even death.
MUSCLE LOSS: Many plans concentrate on reducing the total calories consumed, which is great if done wisely. The dangerous plans are those that starve the body so that muscle, as well as fat, is lost. As most dieters return to pre diet food practices, the lost muscle is usually replaced with fatty tissues. Muscle mass consumes calories even when the body is at rest. Reducing muscle mass merely to lose weight means that body is less balanced for controlling weight.
LOSS OF INGESTED FOOD: bowel stimulants are okay if needed for constipation, or to aid regularity, but NOT for weight loss. If you aren't eating much raw fruits and vegetables, moderate doses of dietary fiber supplements are okay.
FAT OR STARCH BLOCKERS: Two criteria must be met; they must work, and be safe to the metabolism. None are known to exist. I wrote elsewhere about chitosan, a "fat magnet" that does not work.
APPETITE KILLERS: They exist, but many have been removed from the marketplace. Narcotics are one such drug group.
FEN-FEN or FEN-PHEN, fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine, an anorexic drug, was banned by the FDA in 1997, mainly due to heart valve damage.
An alternative is to hold something nauseating under nose or tongue.
FAT BURNER STIMULANTS: "Fat burners" are a fictitious part of the body. Pills to turn them up have nothing to work on.
METABOLISM ACCELERATORS: Amphetamines rev up the body, and formerly were in wide use by dieters and by students who were cramming for tests, as well as speed freaks. Tolerance requires increasing doses. High doses cause sleeplessness, nervousness and euphoria, and can cause death. Usage can be followed by intense mental depression and fatigue. DON'T!
Late 2003, a class of weight loss pills was taken off the market, due to deaths of athletes and dieters; Ephedra, also called Ma huang, and synthesized ephedrine. Ephedrine alkaloids are amphetamine-like compounds, used in some prescription medications, and found in some herbal teas. The side effects include increase of blood pressure and pulse rate, nerve damage, muscle injury, psychosis, stroke, impaired memory, nervousness, tremors, seizures, heart attacks, strokes. Who needs it?
READ THE LABELS. Many weight loss products contain a lot of sugar, fructose, maltodextrin, thus sugar, sugar, modified corn starch. These are lousy choices for good nutrition, and can bounce blood sugar levels dangerously high, after which they can crash to dangerously low (hypoglycemia). Ingesting too much refined sugar can induce diabetes.
Thus, many "nutritional diet products" are nutritional only if compared to high fat and high salt foods.
FAT RESTRICTION: This should be a permanent part of a healthful food plan for anyone who is not very active physically. Prior to modern mechanization, everyone but the pampered ruling classes used a lot of calories all the time. This is why so many traditional / ethnic foods are high in fat, such as bacon and sausage, pastries, fried foods. What was good for great grand parents can be bad for us.
Here's a cruel truth. A little bit of fat is far more effective than high protein or sugar foods at satisfying hunger. The trick is to avoid saturated fats and trans fats (hydrogenated oils).
Smart dieters can get unsaturated fats from plant foods, such as nuts and seeds. Outdoors enthusiasts are mostly familiar with "trail foods", such as "GORP" = Good Old Raisins and Peanuts. I find that almonds and raisins chewed together are very sweet and hunger killing, so not a risk to weight control.
YOUR BEST DEFENSE against fraud of any kind is self education. Don't be afraid to question what any source says, but consult several sources that have no mission to sell you anything. Government publications and Mayo Clinic advice are good examples which can be reached on the internet.
Long Term Weight Loss Diet - Biggest Loser Twins Share Secrets to Long Term Weight Loss
0 komentarDiposting oleh Exclusive Online Fitnessdi21.41For a long term weight loss diet to be effective it must be livable and allow some flexibility. The Biggest Loser Twins, Bill and Jim Germanakos who won season 4 of the hit TV show seem to have found the secret to long term weight loss. Diet and exercise are still a part of their lives and this article will share tips on how the new plan they developed can help you lose and keep the it off.
Bill and Jim, often referred to as the Weight Loss Twins were both winners in the Biggest Loser Competition two years ago. Bill came to the ranch weighing 334 pound and at the finale 8 months later had taken his body down to an amazing 170 pounds.
Jim's starting weight was 361 pounds and despite being voted off the ranch in week 5 and sent home he stayed committed and by the finale stepped on the scale weighing 175 pounds.
Together the brothers lost 350 pounds in just 8 months and now 2 years after the show ended they have managed to keep the vast majority of that weight off and look great and fit.
They say the secret to their continued success comes from working along side the many physicians, dieticians, nutrition experts, psychologist and trainers associated with the show. From them they learned how to eat, exercise and think in a way that supported their maintenance.
Here are 3 secrets the brothers are now sharing in their new weight loss system.
1. Enjoy eating. It is a common misconception that you must constantly deprive yourself in order to stay thin but the brothers found that eating smaller portions throughout the day and then allowing a day during the week where they could enjoy their favorite foods they could still enjoy the pleasure of food.
2. Exercise to support your metabolism. There are different ways to exercise and the most effective for long standing weight control involves exercises with varying levels of intensity. For instance instead of just walking, add short burst of speed walking or jogging. This variation peaks your metabolism and also your fat burning and it makes life more livable because the exercise can be done in half the time.
3. Remove negative thinking. The brothers share that a positive attitude is a necessary ingredient for long success. Yes, some old habits will have to change but what replaces them is a bigger reward.
The Biggest Loser Twins have now combined the lessons they learned and their real life experiences in a new system which reveals their long term weight loss diet secrets. It is due out in June of 2009 and is sure to inspire others.
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