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Social Support Has Been Proven To Help Weight Loss
Social Support Has Been Proven To Help Weight Loss
Article by Jason Yun
What else can you do? You diet and exercise, but the weight isn’t coming off like you want. Why not ask a friend, or two? The idea of social support is not new, but it is very effective.
Lack of accountability is one of the biggest reasons people cannot lose the weight they want. It?s tough to keep a laser focus on something that could take several weeks to several years to accomplish. Social support can keep you honest to your weight-loss plan and keep you motivated along the way.
This secret is quite a gem because anyone can be an accountability partner. Look to friends, family, co-workers, superiors, mentors, personal trainers, teachers or kids? the possibilities are endless. All that matters is that that person wants you to succeed as much as you want to.
You can even get creative in your search for accountability by turning to the latest technology. The Internet is doused with weight loss forums and hundreds can be found at your fingertips with a simple Google search. On these forums, you can post your food and exercise logs so like-minded people can comment and offer you their advice and encouragement.
If you are down with the internet you can try some of the social networking site to help with your weight loss journey. On the micro-blogging site, Twitter, you can update your social support network with short and frequent?tweets? about your diet and exercise program in real time. Gather your network by?following? people who are interested in fitness or nutrition. Any slip-ups in either and you can bet your?followers? will be on your case. Even people you don?t know will add their two cents.
On Facebook, you can update your friends with longer posts about your weight-loss plan. You can also upload photos of your progress, post notes about your hang-ups and chat with your supporters. I?ve even been known to make comments about current or former client?s meals? so watch out!
Nobody can really pinpoint why social support is so valuable in the weight loss game, but including family and friends in your plan has proven highly effective. Your supporters do not necessarily have to be working towards the same weight-loss goals, but by surrounding yourself with people who can encourage you in healthy eating and exercise you will be well on the road to the leaner you.
On the flip side, try to avoid people who won?t support your healthy lifestyle. Hanging out with people who make fun of you for your whole grain snacks or who are stuffing fries down their throats while you nibble on carrot sticks will only slow your progress. Instead, you should engage in a supportive atmosphere with a helpful support system that will encourage you to stay on track and keep up with your supportive nutrition and workouts.
Get out there now and begin gathering your network of supporters, whether they be friends, family or the blogosphere community! Fill them in on your specific weight, nutrition and fitness goals and let them know if they should scold you for slacking. If you do, I guarantee your chances of succeeding will increase dramatically.
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Weight Loss : The Side Effects of Ephedra Supplements
Weight Loss : The Side Effects of Ephedra Supplements
Article by Mark Thomas Walters
People who are desperate to lose weight will try almost anything to achieve that goal. Of the weight loss options available, an Ephedra weight loss program is one of the worst. This is not the healthiest way to lose weight for the reason that Ephedra has many side effects. Ephedra is not a new substance, and it is used in some treatments for asthma and hay fever. Known more commonly among the Chinese as ma huang, an Ephedra weight loss supplement works as a stimulant which constricts your blood vessels, and increases your heart rate and your blood pressure. Dietary supplements which contain Ephedra have been linked to many deaths and many have serious side effects. The side effects of Ephedra are the following:
Decreased Appetite – Having an appetite is natural, and it is your body’s way of telling you that you needs more food. By not giving it food it will not be able to give you real and substantive energy, and you will feel weak.
Anxiety / Psychosis – You will be confused, anxious and nervous for no apparent reasons. Not only that, you may suffer from hallucinations and see things that are not really there.
Tremors – You might start to shake and have nervous tremors which will be apparent and depicted by shaking limbs.
Dry Mouth – Ephedra causes your mouth to constantly feel dry, even if you drink lots of water. This can result in bad breath.
Urinating More Frequently – You will find that you have to go to the restroom a lot more often that you are used to.
Kidney Stones – Some people who regularly use Ephedra found that they developed kidney stones. This is thought to be because of the bodily imbalances that Ephedra causes.
High Blood Pressure – Elevated blood pressure comes with taking Ephedra as a diet drug, which means you will also feel all the symptoms that people go through when they have high blood pressure, such as shortness of breath, frequent headaches, dizziness and palpitations.
Irregular Heartbeat – Ephedra affects your heart and causes it to beat to irregular rhythms, even when you are not exercising.
As you can see, the price your health pays for taking Ephedra is quite high. A better method of losing weight would be to eat properly in sufficient amounts, as well as exercise daily. Healthy ways of losing weight may take a little longer to achieve results, but at least you can avoid unpleasant side effects. There is a lot of misleading information around regarding weight loss, and most of it comes from people who are just trying to make money from you. What you need to do is read weight loss reviews of the diet systems and supplements that are available, and look for honest and unbiased testimonials. Online forums, and blogs to a lesser degree, are a particularly great resource for finding reviews for weight loss supplements, products and diet systems. Try some Google searches for “weight loss forums”, “weight loss reviews”, etc. and you will find lots of good sources of information.
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Are Slim Shots Weight Loss Products Really Effective?
Are Slim Shots Weight Loss Products Really Effective?
Article by Gen Wright
Slimshots is a supplement-based weight loss program. It is based on ‘appetite control’ as a weight fighting mechanism. This is out of the appreciation of the fact that an appetite that is out of control, and out of sync with the body’s natural food needs, is what causes weight problems in most cases. So what Slim Shots promises to do is to ‘hand back’ such lost ‘appetite control’ to the people affected by it, so that they can start getting satisfied with food servings of size and frequency that is in line with their natural bodily food requirements.
Yet in the face of so many weight loss programs that don’t deliver on what they promise, it would be reasonable to expect people considering enrolling in Slim Shots to want to know whether it is really effective. So, is Slimshots really effective?
Well, there are a number of ways we can go about trying to find answers to the question as to whether Slimshots is really effective.
One way is to look at what users’ experiences with it have been like. This can be possible by looking at the various reviews it has been getting, as well as ‘listening’ to what people in various weight loss forums have to say about it. Looking at the reviews, one misses the tinge of negativity that tends to be attached to most other weight loss products, with regard to efficacy. The implication is that the effectiveness of Slimshots is beyond reproach, so that even people who feel that it hurts their commercial interests have to look in other directions for points of criticism. Even in the forums, there seems to be almost full unanimity among people who have gotten to use it, that Slim Shots is truly effective; with only the degrees of efficacy varying from person to person. This is just as would be expected of a product dealing with as complex and ‘individualistic’ a matter as weight loss. There seems to be hardly anyone who has had a negative experience with Slimshots, effectiveness-wise at least, hence our conclusion that slim shots is highly effective in this particular regard.
Another way of interrogating Slimshots effectiveness is examining the product itself: what it is made of and how it works. Now as mentioned earlier, Slimshots is an ‘appetite control’ supplement made from oats and palm oil. As it turns out, these two substances have been shown to have an effect of reactivating the appetite control center in the body (which is called the ileal), thus giving back control over appetite to people who might have lost it. By giving back control over appetite to people who might have lost it, Slimshots makes it possible for them to get satisfied with smaller and less frequent food servings: making way for true and quite painless weight loss. This in turn makes Slimshots, as a weight loss aid, highly effective on two counts. For one, the mechanism through which it works (reactivating the body’s natural appetite control) is one of the soundest ways of going about the battle against the bulge.
Then secondly, by making possible what is effectively a painless weight loss, Slim Shots deals with the ‘relapse’ problem that characterizes diet or exercise based weight loss program. Here, people who are unable to cope with the ‘pain’ of weight loss have been known to give up on the whole venture altogether. With something as easy to use (and as tasty) as Slim Shots, there is very little reason for one to ‘give up.’
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