If you don’t know how to make diet shakes, no problem. The principle is simple and will explain it here.

Usually a shake contain fresh fruits, at your choice or in a specific combination and quantity, ice-cream and/or milk, and sometimes sugar. They all get into a food processor and come out as a delicious shake.

To make a diet shake you need to remove the sugar, thus compensating with more sweet fruits, replace the ice-cream with ice, and maybe remove the milk, but this is an optional step. Is possible to just use skim milk or if you like, coconut milk. No whipped cream!

The combinations of fruits are important. Banana goes with almost everything, and is nutritive. Strawberry, raspberries and blueberries are excellent antioxidants and high in fiber. Peaches, oranges, mango will give an exotic taste to your diet shake.

How to improve the taste and the quality of a shake?

• add plain fat-free yoghurt, it will make a great probiotic breakfast.
• add baking cocoa and vanilla extract, together with skim milk and you will have a healthy chocolate shake.
• add whole grain cereals and honey for another excellent breakfast.
• add small quantities of nuts, almonds or peanuts for a greater taste.
• a drop of mint can make a lot of difference.
• combine and try new ideas, is more fun than just following a recipe.

A last word of warning: there are people who recommend shakes as full meal, with the option to add protein powders of some sort. There are diets based on regular consume of shakes. Is not my recommendation. I would consume diet shakes as a dessert, or instead a snack in the afternoon. If is correctly balanced, with yoghurt and cereals, it can replace a breakfast, but no more than that. Don’t starve yourself. Remember, the faster you lose weight, the faster you will gain it back. Nourish your body and he will reward you with a healthy balanced weight loss.

What Is Metabolism?

Fortunately, more and more people start to be aware that losing weight takes a little more than just reducing fats and carbs from your diet. Eating diet products or low fat cheese. More and more people start talking about how to increase metabolism, since this is the key to a fast, but most of all healthy weight loss.

If you don’t know what i’m talking about, let’s start by explaining what is metabolism:

“The chemical processes occurring within a living cell or organism that are necessary for the maintenance of life. In metabolism some substances are broken down to yield energy for vital processes while other substances, necessary for life, are synthesized.”
www.inovio.com/glossary/

Metabolism refers to the group of physical and chemical processes by which a living cell or organism converts oxygen and food into energy.
www.kidshealth.com/teen/diseases_conditions/growth/thyroid_definitions.html

All of the processes that occur in the body that turn the food you eat into energy your body can use.
www.clarian.org/ADAM/doc/HeartCenter/28/000182.htm

Now is not hard to understand why the functioning of your metabolism should be your first priority, even before choosing a weight loss program. Because if metabolism is the sum of all processes that should turn the food into energy, being overweight is definitely a sign of a slow metabolism.

Why is this happening? A lot of reasons, like:

• eating food that is very difficult to digest and turn into energy or lacking basic nutrients, like junk food
• lack of physical activity
• lack of healthy eating habits and lifestyle
• stress, emotional problems
• digestive problems
• hormonal imbalance
• toxins accumulation in the body

and the list can go on.

Now you understand why most weight loss programs recommend increasing physical activity, eating smaller meals at regular intervals, adding lots of fresh vegetables, reducing trans fats, sugars and so on.

But chances are that after years of living with a sluggish metabolism, a simple diet plan is not enough to revive your metabolism and burn that extra fat. Some extra steps are necessary for your metabolism to increase and make the most of your weight loss program.

Therefore is very important to use a method to increase your metabolism, unless you want to spend years dieting.

So how to increase metabolism and burn fat efortlessly?

There are 3 major ways that can increase your metabolism:

1. More physical activity.

We all know that this is the “hard way”, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be so. If you feel that a normal fitness program is too much for you, i have some good news: there are many others pleasant things you can do. Things like swimming, dancing, trampoline jumping and so on are not only fun and easy, but can burn a lot of fat without so much effort from your side. In my post How to Lose Weight Having Fun you will find a list of such physical activities.

2. Make Your Diet Work For You

What you eat, which kind of foods and at which intervals is important for the functioning of metabolism. Instead of following a boring diet and keep counting calories and milligrams of carbs and fat, you can choose a diet that is specifically designed to boost your metabolism by the smart use of foods categories. They have the advantage of being easy to follow since they are not very demanding, are not starving you and allow you to chose your own menu. Even more easy is using a diet generator and remove the hassle of analyzing every meal you want to eat. If you already tried some popular diets and have no results, than maybe is time to try this different approach that is more likely to work for you.

3. Extra boost for your metabolism

One of the most easiest and efficient methods to increase your metabolism is taking enzymes with every meal. There are specific enzymes who break down fats, enzymes who break down carbs, sugars and proteins. By helping your body to naturally digest and break down what you eat, it will have much more resources to burn fats and regulate the process of converting it into energy. You will allow your body once again take charge and manage your weight by himself in a healthy way. And more than that, it will greatly increase your energy level, will reduce your cravings and improve your health on many levels. Taking enzyme supplements is really one of the most beneficial things you can do for your body.

Those are the main methods that will work to increase your metabolism and help you lose weight faster.

For more tips and methods, check out the Diet Tricks page and Your Stomach page. You will find lots of useful information that i’m sure will help you.

]]> http://nostomachfat.com/2008/10/how-to-increase-metabolism-and-boost-your-diet/feed/ http://nostomachfat.com/2008/10/where-5-million-people-go-every-month-to-lose-weight/ http://nostomachfat.com/2008/10/where-5-million-people-go-every-month-to-lose-weight/#comments Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:01:36 +0000 Admin http://nostomachfat.com/?p=218 I feel like is my duty to read all the time weight loss programs reviews, to find out what is new and what is worth. If you are looking to loose weight, I bet you’ve seen a lot of reviews too.

First thing to notice is that ALL weight loss programs are so great, unique, easy-to-do, fantastic, secret and shockingly reveal the ONLY way to lose weight for good! Every single one of them!

Now, this is not making our life any easier when it comes to know the truth about various weight loss programs. How do we know how much truth is in those claims? What to choose?

“Thousands of people had lost weight with our program” is the most common claim. Sometimes is “hundreds of thousands” and that is really convincing. You expect to look around and see only slim, fit people running around in a happy ever after fitness program.

And then i got a brilliant idea ( it happens even to the best of us…)

What if i could really check out, from real data, how many people do follow a specific weight loss program? What other people choose? Wouldn’t that be a better way to evaluate a weight loss program? Wouldn’t that be an important factor when you have to choose?

It was not easy to find such kind of data, as you can imagine. But as a webmaster i have my secret resources. And online everything is possible.

And when i found what i was looking for, i can honestly tell you i was shocked!

I check out all the big names in the weight loss industry, then the smaller ones, and all the weight loss websites that somehow made a good impression on me. I was really surprised. Some were meeting my expectations, most of them were way behind their claims, and few were way above what i was initially thought.

I am seriously considering to include some of this data in my next reviews. Is real, valuable, genuine information.

But for now, i want to share with you the most incredible piece of information i discovered:

The Weight Loss Program That 5 Million People Go To Every Month

We may think is one of the biggest weight loss programs that everybody heard about, like Atkins Diet, or Weight Watchers, or Diet Zone.

A really expensive and high demanding program, that only few could afford. Maybe a Hollywood secret weight loss formula, designed for rich famous people.

Well, is none of these. In fact, is surpassing by far every one of this big names.

Is a simple, intelligent weight loss program, and even more surprising, affordable to every pocket.

It reacheas an average of 5 million people every month, only from U.S. And about one more million visitors from other countries. (September 2008.)

And for me it was a very pleasant surprise, as this is one of the weight loss programs that i recommend in this site as effective, affordable and easy. I trusted this program right from the beginning. And it feels good to be right once in a while.

Now this is what i would call relevant information about a weight loss program. It makes the choice a lot more easier.

So, if you want to find out what is the 5 million people/month weight loss program, here you go.

Would you have any other weight loss programs that want me to check them out, leave the name of the program in the comments field. I will answer to you pronto, with informations like the amount of monthly visitors, age, race and gender of visitors, and so on.

Until i found this article.

Now i can rest assured that my diet is throughly tested indeed, in every possible way.

You may think that exercising people are doing better. Well, hardly. Because all the same there is a general failure to identify to real cause of stomach fat. Most of the time people don’t realize that in order to remove stomach fat a little more than a healthy diet or workouts is necessary.

Unfortunally, there are strong factors working against your best efforts to lose weight and fat.

Most Common Factors Working Against Your Dieting Efforts

1. Inability to restrain or change eating habits.

2. The belief that losing weight is really hard to do.

3. Restaurant portions being bigger and less healthier.

4. Misinformation and contradictory advices about diets and their results.

5. Not having the time and conditions to be physically active.

6. Past failures who keep us from trusting that we can succeed.

7. Unrealistic expectations followed by deep disappointments.

By informing yourself you can overcome many of this factors and make an educated decision about your diet and the best method to remove belly fat. Approach this problem like a general going to have a decisive battle: get information about the enemy, choose the best tactic and perform a strong, constant attack until you win.

This whole site, and especially Your Stomach pages presents you with enough informations to make this goal achievable and help you make a difference. If nothing else, at least we hope to inspire and convince you that losing weight and stomach fat is a goal worth pursuing, and not that hard as you may think.

Losing weight and exercising doesn’t always have to be hard work. You can have the time of your life and still lose some weight. Instead of boring hours of workouts or walking, or jogging, try this:

1.DANCE

But don’t just dance how you are used to, or simple movements moving from one foot to another. Pick some new funny, exciting dance and try to learn it. Go to Youtube, there are tons of new funny dancing videos, try a movie (i just love “Happy Feet”, but i never manage to keep up with them) or even a superstar videoclip (why not?) You will burn a lot of calories without noticing, have fun and feel so much better after that!

If you cannot dance alone than take dance classes or join a dance studio. Than practice at home what you’ve learned there. Watch “Shall we dance” movie for inspiration.

2. SWIM

Do you remember how after going to beach you feel so hungry and tired? Spending time in water is a great form of physical activity that put all your muscles to work. Swimming is the ideal activity for many who can no longer bear the high impact and joint stress of running or jogging. If you have a swimming club near to you or a pool, or even better, a beach, give it a try. You don’t have to be a professional swimmer or to force yourself too much. Play with a ball, play pool games, try different swimming styles at your own pace, or just spend time in water, at least one hour a week. Is fun, is pleasant and helps you burn some fat.

3. JUMPING ON A TRAMPOLINE

Just take care, it can be addictive!

You can easily burn out the fat without putting stress on joints. Bouncing on a trampoline in the sound of your favorite music can be so much fun, and relaxing in the same time.

4. HULA HOOP

It will help you lose weight, lose belly fast and sculpting the midsection of your body. The best to use are fitness hoops specially designed for this purpose. It is so funny and will make you feel sexier and happy.

5. CLIMBING

For the challenge loving type of person, indoor walls climbing is a very effective way to lose weight. In the same time it help develop strength, balance and coordination. You can join a local climbing center to learn the basics and practice.

Did you ever tried to lose weight but didn’t have enough support? Or the support provided was worthless?

Did you ever felt that everyone can do it except you? Would you like to know how to tell the difference between a hype weight loss program and a valuable one?

Then maybe is time to join NoStomachFat Club, our email list.

We promise not to waste your time with useless repetitive diet tips and counting calories methods that can be found anywhere. We also promise not to recommend you diet pills hypes or weight loss “miracles”, who are worthless anyway. We will definitely not overload your email box with sales letters.

Our aim is to provide you support, inspiration and motivation to help you lose weight, whatever weight loss program or diet you follow. Motivation quotes will be one of the frequent ingredient, as well as effective ways to lose weight, and lots of valuable information.

We probably won’t send too much emails, but when we do, we will make sure they really worth opening.

And of course we will always use your feedbacks and questions to assist you in the best way.

So,

If you feel like using a hand,

Join NoStomachFat Club
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Seriously I feel for the members. I have never had a weight problem but I know the pain of it especially when you are promised this “program”

I quit before the big shut down because I just couldnt lie anymore, couldnt sleep at night. I went form 60-70 grand to a $10.00 an hour job…but I slept at night.

The big Vegas meeting was like a PLAYBOY function. All these chicks dressed sooo unprofesionally and Vaughn loving all the short skirts and fake boobs…well look where you are now. You deserve it.

Whoever came up with this idea is genious! Now most of this “hard ass” upper mgmt is now UNEMPLOYED. This is because you have no talent. Good luck! This is your payback.

As for all the members, I personally apologize.”

from LA Weight Loss Complaints.

I AM AN EX-EMPOLOYEE OF LA WL AND THE COMPANY TO SAY THE LEAST
WAS UNETHICAL. THEY HIRED HOOCHIE MOMMAS TO SALE THEIR SERVICE AND PRODUCTS…I.E. WHO WANT TO SEE YOUR FAKE BOOBS WHILE YOU DISCUSS A DIET PLAN TO VUNERABLE CLIENT SINCERELY TRYING TO CHANGE THEIR EATING HABITS. THEY FORCED ME OUT BECAUSE I CARED ABOUT MY CLIENTS, I COULD NOT LIE TO THEM. THE SOY BARS WERE SO EXPENSIVE, AND MAY CLIENT PURCHASED IN LARGE QUANTITIES PROBABLY NEVER RECIEVING WHAT THEY ACTUALLY PURCHASED. I AM HAPPY THEY ARE CLOSING MANY STORES, IM SURE SOON THE ENTIRE OPERATION WILL BE SHUT DOWN!!!!!!!!

LA Weight Loss Complaints.

“I worked for your company for 2 years and quickly worked my way up to asst manager. I loved the clients and took pride in my position in helping people lose weight , However I soon learned that it was more of brainwashing people and hitting them up for thousands of dollars to join having them come back 3 days later and trying to pre sell them thousands more of your awful LA weight loss bars! Closing my center for the night I put my keys though the door and never went back. I sent emails to the “higher ups” in your business only to not be responded to. It breaks my heart to find out your centers were only a scam for people who truly want to change thier lives with weight loss.
In training we were taught to make them for so bad about themselves and it was good if we could get them to cry. Then sell sell sell products and programs to them SHAME ON YOU!!!”

LA Weight Loss Complaints.

“I myself was a center Manager at an LA Weightloss in Florida. After my first few weeks of employment
I was shocked. As someone that has struggled with my own weight, I was initially thrilled to be working in an environment where I would be helping others achieve their weight loss goals. I began to realize that the owners were less concerned about helping people than making a profit at almost ANY COST. After holding this position for only a couple of months, I was beginning to look for a new job when thankfully, my husband’s company required that we relocate cross-country. Aware that many of the LA Weightloss Centers were franchises, I was still naive enough to think that my experience at the Florida center had been negative because of the owners. I sought out employment at an LA Weightloss in our new city/state and felt reassured to find that this franchise was owned by an actual Physician (had to be credible, right?!). WRONG!! I ended up working for the new franchise for not even a month and a half and due to their inappropriate sales tactics and “they cry, they buy” motto, ended up walking out in the middle of a shift because I COULDN’T SLEEP AT NIGHT and refused to encourage my employees to take advantage of potential and current clients. I find it hard to believe that your upper management was any different. After working in the two different markets and hearing similar stories from other center managers, it was obvious to me that the core of the company was rotten. Even so, it’s wrong for you to take the stand that YOU alone are “hurt”. Alot of innocent people were basically exploited, and if you were in the business for the right reasons, you would be more sympathetic. I regret the day I ever worked for them and feel for anyone that was ever a client. In a nutshell, yes the basic program works. I myself lost 36 pounds on it. There was no need for the shady “tactics” used and they could have had an honest business and been very successful at it. Instead they turned it into a negative experience for so many people because of one word:
GREED.”

Well, i guess we can wholeheartedly say the four letters word: SCAM!

So much for big names weight loss miracles.

One of the most interesting lose weight story i’ve found so far. Get you thinking a little about lifestyle, diets and the food marketing methods in US.

“To lose weight move to France. Seriously.

I have lost about 10 kilos this past year while living in France.

The French are still pretty thin and there is fabulous rich food everywhere. There are just cultural norms surrounding food that cannot be broken.

There are boulangeries everywhere, bakeries, yet you rarely see people go into a bakery, and then walk on the streets eating their bagful of pastries. In fact one day I bought a pastry and thought I’d stroll and shop while eating. I felt everyone was looking at me and judging me for daring to eat while walking around.

While the regimen surrounding food can be irritating, it cannot be denied that it help “regulate” what you do in regards to food.

Great cheese is everywhere. The first time we went to a formal dinner in France it was for about 10 people. After dinner before dessert comes the cheese. 2 small rounds of cheese. I thought, this is going to be interesting, it is not enough. Yes they eat cheese but just a small amount to give the taste and that is it. This I have witnessed over and over, just a bit of cheese.

How many times I had been to dinners in the US when we were served excellent cheeses AND for 6 people there were like 8 different cheeses to choose from and people cut generous portions and had seconds and thirds.

It is a combination of portion size, exercise, and attitude toward food.

It’s not that France is a panacea, it is that I live here so I can talk accurately about it.

Go to a brasserie or cafe in the late afternoon, say 4:30. Often you couldn’t order food even if you wanted it. They serve 12-2 and after 6 for dinner. Of course there are exceptions but think of what impact that has when you grow up. There are times when you should eat and there are times when you shouldn’t. In the US you can get food, good or bad quality, any time you’d like it with relative ease.

I teach English at an engineering graduate school here in Toulouse. Yesterday I met a few students for a coffee in the afternoon, 3:30. I was getting hungry and I knew I wasn’t going to be home to eat dinner until 8PM or later. I wanted to buy a yogurt at the cafe. The students all asked me, is it common to eat at this time in the US? I said I don’t know but I am hungry, they looked unconvinced.

I asked them what they would do if they were hungry, they thought that was funny, who would be hungry at this hour, at 2 you just finished your biggest meal f the day, how could anyone be hungry at this hour. They often weren’t hungry until later at night.

I could go on and on but of course it would not be that interesting. Living here has made me acutely aware of the fact that I never thought there was a time and place for food, eating, and food ritual. Now that I have a food ritual I have lost weight.

That and the small elevators in apartment buildings. Our building says it holds 4 people but really 2 is the space limit. Then get this, it says 4 people 275 kilos, that’s 70 kilos a person, not entirely unreasonable but it is easy to get 4 people together in the US and all of then weigh more than 70 kilos.

portion control, move, habits”

Posted here by francetales

What is your conclusion on that?

The secret behind healthy weight loss is combining foods, and many successful healthy diet plans have been based on this principle. Your daily diet should combine protein with complex carbohydrates at each meal, as well as reduce the intake of sugar and bad fats and increase the intake of valuable nutrients, like fibre, vitamins and healthy fats. All this with the right amount of calories, proteins and carbs, while still resulting in tasty meals.

Difficult task, to say the least. No wonder so many people give up healthy diets sooner rather than later.

In the search for healthy recipes for weight loss you will discover that the real thing is hard to find, expensive and in best cases tasteless. So much easier to turn to the tens of thousands of products and food items that are not healthy, but easy to obtain.

And here comes into play the Diet Generator as an easy tool to generate as many healthy recipes for weight loss as you wish.

No more need of laborious calorie calculations, nutrition value spreadsheets and BMI calculators. The diet generator does all that automatically for you. More than that, it will generate a healthy diet menu based on your choice. With the foods you like most.

A good diet generator also take care of rotating foods to boost your metabolism and burn fat faster. It will manipulate and control your metabolism to lose weight continuously while never starving.

Bottom line, the Diet Generator, no matter which one you decide to use is one of the greatest tool ever invented and it inculcates the best diet practice. It makes your life so much easier.

As for the testimonials i found this one really touching; it would be funny if it wouldn’t be so sadly true:

“Thanks for not starving me. The last 4 diets I have been on have all told me to limit the amount of food that I eat, instead of telling me how to eat properly. Mail food programs have cost me a fortune and I am honestly glad I don’t have to eat another one of those disgusting protein bars again. Your diet is awesome and I have been losing weight (now up to 9lbs) consistently for the last 2 weeks.

Thanks for your support and for making weight loss possible. The STF program rocks!”