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Leg Day lower body fix
Down 25 pounds since July 31st. Bikini Competition diet. Getting ready for my 6 week progress pics in 10 day
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21 Day Fix
July 31st 33% to August 21st 27% on the 21 day fix meal plan. 21 pounds in 21 days. Newspaper full body bikini pictures to follow.
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June 7, 2012
Eat less by cutting food in half
Looking for ways to cut back on what you eat? Try cutting everything into smaller pieces–you may eat less.
A study found that slicing candies in half caused people to eat less of the snacks, ultimately consuming fewer calories. The research, published in the May issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Assn., put 54 college students through two scenarios: in one, 20 pieces of candy were served whole. In another, the 20 candies were cut in half. In both scenarios the test subjects busied themselves with a computer task that acted as a distraction, since snacking is often done while preoccupied. Don’t pretend you don’t do that.
Of all participants, 33 (almost all of them normal-weight women) ate some candy. During both tests people ate about the same number of pieces; in the test with smaller pieces people ate an average of 6.2 portions of candy, while in the test with larger pieces people age an average of 6.9 pieces.
Those who ate the larger pieces consumed about 60 calories more than those who ate the smaller pieces. No substantial differences were found in the groups regarding hunger, how much the test subjects liked the candies, and whether they ate candy on a regular basis.
Researchers also noted that the connection between the size of the food and how much people ate was not affected by variables such as age, food intake control, body mass index or how much time the participants spent exercising.
Future research, the authors wrote, should look at whether altering the size of food could cause men and women of all ages and BMI ranges to eat less.
Do you cut your food into smaller pieces to trick yourself into thinking you’re eating more? Do you have similar tips for cutting back on calories? Let us know.
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Source: LA Times Health
May 30, 2012
Jogging Fights Beer Belly Fat Better Than Weights
Weight training is touted as the cure for many ills. But if the goal is to lose belly fat, aerobic exercise is the only way to go, exercise scientists say.
We’re not talking about muffin tops, the annoying bit of pudge that rolls over a woman’s waistline and is featured in those strange Internet ads. Rather, this is gut fat lodged around internal organs, which could look like a beer belly from the outisde. It’s considered a risk factor for diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.
Surprisingly little research has been done comparing the health benefits of strength training with weights to aerobic exercise such as walking. But that’s just what researchers at Duke University did.
They compared changes in visceral fat – the fat that wraps around internal organs – in people who did strength training compared to a group who did aerobic exercise. They divided 198 overweight, sedentary adults into groups, with one group working out with weights three times a week for eight months. A second group jogged 12 miles a week.
The aerobic exercisers lost significant amounts of visceral fat, as well as fat around the liver. They also lost abdominal fat overall, and had improvements in liver enzymes and insulin resistance. By contrast, the people who were pumping iron lost a wee bit of subcutaneous fat, but their stats otherwise didn’t improve. The aerobic training burned 67 percent more calories than resistance training. The results were published in theAmerican Journal of Physiology.
“Resistance training is a very good way to increase lean muscle,” Cris Slentz, an exercise physiologist at Duke who led the study, told Shots. “And aerobic exercise isn’t.” But if the goal is to lose fat, then aerobic exercise is the ticket, he said.
There’s no easy way to know how much visceral fat a person has; the researchers had to put people in CT scans to measure it. But one good clue is a beer belly. And men tend to carry more visceral fat than women, Slentz says, while white people tend to have more visceral fat than African Americans. And older people tend to internalize fat, while younger people carry fat right beneath their dewy skin.
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Source: NPR