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You can lose weight by simply being more active. That’s right, forget exercise or diet, you can lose weight by simply being more active! Of course, diet and exercise are great and would greatly speed up your weight loss, but you can still lose some weight by simply changing the things you do in your free time from passive to active. So instead of watching TV you’d go to a museum, instead of watching “Danceing with the stars” you’d go to a club and dance yourself!

There are two reasons why this works. The first one is obvious – by increasing the amount of physical activity you do you will burn more calories. The more physically demanding something is, the more calories you’ll burn. Which is why dancing is a great way to have some fun and burn some calories!

The other reason for it works is because you will eat less if you are more active. I am not sure what the reason for this is, but it’s true. If you are doing something actively and enjoying it, you don’t feel hungry. Think back to when you were a kid, when you played basketball with friends, you didn’t feel hungry in the middle of the game did you? Chances are you didn’t even feel hungry after the game. On the other hand if you are doing something passive, like watching TV, then you just seem to gravitate towards the kitchen for a snack now and then. Even though you don’t really feel hungry, it just seems to happen!

So become more active and lose some weight! It’s quite simple too, just go for a walk a few times a week, take some dance or yoga classes, check out a locale museum or gallery etc etc. By making these simple changes you could lose a surprising amount of weight!

Weight training is great for weight loss, in fact it’s one of the best methods to lose those last few pesky pounds. It is also great for getting a toned body with lean muscles. Unfortunately many women don’t take advantage of this excellent training regime. Dare I say it many women are afraid to even touch weights! I guess it’s a combination of the media telling women that they need to look like a walking skeleton to be considered “beautiful” size 2 super modles being photoshoped to look even thinner. And last but not least the believe held by many women that by just touching weights they will immediately become as muscular as Schwarzenegger.

The last point is the one I wish to examine more closely. Although suffice to say that you don’t need to have a body of a runway model to be considered beautiful, if anything having some lean muscle mass will make you more beautiful. But back to the last point, why are so many women afraid that that will look like professional body builders if they do any exercise with weights? I don’t know. I mean you have a whole gym full of guys who want to “look big” and most of them don’t look big at all. Combine it with the fact that men have much higher testosterone levels than women, and I am truly at a loss as to where women get this notion.

None the less it is a concern to many women and one that keeps them away from using and reaping the benefits of weight training. So it’s probably a good idea to address it – Ladies, unless you are working out with weights 3 hours a day or more, 5 days a week you will never look too muscular. Even if you are working out 3 hours a day 5 days a week chances are you won’t get anywhere close to pro female body builders (What are steroids, Alex.)

So stop being concerned about becoming too muscular and give weight training a try. Of course, I mean real weight training not those pink 1 pound dumbbells. You want to do compound exercise with about 70-80% of your max. This will both give you a great work out that will burn a lot of calories and stimulate your body to build lean muscles.

Weight training is a great method, don’t be afraid to use it in your work outs and reap the benefits it provides!

Are you trying to lose weight and are appalled by how slow your weight loss is? can’t help but wonder: Why do I lose weight so slowly? Well, you aren’t the only one, in fact it’s a very common question to ask. After all, most people want to drop their weight fast and slow results are both annoying and discouraging. So much so that you might be tempted to stop just because you don’t see much progress.

Well, quitting isn’t an option if your goal is to lose weight and look great. However slow progress isn’t that good either. So let’s address why you may not be getting the sort of weight loss results you were hoping for. There are actually a number of possible reasons for this, depending on your situation and where you are in your journey to a less fat you.

If you are just beginning with a good diet and exercise then the reason for a slow loss of pounds is that your body needs some time to adapt. It could take a few days or even a week or two before your body decides that it needs to adapt to the changes you’ve made (ie. lower calorie intake with increased physical activity.) I like to think of it as trying to move a large stone that’s been sitting in a place for a long time. You push and push and it doesn’t even budge, but eventually it starts to move, slowly at first then faster and faster, eventually it reaches a point where you just have to give it an occasional shove to keep it rolling. it’s a similar situation when it comes to losing weight.

The other possible reason is that your body has adapted to your work out routine, and the exercise that used to burn fat really well aren’t nearly as effective now. This situation is likely for people that have been trying to drop pounds for a while. You can read more about what makes for an effective weight loss exercise here. If that’s the case then you need to change things up and improve the amount of calories you burn during work outs by either spending more time or doing something more effective.

The last likely reason for slow (or none existent) progress is something that is often experienced by people who are trying to lose the last few pounds or those who only have a few extra pounds to lose. Usually at this point your levels of fitness has improved to the point where most pure cardio work outs are nearly worthless as far as fat loss goes (unless you fancy a 3 hour long run) and so you had to switch to interval or weight training. The thing about it (especially weight training) is that unlike cardio work outs it will build muscle. And since muscles weight more than fat, you can run into a situation where the scale actually shows an increase in weight.

This isn’t really a problem – you lose fat and gain muscle. But if your only measure of progress is weight scale, then it can be rather annoying when you don’t understand what’s happening. The first email you get when you sign up for Weight Loss Boosters Newsletter will explain what other measurements to take in addition to weight to track your progress.

But an easy way to do it is to see how well your clothes fits, muscles are smaller than fat (with the same weight) so if the scale shows the same result but you lost 10 pounds of fat and gained 10 pounds of muscles, your clothes should fit differently.

There might be other reasons for a slow weight loss, but the above three are the most common and the most likely answers for a question “Why Do I Lose Weight So slowly?” So don’t get discouraged and stick with it, if you do the right things you will lose weight!

It may sound a bit surprising, but losing weight is very, very simple. It’s not however easy to do. And because it’s not easy many people will run around the simple weight loss methods and instead try to find a short cut that is both simple and easy. But people who want to get results without putting much if any effort into achieving them is a subject for another discussion. What I’d like to do in this post is discuss why weight loss is so simple.

It’s simple because it’s not the type of rocket science that weight loss companies seem to want you to think it is. Weight loss, or gain is a function of a human body. It works in a very straight forward, none complicated way – when you have excess amount of calories your body stores them as fat. When you have a lack of calories your body burns fat to get the extra calories (energy) you need. That’s all there is to it.

But no, people want to complicate it, bring in metabolism and what have you into the equation without addressing the underlying fundamentals. For you to drop pounds your body must burn fat, but for it to do so there must be a calorie shortage. No shortage – no reason to burn fat – no weight loss. As such you must create a calorie shortage to force your body to burn the extra pounds.

How do you do it? Simple your get less calories than you spend, in other words you eat less and exercise more. It is possible to do just one thing either diet or exercise, but the best results come when you do both, doing both will also have the most positive effect on your over all health. Trying to do create calorie shortage by working out more without a good diet is often a total waste of time – no matter how many calories you burn during a work out you can always eat even more.

And trying to diet without exercising sounds like a good idea, but it doesn’t actually work. What happens is when you switch to a new, low(er) calorie diet your body puts up a red flag and instead of burning the fat it starts to conserve as much energy as possible. By working out you can over come it and force your body to get the extra energy by burning fat, which is your goal.

This is of course where we run into the “not easy” part. Following a healthy diet means you have to stop eating your favorite junk food. And exercising means that instead of watching TV or playing video games or what ever, you have to go to a gym and exercise. And that can be very difficult, especially if you don’t have the right mind set for weight loss. However, this is the part you should focus your efforts on.

So instead of asking “How can I lose weight?” ask yourself “Am I willing to do the things required to lose weight” If the answer is yes then you will. If the answer is no, well, good luck in your search for that magic pill!