Are there diet pills that work?

The basic function of the most of the diet pills offered on the market is to support the action of the diets and of the physical exercises. Part of them includes ingredients , whose action is mainly directed on influencing of the functions of the insulin and thus suppression of appetite and stimulation of fat burning . Such are the mineral chrome and the hydroxycitric acid which is located in considerable amounts in extract of the fruits of the plant called Garcinia.

Another large category of the medicaments intended for support of weight loss include products, which strengthen the “thermogenesis” or calories burning . Such action has the caffeine. Substances which stimulate the calories burning can be found in the plants Ephedra, Guarana, Gotu kola, bitter orange.

Some diet pills rely on the action of the iodine, which is contained in extracts of algae. The iodine stimulates the function of the thyroid gland and results in metabolism. However, the continuous use of those types of pills for weight loss can provoke palpitation, arrhythmia.

Each year Americans spend more than 50 billions of dollars for products for weight loss and as per ‘Fat Exploding the Myths - by Lisa Colles’ approximately 6 billion dollars of those funds were spent for products which are not effective.

But because you - our readers are important to us, we have decided to carry out an extended research of the offered diet pills and medicaments for weight loss, as well as the influence of their basic ingredients on the human body, with the purpose to find the most effective of them and to protect you from products non – effective and dangerous for health, which are offered at the moment on the market.

› Proactol™ Fat Binder
The results from the research showed that Proactol™ is the most effective diet pill, which is presently offered on the market.

Proactol™ is clinically proven, patented fibre complex that is a 100% natural and organic fat binder made from dehydrated leaves of the nutritious cactus Opuntia Ficus - Indica. Its natural fibre complex consists of two fibres a non-soluble fiber and a soluble fibre that both work in different ways to help you manage your weight and improve your overall health.

It has no known side effects and is the first diet pill which is approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) as a Medical Device Product for the treatment of obesity and weight loss (MDD 93/42/EEC).

The efficiency of Proactol™ has been proven and from four independent clinical studies, as the results from them are uniform and show that Proactol™ can help you to:

√ Reduce your dietary fat intake by up to 28%
√ Reduce your calorie intake
√ Reduce your excess bodyweight
√ Reduce your food cravings
√ Reduce your blood cholesterol

The basic reason for the efficiency of Proactol™ is the active substance contained in it NEOPUNTIA, which represents 100 % natural lipophilic fibre, extracted from Opuntia Ficus - Indica cactus. The action of the active substance NEOPUNTIA on the human body is subject of many clinical researches, which show that it has a very good lipophilic capacity. This means that when lipids enter into contact with Neopuntia in the human stomach, part of the fat is bounded and cannot be absorbed in small intestine, therefore it is eliminated naturally through the gastric system.

After our extended research of a large number of the diet pills and the influence of their basic ingredients, we consider that Proactol™ is the most effective and healthy product for weight loss , which is offered presently on the market, and through it you can achieve the body desired by you. Read more about Proactol™…

› Xenical (Orlistat)
Xenical acts in the stomach and in the small intestines, by blocking the action of the enzyme called lipase, which decomposes the fats from the food and decreases their absorption with about 30 %. Its unfavourable effect is that along with the fats, it can also decrease the absorption of fat soluble vitamins (A, E, D, K and the carotinins), contained in food. That is why upon long – term use of Xenical has to be taken between meals additionally at least Vitamin А and Е, best in special water – soluble forms.

If along with taking of the medicament the contents of the fats in food is not decreased, as a result of the large unused amount there may occur forming of gases and diarrhoea.

Xenical is applied only by doctor’s prescription, so that you will have to consult with your doctor if you are interested in taking of this product. Read more about Xenical…

› Hoodia
Hoodia is probably the most well known diet pill ingredient. For the last few years Hoodia has been heavily marketed and therefore it has become very popular.

Hoodia is a cactus-like plant known as the prickly pear cactus. It grows in semi-deserts and can be found in South Africa, Botswana, Nambia and Angola.

Hoodia contains a chemical called P57 that targets the hypothalamus which is the part of the brain that tells you that you are hungry or full. Some studies have shown that Hoodia is 10,000 times more effective than glucose at telling hypothalamus that you are full.

The main concerns with Hoodia are that there is over 13 types of the substanc. However the only active ingredient for appetite suppressing found so far is P57 and this can only be found in one type of Hoodia called Hoodia Gordonii. It takes about five years for Hoodia Gordonii to mature so that it can be harvested and the P57 can be abstracted.

Hoodia has been in very high demand yet it is very hard to grow and harvest so there is very low supply. With a high demand and low supply it is very questionable whether all the products claiming to contain Hoodia actually do.

Mike Adams of Natural News, estimates that 80% of Hoodia products are contaminated or counterfeit. Therefore many Hoodia consumers will be wasting their hard earned money on counterfeit goods that contain nothing but bulk and filler. It is impossible to know if a Hoodia product contains pure Hoodia, and the active ingredient P57, unless it has been tested by an independent laboratory.

In conclusion we would advise that you should be very cautious if you purchase Hoodia based weight loss products because you could be wasting your money on product that does not contain what it needs to, to aid weight loss. Read more about Hoodia…

› Ephedra
Many harmful actions have been ascertained about Ephedra on health – increase of the blood pressure, serious cardiac problems and brain insult, due to which ever since 1990 FDA issued numerous warnings to consumers of medicaments for weight loss, that they have to be absolutely careful upon the consumption of products, which this substance contain.

Ephedra consists of amphetamines and similar compounds, which have a powerful stimulation effect on the whole nervous system and the heart, and rather act as adrenaline. This substance dilates bronchial muscles, increases blood pressure and is a cardiac stimulator . Ephedra has also dangerous side effects, which lead to increase in the heart beats, unconsciousness and getting into depression.

We think that the diet pills which contain the active ingredient called Ephedra have to be avoided, because of the serious and potentially life threatening side effects.
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› Phentermine
Phentermine is a prescription medication; however you can find it readily available online in many different forms and strengths. Phetermine is a stimulator, which affects your brain, increases the amount of adrenaline in your body, which results in suppression of your appetite.

Phetermine was used as an effective form of therapy on patients with overweight, who needed to lose weight. However, at this product there exist many side effects it may cause, due to which it can be only used for a very short period only in the initial cycle of your programme for weight loss, but not for a longer use.

We think, that people who wish to take Phetermine are recommended to consult with their doctor about the side effects it may cause, as its use can lead to sleeplessness, irritation, dry mouth and fast palpitation. Read more about Phentermine…

› Chitosan
The main ingredient of these diet pills is Chitosan, which is obtained from the shells of crustaceous species. It links some part of the fats in the food and in this way decreases their absorption. However, along with this it blocks the absorption of fat – soluble vitamins .

Most of the researches on the efficiency of Chitosan have been made on animals and they show that is has the skill to some extent to decompose fats. The problem is that we didn’t succeed to find any completed researches on human beings, which to prove its efficiency. During our research most of the experts on weight loss agreed that Chitosan is not effective in fighting overweight , although it is capable to decrease the levels of cholesterol.

In conclusion, we think that taking Chitosan will not lead to satisfactory results in you wish to lose weight although it can decrease the levels of cholesterol, there exist much more effective and cheap products with which you can achieve the same results.
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From the family of citrus fruits the grapefruit is the largest representative. It grows in bunches like the grapes. There are two basic species of grapefruit – with or without seeds. It divides into two sorts and according to its color: white and pink. Both the pink and the white grapefruit are equally sweet.

When you choose grapefruit, it is first and basic requirement – the heavier one grapefruit is, the juicier it is! Choose the fruits with smooth fine crust. Its color may vary, but this doesn’t have anything to do with the ripeness of the fruit. A good grapefruit is firm, but elastic upon pressure. Choose fruits heavy for their size. As three fourths of the grapefruit is water, the heaviness is a good sign for the contents of juice. Prefer fruits with smooth, fine crust. Preserve the grapefruit in room temperature up to a week, in refrigerator – up to 2 weeks.

The grapefruit has proven dietetic properties.
- We recommend you each day one grapefruit in the mornings before breakfast, it doesn’t i stomach unlike the lemon.

The grapefruit is rich in salts and minerals.
- It is recommended for weight loss, as it accelerates the „burning” of fats , accelerates digestion.

The high contents of pectin in the grapefruit decreases the level of the “bad” cholesterol in blood. So that, the more you eat of this fruit daily, the more you decrease the risk of being affected by cardiovascular diseases .

It is also proven that its consumption helps for elimination of functional disorders of the liver, it stimulates the brain function and the activity of the nerve cells. Mixed with pure olive oil it is applied as means for dissolving of kidney stones. It is also recommended for treatment of: arthritis, fever conditions, edemas of lower limbs, inflammation processes of the urinary – genital system.

7 Day Grapefruit Diet Plan.

With the help of this diet, as per the specialists, you can lose 3-4 kilos for a week, the diet being also calculated for the same period. The only requirement is to not eat after 7 p. m., but this is also basic requirement of the healthy nutrition.

1 day
Breakfast: grapefruit or grapefruit juice, 2 slices of ham each of 25 grams, coffee or tea without sugar.
Lunch: grapefruit, vegetables salad of 250 grams, seasoned with lemon juice, coffee or tea.
Dinner: boiled or grilled meat (150 grams of raw meat), green salad with lemon, tea with 1 teaspoon of honey.

2 day
Breakfast: grapefruit or grapefruit juice, 2 eggs (but not fried), tea, coffee without sugar.
Lunch: грейпфрут, 50 грама кашкавал (20-30% масленост) или извара.
Dinner: fish (stewed or roasted), a big green salad, a slice of brown bread.

3 day
Breakfast: grapefruit or grapefruit juice, 2 tablespoons of muesli with 1 tablespoon of raisins, 2-3 crushed walnuts and 4 tablespoons of yoghurt or milk.
Lunch: a grapefruit, a bowl of vegetable salad or bouillon with two rusks.
Dinner: half grapefruit, 200 grams of chicken meat, 2 roasted tomatoes.

4 day
Breakfast: a glass of tomato juice, boiled egg, tea with lemon.
Lunch: grapefruit, a big salad (carrots, cucumbers, peppers, celery, broccoli), seasoned with lemon and a slice of bread.
Dinner: stewed vegetables (cabbage, beetroot, carrots, celery, zucchini) not more than 400 grams, tea, a glass of grapefruit juice.

5 day
Breakfast: fruit salad (grapefruit, orange, apple), coffee or tea with lemon.
Lunch: roasted potatoes with salad of cabbage or lettuce.
Dinner: veal chop (200 grams), chicken meat (250 grams) or fish (250 grams), roasted tomato or tomato juice, 1 grapefruit.

6 and 7 day
You can choose a regime of the preceding five as per your wish.
Each day upon feeling of hunger between the main meals you can drink a glass of ajran, to eat 1 apple or an orange, or 1 teaspoon of honey, but not more than once daily. The tea has to be green or herb with lemon, and the coffee – fresh boiled or espresso. In the night you can eat only 1 grapefruit, but don’t drink any other liquids.

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Exercises also help burning calories and maintaining our muscles while we are on a diet. Exercises combined with healthy regime of nutrition give noticeable results in fighting overweight.

The most important factor for weight losing is the effective metabolism. It has been scientifically proven that namely exercises stimulate metabolism (in human body). Following strict diets without any physical activity leads only to damage of your body metabolism. This process undoubtedly reflects on the protective mechanism for self – preservation of your body – when it is deprived of food, the speed of metabolism slows down and the body tries to preserve its basic resources of energy, which are namely the accumulated fats you try to lose.

What is the best exercise for losing weight?

The most efficient approach is to combine weight training with an aerobic-type workouts and stretching:

1. Visit the local fitness hall 3 days a week , training from half an hour to one hour daily. The best variant is to hire a personal trainer, especially when you haven’t trained before. Make breaks of two consequent days, to allow your muscles recover.

2. Active movement at least 3 days a week – preferably to use those days in which you are not engaged in trainings in the fitness hall. Depending on your preferences, you can choose among the best trainings of aerobic type for slimming:

• Brisk walking - you can walk in a park or even in your favourite mall;
• Jogging or running;
• Cycling;
• Swimming;
• Aerobics;
• Tennis or badminton;

3. Stretching – it is good each morning to spend some time to stretch the muscles of your body. You have to make stretching before the training itself in a fitness hall, as well as before any other physical loading whatsoever. Through it, you will both warm up your muscles and will prevent yourselves from injuries and traumas. The best exercises can be found in:

• Yoga;
• Tai Chi;
• Pilates;

Try to follow a balanced healthy diet, which to be rich in nutritive substances and poor in carbohydrates, as well as to have good physical activity. The exercises retain metabolism at a stable level, even when you take less food.

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Food which can help for regulating of the cholesterol are: beans, oat, apples, carrots, olive oil, avocado, almonds, hazelnuts, garlic, onion, seafood, especially fat fish, fruit and vegetables rich in vitamin С and beta – carotene, gruels with high contents of soluble fibres, moderate amount of alcohol.

The best food for decreasing of the cholesterol are the leguminous, because they contain at least 6 components which influence it. If you suffer high cholesterol, it is good for you to eat half a cup of boiled beans at lunch and dinner. You can diversify with green beans, lentils, chick – peas, soya. The results come in three weeks.

Dr. Michael S. Davidson, associate professor on cardiology in the Medical center „Saint Luke” in Chicago, believes that eating a big bowl of boiled oatmeal or a bigger bowl of oat gruel are both sufficient to decrease the cholesterol. The substance that in fact acts in the oat is the beta – glucagon – soluble, sticky, humid substance which jells in the digestive tract and prevents the absorption and the production of cholesterol and in this way eliminates it from the blood flow.

Three cloves of garlic (boiled or fresh) daily also decrease the cholesterol, because the bioactive substances in the garlic suppress its synthesis in the liver. Another research in the „Bastir“ college – Seattle, states that the garlic oil of 3 cloves of garlic not only decreases cholesterol, but also increases the useful cholesterol.

You can heal your cholesterol with a cup of strawberries, with one whole apple or 1-2 carrots daily. Important in them are vitamin С and Е, carotenoids and other antioxidants, as well as ballast substances. The grapefruit is not to be underestimated, too – 2 and a half cup of grapefruit pieces with the help decreasing the cholesterol.

The grapes was also re – discovered by the scientists – dietologists – 2 tablespoons of grape-seeds as supplement to the diet with a few fats increase the useful cholesterol with 14 %. A glass of wine, beer also increase the good cholesterol.

From the shell species good effect on cholesterol have the oysters and the clams. Shrimps and cuttlefish don’t increase he cholesterol, but also don’t decrease it. Eating of fat fish like salmon, mackerel, sardine, tuna, which are full of omega-3 fat acids can increase the useful cholesterol even if it is within normal limits. Moreover, the triglycerides are suppressed.

The olive oil has the ability to decrease the harmful cholesterol and at the same time to slightly increase and maintain the level of the good cholesterol by improving the ratio of good/bad cholesterol, which is very important to the heart. Unlike it, the corn, saffron and sunflower oil decrease both the level of the good and the dangerous cholesterol.

The consumption of nuts – walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts is related to taking in of monounsaturated fats, and they decrease the cholesterol and impede the bad cholesterol to be oxidized. As per Dr. Gene Spiller the fat in almonds and the olive oil is chemically identical.

However, you don’t have to eat too much nuts, because you will start gaining weight . 100 g of nuts contain about 527 calories. The idea is to eat several nuts daily as substitute of other sources of fat and calories.

Eating of half an avocado daily decreases cholesterol very effectively, than a diet with less fats and this is due to the fact that the avocado contains highly concentrated fat of the type of the olive oil and the almond oil, which improves cholesterol.

You can drink coffee, but it is best if it has passed through the filter of the percolator. The filtered coffee doesn’t increase cholesterol. Even if the ordinary coffee increases the cholesterol, it increases both the useful and the harmful cholesterol at the same time equally, so that it doesn’t increase the danger of cardiac disease. Researches show that the caffeine doesn’t have to be blamed for increase of the cholesterol, and the danger comes from the decaffeinated coffee.

One has to eat also eggs, liver, caviar and some other seafood, which burst with cholesterol and increase 4 times the saturated fat acids and cholesterol in body, but although in small amounts they have to be consumed because of the danger of choline insufficiency (of vitamin B complex) – memory and concentration are disturbed. The choline turns into transmitter of signals between the brain cells – acetylcholine. Bad memory and the Alzheimer disease are related to low levels of choline.

It is good for you to decrease the consumption of animal meat, as the most dangerous fat which contributes to increase of cholesterol is present there.

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In order to achieve evident results in losing weight , one has to this at least 5 days weekly. Walk every day, as much as possible. Cover distances by walking. Better through the park and in small diagonal streets than in traffic jam.

• Try to walk minimum up to half an hour daily. Moreover, spend 2 times more per week for 45 minutes of walking, and in a definite day of the week, you have to dedicate 1 hour to this activity.

• You have to walk fast, as if you are late for an important appointment – try to cover one kilometer for approximately 10 – 12 minutes. And one more rule: walk with such a speed to be able to talk, but not to sing.

• Make the walks at a time convenient for you. Practice shows that it is more expedient this to be done each morning, when one has less fast – burning carbohydrate calories and for this reason fat reserves burn easier .

Before starting the walk:

• Fit yourselves out well. Choose comfortable shoes. Clothes have to be free and comfortable, by corresponding to the season conditions.

• Choose an itinerary. Try to choose a road without traffic. If this is impossible, choose a street with a wide sidewalk.

During the walking:

• Warm up. Walk for several minutes in slow motion, to allow muscles to warm up.

• Drink water. During running one loses much fluids. Always before walking drink a glass of water. It is also recommended for drinking during any long walk, that is why take along a bottle of water. Then you have to drink again at least one glass of water.

• Use a right technique. Walk upright, and strain the muscles of the stomach … slightly. Stand on your heels, and then with force push out the foot for the next step. For increasing of the speed, make faster, but not longer steps. Try to be with hands, bent in elbows or to move them from the waist to the breast.

• At the end of the walking give yourselves an opportunity to calm down. Gradually slow down the speed within 5 minutes. In this way you will calm the palpitation and will prevent the muscle pain.

Losing weight is not the only benefit of walking. It normalizes blood pressure, decreases the level of cholesterol, improves the production of insulin in organism, strengthens bones, reducing the risk of appearing of osteoporosis.

It is very important to also follow some regime of nutrition. More effective for losing weight is to take food more often, in small portions than to eat rarely and to overeat, as then you accumulate more fats and carbohydrates than your organism is able to burn during walking.

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We all have heard about the cholesterin which is basic factor for the cardiovascular diseases. Namely the breakfast helps to considerably prevent the contents of cholesterin in body. And not just 1 - 2 mouthfuls, but a valuable taking of food each morning. One of the most balanced whole – grain healthy breakfasts which contains the necessary carbohydrates and proteins and very few fats i Muesli.

What is the healthy breakfast Muesli?

The Muesli was invented in 1900 by the Swiss doctor Maximilian Bircher – Bener for a patient of the hospital he treated. The first Muesli was liquid, prepared with fresh fruit. The muesli is its modern variety with dried fruit, become popular in the western countries about 1960 as part of the increased interest in healthy vegetarian diets.

It mostly consists of crushed oat flakes. It can be supplemented with crushed wheeat grains, corn flakes, dried fruit, walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, peeled sunflower seeds etc. It is mostly poured with milk or fruit juice.

It contains carbohydrate complex with gradual curve of absorption. Crushed wheat corns contain carbohydrates with low to moderate glycemic index and non – digestable nutrition fibres and a small percent of second – rate (6-10%) protein. Fruit is rich in easily digestable sugars and vitamins. Milk in its turn brings in valuable proteins, the lactose carbohydrate, a few fats and calcium. In ready made muesli one often adds nuts with the purpose of increase of the protein contents of in the food with up to 12-15%.

What are the advantages of the healthy muesli breakfast?

Whole – grain food for breakfast has an exclusively favourable effect concerning weight. The obvious reason for this are the polysaccharides, whose continuous decomposition in the gastrointestinal tract provides a gradual but constant flow of glucose and fructose in blood, which provides the necessary energy for the metabolism.

Cereals are good source of vitamins of the group В – В1, РР, В6, folic acid, fat – soluble vitamins А, Е, D. The whole – grain assortments are good source of nutrition fibres, which increase the volume of the taken food, create feeling of satiety, regulate the motorics of the intestines and help to throw out final products of metabolism and toxic agents taken in the food.

One bowl of muesli daily is not only good for our figure, but scientists have proven that women, who consume greater amount of fibres which are found in root crops, cereals and dried fruit have twice lower risk of development of breast cancer. Fibres have low glycemic index, which doesn’t increase blood sugar. This, on the other hand decreases the risk of diabetes and overweight.

One more reason for you to start your day with whole – grain breakfast is that you would decrease the risk of cardiac insufficiency. This is the result of research conducted in USA for more than 19 years, as per which the risk of cardiac insufficiency at people who have their breakfast each morning with muesli is 29 % lower than that of people who have never consumed it.

Positive role has the contents of magnesium and potassium, which regulate the internal balance in the organism. Moreover, they influence the stabilization of the blood pressure.

Some of the nuts, especially hazelnuts which are found in the muesli, are rich in fat acids and have very useful influence on the nervous system.

In conclusion, we can say that the whole – grain breakfast is one of the most useful healthy breakfasts, as it both charges us with energy for the whole day and has a very favourable influence on our health.

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Why do I want to lose weight? The answer is the first and often most insurmountable obstacle along the road to the dream figure.

Try with this – make yourselves a list of all positive sides of losing weight:

√ you will have more energy;
√ you will improve your health condition;
√ you will wear clothes which you like;
√ you will be satisfied with your appearance…

Write everything that comes to your mind.
And now mark the obstacles and the trials you have to overcome:

√ you bear the feeling of hunger;
√ it is necessary to control yourselves with what you eat;
√ you need time for exercises… and everything that had stopped you in the previous attempts to lose weight.

Think more! Doesn’t overweight provide you a false calmness in your life?

Does it provide you excuse about the fact that you make things you are afraid of, like to find a better job or to try to make some of your dreams come true. Write everything coming to your mind, even seeming banal, forced or stupid to you.

Now see which of the two lists is longer. If the positive sides are more than the negative ones, you will certainly strengthen your wish and decisiveness to lose weight . This method, developed to help giving up the harmful habits (alcohol abuse, cigarettes etc), makes you concentrate on the uses and easily find solution to the problem.

You don’t have time for exercises.

Try to steal some. You can wake up 20 minutes earlier to take a walk for about 15 minutes before breakfast. Take another walk before lunch and you would have already added half an hour of physical activity to your daily life. The lunch break is also an ideal time for moving, even your working programme to be overloaded. It is not bad to shorten some of your daily duties, if they are too much. In this way you will have some place for exercises at the end of the day.

You buy candies to your children, and finally eat them yourselves.

Be honest before yourselves. For whom do you buy the candies? Will you be occasionally able to convince your children to eat in a healthy way together with you? This way you will replace the sweet temptations with fruit or other useful food. Another option is to buy sweets, which you don’t like. Or ask someone of your family to hide them from you. Whatever you do, it is important for you to repeat to yourselves that each problem has a solution.

Failed attempts discourage you.

Work on your self – confidence. Return your confidence in the final result. Even if you haven’t managed to get the desired figure, remember the means that helped you in the past, although temporarily. Let’s say you have lost 2-3 kg. How have you achieved this? With the help of some programme, did you decrease the taking of fats, did you take walks regularly with friends..? Include these proven methods in your present experience. Any small achievement can easily be turned into a strong motivator.

Set a clear goal!

Most people who wish to lose weight don’t set a clear goal for themselves. What do we mean by that? Before starting their diet they say to themselves "Yes, I wish to lose weight". And what happens later? They start losing weight , they lose one, two, three kilos and say to themselves "I cannot lose weight", after which they give up their diet and complexed by the fact that they cannot lose weight, they gain their initial weight for a very short time. Why does it happen like this? Because they themselves don’t know how many kilos exactly do they wish to lose, for the simple reason that they have never set a clear and concrete goal.

What should you do? Sit and write on a sheet of paper how many kilos exactly do you wish to lose and within what period of time. For example:

"I want to lose 5 kg. for one month!"

Hang this sheet in a prominent place in your house, so that every day to be able to see what is exactly your concrete goal. Put in all your will and ambition and you will succeed.

When you achieve your goal, make yourselves a prize – eat a box of ice – cream, meet friends or just do something that you are pleased of, so that to feel yourselves satisfied with the result already achieved by you.

If you wish to lose more weight, just set yourselves a new goal, and you will achieve it, because you are motivated and you know what exactly do you want and for how long would you achieve it.

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Following of strict unhealthy diets leads to stress to your body and increase of the risks of diseases. Finally removed kilos in this way are gained very quickly in your body, as once you have put your body under hunger, its self – defence systems is activated for self – preservation, which doesn’t allow you to burn the accumulated fats, and on the contrary – after you stop not eating you gain more and more kilos.

Many people put themselves under such unhealthy diets in their striving to lose weight maximum fast, not realizing the huge health risks under which they put their body through following of such nutrition regime. Namely because of this, here we will clarify you which food is healthy and which are not, and which of them have to be present in your health diet.

When you follow a healthy diet plan, you have to remember the following:

1. Eat various multi – coloured food.
Various food has various nutritive values and some of them are rich in antioxidants, while others are rich in Vitamin C. So, until you make a list with the food you are going to take during the week, try to include in your healthy nutrition regime a maximum number of multi – coloured food.

Under multi – coloured food, we mean the various sorts of fruit and vegetables. Strive to include in your menu maximum variety of them, as in this way you will provide large amount of the nutritive components which your body needs.

2. Take food of all food groups.
Nowadays, the basic problem of most diets is that they advise you to remove from your regime a whole definite group of food. This means that you deprive yourselves of important nutritive components for your body, and your regime of nutrition will not be healthy .

Basically fruit and vegetables have to be main part of your healthy diet, but your body still needs carbohydrates, which are contained in potatoes, meat and fish, for example. The key to healthy diet is to include in your menu a variety of different foods.

3. Take sources of proteins with each meal.

4. Restrict the coffee amount.
Instead, prepare some green tea or refreshing water with lemon.

5. Drink at least 10 – 12 glasses of water per day. If you do sports, you can add more liquids.

6. When you want to eat something quickly, or to prepare yourselves a light breakfast, do it from healthy food.
Wishing to lose weight doesn’t mean that you have to miss your breakfast. However, most people when wanting to eat something quickly, stretch to the biscuits or to other sweet products containing large amount of calories.

The fast and light breakfast will be useful to you only when it consists of healthy food. That is why replace sweets with some sort of fruit or a vegetable. In this way you will still accept the energy necessary to you to feel satiety until your next meal.

7. Learn to have fun and to eat healthy.
It is not necessary to suffer, because you are in a restaurant or on holidays. Order the salad with olive oil, instead of oil, fish to be grilled instead of fried etc. Impress your friends with the care of your health in each situation.

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The organism of any individual is different and unique, that is why if at some people a diet is effective, at other people it gives a little or no results. Don’t make the mistake to deprive yourself of any food whatsoever for a long period of time. Instead, eat several times a day healthy food and you will achieve the desired result, which will last for a long time.

Which are the best ways to lose weight naturally?

The good strategy for burning of the excess weight includes the drinking of not less than 2,5 liters of water or herb tea daily, and including of fruit, vegetables and food with low contents of proteins (fish, chicken, eggs, tender red meat, pulses and other vegetable proteins).

Have breakfast! Breakfast is a very important part of the healthy nutrition regime. One whole – grain breakfast is a very good start of your day.

Eat in small portions. The stomach needs 15-20 minutes to send to the brain a signal for satiety. Doctors advise to eat 4-6 times daily, but every 2-3 hours. You have to avoid intervals of 5-6 hours.

Eat healthy food – cereals, leguminous, vegetables, fruit and many others. This can help you not only improving the metabolism, but also charge yourselves with energy.

Prefer raw, boiled or toasted, but in no case fried! Don’t forget that boiling and roasting decrease the number of the calories in a product, and fried stuff increases it. Moreover, it is harmful for the stomach.

Use more rice as garnish , than potatoes.

Forget about hot , sour, strong spices and tinned food.

Don’t drink alcohol , eventually only white wine in small amounts.

Decrease the consumption of food rich in carbohydrates , like bread, pasta (spaghetti, macaroni, pizza) and of food rich in fats like butter, cream, yellow cheese and white cheese, fat meat, biscuits and chocolate.

Fix 1 day of the week to be unloading , in which to take only mineral water, seasoned with one teaspoon of honey. Don’t forget that water is strongly diuretic.

Basic factor for weight loss , of course, is the physical activity. Without physical efforts and motion, no programme for weight loss and metabolism improvement would be effective enough. Physical exercises are very useful both for weight loss and good health. Most commonly found physical exercises used for weight loss are the so called "exercises with own weight" :

Abdominal presses: Each morning when awakening right yet in bed make abdominal presses. You yourselves know your own capabilities and you will fix by yourselves how many abdominal presses to make. Bear in mind that if you start making 30 abdominal presses, in one week their number has to be about 40-50.

Push – ups: Another very well – known exercise for weight loss. Don’t allow more than 2 days to pass during which you wouldn’t have made push – ups. They strain mainly chest muscles and triceps.

Running: If you have the will to run – covering many kilometers, be sure that you will burn fats on you body very quickly. Of course, in the beginning you don’t need to cover several miles – it is important to start and gradually increase the distance. Upon normal running, you burn about 100 calories per one mile.

Swimming: Undoubtedly, the opinion of all specialists about swimming is that it is one of the best occupations for weight loss. With swimming you relax along with losing weight, you develop, flex and form all muscles on your body in a wonderful way, at this without absolutely no contusions. Swimming with a normal high speed, you burn over 600 calories per hour.

Aerobics: For women wishing to lose weight this is a very good opportunity. You can subscribe for aerobics courses in each town. There, under the directions of an experienced instructor, you will do various very effective exercises, which will guarantee the achievement of your goal.

Here is an exemplary week programme which you can follow:

1. Do fitness exercises 2 times a week, for 1 hour.
2. Twice a week visit the swimming – pool for about 40-50 minutes (this is the time during which you have to swim without the breaks)
3. Three times a week do trainings with "exercises with own weigh", bear in mind that abdominal presses each morning are obligatory. In those 3 trainings include again this exercise, but don’t exclude it in the mornings.
4. Run once weekly.
5. Take one or two days on which to avoid any physical loading, in order to be able to give relax to your body!

Remember that you don’t need to lose weight fast, but healthily and forever.

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