MODERN WEIGHT LOSS EXCERCISES

Will doing yoga help me lose weight?

Doing yoga regularly offers many benefits, including making you feel better about your body as you become stronger and more flexible, toning your muscles, reducing stress, and improving your mental and physical well-being. But will it help you lose weight?

Answer: Practicing any type of yoga will build strength, but some types may not raise your heart rate enough to make them the only form of exercise you need to include in your weight loss regime. It depends on the type of yoga you select and how frequently you practice it. In order to lose weight, you must eat healthily and burn calories by doing exercise that raises your heart rate on a regular basis. Some types of yoga, such as Iyengar, in which yoga poses are held for several minutes with a resting period between each pose, will build muscles and improve your posture, but will not give you the cardiovascular workout you need to lose weight.

If you plan to make yoga your primary form of exercise, you must do a vigorous 90-minute yoga class at least three times a week. Many people also choose to combine yoga with running, walking or other aerobic exercise in order to reach their weight loss goals.

What Kind of Yoga Will Help Me Lose Weight?

The type of yoga you need to do is called vinyasa or flow yoga. This style of yoga is based on the performance of a series of poses called sun salutations. Vinyasa includes many popular, athletic and sweat-drenched yoga styles. For weight loss purposes, try:

  Ashtanga: Ashtanga Yoga is a very vigorous style of practice with a few distinct advantages for those who want to lose weight. Ashtanga practitioners are among the most dedicated of yogis, and beginners are often encouraged to sign up for a series of classes, which will help with motivation. Another advantage is that once you learn the poses, Ashtanga Yoga is ideal for home practitioners.

  Power Yoga: Power Yoga is extremely popular, because it provides a very vigorous cardiovascular workout.

  Hot Yoga: Vinyasa yoga done in a hot room ups the ante by guaranteeing you’ll sweat buckets.
Keep in mind that if you are just starting to do yoga, are very overweight, or are quite out of shape, always choose a beginner-level class.

Yoga Workouts at Home

Keep yourself exercising by doing yoga at home on the days you can’t make a class. Follow along with a video or audio recording if you are new to yoga. When you are ready to plan your own workouts, use these yoga sequencing ideas to help you come up with yoga sessions of varying lengths that will fit your schedule.

 

11 Diet Tips for 2011: Weight Loss and Healthy Eating

Ok, take a deep breath. Weight loss and dieting is not the enigma the media makes it out to be. With all the fad diets and health crazes out there it seems like we are getting new information all the time about quick and easy weight loss. Unfortunately there is no magic bullet. The basic tenets of eating less and move more still apply. However a complete overhaul right away is a sure step to failure. We humans only have a finite amount of willpower, and if you're anything like me you have less than the average joe. So if this sounds like you than slowly implementing small changes is the best way for success in losing weight. Here are some tips that helped me to lose 40 pounds and will help you if you stick to them.

1. The first step is an awareness of what you eat. I know that when I was at my heaviest I couldn't for the life of me figure out how I got there. I never ate fast food, always ate my vegetables and loved salads. I didn't have a sweet tooth either. It was only when I actually took the time to write down what I ate in a week that I got to see where I was going wrong. This differs for everyone so journaling, even if for only one week, can be extremely useful.

2. Buy a food scale: food scales are fairly inexpensive and will teach you a lot about proper portions. If you are like me, you just don't have it in you to count calories all day long, but you don't need to. What you do need is an understanding about what a normal portion should look like. Think of it this way. If you are eating a healthy, well-balanced meal but it is twice the size of a normal portion you aren't going to lose weight.

3. Fiber fiber fiber! If you plan to eat something with high fat content eat something with high fiber content too. Fiber keeps you full longer and also prevents some of the fat from being absorbed. Examples of high fiber food are whole grains. You can switch from white bread, pasta, and rice to all whole grain versions and scarcely notice a difference. This is one of the best and easiest changes to make.

4. Don't keep a scale in your house. This suggestion may seem counterintuitive for someone who is watching their weight, but so many factors such as water weight, your clothes, and what you've eaten that day can

 affect the reading on the scale and send you into a backslide. I suggest finding a reliable scale at a drug or grocery store and weighing yourself once a week. It is enough to keep you motivated but prevent you from obsessing. And remember to weigh yourself at the same time every day (morning is best).

5. Give yourself a break: don't tell yourself that if you want to lose weight you can never indulge in a cupcake or piece of pizza again. Just pick a day that you can let lose a little each week. Complete deprivation never kept anyone motivated very long.

6. Don't just rely on the number on the scale. I took weekly pictures of myself as well as measurements. Sometimes you lose inches but not weight, sometimes you can't notice it on yourself but can in pictures. Trust me, seeing the progress is the key to maintaining your motivation.

7. Double up on the veg: Try eating a salad before dinner to help stave off the urge to devour everything on your plate and go back for seconds, Or take a double portion of broccoli or whatever vegetable you are having. Once you start to feel satisfied you won't care about having that second piece of chicken.

8. Keep an eye on the snacking - This doesn't mean never have a snack but it does mean don't sit in front of the TV with a bag of chips not even being aware of how much you are eating. If you must have chips, take the correct portion out and put it on a plate. Don't overeat just because you aren't paying attention, it's the quickest way to sabotaging your weight loss.

9. If you gain weight or have an off day don't give up! All of us slip up at times and our weight fluctuates at times. Don't tell yourself that this means you have failed. Use the setback as motivation to do better next week!

10. Use food substitutions: They are an excellent tool to make healthy food taste like the stuff that helped you pack on the pounds

11. Challenge yourself! Tell yourself that you are going to learn how to make healthy food taste good. Be creative. And if it sounds like a dull and bland recipe don't make it just because it's healthy. There are plenty of recipes that are healthy and delicious too. Once you discover how easy eating right can be you will never go back.

Please feel free to leave any questions or comments below. I'm always happy to help!

Here's to a new you this year!!!

How Many Calories Are There in A Banana?

There is perhaps no other piece of food that is more amazing than the simple banana. A banana contains about 100 calories, but that number is really going to depend upon a number of different factors. For one, bananas come in a varying number of sizes and although a typical banana is going to be around 7 inches, you may find those that are several inches larger. If you are trying to keep a very close track of the amount of calories that you are eating on a daily basis you can really only use the 100 calorie basis of general guideline. There are a number of different reasons why this is the case.

One of the things that is going to change the number of calories that are in the banana is the size of the banana itself. This would seem to be rather obvious but many people tend to overlook that simple fact. Another thing that you need to consider when trying to keep track of calories is the fact that fruit is not always going to be an exact figure. Depending upon the weather conditions and when the fruit was picked, there may be a varying degree of sugar that is in the fruit which can also affect the calorie count as well.

Perhaps more important than considering the calories that are in the banana is thinking about the fact that it is going to be very healthy for you to eat it regularly. As a matter of fact, many people start out every single day with several bananas, not only because it gives them the calories that they need to get started but because it also gives them the fiber that is necessary to keep them healthy. Keep this in mind the next time you pass the inexpensive banana asile at the grocery store.

Of course, bananas aren’t only meant to be eaten alone and as a matter of fact, they are some of the best things that you can possibly include in a smoothie. If you really want to be as healthy as possible, include a piece or two of raw, leafy green vegetables in your smoothie every day. It will make it a delicious and nutritious shake and if you include bananas, they will overpower any green taste that may be included.

If you’re going to eat bananas regularly, and I would suggest that you do then it is important for you to pick them up every few days and to buy them in varying degrees of ripeness. The ripe bananas on your countertop are going to help the other bananas to ripen properly and you will find that you have a never-ending supply when you keep them in this way.

12 Simple Weight Loss Tips for 2011

Forget the fad diet! Just follow these simple steps to a healthy new year!

For many people, a new year means the start of a new weight loss regime. The stressful holiday season is over, your pants are feeling a bit too tight and even the laziest couch potato you know has become a frequent member at the gym. Whether your resolution solution is a cleanse, no-carb diet or three-day-a-week workout commitment, many people fail in reaching their goal as the year progresses. So, what's the solution? iMag went to Wellness Expert, Dr. Ramani Durvasula, who gave us 12 no-fail tips for staying slim in the new year.

1. Lock it up. Have junk food in the house? If you can’t just throw it out, then lock it up. Put a sign on the cabinet that says: "Think before you do this". Creating a little extra hesitation can save you several hundred calories.

2. Don’t fall into the “one big meal” mentality. You want to “reward” yourself with a big leisurely dinner after a long day. However, eating regularly gives your body an even level of energy throughout the day and keeps you from binging. Your body needs fuel in the morning to get you through the day; it doesn’t need food to sleep.

3. Stop using food as a reward. When food becomes a “prize” we interact with it in a different way – we treat it as an entitlement and we often overindulge. Make a list of other rewarding things – read a chapter in a great book, walk around the block, call a friend, watch TV, exercise – but don’t make your reward something that makes your weight loss goal harder to achieve.

4. Give yourself a makeover today. The first step to weight loss is to celebrate yourself where you are at today. Embrace your body now. Wear beautiful things. Don’t wait until you reach some future weight loss goal. If you celebrate yourself just as you are, you are more likely to treat your body and mind with respect.

5. Leave the leftovers. Don’t take a lot of leftovers home. We get into a famine mentality with leftovers. Their shelf life is only about one to two days and most of us are socialized to not waste food, so then we feel compelled to eat them. Somehow, most people believe that leftovers don’t have calories, but they do. And since we often eat them standing over the sink – we consume more than we intend.

6. Slow down. Slow down when you eat. Stop and ask yourself after each slow bite, "Am I full?". I can almost guarantee you will eat half as much as usual.

7. Choose your booze wisely. Watch the alcohol – if you are trying to lose weight, it can doom you in more ways than one. Alcohol is sugar – and we often think drinks don’t have the same caloric bang as solid food. Think again, one of those fruity cocktails can easily put you back 300 calories in no time. In addition, the more you drink the less aware you become, and the more likely you are to lose track of eating.

8. Don’t diet. Cutting out food groups only sets you up for later failure, and leaves you unable to regulate them in the future. Create something sustainable for life.

9. Avoid flab by saying FLAB. Anytime you feel called to your “vulnerable” foods (ones you have trouble controlling) say the word FLAB to yourself – am I eating this because I am frustrated? lonely? angry? anxious? bored? If the answer is yes to any of these, eating a cupcake won’t make the feeling go away and it may even make it worse. Put the food down and find another more useful way to deal with the feeling.

10. Out of sight out of mouth. We often eat bad foods at work because they are easily accessible – the fast food place at the corner, bagels in the coffee room and chocolate in your drawer. Don’t keep these foods close at hand. Instead bring a bag of healthy snacks into the office – fruits, vegetables, bottles of water, whatever works for you. If you are hungry and there is an apple in the drawer, you are more likely to make a good choice, and get rid of that hungry feeling, because it is close at hand.

11. Don't wait until you're starving. Just like with thirst – once you are feeling very thirsty you are likely to be dehydrated. Hunger is an unreliable cue, it can be driven by other factors like emotion, and when we are hungry we are less likely to be able to regulate food intake (e.g. we eat faster). Eating regularly keeps those feelings of hunger at bay and keeps us from overeating.

12. I ate what?? Keep a food journal for a few weeks. Write down what you ate, the time you ate it, where you ate it and how you felt when you ate it. First of all – you will notice you eat more than you think, and secondly, you will identify trigger places, times, and emotions for when you overeat so it won't happen again.

Fitness Suggestions (Loosing Weight)

Keeping healthy and fit is the topic never fading away, especially when the material life is good enough.

So loosing weight becomes fashion nowadays. May be you have experienced many ways to loose your troublesome fat, but have you ever experience a special way of loosing weight? That is banana beauty. Banana is a good fruit. 

Because it is easy to eat; it can make you feel full without fat; it has low calorie and rich vitamins. Here are four ways of eating banana to help you more beautiful.

1. One cup of yoghurt plus one banana as your super

2. Banana salad

Cut banana into small pieces, mix up with salad, and refrigerate it for a while, and banana cuisine is done. You can also put other fruits inside.

3. Yoghurt banana ice cream

Different from the first one, you need to put more yoghurt into banana. Then, refrigerate it for three to four hours.

4. Banana oatmeal

First of all, you should cook the oats with enough water. Then put small pieces banana and milk into oatmeal and cook together for five to six minutes.

In fact, loosing weight is long time plan. Eating medicine and doing some operations are not safe and effective. Why should listen to the suggestions from expert about loosing weight.

1. Eat less food contain fat. It is studied that the cause of being fat is not how much you eat but what you eat.

2. Do not eat to much sweet. The importance is not to eat too much, especially the sweet food, and you need to do more exercises than the calorie you eat.

3. Fast food is killer. But a piece of beef or low calorie salad is eatable food.

4. The safe and healthy way to loose weight is to loose 0.5 to 1 kilogram one week. To achieve this goal is just to eat some vegetables and fruit, such as cucumbers.

Actually the security way to be healthy is eat less and do more sports. Determination and willpower will bring you a surprise at last.

10 Crazy Facts About Coca-Coca You Didn’t Know

The soda giant Coca-Cola has been a favorite drink for millions of people all over the world for the last 100+ years. Through out the years the company has tried everything under the sun to sell their products to whomever they could which has brought a lot of controversy on to them.What you are about to read you won’t find on any official Coca-Cola history site because the corporation would rather keep these facts buried and forgotten about.

In the past 100 years the company has been in trouble with racism, child labor, water depletion and much more. I was truly speechless after some of the facts I heard about and you might be to. So if you got an interest in Coca-Cola then this might be for you!

Inventor Of Coca Cola

As many people know, Coca-Cola was established in May 1886 by doctor/pharmacist John Pemerton as a nerve tonic. What you probably didn’t know was that Dr. Pemerton was considered a junkie who was addicted to morphine big time. John died only 2 and half years after establishing the soft drink and trademark.

Cocaine in Coca Cola

Now it’s no big surprise to most people that Coca-Cola’s main addictive ingredient was cocaine. About 60mg of the drug was used in each serving of Coke until 1903 when they company claimed to have removed the ingredient. Funny thing about it is Coca-Cola still uses and imports coca leaves which are pretty much the main ingredient in the production of cocaine. Also some officials for Coke claimed that the use of cocaine in the soft drink was always a rumor.

Slogan 1.

slogan 2.

Up till the early to late fifties Coca-Cola was believed to have healing properties and with that some pretty unique slogans started to appear on the products. Some you might have heard, others might be totally new to you.1886 “Coca-Cola Delicious, Refreshing, Exhilarating” No doubt it was exhilarating when they were using cocaine as an additive.

1900 “For Headache & Exhaustion, Drink Coca-Cola” Again I don’t know what cocaine would do for a headache but there’s no doubt the drug takes away exhaustion.

1905 “Coca-Cola Revives and Sustains”

Coca-Cola & the Nazi’s

Now as we all know Coca-Cola is an American made soda drink so when I was researching Nazi history for another article, I was totally surprised in what I found. In 1936, Coca-cola sponsored the Berlin Olympics also known as the “Nazi Olympics”. While Britain was at war with Germany the company continued to do business behind enemy lines and advertised beside the Nazi Regime. As America enter the Second World War, German Coca-Cola bottling plants could no longer get the sugar/syrup to make the drink so they invented another drink for the Nazi public called “Fanta”.

Coca-Cola and the Civil Rights Movement

Now again when I came across this fact it blew me away. A day before Martin Luther King was assassinated he held a speech asking the people to boycott Coca-Cola and stop buying their products because of the way the black workers were being treated. Supposedly white workers where getting paid a much higher wage for little work where as the African Americans where expected to do long hours and back breaking work for little pay and no chance of advancement within the ranks of the company.

Human Rights Violations and Murder in Colombia

1n the early 2000’s, Colombia Coca-Cola bottle workers that were with the union started receiving death threats to leave the union, and if they didn‘t comply then they would be killed. Shortly after the message workers started turning up dead.

In 2004, a New York City councilor took a fact finding delegation to Colombia. Once there the councilor found that the Coca-Cola workers were the victims of at least 179 major human rights violations and 9 murders.

Then in Jan 2007 a group known as the “Black Eagles” went on TV to tell the Colombian public if union workers and other didn’t stop basically complaining about Coca-Cola’s work ethics then they would be killed.

Coca-Cola was being blamed for not providing a safe work place and for not taking responsibility for their actions which caused or allowed murders on their properties. Some Colombia officials go on to say or imply Coca-Cola is in someway responsible for these murders of union workers or allowed them to happen which they totally deny.

Biggest Racial Discrimination Payout

In only seems fair after all the stories about racial discrimination that finally in 2000 after investigations into the allegations the federal government found Coca-Cola guilty of the charges and ordered them to pay the biggest racial discrimination payout in history. Coca-Cola had to pay various victims restitution which added up to nearly $200 million. If you ask me that’s nothing compared to what they should pay for the decades of abuse against their workers.Coca-Cola & Coca Leaves

Although Coca-Cola is suppose to contain no trace of cocaine like officials say, one of the main ingredients is the coca leave which is the main key to making cocaine. It’s a known fact that 8 tons of coca leaves are imported from South America each year by Coca-Cola and if any other regular citizen brought any of this into the states then chances are they would be arrested for drug trafficking.

Coca-Cola’s War on Water

I have read some wild stuff about this company but this one I just couldn‘t believe.Years back Coca-Cola launched what some people call a “War” against water called “Just say no to H2O”. What this basically consisted of was the Coca-Cola Company offered its various suppliers like restaurants and so on incentives to push their products on customers when they ordered the free tap water. People eventually found a link on the internet and started sharing it which soon caused the “War” to end.

Coca-Cola & Water Depletion in India

Finally, this one had to be the biggest surprise to me. It takes 2 liters of water to make just 1 liter of Coke. In 2004, farmers in India held protests because Coca-Cola bottling plants where basically bleeding the water wells dry. It got so bad that Coke had to start shipping in water to many off its plants in 3rd world countries.Over 290 billion liters of water are used every year by Coca-Cola around the globe and shows no signs of slowing down. As people in 3rd world countries continue to die because of a lack of clean water, Coca-Cola’s pockets just keep getting bigger and bigger at the expensive of innocent people.

Mysterious tree !

Murderer Who has Lived 10 Years in the Dugout (30 Photos)

Here he lived in a dugout fugitive committed the murder. He lived in the forest 10 years until it rotted logs. then he re-built shelter. All necessary he found at the dump, and the food extract on the hunt.