Five Weight Loss Tidbits

1. Eat smaller meals more often.
You should try to eat every 2 to 3 hours and never go all day without eating. When you skip meals your body loses sensitivity to the fullness hormone called leptin. This in turn causes the energy burning compartments of your muscles to become damaged, your metabolism will slow down and you will have a tough time feeling satisfied when you do eat. So, eating every 2 to 3 hours will boost your body's response to leptin which keeps the metabolism high and provides a better sense of fullness and hunger.

2. Chew Your Food 20 Times
Studies have shown that if you give your brain time to register satiety by chewing your food 15 - 30 times before swallowing you will eat fewer calories. You will also digest your food much more efficiently since digestion starts in the mouth.

3. Eat Good Fats
Good fats such as monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats are contained in nuts, seeds, fish, seed oils and avocados. They are excellent to snack on in moderation. These fats will make you feel satisfied, are good for the heart and produce a protein called adiponectin. This protein signals the body to burn fat stores for fuel and helps prevent the conversion of sugar into fat. I usually eat a handful of raw almonds and it helps with my hunger and I can take them with me when I am on the go.

4. Avoid Artificial Sweeteners and opt for Agave or Stevia
Artificial sweeteners are really not good for you and are full of chemicals that are foreign to the body. I have read some startling articles lately about some of these sweeteners that have caused me to eliminate any foods that contain them from my diet. Sugar free gum and diet pop were tough to give up but I feel better because of it. Some of the chemicals within these sweeteners can trap fat within your body. I suggest sweetening cereal, coffee and etc with agave or stevia because they are very low in calories (in small amounts), do not raise insulin levels and best of all are all natural.

5. Drink Peppermint Tea
Drinking peppermint tea will help stop you from caving into cravings. The peppermint leaf compound menthofuran helps to signal fullness within the brain.

Please contact me at: meg_mccurdy@hotmail.com if have any questions or would like to take the next step in your health and fitness goals. Remember you are so worth it and of tremendous value to this world! Team Brown Approved Training can help you. We offer customized fitness and nutrition plans based on YOU!

Using the Law of Attraction To Lose Weight

Happy Monday Everyone!

I came across this article yesterday as I was reading the August edition of Healthy Wealthy n Wise magazine. It is about how the Law of Attraction can help you lose weight. It is interesting how the Law of Attraction can also hinder your weight loss efforts based on the mental image you have of yourself! Have a read and definitely let me know what you think. I really did find this profound and I am sure many of you can relate to some of the things that are mentioned in this article!!


How to Lose Weight Using The Law of Attraction

Apricots - The Perfect Package Deal

Apricots are a great fruit and have a lot of health benefits. One apricot has about 17 calories but it packs a ton of goodness in those 17 calories.

Promotes a Flat Tummy
At least half of the fiber contained in an apricot is soluble fiber. Soluble fiber can help flatten your tummy because it helps to keep you regular by effectively moving food through the GI tract. It also forms a slow digesting gel in the stomach that suppresses hunger for hours. It is a natural appetite suppressant.

Gives You Silky Soft Skin
Apricots are an effective antioxidant for the skin. They contain rich stores of lycopene which when consumed migrates to the skin and can remain there for a couple of days. This amazing antioxidant neutralizes the skin-roughening singlet oxygen that is produced during exposure to the sun's ultra violet rays. The results of this neutralization is soft silky skin!

Makes You Smarter
Apricots are high in zinc. Zinc plays a vital role in the synthesis of neurotransmitters such as dopamine. This in turn helps improve signaling into the brain's memory center (hippocampus).

Energy
Eating apricots regularly can help increase energy. This could be from the malic acid found in apricots. Malic acid aids the body's production of adenosine triphoshate (ATP) which is an energy dispensing molecule. Also, the potassium in apricots thins the blood which then optimizes the delivery of oxygen throughout the body.

Boost Your Metabolism With These Easy Tips

1. Watch what you eat. Avoid the bad kinds of fats like saturated and trans fat. Foods that are loaded with these kinds include fried chicken, pizza, and ice cream. Basically just try to avoid any junk food as hard as this may be. You will notice a great improvement not only on the scale but how you feel. You will feel great after a while of eating healthy portions.

2. Drink water. Water is one of nature's greatest miracles. Drinking water will help flush out your body of toxins and boost your metabolism. This is great if you want to lose fat. For every cup you drink you will burn off eight calories of pure fat. So drink up.

3. Start a workout routine. By exercising more you will boost your metabolism to the max. Not only does physical activity burn calories but it also boosts your metabolism so you will keep burning fat for hours after a hard work out. There is no better way to approach fat loss than by lifting weights. Performing more weight training in your routine will boost your metabolism for a greater amount of time than cardio. Not to mention it burns more fat and replaces it with muscle.

4. Eat more. To really maximize your gains you need to eat more frequently and avoid starving yourself at all costs. Try eating about five meals a day rather than three meals a day. This will assure you feel full all day. When you get hungry your body starts using muscle tissue as energy and stores more fat. It also slows down your metabolism. Try to eat every three hours so you maintain a high metabolism.

Follow the tips above for maximum fat loss and you will see results soon enough.

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