Why Is It Important To Exercise Whilst Losing Weight?

Believe it or not Exercise is an important part in maintaining overall health and fitness for both you and your body and your mind.

Your Scale Weight can be manipulated through diet alone, for ideal results you want to be looking at achieving a healthy balance between:

• Muscle
• Fat

But this can only be attained through regular Exercise.

As I know and many qualified trainers will tell you, many people don't understand, however, is the importance of mixing:

• Cardio or Aerobic exercise
• Weight Lifting

Aerobic - means '' with oxygen '' so when you exercise aerobically there is adequate supply of oxygen available to create the energy needed for muscles to function.

Aerobic Exercise involves large muscle groups that can be exercised in a rhythmic and continuous manner.
For example:

• Walking
• Running (a lot of people hate this)
• Cycling
• Rowing
• Cross Country Skiing

A few benefits for Exercise

• Burns up Calories
• Speeds up the metabolism
• Release of Endorphines
• Using Muscles- Fibres become smaller
• Exercise can reduce your risk of Heart Attack and Stroke
• You are more likely to have joint pain or lower back pain if you don't do any exercise
• Exercise helps you feel happier

The last one on the list is always good.

Whats Stopping YOU? 

Get Started!

The average adult needs to do at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise a day, on five or more days a week to gain the health benefits.

Seems a lot!

But you don't need to spend hours at the gym or run marathons its not what were saying here. Were not even saying you have to do the full 30 minutes in one go, you could do:

• 2 x 15 minute bouts
• 3 x 10 minute bouts

just to reach the minimum of 30 minutes a day, this can also be as effective as lengthier sessions. If your just beginning then this could be more of a manageable starting point.

Sustain an exercise habit- the easiest way is to incorporate it into your daily routine.
Simple things like:

• Cycle or Walk to work instead of the bus / car this may not be possible so get off a stop early or park a street away (no excuses)
• Use stairs instead of the lift- again if your on the top floor of a 25 floor building or more jump off a few floors below (no excuses)
• Spend more time Gardening or Walking in the park

All these simple things can help increase your energy output.

I know sometimes it can be hard to motivate yourself to be more physically active and it can feel like a chore.

• Start by changing the way you think about regular exercise
• Remind yourself that it will make you feel better (it might not seem it at the time but gradually you'll notice it and others will to)
• It will probably improve the quality and length of your life
• Most importantly it can be FUN

If you join the Forever Living F.I.T Clean 9 and Forever F.I.T 1,2 you'll get all the help and support you need to learn these simple things and more on your quest for losing weight.

                                             

How Important Is Water When Losing Weight?

A short post to give you an insight of how important water is whilst on your quest to losing weight.

An average of 70% of our body is comprised of water. So Water plays a vital role in everything from regulating out body temperature to protecting our organs and tissues.
It also:

• transports oxygen to your cells
• removes waste
• protects your joints and organs

Water also is an integral part in any endeavor to lose weight. In addition to making you feel fuller, water helps you to flush out excess waste and prevent bloating.

Ways you lose Water:

• urination
• respiration
• sweating

If you are active, you lose more water than if you are sedentary. Diuretics such as:

•  Caffeine
•  Pills 
• Alcohol

result in the need to drink more water because they trick your body into thinking you have more water because these trick your body into thinking you have more water than we need.




Drinking at least Eight Glasses (240ml servings) of water each day will allow you to replenish the water you lose, but don't forget to drink an extra bottle after vigorous exercise and heavy perspiration. So an average of 2 litres a day.





5 Facts About Water

• By the time you feel thirsty you likely have already lost at least 1 litre of your total body water.

•  Feeling tired of lethargic, a dull, persistent headache, or if your eyes feel dry from your contact lenses are all classic signs of dehydration.

• Water helps with weight loss, naturally reducing your appetite.

• Water stops headaches and dizziness. Your headache could be a symptom of being dehydrated so drinking water should make it go away.

• Water clears your skin. If you have dry skin, drinking water will give it more moisture but that's not all. It also flushes toxins out of your body and anything else that shouldn't be there so it clears your skin of any dirt and bacteria.

So now you know the importance of drinking water when losing weight and naturally.
On the Forever Living F.I.T Clean 9 and Forever F.I.T 1 and 2 Programme you get taught all these useful tips to help maintain a healthier and better YOU. Speak to me about these great weight loss programmes I don't bite only help you succeed every step of the way.

Our Body Needs It!  

Why Do Most Diets Not Work ?

The word Diet to most people is  depressing as we think of it as giving up foods that are comfortable and enjoyable to us. In order for you to Diet we need to change the way you view what a Diet actually is doing for you. Rather than seeing it as having to give up things we like we need to change our mindset to recognise we are doing something positive in order to change our shape, size, lifestyle and we are gaining in so many ways becoming healthy.
When you look at any diet you are not eating the way you would for the rest of your life, you eat the foods you may not like very much or just don't satisfy you.

Going from one diet to another or going on a diet losing weight then coming off and putting it back on, then going back on a diet (yo-yo dieting) can be stressful mentally and on the body's system to have large swings in body weight. This isn't mentioned by all these Fad diets out there all they want is their product sold and selling well. I know a lot of people taken various diets and lost weight, which I'm proud to hear that and can see there happy but a few months down the line I see them again and they have put it back on through no fault of their own. They just haven't been given the right knowledge to keep the weight off whilst enjoying their food.

People also forget about exercising, I'm not talking marathons here just regular exercise to get the heart pumping something like taking the stairs instead of the lift, going for a walk around the park or to the shops, park further away from the shop entrance so you have to walk further, just little things like that can help in your quest to lose weight with your diet.

When you begin a diet your body reacts to fewer calories by slowing down your metabolism, burning fewer calories each day just to maintain your body functions. So if you just think just dieting is gonna help you lose weight then your wrong, yes you will lose some weight but what happens is the body will lose muscle mass and store fat as a reserve. When you lose that muscle, your metabolism slows even further so you would have to eat even fewer calories a day to continue losing weight, so therefore YOU MUST make an effort to exercise.

Taking this in mind if you don't exercise and fall off the diet the weight will come back on even faster, as your body is burning fewer calories per day. Even worse the weight will come back on as fat rather than as the muscle you just lost.
A fact for you here, did you know that the average person only gets 30% of nutrients they need for their body even if they eat healthy. So imagine what these Fad diets provide !

With the Forever Living Health Products and Diet Program you get the works on the Forever F.I.T Program.:

• From the Aloe Vera Gel Drink alone your provided with all the vitamins and nutrients your body requires.
• An easy to follow step by step guide
• Full one on one support from a qualified Nutritionist
• Tasty shakes and meals to prepare
• No more Dieting 

Benefits Of Aloe Vera Gelly

Lets have a look at the benefits of using Aloe Vera Gelly. Its 100% stabilised Aloe Vera Gel lubricates sensitive tissue safely and effectively as if its squeezed from the leaf itself. It absorbs quickly and calms irritated skin and helps to reduce scar formation.

For years Aloe Vera was used extensively to soothe minor skin irritations, cuts and sores, to stings and burns. Many households across the world kept a live Aloe Vera plant for first aid use and still do breaking open a leaf and spreading the inner layer directly onto the skin.
Forever Living Aloe Vera Gelly is specially prepared for topical application to moisturise, soothe and condition. Its a thick, translucent gel containing humectants and moisturisers. Readily absorbed by the skin, it soothes without staining clothes.
Research dating back as far as the 1930's has continually suggested that regular application of Aloe Vera will not only help promote faster healing but also reduce the burning, itching sensation that comes with burnt skin.

Thousands of Forever Living Customers use Aloe Vera Gelly to soothe burns from mild sunburn to serious scolds and burns. With the holiday season about to get underway, what more could you ask for in your wash bag from a health product.
This health product is popular with:

•  Physiotherapists, who use it on skin to prepare the desired area prior to an ultrasonic treatment, or after electrolysis.
• Hairdressers use the Aloe Vera Gelly around the hairline before perming and colouring hair to protect the scalp.
• Suitable for people who are prone to eczema and psoriasis.

So the benefits of using this Natural Health Product are:

• It Soothes Burns 
• Can be used for Animals as well as Humans
• Improves healing as well as reducing inflammation and itching
• Cleaning up wounds and removing dead skin cells
• Great for pressure sores as it is anti-microbial and kills most of the pathogenic bacteria that colonise the skin
• Doesn't stain the clothes

So all in all a great all round health product that has multiple uses and can fit in your hand bag girls and boys.

My mental anguish by Steven Langdon

For those of you who regularly read my work over on E-Lites Vouchers you'll know I write mainly about the electronic cigarette industry, but that's not always the case.

See, I came across this opportunity and simply had to contribute a story. A story, that will help someone out there somewhere.

A long time ago, I suffered a bout of depression that would pretty much grip my life and shake it to its core foundation. I had nothing going for me, I had just lost a job and was desperately unhappy at the one that I had, and also had nothing much to look forward to in my personal life with the troubles I had going on at home. My girlfriend had decided she would take a gap year and travel the world, and left me to fend for us - hardly fair given I had to pay a mortgage in a pretty low end job; but she didn’t care much!

It was at this point that I turned to smoking cigarettes far more frequently than just the odd one outside the pub before a night out. I began to rely on them, more and more, and if I didn’t get a nicotine fix I'd begin to get increasingly restless. I realised that all the money that I should have been spending on real problems just as paying the bills etc., was being floundered in increasing quantities. 

It was around about this time that I came across electronic cigarettes; fascinating devices because they proclaimed to save me money at the same time as being healthier. I can tell you this, they worked. I saved lots of money, and cut out tobacco from my life for good (electronic cigarettes only have vapor with liquid nicotine, are legal indoors and contain no tobacco).

I had saved lots of money, was financially better off and healthier, and it was perhaps this fact that affected my mental health too. I had begun to feel positive again.

When my girlfriend came back from traveling, naturally she was skint. She came back and expected to walk back into my life and our house and it was something I wasn't ready for. I tried to make her understand, which she didn’t. we have not spoken since. I had tried to just give myself some space to think, but inadvertently ended up giving myself a new start in life. I had got myself into a position where this conflict, this tension, had boiled over but it ended up being just the trigger I needed. Post this, I have completely recovered my mental balance, and are beginning to enjoy my life once again.

There are many influential people I can think of and situations that have occurred that I can attribute this to but I would have to go back to the confrontation with my returning girlfriend, that was the trigger in me really getting myself together. Sometimes standing up for yourself, and revisiting past demons is what you need to do to overcome a sticky situation that you get yourself into mentally.

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What Are The Benefits Of Forever Freedom

What is Forever Freedom ?

Forever Freedom is a breakthrough formula, that has combined the most complete range of nutrients on the market to date. This range of nutrients is essential for your body to maintain healthy joint function and mobility so great for sportsman and those that suffer aches and pains in the joints.
Common wear and tear problems in which the joint cartilage is gradually worn away, leading to pain and stiffness which affects a massive seven million people in the UK alone.
Forever Freedom contains about 85% of Aloe Vera Gel with vital extras including Glucosamine, Chondroitin and MSM (Methyl Sulfonyl Methane). As I have said in previous posts Aloe Vera Gel has anti-inflammatory benefits so supplies those benefits in this drink, as well as of course, nutrients and trace elements.
The star additives in this health product have to be the Glucosamine and Chondroitin, which isn't adequately replaced in most people after the age of 40.

                                                  What is Glucosamine?

Glucosamine is sourced from crustacean shells but is hypoallergenic, so can be taken by people with a shellfish allergy, and chondroitin is obtained from chicken cartilage. This is an important supplement because it provides the body with more of the basic ingredients needed to build new cartilage and maintain healthy joints

The Health Product

With all the above in mind there is obviously a huge market for this product, which should really primarily be used as a preventative measure which will hopefully spare people the need for surgery in later life.
Certain groups of people are more likely to develop osteoarthritis:

• serious sportsmen and women
• people who have a family history of osteoarthritis
• obese and heavy manual workers

The feedback from this group drinking Forever Freedom suggests that its working and giving many a much better quality of life.
Glucosamine and Chondroitin can be bought in tablet form quite cheaply, but with all Forever Living products it's about the Quality and Effectiveness. The active ingredients are delivered quickly and in good amounts because of Aloe Vera's ability to improve absorption from the gut. So therefore Forever Living see demonstratable effects in just a few weeks compared to several months with lesser health products.