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When most people want to lose weight the first thing they
usually do is start a diet. And a diet to most people means
“stop eating”.

Wrong!

A healthy diet should consist of eating less of the foods that
contain calories from simple carbohydrates (sugar and processed
flour) and more whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables and
good sources of protein. This is the basis of a good low carb
diet plan.

As a matter of fact, a good diet should have you eating more
instead of less! Not more food, but more often.

The body’s a wonderful mechanism. It’s geared towards one
important goal. Survival. When your body feels threatened by the
lack of food it automatically assumes that you’re starving.

To combat this condition the body will start breaking down
muscle to use as energy and saves its fat stores for the last
ditch effort to save itself from what it thinks is immanent
death.

This is bad on two fronts.

First, by using muscle tissue for energy you’re losing precious
lean mass which is metabolically active. This means that you
need energy to support muscle which helps to keep your
metabolism running at a higher pace. Higher metabolism means
more calories burned even in a resting state.

Fat, on the other hand, doesn’t need any energy to support it.
It’s simply “dead” weight.

Secondly, the body will start storing more fat because it’s
preparing itself for the worst. Your survival is your body’s
most important concern so it’ll do whatever it can to stay alive.

So what can you do if you want to eat less without starving
yourself and sending your body into this defense mode?

Eat smaller meals more often throughout the day.

This works on two levels.

By eating more often you won’t get hungry as quickly and your
metabolism will stay raised because you’ll be digesting food
more often. Digesting food uses calories just like any other
physical activity.

So here’s the plan. Eat four or five meals a day. Not what most
would consider a meal (main course with two sides and dessert!),
but a small portion of protein along with some fresh fruits and
veggies.

This can be accomplished with a little planning and preparing in
your spare time.

Cook your weeks worth of meals - skinless chicken’s an excellent
source of protein and can usually be purchased in a big pack or
value pack from your local grocery store - and refrigerate it in
separate packages, one for each meal.

Egg whites are a very good source of protein too. By mixing
three or four whites with one yolk and tossing it into the
microwave for approximately 90 seconds, whipping it and tossing
it back in for another 60 seconds, you can have some nice fluffy
scrambled eggs practically anywhere. Without all the cholesterol!

Buy your produce and clean it, separating it too into meal size
portions. All this can be done in a few hours on the weekend.

Buying some disposable storage containers can help keep things
convenient and organized.

Try to eat every three hours or so to keep your metabolism and
energy up. This’ll help you stay away from those snacking binges
too.

Also, drink lots of water. Water will help to cleanse your body
and make you feel full.

So you see, with a little planning and by adhering to a low carb
diet plan sometimes eating more can be better!

Cellulite is a normal human condition that is perceived by those who have it (or see it in others) as something ugly and almost a sickness.

All women want to get rid of cellulite but the causes and cures confuse many people

Here we will describe what cellulite is and how to get rid of it.

Cellulite

Not being a medical term at all, “cellulite” as a term or expression first appeared in print in the 1970s, and refers to a rippled appearance of the skin that some people have on their hips, thighs, and buttocks.

This condition is more common in women than in men because of anatomical differences in fat, connective and especially muscle tissue distribution in men and women’s skin.

Female hormones also play a role in the formation of cellulite, but conversely, cellulite is not treatable by hormone therapy.

As many women have discovered, cellulite can appear at any time, seemingly out of nowhere and it normally gets worse with age.

The strands of connective tissue thicken with age, and our skin becomes thinner. Therefore, cellulite becomes more visible.

Actually, as fat is naturally very soft, it can’t keep the skin tight as muscle does.

Fat is shapeless, and takes up a great deal more space than muscle does, and so gives the orange peel or rippling effect we know as cellulite.

Cellulite how to get rid of it

There are two basic misconceptions, and those on getting rid of cellulite and they are:

A low fat diet and getting rid of cellulite

A low-fat diet and reduce cellulite, or vitamins (food supplement therapy) can cause a reaction to reduce the cellulite build up.

The low-fat diet is always a good idea, and healthy eating cannot be underestimated. However it is medically proven that, a low fat diet will not shrink the fat deposits and get rid of cellulite

Food supplements and getting rid of cellulite
The food supplements sold to reduce cellulite have never been clinically proven. Many products are sold which improve the circulation, thus hopefully reducing the cellulite deposits.

Sadly, this easy cure does not work either.

The vast number of creams, surgery and other methods now available for the treatment of cellulite only confuse people further all the hype on getting rid of cellulite sounds great and feeds on our desire for easy miracle cures that are a product of our society.

The answer to getting rid of cellulite

Is simply exercise which if you think about is obvious from the description of cellulite and what it is we gave earlier.

You need to tone up to get rid of cellulite it’s as simple as that.

A specialized trainer can show you how to exercise and condition each section of your lower body.

If done on a regular basis, combined with a healthy diet, the desired results will slowly appear.

The space once occupied by the fat deposits are now taken up by muscle, and regular and well-supervised exercise can increase naturally our HGH (human growth hormone) and other bodily enzymes which can thicken the skin, increase muscle and reduce the fat accumulation and get rid of cellulite.

This is the key, and it cannot be replaced by synthetic methods.

With exercise the body itself will eliminate the cellulite, and you can get rid of cellulite and get the look you desire.

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