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Fewer calories: 10 ways to consume fewer calories

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

To consume fewer calories, you may know when to replace mayonnaise with mustard, or when to use milk instead of cream, but there are nevertheless many other ways to consume fewer calories ( at least 100 fewer calories) into your daily diet.

This is a features 10 ways to consume fewer calories:

1) Eat only half a crescent. And try to buy croissants made with whole grains, you will be filled faster and more healthily.

2) The orange juice is good, but eating an orange is even better.

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3) Eat bacon or turkey sausage rather than the traditional versions.

4) Request to remove the butter when you order pancakes or waffles.

5) Blot the fat of fried foods (leaving them on paper towels for example, the fat will be absorbed by the paper) and will reduce up to 30% of calories from food).

6) Eat the smaller muffin at the bakery (or better yet buy an English muffin).

7) Thicken the sauce with cream or evaporated skim milk instead of cream or butter.

8) Eat eggs poached instead of fried eggs.

9) Use of cheese without fat or reduced fat as soon as possible (and Emphasize strong cheeses because you’ll more easily satisfied because the flavor).

10) Sipping milkshakes yoghurt instead of milk shakes with ice cream.

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4 tips to get motivated to stay fit and healthy:

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

1) Prepare a selection of songs appropriate for your type of exercise
The music is very important when you’re exercising, so take care to prepare a list of songs that you really like and that are sufficiently dynamic or relaxing (depending on the pace and type of your exercise: treadmill or exercise Pilates, yoga or brisk walking, etc..) to accompany you during your workouts.

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2) Reward yourself after each short period of healthy life
Reward yourself with a gift after a week when you ate healthily and did regular exercise. It is important that the reward is not food. Make a manicure or cut your hair, buy flowers or clothes, everything but food.

3) Share your workouts with a friend
Find a (e) ami (e) to exercise along with you. Set the dates of exercise sessions with your friends once a week. If you’re exercising with another person, there will be much less likely that you miss one or more workouts

4) Prepare sporting a date training
Put your sports clothes and shoes in a bag and put it near the entrance to your home the night before a workout (whether it takes place outside). If you drive, do so to keep a bag fitted with shoes and clothing kept clean in the trunk of your car. You will be able to use the excuse “Damn, I forgot my equipment for exercise.

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Cutting calories is the key to losing weight

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, led by the School of Public Health at Harvard and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana, has determined that the key to losing weight is to stick to the basic rule: down the calories.

According to Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, director of the National Heart, Lung and Hematologic, “The secret is that no matter if you focus on reducing fat or carbohydrate … the key is to limit consumption of calories and burn more calories exercise.

The researchers randomly assigned 811 overweight adults with four diets, each of which contained different levels of fat, protein and carbohydrates. All four contain healthy fats, were rich in whole grains, fruits and vegetables and low in cholesterol.

pesoUnos reduce calories to lose two thirds of participants were women. Each was encouraged to lose 750 calories a day with your diet, they exercised 90 minutes a day, keeping a food diary on the Internet and meet regularly with advisors in nutrition to monitor his progress.
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