Friday, August 29, 2008

Spot Training Misconception for Brides

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One of the biggest misconception that many brides have is that a punishing daily routine of stomach crunches will help them reduce their midsection in time to fit perfectly into their fitted wedding dress. If a bride has a particular problem area, she will focus only on doing exercises designed to tackle her perceived problem area. However, research has shown that such "spot reduction" exercises are not very effective.

That is because when you exercise, you consume energy, which is measured in calories. When you consume enough calories to deplete the available energy, the body has to rely on stored energy largely available in the form of fat deposits in your adipose tissues.

But this process takes place non-selectively. You do not get to choose which fat deposits the body will use. That means you cannot "spot reduce" by working solely on your abdomen as you are simply increasing the muscle mass and strength of this section, rather than burning fat.

In reality, abdominal muscles are like any other muscle group in your body: they need to recover from any type of workout in order to make progress. An abs workout should not take you more than 12 minutes, three days a week. If you do not know what you are doing, you can actually be doing your body more harm than good. Take sit-ups for instance. Popular ab-reducing exercises can actually result in back and neck injuries if they are not done the right way.

So to have those well-toned abs, you have to work out the whole body, in addition to your abdominal exercises.

Watch Your Diet

So you want to fit into that beautiful fishtail or corset wedding dress. And you have been working out consistently, but have not been able to get rid of your flabby belly. Well, you should know that the real culprit may be your diet or your high-stress lifestyle.

What you eat is just as important as how you work out. Lifestyle habits count too because stress doesn't just mess with your head, it can also cause fatigue and therefore a loss of willpower to get up and moving. It can also cause binge eating.

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I know I have said somewhere on my blog that fat people bother me because the extra weight they carry, to me, signifies a lack of control over their lives. But contrary to what some people imagine, I am not at all against or discriminatory against fat people. In fact, a really good friend of mine from my schooling days has been obese all her life. But that has not stopped me from being a good friend to her! Even if I wished she was thinner (ie visibly more in charge of her life), it is the person she is inside that matters more to me.

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Amazing! I don't usually buy into all of these weight loss gimmicks - I believe in hard work and proper diet. But then again, I have been trying to lose my extra 5 pounds for ages by pounding away at the gym for 1 hour, three times a week, and not seeing any real difference. So my friend's recent photos of her slimmer self was the motivating factor.

I got myself into the program - and I recommend it! The site itself is cool - attractive colourful cartoons, and it explains things in an easy to understand manner reminiscent of the XX for Dummies book series. But there is nothing idiotic about the subject matter.

Actually, this program may be more beneficial to those of us trying to lose some weight rather than for the grossly overweight - the program targets 9 pounds in 11 days, and focuses on the food we eat rather than exercise. Those who have to lose a lot of weight should incorporate exercise routines as well, but that is not the focus here. Nevertheless, it does contain valuable information on food intake, which the grossly overweight could use. For the rest of us, sometimes it is changing what we eat rather than those extra hours at the gym that will help us lose that tough bit of extra pounds we need to.

Excerpt of the type of information proposed in the program:

"You are overweight for the most simple of reasons -- because you're eating the wrong foods, the wrong types of calories per meal, and you're also eating meals in the wrong patterns each day. Think closely about what we're about to tell you, since it's going to change the way you think about dieting. FOOD is more powerful than any prescription weight loss pills, because the FOOD that you eat can either make you THIN or FAT. You don't get fat because of a lack of exercising, that's a myth. You get fat because you don't eat the right foods at the right intervals each day. Also, the pattern that you choose to eat your meals each day is more powerful than any prescription weight loss pills. This is true because your body is like an "engine" and it only needs certain foods at certain intervals each day, and if you don't eat the right foods at the right times then it won't burn those calories -- and you'll wind up storing those calories as fat tissue. (Hint: You need to eat more than 3 times per day to lose weight, but we'll show you the details later).You have gotten overweight by eating the wrong foods, that much is a fact. And guess what? You can get SLIM by eating the RIGHT FOODS at the RIGHT INTERVALS each day. It's not really any more complicated than that, and the way to start losing weight has nothing to do with starving yourself or jogging ".

And I liked their list of Top Fat Burning Foods! Not bad at all :)

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