weight loss

17 May

Can you Lose Weight Too Quickly?

Before starting on a colon cleanse for weight loss, it’s important to make a bit of a plan for how you’re going to approach weight loss in general. Starting a colon cleanse while beginning marathon training and cutting your daily food intake to 800 calories a day will definitely assist you with losing weight, but you’ll also likely hurt yourself in the process as you didn’t go about things intelligently. Colon cleanses can be an excellent weight loss tool, but as part of a weight loss plan everything must be approached properly to ensure success.

Mmm...!!To your body, losing weight is just a question of mathematics. Your body really doesn’t care how many calories it gets as long as it gets the carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and related amino acids and vitamins necessary for health. Everything else will either get stored (causing you to gain weight) or expelled in your waste. If you consume too few calories your body will let you know by being hungry, fatigued and likely ill.

It’s been shown in hundreds of studies that a pound of body weight is equal to about 3500 calories. Whether you reduce your diet by 3500 calories in a certain timeframe or you exercise more frequently to burn the additional calories off – if you want permanently lose weight, you’ll need to ensure that you’re taking in fewer calories than you’re burning through your metabolism and exercise.

The best way to handle things would be to see a nutritionist or a physician before you start any dietary or exercise plan. A professional can help assess your current caloric intake versus your exercise and metabolism, and make recommendations of what steps you’ll need to take to help make the math work on your side.

One of the beneficial parts of exercising is that you don’t just burn calories when you’re performing the exercise. Your heart and metabolic rate will remain “up” for at least an additional few hours, sometimes even up to the next day depending on how hard you worked out. Your body needs to repair everything after your workout, and it will consume energy and calories to do so. Also, you’ve probably heard “muscle weighs more than fat” – muscle also burns more calories than fat. As you build out your muscle from exercising, your basal (or “resting”) metabolism will rise and you will burn more calories doing things like sitting around and sleeping.

Stop worrying about how fast you want to lose weight and worry more about committing to hitting your weight loss goals. You’ll feel a whole lot healthier for it!

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06 May

Why is it So Challenging to Lose Weight?

Scientific and psychological factors aside – losing weight is just plain tough. But the question is – why? Why is weight loss such a challenge? Well, in my experience of asking this question, I’ve managed to successfully get a whole ton of various answers from different people, depending on their upbringing, social background, education, and more. Here are a few answers that stuck out to me:

1) There’s no convincing reason to bother losing weight – hearing this from more than a few people managed to stun me pretty significantly. One would think that the health risks of being overweight and obese – diabetes, heart disease, and a whole host of other illnesses – combined with the general social stigma would be enough to just flat out convince people that being overweight or obese isn’t the way humans are supposed to live. It seems, however, that is not the case. Depending on the local and national culture, weight and physical appearance can be something that’s just not thought much about. Compare the drastic physical differences between the average American and the average Scandinavian, for example.

The lesson here: If the people around you are overweight, and you’re overweight, you’re probably going to be less inclined to bother losing your additional weight. If you want to lose weight, try hanging around with fit people!

2) Weight loss is just too tough – I hear this one time and time again… that going from overweight/obese to a healthy weight or even to physically fit is too much of a challenge for people to undertake. My perception on this topic, for the most part, is that many people who decide they want to lose weight don’t have a realistic plan of action for doing this. There are a lot of factors in weight loss and weight control, including diet/calorie intake, level of physical activity, nutritional supplementation, and overall health management, just to name a few. Planning this out can be an extraordinary task – part of the reason some of the colon cleanses you see on this site like Digest-It and Bowtrol are so popular is that they handle much of the supplementation and internal health stuff for you, so you can focus on other things. You need to form a weight loss plan to ensure that you’re able to stay on the path to success.

The lesson here: If you want to lose weight, seek the help of a trainer and/or a personal coach to help you plan SMART goals, and be sure to do the things that your body and mind require for you to stay motivated. Don’t deny yourself of rewards and celebrate your success!

3) I’m perfectly happy with the way I am – if this is the case, and you TRULY are and are not just telling yourself this because of fear, laziness or another reason, then all the power to you. You have every right to enjoy life the way you want to.

The lesson here: Just remember that in the future, you might have to cover some additional health costs due to your lifestyle choice, and your ability to enjoy things like travel and other stuff later in life may be compromised.

What do you think? What are some of the factors you’ve seen or heard about why it’s so challenging to lose weight?

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02 Mar

Tips for Exercising While on a Colon Cleanse

It’s important to ensure that while you are doing a colon cleanse you are exercising regularly to achieve maximum weight loss. This doesn’t mean that you need to be pumping iron at the gym or running marathons, but you should definitely be adding some regular exercise in to your daily routine to help the process along. Here are a couple of easy tips to milk some exercise from your day.

Tips for Exercising While on a Colon CleanseTip 1 – Walk or take transit to work: This one is the easiest. If you’re within an hour’s walk to your workplace, then skip bringing the car at least a couple days per week. If you’re not that close or you need to ensure that you can minimize your time spent walking… you can always take transit. Believe it or not, even the walk to the bus stop and back on both ends of your trip will add up. If it’s a mile in total from your house to the bus stop and from the bus stop on the other end to your workplace, you’ll add 20 miles a month of walking in to your routine. Very easy!

Tip 2 – Park at the far end of the parking lot: When you head shopping, to the mall, or anywhere that you’re facing a huge parking lot – just park at the far end. Unless you’re planning on purchasing something enormous like a television, you’ll be able to handle the walk there and back with ease. If you’re buying groceries for the family, you can always push the shopping cart through the parking lot to your car. Believe me – it’s amazing how much additional walking you can get out of this simple tip.

Tip 3 – Go for a walk after every meal: If you want to ensure that you’re burning off calories that are coming in, go for a brisk 20-30 minute walk after each meal. This will boost your metabolism, causing you to digest your food a bit faster so that your body can claim the energy needed, and the quicker metabolism will use additional calories to get the job done.

Tip 4 – Take the stairs: Here’s how this works. Any time you see an elevator, find the stairs and use them instead. If you see an escalator – be sure to walk on it instead of standing. Taking the stairs *down* generally doesn’t give much of a benefit so feel free to use the elevator while going down to save time. But taking the stairs up is a challenging exercise that will definitely maximize your calorie burn!

There you go – a few easy tips that will help you maximize the amount of weight loss you experience while colon cleansing. Good luck and keep at it!!

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Colon Cleansing Information, Colon Cleansing Tips, Exercising

09 Jan

Pure Acai Berry and Colon Cleansing – Two Stage Weight Loss Method

pccSo… we’re one week in to 2009 – how are you doing with your weight loss New Year’s Resolutions so far? Hopefully you’ve started to see some results from your first week – everyone is usually pretty motivated in the first week. But the question is: how can you keep the weight loss regime going when you start to tire of

If you’re looking for an easy, two-step weight loss method that you can accomplish without changing your diet or worrying about a new gym membership, then this post is all you will need. For our regular readers, this will be a simple addition to the regular colon cleansing programs that you’re on, such as Colon xR or Total Cleanse. What we’re going to look at today is adding the miracle food Acai to our colon cleanse routine – and introduce a new product on the market called Power Colon Cleanse.

Acai is a berry fruit which comes from the Acai Palm tree, a tree native to South America and found largely in Columbia, Brazil and Peru. Acai berries are similar in size and shape to a large blueberry, and are a deep purple in color. Acai berries contain a single, large seed which makes up about 75% of the volume of the berry. Acai has recently received global attention as a dietary supplement for its anti-aging and weight loss benefits. Acai contains a number of antioxidant phytochemicals such as allicin and genistein which play a vital role in preventing cancer and the degeneration of the body’s cells. Acai is also a great source of nutrients such as Omega-3 fatty acids, fiber, calcium and other vitamins and minerals.

Eating Acai will also help with your weight loss. On top of Acai’s host of other benefits, Acai is also loaded with proteins and beneficial dietary fats, and lower in carbohydrates than other typical berries such as blueberries and strawberries. Acai may even be able to help you get motivated to start and maintain your weight loss program. Studies have suggested that the high levels of antioxidants and amino acids in Acai can have a significant impact on improving one’s mood. Taking Acai daily may help you feel better about your weight loss program and the progress you’re making towards your goals, which will encourage you to continue forward!

So STEP 1 is to get on a FREE trial for Acai Burn supplements and to start taking it regularly. USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Australia readers can click this link to begin their FREE Acai Burn trial!

Step 2 is to get yourself on a Colon Cleansing regime – we recommend the Power Colon Cleanse. USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Australia readers can click this link to begin their FREE Power Colon Cleanse trial offer!

There you have it – a two step process for weight loss that will have you continually shedding pounds as we head through 2009. Good luck!

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30 Dec

How a Colon Cleanse can Improve your Weight Loss

Are you on a diet, or trying to lose weight? Losing weight and maintaining that weight loss is one of the greatest challenges any individual can undertake. Along with proper diet and exercise, a colon cleanse will help you achieve your weight loss goals and provide you with a cleaner, healthier body.

The colon is the last piece of the digestive system that waste passes through on its way out of the body. The colon works to recover electrolytes, salt, and water from waste before it is passed. Beneficial bacteria in the colon, known as “gut flora,” break down fiber in the waste for nourishment and create enzymes which are used in turn by the cells in the lining of the colon for nourishment.

If you’re currently eating a diet that is very rich in fiber, vegetables and fruits, then you’re a step ahead in keeping your colon healthy. However, if you’re guilty of eating a processed or “junk” foods, fast food, simple carbohydrates, or fatty foods, you are repeatedly putting a great deal of stress on your colon. An unhealthy colon puts a significant burden on the digestive system and other important bodily functions.

The colon works to remove bodily waste from the small intestine to outside of the body by muscle contraction. If the colon is blocked or lined with toxins and old waste, the system will slow down and the muscle action made less effective. In turn, the gut flora won’t provide as much benefit, which will reduce the overall health of your colon and digestive tract. Colon cleansing will assist the mobility of waste passage, and help —restore the system to proper working order.

Because of the less-than-ideal condition of the average person’s colon, It is recommended that you begin your weight loss regime with a colon cleanse. By starting with the cleanse, you will provide your body with a clean, healthy slate to continue to build and meet your weight loss goals. The added energy and vitality you feel will translate into increased stamina for your exercise program. You’ll also receive a nice “kick start” to your weight loss — many people lose anywhere from five to ten pounds during a colon cleanse.

One other very important item to consider is your water consumption. Cleansing and dieting in general are very dehydrating — your body is making use of a lot of water during exercise to burn calories, and using a lot during cleansing to flush out the toxins. Be sure to drink a minimum of eight glasses of water a day — this works out to about two liters. If you feel thirsty, you’ve waited too long to drink.

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Overall, colon cleansing will give you a nice boost in your weight loss efforts, help you feel in better health, boost your energy and stamina, and improve the efficiency of your entire digestive tract. Remember to stay true to your weight loss goals and to work hard and you’ll achieve positive results. Good luck with your cleanse!

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15 Dec

Colon xR Review

Note:Colon xR was one of the first cleanses we reviewed, but sadly it is no longer available on the market.

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Colon xR Colon Cleanse ReviewColon xR Review – By Jason

When I first wanted to start my diet, I knew I wanted to start with a proper cleanse. I had heard through a number of friends and workmates that doing a colon cleanse was a great way to get my body to a clean slate and in good health. So, I started researching different types of colon cleanses online and that’s when I came to Colon xR.

One of the first things that caught my eye about Colon xR was that it was made with 100% all-natural ingredients. For those of you that haven’t done a cleanse before – it’s very important during a cleanse that you try to avoid processed foods and chemicals as much as possible. This is because your body is working to rid itself of toxins.

Colon xR is a capsule-based supplement, so all you need to do is swallow a pill. No messing about with shakes, powders or anything like that. With Colon xR, you’ll need to take a pill twice a day until the cleanse is finished. It’s pretty straightforward.

While I was taking Colon xR, I didn’t often feel bloated and never nauseous. I did notice a definite increase in my trips to the bathroom, which showed that Colon xR was doing its job to help clean my insides out a bit.

After a few days of the cleanse, I had lost two pounds and I was feeling quite a bit healthier. The bloating was gone, and I found that I had a lot more energy in the afternoons. I wasn’t getting that sleepy feeling that I would usually get around 1 – 3 pm, which was very nice. I also found that my daily workouts were getting a bit easier. Colon xR really went to work at cleaning and removing all of the backed up matter inside my digestive system.

All in all, I had a fantastic experience on my free trial of Colon xR and I would encourage you to try it out as well. If you’re looking to lose weight, feel less bloated and sluggish, and keep your digestive system in optimal health: Colon xR is a fantastic colon cleanse and you’ll see results in mere days.

We’ve secured all of our U.S. readers a free trial of Colon xR Advanced Internal Colon Cleansing Formula – you’ll only pay $5.95 shipping.

The Good: Excellent product, works perfectly with no discomfort. Used by over 500,000 people. Made from 100% all natural ingredients. Free trial available.

The Bad: Free trial is only good for U.S. citizens. You have to take two pills a day instead of one.

(Link removed as Colon xR went out of business. Sorry about that.)
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My Colon Cleanse Reviews Rating: 8.5 / 10

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