Health means different things to different people. But for me, it is about clean living, removing the foods that your body fights against and giving your body the tools and time to nourish and replenish and restore.
Today I thought I would give you 5 tips for women who are interested in Fat Loss…
5 top fat loss tips for women:
Tip 1: Clean Up your Diet – if you are 10lbs or more overweight, immediately remove bread, pasta, cake, biscuits and any starchy food from your diet for the next 4 weeks. Make the bulk of your diet on fruit and vegetables, lean meats, poultry and fish. If you’re getting hungry or not feeling full after meals, stock up on more veggies, fruits and salad per meal to increase satiety.
Tip 2: Remove the Sugar – if you are fairly lean and don’t want to lose weight, but have a little podge around your belly that you can’t seem to shift, remove fructose from your diet. Fructose is found in fruit drinks, fizzy drinks and agave syrup. Fructose is also found in fruit, so if your belly region is where you would like to focus on losing that last bit of fat, cut out fruits like apples, pears, bananas, pineapple, peaches and the alike and focus on berries such as blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries all full of anti-oxidants and nutrition with a low Glycemic Index. And yes, although agave syrup is OK initially in weight loss, when you are trying to remove that last bit of fat around the gut, you must cut it out!
Tip 3: You booze you won’t loose – but you knew they anyway right. But I’m a big believer in good times good food good drink, but… on occasions! People seem to never get that bit. You see people tend to drink every weekend, or even every night and this just won’t do. For the time being while you wish to remove fat you MUST remove alcohol from your diet until you reach your desired weight.
And if it is a case where you do drink alcohol, I want you to drink 1 glass of mineral water per every alcoholic beverage that you have. And for good measure complete a 24 hour fast the day after to give your liver a chance to detoxify the poison you put in the day before. This is also very good for increasing insulin sensitivity which if you are 10 lbs overweight you probably should be doing.
Tip 4: Get your rest – Get to sleep by 10:30pm and give your body the rest is requires in order to balance out your hormones for fat loss. Trying to lose weight while getting poor quality sleep is like pissing in the wind. It doesn’t matter how hard you workout, or how clean you eat – you need to sleep. If you’re having a hard time getting to sleep, try meditating 30 minutes before bed. As daft as you’ll feel doing it for the first couple of times, this technique seriously works! Meditating is basically where you stop thinking about the future, or the past, and just close your eye and focus on the now.
That’s why listening and feeling every breath you take in and out is a good focus point on getting yourself in the now. It’s relaxing and hugely important for clearing your mind from the junk will feel it with. (Guess what, as daft as meditating sounds to most people, the majority of the people reading this post will be giving it a go tonight! So give it a go and join them!)
Tip 5: Eat Your Greens – Women in particular will store body fat around their thighs and bum region. This is caused by the alpha-2-receptors that cover these areas inside the female body. Males have more of these receptor in their chest and belly region. It is these alpha-2-receptors where estrogen likes to bind onto and store fat here.
Now one of the the worst form of exercise that I know which will drive more fat to this region is spinning. So if you want to remove the fat from your thighs, stop the spinning classes. Now I’ve not got anything against spinning, but here is why it’s not great for fat loss around the thighs… Excessive freewheeling of the legs caused the calcium plates inside your knee’s to rub and deplete themselves resulting in a sense of fatigue. Before you know it the brain is now sending energy in the form or glycogen to provide energy at the site of fatigue, the legs. However, the freewheeling didn’t use the energy already stored in the legs, it just depleted the calcium plates to make them “feel” as if they are fatigued while all along there was plenty of energy in this area…So now there’s an excess of energy in the legs and estrogen binding alpha-2-receptors which as happy to store as fat.
As well as avoiding this area, females who suffer from excessive fat storage in these areas should eat more indole-3-carbinol. You can find this stuff in cruciferous veggies in particularly kale, spinach and watercress. Eat heaping of that stuff during your day. I also advise consuming a greens drink daily, which I will put up a blog post on in the future about why you should introduce a greens drink into your diet and which ones I recommend.
Let me know if you’ve got any question or if I can help you by leaving a comment below. It’s really cool to be able to change the relationship between food and exercise for our generations to come and it is vitally important in the future waistline of Northumberland.
Yours in Health,
Dean Coulson
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