1 REASON For Slow Female Fat Loss & 5 Tips To Fix It

You may have heard (or realized!), that it’s more difficult for women to lose fat than men. Differences in male and female hormones are certainly involved - both in the fat loss process as well as in the patterns of fat storage on the body. But the biggest obstacle is NOT hormonal issues, it’s one little fat loss relativity factor that almost all women overlook…

That factor is the simple fact that women are usually smaller and lighter than men, yet they err by setting their goals and designing their nutrition plans like men or larger women.

This especially applies to short and petite women who still have body fat to lose.

Case in point: Last week I received an email from a female reader who told me she was doing 3 weight training and 6 cardio sessions per week and the cardio was 45 minutes at a clip.

She said she weighed 111 lbs at 4 feet 11 inches tall, but even though she was petite, she had “several pounds of flab” she wanted to lose and just felt kind of “mushy.”

She had been really inspired by the success stories on the Burn the Fat websites, especially the finalists in our Burn the Fat transformation challenge.

But she said she was starting to get discouraged because she was losing so much slower than everyone else, it seemed.

First I asked her if she knew her body fat percentage. It may seem odd, but it’s possible to be a so-called “ideal” body weight and have high body fat and low lean body mass. That’s called “normal weight obesity” or in the popular vernacular, “skinny fat”). With the prevalence of body image disorders today, (and lets face it, the mirror plays tricks on us all), it’s especially important to understand and objectively measure body composition.

Having confirmed that she did actually have body fat to lose, even though she wasn’t overweight, here’s what I told her:

When you have a smaller body, you have lower calorie needs. When you have lower calorie needs, your relative deficit (20%, 30% etc) gives you a smaller absolute deficit and therefore you lose fat more slowly than someone who is larger and can create a larger deficit more easily.

Here’s an example for a man

Me: I’m male, 5’ 8”, a lean 192 lbs and very active:

Daily calorie maintenance level: 3300 calories a day
20% calorie deficit = cut out 660 calories
Optimal calorie intake for fat loss: 2640 calories a day
On paper predicted fat loss: 1.3 lbs of wt loss per week
At 2640 calories per day, I’d drop fat rather painlessly. If I bumped up my calorie burn or decreased my intake by another 340 a day, that would be enough to give me 2 lbs per week wt loss. Either way, that’s hardly a starvation diet (Ah, the joys of being a man).

For smaller women, the math equation is very different.

At only 4 foot 11 inches tall and 111 lbs, a female’s numbers would look like this:

Daily maintenance level 1930 calories (even at a moderately active exercise level).
20% deficit would = 386 calories
Optimal intake for fat loss 1544 calories a day
On paper predicted fat loss only 8/10th of a lb of fat loss/wk.
If you took a more aggressive calorie deficit of 30%, that’s a 579 calorie deficit which would now drop the calorie intake to 1351 calories/day.

That’s pretty low in calories. However, you would still have a fairly small calorie deficit. In fact, I would get to eat twice as many calories (2600 vs 1300 per day) and I’d still get almost twice the weekly rate of fat loss!

I know, this isn’t “fair,” but it doesn’t mean women can’t get as lean as they want to be. It means that on average, women will drop fat slower than men. It also means women with small bodies will lose fat more slowly than larger women.

What to do about it?

5 TIPS FOR FEMALE FAT LOSS
#1 Set a goal that’s realistic relative to your gender, body size and weight. ONE POUND a week of fat loss is much more in line with a realistic goal for a small-framed female. Overweight people can lose it faster. Men can drop it faster.

#2: Weigh and measure all your food any time you feel you’re stuck at a plateau, just to be sure. When your calorie expenditure is on the low side, you don’t have much margin for error. One extra pastry, muffin or handful of cookies and ZAP, your little 20% calorie deficit is GONE!

#3: Remember that body fat and body weight are NOT the same thing. Judge your progress on body composition. (I teach how to measure your body fat and lean body mass in the privacy of your own home as part of my Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle Program).

#4: Keep a weekly progress chart for weight, body fat percentage, pounds of fat and pounds of lean body mass. Water weight and lean body mass gains can mask fat loss so it’s possible to make progress even though the scale isn’t moving. Pay special attention to the progress trend over time.

#5: Burn more calories from the time you already spend in the gym. Suggestions: Make 2 or 3 of your long cardio sessions higher in intensity so you burn more calories in the same or even less time. Set up your weight training with big compound exercise and brief rest intervals so you burn more calories from strength training as well.

Dropping only ONE pound per week (or less) may seem excruciatingly slow, but even if you get a HALF a pound a week fat loss, that’s still progress. Celebrate it. Keep that up over time, and you will reach your goal. Persistence pays.

Train hard and expect success!

By : Tom Venuto
Author of Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle

Founder & CEO, Burn the Fat Inner Circle

source : http://www.burnthefatblog.com

EASY WAYS to Cut 100 Calories at Every Meal

The science is simple: Eating fewer calories makes you drop pounds. But depriving yourself by skimping on meals and banishing snacks only makes you hungry and pissed off. Plus, you are more likely to binge in the end anyway. The real solution lies in cutting out just a few little extra items from each meal (truly, your taste buds won’t even realize their absence) as well as making some food swaps so you sacrifice one fat-bomb ingredient and replace it with a more flavorful option. Incorporate a few of these ideas into your day and you’ll soon feel lighter and—as a bonus—healthier.

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• Instead of one croissant, eat two pieces of whole-wheat toast with a smidge of butter or cream cheese on each slice.
• Scoop out the white-bread inside of your plain bagel.
• Order or whip up an egg-white scramble with two pieces of turkey bacon rather than a whole-egg omelette with two pieces of pork bacon.
• Use 4 tablespoons of hummus instead of 2 tablespoons of regular mayonnaise on your sandwich. Or go with mustard, which is practically calorie-free (just 3 in each little packet!).
• Dress your salad with 1 tablespoon each of oil and vinegar in place of creamy ranch dressing.
• Eat your French-or Italian-bread sandwich/hero open-faced so you consume only one slice of bread.
• Opt for a 1-cup serving of no-butter microwave popcorn rather than munching on a bag of potato chips.
• Snack on a medium-size cup of low-fat frozen yogurt in lieu of a candy bar.
• Skip the croutons, halve the Parmesan dressing, and say no to extra cheese on top of your Caesar salad.
• Eat two part-skim string cheeses instead of a plate of three crackers with whole-milk cheese cubes.
• Skip the cheese and sour cream that often come as toppings on a bowl of chili or a baked potato.
• Pass on the roll or pretzel stick that arrives with your soup or salad.
• Order your burger sans cheese.
• Nosh on a handful of pretzels at the bar during happy hour rather than the same amount of nuts.
• Say no when your server offers fresh grated Parmesan cheese on your pasta.
• Replace your vodka tonic with a vodka soda. (Soda water, like regular water, has nada calories.)
• Dunk 10 tortilla chips in salsa, not guacamole.
• Share a small order of spicy wings on the bone instead of breaded chicken wings.
• When you cook at home, use a spray like Pam to coat the pan (spritz for one full second) instead of using a tablespoon of olive oil.
• Put a dollop of Tru Whip on your slice of pie or cake rather than 2 tablespoons of hot fudge or chocolate syrup.

by : Zoe Ruderman
source http://www.cosmopolitan.com

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Healthy Accordance ZODIAC

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Who knows can help you get a desirable weight.

Aries
Aries need a challenge. Resolution of fun will have a level of success is big enough for you. When will walk away, try to bring a pedometer to measure the level of velocity, distance, or time in a regular exercise per day. Do the kind of challenge for yourself, for example, when you violate the resolution, give a kind of punishment for yourself. Discipline in choosing foods can be a little difficult for you. Try to do a resolution to eat more fruits berries and nuts as a distraction, rather than choosing potato chips or ice cream.

Taurus
For Taurus, the resolution that she has made about the habits tend to keep it simple and keep everything. Can only change by changing the habits of ordinary white bread with whole grains or by changing the menu to the porridge oats. Or to get used to walk every morning to calm the mind as well as strengthen the muscles in the body.

Gemini
Gemini need the support of friends to be able to help him keep making changes to his lifestyle. If it is difficult to ask your friend to exercise together every day, you can set up such a blog to record and share the results of a diet that you run. From there, you can find and invite "his compatriots" to share stories, and encouragement. Strolling around the place to stay at least half an hour per day could be an option. Gemini is the type who wants to know, try to fill it with curiosity often check the contents list of foods you will eat. Avoid foods containing high fructose corn syrup (high fructose corn syrup).

Cancer
Zodiac this one food enthusiasts, but not like exercise. This will make it difficult to meet the health care resolution. Cancer desire to be loving another person can be paired with exercises to move the body. For example, with a visit to relatives or neighbors who are sick while walking to get there. Another way, taking the dog for pet or nephew in the afternoon walk around the neighborhood. Reduce weight and appear more attractive by making the resolution of the menu include a salad a day that has at least 5 vegetables with different colors with a healthy dressing, like olive oil.


Leo
Leo likes to have fun. Therefore, the key to successful resolution of your health is to do it while having fun. If you like ice cream, try to replace it with frozen yogurt or frozen fresh fruit that is given a little whipped cream. Small steps can make a big difference.

Virgo
To Virgo, increase the success of the diet can seek the menu of vegetables, fresh fruit, and brown rice or wheat into the daily intake. Try to do this for a month, and see the difference on your body. Virgo will find it easier to make changes in his habits if he was helping others in the process. Friends who can support can also be an encouragement to practice.

Libra
Libra is a social type. They will succeed if joining a group. Exercising with friends arms will make you more comfortable. Try to follow the classes who also teaches fitness diet changes.

Scorpio
Scorpio including those who persevere. Zodiac this one does not need much support from many people. He can do research to find the right type of exercise for yourself. The walk can be a fun exercise. Reduce high-fructose corn syrup (high fructose corn syrup) and artificial coloring, and multiply the vegetables, eggs and organic meat will make your body more healthy.

Sagittarius
Sagittarius generally like to make big plans, but quickly gave up. The secret to successfully get the health and fitness is to start with small steps. You will be happier doing something that develops your horizons and explore your world. Cycling, walking fast, or practicing dance will make your body stay in shape. Try adding vegetable or fruit each week to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Capricorn
Capricorn will be able to run a resolution that can reliably support long-term success in other fields. Combine exercise with everyday things. For example, walking to work, walk in the afternoon with your partner, or do sports that can build social networks. Look bad habits that could endanger the health, then try to delete it. If you fall, brace yourself for the return to your lane.

Aquarius
The greatest hope for Aquarius for the successful running of the resolution is to have a companion in arms. Invite a friend who you think could be a friend to exercise. Find a friend who is fun to talk to and build a support system.

Pisces
For Pisces, the resolution of health can be started with very good, and then just disappear. Hope for your success is to combine diet and exercise fitness in daily discipline. For example, by choosing to be vegetarian, or choose to eat organic foods. Yoga and tai chi is a fun way to strengthen the body and balance the soul. Do not make your body tired and forced to work if your body actually choose to rest.

source : http://female.kompas.com

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diets based on BLOOD TYPE

The success of this blood type diet depends on the conditions and needs of the perpetrator's body. This diet aims to achieve a healthy body.

Blood type diet studied by Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo shows the physiological effects of lectins that enters the body. Lectins are proteins that generally found in food. Each type of food can affect the metabolism and blood composition and thus affects the balance of the immune system blood composition of which has 2 important components of antigen and antibody.

The reason for the importance of blood classification by Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo is a blood type that is identified with a sign surface antigens so that when red blood cells to transport a foreign object such as viruses and bacteria, it will be immediately marked as "comrade" or "enemy". As with food, if found lectins, it will be marked as the enemy and cause the blood cells clumping together, causing problems to the digestive system and metabolism of food on insulin production and hormone disruption. This is why why each blood type needs to have the classification of food.

Here are the menu suggestions that can be consumed on the basis of blood type:

Diet for blood group A is the recommended high-carb foods and low in fat.
Foods that are very useful : spinach, broccoli, carrots, mushrooms goldfish, peanuts, beans, nuts / soy milk, tofu, tempeh, rice flour, blueberries, olive oil, carp, sardines.

Food is neutral : tuna, chicken eggs and duck, quail eggs, sesame oil, sunflower seeds, peas / peas, corn, tapioca, wheat bread, pumpkin, onion, cucumber, taro, grape, melon, cantaloupe, pears, pomegranates, dates, strawberries , persimmon, guava, chicken meat.

Foods to avoid : meat (beef, duck, rabbit, partridge, lobster, octopus, crabs, eels, frogs, shrimp, squid), butter, cow's milk, cheese, ice cream, whole milk, pickles, eggplant, tomatoes, yams, potatoes, oranges , coconut / coconut milk, melon, honey, bananas (king), papaya, soda water.

Sport is suitable for : yoga, tai chi, meditation.


Diet for blood group B is the recommended milk and dairy products.
Foods that are very useful : marine fish, cow's milk, cheese, porridge, oats, Essene bread, rice cakes, broccoli, sweet potatoes, carrots, cauliflower, eggplant, green tea.

Food is neutral : squid, carp, tuna, butter, cheese, eggs, chicken, red beans, chickpeas, rice flour, bread, rice, spinach, broccoli, lettuce, cucumber, pumpkin, potatoes, cabbage, mangoes, melons, oranges, pears, dates , guava, beef.

Foods to avoid : meat (chicken, pork, duck, snails, crabs, snails, eels, frogs, octopus, lobster), ice cream, eggs (duck, goose, quail), peanuts, wheat bread, tomatoes, corn, avocados, pomegranate , coconut / coconut, persimmon, starfruit, pears, water, soda, alcoholic beverages.

Sport is suitable for : swimming, tennis, walking, meditation.

Diet for blood group AB is in accordance with the suitability of each indivdu against certain types of food.
Foods that are very useful : sardines, tuna, goat's milk, egg white (chicken), ricotta cheese, sour cream (low calorie), green tea, red wine.

Food is neutral : squid, carp, tuna, butter, cheese, eggs, chicken, red beans, chickpeas, rice flour, bread, rice, broccoli, spinach, lettuce, cucumber, pumpkin, potatoes, cabbage, mangoes, melons, oranges, pears, dates , guava.

Foods to avoid : meat (beef, chicken, duck, pork, goose, lobster, crab, frog), butter, ice cream, duck egg, black beans, pickles, corn, star fruit, pomegranate, bitter melon, banana, coconut, persimmon, guava, mango , Ketchup, coffee, soda, alcoholic beverages.

Sports that matched conducted : exercise in the morning.


Diet for blood group O are foods high in protein and low in carbohydrates.
Foods that are very useful : broccoli, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, lettuce, seaweed, Chinese radishes, blueberries, Cerry, guava, curry spices, peas, red beans, all kinds of onion, seaweed, ginger, kailan, turmeric, beef.

Food is neutral : carp, eels, lobster, tuna, sardines, shrimp, eggs (chicken and duck), butter, beans (black, red, green beans, soybeans), tempeh, tofu, soy milk, oatmeal, rice, rice cakes, bread, rice , wheat flour, eggplant, tomato, pumpkin, chicken, duck meat.

Foods to avoid : pork, squid, cuttlefish, clams, frogs, octopus, goose eggs, quail eggs, ice cream, cheese, cow milk, yogurt, coconut oil, turtle oil, corn, corn, broccoli flowers, peanuts, cashews, pumpkin seeds, laichi, potatoes, cucumbers, cauliflower, mushrooms, cantaloupe, mandarin oranges, bananas, bitter melon, white wine, soy sauce, coffee, liquor.

Sport is suitable for : aerobic.

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