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This trick is tried over and over again with never much success. Let’s see if you fit into this scenario. You are watching what you eat and are trying to eat healthy and make smart choices and are following a healthy weight loss program. You are losing a few pounds, but would like to lose more and follow a rapid weight loss diet.

So you end up cutting out meals and calories so that you are only eating 3 times a day and maybe 1000 calories.

You rapid weight loss diet should be a success now. You should be able to lose weight fast. Then the worse thing happens. You get on the scale and you are up 3 pounds from last weeks weigh in. What happened? You were on a healthy weight loss program so why weren’t you losing any weight?

The answer is that you thought a rapid weight loss diet meant you had to cut out calories and starve yourself so your body would burn fat. You thought wrong. When you restrict calories like this your body increase a hormone that is designed to protect you. It does this by slowing down your metabolism and forcing your body to store more calories as fat.

You end up gaining weight rather than losing weight with this method. The key for fast easy weight loss and to be successful with a rapid weight loss diet is to keep your metabolism burning fast 24 hours a day. This ensures that your body will burn calories even when you are sitting on the couch watching tv.

To do this you need to eat. Now this doesn’t mean you need to stuff yourself or pig out on bad choices. It means you need to eat frequently. To ensure a fast metabolism you should get 4-6 feeding opportunities in a day. This equates to every 2-3 waking hours. Every time you eat your metabolism gets ramped up to digest the food you just consumed. So by feeding yourself every 2-3 hours you are keeping that metabolism ramped up the entire day. This could add a few hundred calories a day burned to your total.

Then when you include certain types of nutrients into these feeding opportunities you can really supercharge your metabolism. Include lean protein at these feeding opportunities and watch your metabolism shoot through the roof.

Protein requires a lot of energy (calories) to be digested and utilized. This means your metabolism has to increase even more sustain the energy demands. The result is more calories burned and more fat lost.

The final fast easy weight loss tip for a rapid weight loss diet is to eat fibrous non-starchy vegetables to keep your blood sugars and insulin levels in control. This will ensure that your body isn’t tempted to store these calories as fat.

Now that you know what to do to ensure a successful quick weight loss diet get eating and make sure you eat the right types of foods to ensure a fast metabolism and fast easy weight loss.

Jayson Hunter http://www.menscarbrotationdiet.com

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Five Simple Steps To Losing Your Belly Fat Fast

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

I am going to tell all of you about how to get rid of your fat belly and how to get rid of your beer gut. I am going to teach you fast healthy weight loss tips for rapid weight loss.

So, any of you guys out there with the big ol’ beer gut and you want to get rid of it fast, then keep reading.

How do you lose weight fast?

A real simple tip is and we’ve all been taught it, from the time we were kids from our parents, is increase our vegetable intake, more specifically your non-starchy vegetable intake. It’s not to hard to choose a vegetable that’s non-starchy.

The main reason is, because you want to be able to eat something that is not caloricly dense but nutrient dense and non-starchy vegetables. They’re a great source of fiber which is very important for helping you feel fuller longer and not encouraging you to eat 30 minutes later. You’re going to be full for a long time. The fiber takes longer to digest, so the body has to work harder and you keep your insulin levels in check which is big for preventing fat storage.

What is insulin which I mentioned above?

When you eat you get sugar in your blood and your body has to get that sugar out of the blood and either use it as energy or store it for use at a later time. Insulin does that. When you ingest food and you get these sugars into your blood, your insulin increases and gets those sugars, pull them out of your blood and either, like I said, burn them for energy or store them to be used at a later time. When all of your carbohydrate glycogen levels are full, then the only other alternative is to be stored as fat. Insulin tends to promote fat storage because most peoples glycogen/carbohydrate levels are usually pretty full, so the alternative is fat storage.

You want to keep that insulin response low, which is one of the main goals.

Alright, number 2, protein at every meal. We hear so much about protein; again, most guys are probably meat and potatoes guys. Why is it so important – how do we make the transformation to just eating fatty protein sources to types of proteins that you should be eating to help lose that gut.

Most men are definitely meat and potatoes type of guys so it definitely should be easy to get protein into your diet consistently, but you also do want to control the types of protein you get in. A fried chicken breast, or 18 chicken wings from Hooters, probably isn’t going to be the best source. Yes, its protein, but you are also going to pack in a lot of extra calories that you really don’t need if you’re trying to lose your gut. So, one of the things you want to do is to look for those lean protein sources. Skinless chicken breasts, lean beef and steaks, fish grilled not fried. Eggs are another good source.

Dairy is also another good source. If you like cottage cheese or yogurts or things like that, you can get in your lean protein that way as well.

Tip number 3 Eat whole grain carbohydrates.

So now, what is a whole grain carb? What’s a good carb? What’s a bad carb? When am I supposed to be eating some of these carbs?

A whole grain carb would be carbohydrates that are considered a good source of fiber. Staying away from the – you’ve heard the thing of no white breads and things like that and white rice, and to a point there’s validity to why people say that. I don’t know that they always know why they are saying it, but the reason that they should try to limit those is because those are usually made with processed carbohydrates and very little fiber content. You’re whole grain carbs are going to be anything that says 100% whole grain. Wheat bread is just white bread that hasn’t been bleached. So you need to look for the whole grain or the whole oats/grain wording in it to find out, and look at the fiber source. Most of them should have at least 2 grams of fiber per serving, if not 3 to be considered a good fiber source. So, that will help you get you your answer as well with that.

Alright, rapid weight loss diet tip number 4. Eat more healthy fats. Now, this is very confusing for people, I’m sure. Healthy fats, unhealthy fats, Trans fats, why is this going to be such a big deal when it comes to losing weight fast?

Your healthy fats is what’s usually called essential fatty acids, and what that means is that it’s fatty acids and fats that we can not produce in the body on our own, so we have to get them through diet. Why essential fatty acids are so important is because there’s hundreds and hundreds of studies that are showing that it helps with numerous diseases.

It helps prevent certain diseases such as heart disease and cancer. The studies are actually now showing that it may actually increase your metabolism by as much as 400 calories a day and that’s the big one when it comes to just specific weight loss.

If you want to just throw out all the numerous health benefits of why essential fatty acids are good and just go off of the fact for weight loss and fat loss, it actually helps increase your metabolism and there’s also some studies showing that it may actually block what they tend to call pre-fat cells from turning into permanent fat cells. So, again, that’s another huge step in regards to weight loss and trying to prevent weight gain. And, essential fatty acids primarily are, what you’ll also hear or read, as Omega 3 fats.

You’ll see that fish is an excellent source of Omega 3 fats. Use olive oil because of the essential fatty acids and the Omega 3s. Walnuts and Almonds are another good source and they’re actually a good protein source, they contain good fiber, and they contain healthy fat.

So, if you want a healthy snack, throw some almonds in a bag and take them with you to work, keep them at your desk. They’re a great snack to help you feel full; help boost that metabolism and it’s actually a really good food for you in many ways. You’re getting your fiber, you’re getting your protein, you’re getting your healthy fat, you’re getting three of the five tips I’m giving you today just in one food, with that.

How to lose belly fat tip number 5.

Eat frequent meals. I’m sure you’ve heard it before eat smaller meals throughout the day. You’re probably having a muffin and coffee for breakfast, having a big lunch, maybe not eating all afternoon, come home and eat a huge, huge dinner. How are you guys going to get 4-6 small meals a day?

You do have to do a little planning ahead, but if you use the previous four tips, you could cut up some vegetables ahead of time on a Sunday and just put them in bags so that you have them available to put into your lunch or as a snack. Protein choices you’ve got the yogurt, you could hard boil eggs, you could have string cheese as a snack. Almonds, as we talked about.

Doing those types of things and plan ahead to where you don’t have to think the morning of, “Alright what am I going to eat for my snack today? What am I going to do for lunch? It’s all already in the fridge. If you do maybe an hour of planning on a Sunday, all you have to do is pack it. Put it in individual bags, throw it in your cooler and put it in the refrigerator at work, so that it’s available. That way, the less thinking you can take out of it, the better off you’re going to be.

Every time you eat your metabolism increases to digest that food. Your body uses calories to digest calories? So, you want to keep that metabolism revved up every day.

What guy doesn’t want to eat. The worst thing about trying to lose weight is you think you have to starve yourself and that’s the exact opposite that you want to do if you’re going to lose weight. You need to feed yourself and you need to feed yourself consistently because then the weight will come off. If you restrict eating and that metabolism plummets your body has to survive. It goes into a survival mode at that point and it’s going to do everything possible to burn as little calories as possible because you don’t feed it frequently enough.

Apply these 5 tips today to lose belly fat fast.

Jayson Hunter http://www.menscarbrotationdiet.com

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Quick Weight Loss Diets How Do You Know If They are Working?

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

I come across individuals all the time that tell me they have followed a quick weight loss diet, but don’t know if it worked or not.

What do you mean you don’t know if it worked or not?

Did you lose weight? Did your body fat percentage decrease? You have to know if it worked or not.

I then ask them if they took any measurements and body fat calculations at the beginning of the quick weight loss diet.

Usually the answer is no.

So I guess they are really telling the truth about not knowing if they lost any weight or not. Generally they say they got on the scale in the beginning and then weighed themselves at the end.

The scale can give you some answers, but it won’t tell you the whole story on whether or not your quick weight loss diet is successful. It can also give you plenty of false numbers along the way that will discourage your efforts.

To be successful at fast weight loss you need to be obviously eating properly, but also strength training. Strength training produces lean body mass which is weight on the scale, but looks great on your body and is key to keeping the fat off once you have lost it.

If I only used the scale as my measuring tool and I lost 10 pounds of fat and gained 5 pounds of lean muscle the scale would tell me that I only lost 5 pounds.

I would think that I failed.

If I took before measurements, pictures and body fat calculations I would know that I lost 8% body fat, 4 inches off my waist and gained 5 pounds of lean body mass.

I now know that my quick weight loss diet was successful. The scale didn’t tell me those numbers.

Before you start any exercise or quick weight loss diet program make sure that you not only take before pictures, but you also find out what your body fat percentage is and your circumference measurements.

This way you have all the evaluative tools to tell you if a program is successful or not. It will also tell you if you need to modify that program so that you see better and quicker results.

I advise those looking to follow a quick weight loss diet program to start with all these baseline measurements and re-take them every 2-3 weeks to re-evaluate your progress. This will ensure that you know quickly if you need to modify anything with your exercise or diet program so that you can garner more successful weight loss.

Don’t just assume a quick weight loss diet program is going to work. You have to measure the results and make modifications to suit you individually. This is the way to guarantee successful weight loss.

Jayson Hunter http://www.menscarbrotationdiet.com

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3 Ways Carbohydrates Can Make You Fat

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Yes, carbohydrates can make you make fat. Yes, carbohydrates are essential for fueling the body and having if run efficiently. Yes, you need to watch your intake of carbohydrates to prevent fat storage. Yes, you need to eat the right carbohydrates to properly fuel your body.

So what does all this mean? Am I not to eat carbs or am I supposed to eat carbs? How many carbs should I eat? What types? The entire carbohydrate craze has gone from one extreme to the other and back again. It’s no wonder you may be confused, frustrated, mad or all of the above.

There is a ton of information flying around and much of it is garbage. Here are the facts about carbs and how you should use this information.

1. Your body can store all carbs as fat when the muscles and the liver are already full of glycogen. So if you continuously eat a high carbohydrate diet this can lead to increased fat storage. Also, by eating too many processed and refined carbs you can also store more of your carb calories as fat. The key is to consume moderate carbs and choose carbs that have at least 2gms of fiber per serving. This will help control insulin spikes, which leads us to number 2.

2. Eating too many carbs at one sitting without enough other nutrients to counteract its effect will cause insulin spikes, which then triggers your body’s fat storing mechanisms. This is why I suggest you eat whole grain carbs, vegetables and fruits with skin when possible because they will provide good sources of fiber to help control these insulin spikes. Also, make sure you balance your carb intake with lean protein to further counteract the effects of carbs in the body in regards to elevating your insulin levels.

3. Through a process known as de novo lipogenesis your body can directly increase fat storage by converting carbohydrates to fat. So I will reiterate why you need to eat carbs. Eat whole grain, high fiber carbs as well as lean protein to control blood sugar rise, which then controls insulin spikes and helps prevent you from storing carb calories as fat.

So now that you have the facts about carbs should you be eating them or not. To summarize you do need carbs. Your body does need carbs to function properly and maintain optimal efficiency. The body doesn’t need as many carbs as we feed it though. It also doesn’t need the refined flours and process carbs we have become accustomed to eating. As our lives have gotten busier and we have gotten lazier we have leaned more towards convenient foods, which are not always the healthiest of foods.

We have consumed too much of those foods and then blamed it all on carbs as to why we are fat. Carbs are not the main culprit. They do play a part as I describe above as to how they can make you fat. I also mention how to eat carbs so that they don’t make you fat.

Jayson Hunter http://www.menscarbrotationdiet.com

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It Looks So Simple Yet Hurts So Bad To Lose Weight Fast

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

If I had to pick on exercise to lose weight fast that looks so easy yet is so challenging it would be the abdominal plank. I mean really all you have to do is hold yourself in a straight plank position. How hard can that be and you would be losing weight fast?

For those that have never tried this exercise before you are in for a wonderful surprise. Yes, you only have to hold yourself in a straight plank position, but when you are in this position your abdominals are doing all the work to hold you in that straight line. They are working overtime to maintain that position. To lose weight fast it is important that you complete this exercise properly to get maximum benefit and really strengthen your abdominal region. The objective is to complete 4 sets of 60 seconds each set. To determine the proper exercise intensity let’s start with test 1.

1. First test will be for you to get on your knees and forearms. Place your forearms far enough from your knees so that your back is nice and flat. Your hips shouldn’t sag nor should your hips be pointing up to the sky. This is very important if you want this exercise to help you lose weight fast. From your shoulders down to your hips should be a nice flat straight line. Try and hold this for 30 seconds . If you can hold this nice flat straight position for 30 seconds then move to test 2. If you are challenged to hold this position for 30 seconds then this is where you begin. Start with 4 sets of 30 seconds each and as you get stronger increase your time for each set until you reach 60 seconds for each set.

2. The second test is the same position as the first test except instead of your knees being the anchor point your feet are the anchor point. Maintaining the straight flat line bring your knees off the ground so that only your feet and forearms are on the ground. Again hold for the suggested 30 seconds in this straight, flat position. Your shoulders and hips should be flat and straight. To reiterate if your goal is to lose weight fast there should be no sagging of the hips or arching. If you pass move to test #3. If not stay here and complete 4 sets of 30 seconds each set. As you get stronger increase each set up to 60 seconds.

3. If you have passed the first two tests then you are ready for test #3. Using a stability ball you will place your forearms on the stability ball instead of on the ground. This will create instability and force you to contract your muscles even more to maintain balance and stability. If you have made it this far your goal is to start with 4 sets of 30 seconds and as you get stronger work your way up to 4 sets of 60 seconds.

You may find at first that you aren’t terribly fatigued from this or you don’t feel that muscle exhaustion like you do with other exercises. If you are one that feels this way then wait until the next day and see how sore you are or try just one set of planks and see how tired your muscles feel. Add this exercise to your routine to lose weight fast and after a few months of these along with a proper carb rotation diet you will be ready to show off your washboard stomach to anyone and everyone.

Jayson Hunter http://www.menscarbrotationdiet.com

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Lose Weight Fast With These Three Mindset Tips

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Quick weight loss follows with the right frame of mind. To lose weight fast, you need to be in the right frame of mind. I believe too many people enter into a diet plan without mentally preparing for it first.

Quick weight loss is possible. Everyone knows that. But the challenge is keeping the pounds and inches off. And that takes the right mental attitude and social support. I’ve worked with hundreds of people who want to lose weight fast, but the most successful ones – the ones who keep the weight off – are the ones who have the correct disposition before starting.

I recommend the following three mindset tips for permanent weight loss:

Surround yourself with the right people.

You need to understand that you will need to make some different lifestyle choices to keep the weight off. And that may very well mean not be able to socialize with others who can be a negative influence. Research was recently completed that showed you are more likely to adopt your friends eating habits and body image by hanging around them. So that means if 4 of your 6 friends are overweight and eat like crap you are more likely to eat like crap and start to gain weight to match them as well. The same is true if 4 of your 6 friends were thin and ate healthy. You are more likely to follow their habits. So make sure you associate yourself with like-minded people. Your successful weight loss depends on it.

Don’t expect it to be easy.

While losing weight doesn’t have to be a chore, you need to come to grips with the fact that it is going to take effort. Anything worth doing never is. Accept the fact there will be some tough times ahead. That is why it is so important to surround yourself with positive people. They will help support you when you face obstacles. Take it one day at a time and remember that each day is a new day. Start each day with your goals in mind and a plan to achieve those goals for that day. Don’t lose sight of those goals and keep working towards them each and every day.

Don’t expect the rapid fat loss results to last forever.

The rate at which you lose fat will eventually slow down because your body will just have no more fat to lose. So the challenge becomes how do you maintain your new weight loss and keep it from coming back. I teach many people how to lose weight fast, but most importantly I teach them how to keep it off for a lifetime. Many diets can get you to lose the weight, but the key is to keep the weight off. Make sure you make the proper lifestyle changes so that you create permanent weight loss and never have to diet again.

Jayson Hunter http://www.menscarbrotationdiet.com

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Pot Roast

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

[hidepost=1] Servings: 8 Ingredients: 3-lb boneless beef bottom round roast, trimmed of all visible fat 2 onions, sliced 2 Tbsp Hungarian paprika ½ tsp dried basil ½ tsp dried oregano ½ tsp dried thyme 3 cloves garlic, minced ½ cup water ½ cup red wine (optional) 1 can (15 oz) low-fat, reduced-sodium beef broth ¼ tsp ground black pepper 1 ½ lbs baby carrots 2 lbs small new potatoes Lightly coat a large skillet with cooking spray and place over medium-high heat. Add roast and brown on all sides, about 3 to 5 minutes per side. Place browned roast in Crockpot. Add onion slices to skillet and cook, stirring occasionally, until golden, about 5 minutes. Add paprika, basil, oregano, thyme and garlic; cook 2 more minutes. Place onion mixture over roast in Crockpot. Add water, wine, broth, black pepper, carrots and potatoes to Crockpot. Cover and cook until tender, about 10 hours on low heat or 5 hours on high heat. Remove roast from the Crockpot and set on cutting board. Use a large spoon to skim fat off cooking broth. Slice roast and place a portion on each plate along with a portion of potatoes and a serving of carrots. Top sliced roast with a couple of spoonfuls of broth. [/hidepost]

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October Recipes

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

[hidepost=1] Spaghetti and Meatballs Moms Chicken Enchiladas Mediterranean Halibut Hot Stuff Chili Baked Chicken Parmesan Snapper Veracruz Enchilada Soup with Avocado Turkey Hawaiian Caribbean Pork Tenderloin Pot Roast [/hidepost]

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Caribbean Pork Tenderloin

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

[hidepost=1] Servings: 4 Ingredients: ¾ cup pearl barley 1 ½ cups reduced sodium vegetable broth ¾ cup water 1 ripe mango, peeled and pitted, diced 1 red bell pepper, seeded and chopped 1 jalapeno, seeded and chopped ½ red onion, chopped ½ tsp lime peel, grated 1 lime, juiced ¼ cup fresh cilantro, chopped ¼ tsp salt 4 portions pork tenderloin (about 1 lb), trimmed of fat ¼ tsp ground black pepper 1 tsp five-spice powder (found in Asian food section) 3 Tbsp hoisin sauce (found in Asian food section) 1 tsp toasted sesame oil 2 cups baby spinach Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Place a large saucepan over medium heat. Add barley and stir constantly until barley is toasted (pale golden), about 5 minutes. Add low-sodium vegetable broth and water to toasted barley; bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover and simmer until barley is tender and liquid is absorbed, about 35 minutes. While barley is cooking, combine mango, bell pepper, jalapeno, onion, lime peel, lime juice, cilantro and salt in a medium mixing bowl. Cover and refrigerate to let the flavors blend. Lightly coat a broiler pan with cooking spray. Season pork tenderloin with black pepper and five-spice powder. Place pork in oven and bake 10 minutes. In a small mixing bowl, combine hoisin sauce and sesame oil. Coat tenderloin with sauce and bake until juices run clear, about 15 more minutes. Remove tenderloin from oven, let sit for 5 minutes and then cut into ¼-inch slices. Divide the spinach between 4 plates. Top each with a portion of sliced tenderloin and a spoonful of salsa. Add a portion of barley and serve [/hidepost]

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Five Simple Steps To Losing Your Belly Fat Fast

Quick Weight Loss Diets How Do You Know If They are Working?

3 Ways Carbohydrates Can Make You Fat

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