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5 Easy Ways to Boost Your Metabolism

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:16:37 +0000

In order to get your metabolism going and to burn fat and calories, you can do a variety of things. Here are five of them:

1) Don’t Skip Breakfast

Breakfast is ideal to jump start your metabolism, and it prevents feasting later in the day. Just a cup of coffee is not enough: sure, caffeine and a little sugar may suppress your appetite and give a little bit of energy — but not more. But in the long run, just having a cup of coffee in the morning and no breakfast at all will back fire into severe hunger, and this is your ticket for overeating later.

So, have a great breakfast, including complex carbohydrates like whole grain (oatmeal or granola is good), protein and a little fat (low-fat yogurt or milk) works just fine, keeping your energy levels even and hunger has not a chance.

2) Eat More Often

Eating at least four times a day or every three to four hours is a great habit. Why? Eating regularly helps to stabilize blood sugar. This is important, because when your blood sugar drops, you will be very likely to eat — and a lot. Or when you work countless hours without eating your body will slow your metabolism down, saving energy he might need later. This effect hurts every weight loss effort. So, keep your blood sugar stable and steady and you will be able to control your appetite in an easier and better way, by keeping your metabolic rate high in the same time.

3) Eat Protein At Every Meal

Having protein at every meal has great advantages: it helps to reduce appetite. It take more time and energy to digest. And finally, you feel full longer than if you had just carbohydrates alone. Recent researches have shown that you can have more protein without harming your weight loss program or cutting calories.

Here are a few products containing protein: turkey whole wheat, vegetarian chili, hummus and pita or protein snack bars containing not less than 12 grams of protein, preferably more.

4) Hold Off On Snacking

Grabbing a snack for a quick energy rebuild when you feel tired is not a good idea. Why? Do not confuse true hunger with fatigue. If you are feeling tired, go for a walk. 15 to 20 minutes if enough: it raises your heart rate and gives just the boost of energy you need. Then take a large glass of cool, clean water. If you are truly hungry (not that appetite here), grab a protein and complex carbohydrate rich snack. This can be whole wheat crackers and peanut butter or cheese.

5) Consume enough for your body’s needs

There are two things that slow your metabolism: eating too little and eating too infrequently. But to burn fat, you want to boost your metabolism. For that, you have to eat. So do not slash your calories too drastically.

Cut out some of the extra stuff instead: soda, packaged goods or candy. Stay away from processed foods, since they tend to be high in calories and fat and low in vitamins, minerals and fiber.

These five easy steps should boost your metabolism. The only thing (and the most difficult one) is to put it into action. Start slowly but surely, day after day — and the result will show up.

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4 Quick Tips To Help You Lose Your Belly Fat

Wed, 18 May 2011 18:37:07 +0000

Do you wish to lose your belly fat? Do you call love handles your own? Are you even a little pot-bellied? No need to continue suffering. You are perfectly able to get a flat stomach!

There is one thing you have to understand first: there won’t be a miracle that will make you lose you belly fat in your sleep or from one day to another. What will help you though is to understand your body and how it works, how it stores fat.

The trick is to know the reasons why you have accumulated fat in your belly. If you want to lose your belly fat, you have to control the intake of products adding to it and to take precautionary measures. It is possible: you can get slim and slender.

OK, let’s get started with the four quick tips. They are substantive suggestions that you can easily follow to lose your belly fat for good.

1) Do sit ups.

Crunches and sit ups are one of the most effective ways to lose belly fat fast, and they are easy to do. It will take a little time, it’s true, but you can do it! Think about this: fat is stored energy. And in order to lose belly fat, you have to burn more calories than you consume. The best results can be achieved by doing sit ups. They work on almost all body types.

2) Cut out the fried stuff.

If you want washboard abs (and lose your belly fat first), you need to cut out on fried foods, since they will make you put on belly fat faster than any other kind of caloric intake. They contain empty calories and don’t a very high nutrient value. They’ll give you calories that add to your belly fat instead of reducing it.

3) Don’t snack between meals.

Snacking is by far the best (or worst, it depends on the point of view) ways to pile up belly fat. The worst kind of snacking is eating late at night. When you eat during the day, you have great chance to burn off the calories. But when you’re in the habit to eat at night, then go to sleep right afterwards or only a short time afterwards, the consumed food stays right in your stomach. Another point: perhaps you like snacking while watching a movie on TV. Mindless snacking is a no-go.

4) Burn the belly fat off.

As I already said, belly fat is nothing else than unused energy which accumulates in the form of fat in your stomach area. So, you have to burn more calories than you take in during a day. You can do sit ups (see point no. 1), aerobic exercises, you can walk or run, you can do cycling or work on a cardio machine in your local gym. But you can start with basic activities in every day life: take the stairs, not the elevator; take the furthest parking lot when going to the mall instead of taking the nearest place to park.

If you really want to lose your belly fat, follow these four quick steps for losing it. Just take it one step at a time, not everything at once. When you rush things, you’ll not succeed. But be assured: you CAN lose your belly fat and have the flat stomach you’ve longed for.

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10 Killer Tips For Rapid Weight Loss

Wed, 04 May 2011 19:29:54 +0000

To get the most out of your weight loss plan, finding out the most efficient methods to burn fat will maximize your results and minimize your waist! Stick with these 10 tips for fat burning whenever you would like to reduce weight and lead a healthier way of life.

1.) Drink More Water

One of the most successful weight loss strategies is to ditch the sodas and stick with water! Experts tell you should drink about 8 glasses of water per day to stay hydrated and fit. Rather than turning to calorie-laden or sugar-rich beverages, grab a refreshing glass of water. Besides flushing toxins out of your orhanism, drinking water encourages you to build up muscle mass.

2.) Eat additional Meals

A traditional three-meals-a-day program just will not work if you want to burn fat. Your body is not capable to metabolize heavy meals and will rapidly turn any excess into fat. Numerous experts believe you should have six small meals a day. Make sure you cut back on your food consumption at each meal, alternatively you will be doubling your consumption—and doubling your fat storage!

3.) Exercise with Weights

One fantastic way to leverage the quantity of fat you are burning is to add a weight program to your work out procedure. Weight training will not alone tone your figure, but will fortify your body and improve your general well-being. Lifting weights also burns calories and fat more quickly than traditional physical exercise, and it will as well boost your metabolic process.

4.) Prefer Protein

Pick out protein-laden foods for encouraging your metabolism and enabling your body to burn fat quickly. In addition to burning fat, having a protein-rich diet will assist you rebuild muscle after exercises and preserve leanness of that muscle. Wisely select proteins for your diet. Take great care to pick proteins low in fat so you do not have additional calories.

5.) Cut Calories Wisely

It may be enticing to drastically cut your calorie consumption when beginning a new and healthy lifestyle. Alternatively, use a step process when cutting back your calorie consumption to minimize risk. Reducing calories too quickly leads your body to rapidly burn all available calories, which will bring down your metabolism. Furthermore, you are more probable to maintain your healthy lifestyle through this step process.

6.) Reward Yourself

When it comes to dieting with success to burn off the most fat, make certain to reward yourself. Everybody has enticements and favorite delicacies—so allow for indulgence. You will be less likely to cheat on your newly diet if you allow yourself small rewards. If you are a chocolate fan, treat yourself to a small piece of chocolate or single chocolate kiss every evening.

7.) Keep Off Marathon Exercises

The heaviest error people make when looking for burning fat and slim down is to have one long, extensive work out session. Instead, break your work out plan apart into small chunks durting the day. Take a refreshing walk at the beginning of the day, relish a work out at lunch, and then exercise a little more in the evening. Besides remaining active all day long, breaking up your work out will ameliorate your metabolism.

8.) Mix It Up

If you choose to engage in a diversity of quality exercises will keep your interest going and better allow for maintaining your personal objective of burning fat. Rather than doing the same workouts every day—mix it up! You can do a variety of things: go for a swim one day, or you could jog another, and bike the day after that. Rotating your activities will not only allow you to go through a diversity of sports, it will also help you to better tone your body.

9.) Dump The Happy Hour

For those individuals who want to burn fat quickly and in the long run, avoid alcoholic beverages. Full of sugars and carbohydrates, alcohol is a calorie-rich substance. These void calories can sum up quickly and carry away from essential nutrients that should absolutely be included in your day-to-day dieting. Furthermore, alcohol behaves as an inhibitor for burning fat, even stimulating your body to store fat with even more speed.

10.) Try a Low GI (stands for Glycemic Index) Diet

A low GI diet is an fantabulous technique of burning fat quickly. This diet encourages individuals to eat eminent amounts of nutrients with low rankings on the Glycemic Index. These foods are nutritious and will assist your body in burning down body fats and calories at a faster rate. This diet includes numerous of your favored fruits, vegetable, meats, dairy, and cereal products.

If one of these ten tips helped you to burn fat quickly and to reduce your weight, or if you have other recommendations, please let me know by leaving a comment below. Thanks!

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The Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle Program Review

Sun, 01 May 2011 16:24:11 +0000

Product Overview

The Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle program from author Tom Venuto has been (and still is) one of the best and most successful fat loss programs for quite a long time.

The main program consists of a 341 page guide and is well written and really easy to understand. Nevertheless, I have to mention one “flaw” (if you can call it like that) right in the beginning: unfortunately, the guide is not broken up into individual modules. But that is just my personal point of view.

The first 270 pages of the Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle guide explains nearly everything on fat los and nutrition. It helps you to figure out your body type, your metabolic rate (which is different from one person to another) and gives good advice on how to measure your progress.

A point that I like very much in this program is the fact that Tom Venuto also covers goal setting and how to work on fat loss with the right mindset. Without it you will certainly get overwhelmed with how to get through the product itself (remember, it’s 341 pages!).

And this may be another point to mention: its length. Well don’t get me wrong here. It really is fantastic information if you want to establish your very own diet/fat loss and exercise program, based on qualified information about how your body works and what to do if you want to change your actual nutrition plan. Every piece of information is summarized in a concise way and is easy to understand, but the whole program just might be too much information for somebody who just wants to lose some weight. This program is really not for everyone.

What else is covered in the book? Cardio is another important subject. The best exercises to do, what machines to use, how choose the right exercises, how to avoid injuries, how to boost your metabolism effectively and so on. And the list is not finished here…

Weight training is also covered. For example, you get a list of sample workouts and an impressive “Frequently Asked Questions” guide that explains most of the questions you can have about lifting weights.

The Bonuses

The bonuses go into more detail on some points already mentioned in the main product. Here is a list of the different subjects covered:1) What are the best and the worst foods?2) How can you measure your body fat correctly?3) Healthy (and tasty) recipes to try.

The Author

Tom Venuto is a little more than a natural body builder. He is best known for his online program I am reviewing here: Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle. Also, Venuto has been on the best sellers list at Amazon.com and the New York Times twice. He appeared in the Oprah magazine and has been a guest on many radio shows across the US. Tom Venuto holds a bachelor of science in Exercise Science from Bloomsburg University of PA. He is a member of the National Strength And Conditioning Association, the International Society for Sports Nutrition and the American College of Sports Medicine.

What’s Included In The Program?

The Basic Level:

1) The Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle main guide (341 pages in PDF format).
2) Three Reports, ‘Foods That Burn Fat’, ‘Food That Turn Into Fat’, the third one going into detail on the food ‘grades’.
3) 25 tasty fat loss recipes that help you to gain muscle mass along the way.
4) Another Bonus report on how to measure your body fat properly (it goes into more detail than the main guide).

If you choose the Deluxe Level you get everything that’s in the basic level PLUS this:

1) The ‘Fat Burn Files’, 10 interviews with the author of the Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle Program, Tom Venuto himself (about 265 transcribed pages)

Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle Review – The Pros and The Cons:

The Pros:

1) The guide is very comprehensive
2) Covers everything in great detail (341 pages)
3) The program’s success based on the results of ‘real’ people
4) In depth explanation on how your body processes protein, fat and carbs
5) You will know what to eat to your body good and why you should do it
6) Full 60 days trial period and money back guarantee.

The Cons:

1) Because of the sheer volume, the Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle Program can cause serious information overload. You simply have to dig yourself through the program and put in into action, bit by bit.
2) In the first place, the program had been created to help people who want to build muscle mass.

User Comments

Here are a few testimonials from the Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle Website:

“Tom, I purchased your plan last year, and as of today I have lost 40 lbs, I went from a size 18 to a size 10. My daughter got married this past weekend and I was amazed that I reached my goal of wearing a size 10 to her wedding. I am a nurse, my patients all ask me what my secret is and I tell them, “Burn The Fat.” I have even had a few patients ask me where “that other nurse” is, because I lost so much fat, they don’t even recognize me!”
Linda Hyatt, USA*

“I like the nutrition program because I can customize it to my liking. I never get bored.”
Joanna Crowe, B.C., Canada*

“I’ve been using your program for 1 month. I’ve dropped 8 lbs., 4 inches on my waist and 2% on my body fat. I still have a way to go but I can’t believe how quick my stomach is shrinking. You can actually see that I work out now. This program kicks ass.”
Matt Malena*

“Burn The Fat Feed the Muscle (BFFM) has changed my life. I have lost 3 dress sizes in 4 months and feel better than ever before. I now have my husband on the program. If we can do it with 4 kids and full time jobs — anyone can.”
Lynn Ramirez, California, USA*

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* These are the results that people get who put the Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle Guide into action. However, most people would probably not finish reading the product or put it into action. So the results mentioned above are far from typical.
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Our Rating:

We give Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle Program a 5 (out of 5) star rating.

Final words: Is the Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle Program Something For You?

The Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle guide is not just another book to read and forget, but it is a real work book (and you should take this term literally). The author puts you on the starting line when he tells you that we are all individuals and that our bodies react differently to carbohydrates, proteins and fat. This program is not a sprint, but more like a marathon: in the beginning, you need to adapt the amount of proteins, carbs and fat in your diet based on the results you are getting. The overall objective is to get a diet that perfectly suits the needs of your body.

This guide surely is lots of information and you have to put in quite an amount of time and effort, but don’t forget the whole Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle program is the result of years of testing by author Tom Venuto, his coaching clients and colleagues.

So, if you are really serious about changing the way you live and eat, if you want to live and eat healthier and build some muscles along the way, this program is an essential reading for you and you should give it a try by clicking on the following button…

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Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:38:48 +0000

Welcome to the Virtual Figure Coach Website!
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What can you find here?
This blog is about tips and tricks on health, fitness, body building and everything that is in between. You will find product reviews of popular fat loss programs, quick tips on how to work your body effeciently as well as nutrional advise.

So, welcome again. And since we are publishing more information overtime, please feel free to check back often.
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