The Power Of Your Metabolism 24/01/2012
 The Metabolic difference between a pound of muscle and a pound of fat is quite different. Muscle burn can burn up to four times more calories. If you weighs 11 stone and have a healthy 20 percent body fat you will burn about 200 more calories per day than a someone who weighs 11 stone with about 35 percent body fat. So you should look to tone up and increase your metabolism. Your Metabolism decreases as you age so it is important to stay active in anyway you can. Avoid 2-3 week diets. Make long-term lifestyle adjustments! 2 week diets send your body into starvation mode which may temporarily Lose weight but it will eventually slow down and stop. Lifestyle adjustments to your diet means that you may lose weight at a slower rate but the weight you lose will be more long lasting. To Your Greater Health Click Here For More information On How To Lose Weight Dominic 1 Comment  Maybe you’ve never thought of it this way but, even if you don’t agree, right now you starring in your own movie. That particular movie is called “Life”. You play the part that YOU choose. You can never control all the elements of it. It’s impossible, but you’re in it none the less. You’re an actor whether or not you like it. You choose the exact way to play the role but and you can change it if you don’t like it. As I said playing is the only option. Your objective, barring accidents, is to make it through to the natural end of your movie. We’re all playing our respective parts. At this point your performance requires that you make the most of the character you’re playing. You’re allowed to capitalize on your natural inherent characteristics – your gender, your intelligence, thin, short, dark-haired, creative, tall, pretty, blond – or whatever combination you might have. To give your best performance you should be in shape. Remember you want to get to the natural end of your role. Lose weight now so you can change the emphasis in the part you play. Lose weight now and minimize the chance that you should expire prematurely. Earlier I mentioned that the goal is to make it to the natural end but that requires making strategic decision. Losing excess fat, directly or indirectly, is one of them and you need to work this into your act. Begin your next significant act today. I’m hoping to convince you that your best performance is yet to come and can begin now, if you want to. No one knows exactly when their part will end and, by definition, when each of us will expire. Let it not be unnecessarily health-related. The biggest question now is - Are you happy to keep bumping along as an extra in your own life story? And, even more importantly, if losing excess fat today that threatens your longevity is not your highest priority, then when would be good for you? Make your next act your finest one. Love yourself more. Commit to losing weight now. Change stuff. Rid yourself of the physical, mental and emotional clutter that holds you back. Ignore the noise that distracts you. Ignore the tat in all the shops that threatens to part your from your money. Stop bringing people into your living room that you would not let in the front door. Commit to becoming more than you are right now. Commit to getting healthier. Start by being more active. Choose to lose weight as a result! Only *you* can do it. Your forefathers and ancestors were tough, resilient and determined and survived directly because of that. I doubt that your early ancestors battled with losing fat or even thought much about their weight. They were not battling sugar addictions or over-supplies of carbs, or battling tricks being played by manufacturers to part them from their assets at the expense of their health all the while telling them that low-fat is good (wrong!). Be a strong ancestor. Get more active, get slimmer, get healthier. Your good Health and Well Being trumps every other physical concern you may have. Your hopes, dreams, plans and aspirations hinge upon it. To Your Greater Health Click Here For Additional Weight Loss Info Dominic  Did you know that, according to scientists, we’ve been occupying this planet for some estimated 2.5 million years? Since then, we’ve accumulated a mass of information about our human condition. Unsurprisingly, there is no shortage of material and advice about losing weight, losing fat, slimming down – a condition that has a hugely negative impact on the lives of many of us living in the West. (It’s a bit off topic, before you tell that they can’t prove that, let me say that it is the same scientists and technology that gave us the internet, computers or even the smartphone you’re probably reading this on. You can’t embrace one and disregard the other – it’s all the same technology). Moving swiftly on ... The combined intellect of our scientists has given us new technologies and farming methods. These farming methods coupled with distribution practices make food available cheaply and in abundance. With food available cheaply and conveniently, and at low prices, we take advantage. Doing so make us feel we are living the life we were meant to live. We accept the messages from experts who appear to have our best interests at heart. Yet more and more of us are getting fatter than ever before and dying earlier that we should. This is due in part to us being ignorant about what we eat and the part it plays in our overall health. It is also due in part to the creativeness of the manufacturers and local shops that present us with visually appealing products and smells. This makes it increasingly difficult to not want to partake of the great-looking lovely-smelling food. Everyone else is clearly enjoying that food so why not you – you ask yourself? After all, you’re not a monk! “You’re so worth it” – aren’t you. However, many of you have realised that the messages are not always in our best interests. They are commercially driven with you being the currency. They come at your expense. It is a battle for your wallet from all quarters, often to your detriment. Now more of us want to lose weight or get slim – we all want rid of the excess fat we are carrying – because we no longer like the way we look, we can’t do the things we used to, yet we’re not yet old. We are willing to pay the price while we can. With health and well-being in mind, therefore, here is my list of 11 weight-loss thoughts for 2012 that I want to share with you. Assimilate them and make this year better than the last.
To your greater health and well-being Dominic  This is the time of year where traditionally you look forward to the coming year and imagine a better version for yourself. There is nothing wrong with this per se, but as I see it there really is only one thing you should commit to this year and that is “Staying Healthy” and the easiest way to do that is by Slimming Down – losing weight Your health underpins everything you do. Without it, all is lost. There are plenty of sick wealthy people wishing that their money could buy them health. For the majority of you it should be your number one priority. You may not have thought much about it but your hopes, your dreams and your aspirations really are tied solidly to your health. Slimming Down - Getting Started: Assuming you are sedentary, (for most people the only exercise they do is breathing) what do you need to do to get started? Just do a bit more than you are doing now. For example, if you live in town, walk everywhere (whenever you can). Do more than you do now. Set aside the time and walk any distance that is less than 1 mile or so. That’s about 30 minutes there and back –It is, in the scheme of things, no time at all, but can make a big difference to your health. Slimming Down – Teenager: If you are a teenager, leave the computer games, FaceBook et al, indoors and play some sport instead somewhere other than inside your home. Why not try dancing – salsa or zumba or some other sport like tennis, table-tennis or football? However, you need to commit to it – by that I mean join a club and play in one of the local leagues so that you have to commit. 50’s Slimming Down –If you are in your fifties, looking ahead, there is one big piece of advice I’d make. “Make sure to work your joints to their extreme limit, daily”. It is from this point onwards, (in your fifties) that in the next 20 years or so, your joints will begin to function less if you let them. They do this primarily because we accept that “we’re getting on in age” and we work to avoid any pain in moving our joints. Don’t succumb to reducing your joint movement! That acceptance is the fast-track path to old age and to immobility. Do not readily accept any walking aid when prescribed unless it will actually prevent you from physically falling over. Don’t accept one of those devices used to pick things up from the floor – they save you from bending – and you do not want to stop bending - ever. Beware your doctor, who however well-meaning will probably try to persuade you, but try your hardest to resist. Remember that mobility equals independence. Commit to remaining mobile - Probably the most important thing you should commit to doing this year is to reducing your body weight if indeed you are overweight. This is a big battle for everyone. For some, not today, but surely for most tomorrow. Without weight control, your weight just grows and grows and with it come all sorts of ailments that affect your joints, ability to breathe and move. Commit now to reducing it. Sure, it requires a paradigm shift but it just requires that you get started. Consider getting yourself a personal trainer – someone that can understand your goals and continue to motivate you as you move forward. Second to money management, weight management, especially as food is cheap, abundant and convenient, you need to grab this particular obesity bull by the horns and wrestle it to the ground this year. One thing to note is that as you get older, being over-weight, your inclinations towards slimming down do reduce, and you tell yourself that you can’t do it or that it is too late. Beware of this. So commit to getting fitter by slimming down now while you can. Happy New Year To your greater weight loss Dominic Click Here For Fat Loss Help Related ArticlesLose Weight- The Perfect Meal 25/12/2011
 It is now well understood that our bodies have designed to handle and digest carbohydrates, proteins and fat. But have you ever wondered about the part that each of those three kinds of food play in your meal? Food has at least four distinct roles to play in keeping us alive. 1.Food should be nutritious - to sustain us 2.It should satisfy our hunger and help is to know when we’ve eaten enough. 3.It should regulate our bodies – sugar levels etc 4.It should satisfy our energy requirements But how does this relate to carbohydrates, proteins and fats? - White carbs (bread, pasta, sugar, potatoes, cakes, etc) provide more immediate energy than proteins. - Protein (meat, fish, eggs, etc) , among other things (like forming amino acids that helps form muscle), takes longer to get broken down by the body to glucose (as is carbs) but in a longer time than say potato mash. - Fats (oils, butter, fatty foods, etc) take even longer to break down. The effort required by the body to break down the different kinds of foods varies according to the particular foods. If your meal consisted of solely carbs, the digestive process would be relatively short and you would be hungry again soon afterwards. The length of time it would take to become hungry would decrease by introducing proteins – protein helps you to know when you should stop eating. The effort in breaking down a steak, for example, would be greater than just eating mashed potato. However, fat takes even longer to break down. And as it takes even more effort, than protein it helps to curb your cravings and despite what the supermarkets say with their low fat foods – this has morphed into a huge industry - you do need fat for the reason that it is energy that takes greatest effort to break down and takes the longest time to be converted to glucose. The more effort to break down results in you expending more calories. Eat a small packet of pork scratchings (the kind you get in pubs) and notice that you’ll not be hungry for quite some time. So what can be said about the three foods? I’d say that white carbs help with immediate energy but does little to satisfy you. Proteins help to satisfy your hunger but do little for your immediate energy needs but take longer to become energy. Fat helps with your longer term energy needs and help with keeping you full longer and stops your cravings. What does this all mean? That the perfect each meal should contain carbs, proteins and fats in varying amounts based on factors like 1) the time of day, 2) your kind of lifestyle and 3) what your plans and hopes for your body are. So maybe have less white high carbs/starch (white bread, rice, mash, sugar, potatoes) in the evening more so than in the morning. (Note that vegetables are carbs too but they deserve their own post and I’ve pretty much ignored them so far focussing mostly on white high carbs). Indeed, a good meal (in my humble opinion) should contain about 50-60% of low carb vegetables. Note, also, that not all carbs are the same. They can be considered as simple or complex and play an important part in our diet. They affect the rate at which sugar enters the bloodstream and can therefore be categorised by their gylcemic index and their insulin index (the amount of insulin that gets released by each food) – Simple carbs (sugar) have almost immediate release capabilities while complex carbs release their energy over a longer period (pasta, brown bread) - this is what you're aiming for. So, to ensure that each meal plays its part to the maximum you should aim to include all three kinds of foods in each meal that deal with immediate energy, satiety and cravings – i.e. the perfect meal - make sure to control the quantities. As I alluded to in an earlier post Ian Marber the author of a great easy-to-read book named How Not To Get Fat is far more qualified than I to explain here in our Amazon convenience store To your greater weight loss Dominic Click Here If Your Looking To Reduce Belly Fat Related ArticlesMy First Post! 04/12/2011
Welcome to my first ever blog post. You’ve probably guessed that my interest is about Health, Fitness, Nutrition and Well-being. That’s what this new blog is about. For quite some time people in western countries have long had their basic needs met. We certainly have adequate warmth, shelter and food, plenty of food - so much food that we throw lots of it away. With our huge resources, until recently, food has become cheap and abundant. Just think, McDonalds – you can get a Happy Meal for £2.00 or so. At the same time, a large number of us have grown fatter as our job roles have made less physical demands on us, as we have successfully transitioned to a more service economy where we do less physical work. As a result of being more sedentary, (it’s not the only reason) obesity is fast becoming a big problem and many of us stand to not fulfil our destinies if we continue on as before – in other words, if we don't fix ourselves we’re gonna die prematurely because of our failing organs and over-fat bodies! During the coming blog posts, I’ll share with you my experiences and encounters with Health, Fitness and Nutrition. That might be in the form of reviews of product that I consider useful or beneficial, it might be of food that I consider to worth of a mention, it might be an exercise program for those of you that might be short of time or it might be of books that I find of value or even of ideas I come across that I disagree with. Anything that I think is likely to help or be of value to you I’ll pass on from wherever I find it so that you don’t have to bother. Additionally, I'll add information about things I discover that might affect your overall wellbeing - for example, I recently stumbled across some fantastic pillows that have changed my life - I'll mention those in another post. So in this blog, I’ll do my best to tell you what works and what does not as best I can. When you get a free moment why not drop me a comment letting me know what you think. Let me know if you agree or disagree with my views and have any views or recommendations of your own. Let me know if there is any information you’d like to see here. Kindest regards Dominic | I am ...Dominic Small - a qualified Fitness Consultant & Personal Trainer that operates in and around North West London. ArchivesMarch 2012 CategoriesAll |
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