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What To Do If You Need To Lose 20 Pounds To Fit Into That Itsy Bitsy Teeney Weeny Yellow Polka Dot BIKINI

It's that time of year - when you're thinking about what you're going to look like in a bathing suit.

Will you look spectacular or just plain fat?

What if you could lose 20 pounds in a month - just by restricting a common food.

And do it safely, by eating real food.

By not spending one extra cent on meds or supplements.

Of course, other people have done it - and lost more than 20 pounds in a month.

If you think you can (or even if you think it's not possible), click the picture below, and get your free report.

You have nothing to lose except the weight around your midsection.

Of course, you can spend all your time exercising like a fitness freak for 3 months and MAYBE you'll get the same results.

The right eating plan is 80% of weight loss. The other 20% is exercise.

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Valuable Weight Loss Tip – How To Make Sure You Are Never So Hungry You’ll Eat Anything

F O R  T H E   H U N G R I E S

When you’ve picked a “forever” eating plan to lose weight, you should never get so hungry that you’ll eat anything you can find in your food cabinets, the fridge, or in a a trip to a fast food restaurant. (Here's my "forever plan" - Lose 20 Pounds In 1 Month.)

How do you do that – make sure you’re never so hungry you’ll eat anything?

Let me give you an example – a few days, I was driving a long distance to get to a friend’s house in another state. I got so hungry that I seriously considered pulling off into the interstate rest stop for some fast food. Then I remembered I had packed “emergency food” into a small cooler/lunchbox. It contained a few hard-boiled eggs, some raw nuts, some sliced up veggies, and a stainless steel container of water. I pulled over and ate the “emergency food.”

My point – if you are serious about weight loss, you will be prepared for the “I’m so hungry I’m going to eat anything” events. And, you won’t be eating the stuff that’ll make you feel sick and guilty.

Admittedly, this is not entirely my weight loss tip, but comes from the 10-day detox diet book written by Dr. Mark Hyman (See A 10-Day Super Nutritional Makeover To Detox, Eliminate Food Addictions, and Lose Weight). He writes that you should stock your office, your purse or briefcase, and your glove compartment with healthy food like whole-food protein bars, nuts, and dried wild blueberries to name a few items. His book describes an entire list of “emergency food.”

Be prepared for the “hungries” with healthy food!

Turn OFF Your Fat Switch For Weight Loss Success

Today,  I'm stuck in the house watching the snow come down at an alarming rate and totally avoiding shoveling out of the current major storm! 

So I'm gonna write about how hibernating bears helped a scientist discover the "fat switch." 

I found a book called The Fat Switch by Dr. Richard Johnson. 

He writes that fructose (sugar) makes your body store fat by turning on your fat switch. Sounds like we ARE like hibernating bears!

I checked Dr. Mercola's (mercola.com) take on Dr. Johnson's work because he stays on top of this type of research. Here's a summary of his comments:

According to Dr. Johnson, based on his decades of research: 

“Those of us who are obese eat more because of a faulty 'switch' and exercise less because of a low energy state. If you can learn how to control the specific 'switch' located in the powerhouse of each of your cells – the mitochondria – you hold the key to fighting obesity.”

There are 5 truths that Dr. Johnson explains in detail in his book that overturn current concepts: 

1. Large portions of food and too little exercise are NOT solely responsible for why you are gaining weight. 
2. Metabolic Syndrome is A NORMAL CONDITION that animals undergo to store fat.
3. Uric acid is increased by specific foods and CAUSALLY CONTRIBUTES to obesity and insulin resistance.
4. Fructose-containing sugars cause obesity not by calories but by turning on the fat switch.
5. Effective treatment of obesity requires turning off your fat switch and improving the function of your cells’ mitochondria.

Turning OFF the Fat Switch

Here's how to turn OFF your Fat Switch. 

It's all spelled out in my FREE ebook.

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Who Writes The Best Weight Loss Blog?

I decided I needed to improve agedefiance.blogspot.com because I (think) I was getting way too technical with my posts. So I checked out the best weight loss blogs on the internet in 2 separate online polls.

Most of what I discovered is what I expected: 

• The best blogs are written by young to mid life women who have lost a significant amount of weight. Why don’t men write about weight loss? Maybe they concentrate on weight training blogs?
• The best blogs include workout routines, recipes, and personal chronicles of struggles with weight.
• The best blogs are about real life – what it’s like to take care of kids, work, write a blog, and maintain a weight loss target.

But honestly, I did NOT expect the entertainment factor associated with some of these blogs, especially my favorite blog.

Yum Yucky Donuts

My Fav Blog

http://www.yumyucky.com/ by Josie

Of course I have a favorite blog – it’s an award winning reality blog with exercise and recipe posts. It’s downright real from the occasional expletive to the funky vids to the great recipes. This woman should have her own TV show based on her blog entertainment factor.

The pic above shows Josie’s cake donuts – they look great and don’t have a whole lot of sugar. Bet they taste great!

Just saying -  Josie’s blog is my favorite, but there are other excellent blogs like http://amerrylife.com/ by Mary. She shares things I am interested in. She just did a review of the Fitbit Flex tracking tool.

But I’m Getting Off Point . . .

Right now, AgeDefiance zones in on the periodic product review, strength training, motivation to lose weight, the low sugar/low carb eating plan (remember the free ebook – How To Lose 20 Pounds In 1 Month?).

What do YOU want to see in a weight loss blog?

I am interested in your comments and will do my best to satisfy your needs as someone who really wants to drop weight and feel good about themselves.

Valmillsy

P.S. I thought about doing a poll, but comments seem the more appropriate route to the most important topics for you.

This Simple Carb Is A Major Health Hazard (But We Still Consume It In Excess Every Day)

One food we all eat every day constitutes a major health risk.
Unfortunately, it's built into most processed foods.

It is responsible for the following:

• Losing appetite control (so that we overeat).
• Creating an environment for major disease.
• Putting on unwanted pounds, especially around the waist.
• Feeding cancer cells.

Obesity is the result of consuming food laced with this ingredient and not because people overeat and don't exercise.

Yet we keep eating and drinking it in large quantities. 

Why? It tastes good. We are used to it. We need it like a drug addict needs heroin or a smoker craves nicotine. It's a bad habit that's difficult to break.

This is a problem created a hundred years ago when food manufactures discovered that this ingredient sells food. Consumers eat processed food. They lose control of their appetite and don't realize they are overeating. 

What popular commercial boasts that ":You can't eat just one?" When's the last time you mindlessly munched through a box of cookies or crackers or a oversized bowl of ice cream.

We eat 19 times the daily amount of sugar that our ancestors consumed. 

How Do We Break This Bad Eating Habit?
First, many people need an incentive to change their eating habits. It may not be enough to say that sugar is a major health hazard (smokers still smoke even though they are committing suicide with each cigarette they light up). Listing all the problems that will likely show up at a future date will not incent some people.

If we supply a substitute every time we identify a trigger for sugar eating, that's a good start. That means we have to plan to make sugar substitutes (or foods with lower sugar content) easily available.

Sugar addiction will not disappear on its own. Gradual sugar reduction may be the answer to turn appetite control back on. Essentially, you wean yourself off sugar. We cannot be so strict that we bypass the occasional treat (especially if it's been prepared with less sugar than usual).

An example might help.
If you drink coffee or tea or lemonade with sugar, start cutting down the amount of sugar you use. I used to drink coffee with sugar. After a few weeks of eliminating sugar gradually, I got used to sugarless coffee. And a caution - do not substitute artificial sweeteners. Healthwise, that's even worse than using the real thing.

The First Step 
Keep a food diary. 

Jot down every food and drink you consume (except for water), the amount you eat, and its sugar content. This is easy for processed foods because the amounts are spelled out on package contents. It's somewhat trickier for meals that include several ingredients. You will guesstimate the sugar content. You can look up the sugar content of most individual items online.

The benefit of a food diary is that you will be aware of your daily sugar consumption. You will be surprised at the amount you do it and will start looking for substitutes. You will automatically cut back on sugar.

Double Your Weight Loss

Click HERE to view a video entitled Double Your Weight Loss with a Food Journal.

In the video, Barbara Ficarra, RN, explains how keeping a food journal can make a huge difference and help you reach your goals.