A Question I get asked a lot is: What does your Slow Carb Menu look like?

When I say Menu Im talking about what are the meals I eat on a daily basis. I think in general as people, we love to have a look inside someones life as to what they are doing and how it can help others going forward.

So I wanted to put together my Slow Carb Diet Menu to give you some thoughts as to what you can eat. This is based a bit on the Tim Ferris – 4 Hour Body concept but I am also a bit more liberal with stuff like Bacon and am not as regimented with dairy food. (Organic Sour Cream & Organic Cheese).

Take a look at The Scarsdale Low Carb Diet Book. 

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Slow Carb Breakfast

For Breakfast I like to keep this the simplest meal of the day. The less thought the better. I usually wake up and drink a good sized bottle of iced water. This shocks the metabolism in to starting to move, quench’s thirst and wakes you up.

I then follow it up by a 80 – 90% Protein meal. This is the meal that is most important when it comes to protein. I usually end up having 2 Eggs, Bacon with some Pepper & Fresh Chives mixed in the eggs. I am trying to bring myself to eating spinach at 9am but it can be a struggle.

Slow Carb Lunch

For lunch I like to mix it up and really can depend on where I am or what I am feeling like. It usually steps around a quick Salad, the slow cooker or eating out. But here are a few of the regulars on my menu:

Refried Beans, Steak & VegetablesSalad with Moroccan ChickenTurkish Kebab with Large Salad and a little hummusSpiced Mince & Beans wrapped in Lettuce LeavesSlow Cooker Beef Brisket, Bacon & Chicken or Spicy Beef (as I call it)

Slow Carb Dinner

Although not a lot different from the above meals I am a true fan of Mexican food and BBQ. One huge advantage on this diet is BBQ & Mexican are the 2 easiest foods to eat. So Steak & Beans is on the menu a bit. Here are some of my top Slow Carb Dinner Choices.

BBQ Steak (Char Grilled) with a Garden Egg SaladBlack Beans, Diced Steak and Cayenne Pepper with some Grilled Peppers and ZucchiniStir fry with Beef/Chicken, broccoli & Zucchini stripsIf I’m out anything that fits under the rules at a Mexican restaurant.I even had McDonalds the other day by taking off the buns of some burgers lol. Not ideal, but you have to work with what you can find sometimes.

Slow Carb Snacks Snacks

Here are just snacks I have when I get hungry. I do need to note that on this diet you do not really get peckish as such. If I am getting hungry I will usually add a 4 smaller Lunch/Dinner meal.

Almonds & Brazil Nuts (but not too many) Jerky style organic beef Celery sticks Just Drinking lots and lots of lemon water

Well that is my Slow Carb Menu.

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First things first. If you’re reading this article, then I’m pretty sure shrinking the fat on your lower body is very important to you… and I completely understand. However, please note that it is impossible to lose fat from one single area on your body… and that’s not a bad thing! When you follow these 3 steps I’m about to mention, you’re going to improve your total body!

1.) Perfect Lower Body Exercises – The two best exercises for toning up the thighs, butt, and hips are squats and lunges. You can either do both of these workouts using weights or simply using your own body-weight. These workouts are very effective because they are compound movements (utilizing more than one body part at one time). Therefore, not only will you get your lower body in shape quicker, you will also burn off a TON of calories (your legs require a lot of energy when you are working them)!

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2.) Cardio That Works – Now, in order to lose body fat, it’s important that you do some type of cardiovascular exercise. The best type of cardio to do in my opinion is one where you gain the benefits of both low intensity and high intensity aerobics all wrapped up into one workout. This is better known as high intensity interval cardio (switching up the intensity of your workout from high to low in 1 to 2 minute intervals). An Australian professor did some research and has indicated that this type of exercise will increase a hormone in your body called catecholamines. When this hormone is increased, you can lower your appetite, increase your metabolism, and burn away stubborn stored body fat like crazy!

3.) Lower Your Body Fat Percentage – Obviously, if you need to lose a lot of fat off your legs or any other part of your body for that matter, it’s important that you do the right things that will lower your body fat percentage. The most guaranteed way to lower your body fat percentage considerably is by naturally skyrocketing your metabolism to the maximum peak… with FOOD (which also means no starvation or depriving)!

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Asian weight loss methods are such an advantage in the battle for a hot sexy body that it’s surprising more people aren’t aware of them. Asian women have been able to lose weight quickly for generations without having to kill themselves working out or going hungry for days, even just after giving birth! Today we’re going to look at a secret Asian weight loss method you can use to win the battle of the bulge!

This goes without saying, but it’s worth mentioning briefly: Asian women don’t find their size-2 figures in a bottle of pills, or in a potentially dangerous medical procedure, or by going on a “cleanse” diet where we’re drinking lemon water for two weeks!

Stay away from any of these “hot new trends”, as 99% of the time it’s a nonsense scam designed to take your money and potentially cause you health problems down the road.

You don’t need these shortcuts, it’s easy to get the body you want just by following a few routines Asian women do as a part of their normal routine.

Here’s one of my favorites:

The Magic Mushroom Fungus – Cordyceps Sinensis

My Chinese Mother used to feed my sisters and I this strange thing she called a mushroom when we were kids, and I had no clue why until many years later when she told me it was actually a trick to keep us healthy and thin!

Now I understand why after reading the scientific research papers on the mushroom, which is officially called “cordyceps sinensis”, as the results it provides are impressive in terms of weight loss and health.

Cordyseps sinensis is a “superfood”, which means it does many positive things within the body from one serving. It’s not naturally present in North America or Europe, which is likely why few Americans have heard of it prior to the past few years. Now it’s available from organic health food stores and even in capsules for anyone to enjoy and benefit from.

To sum up the main Asian weight loss method behind eating cordyceps sinensis revolves around what happens when people consume it. In independent tests, people who had 10g of the mushroom at every meal (a little over a tablespoon) ate 35% fewer calories than the same-age group that wasn’t given the mushroom.

More amazing, the test group that ate the mushroom experienced a body fat reduction of 5%, even though they were on the same basic non-exercise routine as the group not eating it! This translates into approximately 5-10 pounds of pure fat lost per person, just by sprinkling some of the extract on their meals…impressive isn’t it?

No wonder my Mom made us eat it, haha.

Luckily cordyceps sinensis is widely available now, if there isn’t any at your local food stores try the internet for ordering, just make sure it has “organic” on the label and that it is also “100% natural cordycepts sienensis” on the label.

The Real Way to Easy Permanent Weight Loss

Unfortunately you’re not going to discover true permanent weight loss from just a quick article on my favorite mushroom. In order to really understand how Asian women are able to get their incredibly skinny bodies while eating as much as they want requires a detailed look at all of their secret techniques and methods.

Let me teach you some secret tricks Asian women have been using for years to quickly drop 20 pounds off your belly and thighs in less than a month without any sweating. These simple methods are so easy that you can actually do many of them while in the bathtub or relaxing on the couch watching TV!

Click here to learn Asian weight loss methods and get the body you’ve always dreamed of NOW.

Love and good health always,

Catherine Cheng – Founder, The Skinny Asian Diet

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One of the most successful and fastest way to lose weight is to reduce calories from food, as well as improve metabolic process. However, regardless of the guarantees given by numerous widely used diets and products, metabolic rate can be increased in only few ways, and that is achieved by regular physical exercise and boosting up your heart rate.

One of the main and amazing benefits of exercise is that it boosts up your metabolism. The root cause is actually very simple. Anyone who do physical exercise on a steady basis continue to keep higher levels of lean muscle tissue all the way through their lifetime. Additionally they also develop new muscle. Lean muscle tissue sustains higher levels of metabolism. The truth is, lean muscle tissue burns seventy times as much calories as fat does. Work out can burn calories, and longer durations of exercise lead to increased calorie burning.

While it is a fact that an increase in lean muscle mass also increases metabolic process simply because muscle tissues burn off a lot of calories, and weight loss usually results in certain loss of muscle mass as well. Your muscles have fewer weight to carry, therefore much less muscle is needed. Individuals who stick to intense diets to get a quick weight loss, can drastically decrease their lean muscle tissues and therefore slow their metabolic rate.

There is a widely popular myth around us that says, physical exercise increases metabolism throughout exercise, and for a period of time after the exercise is finished. However, research shows that this strategy don’t have consistent effects.

In general, research on individuals suggest that metabolic process improves whenever the level of muscles in your body increases, however that the amount of extra calories burned after the workout is rather small. And no studies have directly linked the after effects of exercise with significant weight loss. It’s the calories expended doing the exercise that boost weight loss, not the aftereffects of exercise on metabolism.

The second way to increase metabolic process is to boost your heart rate. The heart and other internal organs play a role in the resting metabolic rate, the calories your body burns to keep itself going. In a controlled research that looked at the connection between amphetamines on weight loss, the stimulants triggered greater weight loss.

Heart rate and blood pressure levels went upwards plus intake of food moved down, as well as sensation of hyper and too afraid to eat. Numerous weight loss supplements consist of certain chemicals or herbal stimulants, including guarana, caffeine and also the now prohibited ephedra, which increase metabolic process by pumping up heart rate.

Almost all of the weight loss supplement products that you can buy over the counter, consist of stimulants, although at a lower strength than that is available in many prescription amphetamines. Much like their more powerful version, these are sold for fat burning and lead to fat loss by raising your heart rate as well as blood pressure and lowering your appetite.

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If you are able to succeed at losing weight and sticking to those heart healthy tips give yourself a pat on the back! You are on your way to being heart healthy. However, some people are finding it hard to stick to good habits – and keeping those extra pounds off can be as challenging as losing it. We are surrounded by so many things that can make us break our commitment to maintain a good body weight for our heart health. But don’t be discouraged, as with any problem, there is always a solution if you just keep your mind and your heart to it.

Just think about the benefits of keeping in mind those heart healthy tips and maintaining a good body weight! You will feel stronger, more confident about yourself, you will develop a greater sense of self control, and best of all, you will be in better shape.

What if you have a lapse and slip into your old habits? This will most likely happen when you have had a bad day it’s so easy to fall back to the skip exercise and overeat routine. A relapse happens when you return to your old habits for a couple of days or weeks. If this is happening to you, don’t lose heart. Here are some valuable tips that might just help you out:

1.Don’t equate a relapse to failure. You CAN get back on track, it is possible to eat healthy and stay active once more!

2.Whenever you feel an urge to binge on unhealthy foods, try to set a timer for at least 15 minutes and wait, or you can choose to do something else before you eat. This way, you will be in control of your urges to eat.

3.Recognize the difference between urges (mental food cravings) and hunger (physical gnawing of the stomach).

4.Make a list of other ways or diversions that will help you deal with stress aside from eating. You can start a new hobby, take a brisk walk or you can meditate to calm yourself.

Think about what will happen if you keep in mind these heart healthy tips and reach a healthy weight:

1.Adjust your eating if you make changes to the amount of physical exertion that you do daily.

2.After a full week of dieting and you are still losing weight, you can try adding a few hundred additional calories to your diet.

Once you reach a healthy body weight, its best if you keep a good record of what you normally eat and how much cardiovascular activity you get. This will help you make adjustments if needed.

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It can be quite difficult to know for sure if you do have too much Stomach Fat. You do not want to go rushing off getting diet plans or fasting if you don’t need to. So when is it too much? How can you know for sure and is there some kind of standard measurement?

One of the less scientific approaches is to notice whether or not you can still fit the clothes in your wardrobe AND if you have found it necessary to buy bigger sizes over the past couple of years. You need to answer both these questions together to get the right information about your weight. It may be all your clothes in the wardrobe are bigger sizes you bought some time ago and that you still fit them. But if you had to get bigger sizes previously then there is your answer.

The more scientific answer to this question is to use what is known as the BMI, which is short for your Body Mass Index. Specialist nutritional people use this as a good guide to what range a healthy weight would be for you. This is something you can easily calculate for yourself. First you will need to know what your current weight is in Kilos (approximately 2.2 pounds/Kilo) and what your height is in Meters (approximately 36.9 inches/meter).

What you do is multiply your height by your height and then divide that result into your weight. For example, if your height is 1.6m and your weight is 70kg then that means 1.6 x 1.6

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Many people are going through the process of dieting these days. There are many different reasons for them to do this ranging from health concerns or simply feeling that they could stand to lose a few pounds. Here we will look at why calorie counting is so important when it comes to losing weight.

There are a lot of people that are under the false understanding that calories do not matter as long as you follow a diet. This is not the case as the number of calories that the body consumes is very important to the way our bodies function when it comes to weight control, whether it be gaining it or losing it.

Other things can also be achieved through calorie counting. It is a great way to increase your level of knowledge about what your body needs in order to function at its best. You will also learn a lot of valuable information about what things are in the foods that you eat on a regular basis and how they can effect the way your body performs. By learning these things you will be more in tune with how to eat healthy and maintain better overall health for the rest of your life.

When you first embark on this task you will need to figure out the number of calories that you need in order to maintain the weight you are at right now. Once this is done you can then figure out what you will need to consume in order to lose weight each week. There are numerous resources that can be found on the internet that can help you do this, and many of them come at no charge.

Now you need to look into how many are in the foods that you eat. Keeping a diary of what you eat, including snacks, has been found to be the easiest way for a person to do this. You need to be extremely thorough when you do this as the smallest item can still have a calorie count of some kind that needs to be accounted for in order to use this method properly.

There are numerous books that are available that can help you when it comes to determining the number of calories that are in the foods you eat. There are also a lot of online resources that can also assist you with this as well. This is something that is a personal choice and does not really matter as long as you get the information that you need.

Many people like the idea of using this kind of book. They find that this option helps them as they can take it with them when they go to do their shopping. This can help prevent added calories from being placed in the cart.

There is a lot of information that can be found on the internet when it comes to calorie counting and weight loss. Taking some time to read through some of these resources can be some of the most beneficial time you spend using the internet. Think of it as an investment in your health.

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The motivation behind writing this article is that I realized there are very many guys out there who are struggling with losing weight because they are obese. The ladies go extremely nuts for guys for have muscular body physiques and if you are obese they hardly recognize you. So guys, if you are tired to being overweight then you need to follow the tips below which will enable you to lose weight. The first thing you need to do if you want to lose weight is to find out more about how your body operates.

The male body does not operate the same as the female body. The first difference comes in there metabolic rate, men have a higher metabolic rate than women. The second difference comes in the level of testosterone that each has, men have a lot of testosterone compared to women. The men are less likely to store fat since they have a lot of testosterone.

If you are a man you need to prevent the accumulation of fat in your body since it is going to affect your quality of life as well as increase your chances of contracting diseases such as; diabetes, prostrate cancer and heart attack. Below are a few tips for men who want to lose weight:

1. Its all about changing your life style

When it comes to losing weight, it’s all about changing your lifestyle and not about going on a fad diet. You need to avoid using fad diets. This is because fad diets will make your body to go into starvation mode. When your body is in starvation mode it starts to burn muscles instead of fat so that it can preserve energy. The loss of muscle tissues will cause your body metabolism to slow down. The decrease in your body metabolism is going to make you burn fewer calories. Thus although fad diets are going to make you lose weight fast, you still end up gaining the weight after some time. You need to avoid this feeding frenzy and instead change your lifestyle to involve eating healthy meals.

2. Low carbohydrates

If you want to significantly reduce the fat which is being stored in your body then you need to lower your carbohydrate intake. This is because they are easily converted into fat by the body. You need to focus on taking complex carbohydrates since they are not absorbed fast by the body hence they do not end up being converted into body fat. You meal should contain whole grain meals.

3. High proteins

Proteins are the building blocks of muscles. If you want to lose weight you need to work on increasing your lean muscles since they are responsible for increasing your body metabolism. Since you are also supposed to undertake intense weight training in order to lose weight, proteins will help fuel the training and in the repair of the muscle tissues. You should eat both animal proteins as well as plant proteins.

Dane Fletcher is the world’s most prolific bodybuilding and fitness expert and is currently the executive editor for BodybuildingToday.com. If you are looking for more bodybuilding tips or information on weight training, or supplementation, please visit www.BodybuildingToday.com, the bodybuilding and fitness authority site with hundreds of articles available FREE to help you meet your goals.

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By now you have probably tried all kinds of diets and exercises but are still struggling with your weight problems. You have probably noticed that as you stopped dieting, you would gain the pounds back. If this is you, then have you considered an alternative and more effective way – weight loss hypnosis?

So how does weight loss hypnosis work? More importantly, does it work? Well, first of all we need to understand that weight problems, like other disorders, are usually associated with deep rooted negative beliefs. Regardless of your efforts, there are self-limiting beliefs in your subconscious mind that make you fail. This is where weight loss hypnosis can help.

Hypnosis is the process of altering your state of consciousness in order to modify a certain behavior. During the hypnosis process, positive messages or suggestions are planted into your subconscious mind to replace the established negative beliefs that cause weight problems. This is helpful in developing positive thinking patterns and promoting healthy behaviors.

During hypnosis, you are relaxed, your attention is highly focused, and you are more receptive and responsive to the positive messages for accomplishing more healthy behaviors. Some of the benefits of this strategy are:

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What kind of cardio are you doing? If you’re doing long, slow, low intensity cardio, then you’re going to burn calories WHILE you’re exercising.

Is this most effective fat burning cardio you can do? Want to know what type of cardio all my Eastbourne Personal Training clients are doing? For the time and energy you invest, is there a more effective way? Is it possible to burn calories even AFTER your exercise session is over? (As well as burning calories DURING exercise?)

Of course! If you’re ever heard of interval training then this is your solution. With interval training you can cut your workout time literally in half and you’ll burn more calories during your workout. As well, some studies have proven that you’ll continue to burn calories for up to 48-72 hours AFTER your workout with an elevated metabolic rate. This means that you could train on Monday morning and still be burning calories Tuesday night!

Sound too good to be true? What’s the catch?

The kicker is that for the short time invested in interval training, you really need to push yourself and get a sweat on. It’s not called ‘high intensity’ for nothing. There’s a variety of ways you can incorporate interval training into your workout:

Running Swimming Rowing Stair running Jumping jacks

And there are a number of ways you can set your work to rest sets up. For example: -Do 20 seconds of HIGH INTENSITY work, and follow it with 10 seconds of rest. -Do 30 sec of work with a 20 sec rest. – Do 40 sec of work with a 20 sec rest. -Do 15 sec of work with a 15 sec rest. -Be creative, there’s no ONE way to do it. The key is to get the heart rate elevated and then let it slow down and repeat for up to 20 minutes.

Take a look at sprinters…

Sprinters have events that are between 10-40 seconds in length, so their training reflects preparation for these events. They do short bursts of intense activity followed by short rests. Then they repeat this over and over again.

In other words…interval training.

Do you see much body fat on a sprinter? They are some of the leanest athletes around with 4-6% of body fat.

Now, let’s look at marathon runners…

A marathon is a long event and these athletes train for hours at a much lower pace. Is this the ‘look’ you’re after? Often marathon runners have some muscle, but it may not be what you had in mind…

In these pictures, what physique looks the most healthy?

Go figure, what physique is using interval training? What kind of cardio is the most time efficient method of burning fat? How will you use your cardio time?

All my Personal Training clients in Eastbourne use interval training to get the most out of their workouts. Take a look at the results they are getting in the Success Stories section of the blog. Josh Warrell is a personal trainer who conducts a program called Personal Training Eastbourne that is available to East Sussex locals. Josh also runs a great blog Fitness Expert Josh

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