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Turning 40 and getting fat?

eatSmart — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:00:06 +0000

Are you turning 40 this year? Have you decided to finally lose the weight and get healthy this year? If you’ve been battling with weight and belly fat for years, it often takes a major event like turning 40 to give you the definite motivation to reach your weight loss and health goals.

Healthy eating is a surely important part of the equation when it comes to being at your fittest as you enter your 40s, but fitness is also an important component that you should not ignore.

When it comes to fitness, you surely want to turn to experts like Mike Geary who specializes in this sort of thing.

That said, when it comes to really understand the power of healthy eating and it’s long term effect on your weight loss goals, I think this book that features fat burning foods is an excellent place to start.

>>> Foods that burn fat?!?!

The book is full of interesting fat burning techniques like how to buy fat burning vegetables!

It turns out that there is a specific class of vegetables that contain very specific phytonutrients that actually help to fight against abdominal fat.

>>> Find out more about the best fat burning foods: fat burning foods

Let me explain what they are and how they work … you may already know about how certain chemicals in our food supply and our environment, such as pesticides, herbicides, and certain petrochemicals from household cleaners, cosmetics, etc., can act as xenoestrogens.

Xenoestrogens are chemicals that you are exposed to that have an estrogenic effect and excess exposure can cause hormone balance disruptions for both men and women. In other words, these can wreak havoc in the body for both guys and gals.

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These estrogenic chemicals that we are exposed to on a daily basis can stimulate your body to store belly fat, along with many other problems.

So here’s where this specific class of vegetables comes in handy…

One of those cool tricks he teaches in his program is that cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, kale, cabbage, etc., contain specific and unique phytonutrients such as indole-3-carbinol (I3C) that help to fight against these estrogenic compounds…

And by fighting against these belly fat stimulating estrogenic chemicals, this can help you fight against abdominal fat!

So there you go … just another excuse to do what mom always told you and eat more broccoli!

>>> A Complete Fat Burning System

Mike reveals at least 12 other specific foods, teas, spices, etc., that help to combat the xenoestrogens and can help you to burn abdominal fat faster in this complete system.

Aside from excellent diet advice, Mike’s program shows you exactly how and when to exercise for maximizing your fat-burning potential.

I strongly recommend you take a look at this system if you want to lose fat before turning 40 (and if you are already in your 40s, it’s not too late to trim down before your next birthday!).

>>> Find out more about the best fat burning foods: fat burning foods

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Flat abs secrets revealed

eatSmart — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:00:38 +0000

I’m not an expert on weight-loss or getting rid of stubborn fat. But I know (and have recommended to you) some of the top experts around.

And according to my best health and fitness resources, one of the most common types of questions they get are those which revolve around the struggles most people are having with losing that flabby stomach fat that doesn’t seem to want to go away no matter what they try.

Not long ago, I had featured a product created by Mike Geary that was quite well received by readers because it featured a list of foods (from your kitchen that can help you burn fat. If you missed it, you can catch the feature here: Foods that burn fat that you can find in your kitchen

Mike is a well-known expert who deals exclusively with the most effective strategies for losing stomach fat so you can finally uncover those elusive six pack abs everyone desires.
>>> You can learn more about him and his products at: Truth about Flat Abs

Some of Mike’s strategies deal with nutrition aspects and others deal with training techniques, but I was impressed to see that Mike has put together one of the most comprehensive resources for dealing with all of the aspects necessary to finally get rid of that nasty belly fat for good.

The key is that Mike focuses on the REAL techniques that are going to get you lasting results, and teaches you how to avoid all of these “quick-fix” scams and gimmicks that are all over the infomercials and the internet these days.

Several of the mistakes that Mike see’s every day where people are going wrong in their fat loss attempts are:

1. Most people are wasting too much of their time doing hundreds of reps of ineffective crunches, situps, and other “abs pumping” exercises in their attempt at losing stomach fat.

* Mike has discovered that there are certain highly effective exercises that stimulate your metabolism much better, and increase your fat burning hormone levels much more. These exercises that Mike outlines are the best of the best for getting a lean, chiseled body.

* Surprisingly to most, the majority of these most effective exercises for stomach fat loss are NOT “abs-specific” exercises. Not only that, but Mike shows you how to combine and sequence them to get the best metabolic and fat loss results possible, changing the shape of your entire body.

2. Most people are wasting way too much time doing hours upon hours of boring monotonous cardio routines.

* Mike has researched this topic extensively, including an intensive study of the different modalities of cardiovascular exercise. After all of this research, he’s discovered that the majority of people out there are not doing the right types of cardio exercise. In fact, most people may actually be inadvertently decreasing their metabolic rate by doing too much of the wrong types of cardio!

The strategies that Mike reveals in his program go beyond “interval cardio” too.

>>> You can learn more about him and his products at: Truth about Flat Abs

3. Most people are failing miserably with fad diets. Mike reveals exactly why most low-carb or low-fat diets are actually working against what your body needs to become lean and ripped and maintain it for life! Mike shows you exactly how to stop falling for the gimmick diets and finally develop a truly healthy eating style that you can actually enjoy for life without being overly restrictive. It’s actually easier and more enjoyable than you believe!

Go to Mike’s Truth about Flat Abs site today and discover the exact system that Mike is using to help thousands of his clients from all over the world get leaner than they’ve ever been before.

This system will help you to lose that stubborn stomach fat that has plagued you for years, so you can finally get that sexy six pack that you’ve always wanted.

>>> You can learn more about him and his products at: Truth about Flat Abs

Don’t forget to visit Mike’s site today, as he’s giving away some great free bonus reports and other tools that might not be available much longer: Truth about Flat Abs

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Shape Magazine Exercise series

eatsmart — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:15:32 +0000

Shape Magazine is a leader in the fitness publishing arena.

Every month hundreds of thousands of women refer to the pages of Shape Magazine to help them with their nutrition and fitness goals.

If you are looking to get into shape and you don’t have time to run to the gym, you’ll surely want to check out these series from Shape Magazine that target very specific parts of your body.

The most exciting part is that these exercise series cost less than $15!

I’ve outlined a few fitness exercises that target some of the areas of the body that women are more concerned with. You’ll also want to check out the short videos that give you a sneak peek of the program before you buy it!

1) Shape: Your Butt, Hips & Thighs ($14.99)
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>>> Check out the sneak peek of the Shape: Your Butt, Hips & Thighs before you buy it:

2) Shape: Bikini Body All Year-round – Toning Workout ($14.99)
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>>> Check out the sneak peek of the Shape: Bikini Body All Year-round – Toning Workout before you buy it:

3) Shape: Bikini Body Camp – Redefining Workout ($14.99)

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4) Shape: Bikini Body All Year-Round – Cardio Workout ($14.99)
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>>> Check out the sneak peek of the Shape: Bikini Body All Year-round – Cardio Workout before you buy it:

5) Shape: Your Abs ($14.99)
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6) Shape: Long, Lean and Strong ($14.99)
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7) Shape: Pilates Workout – Firm-Up from Head-to-Toe ($14.99)
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#8) Shape: Bikini Body Camp – Transforming Workout ($14.99)
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9) Shape: Pilates Workout – Makeover Your Abs, Butt, and Thighs Fast! ($14.99)
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Kathy Smith exercise series

eatsmart — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:56:41 +0000

OMG! Did you know Kathy Smith was 58?

Yup, personal trainer and fitness guru Kathy Smith was born December 11, 1951!

Kathy Smith has been producing fitness videos and DVDs for decades now. She’s a true inspiration to so many women and honestly if you are looking for a role model of what a woman approaching 60 looks like … Kathy Smith is the example of the new body!

It’s true that most of us will never log in as many hours of exercise as the average personal trainer, but the reality is that Kathy Smith has been consistent her entire life and that’s why she’s able to look this amazing at 58.

Kathy Smith has created this series of workouts that are ideal for women who are time-starved but who are still determined to keep fit as they age.

>>> Kathy Smith’s Workout series include these body-slimming exercises:

* Kathy Smith’s All New Matrix Method Ultimate Sculpt

* The Lean Walk System with Kathy Smith

* Walk Fit with Kathy Smith

* Pump Up the Pace with Kathy Smith

* Let’s Go Disco with Kathy Smith

* Better Body Walk Fit with Kathy Smith

* Weight Loss Walk Fit with Kathy Smith

* Country Walking with Kathy Smith

* Kathy Smith’s 6 Week Shape Up…Get Slim & Healthy NOW!

* Walking Easy with Kathy Smith

Have you noticed that six of these workouts are about walking? Now walking won’t give you a Madonna body, but walking a lot will help your overall fitness. I train a lot, but I walk every opportunity I get.

The human body was designed to move and walking comes naturally to all of us. Not to mention that when it comes to low cost ways to get into shape, you cannot beat walking!

If you workout with one of the most respect personal trainers in the business and a woman who proves that aging can look that beautiful, you’ll want to check out Kathy Smith’s program.

>>> Just click on arrow to check out the Kathy Smith’s Workout series:

Shape Magazine presents Shape Your Body

eatsmart — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:04:58 +0000

I think a lot of people give up on maintain a long term fitness regime because they get bored quickly. For others it’s because they’ve not been able to find a fitness program they enjoy enough that they’d actually be happy to stick to it for years to come.

I think if you have made the decision to get back into shape this year for the first time (or for the first time *again*), you’ll want to start with a program that gives you a variety of exercises so you can try out a few options and decide what works best for you and your lifestyle.

The Shape Your Body Exercise series includes fitness exercises from some of the top fitness experts:

* Fit at 40

* Sara Ivanhoe

* Kathy Smith

* Matthew Reyes

* Shape Magazine

* Tamilee Webb

* Kristi Molinaro

* Tracey Mallett

>>> Here are all the fitness lessons you can learn from Shape Your Body series:

* Shape: Pilates Workout – Makeover Your Abs, Butt, and Thighs Fast!

* Download Indoor Cycling Workouts In MP3 Format

* The Lean Walk System with Kathy Smith

* Elliptical Training Package with Tracey Mallett

* Bollywood Burn: Hemalayaa

* Pulse Yoga Express

* 3-in-1 Total Body Fitness: Desi Bartlett

* Core Fusion Body Sculpt – Exhale

* Creative Core Abs: Shiva Rea

* Yoga on the Edge

* Shape: Bikini Body All Year-round – Cardio Workout

* I Want Those Abs

* Hard Core Abs

* Fit @ 40 Beginner/Intermediate Workout

>>> Just click on arrow to check out the Shape Your Body series:

Best workouts from Fitness Magazine

eatsmart — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:34:45 +0000

The New Year Resolutions are in full swing and I bet you 100% that fitness is part of the top-3 on most people’s lists.

The gyms across North America will experience their busiest month of the year. Well-intentioned souls will line up, fill papers, pay fees, shop for fitness wear and head to the gym.

By the end of January much of the “this year I will lose the weight” mantra will have died down.

Life gets in the way, people get busy, the weather doesn’t co-operate … those are only some of the dozens of excuses that will keep a lot of people at the same weight they were last year.

Fitness has to fit into your lifestyle or else it won’t work. You have to make it fit and find the best ways to ensure that you keep up with your exercise.

If driving to the gym everyday makes no sense for you after you’ve finished a 10-hour day, then you have brought fitness closer to home. That means you may need to take a look at DVD workouts, the Your Shape Wii program with Jenny McCarthy or some fitness lessons you can download on your computer or laptop!

Fitness magazine is quite aware of how busy life can get and they’ve created a series of fitness lessons for you to do at home.

This series features some of the best fat-burning workouts from Kathy Smith, Desi Bartlett, Shiva Rea, Tamilee Webb and Tracey Mallett. You’ll even be able to check out a powerful 4 week all-over makeover!

Here are all the fitness lessons you can learn from Fitness magazine:

* Yoga For Morning, Noon & Night

* Get Fit All Year with Tamilee Webb

* The Lean Walk System with Kathy Smith

* Pulse Yoga Express

* 3-in-1 Total Body Fitness: Desi Bartlett

* Core Fusion Body Sculpt – Exhale

* Flow Yoga for Beginners: Shiva Rea

* Bollywood Burn: Hemalayaa

* Fitness Magazine Download Club

* 6 Weeks to Sexy Abs

* Bikini-Ready in 4 Weeks

* 4 Week All-Over makeover

* Total Body Workout

* Get Fit on the Go Pack

* Yoga for Athletes®

* Elliptical Training Package with Tracey Mallett

>>> Just click on arrow to check out the Fitness Magazine program:

Women Fitness | Fit at 40

eatsmart — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:11:46 +0000

I have a real issue (I mean I REALLY have an issue) with people who think that women after 40 cannot be fit and fabulous! It’s amazing how many people believe it’s harder to be fit after 40 than it is to learn Chinese (one of the hardest languages to learn).

The reality is that fitness begins in your mind! You have to decide that you are ready to lead a much healthier and happier life.

It’s true that if you’ve been a couch potato your entire life, it’s going to be quite the steep hill back to a healthy weight and strong body, but it CAN be done (YES, IT CAN BE DONE).

If you’ve been active your entire life and you’ve been conscious of your diet you most likely will find that turning 40 doesn’t change all that much.

I can name a long list of Hollywood female celebrities who look better after 40 than they did when they were younger, but I know there is the bias of “celebrities having enough money to pay for 24/7 services with personal trainers, personal chefs, nutritionist and a legion of baby sitters”. It’s true that the life and lifestyle of a Demi Moore is quite different from that of the average woman. That said, I could name a long list of everyday women I know who are over 40 who have busy lives and kids, but who look smashing!

These everyday women made the decision that they were going to do whatever it takes to ensure they remained at a healthy weight and they kept their bodies strong as they age.

If getting into shape and dropping the extra weight after 40 is challenging to you, there might be an easy solution to help you get a body you love.

The Braun Fit at Forty Fitness Exercise Series was created to get women after 40 into the habit of exercising regularly to keep a strong body and a strong self-esteem as they grow older.

Here are all the fitness lessons you can learn from the Braun Fit at Forty Fitness Exercise Series:

* Fit at 40 10-minute Full Body and 32-minute Advanced Workouts

* Fit at 40 Beginner Workout

* Fit at 40 Beginner/Intermediate Workout

* Fit at 40 Intermediate Workout

* Fit at 40 Intermediate/Advanced Workout

The Fit at 40 is a series of intermediate and advanced exercises that will help you become one of those fit, sexy and confident women who ages well!

>>> Just click on arrow to check out the Women Fitness | Fit at 40 program:

Yoga Fitness at home!

eatsmart — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:00:53 +0000

I was talking to my friend Dan (he’s in his mid-60s) and we were discussing how his daughter Jessica (she’s in her early-mid 30s) was a yoga instructor in London and how she embraced the practice with a lot of passion.

I remember telling Dan how incredible it was that the practice of yoga had exploded so much since the late 1990s. He corrected me and explained that there have been many resurgences of yoga and he still remembers the 1960s and 1970s where everyone seemed to be doing some type of yoga practice or another.

I thought this time it might be different, but it just might be because I had no recollection of the 1960s and 1970s yoga movement.

I first tried yoga in the mid-90s because my ex-Parisian-husband had decided at the time that he was going to master yoga.

I have to say he stuck to the practice for a long time and he was really good at it and seemed to enjoy it a lot. I on the other hand could never wrap my mind around the whole “calmness” of yoga because every time I practice yoga I always felt restless and for whatever reason my mind seemed to kick into gear the second I walked into a yoga class. Each pose became an opportunity to think of the million-and-a-half things I had to do.

I tried so much to let myself go, but I never could and just stopped practising yoga for a while. I remember the studio I used to go to the owner was this serene woman with a soft and calm voice. She was always beaming and seemed to never have a care in the world. She’d invite us for tea after the class and I remember attending a few workshops at the studio where a bunch of super-serene people sat on the floor closed legged and soaked in the gospel of the speaker.

I would leave those workshops always wondering what was wrong with me? Why could I not calm my mind? Why could I know radiant contentment like my professor?

I personally think it’s because I had not yet found the right yoga practice for me. There are many types of yoga and it’s not until I discovered hot yoga (aka Bikram yoga, which works toward wellness, restoration and rejuvenation) that I was able to relate to my super-severe teacher.

>>> I enjoyed hot yoga so much that I had to write about it: Hot yoga is great to increase flexibility!

The challenge of doing yoga in a room that was heated at 37 Celsius, 100 F was a challenge I wanted to take on and in the process I was finally able to appreciate the practice of yoga and I was finally able to leave a yoga studio feeling like I was floating on air.

Yoga is a great practice, but not the most cost-effective because you have to pay per class or for packages that can easily run into the thousands of dollars for the year.

If you are looking to start integrating yoga into your lifestyle for fitness or simply to reduce stress, this series of yoga exercises designed for you to do them at home is a great place to start.

>>> The Yoga Fitness at home series includes these lessons:

* Yoga Breathing – Richard Freeman

* Yoga for Emotional Flow – Stephen Cope

* Yoga Wisdom – Georg Feuerstein

* Yoga Matrix – Richard Freeman

* Yoga Chants – Richard Freeman

* Download Yoga Workouts in MP3 Format

* Introduction to Universal Yoga with Andrey Lappa

* Insight Yoga with Sarah Powers

* Viniyoga Therapy for the Lower Back

* Viniyoga Therapy for the Upper Back

* Yin Yoga: The Foundations of a Quiet Practice

* Yoga Link: Core Integration

* Yoga Link: Hip Helpers

* Yoga Link: Shoulder Shape-Up

* Yoga for Beginners: Desi Bartlett

* Yin & Yang Yoga: Simon Low

* Flow Yoga for Beginners: Shiva Rea

* Radiant Heart Yoga: Shiva Rea

* Yoga to the Rescue: Feel Good from Head to Toe

* Yoga on the Edge

* Jivamukti Yoga: David Life

* Kundalini Yoga to Detox & Destress: Maya Fiennes

>>> Just click on arrow to check out The Yoga Fitness at home:

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