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You Can’t Outrun a Lousy Diet
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A truly healthy way to lose weight is to focus on organic vegetables, fruits, combined with some nuts and healthy fats, and then top this off with moderate exercise. Studies show that those who combine healthy eating and 150 minutes a week of moderate exercise lose more fat and weight than those who only focus on diet.
By the way, you don’t have to do those 150 minutes all in one whack. This would be about 30 minutes of mild exercise, such as walking, some weight training, dancing, or swimming, 5 days per week. Also, those 30 minutes does not have to be done all at one time, either. If you have a super tight schedule, split those 30 minutes up into 3 ten minute sessions. You will get the same benefits as someone who worked out for 30 minutes straight.
Something to note here: one calorie bomb that many people, especially men, don’t consider is beer. An average beer can have 400 to 500 calories. You can down a beer in 10 minutes, but you will have to do three hours of walking to burn it off. It’s easy to see where drinking a beer or two every night, or a six pack on the weekend can blow your weight loss efforts sky high.
Now, when you compare 500 calories worth of apples, well, you probably couldn’t eat that many apples in one day. You would be really full after eating just half that amount of apples but one beer will only leave you hungry for real food in about 30 minutes. The idea here is to emphasize that increasing your consumption of healthy foods will greatly cut back on your overall calorie consumption, which will cause your body to lose weight. Not only that, but increasing your consumption of healthy foods will also give your body tons of nutrition and disease fighting compounds.
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People would be much better off adopting a high fat, low carb, mainly plant based organic diet than chowing down on diet sodas, synthetic vitamin water, and sugar filled “protein” bars.
Losing weight is all about smart eating and those little victories that add up to real change. Yes, changing our eating habits is difficult but the payoff in your health and longevity is huge. To repeat an often used phrase: Just Do It!
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