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Trying to lose weight is tough. It’s real tough. There’s months of eating right and working out to get back into shape. It seems like anything that might make the process just a little bit easier would be welcome. There are many things out there that could help, but what might really work?

There is no miracle cure to lose weight quickly. There simply is no replacing cutting calories and exercise in order to lose weight. There are products, however, that can help you to feel better, pump up your metabolism, help you curb your appetite and just make the journey that much easier.

There are tons of supplements out there that are available, many of which claim to do amazing things. Are any of them true? Well some are probably more hopes than reality. There are a few that are pretty popular. Here’s a list of five weight loss supplements that could help you with your weight loss.

Five Natural Weight Loss Supplements

Hoodia

Hoodia is a very popular natural supplement that decreases your appetite. Your body is used to taking in a certain amount of food after so much eating. When you diet, or adjust your food intake to fit what a normal person eats, your body might go through periods of cravings. Cravings can cause you to think you are hungry and eat more. Hoodia eliminates your appetite, so you do won’t feel hungry. Some people have stated that they didn’t feel a need to eat so they forgot about food.

Does it work? Those who have tried it seem to have felt a decrease in appetite. While there is no conclusive evidence, hoodia still sells well and seems to be somewhat safe. There have been many people supporting hoodia as a natural supplement in support of weight loss or weight maintenance.

Chromium

Chromium is a supplement that supposedly eliminates fat and improves muscles. Chromium is a supplement that humans require, though in very small amounts. You can get chromium in your food, like in Broccoli, grape juice, or in potatoes. It is believed that taking in the supplement actually enhances your body’s ability to improve muscles and get rid of fat.

While no evidence has been gathered about it’s effect, it has proven to be relatively safe. The long-term effects of taking chromium are unknown. While the details of if it works is still unknown, there have been many claims.

Oolong tea

Like many other teas, oolong tea is a natural supplement that can help to boost your metabolism. Most research suggests that it can boost your metabolism by about 4%. It can help when you’re trying to work on increasing your energy for exercise and lose more weight. One of the reasons why this one is so popular is that it has been recommended by Oprah Winfrey.

Oolong tea is just like any other tea, it is just process differently so you get different levels of antioxidants, though the results seem to be rather promising. Mild side effects seem only to be an increase of urination in the beginning, supposedly as your body is getting rid of toxins. The oolong tea is readily available online.

Chitosan

Chitosan comes from the shells of shrimp. It works as a fat inhibitor. It helps to block the fats you are eating from being digested. So if you are on a diet, and you use something like chitosan, it will help lower the mount of fat your body takes in, and it flushes right out with your excess waste.

While thorough studies have yet to be done, it has been deemed to be relatively safe. Again the long-term effects of using chitosan as a weight loss supplement is unknown. Some side effects include bloating and constipation.

Guar Gum

This is another natural supplement that while not quite as popular, it is growing in popularity along with the other supplements. It helps you to lose weight by blocking the absorption of fat. It can also increase the feeling of fullness, so you eat less when you sit down to a meal. It has been deemed to be safe.

Side effects might include diarrhea or flatulence. You must also take plenty of water when taking guar gum or it might lead to a blockage in your intestines. Not many studies have been conclusive to identify if the effects promised are accurate, though it does seem to be promising.

Talk With Your Doctor Before Taking Supplements

As with all supplements or beginning any weight loss program, talk to your doctor before taking. Make sure you stop taking any supplements if you find yourself having any kind of symptoms that seem out of the ordinary. Call your doctor immediately if any side effects seem to be severe.

So there are supplements that might help you with your weight loss program. Taking one or more of these supplements might be an aide, but again, there is no miracle cure. There’s nothing on the market that you can simply swallow and expect results of weight loss over night. It does take effort to be able to lose weight and to be able to keep it off.

All of the supplements are available over the counter at your local herbal or wellness store. They have been deemed safe to use, and since they are all natural, you don’t have to worry about chemicals or toxins. Some of the supplements actually help to detoxify your body.

It can be done though. The supplements listed can also help make it easier. You might try going on a diet. Supplements like the hoodia might take your mind off of food until your next meal. Oolong tea can help you find that extra boost of energy to get you off the couch and into your walking shoes.

So if you are going to get into a weight loss program, do it right. Talk to your doctor. Plan ahead. Eat right. Exercise regularly. Take supplements as needed and as directed by your doctor to help support you in your plans. Most of all, be safe in your goal to lose weight and to help keep it off.

I’m not a huge fan of cardio, spinning, or aerobics in terms of people looking to lose body fat obviously in short time periods. I mean if somebody likes doing it; if somebody wants to be the triathlete, you know what, go ahead and do it and love what you do.

But I’m not a big fan of it for those people I see who are running on the sidewalk and look like they despise every single minute they are doing it.

That is probably a greater percentage of the people who do it when they are looking to lose weight. There are a lot of research studies to say that aerobics and cardio aren’t the greatest way to lose weight. And I’m not a fan of having somebody do stuff they don’t like to achieve a goal when there are other ways to do it.

I’m not a big fan of certain machines in the gym for cardio. It may not be the machine itself, but it may be the excuses. Its human nature that some of these machines allow us to slide by and do stuff that we think is helping us, but subconsciously we’re taking the easy way out.

I have what I call the human nature test; because I always make fun of elliptical machines and I really think that they are not again what people make them out to be.

Let’s say you take 100 people. You go to a mega gym - you’ve got 100 treadmills and 100 elliptical machines - you take 100 people into that room and you say, “Okay, you have to work out for 30 minutes at a pretty good pace. You choose your machine.”

You know darn well that 70-80 of those people are going to be on the elliptical machines rather than the treadmill. To me, that says something. I just think that we’re wired to take the easy way out.

You can extend it even further and say, “Okay, you’ve got 100 people; you’ve got 100 treadmills and a track. Go do your training. You can either do the treadmill or the track.” You know 80% of those people are probably going to use the treadmill.

Humans take the easy way out when given hard choices. The other thing that I’m against in terms of cardio is - I refer to it as one of the dark sides of cardio - is that people can get injured doing a high volume of cardio work.

Of course, to be fair, you can get injured doing a high volume of body building work. When I was young and reading the magazines, I was doing too much upper body work and had a little bit of shoulder problems; not anything I haven’t been able to get over.

So injury risk is often proportional to the volume of exercise you do. Too much volume in lifting, too much volume in cardio, or even too much volume in crunches and you’re going to end up in the doctor’s office or the physiotherapy office.

Ironically, many trainers and physiotherapists are the worst offenders of over-use injuries. There is one physio that I worked in a gym where she worked, and she literally could not walk properly because she did so many spinning classes.

Spinning classes are another thing I’m not a huge fan of. On one side, there’s great benefit to your fat loss program because of the group mentality because social support is huge. Working out in that group encourages you to come back. And a lot of people have fun with it. Plus, its interval training in nature. So lots of good things about spinning.

But I figure, why do something for 45 minutes when you can get the same results in 20 minutes? Also, I’m not a big fan of the high RPM spinning because I think that’s where a lot of hip problems have been developed in people that I’ve trained personally and also in some of the classes I’ve watched.

I just don’t think that it’s great for your hips, especially in women who have hip problems already from childbirth, to be going at 140-160 RPM or whatever they are doing and you just watch their bodies flopping around without the right torso strength and endurance and stability there, they are going to end up with problems.

One last thing I’ll say on this is that an aerobic training program is probably one of the worst places to start a 300 pound person out on a fat loss program because their muscles are not prepared for this and neither are their joints. Quite frankly, I wouldn’t want to run with an extra 120 pounds on my back, or even walk quickly. We need to re-examine where we start people out.

So if you are not getting the results you want but you are doing a lot of cardio, spinning, or aerobics classes, decrease the volume, try some interval training, and focus on quality workouts for fat burning.

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I’m not a huge fan of cardio, spinning, or aerobics in terms of people looking to lose body fat obviously in short time periods. I mean if somebody likes doing it; if somebody wants to be the triathlete, you know what, go ahead and do it and love what you do.

But I’m not a big fan of it for those people I see who are running on the sidewalk and look like they despise every single minute they are doing it.

That is probably a greater percentage of the people who do it when they are looking to lose weight. There are a lot of research studies to say that aerobics and cardio aren’t the greatest way to lose weight. And I’m not a fan of having somebody do stuff they don’t like to achieve a goal when there are other ways to do it.

I’m not a big fan of certain machines in the gym for cardio. It may not be the machine itself, but it may be the excuses. Its human nature that some of these machines allow us to slide by and do stuff that we think is helping us, but subconsciously we’re taking the easy way out.

I have what I call the human nature test; because I always make fun of elliptical machines and I really think that they are not again what people make them out to be.

Let’s say you take 100 people. You go to a mega gym - you’ve got 100 treadmills and 100 elliptical machines - you take 100 people into that room and you say, “Okay, you have to work out for 30 minutes at a pretty good pace. You choose your machine.”

You know darn well that 70-80 of those people are going to be on the elliptical machines rather than the treadmill. To me, that says something. I just think that we’re wired to take the easy way out.

You can extend it even further and say, “Okay, you’ve got 100 people; you’ve got 100 treadmills and a track. Go do your training. You can either do the treadmill or the track.” You know 80% of those people are probably going to use the treadmill.

Humans take the easy way out when given hard choices. The other thing that I’m against in terms of cardio is - I refer to it as one of the dark sides of cardio - is that people can get injured doing a high volume of cardio work.

Of course, to be fair, you can get injured doing a high volume of body building work. When I was young and reading the magazines, I was doing too much upper body work and had a little bit of shoulder problems; not anything I haven’t been able to get over.

So injury risk is often proportional to the volume of exercise you do. Too much volume in lifting, too much volume in cardio, or even too much volume in crunches and you’re going to end up in the doctor’s office or the physiotherapy office.

Ironically, many trainers and physiotherapists are the worst offenders of over-use injuries. There is one physio that I worked in a gym where she worked, and she literally could not walk properly because she did so many spinning classes.

Spinning classes are another thing I’m not a huge fan of. On one side, there’s great benefit to your fat loss program because of the group mentality because social support is huge. Working out in that group encourages you to come back. And a lot of people have fun with it. Plus, its interval training in nature. So lots of good things about spinning.

But I figure, why do something for 45 minutes when you can get the same results in 20 minutes? Also, I’m not a big fan of the high RPM spinning because I think that’s where a lot of hip problems have been developed in people that I’ve trained personally and also in some of the classes I’ve watched.

I just don’t think that it’s great for your hips, especially in women who have hip problems already from childbirth, to be going at 140-160 RPM or whatever they are doing and you just watch their bodies flopping around without the right torso strength and endurance and stability there, they are going to end up with problems.

One last thing I’ll say on this is that an aerobic training program is probably one of the worst places to start a 300 pound person out on a fat loss program because their muscles are not prepared for this and neither are their joints. Quite frankly, I wouldn’t want to run with an extra 120 pounds on my back, or even walk quickly. We need to re-examine where we start people out.

So if you are not getting the results you want but you are doing a lot of cardio, spinning, or aerobics classes, decrease the volume, try some interval training, and focus on quality workouts for fat burning.

Now, please do not get the impression that you have to be in great shape to do this or that it has to be 60 minutes long. You can start with something as simple as a ten minute walk followed by ten minutes with an exercise video. This is cross training too. You can gradually build up from there.
Here are some of the exercises you can use in your cross training program walking, jogging, biking, rowing, stair climbing, swimming, exercise videos, etc. Any combination of aerobic exercises will do. You simply go from one to the next with very little time between them.
Aerobic cross training is beneficial to you in several ways
1. It provides variety which eliminates the monotony often associated with doing the same exercise for a long period of time.
2. If your exercise sessions are less monotonous and more enjoyable, you are much more likely to exercise more often and for longer periods of time.
3. You are less prone to over use injuries that sometimes occur from doing the same exercise movements over and over again.
4. You tone more muscles because you are using more muscles. For example, walking tones mostly the lower body muscles and rowing tones upper body muscles also. Even exercises like walking and biking that both tone lower body muscles, tone them at different angles and each tones some small muscles that the other does not.
5. Aerobic conditioning is very specific to the muscles being worked. For example, you can walk ten miles a day and still be somewhat breathless after climbing stairs because you have not trained the muscles for that specific movement. Aerobic cross training allows you to develop more comprehensive aerobic training.
6. Aerobic cross training is effective for weight loss because your are toning and training the fat-burning systems of more of your muscles. It turns more of your muscles into 24 hour fat burning machines? You are also more likely to exercise on a regular basis and for longer periods of time. this also promotes weight loss and fitness.

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I’m not a huge fan of cardio, spinning, or aerobics in terms of people looking to lose body fat obviously in short time periods. I mean if somebody likes doing it; if somebody wants to be the triathlete, you know what, go ahead and do it and love what you do.

But I’m not a big fan of it for those people I see who are running on the sidewalk and look like they despise every single minute they are doing it.

That is probably a greater percentage of the people who do it when they are looking to lose weight. There are a lot of research studies to say that aerobics and cardio aren’t the greatest way to lose weight. And I’m not a fan of having somebody do stuff they don’t like to achieve a goal when there are other ways to do it.

I’m not a big fan of certain machines in the gym for cardio. It may not be the machine itself, but it may be the excuses. Its human nature that some of these machines allow us to slide by and do stuff that we think is helping us, but subconsciously we’re taking the easy way out.

I have what I call the human nature test; because I always make fun of elliptical machines and I really think that they are not again what people make them out to be.

Let’s say you take 100 people. You go to a mega gym - you’ve got 100 treadmills and 100 elliptical machines - you take 100 people into that room and you say, “Okay, you have to work out for 30 minutes at a pretty good pace. You choose your machine.”

You know darn well that 70-80 of those people are going to be on the elliptical machines rather than the treadmill. To me, that says something. I just think that we’re wired to take the easy way out.

You can extend it even further and say, “Okay, you’ve got 100 people; you’ve got 100 treadmills and a track. Go do your training. You can either do the treadmill or the track.” You know 80% of those people are probably going to use the treadmill.

Humans take the easy way out when given hard choices. The other thing that I’m against in terms of cardio is - I refer to it as one of the dark sides of cardio - is that people can get injured doing a high volume of cardio work.

Of course, to be fair, you can get injured doing a high volume of body building work. When I was young and reading the magazines, I was doing too much upper body work and had a little bit of shoulder problems; not anything I haven’t been able to get over.

So injury risk is often proportional to the volume of exercise you do. Too much volume in lifting, too much volume in cardio, or even too much volume in crunches and you’re going to end up in the doctor’s office or the physiotherapy office.

Ironically, many trainers and physiotherapists are the worst offenders of over-use injuries. There is one physio that I worked in a gym where she worked, and she literally could not walk properly because she did so many spinning classes.

Spinning classes are another thing I’m not a huge fan of. On one side, there’s great benefit to your fat loss program because of the group mentality because social support is huge. Working out in that group encourages you to come back. And a lot of people have fun with it. Plus, its interval training in nature. So lots of good things about spinning.

But I figure, why do something for 45 minutes when you can get the same results in 20 minutes? Also, I’m not a big fan of the high RPM spinning because I think that’s where a lot of hip problems have been developed in people that I’ve trained personally and also in some of the classes I’ve watched.

I just don’t think that it’s great for your hips, especially in women who have hip problems already from childbirth, to be going at 140-160 RPM or whatever they are doing and you just watch their bodies flopping around without the right torso strength and endurance and stability there, they are going to end up with problems.

One last thing I’ll say on this is that an aerobic training program is probably one of the worst places to start a 300 pound person out on a fat loss program because their muscles are not prepared for this and neither are their joints. Quite frankly, I wouldn’t want to run with an extra 120 pounds on my back, or even walk quickly. We need to re-examine where we start people out.

So if you are not getting the results you want but you are doing a lot of cardio, spinning, or aerobics classes, decrease the volume, try some interval training, and focus on quality workouts for fat burning.

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There are so many different weight loss supplements on the market today. With so many of them promising that they are the new “wonder supplement” that is the answer to all your desires, you need to be careful. It’s a jungle out there. In this article we will look at what to look out for, how to choose a weight loss supplement, and some of the reputable weight loss supplements on the market.

Weight Loss Supplement Safety

Remember there are many weight loss supplements on the market that are not approved by the FDA. It is important to make your choice as to a weight loss supplement by doing your due diligence before you make your purchase. The second thing to keep in mind is that your supplement needs to be consumed in moderation. Don’t commence your supplement program by over loading. There have been many cases where people have consumed to much and made themselves sick. Your body needs to slowly adapt.

When taking weight loss supplements it is also wise to acknowledge that the supplement will only assist in weight loss. It won’t solely bring about weight loss for you. Your weight loss supplement needs to be coupled with a sensible well balanced diet, and a regular exercise routine. Exercise helps increase your metabolic rate, thus accelerating your weight loss. If you combine these three elements then you will lose weight safely, and your weight loss will be long term. Remember that a supplement alone will not create long term weight loss.

Some reputable weight loss supplements

Green Teas

The Green Tea weight loss supplement market is booming. Green Tea has significant health benefits. It is high in antioxidants, it is good for the heart and there is little side effects for green tea weight loss supplements. Green teas are an excellent weight loss supplement to commence with.

Resveratrol

Resveratrol is found in skin of red grapes. It has very powerful anti aging benefits and is excellent for weight loss. Resveratrol rapidly increasing your metabolic rate and gives you the the weight loss benefits of consuming a low calorie diet, without dramatically reducing your calorie intake. It also has powerful cell generating properties, helping slow the ageing cycle.

Some Weight Loss Supplements to be cautious of

Ephedra

Ephedra or ephedrine is a stimulant drug that has received much media attention. There have been serious doubts raised as to whether or not this drug is safe as a weight loss supplement. Ephedra is meant to starve hunger and also increase your metabolic rate. There have been cases where patients have had heart complaints as this drug can also lift your heart rate.

Meal Replacements

Meal replacements companies have been growing massively over recent years. People are time poor, and meal replacement offer a way to lose weight fast. Appealing to most, however they have a very low rate of long term weight loss success. The main reason for this that it doesn’t teach portion control. Weight loss requires a shift in lifestyle and by learning eating habits that are healthy. Meal replacement weight loss supplements will help you lose weight short term, however from clients I have worked I have found that these supplements have not created a behavioural shift significant enough to have long term weight loss success.