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When people discover that they’ve gained some weight, the first reaction of most is to eat less food. Sounds reasonable. Food is what got us into trouble, so it follows that eating less of it will make everything right again. Nearly every diet or eating plan in the magazines or on the Internet says pretty much the same thing: eat less food. Therefore the answer to this problem is very simple and handy. Sure, going with less food than usual is a challenge, but it also carries with it a sort of expiation feeling.

But simply lowering food intake doesn’t work. Over the thousands of years of evolution the human body had to face starvation many times and had to find ways of surviving. We are the offsprings of those who managed to survive periods of starvation by coping with the lack of food. Metabolism adjusts. A simple decrease in the amount of food is not going to make a big difference because the body will simply compensate for and require less energy to operate.

So eat smart, not less. Overweight people and thin people eat roughly the same number of calories per day because they share the same required amount of food. However, overweight people eat far more fat than thin people, who seem to prefer complex carbohydrates that are easily broken down and metabolized by the body. This is the biggest difference between the two groups and the best point to start when considering what and how to change in your eating patterns.

If you find that you do need to cut back on calories, of course do so. But remember this tip: splurge on the weekends. This will help keep your metabolism from getting into a funk rythem. And by splurge, I mean SPLURGE. Ice cream, pizza, fat fat and more fat. Anything you want.

Good dieting always takes time. The excess weight was not accumulated over night and will never go away in a single day. This is something that many naive dieters believe when they start, and it only leads to discouragement and quitting. And this is also why the diet pill industry is so huge. People want the quick fiz after they fail: a pill that can make fat disappear in an instant. While many diet pills can help you lose weight, and save you time, they will still not do it for your instantly. They always work best when combined with, you guessed it, diet and exercise.

To learn more, read our top 5 weight loss tips at Fat Shrink Detox.

And figure out the diet pills that work, along with ways to make yourself healthier by discovering the best colon cleanses.

Are you tired of trying several weight loss plans, but without any success? Are you frustrated with those excess accumulated fats in your body?

Here is something for you.

Are you ready to explore the world without any more accumulation of fat in your body, with new dimension of confidence ? Here are a few quick and easy steps for you to attain a thinner you.

But before we head to help you attain that perfect body, you should be aware of certain factors that prevent weight loss for the perfect solution is to know the cause.

Here are few reasons:
1. Slow metabolism – people experience a hard time burning off the foods, resulting in the accumulation of fats.
2. Hormonal imbalance.
3. Eating large portions.
4. Late eating – This practice helps in the easy conversion of foods to fats.
5. Excluding breakfast from the diet.
6. Emotional eating – consumption of food with stress and emotional burdens leads to weight gain.
7. Increase of toxins in the body.
8. Following Numerous Diet plans – This often shows the negative impact on your body making weight loss difficult.

Steps resulting in fast and easy weight loss:

1. Increase intake of water during early morning – intake about 3-4 glasses of distilled or filtered water. Avoid drinking tap water, unless you know for a fact that your local water is not chlorinated.
2. Consume a big and healthy breakfast – This should be carried out 45 minutes after arousal. Your breakfast should contain organic foods like apple, bananas, raw honey, pepper, tomatoes, carrot, tuna, lamb, wild smoked salmon and rye bread (with no sugar content).
3. Consume plenty of filtered or bottled water throughout the day – it is recommended to intake at least 8- 10 glasses of water per day.
4. Have a walk for one hour daily – You can also go for jogging. It’s not mandatory to go for power walking only, even a slow relaxed walk will give you benefits.
5. Avoid any consumption of food after 6.00 PM- It may sound bit tough task, but give your best effort to attain the best result.
6. If possible go for a Colon cleanse. It helps you in cleaning out your digestive system which is clogged in many overweight persons. If a colon cleanse does not sound appealing increase your fiber intake slowly. Make sure that you get the daily recommended grams. An easy way is to add apples or shredded wheat (the unfrosted type) to your diet.

The extra weight can lead to many health related issues and can have a negative impact on one’s emotional state. So follow the instructions and lose those extra pounds & kilos.

Nevertheless, for those people who are still struggling with this overweight problem, have hope. You can still slim down but it will take some effort. You did not gain all your excess weight over night so don’t expect to lose it all within a few weeks. Aim for 2-3 pounds a week. This may sound like a small amount, but that’s 12 pounds a month. Only 3 months to lose 36 pounds.

Now that’s a great accomplishment.

Persons interested in fasting for weight loss and detoxification frequently ask me for tips and techniques to help them maximize colon cleansing.

Some want to know whether or not it is beneficial to use liquid fiber or other colon cleansing supplements while water or juice fasting. Others already use different types of “colon cleansers,” yet still have very few bowel movements and do not experience the deep cleansing and wellness that fasting can provide. The ongoing question this latter group of persons ask is: What can I do to experience deeper colon cleansing?

In this article I will present various techniques that have helped me over the years. If you are interested in losing weight and detoxifying through fasting, then following the suggestions outlined here can certainly maximize results and minimize the pain. It is my sincere desire that you accomplish your weight loss and fitness goals.

Fiber While Water Fasting?

First let’s look at this issue of fiber. Today, you see fiber in many products. Fiber here, fiber there … everything fiber for improved digestion and regularity. I am all for it and myself take in healthy amounts of fiber. But, specifically when one is fasting, this may not be the best idea.

The use of fiber while juice or water fasting is fine so long as you do it moderately. But my recommendation is that you start out with very small doses and see how your body reacts. Sometimes fiber can clump up in the stomach and cause pretty uncomfortable cramps and pains. I fasted one time and took large quantities of fiber thinking I was doing a great deed.

Within a few hours I was climbing the walls in pain and rolling around the floor like a fuddy duddy. It took several hours for the pain to go away; and I did not even have a bowel movement! While we are fasting, the digestive system either partially or completely shuts down, so anything that is ingested is best done in very small doses so as to not irritate the stomach. Imagine waking up a bear that is in hibernation! I don’t think he would be thrilled about it, neither will be probably be a very good host.

Herbs & Prunes

I personally have gotten pretty amazing results with a product called Herbs & Prunes. I crush the small pills in tiny pieces and then toss the powder in water and wait for it to liquefy before drinking. While juice fasting, I take the juice and put it in a blender and toss in three or four of the H&P pills.

This is the system that has worked best for me. But that is not to say that there is anything wrong with fiber or that it does not work. It does. There are a lot of good products. What I am saying is that when your body is vulnerable through fasting it is much better to err in the side of caution rather than have to go through the many pains and misery that I did because I was “over-eager” to get clean and lean.

Keep it Simple

Fasting provides quick weight loss and detoxification, but let me tell you, it can still seem like a very very slow process. Twenty four hours to lose one pound is still twenty four hours. In my case I had almost 70 pounds to lose and I had to break it down into one 40-day water fast and a second 21-day juice fast.

So please, take it very slow and listen to your body carefully each and every moment. Now, I realize that the detox pains are no fun and that, indeed, fasting is simple but not easy. At the start of a fast one is usually filled with fire and motivation, but after several days, the furor can easily be doused by hunger pains and negative thinking. So keep it simple. If you see that you do not have a bowel movement for several days, I would suggest that you drink more water rather than going overboard with any supplement.

Tummy Massage

One of the top recommendations I can make is to get acquainted with your stomach through massage. Massaging your tummy stimulates the colon to discard fecal matter that may be strongly adhered to the walls of your stomach. This fecal matter is troublesome because it continually feeds toxins into your blood stream.

Here is a massage technique that helps to loosen stubborn fecal matter: *Lay down on a hard floor and spend some time massaging your entire stomach with both hands. Make sure you cover the upper part of the colon, the bottom, as well as the right and left side. Spend some quality time massaging your liver. *Start out laying face up and massage the upper and bottom part of the colon. *Then lay on your right side and massage the left side with the left hand. *Then turn to the left side and massage the right side of the colon with the right hand. Do this at least once a day.

Take a large swig of water before you do it, though. I can tell you that several times, this process caused me to have thundering bowel movements that even scared my cat. Well, I am exaggerating but you get the point. A lot of the fecal matter can stubbornly cling to the walls of the colon and massage helps to lose it up and induce elimination.

Trust Your Body

The body knows what it is doing and it often does not do it in our time clock. Of course, if you see that this persists, the top recommendation is that you see a doctor immediately as you may have a more serious intestinal problem. But in my particular case, believe it or not, I had a bowel moment on day 38 of the 40-day water fast. So indeed the body is very wise and mysterious, so give it a chance to do its job and do not feel that you have to step in and “over-help” it just because things are not happening at the speed that you had hoped.

Robert Dave Johnston is editor and webmaster of Fitness Through Fasting.com – where you will find a growing number of fasting-related articles and topics to assist you achieve your weight loss, detoxification and health-improvement goals through juice and water fasting.

Your liver is the most important organ in your body. Without it, you would die within 24 hours. But what does the liver have to do with weight loss? I bet you’ll be surprised.

One of the primary purposes of the liver is to filter the blood, cleaning out anything that could be toxic to your body. This would include things like pharmaceutical drugs (yes, your body sees those as toxic), undigested foods, alcohol, viruses, bacteria, ingested chemicals (these can enter the body orally or via the skin, like pesticides, lotions, deodorants, make-up, hairspray). The liver is also involved in metabolism, hormone balance, and immune functions.

Imagine pouring something through a mesh strainer. At first the liquids run through easily, but eventually, if there are too many solids, the strainer gets clogged and the liquid has no where to go. If the liver has to work overtime to cleanse toxins, a similar situation can happen to the liver. It gets clogged with toxins and at that point fails to run efficiently.

When the liver becomes clogged, every organ in your body is impacted and efforts to lose weight are blocked. Here are just some of the impacts:
–It can cause an accumulation of sodium which can raise blood pressure.
–It can cause water retention which adds body weight.
–It can cause a hormone imbalance which makes us moody.
–It also can’t regulate glucose making us hypoglycemic which in turn can result in sugar cravings, weight gain, and Candida overgrowth.
–It cannot process toxins out of the body, so they escape into the blood stream which creates an immune response by the body. If this continues, then your immune system becomes burdened. This in turn can result in autoimmune diseases like arthritis.
–It cannot burn body fat making all of your weight loss efforts a complete waste of time.

Doing a liver and gallbladder cleanse can help alleviate this situation and aid in your weight loss efforts. It is recommended that you precede the liver / gallbladder cleanse with a colon cleanse. If your colon isn’t operating efficiently (constipation, fewer than 1-3 bowel movements per day), then the toxins will be released from the liver into the blood stream rather than flushed out of the body through the colon.

There are numerous cleansing programs on the market. Do your homework and find one that is backed by a company with a good reputation, positive product reviews and customer testimonials.

Once you have cleansed your liver, a good daily practice is to begin your morning with a glass of water with a wedge of fresh squeezed lemon juice. This will support your digestive organs by cleansing and activating the liver. Additionally, consider reducing the toxic load by avoiding some of the stressors mentioned above.

Don’t take your liver for granted. Although it can regenerate, if it isn’t functioning properly, you won’t either!

Deb Hoeve publishes a daily coaching newsletter offering unique approaches to weight loss and health restoration using the healing power of the body. Designed especially for people who have tried everything. Find out how you can finally achieve weight loss success and renewed health at http://www.MakeYourBodyLast.com . Also view product recommendations on her Make Your Body Last Blog

To get rid of your fat stomach, you need to detoxify your body and engage in healthy weight loss diet. A well-balanced diet and a full body detoxification can help to shed those ugly stomach fats.

Let us start off with detoxification of your body. Having too much toxin in your stomach will cause your body to store them as fat cell, which will result in a larger stomach. One important step to detoxify your body is to have a simple colon cleansing. By cleansing your colon, you can get rid of those harmful toxins in your intestines, as well as the bloated and fat feeling. By doing so, it can help you to lose weight effectively.

There are a few ways that you can cleanse your colon. One way is to always eat fruits and vegetables with every meal. Addition of water, fruits and vegetables to your diet can dramatically help cleanse your colon, making you healthier and leaner. Try to cut down on red meat and diary products like milked coffee, as these foods congest your digestive tract.

If you do not have the habit of eating fruits or vegetables in every meal, develop it now! One way to help you get into the habit is to drink fruit or vegetable juice instead of soft drink or coffee after meal. Soft drink is high in fat and you should avoid it at all cost. Also, do not drink at the same time as you eat. By doing so, you are diluting your digestive juice which in turn slows down your digestion. Then, drink 8 to 10 glasses of water every day so as to help flush out unwanted toxins from your body.

You can also drink 2 glasses of water before every meal to make yourself feel full. This will prevent you from overeating and taking in more calories than your body requires. Your body will convert excess calories into fat, causing you to get fat.

Another way to detoxify your body is to eat more protein-rich foods such as rice, beans, and nuts. These foods will help cleanse your body and get rid of those unwanted toxin.

Detoxification and colon cleansing is extremely important if you want to lose weight successfully. By just changing your eating habits, you will definitely see a drastic change in your overall health and weight. Eat more healthily and drink more water is a good way to get rid of your fat stomach.