Some of you will hate me for this post, but i must do something about it, i had enough :-) of those six pack abs thing, yes it is unnatural, unhealthy and totally over-rated, lets see why:

Woman's body?!

First to get a six pack abs you must maintain a workout that focuses on you belly's muscles. After a few weeks your belly muscles will start to be harder and bigger, of-course nothing is wrong about that as long as you are not forgetting about the rest of the your body, what you eat and drink and you still live a normal social life.

So what is wrong with having a six pack abs?

For your hard work to show, your body must have the least amount of fat 10% or even less, else the muscles you built would be covered with fat and not even a 2 pack of abs will ever show.

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If you want to burn extra fat and calories from your body, Get in shape and be full of energy, then you must be doing one of those activities.

Swimming:
What is great about swimming is it has no impact on your joint, but what we are talking about here is serious swimming like doing some laps in a pool, when swimming, you will burn a great amount of calories and still enjoy the cooling effect of water.

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Hoodia Gordonii is an African plant looks like a cactus and can be found in Kalahari Desert in southern Africa, it was introduced to the US market late 2004 as a natural appetite suppressant.


African Bushmen have been using hoodia for centuries to help them with the hunger during long hunting trips in the Kalahari Desert. Also they have been using this plant to cure diabetes, high blood pressure, indigestion and small infections.

I'm reading: Hoodia Gordonii Diet: Does it work?

To day i stumbled upon that great weight loss success story of AngelPets, Her transformation was so amazing as she went from 335 lbs to 145 lbs losing 190 lbs!. Yes 190 lbs in two years.

"I had no gastric bypass or any surgery done on me,
Took no diet pills,
I did this all on my own.
I want to show everyone out there that you CAN loose weight with proper diet and exercise! All you need is determination and willpower to do so!

If i can do it so can you!

It is not a diet, It is a life style."

" said AngelPets. 

 Great job AngelPets, That is truly inspiring, Congratulations.

 Here is her shocking weight loss, Before and after video:

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Those are some tips to help anyone, wants to keep a healthy weight or loss some extra weight.

Weight loss tips

• Eat at certain times every day, don't skip breakfast and don't eat before going to bed give your stomach the time to digest food before sleeping.

• Eat five times every day, 3 main meals and 2 snacks in-between.

• Stay away from junk food, fast food, pre-baked snacks ,saturated and trans. fats and high sugar drinks.

• Don't crash start any diet but ease your self in, so you can stay active and not moody.

• Eat more vegetables and fruits, a snack can be an apple or an orange.

• Know that it take the brain a while to send the full signal, don't keep eating till you feel that your stomach will explode.

• Exercise 5 times a week for about 45 mins each. 

• Drink lots of water preferably more than 10 glasses per day.

• Replace sugar with naturals sweeteners like honey.

• Stop eating deep fried food.

• Prepare your own meals and know what goes in them and how much.

• Don't weigh your self more than once a week, and evaluate your diet based on those weekly results.

• Eat more fish, it is a good source of protein and much healthier than red meat.

• Know how much calories in every thing you eat.

• Change your diet habits every once in a while so you avoid the non changing weight dilemma.

I'm reading: 15 General Weight loss Tips

I stumbled upon a video on you tube that shows the weight loss journey of Angela Stokes, She explained how eating row food transformed here into someone else, having a better health and higher selfesteam.




Clearly it works, proven by her case and hundreds posting their achievement adopting the row food diet.
The raw food diet is some form of a Vegetarian lifestyle and the difference between being a Vegetarian, Vegan and Raw Food eater is:

• Vegetarians simply do not eat any meat, semi vegetarians can be ok eating animal products like milk and eggs.
• Vegans are taking a step further eating no meat or any dead creature or any animal products like eggs, milk and honey.
• Raw food can't include eating meat as none can eat raw meat maybe rare but not raw and the diet does not prohibit eating animal products.

What are the benefits and the side effects of eating raw food?

The Benefits:

• Raw food have a higher nutrition value, so less amount of raw food will give more minerals and vitamins. also heat destroy so much of the nutrition the raw food have.
• Raw food are easier to prepare and it will take less time to have a meal ready.
• Cleaning the dishes is no problem as there is no burns or scraping or grease to remove.
• Raw food boost your immune system protecting against cold and flu, alse it has a great positive effect reducing the chance to get a heart and blood complications.
• On the long run eating raw food will save money.
• Lossing weight will be more efficient, no fat, salt and eating more fibers.

Risks and Side Effects :

• Proteins, iron, vitamin B-12, riboflavin, zinc, and essential amino acids deficiency.
• Long-term deficiencies will lead to serious illness such as osteoporosis, and anemia.
• A rapid change in diet  could cause nausea, dizziness, headaches, indigestion, mild Depression.
• Going all raw food will increase gas in the digestive system accompanied with pains and discomfort.

In conclusion personally i prefer to be moderate, cutting back on fat and junk food and eating more fibers and fruits, going extreme with any thing never helped on the contrary it will develop new and worse problems. Any new Diet should be presented gradually and under supervision cause no diet will work for every one.

I'm reading: Raw Food Weight Loss Program: Does It Work?