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Melting those pounds can be difficult especially when time is not on your side. Losing the baby fat doesn’t have to be mindless boring hours jogging around a track or simply subsisting on a handful of almonds. In the health and fitness circles, here’s the “low down” at what’s Hot and what’s Not when you wany to trim your tummy.

1. Cardio

What’s Hot: Interval training is the best way to speed up your metabolism by speeding up your cardio. Instead of a stagnant Stairmaster routine to trim your tummy, try and spice up your cardio by sprinting up some steps and then speed walking around the block. The key to interval training is that it lowers and raises your heart rate during your workout so that your body is always working harder to stabilize.

What’s Not: Long winded runs on a treadmill will not get the results if your body is in its comfort zone. Instead your body gets used to the pace and your heart rate stays at a plateau during your cardio. You may be burning some calories but not challenging your system to burn off the reserve fats it holds. Break out of doing the same workout routine and trimming your tummy will be effortless.

2. Eat to Live

What’s Hot: The saying, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” really sums up that in order to trim your tummy you must eat a balanced diet. You shouldn’t remove any of your food groups instead choose the healthy options. Make sure you avoid snacks with high sugar, salt and saturated and trans fats and try and stay away from starving yourself all day and binging on anything you can find when you burn out at night.

What’s Not: Extreme low-calorie diets is like taking one step forward and three steps backward when you are trying to trim your tummy. If you go on a fad diet like cabbage soup for a week, then you are depriving yourself of nutrients causing your body’s metabolism to slow down within that week. So when you finally return to eating normally your body stores the food you eat because it thinks it’s still in starvation mode. Starvating yourself with a fad diet usually ends up in you gaining more weight back more quickly than it took to lose it and messing up your metabolism.

No matter what is the current pulse of the public, just try and remember that old wives tales dies hard. Being able to trim your tummy isn’t a new invention like these fad diets or exercise routines – women have been doing it for centuries and they did it without signing up at that expensive gym or buying into that vogue diet.

I was out this weekend ice skating with some friends, and what a funny site it was to see a bunch of us bumbling our way through the ice, falling around like bowling pins on a bowling alley. However, amidst the clashing of elbows and buttocks hitting the ice every few minutes or so, there was a little girl skating with amazing beauty and grace. Watching her, we all could tell that she was fully involved and having fun while skating with an ease that reminded me of 2002 Winter Olympics gold medal winner, Sarah Hughes. Do you remember her?

Well, as we watched her skating it encouraged me to put out an article that I wrote for a fitness magazine that year.

Sarah Hughes won the hearts of millions as she gracefully skated to Gold at the Winter Olympics in 2002. Although she did a marvelous job, however, a small part of Sarah’s success can be attributed to the uneasiness that Michelle Kwan faced going in to this same Olympic show down.

When Sarah Hughes stepped on the ice rink it seemed as if we were watching a little girl on the ice pond skating for the love and enjoyment of skating. The pressures of Olympic Gold were not evident from the flowing lines and the dynamic jumps she so naturally exuded on the skating rink. It was as if she was all by herself just having fun. Minutes later we saw a complete antithesis of that calm and ease from the predicted Gold winner, Michele Kwan.

From the start of her performance, you could instantly notice a tightness in Kwan that was not evident during her warm ups. I’m no expert in the field of skating, but I am an expert in with understanding the subconscious mind, and in my opinion, I have an idea of what kept Michelle from reaching the Gold.

From Kwan’s first jump, you can tell her muscles were so tight it looked like she was carrying a backpack full of lead on her back. My thoughts on this were quickly enforced by the announcers comments

When you get to this top level, you have to have everything in order to win the Gold. That includes, eating well, sleeping enough hours and preparing your mind. Michelle Kwan seemed to have everything, however, she may kept with her a voice that has plagued her since the Olympics in Nagano, Japan 4 years earlier.

So what in God’s grace could have affected Michelle that night?

I mean she must have done those jumps at least a thousand times before. However, those moments failed at her attempts couple with her “failure” in Nagano, Japan, might have brought back all that pressure this particular evening as she attempted to go for the Gold. That pressure could have whispered, “Oh no, here we go again.”

You know that little voice that gets in your way when you want to accomplish something. Think back to when you might have said something to yourself like “I’ve been overweight my whole life, so I may as well just eat ’cause I won’t lose weight anyway, I can start my diet tomorrow” … Familiar, ya?

Why is this voice here in the first place?

This voice may be a result from a time or times that you’ve failed in your past which unfortunately can result in your subconscious mind wanting to protect you from feeling bad by setting you up for failure (I’ll be going into more detail about this situation in part 3 of this article).

With enough time this voice became “truth” to you no matter how hard you may have tried to get rid of it.

However, unwittingly you may have enforced this nagging little voice with conscious rationalizing thoughts about not being able to lose weight, like, my whole family is heavy, I come from line of big boned individuals, 1 percent of the population has a true genetic defect that can’t make them lose weight and maybe I’m one of them.”

So what can you do to break this repetitious cycle? Well, this is where Hypnosis comes in. Hypnosis can help you replace the energy of those self-limiting thoughts with new suggestions for positive change.

Before we get into hypnosis I’ll have to give you the basic fundamentals of the conscious and subconscious minds. I’ll teach you in hypnotic terms how they work together and how work against each other. In part two of this article, I’ll discuss the conscious mind.

In chapter 3, I’ll talk about the subconscious mind and it’s relation to hypnosis so you can learn self-hypnosis.

I’ll even give you a way of using affirmations in a special way to clear out the blocks from your past so that these affirmations are allowed to move into the subconscious mind where it can manifests as your reality.

However, before we get deep into hypnosis and what it is, for now just know that your thoughts will create feelings, your feelings will create perception and your perceptions will create beliefs and onto behavoiurs. So stay aware of what you’re thinking and feeling!

And in the next chapter of this article we’ll get started and on your way to winning the GOLD!

When applying proper diet and training techniques the process of fat burning can be very easy. A weight loss goal of a pound a week is what experts say you should aim for. Planning your weight loss program is free much like the other best things in life.

The first step to weight loss is setting a realistic goal. To reach your goal safely, plan to lose weight gradually. A weight loss of one-half to two pounds a week is usually safe.

Change your diet, then try to burn fat. You need to cut back the calories that you eat by eating smaller quanities of food and by choosing meals that are lower in calories.

Consider limiting portion sizes, especially of foods high in calories. Keep your intake of saturated fat, trans fat and cholesterol as low as possible. Choose foods naturally high in fiber, such as fruits, vegetables, legumes such as beans and lentils, and whole grains. The high fiber content of many of these foods may help you to feel full with fewer calories.

You also need to change lifestyle and not just go on a diet. It means being more physically active. Speeding down your metabolism is bad, and this can be caused by not exercising enough.

It is recommended by most health experts that combining increased exercise with a reduced-calorie diet is best for losing weight. Exercise does not have to be strenuous to be beneficial. There is research proving that abreviated periods of exercise a few times a day are as just as capable of buring calories and bettering your health as one long session.

To lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight after weight loss, many people need to do more than 30 minutes of moderate to intensive physical activity daily. Walking is an excellent form of physical activity that almost everyone can do.

If you set sensible goals for yourself, chances are you’ll be more likely to meet them and have a better chance of keeping the weight off. A lifestyle based on healthy eating and regular physical activity is the best way to lose weight permanently.

You will understand what weight loss dieting naturally means if you take this advice. Hopefully this instructive advice will be of benefit to you.