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It has been said that those who fail to plan, plan to fail. Losing weight is not a spectator sport and it is not for the faint of heart. Preparation is the key to success. As far as meals go, fix lunches the night before and place them in the refrigerator. If you run late the next morning, all you need to do is grab your lunch box and go. Shop with a grocery list and stick to it. (Here’s where a menu planning service would definitely help.) Rid your home of all high calorie foods that should be eaten in moderation. If the junk foods are not available in the first place, you will not find them when a late night craving hits.

As we try to squeeze exercise into our daily routines, we forget about the kids. Children need twice as much exercise as adults. It’s important for their heart health to get cardiovascular exercise at least three times a week. Get the kids off the couch and moving again with a few activities that get the whole family involved.

The Atkins diet is very popular, but is it right for you? Before you start down the low carb road, you should take some time to decide whether low carb is the right way for you to lose weight. Just because it has been effective for others doesn’t mean it will be right for you. No specific diet works for everyone, and you may even find that a type of low carb diet that works better for you than another. There are many things to consider before you start the Atkins diet.

There are menu planning services online that do your meal planning for you. You get a week’s worth of recipes and a corresponding grocery shopping list in your email. All you have to do is click and print – and head to the store. Eating healthier just got a lot easier. Plus, planning your meals saves you from those last minute trips to the fast food joints, which definitely add up in cost.

Exercise. It's been endorsed by every major health organization in the country as one of the most beneficial things you can do for your body. One half hour of moderate physical activity a day is the key to better health, they say. The best diet in the world can only go so far in helping you lose weight. To really see the effects of changing your eating habits (in lost pounds and inches, that is), you need to rev up your body with physical exercise.

The Atkins diet is based on a theory of why we get fat. According to Dr. Atkins, the over-consumption of carbohydrates and simple sugars leads to weight gain. The way your body processes the carbohydrates you eat have more to do with your waistline than the amount of fat or calories that you consume. In his book, Atkins outlines a phenomenon called “insulin resistance.” He theorizes that many overweight people have cells that do not work correctly.

Lately, I've been hearing a lot about how wrong for our bodies the current recommendations from our most respected medical institutions are. Well known diet gurus and nutritional researchers have stepped up to the plate to declare that the high carbohydrate, low fat diet regimens recommended by such institutions as the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association and the United States Department of Agriculture are misinformed, and frankly unhealthy.

Exercise becomes an afterthought when our schedules get busy. Don’t fret though. You can still squeeze exercise into your day in small intervals. Once these tricks become an integral part of your day, you won’t even know that you’re doing them. Some you may already know and some may be new, but all of the activities are helpful in revving up the metabolism.

Antioxidant vitamins that are found in vegetables are a must. Scientists are learning more and more how important it is that our diets contain a full spectrum of vitamins, proteins, minerals and acids. If your diet cuts out most grains and vegetables, you should be replacing the nutrients you miss out on with supplementary vitamin A, C, B (all the B's), E and K. You should also supplement your intake of folic acid, and if you're not significant amount of your protein from fish products, you'll need omega 3 fatty acids found in fish oil, shellfish and flaxseed oil.

Step 1. Say Goodbye to Dieting - Forget all about dieting! The words diet and dieting are getting in your way! They are preventing you from tackling your weight problem. Every time you hear these words you switch off and reach for the cookies. Result? Your weight problem gets worse.

Okay, for many people this is a big problem. Water doesn’t taste all that great generally because water doesn’t really “taste” like anything. Drinking water 8 to 10 times each day gets easier the more you actually do it. It is simply a matter of conditioning your taste buds, and yourself, so that it becomes easier to do. Once you get started, you will begin to crave water.

Some people sniffle or sneeze whenever they are in a dusty place. But this is not surprising. Some people are really like this, they are extremely allergic to dust. Dust allergy is regarded as the over reaction of a person’s body to an element in the dust. These small particles are usually found in the air which people eventually inhale. Now, if your body is sensitive to such allergen, you body will stop to produce histamine.