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Fitness articles submitted by a variety of weight loss and diet experts.  Learn how to lose weight, tone muscles, build muscles, and reach your goals.

Eat Right for Losing Weight

You gained weight because you didn’t eat the right things, right? No wait – maybe it was because you skipped that Pilates class on Sunday. What if you have done everything right and you still can’t lose? What if we said the harmful pesticides on your fruits and vegetables like ddt, the plastic chemicals in your water bottle or your herbicide drenched lawn could be making you fat?

Back Fat: How To Firm Up To Get a More Beautiful Back

You may be hitting the gym every day in the hope of acquiring a slimmer body as well as those 6 pack abs. However, are your exercises really worthwhile? You may be losing weight no doubt, but if possible, take a look at your back, and see if you have lost either of the two fatty folds on your back. Far too many people who hit the gum regularly do the wrong types of exercises and fail. There are only a few exercises which are made specifically to help you eliminate back fat. In this article I will tell you of two exercises that will help you do this

Weight Loss and Carbohydrate Addicts Diet

Many people have trouble understanding how their comfort foods – the breads, pastas, cookies and cakes, are contributing to their weight problem. It makes sense to people to decrease the fat in their diet in order to lose fat (which, surprisingly, does not usually help), but the connection with grains and sugars is not as easy to understand.

Weight Loss Secrets - Free Weight Loss

You've worked hard for months. You've exercised almost every day. You've watched what you ate. You beat the odds to become a success story! Congratulations. You look and feel great and you deserve it! Now, your big question is, how do you keep it off?

Diet Plan, Weight Loss Plan - Choose The Best Weight Loss Plan

When developing a weight loss plan, common wisdom calls for the use of calorie counters. However, there is evidence to suggest that calorie counting may not necessarily be all that useful, and may actually lead to frustration.

Dieting Dos and Don'ts - Lose Weight

Lose weight the seemed right way

1. Find out a popular fad diet (juice fasting, the Hollywood Cookies diet or the Grape fruit diet should be working in this situation) and adopt it for a week.

2. Go to a gym each day and try to do the bench press. Complete your workout with one hundred abdominal crunches.

Easy Ways to Lose Weight Every Day

If you want to lose weight every day, you have to be on a fat burning diet and using strength and cardio interval exercise to burn fat. Here's how to be consistent with your weight loss.

Weight Loss Secrets - Get in touch with your eating habits

~~~"Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds." - JoJo Jensen, Dirt Farmer Wisdom~~~

1. Quality sleep is going to make changing your diet an easier process. One thing you should keep in mind is that digestion can interrupt deep sleep. Heavy meals late in the day can make you sleepy, but they can also keep you from getting the quality of sleep you need. The same is true of alcohol. You should avoid snacks before bedtime of grains and sugars. This will raise blood sugar and inhibit sleep. When blood sugar levels drop later in your sleep, you can awaken and not easily fall back to sleep.

Eat Right and Lose Weight

One of the secrets of losing weight is to not let yourself get hungry. Meals should be no more than 4 to 5 hours apart, and you should always have with you something for snacking so you won't be tempted to go for a carbohydrate- rich snack, such as doughnuts, cookies, candy or ice-cream. Easy to carry and non-perishable snacks are crystallized ginger, vanilla halvah, unsalted nuts or small pieces of cheese.

Teen weight loss: Safe steps to a healthy weight loss

If you are a teenager with weight problems, it's important to stay cool and avoid ineffective or unhealthy ways to lose weight. During your teenage years, your body develops in many different ways - not all visible - and good health is essential to ensure this development proceeds smoothly. To help you make the right choices, here are some weight loss methods that (I can assure you) DON'T work!

Setting Goals for Weight Loss

Once you have set your lifetime weight loss goals, the best thing that you can do is narrow it down into a plan of smaller weight loss goals that you need to complete if you are to reach your lifetime goals.

Your Metabolism: Speed it Up for Weight Loss

Can you speed up your metabolism naturally and at the same time increase or boost your metabolism. As you are going to see there are many pills, fads, programs and more that promise that you can increase your metabolism. As the old saying goes "buyer beware."

Common Sense Healthy Weight Loss Plan - Free Weight Loss Plan

America is now in the middle of a health crisis of tremendous proportions. Millions of Americans are now overweight and a very significant number had already been classified as obese. Obesity is now a major health concern in America, which has already become a fast food nation.

How To Maintain 100 pound Weight Loss

People often comment that I always seem to be eating. That doesn't mean at the first tiny hunger pang I go crazy looking for something to stuff in my mouth; just that I plan ahead, have healthy snacks close by, and know it's likely I'll get hungry every few hours. Here's my usual weekday routine (times vary, but this is typical).

Remove Belly Fat - Free Weight Loss Plan

Like many things in life, you have to take some action before you see results. Losing weight is the exact same way. Yes I know, weight loss can be hard and some times it may seem even impossible. There is a solution to this dilemma. Here are some things that you can do to greatly improve your success at weight loss.

How to Overcome Your Weight Loss Plateau

The typical human form is capable of achieving a number of incredible feats that seem to suspend or defy the way science tells us things work. Athletes, through sheer willpower, can end up lifting something that their bodies should not be able to without suffering anything worse than muscle spasms. People can adapt to extreme physical trauma caused by a car accident and defy predictions that they'll never walk again. While, in general, these amazing feats are useful in a number of situations, there are physical reactions that some people look upon with quite a bit of disfavor. Among these “disfavored reactions” is something known as a “weight loss plateau.”

Giving Up the Weight Loss Obsession

Have you ever experienced a memory so vivid that you feel liked it just happened yesterday? You know what I mean. You are sitting on a bus and you hear some music from the earphones of the person next to you. Suddenly you are transported to a different time and place, without ever leaving your chair. The following story is a memory from over 30 years ago. It wasn't romantically triggered by music, though- it was triggered by the smell of chlorine, while cleaning my bathroom.

Personal Fitness - Aerobic Fitness Pilates

So what is aerobics fitness pilots? Pilots is a rapidly growing fitness workout that has gained much popularity in today's world. The main reason is this: pilots offers you tremendous help benefits in just about every area your body, that most workout simply cannot achieve.

Burn More Fat - How to Burn More Fat

Burn the fat, Feed the Muscle is probably the best book I’ve read in my life. Why would a guy who’s already dropped nearly 300 pounds want to buy and read a book about burning fat? Because I believe in constant and never-ending improvement. I’ve been coaching people for quite a few years and with my success in weight loss and now weight management, you’d think that I knew most everything there was to know about reaching your fat loss goals.

Dealing with Cellulite - How do I get rid of cellulite

Cellulite is a normal human variation that is viewed by a segment of the public (with the help of the media, some physicians, and salesmen of various sorts) as some sort of a disease. The term "cellulite" was coined in 1973 to refer to the dimpled appearance of the skin that some people have on their hips, thighs, and buttocks. This appearance is much more common in women than in men because of differences in the way fat, muscle, and connective tissue are distributed in men and women's skin. Although female hormones may play a role in contributing to this fat distribution, cellulite is not treatable by hormone therapy.

Fitness - Built For Action

Consider: the Stone Age is now thousands of years back in the past. With every passing era, early man took changing centuries in his stride. Like all animals, he was created to be on his feet. At first, he chased, hunted. Then; he combined these activities with farming. But he remained on his feet. Upright. And when the sun set, he lay down, back and legs straight out.