Many times we want to lose weight and we have a problem choosing a program that works for us. Losing weight is important to me but my health is more important. In a series of quick tips I will introduce ideas to help us in our quest to lose weight and keep it off in a safe, effective and healthy way. These quick weight loss tips will be short,  healthy eating, fitness, nutritional vitamin supplements or general health and wellness tidbits to help meet your goals.

Quick Tip #1 – Have a Ball.

This idea came from Scott Tousignant and is posted on his blog under his 30 day home office challenge. Scott is one of the people I follow because I like his Fat Loss Quickie Program. Today’s Quick Weight Loss Tip is to get a stability ball (fitness ball). I have been a big fan of stability balls for years and it is a great way to strengthen your mid section and work off a few pounds there. The unique tip I got from Scott is to use the ball as a chair at your home office desk. For me, I spend a lot of time at my home office desk and this will help me greatly.

The Stability Ball.

The Fitness Ball helps my improve and strengthen my posture, strengthens my core muscles, and adds a little excitement to my day as I bounce and swivel around while I work or talk to customers. Try moving from side to side or from front to back while working and see that this extra activity doesn’t engage and help build up your abdominal, lower back and oblique muscles. This is your core area where the excess fat that we want to lose is often stored. You can order your stability ball here or go to any store with a small fitness equipment section and get one. They run about $15 to $20 and it well be money well spent to help you lose weight and keep it off.

Resistance Training.

As a quick tip bonus I keep a couple of dumbbells near my desk. Once or twice a day I will take 5 to 10 minutes to do a few resistance exercises with the dumbbells. To note; as part of your program resistance exercise is the most important way to burn off fat and keep it off. So beyond our daily exercise routine we need to develop little habits that will help us increase our resistance training and build muscle to burn fat, lose weight and improve our overall health.

Finally.

Use your fitness ball any where and any way in your home that you will use a chair. Watch television, read a book, talk on the phone or whatever. Not only do I use my stability ball as a chair to help strengthen my core muscles, I also use it to exercise with. There are many abdominal exercises, like crunches, sit ups and back stretches that I use my stability ball for. But I also use it as a weight lifting bench. Many exercises that we can use a bench or a chair for, the fitness ball will help us engage our mid sections and build those muscles, burn that fat and help us lose weight. The stability ball is an essential part of your healthy program.

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Weight Loss Program

An essential part of a successful weight loss program is that you eat to lose weight. Advocare Meal Replacement Shake helps you accomplish that goal. We all need to eat 5 to 6 meals a day. Starting with breakfast and every 2 to 3 hours after that. Small meals eaten 2 to 3 hours apart keeps our bodies energized and our metabolism high without us feeling bloated or being stuffed because we overate at any one meal. We should eat breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner and an evening snack.  A meal is the time we nourish our bodies with the necessary vitamins, minerals and nutrients we need to function properly. If we keep that in mind and realize that we eat for purpose. Then blindly putting food into our system that has no nutritional purpose and may even harm us will not be the bad habit we may have today.

Advocare Meal Replacement Shake

Comes in pouches and is a powder that you mix with water to provide a complete nutritional meal if you are on the go and do not have time to prepare a good meal. You get about 5 to 6 grams of fiber, 24 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals with only 220 calories. That is about the same amount of calories in one and a half servings of a creamy salad dressing. The key is that you are naturally energizing your body without adding unnecessary calories. The key ingredients include protein, fiber, iron, calcium, magnesium, vitamin D, zinc, Vitamin A, potassium, riboflavin, vitamin C and B-12.

How I use it

Generally I have a meal replacement shake in the morning. I add strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and or a banana into the blender and mix a package with 8 to 9 ounces of water and I have a very nutritious breakfast. In essence the meal replacement shake is like a multivitamin with fiber and protein that will provide you a complete meal without all the calories. But the meal replacement shake is an essential part of my 4 step Advocare Weight Loss Program. The 4 steps are Advocare Herbal Cleanse, Advocare Spark Energy Drink, Advocare Meal Replacement Shake, and Advocare MNS Metabolic Nutrition System. These 4 products taken properly will help you lose weight as you get the vitamins and minerals you need for optimum health.

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The essential elements of any successful weight loss program include eating a healthy diet, a regular exercise and natural nutritional supplements. Many people will fall short of their goals because they do not include all three essential elements and they treat their weight loss program as a “diet”.  A diet is a temporary change of eating habits and by its very essence is never meant to be permanent even though we want permanent results. A successful weight loss program focuses on permanently changing unhealthy habits and doing the things that will help maintain lifelong health and happiness. Therefore we walk for fitness, weight loss and we walk for our health.

Walk for Fitness

To get the most out of our walk for fitness program we want to be intentional about achieving our fitness, weight loss and health goals. When we are intention we are committed to do the things to accomplish our goals. These points helps your walk fitness  plan. Whether you walk outside, in a gym on a treadmill, elliptical machine or a stepper you should focus on these tips.

Stretch before and after you walk. This helps your muscles loosen up and get the most out of walk.

Start Slow, Finish Slow. This represents the warm up and cool down portion of your exercise. Your heart and body needs to gradually move into the exercise and ease out of it.

Use Your Arms. Not only are you adding a full body work out to your walk fitness plan but by using your arms you get your heart more fully engaged. Walking is not just to work your legs out but more importantly walking strengthens your heart.

Breathe. By taking deep breathes throughout your walk you are bringing oxygen into your lungs and body. The oxygen is necessary to improve our blood flow, help our muscles work at their optimal level and improves each and every one of our cells. Oxygen and water are the most essential elements that we need in our bodies and both will improve the effectiveness of any work out plan.

Contract Your Stomach Muscles. We are moving our walk fitness plan to be a total body workout. By contracting your stomach muscles and holding them for 5 to 10 seconds throughout your walk you are building your core muscles ( your abs and back).

Change Your Pace. Many people walk as aerobic exercise. In fact by changing the intensity of your walk you move to anaerobic exercise as well. Anaerobic exercise is were you will increase the intensity for a short period and then go back to comfortable pace. For instance you can walk as fast as you can for 1 or 2 minutes or 1 or 2 blocks. Or you can increase the incline of your treadmill for short period of time to increase your intensity. Walking up and down hills serves the same purpose. The anaerobic exercise takes your walk fitness plan to another level.

By using these tips your walk is not just a walk in the park but a comprehensive walk for fitness plan that is a full body workout that will help you get fit, lose weight, improve your health and all for my favorite cost, Free. Be careful not to overdo it. Your walk for fitness plan works for you regardless of your fitness level. But start where you are and improve from there.

Your weight loss program is successful when you eat a healthy diet, take natural nutritional supplements and exercise regularly. Your walk for fitness plan helps you easily exercise regularly to meet your weight loss goal.

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