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Nutritional Supplements Review

August 26, 2010 Coach Louis Jeffries, Chicago, Illinois 1 comment

Lose Weight Right

Today there are more Americans overweight or obese than there are Americans with a normal weight. Actually the overweight Americans outnumber healthy Americans by more than 2 to 1. Could this be the reason for the buzz around nutritional weight loss supplements. Americans want to lose weight. Americans want to lose weight fast. Many people are not interested in the only true way to lose weight and keep it off. Most people do not want to eat a healthy diet and exercise regularly. We live in the microwave age. I want it now and I do not want to change my bad habits to get it. So before we review some of the most advertised nutritional supplements we must emphasize the right way to lose weight is a total healthy weight loss program including a healthy diet and regular exercise.

Healthy Diet

Your healthy diet should be organic fruit and vegetables, whole grains, nuts and beans all as the main staple. We should eat only lean meat, fish and poultry but this should be no more than 10% of the calories we eat. Eating healthy means drinking plenty of water, fresh juice and natural tea (the best teas are Green Tea, Oolong Tea and Pu-er Tea). Avoid soda and commercial drinks as well as refined sugar and artificial sweeteners. Eat 5-6 meals of smaller portions 2-3 hours apart beginning with a healthy breakfast. This high fiber, low fat diet will help you lose weight and keep it off. Not only will you lose weight you will improve your health, reduce your risks of many major diseases, improve your immune system, increase your energy and live longer. With regular exercise you have the beginning of a healthy lifestyle.

Regular Physical Exercise

A regular exercise routine will help you burn fat and keep calories off with your healthy diet. To maintain and manage your weight you must exercise regularly. Aerobic exercise and resistance training are both mandatory. They help your muscles as well as your physiology requires the chemical reactions that occur when we burn fat. Like a healthy diet you will reduce your risks of major diseases and improve your overall health. Eating the right food with exercise are very important to your longevity. Sometimes nutritional supplements will make your weight loss program easier. No supplement is meant to replace a healthy diet or regular exercise. On the contrary, they are only supplements.

Alli Weight Loss Pill

Alli is the only FDA approved over the counter weight loss nutritional supplement. The Alli program promotes a weight loss plan to include regular exercise and healthy eating. Alli is a fat inhibitor. So you must definitely eat a low fat diet. Your body needs fat. Fat is converted to energy. Excess fat is the problem. As Alli inhibits the excess fat you eat you will eliminate it through your waste. Like it or not. So this diet pill helps you to eat a low fat diet. The weight loss is not fast or extreme. That is good. The premise is to help you change your habits.

Acai Berry

This natural berry is found mostly in Brazil and it is a natural intestinal cleanser. That means Acai Berry will help you remove the build up of years of waste in your colon. First this will give you a quick boos to your weight loss program. You will also lose weight because the toxins in your body are physical drain. Your energy will increase as well as your metabolism and this promotes weight loss. Acai Berry nutritional supplement gives you a fast start, but you need to eat healthy and exercise regularly or start over. The health benefits go away if you go back to the old way of eating and lack of exercise.

Hoodia Gordinii

A cactus like plant found in South Africa Kalahari Dessert, Hoodia Gordinii is an appetite suppressant. The San Bushman have been eating this plant for hundreds of years to suppress their appetites when they went on long hunting trips. An effective appetite suppressant is helpful in your total healthy weight loss plan as you develop the habit of eating smaller portions 5-6 times a day. Once your body is used to eating smaller portions you can wean yourself from this diet supplement. Avoid using Hoodia to skip meals. That actually backfires. As you go into a starvation diet your body begins to store fat which increases your weight and reduces your metabolism and energy. This is the opposite of what you want.

Any of these nutritional supplements will successfully help you lose weight used as part of a healthy weight loss program including a healthy diet and regular exercise.

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April 1st, 2009

July 18, 2010 Coach Louis Jeffries, Chicago, Illinois No comments

Today is significant on many different occasions. First and foremost it is my birthday. No, this is no April Fools joke. I was born on April first. I am at the age that I thank God everyday for another day and I try not take anything for granted. The calls, emails and texts have been coming in from friends and family. I is good to know people care about you. This is really all I need to be happy. I just need to know that i am loved and people care. I guess I am what they call an easy date.

There is another reason why today is even more significant to me. In November I decided to change my life and eat healthy to lose weight. For the past 5 months I have been focused on learning how to eat healthy to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle. As I studied and searched the Internet for more and more information I have grown tremendously in my knowledge and understanding of what it truly takes to lose weight and keep it off. I know though there is a big gap between head knowledge and action.

From the “head” I know I must eat healthy and exercise regularly as the main ingredients to lose weight and keep it off. I am doing very well on eating healthy. For the last 6 weeks my wife has joined me and that makes a big difference, because I have a true “Weight Loss Buddy”. Since I do most of the cooking it was easier for her to commit because her meals are made for her and I make her a healthy salad for work everyday. As I work from home it is important that I transform the kitchen to a place of healthy only food. My nephew still lives with us, but he is 18 and is rarely home. Yes we still buy food for him because he usually does not eat what I cook. I can handle hot dogs, hamburgers and frozen pizza being in the home. It is the cookies, cakes and other sweets that was my problem. All in all we have done very well eating healthy.

But then I came to a plateau. I did very well in losing weight. I lost about 20 pounds in 45 days. No real exercise, no diet supplements, no fad diets. I lost 20 pounds just by changing my eating habits. From November 15th through January 1st. I went from 207 pounds to about 185 pounds. That was especially hard because it was the holiday season and my father passed December 7th. This meant there were always people at my house and lots of unhealthy foods, especially sweets. It was also very hard because my sister lived with us for 2 months and she is the queen baker and the princess of junk food. She brought back the memories of home made biscuits from scratch, pound cakes, peach cobbler, etc. I had a little of everything. Yes I watched my portions and I said no many times. I even had to hurt my sisters feelings and demand that she stops cooking so much. But by limiting meat, fish and poultry and eating about 80% to 90% of my diet was fresh fruit and vegetables, whole grains, nuts and beans. I virtually eliminated table sugar and drank a lot of natural tea, especially: Oolong, Pu-er and Green Tea. I also drank a lot of water cutting out soda and commercial drinks. So my diet was pretty good and I lost over 20 pounds in 45 days without exercise.

Then, I hit the wall for the next 30 days I may have lost 2 or 3 pounds and I did not understand why. It was really simple. It is a sedentary lifestyle. From November through January I was constantly on the go. Dealing with my father and having my sister around kept me very active. I even took on a seasonal job at UPS for 30 days working 4-5 hours a night. What I did not consider was for that 30 days I was constantly walking, patrolling my area of the conveyor belt and I was constantly lifting boxes. I was doing more exercise than I would if I designed a workout program of that was for 1 to 2 hours a day. Once the seasonal job ceased, I was no longer getting the physical exercise. Though I lost another couple of pounds I realized that it was also the exercise and not just the diet.

So I have started out slowly now. I have purchased an elliptical exercise machine and “the perfect push up” and I am now working out about 45 minutes a day. For the last 2 weeks my weight began to move again. First a slight drop, then a slight gain and now back to dropping again. Being a former high school athlete i know that muscle is heavier than fat. So as I shed pounds there may be days that I gain weight, but overall I am on a downward trend.

The original thought was today, April 1, 2009 was a special and significant day. The reason is it was the date I set to meet my target goal to weigh 175 pounds. I am happy to report that I missed my goal. I only Got down to 177 pounds. But, In the processed I learned so much. The most important think I learned was the more I learned and spent time sharing what I learned and encouraging people, the more I was encouraged. I believe that is what one of our main jobs in life is to share and encourage one another.