In order to burn certain amount of calories you must be spending around 30 minutes on the machine, in case you are using the traditional aerobic cardio to lose weight. It is believed that in order to lose 1 pound of fat every week, you must lose 500 calories every day or every session.
This is fundamentally a myth that people has been brain washed with. Also, whether this weight loss can be attained through aerobic cardio is also not clear.
Calorie counting monitor installed on elliptical machines, treadmills and stairmasters is probably one of the worst inventions made ever. You may be one of those persons who have been worried by the slow speed with which the monitor creeps up at your slow cardio-sessions.
After the invention of these calorie-counting monitors, people who have been obsessed and want to lose around 300-500 calories every session needs to understand the loopholes in this approach.
1. Accuracy of calorie counters - Accuracy of calorie counters is something that cannot be remarked upon as a CBS news story presented that cardio counters overestimate the calories lost by an individual by around 20%. |
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To lose weight there are two simple ways. You can either lose weight by in taking lesser calories, or you can shed a few pounds by burning calories. If you want to lose weight, then cutting down calories, makes a lot of sense.
But, it is essential that you cut calories sensibly, because cutting too many calories, will do more injury than good. It will not only hamper your health, but it can also act as a road block to reducing weight.
Generally people have a wrong notion, that consuming fewer calories helps to shed weight, so consuming absolutely minimal calories will help them lose faster. This is in fact, sadly not true. Everything has to be done in self-control.
An extremely low calorie diet will not only cause damage to your body, but will also hinder your weight loss. You don’t want that, do you?
When you cut down calories too low, your body understands that you have gone in to a starvation mode.
Thus it will try its best to sustain your current weight. Your body will slow down its metabolism, so that it can save energy and store it to the fat reserve that you already have. This in fact will make it difficult to lose weight.
Thus you can clearly see why cutting down calories, does the opposite of what exactly you want it do.
Not only do these low calorie starvation diets decrease your metabolism. These are also are very dangerous for the body. These causes light headiness, dizziness and you will find difficult to concentrate.
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This question is bound to raise lot of excitement for people who are trying to lose weight. Surely losing weight cannot be such an easy issue, can it be? Well, the answer is YES!
You can actually lose calories by drinking ice cold water. Your body loses calories in the process of warming this ice cold water to the body temperature. Now you must surely be thinking, if we can lose weight by drinking ice water, can we lose a large amount of calories if we drink lots of ice water? Well, to answer this question we need to have a look at some simple calculations.
First of all we need to know the difference between calories and Calories. Calories (i.e. with a big c) are used to indicate the amount of energy that is contained in food. Where as calorie with a small c is used to signify the energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius.
Another exciting fact is that it takes 1 Calorie to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree Celsius. So when you are drinking a 140-Calorie Tin of cola, you are in fact ingesting 140,000 calories in your body. |
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According to the studies done, around 1000 people are declared obese, every single day. So the obesity rate has reached an alarming figure. Well, considering our sedentary life styles it shouldn’t come as a surprise. We drive where ever we have to; we sit whole day at our desk and do all our work at the click of a mouse, thanks to the internet! Given such a lifestyle, it is foreseeable that we all will become obese, but there are quick and effective ways in which you can lose weight. The best way is doing exercises. No, I do not mean that you have to sweat it out daily in the gym for hours. Even 15 minutes of exercise can help you burn as much as 100 calories. The first thing that you have to do is make an effort to move. Remember, when you were young staying indoors would seem like a punishment, but now all you want to do is to sit at home watch TV and spend endless hours chatting. When you have free time make sure to go out, play any game that you like playing and indulge in some activity. It will not only refresh you but, you will also end up reducing a lot of calories. To burn the extra 100 calories, here are some of the things that you can try. |
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In order to lose weight you may have to go for an exercise regularly and sensible diet. You have to eat right food and work out accordingly. Yes, we all know that! But sticking to a low fat diet and exercising is not considered as doing nothing! It is a big job. But here I have for you a great trick that will help you to reduce your weight, doing practically nothing! Sounds too good to be true? Well read on and you will find out how simple and easy losing weight can be. It is one of the tricks that are rarely known by any dietician or dieter. It is an absolutely safe and fool proof method of burning the extra calories and saying them good bye forever.
| NEW "SUPER BONUS" - LIMITED TIME ONLY! APPLY NOW | But here I have for you a great trick that will help you to reduce your weight, doing practically nothing! Sounds too good to be true? Well read on and you will find out how simple and easy losing weight can be. It is one of the tricks that are rarely known by any dietician or dieter. It is an absolutely safe and fool proof method of burning the extra calories and saying them good bye forever. You don't have to go on a killing diet, you don't have to sweat it out in the gym and neither will you be asked to take risky diet pills. All you need to do is just drink cold water! Yes, you have read correctly, all you need to do is just drink cold water; this is what I call losing weight doing nothing! Let me give an explanation to you as how this works. When you drink an eight ounce cup of cold water your body will burn 7.69 calories to heat the water and to bring it to room temperature. Amazing! Isn’t it! Now let us exploit this little trick to reach our aim of losing weight. We have just understood that we can lose nearly 8 calories by drinking an eight ounce cup of ice cold water. The minimum amount of water required for our body is eight glasses. So we can lose 64 calories by just drinking water, but remember to have it ice cold! |
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