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FACTS: How A “Detoxified” Body will SPEEDUP Weight Loss!

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Can detoxifying your body help you lose stubborn belly fat and speed up weight loss? Emphatically YES! And in today’s series on “Detox, Lose Weight, Reverse Aging SuperFast – 2” you’ll discover how detox is the key to speeding up excess body fat loss and many other things, but if you missed Part 1 where I answered this question “I’m Healthy, Why Do I Need to ‘Detox’?”, then read it here before you continue with today’s article.

Toxins are EVERYWHERE. Each year more than 4 billion pounds of chemicals and pollutants are released into the environment. Toxins threaten not only our environment, but also our health. Every day we are exposed to chemicals that build up in our bodies over time. They affect our health, how we feel, and can cause weight gain! 

The term detoxification is one that is commonly associated with alcohol, drug and substance abuse; as well as dieting and loss of weight: “diet detox.” However, beyond this popular belief, detoxification is also a process aiming to eliminate all the negative effects on our body from the environment, such as industrial chemicals, pesticides, additives in our foods, secondary smoke, pollutants, or heavy metals.

Nowadays, internal detoxification is adopted by healthy individuals to keep their body systems in pristine condition.

How a Detox will SPEEDUP weight loss for you!

Have you tried to lose excess weight or belly fat and have tried all manner of diet and nothing seemed to work? There’s till one thing you haven’t tried: It’s a Detox and here are proofs of that:

If you want to burn excess body fat, no matter where the fat is located be it your belly, arms, thigh, waist etc you cannot do without increasing your metabolism!

A faster metabolism helps you with digestion, and helps burn off fat even while you’re sleeping. In the same way, a slow metabolism can thwart your dieting and weight loss efforts and leave you in a state of frustration, feeling like you’re genetically programmed to be heavy for life. Metabolism is the amount of energy or calories a person uses up to maintain its daily body’s activities and so if your metabolism is slow, it means it will only burn up little and any other extra that comes into the body is stored as fat.

This is why you need to eat healthy, fat-burning foods at the right time, you need to exercise and lastly you need to detox. These 3 are the SUREST way to lose excess body fat.

A slower metabolism, much like gray hair and wrinkled skin, is a truth that many of us face as we grow older. But as with those other tell-tale signs that the days of being 18 are gone for good, there are measures we can take to counter a slowing metabolism such as a Detox!

A detox especially one that incorporates natural, home-made juice is designed to speed up a person’s metabolism by countering that which, in part, causes the metabolism to slow. In my next article in this series “Detox, Lose Weight, Reverse Aging SuperFast – 3” I’ll share 3 Foods You Can Eat To Start Up the Detox Process for Weight Loss.

BTW: If it’s just belly fat loss you want, you can start eating these foods as well and they can be found in other countries (my Ghanaian friends, please take note!)

In Part 1 I said I’ll share a personal testimony of a cure for mum’s 9 year old problem when she used a Detox program few months ago, I’m coming to that shortly but before I do, here are the…

Top 6 Places Where Your Body Easily picks up Toxins!
And the Most Efficient Way to Eliminate Such Toxins!

Modern life continues to provide advances that speed up the pace of everything. There are conveniences everywhere, from fast processed foods to electronics to microwaves. And yet, while everything has gotten faster, one thing hasn’t changed: Nature and our human bodies need a balance.

Which is why we sometimes receive those short enlightening emails, blackberry broadcasts and SMSes on “Don’t answer your phone when charging”, “Don’t microwave your food in plastic bowls”, “Don’t drink water from bottles kept in the freezer”, “when your phone battery is almost dead, Don’t answer calls” and many others.

Why do we get some of these precautionary tips? TOXINS!

 

Often, advances that speed up the pace of life can also upset the balance so necessary for our health… and this is often seen in the form of toxic overload. Toxins lodge in your cells, soft tissues, and muscles, and overwhelm your entire immune system.

For several years, we have seen increasing imbalance in the form of growing rates of cancer, Alzheimer’s, autism, diabetes, fatigue, obesity, heart disease, allergies, candida and infertility. Almost all of these can in some way be linked to toxic overload in our bodies. So what can you do?

While it’s almost impossible to avoid all of the toxins that come with modern life, you have the power to create balanced health – by periodically detoxifying your body! And one way you can easily do so is with the 4-week Detox at Home program (more on this below).

 First, let’s take a brief look at where many of these toxins are coming from:

* Air
* Water
* Food
* Drugs and tobacco
* Household and personal care products
* Stress and negative emotions
As you can see from the list above, it’s hard to avoid some of these sources of toxins because every day, we absorb substances from food that we eat, the air we breathe and the water we drink etc. But does this mean we should give up on our bodies because toxins are everywhere?

Your kids will answer that for you!

Infact, toxic parents give birth to toxic kids!

Can you see why you owe it to yourself to periodically detox yourself? If not, maybe this will further help you make up your mind…

The 6 Stages Of How Toxins Cause Illness

A German scientist, Hans-Heinrich Reckeweg, was the first to recognize the negative effects of toxins to the health of an organism.

Toxins, which are not removed, are stored in the interconnectivity tissue which acts as a form of waste dump in the body. Once toxins build up too far, they penetrate into body cells and accumulate in the tissue of the extremities and finally even in various organs such as kidneys, liver and intestines. If the body is unable to fully eliminate these toxins the health of the organism is disturbed and the early stages of disease are seen such as:

1. Excretion Phase: The body’s immune system is intact and resorts to alternative methods of excreting the overload of toxins such as diarrhea or a runny nose.

2. Inflammation Phase: If the excretion phase does not remove the overload of toxins, the body resorts to an inflammatory response in an attempt to neutralize the toxins. This is where you begin to get all manner of infections which require antibiotics to be treated with.

3. Deposition Phase: If the toxins cannot or have not been fully excreted and new toxins continue to enter the body, the toxins are stored in the fluid between cells inside your body (intracellular space and unseen to the naked eyes). 

4. Impregnation Phase: The toxins from the intracellular space invade and enter the cell. This phase often results in severe health symptoms and some damage to different organs.

5. Degeneration Phase: The high concentration of toxins within the cells destroys large groups of cells resulting in organ degeneration.

6. Differentiation Phase:  Illnesses during this phase are characterized by the creation of non-specialized cell forms (cancer).

I don’t know what stage you may be in but would you want to wait to see them manifest before your detox? I bet you don’t. And so let’s talk about how you can get started on your personal detox process immediately!

The 4-week Detox Diet

Release Date: Tuesday, May 28th, 2013.

Written by: Joe Okoro and a Foreign Nutritionist

Amount: Shhhhh! Very low price investment for the first 7 days of release!

 What to Expect:

If you have been having difficulty losing weight over the years inspite of the numerous exercises and nutrition in the past.

Finally, you now have an opportunity to end all of that frustration as you will be started on a proven road path that has resulted in 98% success rate each time it is used.

In Joe Okoro’s new book, The 4-Weeks Detox Diet, you will be taken on a journey where you will learn how to use natural and available raw plant and healthy foods to make amazing progress in a short time.

This journey or process is a nutritional cleanse and it’s the start of a healthy life process where you give your body as much good food as possible to cure diseases, heal internal wounds, detoxify, and evaporate all the accumulated stubborn fat hiding in your tummy, thighs, chin, buttocks, arms and everywhere fat is found.

This process will likely be with you for the rest of your life and I’m sure you will thank me at the end of the day when you start getting results that have eluded you for years.

If you want to learn the basis of a nutritional cleanse and the processes involved, The 4-Weeks Detox Diet will do that for you.

It’s going to be a double life changer for you.

Joe Okoro says “In this book, I give you a complete list of healthy Nigerian carbohydrate foods, all root vegetables, legumes, grains, fruits and oils for cooking that will help you to detoxify your body, burn unwanted fat in all areas of your body and become the person you have always dreamed of.

I give a 3 Days Full Detoxification Meal Plan comprising of 100% raw plant foods with a perfect combination of fat burning fruits, juices, and vegetables in the right proportions that will have you seeing results from day 3 of using this POWERFUL formula.

I also give you a 4–Weeks Partial Detox Meal Plan comprising of 60% raw plant foods plus healthy cooked foods, containing day to day meals you are to take for 5 times per day for 4 weeks at a stretch.

And this is estimated to help you lose between 8 – 12kg within this time period.

At the end of this period (4 weeks plan (28 days) + 3 days detox) = 31 days total, you will achieve the following additional benefits:

- Greater productivity at work or in your business

-  Greater athletic performance and quicker recovery

-  Healthy, long-term and sustained weight loss (if desired)

-  Healthier skin, hair, and nails – you will have a glow!

-  Dramatically improved energy and vigor

-  More motivation to do anything

-  Ability to prevent sickness and disease

-  Increased chance of prolonging your life while living in great health

This book will be launched on Tuesday 28th of May 2013. The information you see here is just a tip of the ice berg on the many reasons why we grow fat and our bodies becomes toxic.

In the “The 4-Weeks Detox Diet”, I also treat the following topics that will help you to thoroughly cleanse your internal system to maintain an alkaline body condition that prevents any type of diseases to infect you.

- How A Stressful Lifestyle Is Making Us Fat

- Is Your Body Acidic? Sure Signs to Know!

- Enzymes… Your Life Depends On Them

- Cooked Foods Are Dead

- Creating An Alkaline Internal Body Environment

- The 3 Days Detox Diet Plan With 100% Raw Plant Foods

- The 4-Weeks Detox Meal Plan With 60% Raw Foods

- Eating On The Move

- Eating at Workplace

- Eating at Restaurant

-  Eating While Traveling

- Transitional Guidelines

- 10 Success Habits

-  The Most Effective 7 Minutes Exercise Done 3 Times Per Week

-  5- Pillars of Health

And many more interesting facts on cleansing your body for the purpose of living healthy and burning unwanted fats. So expect my email on the launch of The 4-Weeks Detox Diet by next week, and ensure you grab a copy along with the bonuses.”

Wow!

Today’s article is quite long and so I’ll have to shift my mum’s testimony on her cure after she did a detox to my next article in this series titled “Detox, Lose Weight, Reverse Aging SuperFast – 3”. In it you will discover:

1. Three(3) Foods You Can Eat To Start Up the Detox Process for Weight Loss

2. A personal Testimony of a Cure for mum’s 9 year old problem by using a Detox program few months ago

3. TRUTH about why Germs are NOT dangerous!

4. Top 10 Tips you can start using TODAY to detoxify yourself

So watch for it. I would alert you via email once I post it on my blog and so if you’re not yet a FREE subscriber to my Weight Loss Tips for Nigerians and have not started receiving any emails from me, register right now by filling the form at the top right hand side of this blog.

 

Be healthy!

Dr. Ela Maris

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Detox, Lose Weight, Reverse Aging SuperFast – 1

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Welcome to my the Part 1 of my Brand New weight loss tips for Nigerians series titled “Detox, Lose Weight, Reverse Aging SuperFast”. In Africa, most especially Nigeria the majority of us are not used to the term “detox” and do not practise any form of detoxification.

But in today’s article, I would be happy to enlighten you more about it especially if you are healthy right now or desire to lose weight and keep a slim, gorgeous shape for life.

 

Firstly, what is a Detox? 

“Detox” is the short name for the word “detoxification”. According to freedictionary.com, detoxification is the treatment for poisoning by purging the body of intoxicating or addictive and toxic substances. The word “detox” is often interchanged with the word “cleanse” but there is a slight difference between the two:

Cleansing is the process of eliminating toxins from the body In particular, the toxic waste that is impacted in the colon (large intestine). It is pure poison.

Detoxification is the “natural process” of filtering wastes from the cells, organs and bloodstream. We ALL need to go on a cleanse and detox program regularly because of the peculiar environment we currently live in but before I share more on that, here’s an answer to a question a client asked me via email some days ago:

Does the human body detoxify itself?

Yes, God made the human body so perfect and capable of carrying out a normal “everyday” detoxifying process using very important organs of the body such as:

1) Liver

2) Colon

3) Others like your lungs, kidneys and skin

The human body is perfectly capable of cleansing itself of any toxic buildup but our bodies are getting constantly bombarded by toxins due to the present world’s environmental pollution and bad eating habits and so the capacity of our body organs to naturally detoxify itself gets diminished.

The appalling thing about this whole thing is, we don’t know how bad our organs are until it finally breaks down and its damage is almost irreversible. This is why it is important to get the body detoxified manually.

In more developed countries, people detoxify their bodies at least once every 6 months. This is another SECRET of celebrities like Kim Kardiasian, Oprah Winfrey, Beyonce, Anne Hathaway, Megan Fox, Gwyneth Paltrow, Guliana Rancic etc.

Another appalling report states that medical doctors discover more than 50% toxic build-up in the internal organs of the human bodies of people who have died when they do autopsies. What does this tell you? It clearly shows that the body loses its natural ability to clean itself beyond a certain point.

QUESTION: Why WAIT until your internal organs become TOXIC beyond repair before you Detoxify it? 

Well the answer is obvious:

1. We think we are healthy until our bodies breakdown completely

2. We don’t actually see the damages already taking place in our organs because they are hidden inside our bodies

3. We ignore the little signals our bodies show us like frequent allergies, tiredness, body pains, joint pains, frequent colds, aging pretty fast, rash etc — even emotional releases of anger, sadness and fear.

4. We are not enlightened enough on what detox is, its importance and how to do one from home

5. Well, you can add your other reasons why you have NOT done a detox all your life

UGLY Truth: People take care of their cars More than their bodies

As a culture we are very aware of our external cleanliness. We clean our teeth daily, we bath and wash our hair regularly if not daily (for men) and we like to look and smell clean because it makes us feel better. Similarly, detoxification is an internal cleansing.

The problem is that it’s often hard to know when our internal cleansing mechanisms are not functioning well. Unlike other parts of our body it is very hard to know how well our liver is working, and our liver is the main detoxification organ. Apart from synthesizing and secreting bile, the liver acts as a filter for toxins and bacteria in the blood and chemically neutralizes toxins, converting them into substances that can be eliminated by the kidneys.

Although it is mostly ignored by our current medical system, the detoxification system is a key component of our body’s functioning. Most of the molecules made by our bodies every day, are for getting rid of waste products. We need hundreds of enzymes, vitamins and other molecules to help rid the body of unwanted waste products and chemicals.

We need to manufacture these molecules to help take the good from what we ingest and get rid of the unwanted. Although the bulk of the work is done by the liver and the intestinal tract, the kidneys, lungs, lymphatic system and skin are all involved in this complex detoxification system.

The purpose of a detoxification program is primarily to support these organs of elimination so that toxins present in the body can be metabolized and excreted. But when toxins build up over time, your body resorts to more extreme measures to force those impurities out of the cells and organs in an effort to remain healthy.

As these symptoms manifest, many people jump to the conclusion that they have caught a ‘bug’ and take medicines or antibiotics to stop the uncomfortable symptoms of detoxifying. But medicines that stop the natural cleansing process actually suppress your immune system and drive toxins further into your body.

After years and years of toxic overload and then suppressing your body’s own natural cleansing cycle, your major organs will simply give up the struggle and become “diseased”. Your body, lacking the lifeforce to fight, will then succumb to illnesses like cancer, chronic fatigue or acute candidiasis that can kill you.

I have a personal testimony on a cure for mum’s 9 year old problem when she used a Detox program few months ago. I will share more about it in my next series titled “Detox, Lose Weight, Reverse Aging SuperFast – 2” but here’s a typical question any sane person will ask: 

 

“I’m healthy, How do I know I need a Detox?

Studies show most Americans have somewhere between 400 and 800 chemicals stored in their bodies, typically in their fat cells, so the fatter you are, the more such toxins are stored in there. But do toxins affect only overweight people? Absolutely NOT!

As long as a slim person lives in a worse off environment than America (*eyes rolling* you know our country), then they too are affected but do not realize that until they get a chronic disease after years of subtle and often consistent exposure to a combination of such toxins.

Here are some signals to show you need a Detox as soon as Possible

* You are always tired

* You are overweight

* You have trouble sleeping

* Your have mood swings, you are irritable

* You feel nauseous, heavy

* You have trouble digesting food and feel bloated

* You are constipated

* You feel fragile, vulnerable

* You catch a cold frequently and it lasts longer

* You have small spots and patches on your skin

* You often have unexplained headaches or back pain

* You have unexplained memory failure

* You have brittle nails and hair, frequent allergies, exposure to cleansing solvents, pesticides, diuretics and certain drugs, etc.

* You know that you eat too much fat and sugar-rich foods, that you drink too much alcohol, and you have problems such as high cholesterol and high tension.

If you experience one or several of these symptoms, it means that your body has accumulated too many toxins. It’s time for detox! But don’t let your heart fail you yet, you will discover how to do a 4-week Detox at Home program as you follow along with me in this series.

 

In my next article in this series titled “Detox, Lose Weight, Reverse Aging SuperFast – 2”, you will discover:

1. How a Detox will SPEEDUP weight loss for you!

2. The Top 6 places where your body easily picks up Toxins and how to minimize their toxic effects. (NOTE: Some of these places will shock you!)

3. The 6 stages of how toxins cause illness

4. Personal testimony of a Cure for mum’s 9 year old problem by using a Detox program few months ago

So watch for it. I would alert you via email once I post it on my blog and so if you’re not yet a FREE subscriber to my Weight Loss Tips for Nigerians and have not started receiving any emails from me, register right now by filling the form at the top right hand side of this blog.

 

Be healthy!

Dr. Ela Maris

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Can eating Ofada rice help you lose weight? Find out!

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As the author of the 101 Flat Belly and Fat Loss Nigerian cooking recipes here, I often get asked this question: “Is brown rice the same as ofada rice?” Before I answer that question you might also be wondering “What is brown rice and how does it help you burn excess body fat and lose weight?”.

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4 Natural Weight Loss Tips for Fat Nigerian Kids. Use them Today!

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If you want to help your Nigerian kid lose weight naturally without putting any pressure on him or her, then you’ve got to read this.

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4 Small Steps to Successful and Painless Fat Loss in Nigeria

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Wow! Its almost end of the year 2012. How far have you gone in your fat loss journey? Just answer silently. When it comes to losing weight right as a Nigerian I’m sure you already know the drill – If your loved ones are not already giving you unsolicited advice about how to lose weight, some other people who have no business talking about it keep advising you. For example, “Kemi, reduce the amount of food you eat!”. How true that is to an extent. 

That simple advise all boils down to Fat Loss = Take in fewer calories, burn more calories.

If you’re the type of person who’s been in the never-ending cycle of gaining and losing weight all year round, you may be going about things all wrong. One of the most common ways for people to lose weight is to go on a crash diet.

Some people suddenly try to change all of their bad habits at once. For some, doing this is exactly what they just need. But for a lot of people, the change is too drastic and they find themselves returning back to their old lifestyle which is really strong and unbearable until they give in.

For some people, they may stick to this diet for 1 week, 2 weeks and even 1 month and then stop. This leads to the never-ending cycle of failure yet again. I’m sure one or two people reading this can identify with this. But there’s a solution to that.

If you have trouble with drastic changes to your diet, the best way to lose weight and be successful at it is to take things one step at a time. When you change just one small thing into a healthier habit, you find that you don’t feel so deprived — and you’re more likely to stick with it. To help you with that, here are 4 small steps to successful and painless fat loss in Nigeria! Here’s someone just like you who has successfully lost weight consistently taking small steps:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4 Small Steps to Successful and Painless Fat Loss in Nigeria

1. Look at what you drink: If you drink nothing but sugary drinks (cola drinks, “fantaliscious “drinks etc), alcohol, coffee, diet and energy drinks, then you may want to take a look at how many calories you’re consuming. These drinks have virtually no nutrition and “cost” you many more calories. If you’re find it hard to completely give up these types of drinks, then gradually decrease the number of sugary drinks you have per day.

This alone can help you to lose weight or better still there are some natural juices you can drink without any fear of weight gain, instead they help you burn fat. Its all in the Juices and Shakes Cookbook of the 101 Flat Belly Nigerian Recipes. If you have a copy, then visit the Shakes and Juices Cookbook, if not get yours here.

2. Start with 30 minutes of exercise, 3 days a week: If you ask your doctor how often you should exercise, most will recommend getting 30 minutes of moderate exercise every day, but you already know how difficult that is in the real world for people who don’t normally exercise at all. It’s either you find it difficult to adjust your time to exercising or you don’t have the motivation to do that daily.

Another issue is, if you try to do too much at once you may hurt yourself or get too tired and this may be the one thing that may stir you off from exercising for a very long time. Instead, take things in small steps — start by exercising just 3 days a week, that’s 3 days out of 7 days in a week and then gradually work your way up to more days in a week. That is a sure recipe for consistent fat loss success.

3. Don’t deprive yourself of your favorite food: “Ah, do you mean I can still eat my favorite food and lose weight?”. Yes, you can! And eating your favorite food is part of a healthy, natural weight loss program. I already shared quite a lot on why eating your favorite, fat-storing foods help accelerate fat loss, so I won’t go into that today but you can always read it here.

Most times, you have some type of favorite food that ends up being “forbidden” when you go on a diet. Because it’s your favorite, you end up craving it much harder than you normally do and then eventually you go back to your old ways. You don’t have to give this food up! But you also shouldn’t eat it every day. Plan to eat it, keeping within your calorie deficit. By that, I mean eat a small portion of it once a week, and you won’t feel deprived.

4. Get back on track: It’s true, sometimes we slip up. We have one binge day or the other where we just let loose. That’s a part of life. But the thing is when some people slip up, however, they stay that way, going back to their old lifestyle. If you overindulge, don’t beat yourself up over it, but also don’t use it as an excuse to keep overeating. Get back on track starting with the next meal.

It’s no big deal. But it is a BIG one if you continue in your old unhealthy life style. 2 kg added today, can lead to 5kg another day and before you  can say “Ben Johnson”,  you may have added 15kg to what you already weigh…did I hear someone say “God forbid”? Hehehe…

Anyway, that’s it.

These things are all small things that you can start doing today. By taking things just one step at a time, you’ll find that it is much easier to lose fat and become healthy.

What are your own small steps you are taking that has been helpful on your way to fat loss living as a Nigerian? Share some of them with us in the comments section below. You never know how what you say can help others.

To a Trim YOU,

Dr. Ela Maris

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Weight Loss During Ramadan: How to use Fasting for Weight Loss

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I receive a lot of questions in my email asking me how to use Christian fasting for Weight Loss and since Ramadan is upon the Muslims, I will be sharing some secrets on how to use Ramadan for Weight Loss and any kind of spiritual fast for weight loss. So Christians take some notes as well and apply.

Ramadan is an excellent opportunity to lose some weight, although it can be a tough time to keep to a diet plan whether it is weight loss or muscle building but it CAN be done. For those of you who don’t know what’s involved with Ramadan, Ramadan is a month long dawn to dusk fast observed as part of the Muslim religion. This year it started on 20th July and finishes on the 18th of August.

During the daylight you do not drink any liquid (not even water) and you don’t eat any food. The origins of Ramadan are for increased spirituality and as a time to practice self restraint. Some Christians have a similar tradition with Lent where they are encouraged to give up something for 6 weeks.

When you do any form of prolonged fast, you are already resetting your metabolism by the protracted, long overnight fast, as well as the daily fasting. Your metabolism resets and your body begins to change the way it does things.

Weight loss during the first few days is just dehydration. It may be exciting to see that you lost 2-3 pounds in the first day or two, but that’s all water loss and dehydration. No human can lose 2 pounds of fat overnight. It’s just water. But it’s still exciting!

So how can we maximize weight loss during Ramadan?

The most important factor is to avoid gorging or “binge eating” at night. We have found that gorging once a day is the fastest way to gain weight. Your body thinks it’s in a state of famine, and will store everything you eat as fat, because it is worried about food supply. Further, eating once a day scares your body and your body starts to shut down and slow down your metabolism. You don’t want to slow down your metabolism or you will gain weight. I already explained all these in detail here.

As an exercise, restricting yourself from not eating for a period of time is a good one to go through, whether you are Muslim or not, it can help give you confidence that you can cope with hunger and stick to a plan and not give into any cravings you may have. If you are a Muslim and can go without food and drink for this length of time then you should have added confidence that you can stick to any diet plan at any time of the year.

Weight Loss During Ramadan

On the face of it being on a fast you have a real opportunity to lose weight and get ripped if you really want to. However depending on your background and family situation you might be confronted with a lot of treat-like foods when you break your fast. You need to have a mental and physical strategy of how you are going to deal with this, otherwise you could end up in trouble overeating.

The obvious thought process is that ‘I’ve been good all day I’ve stuck to the fast, I can eat whatever I want can’t I?’ Not really, you still need to keep an eye on how many carbs you consume if you want to lose weight. So let’s assume you have free will over what you eat, and your auntie is not going to force feed you samosas and the likes.

What ideally are you going to eat and drink?

1. Drink Water First

As soon as you break your fast, concentrate on getting rehydrated first by drinking water. You are going to be thirstier than you are hungry and hunger often disguises itself as thirst. By rehydrating first you are helping to prevent yourself from overeating. Don’t drink water just by itself, it’s quite hard to try and drink a lot of plain water no matter how thirsty you are. As a minimum you can squeeze some lemon or lime you’re your water to give some flavor, helps you rehydrate and also helps you drink more.

2.  Another option to rehydrate is to have a whey protein shake

Don’t add any extra carbs like fruit or the extras as you may end up feeling full as a result of the shake, just mix whey with water. This will help you get protein into your muscle cells as well as help with hydration.

4 Tips on Foods to eat to break your Ramadan Fast

Tip 1: Once you have rehydrated then its time to think food. Traditionally there may be a lot of ram to eat during Ramadan. Lamb or ram can be quite a fatty meat so if you are going to have this then make sure what you have with it does not have too much additional fat. If possible, the best options are to have chicken and fish. Eat it with the low carb vegetables like cabbage, ugwu, green/spinach, lettuce etc as are recommended in the 101 Flat Belly and Fat Loss Nigerian Cooking recipes here.

Other foods you can eat include oats, millet, semolina, beans, lentils, brown rice, “moi-moi”, “akara”, chicken, beef, “suya”, eggs, milk, “ewedu”, “efo”, “tuwo”, “masa”, dried seeds and nut like dates. Vegetables and fruits like oranges, watermelon, banana, pine-apple, apples, celery, lettuce, cucumbers, onions, spinach etc. In the Salad Cookbook of my 101 Flat Belly and Fat Loss Nigerian Cooking 12-set Cookbooks, you would find over 15 different fat-burning delicious salad recipes you can enjoy during Ramadan.

Tip 2: Now that I’ve talked about what to eat, if you really want to lose weight during this season then you must limit the intake of sweets, fried and fatty foods such as bread and baked goods.

Tip 3: You can eat a slightly larger meal but you don’t really need to. You may think ‘I need to overeat to help me get through the whole day without eating’. If you want to lose weight then what is the point of that? The truth is you should want to utilise your excess fat stores to fuel yourself through the day during the fast instead, so no need to overeat.

Tip 4: If you overeat too much at night you could end up creating more fat than you then burn off during the rest of the day to get back to the same starting point when the fast is over. You are going to need to overeat to some degree but just make sure the extra consumption comes from more protein like fish, chicken, eggs etc.

What to eat before daybreak

You have a second feeding opportunity before your daily fast starts.  Again it is important to hydrate yourself fully as you are going to be going all day without a drink so I would make sure that you have a whey protein drink, this kills 2 birds with one stone as you get hydration as well as nutrition. You could also drink lots of water with lemon or lime.

A good option for food is to eat is chicken and spinach omelette (Check the 101 Fat Loss Nigerian Cooking recipes for that), you could make this the evening before and have it ready to eat when you wake up. Eggs are a good option to have as they help keep you feeling fuller for longer. For your meal, drink plenty of water, start with soup and salad, Even a few nuts and an apple is fine. Or you could eat a banana and dark chocolate.

Exercise and training for fat loss during Ramadan

Ah, did you think I would leave this out? *wink, *wink* If you plan to use the Ramadan fasting season as an opportunity to burn off some unwanted fat from your body, then you would have to do some sort of exercising. Just keep it light.

As you will already be de-hydrated by not drinking since when you first woke up, this could affect you especially if you exercise too hard you are likely to become more dehydrated which could result in dizziness and light headedness and lead to passing out. Be sensible and listen to your body and stop at the first signs of any different sensations.

2 ways to exercise for weight loss during any type of Spiritual Fasting

1. Train before you break your fast in the evening

2. Break your fast, drink and eat and then train.

If you are going to train before you break your fast in the evening then let it coincide close to the time you break your fast. So if the fast ends at 6pm then train between 5-6pm. It’s more beneficial to exercise closer to breaking your fast rather than at lunch time because you are then able to get food into your system much quicker after training to start the recovery process and you will be dehydrated for a shorter period of time during the day.

Have a snooze after work

Another good strategy is to have an early evening sleep from when you get home from work until you are ready to exercise. This will help you produce more growth hormone which will aid both fat loss and muscle gain, it will also help take your mind off not being able to eat.

When it comes to exercising for fat loss start with more gentle forms of training like treadmill, bike, rowing machine rather than high intensity intervals, to begin with at least, if you find you can handle the higher intensity then by all means do it but just be careful you don’t dehydrate too much.

When it comes to losing weight if you manage yourself properly particularly eating well then you could get really lose weight during Ramadan or any kind of fastng.


If you have any questions or comments regarding this article, then use the comments form below to discuss.

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20+ Motivating Reasons To Lose Weight Really FAST

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Here are some action steps you can take right now if you are serious about losing weight in Nigeria.

Write down the list of those that apply to you. Add any extras not listed. Be specific don’t say you will do more things say exactly the type of things that you will do. At the end of the day just about every guy would like to have a six pack, why do so few people have one then.

If you want a flat belly you need to be crystal clear about why you want one.Take that list with you wherever you go. Read it at least once a day. Read it especially before you go somewhere you know you will be tested (e.g. a party). Share your list with someone supportive.

 

Okay so here are some Common REASONS our clients tell us why they want to lose weight:

  • I’ll be able to play with my kids.
  • I’ll be able to buy clothes that fit.
  • I’ll be able to wear fashionable clothes
  • I’ll be able to exercise without discomfort or embarrassment.
  • I’ll be happy going to restaurants
  • I’ll live long enough to spend quality time with my grand kids
  • I’ll do more things (like swimming with the kids).
  • I may earn more money or get a better job


Here are some Feel Better about your self REASONS:

  • I’ll feel pleased with my body
  • I’ll enjoy sex more.
  • I may enjoy more sex.
  • I’ll feel better about myself.
  • I’ll feel a sense of achievement.
  • My self esteem will be improved.
  • I’ll be less self critical.
  • I’ll feel comfortable talking to new people.
  • I’ll be happier when I look in the mirror.
  • I won’t feel so self-conscious in public.
  • I’ll be more assertive.


Here are some Improved Health and Wellness REASONS:




  • I’ll probably end up living longer.
  • My health will be improved.
  • I won’t get out of breath so easily.
  • I’ll feel better physically.
  • I’ll be more energetic.
  • I’ll play sport at a better level.
  • I won’t become a diabetic
  • I’ll get less illnesses
  • I’ll be stronger.


Some How others view you REASONS:

  • I’ll be more appealing to look at.
  • I’ll be more attractive to others.
  • I’ll get more compliments from friends.
  • I won’t have to listen to others judging what I eat.
  • I will not get teased or abused by others.
  • Others will respect me more



Boy! These are the few reasons why anybody should take deliberate steps to lose weight, but this list is not exhaustive because we are different. So share with us your own personal reasons why you want to lose some weight by using the Comments section form at the end of this article. Remember, sharing your reasons IS the first ACTION STEP towards losing weight.

Yes, go ahead now.

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(Part 6) TRIPLE your Weight Loss in 25 days with your Favorite Nigerian Foods

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Welcome to the Trick #4 on How to TRIPLE Your Fat Loss RESULTS Eating Your Favorite Foods Using Just 5 Tricks In Only 25 days …Guaranteed!! I want you to imagine something…I want you to imagine yourself burning MORE than 1,000 Calories EVERY workout, feeling (and looking) absolutely incredible each and every day, and consistently burning and losing up to 1-2 Kg of PURE fat week, after week…after week…

Now how does that sound to you?

You see, the truth is you can burn a whopping THOUSAND calories EVERY workout, and you can look and feel your best while rapidly losing fat…but before we get in to how, let me quickly remind you of the first 3 tricks of how you can do this from the previous series.

Trick #1: By eating your favorite foods like Pounded Yam with Egusi Soup, Fried Rice, Pasta or Pizza, Ice Cream (No, Seriously)
Trick #2: By creating massive calorie deficits in your body (That Actually Work)
Trick #3: By using a combination of very strategic exercise.

Wow!

I know you may be thinking, “how is it possible to actually lose weight by eating my favorite foods?” YES…it’s TRUE, it’s scientific and I should know because I’m a Nutrition Biochemist by training. I won’t go about explaining tricks 1 – 3 here because I‘ve already done so on my blog here – which is the fastest way to triple your fat loss…Guaranteed.

So if you would like to know How to eat your Favorite foods and still lose weight fast, then get your copy of the 25-Day Fast Weight Loss Diet here. And now to tricks # 4.

Trick #4 – Empty Yourself  BEFORE Cheating  Your Way to a RAPID Fat Loss

To explain this trick, we are going to do a little maths…now, don’t run away even if you had a D in mathsJ.  I need you to understand something simple. Remember the day I said you can eat whatever and anything you love in order to really lose weight fast? Whether its “poundo” with “egusi” soup or chocolates, cakes, pizza etc?

When you eat those kinds of food on that “cheat” day, you may actually add weight… BUT it’s really so small and best of all it works for you to lose weight really fast. What???…Yeah, I know, I know…that is what you are trying to avoid. But let me explain WHY you the small fat gain does NOT matter now that I have your attention.

So, let’s say you gain 0.2 Kg of fat as a result of a Cheat Day (eating whatever you like – this 0.2Kg is just a reasonable estimate) and then lose 1.2 Kg of fat over the next one week.

Remember, eating whatever you want on certain days I’d reveal to you in the Rapid Fat Loss System increases your metabolism and fat-burning enzymes, and also increases the fat-burning hormones in your body, so if you calculate a fat loss of 1.2 Kg every week THAT MEANS you would have lost a total of 1 Kg per week, not bad eh?

But what if I showed you how you could actually avoid that 0.2 Kg of weight gain and still burn an additional 1.2 Kg of fat each week? YES, that’s why what you do the day BEFORE your cheat day is important.

That’s why it’s called the 25-Day Fast Weight Loss Diet. It’s all about getting faster fat loss results. Who doesn’t want that? Imagine how fantastic and dazzling you would look in the next 25 days of using this system. Because you’re not only going to burn fat fast but use all the latest fat-burning tricks available today.

So here’s how to avoid that 0.2 Kg of weight gain:

Let’s assume that your glycogen/carb stores are 60-75% full before a Cheat Day and then you eat whatever you want, you would be eating mostly carbohydrate foods (Most of the foods we love contain mostly carbs), it means these stores become full and some may spill over to fat stores.

So in order to solve this problem, we’re going to do two things on the day before the Cheat Day:

  • You are only going to eat foods low in carbohydrate so that you do not add to the carbohydrate stores in your body
  • You’ re going to do specific glycogen/carb decreasing exercises so that it would empty your body’s current carbohydrate stores in order to get ready for the cheat day calories.

The result?

You get the SAME leptin boosting, metabolism increasing, fat-burning increasing hormonal effect that the Cheat Day brings without any worries of the calories leading to fat storage. Yes, awesome, bah?

By the way, the exercises we use on depletion days of the Rapid Fat Loss System have special and unique fat burning properties of their own. So, not only will you deplete carbohydrate stores, you’ll also increase your weekly fat burning at the same time.

Cool, huh?

In the 25-Day FAST Weight Loss Diet, we have FIVE different – types of eating days with a very specific exercise strategy to use on each day that will give you some “crazy” rapid fat loss results. Make no mistake about this – it WORKS.

The 25-Day FAST Weight Loss Diet will be officially released on Friday, June 22nd 2012 but I want to give you a special discount if you Pre-order between today and Tuesday, June 18th.

Why I’m I doing this?

Some of my subscribers (house wives, students etc) have called me to say they wish they could get my programs but they could not afford it, but NOW anybody can afford it, so we can banish the excuse forever of being overweight.

I also have EXCLUSIVE special BONUSES to everyone who orders on or before Tuesday, June 18th and you know me by now, my bonuses are what someone has called “Super IRRESISITIBLE Bonuses” and believe me that’s what they are.

Instead of paying for the Bonuses such as Exercise VIDEOS, you get them for FREE.

Click here Order for the 25-Day FAST Weight Loss Diet


 

Next week, I’ll send the “final” Trick #5 of this powerful series showing you how foreign Fitness Experts used the SAME secrets in the Rapid Fat Loss System to get so ripped and “tight”.


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(Part 5) TRIPLE your Weight Loss in 25 days with your Favorite Nigerian Foods

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The other day I shared with you the two tricks on the “5 Tricks to TRIPLE your Weight Loss in 25 days eating your Favorite Foods…Guaranteed!”. Today I’m back with Tricks #3 which will give you the FASTEST weight loss possible in as short as 25 days. In Trick #1 for the rapid weight loss diet I showed you why you should eat your Favorite Nigerian foods, be it pounded yam with “egusi” soup, pizza, small chops, ice cream etc and I also showed you scientific research and proofs that it WORKS big time.

Before I go into today’s series, here’s a quick recap of the previous article (Trick #2), which is to create massive calorie deficits on the day AFTER your cheat day. A calorie deficit simply means what you eat as food is LESS than what your body burns up daily as energy, so that calories burned – calories taken as food = Weight loss (3 – 2 = 1 aka weight loss). For full details on the best 2 ways you can do that, click here.

And now Trick #3 is to DO Very Strategic Exercise

I guess you already know this – you MUST include exercise to your weight loss mix if you ever want to burn fat permanently. There are different types of exercise and there are best times to do different types of exercise which will double…even TRIPLE your fat loss.

But most guys and ladies spend time doing the least productive exercise of all aka – Aerobic exercises such as jogging, running, dancing aerobics, walking, skipping or jumping rope etc. If you want to ever lose weight FAST, then forget these aerobic exercises. Infact, which of these do you prefer?

Scenario 1: Do B exercise in 1 hour and lose fat only during the exercise and burn only about 0.1 Kg of fat?

Or

Scenario 2: Do C exercise in just 35 minutes and burn fat up to 48 hours AFTER doing the exercise and up to 0.8 Kg of fat?

As for me I would rather do my exercise in the shortest time possible (because I’ve got lots of other interesting and delightful things to do) and lose fat in the fastest way possible. Since you are smart, you should choose scenario 2 like me too.

Now back to the types of exercises that will your triple fat loss (NOT aerobics even though I’ll show you where to use it to further tune your body into a fat-burning machine).

The BEST exercises for FAST weight loss are:

1. Strategic lactic acid based exercises to burn massive calories and glycogen, which then causes the release of important fat-burning hormones that further increase fat burning in your body

2. Strategic combination exercises that contain both anaerobic (carbohydrate-burning) and aerobic – (fat-burning) components.

Remember that in order to lose weight and burn fat you need to create huge calorie deficits, now YOU CAN with these strategic combination exercises in synergy with the best diet TRIPLE you fat loss in the shortest possible time – In As Little as 25 Days. Combining those types of exercise with some secret (dietician-approved) types of eating will turn your body into a fat-burning machine.

By the time you are just 15 days into this system, you would need to change your wardrobe because your clothes would be hanging loose on you – Boy! What a dream come true!

Imagine this – - > From a size 18 to size 10. From extra, extra large to medium and then to small. THAT can be you…it’s possible. I have used this SAME system to shed 10 Kg of my unwanted fat and kept it off ever since.

In the 25-Day FAST Weight Loss Diet here, we have FIVE different – types of eating days with a very specific exercise strategy to use on each day that will give you some “crazy” rapid fat loss results. Make no mistake about this – it WORKS.

Now I would have liked to talk to you here about Tricks #4 and #5 but I want to let tricks #1 – 3 to soak in you first because I know all this stuff maybe somewhat new to you or are some of what you know already but ONE thing I want you to know is that it does not matter how much weight you have to lose…it does not matter if you have tried before and failed…it does not matter if you simply do not have any idea on what to do to get back to slim and sexy again.

What matters is – with strategy, you can do – the impossible, triple your weight loss and burn fat “so” rapidly. It’s all a matter of using smarter methods instead of being stuck at 95 Kg for life. And that’s essentially what the 25-Day FAST Weight Loss Diet, is all about—the fastest fat loss ever possible.

The 25-Day FAST Weight Loss Diet was officially released on Friday, June 22nd 2012 but I want to give you a special discount of N1,500 OFF if you order between today and the next 3 days.

I also have EXCLUSIVE special BONUSES to everyone who orders within the NEXT 3 days and you know me by now, my bonuses are what someone has called “Super IRRESISTIBLE Bonuses” and believe me that’s what they are.

Instead of paying for the Bonuses such as Exercise VIDEOS, you get them for FREE.

Click here Order for the 25-Day FAST Weight Loss Diet


 

In 2 days time, I’ll send the Trick #4 of this powerful series showing you how foreign Fitness Experts used the SAME secrets in the Rapid Fat Loss System to get so ripped and “tight”.


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(Part 4) TRIPLE your Weight Loss in 25 days with your Favorite Nigerian Foods

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Today, you’re going to learn super fast technique #2 which will help you lose weight faster than you ever thought possible without killing your metabolism or the fear of regaining the lost weight while eating your FAVORITE Nigerian foods in the series called  the “5 Tricks to TRIPLE your Weight Loss in 25 days eating your Favorite Foods…Guaranteed!”

And so Trick #2 out of 5 is to create MASSIVE calorie deficits (that actually Work)

Before I explain this sneaky super fast weight loss trick let me first tell you what a calorie deficit is. A calorie deficit is simply explained as 3 – 2 = 1 = weight loss.

A calorie deficit is created when the amount of food energy (calories) you take in (as in food you eat) is less than the total calories you burn/use up daily. It is also the difference between what you eat and what your body burns. In order to lose weight, you will need to create a calorie deficit, so that calories burned – calories taken as food = Weight loss (3 – 2 = 1 aka weight loss).

So what happens if you want to lose a LOT of weight – fast? Simple, you’re going to need to burn a LOT more calories than you consume each day.

For trick #2, FAT = Calories.  In fact, 1 kg = 2.2 pounds and
1 pound of fat = 3,500 calories.

So in order for you to lose 5 pounds (or about 2 kg), you need to create a 11,000 calorie deficit and to lose 10 pounds of fat you need to create a 35,000 calorie deficit.

By the way, she’s only holding just 5 pounds (about 2.3 kg) of fat
Imagine what two of that looks like for just 5 kg of weight loss

So, how do you create a 35,000 calorie deficit, huh? That’s easy. In fact, if you didn’t eat anything at all for 15 days, combined with exercise, you’d probably burn even more than that and finish up looking minus 15 kg absolutely trim after only 2 weeks of sacrifice, right?

WRONG.

Instead, your body behaves like a Landlord and cuts off your weight loss like an unpaid “nepa” bill and even worse starts to “tax” your muscle tissue for lack of payment.  NOT the situation you want to be in for rapid weight loss. You would end up sick and still fat because of how your leptin levels and your metabolism will fall due to the anti-starvation effect.

To cut the long story short, creating massive calorie deficits (by not eating) simply do NOT work for permanent weight loss and if you want the body of your dreams in the next few weeks. So does that mean creating massive calorie deficit for rapid weight loss is a dead dream?

Nope!

It just requires that you use “smarter” methods to be one step ahead of your body, which is what the 25-Day Rapid Weight Loss Diet is all about.

So how can you be smarter than your body for rapid weight loss in creating massive calorie deficit? Okay, let me give you a sneak preview into the 25-Day Rapid Weight Loss Diet.

==> Your body is at its best to burn fat massively after the day you eat all your favorite foods.

Why?

Because then leptin levels and all other fat-burning hormones are at their highest. This means that it’s after a high calorie day (the day you eat all your favorite foods) that you’ll want to create a massive calorie deficit through these two ways:

  1. Very little calorie intake
  2. Exercise

This will give you the FASTEST weight loss result ever because you’re using a system of creating a massive calorie deficit on a day your body is at its best to burn calories as fat AND when metabolism is at its highest point

Make sense?

Just in case you’re wondering, won’t such a massive calorie deficit just throw your body back into ?starvation mode? NOT if you do it using the most strategic and “smart” way in a step-by-step system which you’ll discover in the 25-Day Weight Loss Diet.

I’ll show you exactly two ways on how to do this in the 25-Day Weight Loss Diet.

And now for the trick #3 on series “5 Tricks to TRIPLE your Weight Loss in 25 days eating your Favorite Foods…Guaranteed!

If you can’t wait to start using these tricks for the FASTEST weight loss ever possible for you, then hit the LIKE and SHARE button below to share this amazing Super-fast weight loss series.
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