Top 5 Weight loss Strategies

Losing weight sounds simple but it can get confusing if you don’t know where to start. This is the top 5 most important things you can do to lose weight and keep it off.

1. Eat Less – This one sounds obvious but it can’t be stressed enough. The only way to lose weight is burn more calories than you consume. One easy way of doing this is eating less. As a matter of fact the only way any of the popular diets cause weight loss is because you end up eating less while you follow them. It doesn’t matter if the diet is low carb, high protein or low fat. As long as you are eating less calories than your basal requirement you will lose weight. The easiest and most effective calorie reducing system I have come across is Eat Stop Eat by Brad Pilon.
2. Do High Intensity Exercise – High intensity whole body circuit training will ensure that you are burning lots of calories and working all the muscles in your body. This works better than traditional ‘cardio’ workouts for 2 reasons. First high intensity circuits burn more calories than ‘cardio’ can. Two, they build and tone muscle which keeps your metabolism up.
3. Get A Weight Loss Team – Social Support is the most important factor to realizing your weight loss goals. Get as many of your close friends and family on your side as possible. The more people that are pulling for your success the better. Make sure you always have at least two or three people to call that will help keep you on track when you feel like skipping a workout or cheating on your nutrition plan.
4. Eat more Fruits And Vegetables – This seems a bit simple but its one of the most effective things you can do to lose weight. Fruits and veggies take up lots of space in your stomach and fill you up without adding too many calories. They will also take the place of some high sugar and high fat foods you may have eaten instead.
5. Set Short Term Goals – Short term goal setting is often overlooked and is a powerful tool to realizing your eventual long term weight loss goal. Set multiple and attainable short term goals, and the shorter the better. At the start set goals for each day, morning evening and night. Set short term goals for finishing each one of your workouts, as well as for eating your fruits and vegetables. Set them each day, and mark it down each time you achieve one. As you build up your list of goals you have accomplished you will build up confidence and momentum towards your overall long term weight loss goal. Keep the list somewhere safe and keep marking down each goal as you achieve it. After a few weeks you should have a nice looking list of accomplishments to be proud of. Remember, every little bit counts.

Put these 5 strategies into effect and you will be well on your way to achieving your weight loss goals in record time.

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Just read an interesting article on Vitamin B12. Seems it may help prevent brain shrinkage! They don’t seem to mention that the RDA seems to be a little behind in their recommendations. According to this research, we “may” be able to keep our brain size by eating a couple of chews everyday!

Dr. David Friedman, the developer of the wonderful, one of a kind Chewable supplement Chews4Health, wrote the following in response to the amount of Vitamin B12 in Chews4health.

“In the United States, the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) was  established by the government to
reflect  the bare “minimal amount needed” to sustain life and fight disease. The  RDA for Vitamin C is 60 mg, which is the amount needed to ensure humans would not develop the disease Scurvy; however, most Vitamin C supplements on the market are sold in  1,000 mg or higher.   Without going into a long lecture on RDAs, I will tell you this…….MAN created the RDA numbers and every 3-5  years those numbers are  constantly being revised and they change drastically so how can they be an accurate  gage on how to supplement your diet?     In fact, just a year ago it was said that men should supplement their diets with 1,000 mg of Calcium per day.   Now, current  research shows that calcium supplementation CAUSES PROSTATE CANCER and it was recently  announced that NO calcium is recommended per day for men.  That means DON’T TAKE CALCIUM SUPPLEMENTS AT ALL IF YOU ARE A MAN!  Wow, what a drastic change from what the RDA  has been telling us for the past 25 years!!

Vitamin B12 is water soluble and there is NO worry about having “too much” or for it to cause any  dangerous side effects to the body.    That means the B12 our body does not use, we excrete from our kidneys in our urine.  Yes, you are right, the RDA for B12 is just  2.4 mcg,  the bare minimum needed to sustain human life; however,
science shows that the cells of the body require  a hundred times  more  B12 than the RDA (especially for those that don’t eat meat.)  If you could find a B12 supplement on the market with only the RDA (I doubt one exists,)  you would
be taking the bare minimum needed to keep you alive,  but you would not see any noticeable results like focus, energy, endurance or increased vitality. For that, you need  a supplement that contains 200 mcgs,  like  Chews4health.

I do have one piece of  advice pertaining to your children…..  You may want to limit their intake of Chews4Health to the mornings and keep them away from it at night oryou will want us to  rename the product:
Zoooooooooom-4-Heatlh!

Sincerely,

Dr. David
Friedman

Thanks Dr. Friedman for your explanation.

Michael

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