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Thursday June 25, 2009

More and more women fail to understand that they have to work hard if they want to change the shape of their body. That means a balance of medium-high intensity cardio exercise along with challenging strength training workouts. To learn more, Check out this week's article on Top 10 Reasons You're not Losing Weight.

The body's metabolic rate has a natural cycle of highs and lows, peaking late in the day and dropping to its lowest level during sleep. It makes sense to avoid putting a large meal into your system after 8:00 at night when your metabolic rate is beginning to slow down. If you do feel hungry after this time, you don't need to go to bed hungry, just try to eat something especially healthy and in small portions.

Have You Learned Yet?

Mistakes are great teachers. The lessons you learn from them are very specific, compelling and highly appropriate to your own unique situation. Your mistakes are custom-designed lessons, made just for you. Mistakes are very persistent teachers. If you fail to learn from them, they'll keep coming back, stronger each time, until you do. Learning from your mistakes is more than just an intellectual exercise. When you've truly learned from a mistake, it will change your actions or behavior. When you realize that you've made a mistake, consider this.

Have you learned its lesson yet? Are you doing something differently as a result? If so, then you've made the very best of the situation and used the mistake to your advantage. You've learned, you've grown, and you've become more effective. A successful life is built in large part by trial and error. Give your mistakes the respect they deserve, learn what they have to teach, and they will propel you forward.
 

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"I used to say, 'I sure hope things will change.' Then I learned that the only way things going to change for me is when I change"
-- Jim Rohn.

Mango Salad

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

• 150 gm diced ripe mango

• 5 gm chopped red chilies

• 20 ml oil ( olive / sesame / mustard )

• 2 gm mustard seeds

• 5 gm ginger juliennes

• 10 gm chopped mint leaves

• 150 gm low fat yogurt

• Salt to taste

Direction:

• Place the diced mangoes in a salad bowl.

• Heat oil in a nonstick pan, add the mustard seeds and allow to crackle.

• Add the chopped red chilies, stir-fry briefly.

• Pour the tempering over the diced mangoes and allow to cool.

• Beat yogurt and add half of the ginger juliennes and chopped mint to to it.

• Stir the yogurt into the mangoes and garnish with the rest of chopped mint leaves and ginger julienne's.

Nutritional Information: (per portion)

• Energy 103 K cals

• carbohydrates- 8.3 gms

• protein - 1.8 gms

• fat - 6.9 gms

Top 10 Reasons You're not Losing Weight

This article is keeping in mind to constant questions raised by women as to why they are not able to lose weight.

More and more women fail to understand that they have to work hard if they want to change the shape of their body. That means a balance of medium-high intensity cardio exercise along with challenging strength training workouts.

Exercise Input

In order to lose weight, you need to get workout for at least 5-6 days a week at 60-70% of heart rate for 30-45 min. Start slow and work your way up but, if you're in good condition and have no restrictions, challenging yourself with harder workouts is the best way to burn more calories. Introduce interval training in order to burn calories even after you've stopped exercising.

In addition to your cardio workouts, you'll need to lift weights for all your muscle groups at least 2 non-consecutive days a week. And, by lifting weights, that means using enough weight that you can only complete the desired number of reps. For example, if you're doing 12 bicep curls, you need to use enough weight that you can only do 12 bicep curls and not one more.
 

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