STOP EATING THESE NOW!!! IF YOU WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT!!!

Another great article I found on: nowloss.com


The foods you must STOP EATING RIGHT NOW when trying to lose weight are…

You need to stop drinking regular & diet sodas. Quick fact: If you replaced a 20oz bottle of soda with water daily… You would easily lose up to 35 pounds in one year so if you're addicted to soda -


Drink more water, Drink more sugar-free vegetable juices (like V8), Drink more Green

Green Tea helps you burn fat faster because…

Green Tea increases your metabolism making you burn more fat and it's a mild appetite suppressant that makes you eat less so weight loss becomes a natural process with green tea.

Green Tea is a diuretic that removes excess water weight from your body that makes you look bloated.
Dr. Nicholas Perricone told Oprah Winfrey she could lose 10 lbs. in 4-to-6 weeks drinking green tea instead of coffee.
The catechins in Green Tea forces your body into thermogenesis - this is where your body burns fat for energy.
Green Tea causes carbohydrates to be released slowly, preventing rises in blood sugar levels and this causes your body to burn fat.
Green Tea prevents you from gaining weight by stopping the movement of sugar into your fat cells. Evidence shows that drinking green tea is related to reductions in body fat.
In a test where 10 men were given Green Tea, caffeine, or a placebo with breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The men who took green tea burned more fat than the placebo and caffeine groups.
Research shows you can burn 35-to-43% more fat during the day when you drink 3-to-5 cups of Green Tea.
The International Journal of Obesity states that Green Tea contains polyphenols which causes your body to produce heat that burns off your body fat.
The University of Chicago's Tang Center for Herbal Medical Research shows Green Tea reduces the fat deposits under your skin and the fat in your belly area.
Studies show that when you drink Green Tea every day for 3 months you'll lose more body fat than those who drink regular tea.


Lots of Green Tea weight loss studies prove green tea lowers blood sugar. A lower blood sugar reduces your cravings making you not eat as much so you won't gain any weight.
Several studies on obesity have concluded that people who've been drinking Green Tea for more than 10 years showed lower body fat percentages compared with those who don't drink green tea regularly. That's a proven fact!

Cut down on or try to stop drinking alcohol. Quick fact: Alcohol is basically the refined juice of natural foods which makes it a drink of pure concentrated sugar that will make you gain fat easily and…
AVOID the grocery store snack aisle - Stop eating potato chips, popcorn, cookies, candy, ice cream, cakes, etc. The ingredients in these foods make you want to eat more and the companies who make these snack foods know you'll stay addicted to them (even after you gained lots of weight eating their snacks) but…
The companies don't care if you gain weight because of their snack products as long as they make their money off YOU and if you're addicted to snacks - Read 30+ ways to curb your cravings for snacks, salt & sugar
You need to make a strong effort to cut down on your salt & sugar intake because too much salt & sugar causes you to gain water weight making you look fatter than you already are and…


Avoid processed foods as much as possible because the processing of these foods removes all the stuff that helps you lose weight and replaces it with stuff like sugar, corn syrup and hydrogenated oils to make you fatter so…
Read food labels and avoid anything that has sugar as it's main source of carbs or has corn syrup & hydrogenated oils as ingredients and…
Don't be fooled by the term "Multigrain" since it's just a fancy word for processed carbs and choose "Whole Grain" products only and…
Here's a bigger list of Foods NOT to eat when trying to lose weight…

Fried foods
Hamburgers & French fries
Table sugar
Plain Jam
salted nuts
smoked nuts
refried beans
Baked Beans
Chocolate Fudge
Candy
Toffee
Gums
Boiled sweets
Mint Sweets
Liquorice
Honey - Honey has minimal nutritional value & has the same calorie content as sugar.
Soft drinks
Tinned fruits
Chutney
Pickle
bacon
sausage
cured meats
ham
fatty cuts of steak like T-bone & rib-eye
Puddings
Corn syrup
Fruit juice - It's better to eat raw fruit instead of fruit juice because fruits contain more fiber and the juice will always contain more sugar than the actual fruit.
Cake
Bread made with white flour
Soda pop, such as Coke, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, etc.
All baked goods made with white flour
Coffee
Biscuits
Fast foods
Pasta made with white flour
Canned fruits w/added sugar
Most packaged cereals
Alcohol can slow your metabolism down by 73%
Potato chips
Popcorn
Cookies
Ice cream
Cakes
Pies
All deserts
Artificial sweeteners like Nutrasweet, Equal, Sweet N Low, Sweet Twin, Sugar Twin, Splenda, Sunett & Sweet One
Most bottled green teas have more ingredients in it to help you gain weight than the actual green tea itself to help you lose weight.
Remember - In order to for you to lose weight…

Go here to see the foods you need to eat to lose weight &…
Get a food journal & Go here to see how much food you have to eat to lose weight &…
Go here to start on an workout plan to lose weight faster.

249 foods that'll help you lose weight fast

130 Complex Carbohydrates that help you lose weight…

All whole grain or unprocessed foods
Any fruits or vegetables
Oatmeal -
Steel-Cut Oats


Plain popcorn - lightly salted
Brown rice
Wild rice
Wheat Germ
Potatoes
Wheat breads (Avoid White breads)
Granary bread
Pitta bread
Wheat Bagel
Wholegrain cereals
High fiber breakfast cereals like All Bran and Fiber One
Porridge
Grits
Oats
Shredded wheat
Whole wheat pretzels
Muesli
Cassava
Corn
Amaranth
Oatcakes
Pastas made with wheat like Macaroni or Spaghetti
Whole Barley
Buckwheat / Buckwheat pasta
Quinoa
Sprouted bread (Ezekiel bread)
Any vegetables

Artichokes
Asparagus


Arugula
Green beans
String beans
Beets
Broccoli
Brussels sprouts
Cabbage
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celeriac
Celery
Chervil
Chicory
Chives
Collard Greens
Cucumbers
Squash
Tomato
Cucumbers
Dandelion greens
Dill pickles
Eggplant
Endive
Garlic
Garbanzo beans (chickpeas)
Grapefruit
Kale
Kidney Beans
Kohlrabi
Leeks
Lettuce
Mushrooms
Mustard greens
Okra
Onions
Parsley leaves
Pinto Beans
Turnips
Watercress
Parsnips (raw/boiled)
Peas
Peppers (green/red)
Pickles (sour/sweet)
Pumpkin
Radishes
Rappini
Rhubarb
Rutabagas
Sauerkraut
Salsify
Scallions
Shallots
Sorrel
Soybeans
Spinach
Tomatoes
Spirulina
Swiss Chard
Yams
Sweet Potatoes
Zucchini
Water Cress
Any Fruits

Although fruits are simple carbs… the fructose or sugar contained in fruits will not cause a quick rise in blood sugar that WILL NOT make you store fat as easily if you ate other simple carbs like these bad weight loss foods here plus… fruits contain fiber and other nutrients that are beneficial to weight loss

Apples
Apricots
Asian Pears
Bananas
Blackberries
Blackcurrants
Blueberries
Cantaloupe
Cherry
Cranberries
Currants
Damson plum
Figs
Goji Berries
Grapes
Honeydew melon
Huckleberries
Kiwi
Kumquats
Lemon
Limes
Loganberries
Mangoes
Melon
Muskmelons
Navy beans
Nectarines
Papaya
Pineapple
Plums
Pomegranates
Prunes
Oranges
Peach
Pear
Plum
Avocado
Raspberries
Spaghetti Squash
Strawberries
Quince
Tangerines
Watermelon

When is the best time to do cardio? Befor or After Weights?

An article I borrowed from "Bodybuilding.com

I always thought that cardio first thing in the morning before eating was the way to burn fat, well read this article, it's totally the opposite. Not knowing when to do my cardio (before or after weights)I would always do it first. To me it made sense because my thinking is I will be nice and warm to do my weights. WRONG! I was depleting everything I needed to get through my weights. Going forward it's EAT, a light warm up, weights then hit the cardio!!!



Cardio Exercise Now Or Then?

"Cardio exercise without question is an essential part of any training routine whether it be a bodybuilding, strength training, sports training or most obviously a running workout schedule. It increases our endurance levels and is also an important factor in preventing all sorts of heart problems and diseases.

But its not as easy as just going outside and mindlessly running around for a few minutes and getting results. Its the same as weightlifting.
You dont just go in a gym and start curling the heaviest weight you see using horrible form. There are many different opinions on how to properly do cardio to achieve certain goals.



What Are Your Goals?
>Lose Fat
>Build Muscle
>Improve Energy
>Other


Some of these views are totally wrong and can mislead you and instead of moving you forward will actually set you back in the wrong direction. This is why it is so important to know what certain types of cardio are doing to your body and how to do it properly. Just like weightlifting.

When Is The Best Time To Do Cardio?

There is no set time where you make the best gains to do cardio. It ranges for everyone, for example if you feel like total crap in the morning and you need an hour or two to feel fully energized, then you obviously arent a morning person so then dont do it in the morning. Listen to your body, you wouldnt pump iron if you were half-awake.

Like I said everyones body is different. So basically the best time for you to do your cardio exercise is when you feel it is the best time to do it, and stick to that time. But there is still more to this, there are still a few guidelines you should follow so that you dont end up setting yourself back. These will help you understand when to perform your cardio for better results, or the results you want.

Cardio In The Morning On An Empty Stomach

First of all NO! Cardio in the morning is probably the most stupid idea I have ever heard. This isnt just my opinion but the most knowledgeable trainers and exercise experts agree that cardio in the morning on an empty stomach is not good for you body.
Well, you might ask, what if I want to burn fat? I have low glycogen stores in the morning and my energy levels are low because I dont have carbohydrates, so then I will tap into my fat stores right? This is TOTALLY wrong. The complete opposite happens.

Let me enlighten you. Fat burn doesnt occur during cardio exercise, but about two hours after. Instead your body will look at your tasty muscles for energy meaning. Bye bye muscles. This is a bodybuilders worst nightmare.

So unless your goal is to become scrawny and lose muscle then by all means do cardio in the morning. Its also common sense not to do it on an empty stomach.

You wont have a satisfactory amount of energy meaning decreases performance which = crappier results. And if you think about it, your body has just fasted for eight hours and it needs something to eat to refuel itself.

Not feeding your body and doing exercise is like going into war without any ammunition.

Dont Get Me Wrong

Yes, dont get me wrong, it isnt that doing cardio in the morning is bad, but doing it on an empty stomach is bad unless you want to lose muscle instead of fat.
So when you wake up at 5:00 A.M at least have something light to eat and wait at least 30-45 minutes before performing your cardio. Like I said earlier if youre a morning person and you feel best in the morning then keep doing it in the morning, just make sure you dont do it on an empty stomach.

Cardio Workout Right Before Weightlifting?

Again this is also a HUGE NO! Not unless you dont want good results from pumping iron, then I guess you're wasting your time in the gym if you go all out and perform cardio before your workouts.

But for a lot of people, especially women, they dont want to gain serious mass, so then if your weight workout is relatively low intensity and doesnt leave you feeling like you just got hit by a car, then by all means you can do cardio before your workout.

But for most of the guys, they want some serious mass, and let me tell you that the last few reps (Say the last 3-2 reps) where you struggle and sweat is where you stimulate your muscles to grow. But when you run before working out, an intense cardio workout totally or almost depletes your glycogen stores.

When weightlifting, you dont use as much of your glycogen stores, but you still need quite a bit (This might come as a surprise to some people but its true).

So if you have no glycogen stores which is your muscles source of energy and your pushing yourself to max, the energy wont be there to push those last few grueling reps meaning a way less effective workout.

Another reason why this is such a big NO is because during a hard cardio session, protein synthesis drops low and protein breakdown goes up. During a weight lifting session, protein synthesis either goes up a little or stays the same while protein breakdown goes up.

After your cardio session while protein synthesis drops (Meaning your bodys ability to build muscle), and you hit the weights, the result will be that your bodies ability to build muscle will be impaired because of your cardio training depending on how intense your cardio was.

So Let's Make Up A Situation

Billy goes and does his intense cardio workout. After that his protein synthesis drops and muscle breakdown goes high.
He goes weightlifting and instead of his protein synthesis being normal or slightly elevated, it is very low because of his cardio session. Plus his muscles are in a state of breakdown.

So basically you dont want your bodys ability to build/repair muscle (Protein synthesis) to be impaired right after a weight workout.

Again, Dont Get Me Wrong

Yes, dont get me wrong again, what I just explained above is doing cardio right before your workout or even an hour before your workout. But it is all right if you do your cardio exercise then your weightlifting program after if you give yourself an adequate amount of time to recover and replenish your glycogen stores.
But in between you must have the proper nutrition to stop protein breakdown and increase muscle synthesis before you hit the weights. Plus you have to replenish your muscles glycogen stores.

Still though, your performance in the weight room may suffer even though you have given yourself enough rest and nutrition, so it is best if you do your weight lifting before anything else to make sure that you lift to your full potential.

Also if you do an intense cardio session and eat hamburgers and fries then 6 hours later do your cardio session, it just wont cut it. Another thing is if your cardio workout is relatively short and low/very low intensity then its all right to hit the weights right after.

Cardio Right After Weights?

Doing cardio right after weights is way better than doing it before weights. The reason being is that weight lifting doesnt deplete your glycogen stores as bad as it does in cardio workouts depending on how intense you go.

So you still will have some of your glycogen stores left meaning that you can still get an alright cardio session. But for a more effective cardio session right after a workout, I recommend waiting at least 2 hours even more (If you have the time to do this) before doing your cardio.

In between this time it is important you replenish your glycogen stores quickly, and stop protein breakdown as fast as possible. But if you dont have the time it is still alright to do it right after weights. Just be prepared to have a less effective cardio session.

For Best Results!

For best results in your cardio training, try to do schedule your sessions separate from your weightlifting program. So if you lift weights 4 times a week, then do running on the other three days that youre not lifting weights.

Just remember try to schedule your cardio session as far away as possible from your leg lifting schedule, because running on super sore tired legs basically sucks. Doing cardio on separate days than weight lifting ensures that you have the proper energy to perform your best in either your cardio or lifting session.

If you cannot then do your cardio after your workouts at least. You also have to do cardio after weights if you have 4-5 cardio sessions and are a serious weight lifter.

Remember you get the best gains when you have the most energy. Yea, if you did an all out run for 45 minutes do you think you could have a good leg workout?

Doing Cardio And Gaining Serious Mass? Is It Possible?

Yes it is possible, it can be done. A bodybuilder would cry at the idea of losing precious hard gained muscle. This is also one of those topics that also depends on your goals.

If a bodybuilder wants to gain serious mass and still maintain a balance in his cardiovascular system then it is totally possible to do it without losing muscle.

But if someone wants to gain serious mass and wants to be a professional marathon runner, then my answer is no since heavy training in the field of endurance, marathon running, and long distance running causes major muscle loss over time.

Just look at all the marathon athletes, they are scrawny not muscular. If you want to be well rounded (Meaning quite cardiovascular fit while still having decent muscle and strength), then your cardio program might cause slight/very slight muscle loss depending on how long, intense and how many times a week you do it.


Sure They've Got Endurance,
But They're All So Scrawny.
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But, your weight lifting program will cause you to gain more mass than is lost and you WILL get stronger. So there are basically two categories for this topic. Guys who want huge mass and dont want to lose it and guys who want some mass and strength but also want to be cardiovascular fit.

So for the guys who want to get big without losing muscle and just want to do enough cardio to stay balanced, well doing cardio three days a week for 30-45 minutes at 60-75% of your max heart rate is enough that you will maintain and get benefits for your cardio system and you also will NOT lose muscle.

So theres the good news for all the bodybuilders who get the crap scared out of them by cardio. Now for the people who want to be well rounded.

If you want to be pretty decently fit in the cardiovascular system and still be strong and have mass, then do cardio about 4-5 times a week from anywhere to 45-60 minutes at 60-85% of your max".