This is a guest post my Jack Noel. Jack maintains a weight loss blog where you can find free weight http://www.weightlosshelpandtips.net weight loss tips and advice that will help you lose weight the safe way.

It is likely that you are among the majority of people who carry a few (or sometimes more) extra pounds and you are looking for ways on how to get rid of them. Our objective in this post is to present you with weight loss tips that actually work and can make a difference if you follow them correctly. This is by no means a complete guide on what you need to do to lose weight but it is a collection of everyday tips and tricks that can make the whole process easier. So, let’s get started.

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When you are doing your daily workout routine does it really matter what you eat after it? As regards the amount of fat, you will burn. Scientists have now discovered that what you eat afterwards is quite important as to regard as to how much fat you actually burn so it seems that we may not know about actual processes that happen after we have finished our exercises and have something to eat.

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This is a guest post written by Teresa Jackson

Men tend to be shaped like apples while women are built more like pears – that’s the natural physiology of both sexes. Hormones, genes, lifestyles and other factors determine how and where we store body fat, but in general, women tend to be heavier around their hips, waist and thighs while men put on weight around their abdomen.

We call them pot bellies, paunches and even beer bellies, even though people who are teetotallers are also known to have large stomachs.

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This is a guest post on behalf of http://www.lifecoach-directory.org.uk/ Feeling Bloated? Sluggish and overweight? Many of us want to change our lifestyles so our life improves.

Attempting to make changes is the easy bit, putting these changes into effect is whole other ball game. Sometimes our daily routines sabotage all our attempts.

It is hard to keep on track when trying to being healthy. Dieting is tough, even for the best of us. You need to not only keep on a healthy eating regime going you need to exercise as well, keeping up the enthusiasm to continue down the healthier route is hard. [Read more...]

Here is a guest post written by Alan Murray

You can’t expect your figure to go back to your pre-pregnancy shape straight after birth! Its takes time for the womb and your stomach to re-adjust to its normal size. Expect it to be around 4 weeks.

Don’t rush back into weight loss after the birth. It is a very stressful and busy time and you don’t need the extra strain of trying to lose weight.

1. Waiting around six weeks to start your diet is sensible. Remember your body has been through a lot and needs time to recover! The average weight gain for a mother during pregnancy is 25-35 pounds. Expect to lose around 13 pounds after the birth. This gives you around 12 to 22 pounds to lose. A reasonable target to lose this weight is 8 months. Losing 1 or 2 pounds a week is an easier proposition. Don’t push yourself too hard to lose the weight. Give your self reasonable targets that are obtainable.

2. Be careful when trying to diet when breastfeeding. Your body needs extra nutrition to produce the milk, but your body is very effective at milk production so you don’t need a lot of extra calories. Be guided by your appetite and eat when hungry. If you don’t feel hungry at all, be aware that postnatal depression can cause lose of appetite. See your doctor if you are feeling down and you don’t feel like eating.

3. Take your baby for walks – your baby will appreciate the fresh air and you will burn calories! Taking exercise will also make you feel better. Even going walking around the shops or a stroll in park. It will also give you bonding time with your child.

4. Breastfeeding burns around 500 calories a day and is of course best for baby. You should be eating around 1800 to 2000 more calories a day when nursing. Remember that everything you eat is going to baby as well so don’t go over board on junk food.

5. Make up or buy healthy snacks for when you are at home. You will be spending a lot of time in the house and you are probably not going to resist the urge to snack! So be prepared and have plenty of healthy options rather than cakes or biscuits.

What about making up a smoothie? Get in a few of your 5 a day. Research points to liquid foods can make you feel full for longer.

Honey and yogurt. A pot of honey and yogurt for a 120g pot is around 140 calories and is a tasty snack!

Dried fruit – such as mango, prunes and apricots.

Potato wedges – put them on oven foil or paper, to save on the grease on the baking tray. A very nice low fat potato option!

Plenty of fruit – always have fruit in your bowl, buy a combination of different fruits to stop your self getting bored! Why not try something you have not eaten before?

6. What about a postnatal exercise class? This is a good way to lose weight and also you will meet other mums in the same situation. After you have had your post natural check feel free to get your self out to a regular exercise class. If you are breastfeeding try to exercise after you have feed the baby. Research points to some babies shunning the breast completely or feeding less than normal.

7. Eat when you are hungry! Don’t skip meals, hunger is a natural instinct and will always win! Plan your meals and eat a sensible amount of calories for each meal. You need to learn the difference between actual hunger and emotional hunger.

8. Drink water – Most people do not consume enough water during the day. If your urine is yellow then this is a sign of dehydration. Drinking water will help refresh your body – try sipping water throughout the day. If you replace that sugary drink with a glass of water you are reducing your sugar and calorie intake. We sometimes think we are hungry but we actually just thirsty. Get into the water habit!

9. Increase whole grains, vegetables and fruits. Foods high in fiber will help you feel full for longer. Whole Grains are high in complex carbohydrates which give you long lasting energy. Vegetables are high in fibre and have a generally high water content meaning they are low in calories and fat free. Fruits are also high in fibre and are a good source of the vitamins and minerals that your body needs.

10. Base you meals around these three food groups and you will be well on your way to achieving your goal.

Alan Murray is The webmaster of a http://www.baby-names.tv/ baby website . The website covers much more than just baby names, with sections on Baby health, Pregnancy and much more.

This could be one of the most hotly debated topics as regards losing weight is concerned and it is something I have wondered about myself whether or not how often you eat can make a difference to how much weight you do or don’t lose. [Read more...]

A quarter of the adult population in England  is obese and rates are increasing – by the middle of this century it’s believed that 60% of men and 50% of women could be obese. As a consequence, a resolution to lose weight is one of the most common promises we make to ourselves when Big Ben chimes midnight on New Year’s Eve.

However, research shows that nearly all these oaths are broken by January 31, and if it had something to do with health and fitness then resolution meltdown could be even earlier.

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Did you know that if you don’t get enough sleep? It can affect your appetite and cause you to gain weight. There is a temptation amongst us to put pressure on ourselves to get more done so we can sacrifice sleep at times.

And we can tend to stay up late in order to get things done because there never seems to be enough time in the day to get everything done. However, this can become a problem in itself because after doing it for a while a cycle can start to occur. When you go to bed you can’t sleep because you have been getting used to staying up.

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If you aren’t aware who Hannah Waterman is quite some years ago she was starring in the popular soap opera, Eastenders.

However, even though she is a well-known actress it doesn’t mean to say that she is immune to the same problems that other ordinary people have. Like anyone in life she too can gain weight or lose it.

And the focus of this post is to find out how she lost three stones of weight in five months, which is a very good achievement. By anybody’s standards so how exactly did she do it then?  Let’s have a look and see.

Hannah’s Diet

Hannah had tried many diets in the past, but none of them worked so she had a diet plan which was put together by a sports scientist and nutritionist at Loughborough University by the name of Martin McDonald. He has worked with many athletes in their efforts to try and find the best way to burn fat by exercising.

Her diet was based on combining macronutrients, protein, carbohydrate and fats. It provides the following as far as nutrition is concerned plenty of foods, which tend to be high in protein. E.g. chicken, eggs, yoghurt or any other dairy product which is high in protein.

Careful monitoring of which fats to eat, so you tend to eat the essential fats which would be, mono saturated saturated fats, but making sure that you don’t eat too many saturated fats, which can tend to elevate cholesterol levels.

Lots of whole grain foods such as wholemeal bread wheat and pulses, brown whole grain rice instead of white rice. If you eat the above foods not only will it keep your stomach full your blood sugar will remain at a more constant level and this will stop food cravings so you are far less likely to eat more food.

If you were to follow this diet you would need to make sure that you eat plenty of fruit and vegetables, which will give you the vitamins and minerals that your body needs. When your body lacks certain vitamins and minerals it can lead to hunger pangs so it is vitally important that you have plenty of vegetables and fruit within your diet

Have foods that contain the following also iron and calcium, these can be found in fish such as salmon, and pulses. As regards to eating iron you will find these in breakfast cereals, eggs, and vegetables that contain a lot of green. A great vegetable to eat particular this time of year are Brussel sprouts.

I love brussel sprouts a lot of people don’t like eating them, but I absolutely adore them. Broccoli contains iron as well as spinach, which can tend to be one of those foods that we eat not so much of. Broccoli is another favourite of mine especially having it steamed delicious.

If you follow this particular diet plan combined with exercise you should be able to lose realistically between 1 1/2 pounds to two pounds per week. If all goes to plan I have scanned the plan so you can look at it yourself to see what’s involved it is in PDF format so you can download it and look at it yourself.

This particular way of eating revolves around six meals a day which are small in size, a lot of people seem to pooh-pooh this idea of eating small meals six times a day, but it worked for Hannah so why shouldn’t it work for anybody else.

Hannah’s exercise regime

Her exercise plan was put together by the same person at Loughborough University , who recommended what she ate as well. This is the UK ’s leading centre as far as sport and science are concerned.

Hannah decided instead of doing the rudimentary exercise that everyone else does, decided to try something different for a change instead of exercising for an hour or half an hour,

She went for 10 minutes of interval training, so what you do is exercise intensely have a brief rest period and then move onto the next exercise. And by exercising this way it’s the equivalent to one hour of normal aerobic exercise, which will be good news for a lot of people.

Hannah says that steady-state exercise, is what we are built to do daily. When we were hunter gatherers. we would be doing this daily just moving around at a constant speed. In this kind of state your body uses up energy at a slower pace. However, if you accelerate that pace say if you were being chased by a dinosaur then your body would start to use its fat stores.

On Hannah’sDVD the exercises are split up into the following you have three 20 minute exercises, and some 10 minute exercises, which concentrate on your stomach.

Here are the exercises that Hannah did.

Lunge and box

With this exercise what you do is, bend your leg forwards as in normal lunges, and as you do so bring your arm back and punch up wards into the air. Do these eight times on each leg so you’re doing both your left and right arms as well as your legs.

Punch and lunge

For this exercise stand with your legs apart, clench your fists then punch left and right. Doing this for 30 seconds have a rest for a brief period and repeat for four times.

Squats and punch

For this exercise what you need to do is stand with your legs apart, and move your arms up and down like you are lifting barbells. And also at the same time squat like you are going to sit down, but you are actually not going to sit down. Do this slowly whilst moving up and down for 30 seconds have a rest and repeat this for four times.

Bunny hop

To get in this position you need to put your arms in front of you, so they are touching the ground and then lift your leg in the air and switch from one leg to another do four sets of these for 30 seconds in other words do the exercise four times in 30 second intervals.

Burpee

To do this exercise put your arms on the floor as if you are doing press ups, then make your legs jump outwards and inwards do this for eight times. Have a short break and repeat this twice again.

Full press ups

These are the standard press-ups that you do in any workout.  And all you need to do is try doing this eight times have a rest and repeat twice.

Reverse plank

To do this exercise you have to do the reserve reverse of the above so with your arms behind your back, and your legs slightly bent and your body being straight what you need to do is flex your elbows and lower yourself down for a period of 30 seconds you will need to repeat this for four times having a rest in between each set.

Speedball

For this exercise, you need to put your arms above your head and rotate your hands around at a constant speed as if you are hitting a ball and at the same time jogging on the spot.

You need to do this five time in 30 second intervals. And that is it. This is how Hannah Waterman lost three stones in five months. And if you are interested in what Hannah ate in her diet, here is the download link to the pdf I mentioned earlier. Download it here

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This is a guest post by Kalvin C. Chinyere, M.D. of Dr. Kal’s Weight Loss Tips. I enjoyed reading the post about preventing visceral fat gain here on Lose That Tyre tremendously. On every weight loss blog the authors discuss weight reduction, but rarely do they ever address waist reduction, which is far more important. Waist reduction is more important than weight reduction because the most dangerous type of fat you have is the fat around your abdomen or your “stomach”. This fat goes by many names including belly fat, intra-abdominal fat, abdominal fat, and omental fat. However, the most accurate name is visceral fat. [Read more...]