Jennifer Lopez amazing Weight Loss

Author: Madison

Jennifer Lopez dropped 50 pounds after giving birth to her twins and she has kept the weight off.

Gunnar Peterson fitness trainer to the stars, says that Jennifer will work out for at least an hour two to six days a week. She will do a 10-minute warm-up and then a series of high-intensity cardio paired with strength and resistance moves.

A famous quote from Gunnar " The scale causes more injuries than any other piece of equipment in the gym. Stepping on a scale empowers an inanimate object-every time you get on it, you turn over the helm of your emotional well being to something that doesn't care about you. Just think about how you feel when you're working hard and loving your body. Want to know if you've gained or lost weight? Put on your favorite pair of jeans." Wise man!

This custom program taught Jennifer how to work out smarter not harder. People who train for more than 2 hours a day are overtraining and end up hindering rather than helping themselves. Your workouts should not last longer than one hour 4 to 6 times a week.

Jennifer also sticks to 1,200 to 1,400 calories a day. And like all good celebrities she is sure to eat lean proteins, fruits, vegetables, good fats and low glycemic carbs.

Lopez is one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood and the highest-paid Latin actress in Hollywood history. This explains why she works to keep her body and mind in excellent physical shape.

Jennifer Lopez's weight loss was a smart and healthy approach to dieting.

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Secrets To Weight Loss

Look on the internet under the subjects of weight loss or losing weight and you will come across websites offering to share the secrets of weight loss with you. This is a wonderful thing that these people are prepared to give you an insight as to what you can do to lose weight. Off course many of the secrets are not free. You can pay anything from $10.00 upwards for a secret way to lose weight.

Correct me if I am wrong but I was under the impression that a secret is something that is to be kept private and not to be revealed. So why are people prepared to share a secret with you for a price? Surely if a thousand people purchase this secret, then how can it be a secret any longer? If there were secrets towards losing weight, surely hospitals and doctors would be aware of them, and they would let you know for free.

The truth is that there are no secrets to weight loss. Losing weight is achievable for virtually anyone if they follow the simple formula of burning more calories than they consume. Avoid these so called weight loss secrets like the plague because the only thing that will get lighter is your wallet and not your body.

Weight loss is all about common sense and any product that seems too good to be true, probably is. A quick fix to lasting weight loss is no fix at all. Simply because your body needs time to change. Your body is constructed in a way that it takes time for it to change. If you try to speed up this process, then your body will stop changing. This is why when people adopt an extremely low calorie diet to lose weight quickly, they find themselves losing some initial weight in the first couple of weeks, but after this any weight loss grinds to a halt.

Most of the weight you may have lost will be through muscle and not fat. Muscle is an expensive commodity for you body to keep because your body requires more calories to keep hold of muscle than it does to keep fat. So when you cut back drastically on calories, your body will offload the muscle and hang onto the fat. The ideal situation is to try and keep your muscle and get rid of the fat; however a low calorie diet will not allow that.

There are 3 things that you must do if you want to lose weight successfully.

Desire and motivation are a required combination for weight loss. Desire alone is not enough; you must motivate yourself to act on your desire. If I desire a cup of coffee, I am not going to get one until I motivate myself to get up and fetch one. Desire on its own is just a wish and wishes rarely come true.

Changing to a healthy diet is vital. Don't just cut back on calories straight away. Begin replacing unhealthy foods with healthy foods. Instead of eating all your calories through 2 or 3 meals a day, split them so you are eating the same amount of calories but over 4 or 5 meals a day. This alone will be of great benefit towards your weight loss goals. If you are going to decrease calories make sure you do not cut more than 400 calories a day from your diet. Once your body has become accustomed to this drop in calories, cut back couple of hundred more calories from your daily diet.

The benefits of exercise go far beyond just weight loss. Exercise can have a positive impact on virtually most areas of your life. Cardio is necessary for weight loss as it burns calories; do not neglect a weight training routine. Remember the idea is to keep muscle and lose fat. Weight training will enable you to keep much of your muscle you would have otherwise lost through cardio alone.

Forget all the fad diets, miracle diet pills, and quick fixes. Walking on water is a miracle; changing water to wine is a miracle. Losing weight is not a miracle. Weight loss is an achievable target for anyone if it is done with a sensible approach. Don't be tempted to buy any secrets to weight loss.

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Fat No More Secrets 5 of 10 - Fat protects me from poor health and sickness

This is the fifth article of a series of 10 Fat No More Secrets. Because Losing weight is not just about dieting and exercising, it is also about identifying and letting go of the M.E.S.S. blocks that prevent your weight loss. M.E.S.S. stands for Mental, Emotional, Subconscious, and Spiritual.

Losing weight is not just about dieting or exercising as proven by the countless number of failed diets and exercise programs. First, you need to identify and let go of the many Mental, Emotional, Subconscious, and Spiritual blocks that prevent you from losing weight. I call them the M.E.S.S. blocks; they are limiting beliefs, thoughts, or fears that prevent your weight loss. If you do not let go of these blocks, you will continue to have an extremely hard time losing weight and, if you do succeed, you will continue to gain the weight back.

In certain cultures such as Asian and African cultures, there is still a perception today that thin people are not healthy and being overweight is a sign of health.

For the longest time, I, too, associated being fat with being healthy and strong. I believed subconsciously that my fat gave me strength and energy, and I would have much less of both if I was thin. I was convinced at a subconscious level that being fat or overweight was best for my health and fitness. A few years ago, as I started to get thin, I began having health problems. Once I released the belief that I could not be healthy if I was thin, my health problems disappeared.

A famous actor and singer, was recently quoted in a magazine, saying: "I could not be a size 0. I just don't see how I could get down to that size and still be healthy. It wouldn't work..." On the same note, I heard from many of my clients that they were afraid of becoming sick if they were too skinny.

If you have the subconscious belief that being fat is healthy and you cannot be healthy if you are thin, no matter how hard you try to lose weight, you will not succeed.

Being fat, then, becomes a false protection against poor health and sickness. These beliefs could not be further from the truth as obesity is a major cause of preventable death in America. Being overweight or obese increases the risks of many diseases and health conditions such as hypertension, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, colon cancer, and more.

Here are some other negative side effects of poor nutrition and being overweight: You will find you are exhausted all the time, and your energy level will be extremely low. Your liver will become unhealthy, and you will need to detoxify it regularly. You will have huge cravings for food because of a food addiction. You will have mood swings from being happy while you are eating and depressed afterwards. Your blood sugar and cholesterol will be high. Your body fat ratio will be extremely high. You will continue to gain weight. You will often be depressed when you overeat.

These distorted beliefs that being fat is healthy often come from your past generations and immediate family and you need to let them go if you have them. To ensure that you feel healthy losing weight, you need to let go of the following M.E.S.S. blocks to weight loss: "fat protects me from poor health", "I will be in poor health if I lose weight"; "thin people get sick; "I will become sick if I lose too much weight". You will not be able to achieve permanent weight loss until you let go of these distorted beliefs.

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By Marylin Stompler, Author of Fat No More, Release the Subconscious Blocks that Prevent your Weight Loss - International Speaker and Life Coach, President and CEO, Fat No More Corporation, http://www.fatnomore.com . Go to http://www.fatnomoresecrets.com to receive your FREE eBook Fat No More Secrets, Ten Key M.E.S.S. Blocks that Could Prevent your Weight Loss.

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5 fat loss myths that you must not ignore!

I recently gave a presentation to about 70 females on the subject of fat loss and the common methods we use to attempt to rid ourselves of excess body fat. During my research for the talk, I unearthed a large amount of material that supports my belief that most of the world's population are being misled in their quest for a slim, but healthy body, that so many of us crave!

Does it feel like the whole idea of fat loss is only possible for the genetically gifted...

Are you searching for the quick fix that will trim away body fat overnight?

Or are you still waiting for our "trusted" pharmaceutical companies to produce the ultimate weight loss pill that will solve worldwide obesity problems...

Sharing some of the following facts and myths with you is not going to be easy for you to stomach, I suspect that you'll be shocked, dismayed or maybe you'll feel that none of what I tell you is true.

In fact I am fairly sure you'll dispute much of what I report, so I ask you to check my sources, read for yourself the studies that I cite. You'll be as shocked as my audience when you really do discover the truth about fat loss!

Myth 1 - Skipping meals and snacks is OK if I want to lose fat! Do you skip breakfast, the odd lunch, or maybe you don't eat at all for a whole day, because you "don't feel hungry"?

PLEASE DON'T!!

There is nothing worse for your metabolism than irregular feedings.

Eating 6 meals a day compared to just 2 meals a day of the SAME caloric value total for the day, will result in more fat loss!

Check out study no.1 to discover why eating every few hours is ESSENTIAL for fat loss!

Myth 2 - A calorie is a calorie

Unfortunately NOT.

Eating a diet of refined carbs and low fat will actually make you fatter, than a diet of low carb, high fat of the same caloric value!

If you think about it we have been told by the FDA in the US to reduce the amount of Fat in our diet and replace it with carbs like bread and pasta. The food pyramid clearly showed this!

Sadly it is all those refined carbs that have been adding to our waist line and not the fats.

Study no.2, proves that a diet high in fat actually resulted in MORE fat loss!

Myth 3 - You must only train in the "fat burning zone" to lose fat!

Probably the biggest myth in the world of health and fitness today, and one that drew the most gasps and head shaking in my audience!

The fat burning zone DOES exist BUT, it is NOT an effective workout strategy for overall fat loss.

How can that be?

To be honest you don't need to read the studies to prove this, you can see for yourself in the gym. How many people do you see going to the gym week after week for months on end, doing their fat-burning zone workouts, BUT never actually changing shape?

The nail in the coffin of your fat burning zone workouts is crystal clear study no.3 comparing a 'diet only' group to a 'diet and exercise' group. The exercise consisting of a 45 minute "fat burning zone" routine, 5 days a week for 12 weeks.

The abstract from this study states: Results indicate that moderate aerobic exercise training during a 12-week period has no discernible effects on body composition.

i.e. fat burning zone workouts do nothing for losing body fat!!

WOW!

Myth 4 - Calorie counters on machines are useful for fat loss...

We've all done it, waiting for the calorie counter on the treadmill or cross trainer to tick by 400 or 500 calories burnt during your workout. We can then feel all virtuous as we tuck into our post workout coffee and chocolate muffin, safe in the knowledge we have "earned" it.

Unfortunately, calories burned during your workouts are not significant when you want to lose fat!

Study no.4 compared endurance style workouts to higher intensity interval training where the number of total calories burned during the workout, was over twice as much for the endurance group than the intervals group.

You would think that the endurance group would logically lose more fat given that they have burned more calories in total? However the intervals group lost NINE times more fat than the endurance group!

Those calorie counters on your exercise bike are really worthless, my advice, cover them up!

Myth 5 - Crunches will get rid of your belly fat!

How many crunches do you do each day? 10, 20... maybe 50, 100... or maybe more?

Any self respecting fitness professional will tell you that "spot reduction" doesn't work! If it did, all the people doing 100 crunches a day would be walking around with a perfect SIX PACK, but flabby butt and thighs! It just doesn't work like that!

So quit wasting your time and effort on this ineffective exercise and have a go at doing some of the more effective methods instead...

THREE truly effective ways of getting rid of body fat

1. Drop the refined carbs from your diet. Eat more high quality proteins and unrefined carbs in the form of fresh fruit and vegetables. 2. Do some short, sharp and very effective interval workouts. 3. Get your trainer to show you some intensive ALL BODY resistance workouts, utilising large muscle groups as much as possible!

Each of these methods will achieve the necessary result of boosting your "basal metabolic rate", this is your 24/7 fat burning system in your body.

Utilise all 3 methods and fat will literally melt away!

12 weeks is a relatively short time period in your lifetime, and this is all it took for Claire to drop over 5% in body fat, and drop 2 dress sizes utilising the same three methods of fat loss. With renewed confidence in her body and her structural health too, she is now embarking on a new sporting passion of rock climbing....

So what would you do with your new body?

Whilst you may not want to believe that these 5 myths really ARE myths, I urge you to follow up on the studies I cite and see for yourself!

Better still, would be to get down to your gym, adjust your nutritional habits, and try out the EFFECTIVE methods for yourself.

Tim

Study 1. Iwao, S., Mori, K., Sato, Y. Effects of meal frequency on body composition during weight control in boxers. Scan J Med Sci Sports 6:265-272, 1996 Study 2. Effects of a low-fat versus a low-carbohydrate diet on adipocytokines in obese adults. de Luis DA, Aller R, Izaola O, Gonzalez Sagrado M, Bellioo D, Conde R. Study 3. Influence of diet and/or exercise on body composition and cardiorespiratory fitness in obese women. Utter AC, Nieman DC, Shannonhouse EM, Butterworth DE, Nieman CN. Study 4. Impact of exercise intensity on body fatness and skeletal muscle metabolism. Tremblay A, Simoneau JA, Bouchard C.

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Tim Goodwin is a fitness professional specializing in help the busiest people achieve more with their amateur sporting interests, and at the same time ridding them of excess body fat. Visit www.getfit.lu/success.html to get a free 18 page report "How to lose weight even when you are really busy" containing a full 4 week program which you can start today!

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Losing Weight

The food that you eat will contain a certain number of calories. You will need a certain amount of calories to maintain your bodyweight as it stands at the present time. This is called your maintenance level.

If the amount of calories that you consume goes over your maintenance level, then you will put on more weight. If the amount of calories that you consume goes under your maintenance level, then you will lose weight.

In theory it sounds a simple and straightforward method towards losing weight. However things are never as simple as they appear. Weight loss can be a bit more complex, if it wasn't then nobody would be overweight.

The first thing that you have to know is that not all calories are created equal. A gram of protein and a gram of carbohydrates each contain 4 calories. A gram of fat on the other hand contains 9 calories. When you check on food labels as to the amount of fat that is contained, always remember the amount of calories which are coming from fat.

Another thing to keep in mind is that certain types of calories are more prone to be stored as fat than others. Especially calories that are consumed from foods that contain high levels of sugar. So it's not just a question of how many calories you eat, but what types of calories you eat.

While it's true that cutting back on calories will help you lose a certain amount of weight. What you need to consider is the quality of weight that you are losing and not just the quantity. Weight, just like calories comes in different forms. If you lost a limb in an accident, you will have lost some weight. However this would not be the type of weight you would be happy losing.

Much of the weight that people lose when they cut back drastically on calories comes from muscle. Muscle loss is something that you will want to avoid at all costs.

Let's face it; you haven't become overweight by carrying too much muscle on your body. It is the amount of fat that your body is carrying that has led to you becoming overweight. So it makes sense to focus on losing the fat and holding onto any muscle that you can.

Everyone has the same amount of muscles on their bodies. The only difference is the size of the muscles. The bigger the muscle the more calories your body will burn to keep that muscle. Don't think for one minute that you will begin to look like some bodybuilder, because you won't. Not unless you train your muscles for many years. However if you are trying to lose weight, you will reach your goal quicker if you do some form of resistance training (weight training).

Fat can be very stubborn to shift and nobody is more aware of that than you. The key to losing fat and holding onto muscle, apart from a healthy diet, is to have a good exercise programme. A good mix of cardiovascular and resistance training is the perfect cocktail. Cardiovascular training will help you burn fat and resistance training will help you to keep your muscle weight.

You may be under the impression that resistance training will consist of grunting and groaning with heavy weights in gym full of steroid injecting hulks. This is not the reality of the situation. All you need to do is to focus on what is going to be challenging for you. Don't be concerned about how much weight you use; as long as it's working your muscles and you are feeling it, then you are doing it right.

If you only do cardiovascular exercise you will lose some weight. However because you are losing muscle as well, it can leave your body looking loose and flabby. Using a weight training routine will result in your body becoming firmer and more toned, not to mention the benefits f becoming stronger.

As for your diet, it will not just be a question of what you eat but when you eat. This is a hugely important issue that is at times overlooked.

Your body is designed in such a way that it is only capable of using a certain amount of food at any given time. How much your body can use depends on the life you lead. If you are very active your body will be able to assimilate more food. If however you are not active your body will only use a certain amount of food and store the rest as fat.

The mistake many people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they often cut back on the amount of meals that they eat. Most people will often cut down to 1 or 2 meals a day and sometimes one of those meals will contain more calories than their bodies will be able to use. On top of this, leaving long gaps between meals slows down your metabolism resulting in fewer calories being burned.

Most people trying to lose weight unknowingly do everything that will prevent them from losing weight on a permanent basis. Because they will not get the results that they want by eating fewer meals less frequently, they give up trying to lose weight under the impression that they are not capable of doing so.

The secret is to eat small amounts of food more often. If your body is fed small amounts of food every 3 or 4 hours, your body will be able to use this food more effectively. Plus because you are getting a food intake on a regular basis, your metabolism will speed up knowing it is getting calories regularly and that it can afford to burn calories as it will be getting some more in a few hours.

Eating in this way not only speeds up your metabolism, it also allows your body to use the food that you eat in a way that it is happy with. Because you are eating smaller amounts there are no extra calories to be stored as fat.

Traditionally our last meal of the day also tends to be our biggest one. This can also be problematic when it comes to losing weight. Eating a large meal in the evening is counterproductive to weight loss, simply because you will be less active in the evening and will not burn off as many calories. So a fair amount of the food that you eat can be stored as fat.

If your biggest meal of the day was eaten in the morning or at lunch time, much of the calories would be used up through your daily activities. It can be difficult to change the eating habits of a lifetime, but if you are serious about losing weight then it has to be something that you must consider.

It is a fact that some people are more prone to putting on weight than others. Your genetics and body shape will play a role in how easy it is for you to gain or lose weight. Although this can be a setback you must remember that it is still only one part of the equation. There are many other things that will affect whether you lose weight, so do not focus just on the genetics that you have been given.

If you find it easy to put on weight you may have to work a little harder than some other people to keep it off. Don't think that your genetics will be a huge obstacle in losing weight. If you want to do it bad enough then you will succeed in doing so. Besides think of how much prouder you will be when you do succeed, as you would have done it without certain advantages.


Some of the things you will need to think about are:

Watching what you eat Watching how much you eat Exercise on a regular basis Become more active in other areas of your life Be more determined Be more persistent Remember why you are doing it

Thousands of people lose weight successfully, if you really want to you can become one of them!

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