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These drugs showed mixd results but they both caused psychiatric problems. Acomplia showed a high (43.4 percent) rate of depression and anxiety.

Those taking Acomplia also saw other benefits: They lost more weight
(9.5 pounds versus 1.1 pounds in the placebo group); their waist
circumference went down more (1.77 inches versus 0.39 inches); their HDL
or “good” cholesterol increased more (22.4 percent versus 6.9 percent) and
triglyceride levels went down further (20.5 percent versus 6.2 percent).
But LDL or “bad” cholesterol levels and blood pressure stayed about the
same in both groups.

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So if you are willing to be depressed and anxious these drugs are for you!!

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We have all heard the claim that the “XYZ program” is the one that will solve all your dieting problems. You will loose weight quickly and keep it off with no effort. If you have had the experience I have then you no that they are all hype. The diet industry is full of over hyped products. If you read the fine print they all say you need to follow a diet and exercise plan. Guess what diet and exercise is the real producer of results. I have tried to follow a diet and exercise routine and have failed that way also. What is the weight loss plan that works for everyone? There is none. We are all different and have different causes to why we are over weight.

The root cause of your problem is what you must find. For me, it is emotional eating and inactivity. I am a computer professional co most of the day I get the exercise of a bored couch potato flipping through the channels.

Why do we over eat? I have found 3 main reasons:

1. Emotional eating. Eating because it makes you feel good in some way. Your emotions over come your reason and you eat.
2. Habit. You will eat at certain times of the day if you are hungry or not. At holidays you stuff yourself because you always have.
3. Poor food choices. Yes what you eat can make you eat more. Your body decides it is full based on volume more than anything else. Foods with high calorie density give you many more calories when you feel full. Salty foods tend to cause you to eat more of them. Combine a sugary cola with potato chips and look out!

 Controlling these 3 things alone will not guaranty you success at losing weight either. Your body type, amount of physical activity, age and gender will all affect how well and how fast you can lose weight.

You need to find a diet and exercise plan that you can do for the rest of your life. Find activities that require physical activity but do not bore you. That way you are more likely to stay with it. Your diet and exercise plan need to be flexible because if you do or eat the same thing long enough you will get bored! Experiment and try different things. Find what works for you. If one plan does not try another; don’t give up. What works for one will not always work for another. That is the only way I have been able to loose weight and keep it off. And remember don’t fall for the hype.

By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS
www.burnthefat.com
If you’ve caused metabolic damage as a result of following starvation diets or losing weight too rapidly in the past, it can be extremely difficult to achieve any further fat loss at all. The good news is, metabolic damage can be repaired. All it takes is the right combination of metabolism stimulating exercise and metabolism stimulating nutrition (NOT just a diet), all done consistently over time.
The big irony is that most of the diet programs that claim to help you get rid of excess weight, only end up making it harder for you in the long run because they use harsh metabolism-decreasing diets and not enough exercise (almost never any weight training).
It may take a little longer if you have really messed things up with severe starvation dieting in the past, especially if you’ve lost a lot of lean body mass, but it is never hopeless. Anyone can increase their metabolism.
Most people get an almost immediate boost in metabolic rate when they start the Burn The Fat program. However, the results are not going to be “overnight.” Give it a little time…
Within 3 weeks your metabolism will already be more efficient. Within 6-8 weeks, it’s burning hot. Give me 12 weeks of consistent diligent effort, sticking with all the metabolism boosting strategies I teach, and your metabolism really will become like a turbo charged engine, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that.
What’s most important for upping your metabolism is CONSISTENCY in applying the Burn The Fat nutrition and training principles every single day.
That includes:
· Meal frequency: eat 5-6 small meals per day
· Meal timing: eat approximately every 3 hours, with a substantial breakfast and a substantial post workout meal.
· Sufficient Caloric Intake: maintain a small calorie deficit and avoid starvation-level diets (suggested safe levels for fat loss: 2100-2500 calories per day for men, 1400-1800 calories per day for women; adjust as needed)
· Food choices: Select natural, unprocessed foods with high thermic effect (lean proteins like chicken, turkey, egg whites and fish are highly thermic, as are all green vegetables, salad vegetables and other fibrous carbs)
· Cardio training: Push up the intensity a bit if you really want to get a metabolic boost. Walking and low intensity cardio is fine, but higher intensity is more metabolism-stimulating
· Weight training: The basic exercises that include the largest muscle groups or even call into play the entire body as a unit (squats, front squats, split squats, deadlifts, stiff legged deadlifts, overhead presses, all kinds of rows and core-activation exercises) will have a much greater metabolism stimulating effect than isolation exercises (concentration curls, calf raises, etc)
The weight training is extremely important in cases of “metabolic damage” because this is the stimulus to keep the muscle you have and begin rebuilding new muscle tissue, which is the engine that drives your metabolism.
The men don’t usually have a problem with the weight training, but I still hear women say they don’t want to lift weights as part of their fat loss programs. Well, people who wont lift weights can expect a very, very long metabolism “repair process” if they achieve it at all.
Consistency is the key.
Nothing will undermine the “re-building” of your metabolism like inconsistency. If you stop and start, or skip meals and workouts often, you will not even get off the ground.
After your metabolism is back up where it should be, it takes continued “stoking” of the metabolic furnace to keep it there. Once you get your metabolic engine running, you’ve got to keep feeding it fuel or the fire will die down.
Picture an old fashioned wood burning stove…
Imagine you’re in a cabin up in the mountains in the winter. It’s cold in there and you want to keep the cabin warm. Can you achieve this by feeding the fire once or twice per day? Nope. Not enough fuel to burn, so not much heat is generated.
What if you just toss an entire pile of wood in the stove all at once? Will that work? Nope. Lots of fuel, but can’t all be used at once… it just smothers the fire and the excess just sits there.
How about if you throw some tissue paper or crumpled newspaper in the stove, will that work? Nope - too quickly burning.
You have to keep putting small amounts of wood (the right type of fuel) on the fire at regular intervals or the fire burns out.
It’s also difficult to get the fire lit again. In the case of metabolism, it’s like going through that initial few weeks of overcoming inertia all over again.
Your goal is to get your metabolism burning hot and keep it burning and this cannot be achieved by missing meals, missing workouts or with sporadic, infrequent training.
I have only seen a handful of cases where all these things were done properly and there was still a longer “repair” process.
For example, one case was former ballet dancer. At 5′ 5″, she was previously 110 lbs and had increased to about 145 or so. She didn’t want to reach her previous 110, but find a happy medium of about 125 lbs.
I figured with 20 lbs to cut, this would be a simple and predictable process, but she had a challenging time (and I didn’t know why at first).
I later found out that she had been anorexic and bulimic for many years. This had caused a lot of damage, and although she did reach her goal, it took about twice as long as we had anticipated.
The good news is, even in this extreme case, the same nutrition and training principles worked! It just took a little longer. And by the way her program included some serious training with free weights and she ate a lot more (clean) food than she had ever eaten before. No “starvation!”
That’s the power of burning the fat and feeding the muscles… Trying to starve the fat with crash diets is what causes the metabolic damage in the first place!
If you’re interested in the healthy, sensible way to take off the fat, while keeping all your muscle and actually increasing your metabolism in the process, then my Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle program can teach you how. No gimmicks or false promises. Just the truth - you have to work at it and you have to be patient. www.burnthefat.com
About the Author:
Tom Venuto is a natural bodybuilder and author of the #1 best selling e-book, “Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle,” which teaches you how to burn fat without drugs or supplements using the little-known secrets of the world’s best bodybuilders and fitness models. Learn how to get rid of stubborn fat and turbo-charge your metabolism by visiting: www.burnthefat.com.

By: Scott T Smith 

Most weight-loss seekers look with furrowed brows at the word “diet”. We all know that our diet has to change, but just how that change will, or should, work is frequently misunderstood. Instead of eating foods that make us feel something like an enlarged rabbit, and being hungry all the time, a healthy fat loss diet actually incorporates all types of foods, and we really don’t have to eat as little as it sounds like. Take a look at 3 diet considerations, and you might just feel different about diets in general.
1.) Water: Where It’s At
Most people, regardless of weight or weight goals, don’t drink enough water. But drinking as much water as the human body actually asks for, between 8-10 eight-ounce glasses, can be a significant aid in weight loss, for several reasons. First, if we drink enough, our bodies don’t retain “water fat” - stores of emergency water rations. Since most of us spend the day in access to plentiful water supply, there’s no reason to retain the several pounds of water stores, and we can shed these pounds by drinking those 8-10 glasses.
Second, our kidneys should process water, but they can’t do so very well without enough. Our liver does it instead, but the liver should be converting fat into energy. Drink more water to give the water burden to the kidneys and let our livers burn fat. Last, we naturally suppress our appetite with water - our brain sees no difference between thirst and hunger. So instead of opening the fridge, turn on the tap for your fat loss diet.
2.) Ditch Processed Foods
In the name of convenience, we seem to sacrifice a lot. Processed foods, with long shelf lives and often requiring little preparation, are certainly easy, but at the sacrifice of health. They’re pretty easy to spot, or at least the ingredient lists are, taking up about half the package. But when all this processing occurs, much nutritional value is lost, and it takes more food to fill us up - more calories.
Moreover, processed foods are filled with chemicals and unneeded fats, unhealthy for your body and weight. Try eating unprocessed foods - fresh fruits, whole grain breads, vegetables. All in all, unprocessed foods are financially equivalent, fill you up more (so you eat less, without the hunger), and help you slim down healthily. Pretty good…
3.) Revamp Your Eating Patterns
Actually, this doesn’t mean eat less. Eat more. Just try this: More meals throughout the day, smaller portions. Instead of eating three meals a day, try five or six. This way, you don’t feel the need to eat a lot, because once you get hungry, eat a little more. It’s also really easy to balance the types of foods you eat.
Try some grain and dairy for breakfast, have a snack of fruit around mid-morning, some protein around noonish, and so on. And the best part? Most dieticians recommend eating this way for all forms of healthy living, even if you’re not involved in a fat loss diet.
So diet’s aren’t necessarily quite what we thought they were. It’s not so much eating less as it is eating differently, and smarter. So instead of starving yourself, eat more balanced, more frequent meals, with less processed foods, and drink water. Sounds like a fat loss diet we all can get used to.

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