New Year, NEW-Trition ; TIP #2

Why do you think you failed last time? Lack of will? Lack of knowledge? No one to support you? Was it that you just found it too hard to diet? I feel that often times, it is a combination of all these things.

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Bodybuilding Series: Entry III; Meal Planning

You must learn to eat a healthy, balanced diet. You'll need to increase the quantity of food while you also improve the quality of your food. You need healthy carbs to fuel your workouts and more lean protein for repairing and building your muscles. A healthy, planned and well balanced diet will give your body the strength to workout and build muscle.

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Weight Loss Series: Entry IV; Weight Loss vs Fat Loss

As similar as these may sound, they are both very exclusive in their own right. Today's school of thought is that if you eat less and exercise more, you will lose the desired weight. There are many problems with this approach. Not only does this harm your body in the long run, it has been statistically shown that most people who partake in such diets have a much harder time keeping the weight off for the long term.

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Weight Loss Series: Entry II; Nutrition and Macros

Understanding proper nutrition and dieting will be the cornerstone to the success of your entire efforts in losing weight. There is plenty of hear-say about good diets and a plethora of different diet fads that come and go faster than you can pick which one you'd like to start. Let's take the guessing out of dieting and break this thing down.

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Weight Loss Series: First Step; Understanding What It Takes

First off, congratulations on deciding to make a change in your lifestyle for the better. There are so many programs, supplements, and white noise out there about how you should approach your weight loss. By the end of this series, I hope you will have a better understanding of what it takes to achieve your own personal weight loss. After this series, you should be able to have a formulated plan of attack and a healthy approach to give you a long term solution to managing your weight.

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