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Be Aware Of Your Reasons
You have decided that you want to lose weight and improve your health. What is the first step? Start by asking yourself what your reason(s)is for wanting to make this change. This may sound trivial, but if you do not have a conscience and...
How Diet Influences Cancer Risk
Diet is a double edged sword. Improper diet increases the risk of cancer but a proper, well balanced diet reduces the cancer risk. Diet is one of the most important lifestyle factors and has been estimated to account for up to 80% of cancers of...
The RIGHT combination of diet exercise for maximum weight loss
Put simply, your resting metabolic rate is the minimum number of calories your body needs to survive if you sleep in bed all day. Your body needs energy for hundreds of bodily functions such as breathing, keeping the brain functioning and any...
Use Essential Fatty Acid To Help You Eliminate Your Acne
To eliminate or clear your face of acne it will require you take a variety of health steps. The use of essential fatty acids is but one step. I have identified 10 different steps but will only discuss one step in this article - using essential...
Vitamin Supplements and Your Child
In a perfect world, your children would eat a balanced diet with the right amount of fruits and vegetables recommended by nutritional standards. However, we all know that rarely happens. Many children do not like and sometimes refuse to eat some...
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How to Learn a Little Bit Each Day for Low Carb Success
One of the reasons many of us go on and off of
diets and exercise regimens is because we don't
understand very much about how and why they are so
important. Frankly, most of the diet gurus give us
simple plans for low carb living, but they don't tell
us much about how and why this revolutionary approach
works so well. "Low carb will change your metabolism,"
or, "Our body converts carbs into sugar, so we need to
cut down on carbs" are just not quite enough.
We need to learn more about how to implement these
new diet strategies in our daily lives to be successful.
So, Key #1 to building a Low Carb Lifestyle is
learning as much as you can. I recommend a little each
day, rather than reading one book or another cover to
cover. This way, you can better internalize what you are
learning. http://lowcarb-lifestyles.com contains literally
hundreds of valuable, short articles to help you learn in
small bites each day. Our members simply login and read one
or two pieces on something that they have a particular
interest in, need to understand or that simply catch their
interest. We recommend 20 mintes per day. That's it.
Try this: Each day, set a little goal for yourself.
Some days, it will be obvious - "I'm feeling like
cheating" - in that case, set a goal to learn something
that helps you not cheat. Or, "I really don't want to
exercise today"
- in this case, set a goal to get motivated
to go out and move! If you face no special challenge on a
given day, set a goal proactivley like, "I want to learn
more about getting better tastes into my daily life."
The main point is, just learn one or two little bits
every day. Do this day-in and day-out and you'll be your own
expert and guru in no time! You'll get extra bursts of
motivation from your newfound knowledge - that's the idea,
of course. Daily learning, increased understanding deeper
insight every day will give you fresh inspiration and
motivation to stay the course. Try this seemingly simple
key out for one week; you'll see what I mean!
To get your started, as some homework, please read
the following article from LowCarb-Lifestyles.com, "Top 10
Reasons Why Low Carb Dieters Can Get Fatter and Fatter."
Here's the link:
http://www.lowcarb-lifestyles.com/articles.php?a=read&aid=49
Which ones of these are you struggling to overcome?
Please feel free to drop me a line and let me know how you
are doing:
mailto:henri@lowcarb-lifestyles.com
About the Author
Henri Schauffler is the founder and webmaster of
LowCarb-Lifestyles.com, an online community that
gives low carb dieters the tools they need to succeed. Visit http://www.LowCarb-Lifestyles.com/LowCarb.htm
subscribe to the f.r/e.e eCourse, "The Five Keys to a Low Carb Lifestyle"
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