Archive for January, 2011

Harness the power of green tea extract to lose weight

Monday, January 31st, 2011

One of the many benefits of consuming green tea is healthy weight loss. Having said so, why don’t you implement a green tea weight loss plan to make losing weight fun and less overwhelming? You can make use of the tips and steps I have gathered and put together in this article for you.

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How Fasting Can Help You Break Unconscious Eating Habits

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

If there’s one thing that most nutritionists agree upon is that fasting is a bad way to lose weight. I believe, however, that although fasting is a terrible way to lose weight directly, it can have some indirect benefits. In my case, it helped me shed over 20lbs of weight over the course of 90 days, and I had only fasted for one of them.

As part of an effort to raise money to combat world hunger, I participated in the 30 hour famine program in high school. Me and a group of other high schoolers gathered pledges for the thirty hours in which we would not eat one ounce of solid food.  We were given an allowance of fruit juice to keep our blood sugar levels up, so it wasn’t a “real” fast, but it was real enough for kids who had never gone without their three squares a day. (more…)