Fun effective ways to lose weight and tone up

When making a life changing decision to commit to being healthy and fit preparation in the mind is essential . Don’t worry this part isn’t as hard as it may seem. But if your serious about changing your life and health dedication needs to me instilled in the mind. First you need to know and believe that you deserve to be fit and health. Visualize yourself loosing the pounds, eating healthy and being a sexy workout machine.



Fun workouts

Dance

This could be going out clubbing, a dance class or a dance workout video.More and more people are using dance as their cardio workout. Moving your hips side to side, forward and back or moving your waist in a circular motion is not only fun but very effective on your abs and oblique’s. This is more effective than getting on the floor and doing hundreds of sit ups and not as straining.

Yoga booty ballet

- a cardio workout program by beach body that uses a variety of workouts and techniques. They combine hip hop dancing, ballet, and yoga in one workout. Every dvd is a full body workout using every muscle from the abs, booty, legs, arms and back. These workouts will make you toned and flexible. Most importantly they make it fun.

Kick boxing class

at your local gym. Kicking increases your metabolism and gets your heart rate up. A great fun cardio that shows results fast.

Interval running

OK! I admit running is not fun, but 20 minutes 1-2 times a week running intervals is the best fastest way to burn fat.- Buff Mother. The way to properly do intervals, start off with the first minute jogging, the second minute sprinting, 3rd minute jogging, so on and so on. 2 minutes is not long, and the benefits of this workout is worth it.

Your work out should consist of 3 days cardio out of the week and 2 days tone or build. If 5 days a week is something you cant commit to then 2 days of cardio and 1 day of toning or lifting should be done. There’s a lot of Fun, Effective toning workouts



Yoga

Not only is yoga great for strengthening, toning and flexibility for the whole body but it also relieves stress and helps you relax and rejuvenate the body. Yoga is also used for detoxifying the body. Yoga has been practiced for centries by a wide range of cultures. What yoga does is harmonize the mind with the body and this results in real quantum benefits. Creating physical, mental and emotional health for a well balanced, grounded lifestyle.

Pilates-

Pilates is a body conditioning routine that seeks to build flexibility, strength, endurance, and coordination without adding muscle bulk. Pilates increases circulation and helps to sculpt the body and strengthen the body's "core" or "powerhouse." Joseph H. Pilates is the founder of pilates. He based these on various exercise methods from around the world, among them the mind-body formats of yoga and Chinese martial arts.

Push ups

push ups are very effective in toning the arms and keeping the girls perky. There are a lot of ways push ups can be done. Regular position , girl stance position with your knees slightly bent resting on the floor or using an exercise ball to place your feet on. This technique also uses your abdominal muscles because your balancing on the ball.



Eat smart

Eating 5-6 small meals a day will speed up your metabolism and your body will be burning calories through out the day just by eating because your body will constantly be digesting small portion meals. You should never over eat, experts say when you eat a mean your stomach should only be ¾ full. When you over eat your body digests what it can and stores the rest. So its very important to be aware of your portions. Effective easy snacks to eat any day throughout the day



Greens

Any green vegetable is very good for you. On weight watchers point system any green vegetable is a zero, meaning you can eat as much of it as you want.

Bananas

great source of potassium, and a quick easy breakfast.

Eggs

are a great source of protein, vitamins, minerals, and can fight hunger better than sugary cereals or breakfast rolls. Eggs are known as great brain food, so its perfect for breakfast, or a nice filler snack.

Yogurt

has protein (about 9 grams per 6-ounce serving), plus several other nutrients found in dairy foods, like calcium, vitamin B-2, B-12, potassium, vitamin D and magnesium. Helps the immune system, reduces risk of high blood pressure and makes you feel full. A study from the University of Washington in Seattle tested hunger, fullness, and calories eaten at the next meal on 16 men and 16 women who had a 200-calorie snack. Although those who had the yogurt snacks did not eat fewer calories at the next meal, both types of yogurt resulted in lower hunger ratings and higher fullness ratings than either of the other snacks.-Web M.D.

Flavored tea

soothing healthy drink with many health benefits including antioxidants

Drinking cold water

Your body will warm up the water to body temperature. This process also burns calories. By drinking 8 glasses of cold water you will be burning calories, cleaning out your system and loosing weight. Drinking water also helps speed up the metabolism



Vitamins

What are vitamins anyway?

Vitamins are essential chemicals that take part in all your body’s processes. They do that by participating in reactions inside cells. Each vitamin performs a specific function in the body, and no single food contains all the vitamins you need. Except for vitamin D, the human body cannot make vitamins. So you need to get vitamins from the foods you eat or from vitamin supplements.



Everyone needs to take a multi vitamin everyday to get the standard variety of vitamins for everyday life.

Vitamin B2 is needed for normal thyroid function and metabolism



Like B2, vitamin B3 is essential for normal thyroid hormone production. Vitamin B3 is also part of the glucose tolerance factor (GTF) which is released every time blood sugar rises.



Any deficiency of Vitamin B5 interferes with our capacity to utilise fat. Vitamin B5 also plays an important role in energy production and assists adrenal function.



Vitamin B6 regulates the production of thyroid hormone and metabolism.

Vitamin B's also give a good source of energy to the body



Vitamin C provides a range of health benefits including proper conversion of glucose to energy in the cells.

These are all easy, effective tips to help you loose weight, and be healthy. Changing your eating patterns, portions and choices are easy ways to make a big impact on your figure and health. Taking vitamins improve your all around health and give you a helping hand in reaching your goal, and the fun exercises I mentioned earlier will create your new best self.