Tapping or Bouncing Your Legs

Seriously, you can burn quite a significant amount of calories while performing this task even while at your desk. A study at the prestigious Mayo Clinic in Minnesota has shown that one can burn over 350 calories a day just by bouncing their legs up and down! That’s the equivalent of running three and a half miles a day in terms of calories burned. Try it out for yourself and reap the rewards of a healthier body and more toned legs and calves.

Chew Gum

Another unexpected, yet tried and true method of burning calories with minimum input. Although you won’t crank out the burned calories as quickly as you would with tip 5, Dan Benardot, Ph.D., R.D., author of Nutrition for Serious Athletes, has stated that you can burn 11 calories per hour by simply chewing gum. In an 8 hour work day that’s almost 90 calories and if you combine that with Tip 5 you are almost up to 450 calories per day already.

Take the Stairs

Unless you work in a one story building, your place of employment has stairs. Although you probably opt for the elevator everyday, taking the stairs is a quick 5 minute way to whisk away anywhere from 50-100+ calories per day. The average person burns 10 calories a minute or 50 calories per 5 minute period of stair climbing and slightly less for descending. So go ahead and take the stairs for a week and not only will you burn some calories but you will get in some aerobic exercise as well.

Ditch the morning coffee (or not)

Coffee is almost a given for anyone who wants to not only make it to work but actually get their work accomplished sufficiently as well but the downside to this is that drinking the magical energy elixir is bound to silently add some girth to your frame over time. Your average 16 ounce cup of coffee wit all the sugar, creme, and milk bells and whistles can easily top 200 calories and 10 grams of fat. So why not change up your recipe and see if you notice a change! Unbeknownst to most people, a cup of black coffee with no additives contains zero fat and only 2 calories so give black coffee a chance and watch the weight melt away gradually. If you can’t stand black coffee, try fat free or reduced calorie creamers and milk instead.

Join your employer’s fitness club

In today’s day and age most employers offer free or discounted fitness clubs, support groups or gyms in order to save on healthcare costs, so why not join yours? By utilizing this tool you can gain access to valuable nutritional information, personal trainer help, as well as a plethora of other services. Combine this tool with the aforementioned tips and you could be on the way to gratifying weight loss and overall good health.

In summation, by taking advantage of the above mentioned 5 tips for losing weight and attaining good health while at work, you can easily burn an extra 700+ calories per day without interfering with your already hectic daily schedule. When you note that 1 pound of fat takes 3500 calories to burn off, it becomes obvious that burning 700 per day in a 5 day work week will help you shed an easy pound a week or 50+ pounds a year!

Don’t Worry, Be Happy

Your body has this handy little hormone that it secretes through the adrenal glands known as Cortisol. Now cortisol can have its beneficial effects, such as increased immunity and momentary bursts in metabolism and energy among other things but on the flip side it can also make you and keep you fat due to stress. When you are stressed out Cortisol turns into your worst enemy as it can cause deep plunges in metabolism, cravings for fatty, sugary and salty foods, as well as a higher chance of abdominal fat storage. In other words, stress causes you to eat bad food, prevents you from burning it, and then conveniently stores it in the worst place possible-your abdomen.

Eating Makes You Skinny

I know this sounds paradoxical in nature but ironically it is true to an extent. Your body is a stickler for daily routines so when you alter your eating habits or outright skip a meal it makes your body cranky. It is imperative that you eat throughout the day albeit wisely utilizing healthy filling meals and snacks. Did you know that following a meal, your metabolism increases by upwards of 30% for two hours following that meal? This is one of the main reasons you shouldn’t skip breakfast as it is that first meal of the day that kick starts your metabolism for the day. So don’t forget to eat regularly so as to keep your body happy and your metabolism running efficiently.

Drinking Fruit Juice Isn’t the Same as Eating Fruit

Naturally one would assume that if eating fruit is good for you, then drinking it must be just as good for you right? Wrong. Fruit juices are notorious for containing insane amounts of fructose, a substance that contains a lot of calories and also prevents your body from feeling full when you eat. Our brain has a disconnect when it comes to liquid calories as it doesn’t realize that whether it’s a 16 oz cup of concentrated orange juice or a ham sandwich, you are still getting the same amount of calories and subsequently these liquid calories fail to satisfy the hunger receptors in your brain that are looking for caloric energy. With that being said, instead of opting for that apple or orange juice that is actually mainly concentrated fruit juice and filtered water, get the real thing! Bite into an actual apple or orange as they both supply the body with copious amounts of much needed nutrients while simultaneously calming hunger cravings.

Lay Off the Booze

Alcohol makes you fat, plain and simple. Just as we stated in tip 3, your brain doesn’t respond well to liquid calories, so those 175 calories that are in your 12 ounce beer end up causing all kinds of problems. For instance, when you consume alcohol, your body actually takes some of the calories and turns them directly into fat and then the liver turns the rest of the calories into a compound known as acetate, which it then pumps into the bloodstream to be used as energy. The problem here is that although your body is burning those calories it turned into acetate; it stored those other calories as fat and doesn’t plan on using them anytime soon. To make things worse, some people carry a gene that causes alcohol to be stored as belly fat regardless of whether or not you eat healthy and work out.

Air Conditioning

Yes, I said air conditioning. Believe it or not, being comfortable is keeping you fat as just like your house-your body has mechanisms for keeping you comfortable. When you are hot your body will perspire to cool you down and when you are cold it will raise your metabolism and twitch some muscles to warm you up. So when you keep your AC or heat at that “perfect temperature” you are actually preventing your body from needing to regulate itself and in essence losing out on some free burned calories. In the winter, drop the temperature down a degree or two less than normal and I promise you that your body will compensate and the same is true with the AC in the summer as your body is very good at adapting.

So there you have it ladies and gentlemen, 5 ways that you are unknowingly either packing on pounds or retaining them. Heed the advice in this article and you will have an easier time dropping those extra pounds you accumulated by being stressed out, intoxicated, and comfortable at home.

Here are the list of 20 ways to get healthier for free:

1. Borrow (don’t buy) your next fitness DVD
2. Get a free skin checkup
3. Order a free health calendar
4. Surf for deals
5. Get a free radon test
6. Click off the weight
7. Strike a pose
8. Bargain hard
9. Do a smoke checkup
10. Create a medical family tree
11. Save $170 in the shower
12. Snag free health apps
13. Boost your immunity
14. Moisturize for free
15. Eat healthier, no cookbook required
16. Tweet for discounts
17. Try a new sport
18. Give and get for free
19. Sign up for a free pedometer
20. Talk it out

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I’ve put together a list of fitness equipments that’s just plain stupid and anyone who even thought for a second of getting them is also stupid.

The Hawaiin Chair

Look how they convince you with their phony expressions on how great this product is!

Lady: “Oh My GOSH THIS IS AMAZING!”

Dufos: “IT IS GREAT ON MY ABS!”

Lady again: “I JUST REALLY FEEL THIS WORKING!! AHAHAHAH”

Are you kidding me?!!

Body Blade

To improve your golf swing? To maintain a healthy lifestyle?  What the heck is this crap?!!

Osim iGallop

This one is almost pornographic so I won’t put any video of that sort on this website.  This is yet another example of using pretty girls with great bodies to sell something so stupid and useless.  Many fools will probably buy this thing…

Ab Tronic

This is another garbage patch that you put around your waist and turn it on.  While it’s on, it makes you feel like your burning fat and toning your muscles.  In reality, it’s vibration is actually laughter at your stupidity for buying it.

Are there others?  Yes hundreds but what’s the point of listing them all, pretty much everything that is shown on infomercials is crap.  Don’t buy any fitness equipment from TV.  Just get your ass out of the house and start running.

If you like working out using equipment, pay $15/month at your local gym and go exercise there.  There is absolutely no reason why anyone should pay a dime for these kinds of products.

1. The Best Exercise You’re Not Doing – “One simple (and grueling) movement will revolutionize your leg workout.”

2. 10 Things Your Grocery Store Doesn’t Want You to Know -  Grocery shopping seems like a harmless enough activity. It’s a chore, but it’s one that most of us do at least once a week, without giving much thought to what’s going on behind the scenes at the supermarket.

3. 5 Common Exercises You Should NEVER Do -  The test of time usually works. Futile fads like sweatboxes, vibrating belts, and most tips from the odd, ponytailed Tony Little have died out quickly enough. But a few bad exercises have persisted, and exercise physiologists don’t see how these ineffective and sometimes dangerous maneuvers have survived.

4. 25 Weird (But True) Health & Body Facts – Researchers at Cornell University found that people who pass through an entryway near the kitchen tend to eat 15 percent more than those who use the front door.

5. Build Up Your Best Body — in One Hour -  Whether the goal is a bigger chest or tighter abs, your workout needs to yield great results fast. Use this plan to maximize your time—and your muscle.

6. 8 Food Myths Busted! - 8 Food Myths Busted! – Page 1 – MSN Health & Fitness – Nutrition.

7. Foods to Avoid to Make You Feel Like New! - Truth is, you don’t have to eliminate any foods from your diet. The important step is realizing what foods make you feel awful and put you in a bad mood. If you pay attention, you can identify how certain foods, in certain portions, blitz your mood like a linebacker clobbering a quarterback.

8. Good Taste: Top 5 Foods to Prevent Bad Breath - Bad breath results from two key issues: oral hygiene and gastrointestinal health. Basically this means that breath odors originate not just inside the mouth but also from your digestive tract.

9. 5 Brain Myths – Busted – The human brain has received unprecedented press coverage in the past few years, thanks in large part to big leaps in science’s understanding of what goes on in the space between our ears. Yet, some stubborn myths remain. Here are five examples of neurological nonsense you can forget about for good.

10. 10 Secrets of the Effortlessly Thin – Make small changes for big results! Get expert diet and weight loss advice and lose pounds.

11. Prevent Post-Workout Pain -  Could tart cherry juice be the next big sports drink? Rumors about the juice’s pain-relieving powers have circulated for years, and new research suggests there may be some truth to them.
12. Fitness training: 5 elements of a rounded routine -  Whether you’re a novice taking the first steps toward fitness or an exercise fanatic hoping to optimize your results, a well-rounded fitness training program is essential. Use the five primary elements of fitness training to create a balanced routine.
13. 5 Lessons for Over-35 Athletes -  The most important key to success: ‘Don’t put an age limit on your dreams.’
14. Frugal Fitness -  When the only thing getting a workout at your gym is your credit card, it’s time to throw in the towel.
15. 3 Moves for Faster Firming -  Tone up and beat boredom with these smart variations on old favorites.
16. America’s Best Fast-Food Restaurants – Eating out invariably raises a number of tricky questions: sit down or drive through? Burgers or pizza? Thin or stuffed crust? Choosing one over the other could mean saving hundreds of calories in a single meal, up to 50 pounds of flab in the course of a year, and countless health woes over the course of a lifetime. Here are the top 10 list.
17. The Wisdom on Wisdom Teeth – Studies link even pain-free wisdom teeth to early gum disease that worsens over time, sometimes causing havoc far beyond the mouth. Indeed, pregnant women with gum disease around their wisdom teeth appear to be much more likely to give birth prematurely than unaffected pregnant women. As many as 80% of people will develop wisdom teeth problems.
18. Good News for Elderly: Happiness Keeps Growing – Recent studies: Happiness & emotional well-being grows with age, as older folks develop better ways to limit & cope with stress, unpleasant situations.
19. How Big Losers Burn Fat – This is a tale of two fat men and their quest to lose big. Their journey began eight months ago, when both were morbidly obese and at high risk of premature death and became contestants on “The Biggest Loser.” Almost instantly, the men’s waistlines—and lives—were dramatically transformed.
20. Should We Be Eating Like The Cavemen? – Should we look backward for clues to the perfect human diet? And not just back a few generations–but waaaaaay back?
21. A Few Extra Pounds Might Bring Extra Years – Weigh more, live longer? Yes, maybe, as long as you’re not obese, according to a new study.
22. Triggering Your Body to Burn Fat – When your body moves (or any cell in your body does any type of ”work”) it needs energy. The amount of energy needed is measured as a unit of heat—or a calorie. The fuel to produce this energy comes from several sources, mostly fat and carbs (glucose), and occasionally amino acids (protein).
23. Burn Fat, Drop Pounds – Trim inches off all over with this high-energy cardio and strength routine.
24. A Pre-Workout Meal to Help You Burn Fat -  Stay away from white bread, other ‘high-glycemic’ carbs, researchers say.
25. ‘Help! I Have Man Boobs and a Belly!’ -  How can I get six-pack abs and get rid of my chest flab?

Optimally try to fit in five sweat sessions a week and cut 500 calories a day from your diet to shed about 2 pounds a week, including stubborn belly pudge! Can’t manage to find that much time? Fine! Think of doing half as many workouts while still eating 500 calories fewer a day—you’ll lose at least 1 pound a week. Use the firm-abs moves below to help you reach the magic number and melt away your middle. Add in two weekly strength sessions designed to reveal sexy muscles head to toe. Grab a pair of 5- to 10-pound weights, do two sets of these simple sculptors, and watch your pooch skooch!

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Laziness is procrastination which is basically delaying doing things until they become absolutely necessary.  Here are a short list of habits that you should avoid if you want to  achieve self control and make your life worth living again.

1. Stop watching too much TV!
2. Limit Facebook
3. Forget about MySpace and 5 million other social networking sites
4. Stop wasting time on Digg and Reddit
5. Stop staying up late
6. Stop over eating
7. Eating late
8. Eating too early (Like 3AM!)
9. Skipping breakfast
10. Rushing your meals
11. Neglecting to brush teeth
12. Neglecting to floss
13. Using Google for everything!
14. Neglecting a good night’s rest
15. Eating fried food
16. Picking your nose
17. Farting and burping in public
18. Careless attitude
19. Getting to work late
20. Getting to class late
21. Sleeping at meetings and classrooms
22. Eating out everyday
23. Writing a blog once a month
24. Not taking shower daily
25. Not taking a crap regularly- Yea.  Some people don’t even do this because they’re too damn lazy!
26. Not exercising
27. Leaving work until last minute
28. Browse the Internet aimlessly
29. Not taking shower regularly
30. Idling for long periods of time
31. Over eating
32. No exercise
33. Smoking
34. Eating fast food daily – Stop going to McDonald’s for breakfast/lunch and dinner.  Watch Super Size Me to get an idea what it does to you in a matter of only few weeks!
35. Stop delegating -  If you want a cup of water or the remote GO GET IT YOURSELF!
36. Stop driving and walk to short distances.
37. Stop finding shortcuts – Getting things done take time and effort.  Taking shortcuts all the time is a lazy way out of doing hard work.
38. Don’t wait until the last minute in the morning before getting up and then have to rush to get ready for work or school.
39. Don’t leave anything until the last minute.
40. Not cleaning after yourself – There are so many people who use the bathroom but do not wash their hands after.  Forget about #1, some people don’t even bother washing their hands after doing #2!  Even worse than that, some people don’t even wash their arse when they take a dump.   How disgusting can a person be if they don’t properly wash their arse or wipe properly??  This is sick and it bothers me.
41. Stop eating when not hungry!

I could go on but can’t think of anymore…I’m sure there are hundreds of other lazy habits that affects us negatively and create setbacks everyday.

It is a proved fact that whether the words are written or spoken, they have enormous power. You can do some research to find the power words or phrases that capture your attention. Then note down these words in your diary. If it captured your attention, there are more chances that they will hold peoples attention and invoke reaction in them. When time comes you can use power of your words to stimulate interest and drive profits.

When the power words are combined with the right message, you can get very good results. The difference of just few words can either pull in prospects or push them away. It is very important that you use the power of your words in headlines and content of your sales page because when the people visit your sales page you have about 10 seconds to grab their attention. If you cannot make it within that first 10 seconds, there is possibility that the visitor may leave your sales page.

10 ways to use power of your words to get amazing results:

1. Capture peoples attention.
2. Create a visual picture of the product.
3. Make your product description easy and understandable.
4. Invoke reaction in people.
5. Give reasonable solution to your prospects problem.
6. Offer hope for getting success.
7. Arouse the interest of the readers.
8. Motivate people to buy your products.
9. Cause an impact on the visitors.
10. Prove your creditability and Professionalism.

Finding the right words to communicate with your prospects is very much essential for the growth of your business, as it provides you with a powerful way to present the description of the opportunity or the products that you are promoting. Below are the 30 power words that you can use to increase your sales and sign ups:

Excellent, Reliable, Creative, Expert, Knowledge, Limited, Hidden, Special, Exciting, Important, Tested, Massive, FREE, Easy, Guaranteed, Magic, Secrets, Results, Discover, Confidential, Ultimate, Discount, Sale, Profitable, Urgent, Attention, Sensational, Successful, Powerful, Remarkable.

The reason why the word “FREE” continues to be one of the top selling words throughout the internet is that everyone loves to get something without spending anything. Some words are so powerful that they can elicit emotions and create visual pictures in your readers mind, sometimes to such an extent that they can induce people to laugh, to cry or even to buy.

Always use familiar words while sending a message to your business prospects, so that whatever message you want to put forth becomes clearer and easily understandable. Including the prospects name in your message, especially in the middle of the sentence, helps to boost the attention levels. If, people come to know that you have the right solution to their problems, automatically more and more prospects will be attracted towards you thereby making your online venture a successful one.

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What has become increasingly clear, however, is that the conventionally accepted advice — 30 minutes of moderate-intensity activity most days of the week — is probably insufficient to spur any real change in a person’s body weight. A study published July 28 in the Archives of Internal Medicine adds to the burgeoning scientific consensus: when it comes to exercise for weight loss, more is better. It suggests that obese people would have to exercise at least an hour at a time to see any significant difference in their weight.

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Many of us always find it very hard to get into the habit of fitness, exercise and eating right. It’s almost impossible for someone whose lifestyle does not involve physical activity to suddenly get into shape. As with smoking it’s very hard to quit. Many of us already know that smoking is bad for our health as well as being out of shape and obese but how do we get out of this slump? What can we do to get motivated, not for one day or a week but for the rest of our lives?

In this article, I’ve tried to dig into many popular fitness sites and in particular the websites which are community based, provides basic programs to keep track of all exercise and diet plans. Although this list may not help most of us, but it will help the few that have some inner motivation to reach out to people similar to them who also want to change. You can find a fitness companion on the virtual world, share ideas, track your exercises and much more. The following is a list of 25 different most popular websites which I find valuable.

1. Traineo – a weight loss and fitness tracker designed to keep you motivated to achieve your fitness goals. Get other people to motivate you and on track with your diet and fitness tracking.
2. FitDay – Create a free account to enter your daily foods and exercise and analyzes and tracks all your information.
3. Crossfit – A free fitness website that posts a new “Workout of the Day” every day. The workouts focus on total body fitness. The workouts are used by military personnel, athletes, and normal people. The site also contains an index of the exercises used in the workouts complete with videos and slide shows. They offer a newsletter for those willing to pay. It is an outstanding site for both fitness gurus and average Joes.
4. FitWatch – Offers free fitness and nutrition tracking that allows you to keep track of your exercise and diet. There’s also a paid version that offers more features.
5. WalkerTracker – a community site for pedometer fans to log and track their steps.
6. MapMyRun - A community web site for runners and joggers who want to stay healthy, lose weight or train more effectively.
7. TheDailyPlate – Just tell The Daily Plate what you’re eating, and they’ll do the work, drawing charts of the nutrition you’re getting or should be. It has a calorie calculator, food journal, diet tracker, fitness log, forums and so much more.
8. My-Health-and-Fitness – Provides bunch of free health programs mostly web based. This is useful if you want to add it to your website. Check out the following neat tools on the site.
   • Office Fitness Timer – a free PHP / Javascript tool that will help you keep fit while working at your desk. Just use the timer to take stretching breaks, or Tai Chi sessions.
   • Daily Diabetes Diet Counter – a free, Javascript-based counter that helps web site visitors with Diabetes track their daily intake of calories, starches, vegetables, and more.
   • Weight Loss Recipe Book – a free, community-driven online recipe book. You just approve recipes and watch your web site content expand!
   • The Anti-Diet Pill – a visually appealing randomly generated diet tip script (say that ten times fast) that you can add to your web site for free.
   • Exercise Tip Email Buddy – a free program you can add to your web site that will allow visitors to sign up for an automatic exercise tip e-mail list. Great for building up a mailing list while you get your health related newsletter ready.
   • Health Tip Email Buddy – a free program you can add to your web site that will allow visitors to sign up for an automatic health tip e-mail list.
   • Calorie Burning Calculator – a free health calculator you can add to your web site so that visitors can calculate their basal metabolic rate (BMR), or the number of calories per day their body requires to maintain it’s weight.
   • Quick Health Calculator – a free online calculator to calculate body mass index, or BMI. Add it to your health-related web site for added functionality
   • Health and Fitness Calculator – a free software program calculator for your Windows desktop that calculates body mass index, or BMI, as well as risk some weight-related health issues.
9. WorkoutZone – Pretty cool site to track your workout.
10. I-Fitnesscenter – The online fitness center and walking club. It enabled you to use your IPod for exercise tracking. Membership is free
11. FitTracker – an online community where members can connect with each other to socialize and learn more about health and fitness!
    • Use our diet tracker to monitor your food intake and find out how many calories you are actually consuming every day! Our exercise tracker makes tracking your workouts easy as ever! Access our database of over 400 exercises to track and create workouts!

12. Gimme20 – Discover existing workout routines or create your own and then track your results. Make freinds, create blog chat and etc. Also track your weight loss.
13. FitLink – meet workout parnters and track your workouts
14. My Calorie Counter – free onlin diet and exercise journal
15. ShapeLink – Free online fitness journal and exercise log!
16. DietTV.com - Get fit, stay on track and be supported by the community.
17. MyPyramindTracker - an online dietary and physical activity assessment tool that provides information on your diet quality, physical activity status, related nutrition messages, and links to nutrient and physical activity information.
18. SparkPeople – Get a personalized diet or healthy lifestyle program. Very active website.
19. DemandFitness – online video fitness. Join the community.
20. Family Workout – Free workout tracker for families.
21. FitNRG – A Fitness, Health and Weight Loss Social Network.
22. Calorie Counter – As the name implies. This site is all about calorie counting and how to best track your calorie input. It’s pretty cool as it lists all the well known foods and beverages out there with their actual calorie numbers.
23. hdotraining.com – Considered one of the best e-trainer websites by Men’s Journal. The website only supports IE browser for some stupid reason.
24. nhlbisupport.com/bmi – The most precise way of measuring if you’re, you know, fat is body mass index, a vital indicator for your risk of heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers. But how do you calculate it? Step on a scale, plug your weight and height into this calculator, and press Compute BMI.
25. The Couch-to-5K Running Plan – Not a tracker site but I had to include this. This article provides a schedule for a couch potato to get up and become fit runner.
    

That’s it for now. If you know of a website similar to the above list, please share it with us.