Fitness Motivator Newsletter, September 2006-- Volume 6, Issue 9

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Welcome to all our new subscribers, and I extend my appreciation to everyone who forwards this newsletter to friends. One friend telling another is how we grow, and I deeply appreciate your support. If you know anyone who might like it, please forward this newsletter to them or send them this link: http://www.FitnessMovtivatorNewsletter.com.

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Are you feeling motivated lately? If not, why not find someone else who can use some motivation. Say a few words to help motivate that person. Then listen to yourself as you give your little pep talk.

You can then act upon our own words, since I'm sure you don't want to give advice that you can't take yourself. Be a role model and live the part. It won't be long before you are walking the walk, so to speak.

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" Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year."

~~Franklin P. Adams

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The Benefits Of A Low Glycemic Level Diet

By Andy West

The United States is facing a health crisis. 31% of adults are obese, as are 15% of adolescents and children with no sign that this trend will be shifting any time in the near future. What’s more, diabetes affects a staggering 18.2 million people in America, which is over six percent of the population. Even more shocking is the fact that this number increases each year. In short, the prognosis for many Americans’ health is not good.

So what can you do about it? The best thing you can do is to take care of yourself and your children through proper diet and exercise. Obesity can be eliminated and diabetes can be managed, if not all together avoided. You can control the things you put into your body, and from a chemical perspective, regulating bloods sugar levels is the most effective way to release your energy and fat burning capacity.

The Glycemic index is a system that ranks foods by how they affect your levels of blood sugar. By following a low Glycemic diet, you can control the dramatic rises in blood sugar that pose serious threats to your health. Adhering to this nutritional plan is not as complicated or difficult as you might think. In fact, finding recipes and tips is as easy as logging on to your computer.

There are a number of websites targeted for people living with diabetes to help control blood sugar levels naturally. For a comprehensive listing of sites that assist you in managing your Glycemic level, take a quick look at Review Place. It has reviews of sites like Glycemic Impact Diet, Living with Diabetes Plan, Diabetic and Dieting Recipes and Hypoglycemia Low Sugar Plan. These aren’t fad diets that make little sense and achieve only short-term results. The plans are based on scientific fact.

The beauty of these sites dealing with low Glycemic diets, is that they essentially do all of the work for you. They not only give recipes and health tips, but many go so far as to offer prepared grocery lists to print on the go. Even better, the recipes are not only healthy, but also tasty. You don’t feel as though you are missing out on delicious food, you are enjoying delicious, healthy food.

For example, Glycemic Impact Diet, also known as the GI Diet, a member of the eDiets family, is a healthy nutrition plan you can follow for life. It balances unrefined complex carbohydrates with lean protein and healthy fat to help you stabilize blood sugars and increase energy while losing weight. You can feel fuller longer and avoid nasty sugar highs and lows.

A Low Glycemic Level Diet makes sense for anyone. It is not just for individuals with diabetes, but any person concerned with health and proper nutrition. If, as a nation, we all paid closer attention to the Glycemic index and monitored or blood sugar intake, we would see a sharp decline in the incidence of diabetes and obesity. In turn, we’d experience healthier lives and a better quality of life.

About the Author:

Andy West is a freelance writer. For more information and reviews of Glycemic Diets that can help lower your Glycemic level, please visit ReviewPlace.

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"No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change."

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"Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states."

~~Carol Welch

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Getting Into Shape Quickly – Mistakes To Avoid

For must of us, the concept of getting ourselves into shape is daunting, to say the least. Our minds seem to instantly conjure images of getting up before the crack of dawn and working exceptionally hard before our eyes are even really open yet. We do this because we believe and hope that this is the only way to get into shape. In reality, the picture we hold in our minds is much more grim than the reality.

Although a regular exercise plan, combined with an intelligent and healthy diet, are the only real ways to ensure that you stay in good shape throughout your life, there are actually some things you can to help yourself get into shape fast. None of them include ordering anything off a television infomercial either.

Contrary to the commercials and testimonials you often see on late night television, there is no overnight solution to getting into shape. The shape you’re currently in is due to bad lifestyle habits and you need to change those if you’re going to stay in shape. Forming a new habit takes three or four weeks for most people. I know that isn’t exactly what you want to hear, but you’re not going to do yourself any good if you hold unrealistic expectations in your mind.

One of the biggest problems facing most people who attempt to get into shape is the fact that they have a hard time finding good information and, too often, suck into popular mythology and make some very common mistakes in their quest to get into shape quickly.

If you’re looking to improve your health and physical fitness, below are five extremely common mistakes you need to avoid. Learning about what not to do is often as important as learning about what to do, so keep these things in mind.

1.Starvation

When they want to lose weight, too many people decide that they will just cut way back on what they eat. This puts your body into conservation mode, which will lower your metabolism and force you to burn fat more slowly.

When you start eating normally again, which you inevitably will, your body will still be in conservation n mode for awhile and you will put on even more weight. For many people, this becomes a vicious cycle and is largely responsible for the “yo-yo” phenomenon in weight loss.

2.Bathroom Scale Worship

People always talk about weight loss, but they don’t mean they just want to lose weight: they want to lose fat. The bathroom scale, however, doesn’t differentiate between fat and muscle and, after all, muscle weighs more than fat. If you only measure your success or failure based on the number you see just beyond your toes, you’re going to be chasing your tail forever.

3.Binging on “No Fat” or “Low Fat” Foods

Just because something is “low fat” or “no fat” doesn’t mean it doesn’t contain calories. The simple reality is that whenever you take in more calories than you burn, you gain weight. When you burn more calories than you take in, you lose weight.

4.Short Term Planning

Most people have a short term goal in mind and, therefore, they have a short term plan. The desire to lose 10 pounds is a wonderful place to start from, but if you don’t have a plan for sustaining your new weight then all of your efforts will be for naught. You need to make a lifelong commitment to a new way of living, pure and simple.

5.“I’m an Overweight Person Trying to Lose Weight”

While the actual thought varies from person-to-person, this way of thinking is probably the most fundamental mistake people make when trying to lose weight, get into shape or, realistically, make any change. We become the person we believe we are, pure and simple. The self talk inside our minds has a profound impact on our reality, so you need to get your self talk under control and keep it positive. You’re a “healthy person returning to normal,” not an “unhealthy person trying to get healthy.”

About the Author:

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"Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it."

~~Plato

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September 2006

Volume 6, Issue 9

The Benefits Of A Low Glycemic Level Diet

Getting Into Shape Quickly – Mistakes To Avoid

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