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I’m sure you’ve probably heard the hype about some magic tea you can drink to help you lose weight and burn more fat, but let me just stop you there and tell you that this isn’t one of those magical teas.

This is a scientifically proven Fat Loss Trick I’ve tried and tested and now use daily to feel better, and burn more calories.

Here is the recipe, and I’ll explain why this works so well in a moment.

You’ll need:
1 cup of Ice Cold green tea
1/8-1/4 tsp lemon juice (must be juice, not lemonade)
Ice

Make sure to mix the lemon juice into the tea well then add the ice. One of the keys to this being so powerful is having lots of ice.

Why does this help you lose more fat?

For starters, green tea is not the end all be all of weight loss, but it does help you burn more calories.

This is because green tea not only contains caffeine, which helps burn more calories through thermogenesis, but also something called catechins. Studies have shown that the catechins in green tea help to burn anywhere from 68-200 extra calories per day. This is based on drinking 3-4 cups (8 oz) of green tea each day.

While this may not sound like much, it’s about the same as getting on the treadmill and going full speed for 5-8 minutes.

This drink is also extra powerful because the lemon juice slows down the digestion of any food you have eaten or will eat soon by increasing the acidity of the food slightly. The PH of the food in your stomach helps to determine how quickly carbohydrates can be taken into your blood stream. Slowing down how quickly they assimilate will result in less hunger, feeling full longer, and much less calories over a relatively short period of time.

The third reason that this tea is so powerful is good old ice.

I’ve written about the power of ice before, so I’ll touch on it very briefly.

Drinking your drink Ice cold (I do mean Ice Cold) helps your body lose weight because your body has to burn calories to maintain heat when that cold drink gets to your stomach. You have to stay warm and you have to burn calories to do that, and all you have to do to exploit this is grab a few ice cubes in each drink.

So, drink a few glasses of this tea every day and you’ll find yourself burning more calories, feeling more satisfied between and after meals, and hopefully it will help you trim off the fat you’ve been wanting to lose.

I’ll be back in a few days with more.
The Fat Loss Informant

Let’s get those comments going, have you tried green tea supplements before? What were your results?

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After the previous two posts, several of you have emailed to ask me if there is such a thing as fat burning coffee beans or fat burning coffee grounds.

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I’ll be back in a few days with more tips.

Talk soon,
Ryan
Now for comments – Have you tried green coffee? Have you tried Green Tea for weight loss?

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PS. This 1 trick burns belly fat with coffee and green tea.

This is a continuation of a 2 part post. To see part one, Click Here.

As promised, here is a little research about the fat fighting effect of coffee.

When you drink just 100 mg of caffeine, about 1 cup of coffee, your body begins to burn more calories.

In fact, it burns about 4% more calories for the next 2.5 hours. I know this doesn’t seem like much, but if you are like most people and consume several cups a day, you could increase that calorie consumption up to around 100 extra calories a day.

While this may not seem like much alone, you can use it to improve your workouts tremendously. Especially if you do fasted cardio.

This is because the chemicals in coffee actually help to keep your fat cells from taking on new fat. Coffee contains a natural lypase inhibitor.

It does this by keeping the free fatty acids in your blood from returning to fat cells so that you can burn them instead of store them.

So, if you drink your coffee with your morning cardio, you’ll burn more fat than glycogen stores (sugars from your muscles.)

Further, because most of us drink our coffee piping hot, we experience calorie burning through the thermogenic effect caused when the hot liquid effects our body temperature.

What does all of this mean?

It means that drinking a few cups of coffee each day can help you burn more calories and if you drink it before a workout, it will actually help you burn more FAT and in the end, isn’t that what we all want?

If you don’t want start a coffee habit or just plain don’t like the taste, check out this Awesome Fat Burner

It does everything a cup of coffee can and about 10x more without getting the jitters.

As Promised, here is recipe #2 (it’s a little less drastic, but still pretty good for you. Though it won’t have as much of a thermogenic effect as recipe #1, it will help you cut back on the sugar, artificial sweeteners and milk that most people drink in their coffee.)

1 Cup coffee
2-3 Dashes cinnamon
a few drops of real, high quality Vanilla Extract to taste. (I prefer just about 1/8 tsp)

Talk soon,
The Fat Loss Informant

Let’s get some comments going and I’ll be back next week with more tips
Would you prefer a weight loss pill or trying to mix coffee and other foods to get the same effect?

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Weight Loss Coffee
Millions of people get up every morning and get a coffee, whether you drink it black, drink it as a mocha or a nonfat half caff latte, it’s an integral part of your day.

But did you know that you could enjoy your morning coffee and actually have it burn fat? (Research to come in part 2)

Research shows that the antioxidants and caffeine in coffee can increase your metabolism by up to 4% without doing any exercise or dieting at all.

But if you won’t settle for such a small increase, you can add a few tasty ingredients to your coffee and have it fire up your metabolism and burn off that belly fat while you go about your day.

Here’s the recipe:

1 cup of coffee
1-2 scoops vanilla Protein Powder
2-3 dashes of cinnamon (to taste)
The secret is to mix the protein powder in just a little cold water(very little) before adding it to the coffee, this keeps it from getting lumpy and chunky.

Mix all the ingredients together and enjoy.

The protein will help keep you full and burning fat, the caffeine increases your metabolism and the cinnamon has been proven to control blood sugar, hunger and fat burning.

That’s it, drink up and burn fat!

This isn’t some magic pill, but it will help you burn more fat every single day.

By drinking your coffee like this, you are cutting out the milk, sugar, and syrups that most people drink in their coffee and replacing it with fat burning protein, and blood sugar stabilizing cinnamon.

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I’ll have an alternate recipe for you in a few days.

Talk to you soon,
Ryan “The Fat Loss Informant”

Let’s get those comments going and I’ll be back in a few days with part 2
Leave me a comment to tell me how you drink your coffee?

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Fish Oil
A recent study was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that taking fish oil may not improve weight loss.

This goes against several studies that prove the taking fish oil, or eating fish containing high levels of omega-3 fatty acids can improve weight loss.

If you turn on the TV or stroll down the health aisle of any department store, chances are you’ve seen the enormous number of fish oil supplements claiming extreme weight loss without any other changes.

Unfortunately, fish oil supplements have become the next end all be all pill of weight loss, promising instant and easy weight loss without diet or exercise. The truth is, without exercise this oil supplements are nearly useless when it comes to fat loss.

This is because all make a three fish oil aids fat loss by increasing the oxidation of fats within the fat cells, and by preventing the conversion of some cells into fat, leaving more free fatty acids within the blood.

When you have more free fatty acids in the blood, you have more fat ready to be burned.

This means that when you exercise, you will burn those free fatty acids that are in the blood more readily. If you don’t exercise, they will simply circulate in the blood and become fat cells in short time.

This new study suggests that taking a mega three fish oil supplements will not aid in fat loss whether you exercise or not.

Now the question is which one is right?

Will fish oil help you lose weight, or won’t it? After all one of the most famous studies proving that fish oil helps increase fat loss was also published in the American clinical Journal of nutrition.

Now we’re left with conflicting studies and forced to make a decision as to whether this can help with weight loss.

I’ll chime in with my two cents.

First off, fish oil and Omega-3 supplements are not some magic weight loss pill. You can’t take one and sit on your butt and hope you lose weight. It’s just not going to happen.

However, omega-3 fatty acids (EPA/DHA) have been proven to help mobilize fat in the blood, leaving more fat ready to be burned.

The biology suggests that eating a diet high in a mega threes, or supplementing with omega-3 fatty acids team and will help you lose fat along with diet and exercise.

But If The Studies Conflict, Shouldn’t I wait To Take It?

The short answer is no.

Not only can omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil help you lose weight (as suggested by numerous studies), fish oils have also been shown to reduce joint pain, reduce resting heart rate, and even reduce the occurrence of death from heart attack.

While the supplements aren’t going to give you some “magic Hollywood weight loss”, they will help improve your health and helps you mobilize fat in the bloodstream so you can burn it off more easily during exercise.

So the question shouldn’t be “should I be taking fish oil supplements?” it should be, “why aren’t you taking fish oils?”

If you want to take it one step further, I recommend this ultra-powerful Krill Oil. It’s like super charged fish oil. Taking this Krill Oil has proven to be 3 times more effective at reducing bad cholesterol, increasing good cholesterol and maintaining healthy blood glucose levels.

If you’re serious about getting healthy and losing weight, then I suggest you add this to your supplement list right away.

Comments: What are you heard about fish oil supplements and weight loss?

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I’ll be back in a few days,
“The Fat Loss Informant”

This has been proven to burn up to 2 1/2 times more FAT!!

New Year's Weight Loss Resolution
Every new year millions of people start putting down their New Year’s resolutions.

The concept is that with a fresh new year, we all get a fresh start. But chances are you sent resolutions before, and not reach them. In fact, most of us have set the same resolutions year after year only to find that by February we fallen off the wagon and are making excuse after excuse why we can’t reach the goal.

If you think that only people with monster motivation or extreme discipline can be successful with their New Year’s resolutions, then you’re absolutely wrong.

Anybody can succeed at their New Year’s resolution if they stay focused, and use these simple little tricks to stay on track.

Your chances for success are just the same as mine, are you going to use the sneaky tricks to stay on track?

Here are 5 New Year’s Resolution Secrets.

 

Focus On One Big One

Every year we all sit down and decide that we are going to commit to making BIG changes this year. We say or write down 5-10 things we want to change and some of us even post them to our Facebook wall. We think of all the things in our life we want to change and try to change it all at once.

The problem is that this is nearly impossible.

Psychologists have proven that your mind can only focus on a few things at a time. If you’re trying to change 5 or 10 things at once while still trying to maintain your everyday life, then it is absolutely certain that you will fail.

If you want success, then you have to focus on only 1 goal at a time until you have reached that goal, then you can focus on the next goal until you reach it.

 

Remember The Saying “Out Of Sight Out Of Mind”

Write down and review your resolution every single day.

Put notes on your mirror, your refrigerator and even on the dash of your car.

If you aren’t constantly looking at your goal and reinforcing your goals to yourself, then it’s very easy for the saying to become true.

Out of sight really does put your goal out of mind.

It’s easy to get distracted, and it’s even easier to make an excuse to skip a workout or cheat on your diet. If you aren’t constantly reminding yourself about your goal, then you’re more likely to fall off the wagon and never succeed.

 

Tell A Friend

As I mentioned before, many of us are prone to place our resolutions are Facebook wall as a way of sharing them with their friends.

If you aren’t the type to announce what you want to change, it’s time to become more outspoken with your goals.

When it comes to losing weight, most of us keep our goals to ourselves. But there are times when this can be worse for your success. If you announce your goal to your friends and family, just knowing that they know will help keep you accountable and keep you focused on your goal.

Think about it, if you told all everyone you know you were to lose 50 pounds by the end of the year, wouldn’t you be more likely to take the steps necessary to achieve that goal?

After all, everybody you know is expecting you to follow through on that goal.

That creates a lot of pressure.

This kind of pressure is exactly the kind of motivation that can make or break your success. So this year, make your big goal and post it on your Facebook wall.

Then you can even take it a step further and post weekly updates to your goal.

You’d be surprised how doing this can keep you motivated, and reveal supportive friends as well. When your friends and family start to see you making progress they will praise you and this will give you an extra boost toward your goal.

 

Reward Yourself

It’s a lot easier to stick to your resolution when you have a set reward.

In the same way, it’s a lot easier to stick to your weekly actions if you have a set reward. If you find yourself struggling to stay motivated, or stick to your eating plan, find a way to reward yourself for a job well done each week.

If you have weekly goals, and weekly rewards, it will make reaching your overall goal so much easier, and it will happen so much faster.

Maybe you can create a weekly meal plan and a weekly exercise plan, and reward yourself with something at the end of the week if you stick to it.

This can be something like a reward meal, or something to pamper yourself such as getting something you’ve always wanted, going somewhere you enjoy, or just time for yourself.

For your overall goal, I suggest making the reward huge.

The bigger you can make it the more likely you are to stick to your body composition goals.

If you know that when you reach a 10% body fat, you get to go on a cruise, chances are your work a lot harder to reach the body fat than if you just get to go to Taco Bell. ;)

 

Make It Measurable (Be Specific)

One of the biggest problems people have when setting goals are making resolutions is that they remain vague about what they want.

If you say I want to lose weight, and you sweat off 1 pound of water weight, you’ve just succeeded. But chances are that’s not what you want I’m guessing if you’re setting a new you is resolution concerning weight loss, you want a whole lot more than 1 pound of water weight gone.

Instead of focusing on how much weight you want to lose, focus on what your ideal weight would be, or better yet focus on your body fat percentage.

If you focus on your body fat percentage, you can measure this every step of the way to see what your actual results. If you measure using a scale, you could reach instant failure if you gain a couple pounds of muscle but lose a few pounds of fat.

This is because your scale may read the same, or you may even gain a pound and get discouraged. When in reality your body fat is dropping every step of the way.

Figure out a body fat percentage that you will resolve to have by the end of the year, and write that down.

Another example of a measurable goal, or measurable action-goal is to follow a certain guideline.

You may write a goal to follow your diet plans prescribed eating guidelines until you reach your body fat percentage goal. This is less a results oriented goal and the more an action goal, but many people find it just as powerful

Having measurable goals will allow you to focus on the end result rather than some vague hope like I want to lose weight, or I want to make more money.

Remember, if you’re vague about your goal, you can reach it almost instantly. But if you’re specific, you must take specific action in order to achieve it.

 

Hollywood stars and fitness models always have specific goals concerning body composition and that’s why they can make such big changes toward such lean bodies.

 
Let’s get those comments going! What’s your New Years Resolution?
Tell me Yours and I’ll Tell you mine. :)

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Be back in a few days,
“The Fat Loss Informant”

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EasyTones | Shape Ups | MBT

The Shoes

I was walking around the grocery store the other day, and I happened to be in kind of a hurry, so I had my head down. I just wanted to get in and get out and get on my day. But then something stopped me right in my tracks, and I had to slow down and think for a minute. I noticed about three or four people walking around the store with those funny looking “fitness” shoes on. No I’m not talking about running shoes, I’m talking about those funny looking shoes that claim that wearing them will get you into shape.

I noticed the shoes, and I noticed the people wearing them, and I thought to myself, “those people don’t look exceptionally fit.” But, maybe they’ve only been wearing the shoes for a few days, I thought. That would explain why they weren’t in great shape from wearing those expensive shoes. But then I started to wonder if wearing the shoes over the long-term could actually even make you fit. And I also started to wonder if wearing the shoes was safe.

These “fitness” shoes are supposed to get you in shape by working your calves and butt muscles while you walk around and do your normal daily activities. They do this by changing the way your body moves when you walk. The concept seems to make sense. If you make it a little harder to walk, and you’ll build more muscle and burn more calories, right? But because I often have knee pain just from walking around in my normal running shoes, I questioned if wearing these could cause worse knee pain, or cause knee, hip, and back problems for someone who doesn’t currently have knee pain if they wear them over the long term.

So I decided to go home and learn everything I could about these shoes and the claims they make.

The Claim

The 3 main shoes making the claim that they can help you get fit without extra work are MBT: Massai Barefoot Technology, Skechers Shape-ups and Reebok EasyTones.

Each company cites at least one study in their advertising that supposedly proves that their shoe increases muscle tone and calorie consumption without any extra effort on your part. The problem with the studies they site is that they were sponsored by the companies themselves. As you probably already know, you should be skeptical of any study sponsored by the company it benefits. We’ve all seen the ads on TV made by the corn coalition telling us that High Fructose Corn Syrup or Corn Sugar is just as healthy as regular sugar. The corn coalition has sponsored several studies that supposedly “prove” that HFCS is healthy. But independent studies done in labs and universities have shown that HFCS is nowhere close to healthy and is downright damaging to your body.

If we know a study is sponsored by the company it benefits, why would we believe. Well, it the studies claim to make you healthier without you ever having to change anything about your life. For most of us, this sounds amazing. After all, who wouldn’t want to look like a fitness model without ever going to the gym or dieting?

But I Have a Friend Who…

The thing I’ve heard most from people interested in these shoes is that they knew somebody who had them, heard about somebody who had them, or read a blog from somebody who had them and that person said that they were super sore in their calves and butt when they started wearing the shoes.

The soreness that these people report having is not because they were getting into shape, it’s because they changed the way their body moved when they walked, and began using muscles in a different way than they were used to. This is no different than when somebody switches from loafers to combat boots, or from running shoes to high heels. Both changes cause you to be sore and change the way your muscles work when you walk, but neither have been reported to get you into shape faster. The feeling these people are experiencing is simply their body adapting to a change in their gait.

The Studies You Didn’t Hear About

While there were several studies sponsored by the companies, there were also a few done independently. I’m sure you won’t be surprised to know that the independent tests did not show the kind of results that the companies claim. In fact, one study compared these “easy fitness” shoes to normal running shoes during regular walking both on flat ground and on incline. It’s not surprising that the independent tests showed no significant improvement in any of the indicators tracked during the exercise.

The researchers measured oxygen consumption as well as muscle usage while walking normally with the shoes. When the study was finished the one researcher said, “Don’t buy these shoes because of the claims that you’re going to tone your butt more or burn more calories. That’s absolutely wrong.” You won’t be doing any more toning than if you just go on a regular walk in your regular shoes. These shoes are just another in a long line of “get in shape fast” products that claim something that they can’t deliver. Don’t be fooled by their smart marketing.

Comment Time: Did you believe the hype? Have you tried them? Have you thought about it? I want to hear from you.

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Ryan “The Fat Loss Informant”

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Here in the US, most of us are celebrating Thanksgiving by getting together with family and friends and stuffing our faces with more food than we really need. Some of us will even sit down and watch some great athletes perform at their peak sometime during the day.

Now, most diet gurus and fitness trainers would tell you to train on the holiday and eat light, but I’m not going to do that.

ya know why?

You Gotta live sometime!

You read that right. When you follow a good diet plan and make the right choices most of the time you earn the privilege of eating bad every once in a while. Now, if you’re following a strategic fat loss diet that tells you to eat junk food to lose weight like my 20/20/20 Diet or Joel Marion’s Cheat Your Way Thin, then chances are, you’ll be stuffing your face on pie and goodies while your friends and family look on in astonishment at the way you eat even though you look so good.

I know that’s what I’m going to do. In fact, it’s become somewhat of a tradition for me to stuff my face with pie, cookies and whatever else I can get my hands on then field a bunch of questions about how I can eat like that and still lose weight and keep my figure. If you’re following one of these programs, you know how fun this can be.

If you’re not following one of these strategic fat loss programs, then I suggest you start so that you can still enjoy your favorite foods (even if their donuts) while you lose weight and get the body of your dreams.

My advice to you today is to stuff your face and enjoy it, and if you’re not following one of the awesome fat loss plans I mentioned, you should start. Then you can tell everybody that the pie is actually on your diet. :)

Fat Loss Goals aside, I want to thank you for giving me a chance to be a part of your life, and thank you for being a part of mine.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

I’ll talk to you soon,
Ryan “The Fat Loss Informant”

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