Still struggling to lose that excess weight? It’s easy to drop 10 pounds of unwanted fat with a few easy diet tips. And there is no suffering. You can still eat good tasting, fresh and healthy food including snacks.

You don’t have to make sacrifices! Whether you want to lose your first 10 pounds or those last, hard to lose 10 pounds, if you follow these simple guidelines to boost your efforts. You’ll find these tips are not just good for a quick jump start of a stalled program but lay the ground work for a balanced and flexible plan that you can use for as long as you want.

1. Jot down everything that you eat and drink. Don’t count the calories. Just jot down what you eat and how much. By making yourself more aware of what you eat you start to plan more nutritious meals and snacks.

2. Go meatless (and cheese less) for at least two meals every week. Meals built around whole grains, vegetables and beans are great alternatives and will increase fiber while reducing fat intake.

3. Limit your treats to only three times a week with goodies containing sugar. Ignore chocolate, ice cream, desserts, cake, pastries, cookies, etc. at other times.

4. Restrict your use of eggs, nuts and red meats and substitute lower fat proteins at most meals. These can include chicken, fish, beans, cottage cheese, or low fat yogurt.

5. Cut your consumption of all pure or added fats by half. This means using half as much butter or spread on your bread, toast, muffins and potatoes; half the usual amount of mayonnaise or sauce on your salad; and half the oil in the frying pan every time. Read the rest of this entry

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Are you are overweight? Then finding an easy weight loss program that you can live with is probably high on your list. Do not dismiss professional advice. It is surprising just how much help your doctor can be. He/she will have information on systems that do work. Being overweight is the cause of many medical conditions, some of which which require long term attention. Obesity also affects the way we see ourselves as well.

There is quite a bit of data about easy weight loss methods on the Internet, but the amount of weight lost will depend on the attitude of the user. Before you choose on how you intend to lose weight, you need to be sure it is for your benefit; to stay healthy, or is it because someone else needs you to lose weight.

There are a several things to take under consideration which will help make your weight loss program easier; the time of day you eat, how often, what you in fact eat and of course what physical activity you indulge in. Some folks think, that losing weight quickly is the best way but this quite often causes medical problems like heartburn or even anemia and creates unrealistic targets.

There is quite a bit of data about easy weight loss methods on the Internet, but the amount of weight lost will depend on the attitude of the user. Before you choose on how you intend to lose weight, you need to be sure it is for your benefit; to stay healthy, or is it because someone else needs you to lose weight.

People who are depressed or are not happy about their lives AND usually consume too much junk food. Bad eating habits are an issue that can cause diabetes, cancer, various heart problems and high blood pressure. The psychology behind each persons weight gain is as critical as the manner of easy weight loss used because if this is not addressed, there is much to prevent the weight from being piled back on faster than it was before.

One position that also needs to be included is how the individual pursues the subject of their weight loss program . Those who take a more unstrained approach are usually more successful. The one thing that is true, no matter what you do in life being positive about something is more plausible to make it happen.

Along with the loss of extra pounds comes a boost in energy and vitality and a sense of well being that is directly related to improving self-esteem.

Many easy weight loss programs are not easy as they actually test the person using them. The pain barrier does not last long and once through it, the whole system becomes much easier.

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I’ve said this before, but if you are training hard and not getting the results you want, chances are you are training too much!

How can that be? If you aren’t meeting your goals now, don’t you need to train harder? Longer?

NO!

If you keep close watch on all of the other gym rats you have probably noticed that many of them are at the gym when you arrive and are still there when you leave. Discouraging, isn’t it? How do they do it? It doesn’t really matter how, because most of them are doing it wrong and will never gain the toned muscle the want.

Strong words? Maybe, but Jon Benson has come out with some proof to back it up.

If you don’t know who Jon Benson is, it is time to take a hard look at him. He is the guy that developed “Fit Over 40″ and “The Every Other Day Diet” plus a host of other top selling fitness and nutrition programs. Now he is turning the fitness industry upside down with his new “7 Minute Muscle” program revealing how to get in shape and stay there in only 7 minutes a day. He not only gives you his newest ebook but includes a bunch of demonstration videos to prove his system.

If you really want to spend more of your valuable free time in the gym rather than with you family and friends, Jon does includes 14 minute and 21 minute programs. But , hey, wouldn’t you rather be enjoying life rather than sweating in the gym?

I’ll be doing a full review of this program, but in the meantime, jump over to 7 Minute Muscle, check it out and stop wearing yourself out!

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I have completed my review of the Jason Ferruggia’s updated Muscle Gaining Secrets and I was really impressed with it. Not so much with the basic content itself – it was great to begin with. But some of the extras that Jason has added in make this a hard to beat, must have program for any serious body builder.

Check out all of his new additions and see what I have to say about them at:

http://JasonFerruggia.muscle-building-reviews.com

But be sure and come back and read the Part 2 of our interview with the author himself.

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Interview with Jason Ferruggia – Continued:

Question: You are known in the industry as the go-to coach if you are looking to gain strength and put on muscle size. Can you first just give a little background about how you came to your training philosophy?

Answer: I started out training in middle school and was taking the advice of a nearly 300lb pro wrestler whom my cousin was dating at the time. I didn’t know it then but he was obviously juiced to the gills. He wrote me a program and I got nowhere. This road continued all through high school as I continued to get advice from the muscle mags and whatever else was popular at the time. Eventually I broadened my horizons and started to look elsewhere. I began reading about what a lot of the old timers did before anabolic steroids became popular. I also studied the methods of every popular strength coach and trainer at the time. I read everything I could get my hands on, went to seminars, did internships and basically just became a sponge for training knowledge.

I opened up my own private training facility in the mid 90’s and trained over 500 clients there during the 11 years that I ran it. Most of my clients were athletes with a small percentage being general population people just looking to get bigger and stronger. Through all those years of experience working with that many people I came to some pretty strong conclusions about what works for building size and strength, fast. Read the rest of this entry

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Jason Ferruggia has just released an updated Muscle Gaining Secrets which I am now in the process of taking a look at. At first glance, it looks like one of the few really complete bodybuilding program available but I’ll hold off my final comments until I have had a chance to get inside of it.

In the meantime, I thought you might be interested in a question and answer session with Jason himself to discover who he is and how he got where he is. It was a long interview and this is only Part 1. I’ll post Part 2 in a day or so. It’s a long read, but Jason has a really great story, so don’t skip any of it.

Question: Jason, your transformation was pretty incredible going from 147lbs to 231lbs. How much trial and error did you think you went through training wise until you found what really worked?

Answer: Oh man, I can’t even begin to tell you. I tried so many different methods and systems it was unbelievable. I actually started out as a beginner on a six day a week high volume body part split. This was back in the 80’s so I think I was just looking in the magazines at whatever Shawn Ray or Aaron Baker or Gary Strydom were doing and just copy it exactly. Obviously that didn’t work out too well.

I entered high school weighing less than 100 pounds and after four years of training my ass off and growing almost a foot taller, I only weighed 147 pounds at graduation. So obviously, all my experimentation during high school didn’t work out to well either.

During those four years I was still doing whatever I could find in the magazines and even ordered some courses like Cybergenics and some other stuff that was popular at the time. I think the first training books I had were the Arnold Encyclopedia and one of Dr. Hatfields. I tried everything I read in both of those.

My experimentation during college was quite extensive and quite varied. I finally stumbled upon the HIT movement and Mike Mentzer and Arthur Jones. It was like a beacon of light and I adopted that training philosophy immediately. And for the first time I started to really grow, which isn’t shocking since I was so grossly overtrained. But as anyone who has had a similar experience can tell you, those gains don’t last too long either.

I could be here all day telling you about all the crazy stuff I did but I think it’s pretty safe to say that I was in the game and wasted an inordinate amount of time and money for a good ten years before I really figured out what really worked. Read the rest of this entry

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