Top 10 Weight Loss Tips: Physical Activity and Healthy Eating Habits

Information on how to lose weight is abundant. However, weight loss advice is often conflicting and can be overwhelming. While losing weight can be difficult, it doesn’t have to be when these simple tips are followed.

Get Moving

It’s a good idea to engage in a regularly scheduled workout to burn calories, whether at home or at the gym, but even taking extra steps each day can lead to weight loss. Wearing a pedometer is a good way to gauge where you are now in terms of steps per day and to help set a goal. Those looking to lose weight should aim for at least 10,000 steps per day. Easy ways to get in more steps per day is to:

  • Take steps instead of an elevator
  • Park far away from a store entrance
  • Vacuum daily instead of every other day
  • When putting away laundry, walk each piece of clothing to the closet or drawer instead of carrying many pieces at once

Eat Healthy

It’s important when trying to lose weight to make healthier food choices. Swap out white bread for whole grain, use olive oil to cook with instead of lard or butter, skim fat off the top of …

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How to Calculate BMI for Female

You can know your overall health by assessing aspects in your body such as body weight, fat percentage, muscle mass, sugar level, body mass index (BMI) and so on. You should concentrate a bit on your BMI, know what it is, how it is calculated and what level of BMI is healthy. When you want to calculate BMI for females, you simply need to follow the same steps as BMI calculation for men is done—determining some numbers and use of an equation.

Body mass index is a method used to determine the total amount of fat in your body and also assess whether you are overweight, underweight or within the normal weight range.

Here is a step by step guide on how you can calculate BMI for female:

1)       Measure your weight

When you wake up in the morning, empty your bowels and weigh yourself before eating or drinking anything. To get a more accurate reading, you can weigh yourself when you are naked.

Important: Make sure you are not wearing your weighted vest when measuring your weight.

2)       Measure your height

Get someone to measure how tall you are or if you are alone, stand against a tall closet …

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Green Coffee Bean Extract Benefits

A cup of coffee is good and healthy, but can it help shed the extra pounds on your belly? Maybe the coffee itself cannot, but the extract from the beans surely can. If you would like to know how the extract works, check the green tea and coffee bean extract reviews post I made a few weeks ago.

Few people can actually let the day go by without having a cup of java, black tea or tar as many people prefer to call coffee. We all know the health benefits associated with coffee, but very few people know that extracts from green coffee beans actually have fat fighting potential. This post from WebMD goes in depth on the benefits of coffee.

Where Does Green Coffee Bean Extract Come From?

The extract comes from green or unroasted coffee beans, just like the name suggests. Coffee contains many compounds which have numerous health benefits.

What Will The Extract Do For You?

The major benefit that the extract is known for is weight loss. The extract has gained popularity recently with websites and companies offering green coffee pills and beverages spiked with the extract. Recently, many doctors have talked about the benefits of …

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