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In a FoxNews video, Jackie Warner, trainer to the stars, and owner of an exclusive Hollywood sports and medical centre, offers some interesting weight-loss tips:
- Shopping for a meal replacement? Read the labels. "Fat-free" is often loaded with sugar, and is worse for calories. America's fat problem is far less a fat problem than a sugar problem. Go for 400 cals or less and no more than 9g sugar.
- Drink 3 litres of water per day. Cleans out the system and speeds the metabolism. An act that loses weight in itself.
- Don't skip meals. When you skip a meal your blood sugar drops, and energy will be turned into fat stores much faster and in greater proportion than usual. (The body thinks a famine is coming) And that happens when you eat again. Eat more often - say every three hours - and smaller meals.
- Beware of too many crunches - the movements we do to strengthen our abdominal muscles. Many people seem to do too many, and neglect other muscles. Bulding all muscle groups will do far more for weight loss (and not put on mass in women), but abs can actually add a little mass. So those people are not only avoiding building larger areas of muscle that can enhance calorie burning capacity, but are actually making one set of muscles that can grow, get bigger. I suppose many trainers know this, but because of the infatuation with abs, they let us carry on. The ideas to work abs, but everything else too, in some balance.
- In the evening - for something to consume - try herbal teas. Decaf. There are many flavours.
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