Of all the exercise programs that we can get involved in for the purpose of losing weight and maintaining your health, walking is the most simple, least expensive and very effective. Of course, the one exercise that will help you to lose weight is the one you will actually do… and do on a regular basis.

Lets review….Your weight x distance = energy used walking. Time does not matter as much as distance. If you speed up to walking a mile in 13 minutes or less, you will be burning more calories per mile but for most beginning walkers, it is best to increase the distance before working on speed.

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As people….or I should say as human beings, we cannot go on one day without our soda, energy drinks, sports drinks, or our coffees. This just isn’t possible. We drink them every day so we can get through our crazy & hectic days.

But if you think about it, do all these drinks really have big effect on our diets?  Let’s run down the facts, it has come to my attention that a regular bottle of cola can carry as much as 200 calories! This is equivalent to you drinking a cup of water with 13 packets of sugar in it! When you make these claims people say, “Well…that why there’s diet soda!” Wrong! Although diet sodas are low in calories, research has shown that actually drinking these artificially sweetened drinks may lead the person to crave more sweets. The reason behind this is that the sweetener in diet sodas contain the chemical Aspartame. This is the low calorie chemical used to give diet soda their flavor and Aspartame is said to be 180x sweeter than sugar itself. There were also animal research done on this chemical and it’s shown that high consumption of the sweetener may lead to brain tumors and lymphoma in rodents. I cannot imagine what it can do to us!

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One of the most efficient ways on how to lose 10 pounds fast is to do cardio exercises. On condition that you know what you are doing, this can be very beneficial. However, the fact is that a great number of people, unfortunately, still don’t get it. For that reason, lots of people who go to the gym and spend much time on cardio machines, end with little expected results. Definitely, it is because you don’t follow your cardio program correctly so as to achieve the maximum results.

Great majority of people have learnt that in order to reduce fat, they need to do cardio at a certain pace that will bring their heart rate to a particular range called the “Fat Burning Zone”. It, of course, involves doing moderate cardio exercises. Next, we are advised to proceed with doing cardio and remain in “the zone” for at least 20 minutes to get any results.

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