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Yoga for Weight Loss? How You Can Supercharge Your Diet With Easy Yoga Stretches!
Posted by admin in Weight Loss, Yoga on January 17, 2012
Do you believe in yoga for weight loss?
There are different types of yoga, so plan to answer ambiguously. Studies revealed though that yoga not only helps in losing weight coupled with a well chosen diet, of course, but also reduces stress levels. By reducing the hormones released during stress, our body is signalled to increase insulin which in turn tells our body to burn what we’ve eaten instead of storing it as fat.
How and why does yoga assist in losing weight?
It provides cardiovascular workout which in fact is exercise-but in a relaxing manner. It doesn’t burn calories as rapid as the fast-paced, rigid workouts, but it does its work slowly and surely as long as you regularly follow the routine. Two of the most popular yoga types recommended for weight loss is the Bikram Yoga and the Ashtanga Yoga. These forms combine the meditative yoga breathing techniques with fast, active movements. Bikram Yoga mixes calmer yoga postures with cardiovascular and aerobic workout. It also uses heat as an integral part of the exercises in helping you to sweat out the toxins.. The speed of the cardio takes a while to get used to. Nevertheless, it helps quickly deal with losing weight. Ashtanga Yoga or eight-limb exercise, on the other hand, uses a series of complicated yoga postures harmonized with breathing. This is more for those in the advanced level already. It produces internal heat that leads you to sweat out profusely, thereby detoxifying your body. Read the rest of this entry »
Guided Meditation for Weight Loss
Posted by admin in Meditation, Weight Loss on November 22, 2011
If you’re a compulsive eater, you may have experienced a number of diet failures after stressful events in your life. You probably find it easy to stick to a diet initially, but eventually the urge to binge eat overwhelms you when stressful events happen in your life. Even if you do manage to lose weight on your diet, you may find yourself quickly gaining it all back. Since nobody can predict the future, and you can’t put your life on hold in order to go on a diet, if you feel that you have problems sticking to a diet because of the urge to eat compulsively then it’s important to address your issues so that you can successfully lose weight and keep it off.
Guided meditation for compulsive eating helps you eat more mindfully. Mindful eating is the opposite of mindless eating. Eating food while watching television while paying no attention to the taste or texture of the food and eating food as quickly as possible are two examples of mindless eating. This can lead to overeating and binge eating, as when you are eating mindlessly it becomes hard to know when you are full, and you feel the need to eat more food in order to enjoy eating – which leads to eating more calories each and every day.
Conversely, when you eat mindfully you pay attention to all the details of the food you are eating – noticing the flavor and texture of each and every bite you take and slowing down the rate at which you eat. By taking the time to notice food in this way, you will feel more fulfilled after eating a smaller quantity of food. Eating more slowly helps your stomach realize when it is full – sometimes it can take up to twenty minutes for the stomach to signal the brain that it is full and you should no longer be hungry. By eating a smaller amount of food, you will naturally eat fewer calories throughout the course of the day leading to safe and steady weight loss. Read the rest of this entry »