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The Body Clock Diet – How does it Work?
The Body Clock Diet was created by dietitian Lyndel Costain. Your body has its own clock to regulate all the processes in your body such as metabolism, appetite, energy levels and sleeping time. All of the processes are preprogrammed and take place in their time.
If you cooperate and work with your body clock you can lose weight and live healthier. When you eat a well balanced diet on a regular basis, the feeling of hunger is turned on and off by the natural way. The Body Clock Diet keeps the dieter in sync with his or her natural rhythms. The key is a healthy diet along with the right timing.
The Body Clock Diet is based on the healthy approach of balancing your diet with the necessary nutrients such as plenty of starchy carbs, protein rich foods, low-fat diary products, fruits and vegetables.
The Body Clock Diet is a 14 day diet plan and each day includes 3 well balanced main meals and 2 snacks between them. Whit this diet plan it’s very important when you eat to be in sync with your body clock. Grains and cereals should be eaten in the morning to gain effect of insulin on the brain, low glycemic index carbs and lean proteins should be consumed at dinner to gain most effect on the digestive process.
With the Body Clock Diet you may lose up to 2 pounds per week. This diet plan should be combined with healthy levels of exercise at least thirty minutes per day four to six times per week
Exercise Tips to Lose Weight Faster
If you want to lose weight you need to exercise to burn body fat. It’s interesting that if you know more about how exercise works you can lose weight faster. Here are some simple exercise tips that can help you in your weight loss.
When you exercise before you eat then you lose more weight.
When you eat, food gets digested and enters your blood stream. During the next two to three hours this food is moved into your cells including the fat cells. If you exercise when you haven’t eaten for a few hours then there is not much fat and glucose in your blood stream for your muscles to burn. Your body will have to take fat out of fat cells to burn the energy you need to exercise.
When you eat after exercise, less food will be stored as fat.
When you exercise you use up all the energy stored in the muscles and you have less in your blood than your body likes. Your body will need all the nutrients from the food you eat after exercise and it won’t be stored as fat. As you exercise you will lose weight faster.
Take CoQ10 supplement about one hour before exercising.
Taking CoQ10 supplement will help you to lose an extra 5% fat. CoQ10 is a nutrient that helps your body burn the fat. When you take 30 mg supplement before exercise it will make the process of burning fat more efficient.
When you exercise for weight loss, you aren’t so hungry.
When you exercise before breakfast, lunch of dinner it means that you will not eat as much for that meal.
Exercising in the morning helps to increase your metabolism.
Your metabolism controls how efficiently your body burns fat while you do your every day activities. An early morning exercise will boost your metabolism for the rest of the day.
Exercise in the afternoon may help prevent injury.
Exercise in the afternoon has advantages too. This way you can get rid of your stress built up during the day and also less likely you will injure yourself because your muscles are already warmed up.