However, you need to know that it isn’t healthy to force yourself to lose a pound by exercising as much as you can. Many doctors will recommend you to lose two pounds per week maximum. This recommendation will help you to get the body you dreamed of in a much safer way because you let your body to adjust to your diet plan and exercises.

So, what should you do to lose two pounds per week and doing it safely ?

Jogging !

• Train your body to do at least an hour jogging for five days a week. Slow jogging for an hour should burn about 350 calories in your body. By doing this for five consecutive days, you could lose about half-pound. Combine this with a healthy diet plan, and you could easily slash out one pound of fat from your body.
• One thing you need to remember never put in more calories than you burn. That’s why you need to control your food intake by having a healthy diet plan and implement it to your daily routine. The easiest way to do this is by preventing yourself from eating too much after your running session. If you’re hungry, it’s normal. Eat a large salad or several fruits are much better than the pasta dish you have.
• If you’re like many people who can’t run for an hour in their first time, start with a smaller time-frame, like 10-15 minutes a day, and slowly increase it. It will help your body to adapt to this new exercise without exhaust yourself.

Cook your own food

• While it’s easier to just go out and grab some fries and hamburgers, it’s much better for you to cook your own food. By doing this, you could control how many calories you put in your body by taking a smaller portion. Also, it will prevent you from having a calorie-fest that will end up by having more calories than you burn.
• However, it doesn’t mean you can’t eat out at all. If you’re on the social party, you’ll likely have to eat in there. Just discipline yourself by choosing which one better for your diet plan than eating all foods that available in there. For example, choosing salad than hamburgers is one of the smart moves towards your weight loss goal.

Those are two things that you could do to lose weight at least one pound a week. The first one is jogging, and second is by cooking your own food. It’s probably hard to do at first if you never do this before, so make it as a habit that you should do everyday.

Keep motivating yourself and stick to the plan for couple of months and you’ll see the results you want ! You’ll be having the fine smile when you achieve your desire weight level !

Do you know there are almost a hundred million American people going to a weight loss diet every year? Yes, almost a hundred million of them. It works, though. About ninety-five percent of them lose weight AND regain it in the next five years. Basically, they lose it now, and get back to their old body five years later. What makes it worse is that a third of them will gain more weight than before.

How could this happen? That’s the danger of following one diet program to another. Your weight loss will up and down like a yo-yo when you switch your weight loss diet program. Following the conventional weight loss diet program or using any weight loss drugs may cause you to gain more weight than you have before, and not to mention several illness of your health.

Read the newspaper today, and you’ll find out there are approximately sixty-five percent of people in America are overweight. Even if they know they need to stay thin, it seems like their body reject it. They start eating unhealthy or greasy foods, and thinking that they will stop tomorrow because tomorrow they will start their new weight loss diet plan. What they don’t realize is that tomorrow never comes. So, they keep repeating the same pattern all over again, and ended up with adopted several health disease such as hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and so on.

Also, obesity also donated about nineteen percent heart disease that costs about thirty billion dollars per year, and diabetes cases that costs nine billion dollars per year. Don’t doubt it, because this information came from the researchers at Harvard University.

So, how you could fight this obesity problem?

If you have REPEATEDLY fallen head over heels to many weight loss diet plans and programs that promise you to lose several pounds by tomorrow, it is time for you to stop. They bring you no good, and only cause you physical discomfort and a deep disappointment. It’s true you probably lose some weight, but what will you do if you stop it and your body gain more weight than before? Avoid any weight loss diet plan that forces you to eat just one type of food. It’s not healthy for you. A healthy diet is a balanced one that consists of several types of foods. What you want from your diet is the healthy, safe, and a permanent weight loss.

There are so many fad diet plans that you probably ever done before, such as Atkins diet, South Beach Diet, Cabbage Soup diet, the Grapefruit diet, Beverly Hills diet, Breatharian, the Rotation diet, Ornish Plan, and so on. If you really want to do a weight loss diet plan, pick the one that consists of variety of fruits and foods, and stick to it. Give yourself about 6-12 months to follow the same diet pattern, and let your body recognize it. If, and only if, after that time ranges you’re still not lose weight, you could change the diet plan.

But do remember – Only choose the weight loss diet plan that keep you healthy.

Cherry
Since ancient times, cheery has been used widely in cosmetology. Cherry juice can help in maintaining our tender skin especially the facial part.  It is widely used in skin whitening products, especially for Asian. It is also a good idea to include cherry in your diet, for its great health benefits. Not only richly contain Vitamin C, cherry’s iron contain is about 20 times more than Apple ! Further, it is also high in Vitamin A which play important part in anti-aging, and bring younger feels to our skin.

Researches also suggest that cherries could have positive affects in inflammation related to some illness such as heart disease and arthritis. It may even help in maintaining muscle strength for those suffering from chronic pain disorder ( or ‘fibromyalgia‘ ).

Pomegranate
In fact, pomegranate is proven to have strong anti-oxidant function. It has been discovered to be able to protect skin’s cell from environmental pollution, shielding from the UV beam harm. Further, it also nurture skin cells, slowing down the aging process.

Some researches shows that the  indicated pomegranate is even better in antioxidant capacity as compared to red wine and the green tea. In laboratory studies, researchers found that pomegranate juice is able to slow down cholesterol oxidation by almost half ! This is indeed a wonderful fruit !

On top of these, Pomegranate juice is also known to have anti-inflammatory effects. Couples with its high levels of anti-oxidants capacity, pomegranate are thus believed to be able to protect our body from damages caused by harmful free radicals in the environments.

Carrot
To some people, carrot is viewed as “skin food” ! As the name suggest, carrot could moisture our skin. While some likes to eat it raw, carrot is an excellent source of Vitamin A and potassium. It also contain vitamin C, vitamin B6, thiamine, folic acid, and magnesium.

Rich in pectin substance, it works with mercury in our body to discharge harmful substances ingredient to discharge, helping to maintain healthy skin and body.  Further, with its Vitamin B1, B2, Vitamin C, Vitamin E , Glutathione, Potassium, Calcium, both Alpha and Beta Carotene, carrot also helps in anti-oxidant and skin nourishing functionality.

Apricot
Having good nourishing effect for our skin, apricot also contain rich minerals and other useful substances such as fiber, Vitamin C , iron, zinc, the Vitamin B group, Calcium, Potassium and so on.

Not only that, with its low contain in Saturated Fat, Cholesterol and Sodium, apricot makes it suitable for those who are concerned in weight control while maintaining optimum health level.

Olive
As early as in the ancient Greece time, olive tree is the symbol of life and health. Beside being consumed as edible and healthy food, it is well known to be having prominent cosmetology results. t.  From the fruit itself, to its leaf, the whole olive tree could actually be refined into skin care essences. Olive essence is helpful in resisting pollution to skin cells, protecting skin from the harmful ultraviolet ray, and acting as anti-oxidant agent .

It is already known that those most common reasons we deteriorate into wrinkles, age spots, eye bags, getting flabby, illness and so on, are still coming down to genetics, environmental factors, disease, and the aging process itself. So, what are the odds that any human being on earth being able to defy the aging process ? Well, nobody does ( for now for sure ! ). But we can do something about it ! But all is not lost, those smart scientists also discover that there are some possibilities to influence or maybe slowing down the aging process, by having the correct vitamins and minerals mix.

The affecting cause that aging process seems possibly been ignited by lifelong damaging of our body cells on many stages. The damages are caused by those harmful molecules, which called as ‘free radical’ by scientists. Apart from external environmental factors ( such as smoking ), these nasty free radical are also being produced by our own body, during the metabolism process that convert carbohydrates and fat into energy that are required to power our body cells. Thus, there is totally no way to avoid it.

Natural and Synthetic Antioxidants

Although our body does produce antioxidants to neutralize those free radical that causes damages to our cell, our body does not produce just enough to handle them. So, how much do you actually need ? That’s depending on what it takes to strike a balance between it. Unfortunately, so far scientists has yet to come to know of the ideal balance for it. Thus, the best bet we can do right now is to consume a variety of antioxidants foods.

Meanwhile, we do have another option in boosting our natural antioxidants with those of synthetic antioxidants -> Supplements !

Does that means that we could actually slow down or even prevent aging ? Well, nobody knows for sure right now. But laboratory studies do shows that antioxidants supplements seem to be able to reduce damages caused by free radical. Consuming more nutritious diet as we age is important in helping us reduce the risk of disease that accelerate aging process.

The exact amount of vitamins and minerals that required to slow down aging process is really still unknown. However, taking good source of Vitamin C ,  Vitamin E , Multivitamin , and Minerals are our best bet to fight aging process while awaiting our smart scientists to discover the right formula.

Though the majority of age spots are just harmless blemishes, there are still potential of getting into early stage of skin cancer . That said, if you do notice any of the spot enlarge, getting thickens, change in color, bleeds, feeling itchy and so on, it is strongly advisable to consult doctor.

Protection with Vitamin C

Although there is no magical ingredient that could just fade those annoying age spots, there are few that can help in boosting up your skin healthy level. For one, Vitamin C is one of the most well-known sunblock vitamin. In general, Vitamin C is important in keeping the skin younger and vibrant. A daily intake of Vitamin C of about 300~500 mg ( milligrams ) would certainly help in maintaining skin youthfulness.

Under sun exposure, free radical are natural occurring unstable molecules that could harm your skin. For some serious situation, it cold even cause significant damages. Vitamin C, being one of Antioxidants, could help in neutralizing those harmful free radicals. Further, since Vitamin C could prevent those skin damages from sun exposures, it is also believe that it could help to reduce wrinkle and age spots.

Sources of Vitamin C
Fresh vegetables and fruits, such as broccoli, cabbage, pineapples, cauliflower, lemon, citrus fruits, collard greens, strawberries, green and red peppers, brussel sprouts.

Prevention with Vitamin E

Another common antioxidant – Vitamin E , also helps in preventing sun damages that bring age spots. Vitamin E is a fat soluble vitamin that protects your cell membranes against those harmful free radicals. Researches shows that the natural Vitamin E oil , if applied before sun exposure, does helps in preventing inflammations and skin damages.

Such Vitamin E oil can be easily bought over the counter in your local drug store, example, Vitamin E fortified creams. It is also shown that if oil or creams that contains at least 5% of Vitamin E, it could be effective in reducing post sun damages.

Healthy dietary sources of Vitamin E

Spinach, corn, avocados, wheat germ, eggs, soybeans, nuts, polyunsaturated vegetable oil, and of course the sunflower seeds. A daily intake of 400IU of Vitamin E is recommended by most.

Recommendations

Oral Intakes :-

• Vitamin C  ( 300~500 milligrams daily )  ;
• Vitamin E  ( 400 IU daily – d-alpha-tocopherol )

External Application :-

• Vitamin C  ( 10% ~ 17% in lotion , depending on skin type)  ;
• Vitamin E  ( at least 5% in cream or oil, to apply after exposure under sun )