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How to lose weight & keep it off

Everywhere you turn nowadays -- online, newspapers, magazines, television -- you'll see articles and headlines about taking off holiday kilos. For good reason. Current estimates show 6 out of every 10 Australians over the age of 20 is overweight, and nearly 1 out of every 4 is obese.

And many of THOSE people are going to put on ANOTHER 4-5 KILOS or so before Winter.

Many people report trying to take off kilos by dieting, but the biggest problem with that is...

It doesn't work.

All dieting does is restrict your calorie intake so you do initially lose kilos, but those kilos are both fat AND muscle. Since muscle burns calories (but fat does NOT), you don't want to lose your muscle tissue.

Also, when you restrict calories your body thinks you're unable to get food and goes into a starvation mode. As a result, your metabolism slows waaaayy down to keep you going on less food.

This means you start losing fewer or no kilos, even though you may be existing on little more than salads and water. Sound familiar?

Some current fads also have you eliminating entire food groups from your meals. Although they too result in kilos lost, your body is not getting all the nutrients it needs and eventually you will be sick and look older than your years.

And let's not forget that once you return to eating the way you used to eat, the tide rolls back in and the kilos pack back on.

Mostly fat kilos.

What DOES work for taking off weight permanently (and keeping you healthy and looking younger) are these two simple steps:

Participating in some form of regular exercise. No gym memberships or fancy equipment necessary here -- even walking is fine. Take the stairs! Just get a little more active.
Make sure your digestive system is in perfect working order.

We know this is different from the advice you've gotten in the past. But if you still fear the scales as much as spiders, public speaking and death, obviously the advice from the past hasn't helped, has it?

So read on...

Unless your digestive system is working like it's supposed to, there is no way in the world you can expect to reach and maintain your proper body weight and optimal health.

Before the food that we consume can get to the cells it must go through the process of digestion. It must get broken down into useable micro-nutrition form and it must be absorbed through the wall of the intestine by the villi. The villi are extremely small, finger-like projections which line the intestine and are essential for the absorption of nutrients. The process of digestion and particularly the process of absorption is affected by so many things - by stress, by illness, by infection, by toxicity, specifically the toxicity we do to ourselves, cigarettes, coffee, alcohol, medication, drugs, not to mention the toxicity we find in the environment in the forms of pollution and pesticides. All of this hampers digestion, interferes with the efficiency of the villi and therefore the process of absorption by compromising the area where nutrition is absorbed. The result is that of the food we consume, that was probably already devoid of good nutrition, only a little of it actually gets absorbed by the body and reaches the cells

Your digestive system is responsible for metabolizing your food, burning fat efficiently, absorbing the nutrients you need and generating energy for your everyday activities (and for exercising).

So if your digestion is not working optimally, it will be a blue moon before you get to a normal weight and vitality.

The great news is that it's VERY easy to get your digestive system in working order. Even after years of abuse and yo-yo dieting, it can bounce back and start working toward a slimmer

you.

All you need to do is:

1. Eat a well-balanced diet of nutritious foods and keep acid low in your body.

Herbalife's Cellular Nutrition Program makes this a cinch.

Even though most of our Herbalife CNP clients initially started out to take off excess weight, the majority of them also happily report eliminating their digestive problems without even trying.

Now you know why.

The Herbalife 'Healthy Breakfast' and the recipes and suggestions in the CNP program are NOT "diet foods" -- they're delicious real food that you and your family will love.

Get Cellular Nutrition here at: http://www.naturalways.com.au/weight_loss_programmes___products

2. Take probiotic supplements daily. (Probiotics are live microorganisms (in most cases, bacteria) that are similar to beneficial microorganisms found in the human gut. They are also called "friendly bacteria" or "good bacteria.")

Nothing prevents your digestive system functioning faster than harmful bacteria growing out of control. And when you eat foods that starve the good bacteria and feed the bad bacteria, you need to replace the good, friendly bacteria with a probiotic.

Because the friendly bacteria in your gut help to break down your foods and keep digestion smooth and efficient.

Since SO many factors affect the flora balance in your gut (food, antibiotics and other medications, stress and lack of sleep to name a few), it's crucial to ensure that your population of beneficial bacteria is where it needs to be.

That's especially important this time of year when you're eating lots of foods you probably don't normally eat, as well as feeling stressed and getting less sleep due to holiday commitments and activities.

Florafibre with its potent bacteria strains will help restore and maintain your friendly flora balance throughout the holidays and all year round...and that will help lead to a smaller number on that dreaded bathroom scale.

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