Wondering what would be a good indication of "unhealthy lifestyle" - Any of these signs will do!

1. When Your 3 Year Old Tells You: Mommy Your Butt is HUGE!

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2. If You Catch Yourself Walking Your Dog Like This:

3. When You Catch Yourself Doing This:

4. If you CANNOT Remember How Your Feet Look Like

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5. Getting Ready for the Wedding? ---Ha Ha Ha….Picture Says it All

6. If you Need Extra WIDE Door to Get Into the Room!

7. This One is Just for Laughs!

8. When The Weight Scale Cannot Weight You!

9. If your Boat Starts to Sink

10. And Of Course if This Happens to You!

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Losing weight is hard for most people, but NOT when you do it the smart way ! Below are 21 ways to lose weight without much extra effort! Enjoy!

1) Substitute fruit purees for butter or margarine. You won`t even notice the difference except for the fact that you`ll love the new taste! Don`t think fruit purees would suit your sandwiches well? Why not try tomatoes puree! These purees are easy to prepare in a food processor and will significantly reduce calories and fat.

2) Need to lose weight, but can`t avoid cheese? Yes it`s fat, but you don`t need to avoid it! Cheese is good for you, but the fat is not. Try this cool tip: zap cheese in the microwave, and drain off grease. Good idea? The cheese is the same, although so much healthier and lighter!

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3) Worst thing you can do for your weight is eat while watching the TV. Don’t eat while watching television. You can become so engrossed in your program that don’t realize how much you are eating. And most of the times you eat too much. If you`re one of those TV eaters, just try this tip alone for one week, and you won`t believe the results!

4) Our bodies burn more calories in the morning. Much, much more! So why not use that to your advantage? Whatever is not so good for weight loss, lime donuts, pizzas, sweets - if you really can`t live without them, just bring them to the morning menu!

5) Water is essential for losing weight, and if you want to lose weight, you need to get at least 10 glasses of water per day. But what should you do if you just hate drinking water? Well, the smart way to start loving the water is adding fresh or frozen berries to it! they`ll make the water sweeter, tastier, more delicious! And those sugars are natural sugars, which are not bad for weight loss at all!

6) Trim all fat from meats before cooking. You’ll be amazed at how much you reduce your fat intake if you take this one small step!

7) You don`t need those fatty sauces on your meat, fish, salad and other meals anymore! Use lemon, and soy sauce. They`re not less delicious, and save you a bunch of calories!

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8 ) Never shop groceries when you`re hungry. Always have a list of what you need to buy. You`ll save money, as well as only get what you really need. Also, a good idea is to start with the fruit and vegetable aisles - this way you`ll fill up your basket there, and will less likely add bad foods to it.

9) Never skip meals. When you do, you usually eat more at your next meal, and most of the times these are bad foods. 5-6 smaller meals per day can take you to a dream body - just try this!

10) Eating the same meals every week is boring. Meal boredom translates into over eating. Try to add something new to your menu each and every week, vary your meals. This way you`ll be excited to try something new, and you`ll have less chances to overeat.

11) Love snacks? Cool, they`re not that bad, but ONLY if you snack on good stuff - raisins, dried fruits, nuts and veggies. Oh, how about some delicious fruit salad?

12)  Never eat while you`re cooking. I know, I know, you`re just tasting the food, but a taste here, a little bite there, and you`ve eaten an entire portion without even sitting down at the table. Also, keep in mind it`s easier to overeat when you eat standing!

13) Love desserts, but need to lose weight? Nothing bad about it! Just rearrange your desserts a little bit! Fresh berries and fruits with low fat unsweetened yogurt is delicious! How about strawberries, banana and yogurt? MMmmmmm...

14) Hate exercising? Well, many people do. But did you know that you`ll burn much more calories if you do short bursts of exercises instead of boring 45 min workouts? That`s true! 3-4 mins of FAST, intense workouts burn calories like crazy! Want examples? Here they are: trampoline jumping, jumping with a rope, running up the stairs and back really fast, running around the house. Just anything you can think of! Dancing also works great, just look at these girls:

15) Have you ever tried to add beans to your daily menu? If you have, you know that beans is a goldmine that can help you lose weight more than anything else. A can of beans split for Lunch and Dinner instead of potatoes will make your extra pounds go away so fast you won`t believe it. Beans are also a great source of energy, protein and fiber.

16) Select soups you can see through. If you can see through the soup, that means it has less fat and calories.

17) Eat slowly. Enjoy every bite of your food! Why does this help? You get to feel full sooner, and you have less chances of overeating. Additionally, when you chew food really well, you have less chances of being fat.

18) Never exercise on an empty stomach. You`ll get so hungry at the endof the workout, that you`ll eat the house. On the other hand, exercising right after the meal if even worse - give your body at least 2 hours to digest the food, then you can start your exercises.

19) Whatever you do, try to turn it into an exercise. For example - when you`re putting on your shoes, try balancing on one foot.

20) Forget the elevator, start using the stairs!

21) Snorkeling is fun, and it`s a great exercise! Learn to snorkel, and you`ll love it!

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Losing weight is hard. MAN it is SO HARD! Especially with all the commercials out there promising great results in just a few days.  That is why I felt compelled to give you my story on how I managed to lose 15 pounds in 30 days, without following any extreme diets.

Most of us think that in order to lose weight we have to starve ourselves. We think, if we eat less, we have less calories to burn...But, I am about to prove you wrong and show you how you can lose 15 pounds WITHOUT Eating Less. This is a method that really worked for me! And the best part about this method is that during this whole time, I felt great, energized and up beat.

Here is the thing, when we have the extra weight we become desperate so we jump on every single "diet plan" that is advertised to us. Please for a second, forget about the plans and lets think about what is needed for us to lose that extra weight.

3 Things You MUST Do!

I`m sure you`ve heard this hundreds of times: Exercise, Eat Healthy and Drink Water. And if you are like me, you probably close every page that repeats this same old story Well, it`s easy to say but very hard to do, and this is why these simple facts turn off so many people.

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Ok, bear with me for a second!

Who says you have to spend 2 hours in the gym in order to lose the weight? Who says you have to eat the food you DO not like, in order to lose the weight... And drink couple of gallons of water in order to lose weight? Well bunch of ads you have seen, and many different "weight loss plans"!

Know this! I managed to lose that extra weight, (those extra 15 pounds) in 30 days or less, with spending time on activities I enjoyed, eating the food I enjoyed, (never feeling hungry PLUS eating 5-6 times per day) and I would drink coffee, green tea and of course plenty of water.

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And for the record, I did try many different weight loss plans, and even though some worked, I would gain the weight back very quickly after I dropped it!

Now, I hit the Internet searching for what it really helps you lose weight, and one thing was clear... it`s Faster metabolism... That is the reason they say - exercise, eat healthy and drink water. All those ingredients help you speed up your metabolism.

BUT.... But... But... Nobody said you had to do what you dislike. Did they? If you do not like gym, why spend time there? If you do not like jogging, why jog?

So, during that research I created my own plan! What I called "Fun Workout"

My Secrets of the Fun Workout

On a piece of paper I put down 5 "body" activities I LOVED to do!

For me, those were: walking, dancing, hiking, bike riding and gardening!

While this might not seem like a workout, it really is. I love all of these activities and I schedule them in 5 times per week.

- For walking I have a friend I cannot see all the time, and we walk once a week. We catch up on our life happenings.

- For dancing, I have couple of cool "up beat" DVD's and sometimes we have a girls night out, and we go dancing.

- Hiking is one of my favorites, but for many years my kids were small and I could not do it. Now that my son is bigger we go hiking often as he is super active, and this really helps him calm done.

- Luckily we have a very good route which is almost 20 miles long and once a week I go biking.

- And for gardening, I love it, and once a week I spend time in my garden. While it may seem that this is not an exercise, did you know that you can burn over 500 calories by simply raking leaves!

- And since exercise requires you to drink water, drinking water is not a problem.

Now... Let's talk about foods!

What really is going to surprise you is, that in order for me to lose 15 pounds, I did not starve myself. NO, I actually ate 5-6 times per day. But of course, not full plate meals! They were more small portions and only including the foods that speed up the metabolism.

I did not give up a lot. I did not eat unhealthy snacks often, but I did eat a little chips here and there. And for the rest of the food, it consisted of everything I liked! Chicken, potatoes, eggs, salads, cheese, bread, soups, fruits, and so forth. I even had desert but I have to admit, not every day. And a lot of the foods I did eat, were targeting faster metabolism burning.

I am a living proof that you can lose 15 pounds in 30 days. While some "experts" have told me, that this is not healthy, I felt that it was. I've never felt better, and I am enjoying my life!  So select plan you enjoy in order to lose 15 pounds or what ever weight you want and stick to it!

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