An Easy Way to Burn Twice as Many Calories in the Same Amount of Time

If you sometimes do cardio on a treadmill, there’s a way you can burn the same amount of calories in half the time. Or, if you prefer, double the calories in the same amount of time.

What is it? Simply set the machine on an incline. Walking uphill or on an incline drastically burns up more calories. For example, a 160-pound woman will burn 4 calories per minute walking 2.5 miles per hour on a treadmill.

But, that same woman would burn 10 calories per minute walking on a 20% incline grade. So you can simply implement this and burn more calories by setting the treadmill on an incline.

If you don’t have access to a treadmill, try walking up a hill in your neighborhood if you have one, or walk up the stairs in buildings.

Give it a try.

By the way, if you’re worried that walking on an incline will make your leg muscles big, relax. The muscle fibers that are used during this type of activity are not the ones that get bigger. Just look at people like marathon runners. They have lean, firm legs, not huge leg muscles.

And if you’re too busy to go to a gym or devote a big chunk of time to exercising, please go to my website and read what I have to say.

There I talk about more simple and less time-consuming ways to lose weight. Since I know most women are too busy to exercise regularly and watch their diets, I specifically designed this program to be “time-friendly”, “exercise-friendly”, and “diet-friendly” for women.

Get more great weight loss tips and information from my ebook The Advanced Guide to Fast Weight Loss for Busy Women.

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Weight Loss Success Isn’t Always a Straight Line

When you are following a plan to lose weight, you should realize that your progress won’t be one steady, straight line to your goal.

What I mean by that is, if you weigh yourself every day, your weight won’t always be lower or the same as the day before. Some days it will go up.

Don’t take this as a bad sign.

For example, if you weigh yourself every morning for a week, the numbers might be something like this: 175, 174.5, 174.5, 173.5, 174, 173, 173.

Notice the weight actually went up one day, but the important thing is that you lost two pounds that week.

That is how it works for most people. You will almost always have some days where your weight goes up, no matter how carefully you are following the plan.

Here are some things you can do:

  • Don’t weigh yourself daily. Every 2-3 days is better.
  • Realize that your weight fluctuates for a lot of reasons, besides just your diet and exercise.
  • Realize that an increase in weight could be from added muscle (a good thing) or more water in your body or many other things besides just fat.
  • Pay more attention to things like your waist size, how your clothes fit, and how you look and feel, than the numbers on the scale.
  • Realize how small an amount a pound is compared to an adult’s body weight of 100-300 pounds or more. Your home scale is not a laboratory instrument and not 100% precise.

The key thing is that your weight and waist size go down over longer periods of time, like a week or a month. If you lose 5 or 10 or 15 pounds this month, does it matter that some days your weight was higher than the day before? Of course not!

Of course, if your weight is going up over longer time periods, you need to stop and think what you are doing. If you gain 3 pounds in a week despite following your plan, try to figure out why. Did you really follow the plan 100%? If not, dedicate yourself to getting back on track. If you think you did stick to the plan, start writing down all your food, drink, and exercise. It’s quite possible you are eating more than you think you are or are not exercising enough.

Get more great weight loss tips and information from my ebook The Advanced Guide to Fast Weight Loss for Busy Women.

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Lose Weight With Those Ab Machines on TV?

If you’ve ever watched late night TV, you’ve probably seen ads for all sorts of exercise gadgets, especially for your abdominals. It seems like every few months there is another product with a name starting with “AB.” We all want a flat tummy or six-pack abs, so will these gadgets help us get the bodies [...]

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Can You Lose Weight Eating Pasta?

You’ve probably heard that pasta is fattening. Certainly it has no place on a weight loss plan, right? There are two big reasons why you might want to avoid pasta. The sauce is often rich, and we tend to cook pasta in big batches, so it’s very easy to eat way too much of it. [...]

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The Fastest Way to Lose Excess Weight

The fastest way to lose excess weight is to speed up your metabolism. There are a lot of time consuming ways to do that. I could give you 25 pages of cardio and workout information… but I’ll leave that to others. I will assume you are a busy person with a hectic, sometimes unbearable schedule. [...]

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Diet vs. Exercise: Which Is Better?

A recent study published in a medical journal says that in losing weight, diet alone can be just as effective as diet plus exercise. This is really nothing new, but I’m afraid some people will misunderstand it. I don’t think the study is saying “don’t exercise.” The real point of it is that you can [...]

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Lose Weight by Eating More Often?

If you’re like me, you were probably raised on the concept of three square meals a day. Snacking between meals was discouraged. It’s time to forget that outdated advice. One of the best things you can do to accelerate your weight loss is to eat more often. I am not saying to eat more food, [...]

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Spice It Up for Weight Loss

Here’s an easy way to speed up your fat burning: eat more spicy foods. No, I don’t mean you should pig out on Mexican food or buffalo wings, just add more intense spices to what you are already eating. Research has shown that spicy foods can increase your metabolism, which means you’ll burn more calories [...]

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Is Cheating Good for Weight Loss?

Often when people try to lose weight, they go on a strict plan that tells them exactly what to eat. Since weight loss goals take some time to achieve, people usually reach a point where they get bored or tired of what they are doing, or miss favorite foods, and end up going on an [...]

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An Easy Way to Burn More Body Fat

This article will help you learn to alter the way your body burns fat. Specifically, it will help you adjust the temperature at which it normally burns fat. You have a normal body temperature of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Fat doesn’t burn at normal body temperature. It burns at a much higher temperature. So what is [...]

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