IPod, I Run: The technology of weight loss

Just get your lazy butt outside mister, now that's an order.
Technology can't prevent you from putting that cup cake in
your mouth, or not parking five spaces farther from the front
entrance of your favorite fast food restaurant. :(

Well right now im in high school and 16 y/o, i moved 2 years ago from boca raton florida, to upstate new york. Well i was never fat in fl, i was a kid pretty strong for my age back then. When i moved, in january of 2003, i became depressed and with my old eating habbits combined with my depression, i gained weight fast. I proibly gained a nice 20-30 pounds within one year, it had to have been the depression and harsh north winter preventing me from doing what i like to do. Well that was a year ago, last winter within 2 weeks i lost 10 LB, being 15 at the time, now i have lost 26 LB total, im now 150 from my previous 176 (and i also have a sixpack). I was strong and still am. I never took fatloss pills or anything, and i did this all during the time my midterms where going on and school. I started off running, well fast walking, id workout late at night, and do 5-6 miles non stop on my tredmill at a fast almost running speed. Well i did this for 2 weeks, i would also do some sit ups and push ups, great workouts they target your stomach and chest area where most people build up most of there fat. By building mussle in these areas it gives you a stronger core and also helps increase fat loss in that area. And the best thing is you dont need any equipment therefore its free. I did buy a mp3 player, a cheep one 512mb but music helps alot, it helps you enjoy working out and helps you forget about any pain or stress you might feel when working out. I would recomend buying an ipod, ill be getting one this week, but you can also buy cheeper ones as well. As for music i listen to trance,techno, electronic music. But what ever works for you and gets you motivated i would use. I would workout at like 10-11 at night before i went to bed. I did not know at the time this is acutally the best time to work out. What happends is your body works off excess pounds and stuff, so you go to bed empty. People gain weight mostly becouse they eat late at night or have acess calories, but by working out late at night you burn them, so when you go to sleep the weight dosent stick to you. It also increases your metabloic sleep rate, i would wake up and lose like a pound a day. After that 2 weeks or so i just sometimes work out alittle, do crunches here and there and do soccer 2 nights a week. But after the 2 weeks i also changed my eating, and lost about 16 pounds off that. The trick is to watch your labels, not calories. I never was a calorie counter, counting calories overall dose not work, its not how much food its what kind of food. What i did is cut out all TRANS fats from my diet non at all will i eat to this day, there the worst THING for you. The second phase is i reduced my fats and saturated fats, i try eating only 5-10 fats a day, and ill only have 2 or so saturated a day. Thats off of any foods, foods like olive oil are healthy fats, ill ushally add a table spoon of that to my pasta to fill me up, its bad to cut out all fats, fats are what fill you up, but oilve oil is a healthy fat, not processed fat, used by many europeans, who are in much better shape than most americans. I also reduced my cholestoral to 15-20 grams a day, by using olive oil, it gives you healthy fat but no cholestoral. Im a vegitarian, since birth, i always was so its easy for me to keep cholestoral low in my diet, and for people who think you need meat for mussle, you DONT! I have gone to GNC and got protien shakes for 30-50$ and they last me a month and supply 50g of protine + about 8 form a class of milk thats 58g of protien in one drink, which is best after you work out about 30 mins or so. Also taking 1 multi day vitamin with extra b vits, and 1 or 2 Flaxseed or Fishoil pills at NIGHT helps you lose weight as well. Taking Omega-3 fatty acids at night helps you burn even more fat when you sleep. And its healthy for you. Fishoil and Flaxseed are also cheep and come in pills for easy use, they only cost like 8$ a bottle and that will last you about a month or more. Well for phase 3 which i found out about 2 weeks ago. Well i love pudding, chocolate pudding, so i thought heck why not buy 12 of the jello, no fat no shugar puddings. I thought they where healthy with he milk and all but i was WRONG. If you read the ingrediance on it its 100% preservatives and chemical stuff, it tastes great but i had a kind of (hangover) a hour later with a nasty taste in my mouth and my body felt bad. My lesson form that was to try to eat fresh things, preservatives are known to cause cancers and can acutally prevent you form losing weight. I also watch sugars, unless there fruit which brings me to my next tip. When you wake up you night go for eggs or so, well dont, its best to have some nice toast and jam, (NATURAL JAM, many jams and jellys have tons of prevervatives, so watchout), by eating fruits you dont have to watch carbs or sugars, becouse there healthy and actually help your mitablosium. Sleep is also important, if you workout right before you go to bed try getting alot of sleep, and you will see pounds vanish fast, it also helps stop acmne and other skin problems. Well this is about all for now, if you use these tricks that i have used you will lose weight, fast or slow, garenteed overtime you will lose what you want to lose and your weight will stay at what is best for you, youll look great, fell great and be healthy. Sorry if this message has some spelling and gramer errors, its just a quick message, aimed at trying to help those who want to lose weight. Well im off i might post my email adress later if anyone has questions or comments.

i have been using these free download mp3 workouts for my iPod i got from www.marinaspodcast.com
They're awsome.

iPod workouts are popping up all over the web, and as a personal trainer, I find that fantastic. Finally we have a media outlet to download fitness. People can use there ipod or Mp3 to help them with fitness issues, on the go. You can search for your own personal iPod trainer for fitness. That’s great! And the craze is just starting. But as a fitness professional, I am hoping that not just people who will workout anyway are using this exciting convenience but people who need help getting started, people who need personal trainers but can’t afford them. People who need encouragement. People who need more knowledge to help them lose weight. People who need someone walking them through a program in the gym or at home. With these iPod fitness routines you can. iPod workouts let you workout, not sit down and read about how to workout. Just download and go. That’s movement, the ingredient to burning calories. Not spending hours figuring out how to use a program. Just download and go to the gym. That’s it! If you need a site to go to try http://www.FITNESSSONGS.com, Lets go America, workout with your Mp3 or ipod, call it iPod fitness or Podfitness or ipod workouts, what ever name you give it, it gives you a reason to “Just do it”

Good fitness

Charlie Trainer

MARINA's iPod workouts are now at MARINA's Audio Workout Center at
www.marinaonline.com

I've tried a bunch of the download workouts for my ipod and found that Marina's are the best by far! I love her motivation - she even writes and sings the songs. They are fast! gets me really going. The time just flies by.

I had been using some free fitness podcasts, but have just signed up to iTrainer.com.au, which is pretty neat.
Great music and friendly personal trainer voices. Thumbs Up.

I think they have a US site coming soon aswell because when i checked the www.iTrainer.US domain name was redirecting back to the main site...

Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I launched a new (free) site giving away ipod video workouts and free fitness and nutrition advice. We have top nutritionists, athletes, doctors and professionals on the site, and a full community system (similar to myspace). Please check it out when you have some time. http://www.myfittribe.com

Best,
Jamo