Protein

You will need protein to build muscle. If you are lactose intolerant, an alternative is egg protein or even a vegetable protein supplement subsidized with eggs and high protein diets.

Creatine

Creatine works well. It works for many people, but some people do not find that it works for them, but when they try a different creative type or brand, they see results.

Creatine monohydrate has been studied extensively and has proven to provide benefits, it requires a high sugar drink to experience best results as it is plain.

Creatine is thought to improve strength, increase lean muscle mass, and help the muscles recover more quickly during exercise. This muscular boost may help athletes achieve bursts of speed and energy, especially during short bouts of high-intensity activities such as weight lifting or sprinting.

I personally found that Creatine with an insulin spiking delivery system included in it works very best for me as I do not buy fruit juices. It is recommended you follow the instructions closely for best results.

The standard practice has always been to mix creatine with a high sugar drink, such as grape juice, a high sugar sports drinks or dextrose powder.

Nitric Oxide

The benefits of Nitric Oxide may include these

1. Help Treat Erectile Dysfunction
2. May Decrease Muscle Soreness
3. Lower Blood Pressure
4. Boost Exercise Performance
5. May Help Manage Type 2 Diabetes

Nitric oxide is involved in many cell processes, including the widening of the blood vessels, or vasodilation. Wider blood vessels help increase the delivery of nutrients and oxygen to working muscles during exercise, thus enhancing exercise performance.

These supplements often contain several ingredients that are said to increase nitric oxide, such as nitrate or the amino acids L-arginine and L-citrulline.

Nitrate has been shown to improve exercise performance.

L-arginine has not proven to be effective for improving exercise performance.

L-citrulline is more effective than L-arginine at increasing nitric oxide and therefore exercise performance.

Pre-workout or Caffeine and Vitamin B

Caffeine and Vitamin B can boost your workout without spending on pre-workout. You can use this every day.

Pre-workout needs to be cycled every other week, or just on the days you are too tired to train hard.

Your system gets use to it and it will have no effect eventually – You will need to take a pre-workout to just get a normal workout in.

Green tea / ECGC

Fat burners do not always work, and is unhealhty.

Green tea has been claimed to work. 3 cups of green tea a day will cut your calories naturally. ECGC is a supplement derived from green tea.

BCAA and L-Glutamine

While cutting or losing fat, take additional BCAA and L-Glutamine to reduce muscle loss.

Sadly, too much cardio is not a good thing. Over-training muscles is bad for gains as well. Overdoing cardio will burn fat and muscle.

Since you are losing muscle mass, you are hurting your metabolism because low muscle mass will result in a slow metabolism! This results in fat gain.

The best way to lose fat is to boost metabolism through exercise strength-training routine along with cardio.

Woman do not gain muscles easily (unless they take steroids), and can do strength training without worrying about looking like a body builder. Strength will result in firm muscles.

To minimize muscle loss when excising, increase protein intake while reducing at and carbs. Protein is made up of Amino Acids, the building blocks of muscles.

A protein supplement is best, but you may also eat lean fish, chicken breast and egg whites to increase protein intake.

When taking supplements, remember to reduce your food intake to correct for the extra calories that the protein supplement supplies.

Remember that sweats, chocolates, sugary drinks and junk food is full of calories. Sneaking a drink or burger in will set you back! Don’t do it, stay focused.

Eat fruits (not bananas, which is all carbs) when the craving hits.

No bread, with the exception of a slice of rye bread, which replaces another carb, such as your rice.
No pizza – ever!

These types of products go back to the 60s and do not work on their own.

To lose fat, you need to move and burn major calories. Even walking burns more fat than these products.

Suana belts work to lose fat?

No fat loss!

Applying heat to an area increases water loss through sweat. You do lose weight through this water loss. It is the same weight loss you see after urinating.

No at loss takes place in such a short petrol of time.

Fat-loss gels

No fat loss!

Despite all the convincing terms being used by the manufacturers, it does not work!

Your body must burn more calories than it consumes to create a deficit that results in weight loss. For a 1Kg weight loss per week you must create a deficit of 7,700 calories total, or 1,100 calories per day ! There is nothing you can apply to your skin that will cause your body to create this calorie deficit. Further, there is no way to spot-reduce and target belly fat. You cannot control the areas from which your body sheds fat first.

Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS)

Sitting doing nothing while having a tiny amount of electrical shocks contract your stomach will not make you lose fat.

It may tone the tummy a bit though, as it is similar to doing sit-ups.

So perhaps this is a good option to trim that tummy if you are already in shape.

The beer belly and the pizza stomach will not shrink by using EMS!

Shaking / vibration plates to a slimmer you

No! No fat loss.

The advert blurb is as follows:

“A new study shows that obese women who followed a weight loss diet and regularly used the vibration plate machines were more successful at long-term weight loss and losing hard-to-trim belly fat than those who combined dieting with a more conventional exercise routine.“

The devil is in the detail here: Dieting and exercise!

So what can I do at home to burn these type of calories without going to the gym?

Jump rope to burn 10-20 calories a minutes!
Jumping just 10 minutes a day for 5 days a week will get you to burn from 500 to 1000 calories in those 5 days, while increasing your health, strengthening and firming your shoulders, arms, butt and legs!

Soon you will be a rope skipping pro, impressing your family and friends further!!!

Legal products that help you lose weight

Over the counter weight loss products do not work. They rely on the placebo effect to encourage you to eat less and exercise more.

The over the counter product does nothing to add to the weight loss effect with the exception of one product below:

The only natural product that helps lose weight is Green Tea without sugar. The results have shown that people who drank green tea compared to a placebo lost an additional 1Kg  over a 12Week period by consuming approximately 2.5 cups a day (2-3 cups a day)

Some studies have shown an increase in calorie output of about 100 calories over a 24-hour period.

Green Tea is drunk clean without sugar or milk.

Taking green tea with a sugar replacement is fine.

Why does green tea work for weight loss?

Green tea contains caffeine and a type of flavonoid called catechin, which is an antioxidant. Research suggests that both of these compounds can speed up metabolism. Catechin can help to break down excess fat, while both catechin and caffeine can increase the amount of energy the body uses.

A review published in 2010 found that green tea supplements, containing catechins or caffeine, had a small but positive impact on weight loss and weight management.

However, research studies in this area tend to use doses that contain a higher proportion of catechin or caffeine than would be found in a typical cup of green tea.

It is important to note that any benefits of green tea for weight loss are likely to be very small. The impact of green tea is not as beneficial as other healthy weight loss methods, such as exercise, that have far greater metabolic benefits.

Regularly exercising and eating a healthful diet with plenty of vegetables are highly effective weight loss strategies. Green tea used alongside these methods may increase their positive results.

How to consume green tea

Drinking hot green tea during the day may help aid weight loss.

Drinking between 2 and 3 cups of hot green tea throughout the day should be sufficient for supplementing weight loss. The exact amount will vary from person to person, depending on how much caffeine they consume and their natural metabolism.

Green tea comes in a number of varieties but, for weight loss, there are unlikely to be significant differences between them. Plain, minimally processed green teas are likely to have retained the richest nutritional content.

Green tea is considered safe to consume. However, care should be taken in some cases, as large doses of caffeine can pose problems for those at risk of heart problems or with high blood pressure.

Green tea not your taste? Try this combination:

Any time tea: Green Tea with Lemon and Ginger

Like green tea, lemon and ginger can also promote fat loss, and adding them to your daily cup can enhance the natural benefits that green tea has. Simply heat water to a boil and seep green tea for a few minutes before pulling out the leaves. Squeeze in the juice from half a lemon and infuse the blend with a teaspoon of grated ginger. Let seep for fifteen minutes, and enjoy! 

Breakfast smoothie: Green Tea and Avocado Smoothie

Blending green tea and avocado makes for an excellent combination of protein, essential fatty acids, and antioxidants. Just combine a tablespoon of green tea, half an avocado, one banana, and enough hot water for everything to blend well (about half a cup). Seep the green tea in the heated water for half an hour, and process everything together in the blender to create a subtly sweet breakfast smoothie. 

Green Tea breakfast Oatmeal

The concept is simple. While you usually cook your oats in a simmering pot of water, cook them in a simmering pot of green tea instead. All that means is once your pot of water comes to a boil, before you add your oats, steep a few of your tea bags in the water. Remove the bags, add your oats, and cook as usual. You can even use this method with overnight oats, adding the oats to the hot tea and simply letting the mixture sit until the morning.

Don’t steep the tea too long or it will become bitter. A small amount of honey makes a nice addition here as well (remember that honey has a lot of calories, and so can be replaced with a powdered sugar replacement product)

Removing or replacing your sugar intake with a substitute will go a long way to weight loss

White Sugar 387 kcalories / 100g
high GI, all sugar! Bad! Very bad.

Brown sugar 380 kcalories / 100g
Brown sugar contains 95 per cent sucrose and 5 per cent molasses, which adds a flavour and moistness but has no great nutritional benefits over white sugar.

Honey 304 kcalories / 100g
Honey has a lower GI value than sugar, meaning that it does not raise blood sugar levels as quickly. Still bad.

Xylitol 240 kcalories / 100g
Xylitol polyols is 100g and 0g sugar, Xylitol is not fully digested or absorbed by the body, and is a great substitute for sugar without using artificial sweeteners.

Artificial sweeteners are low-calorie or calorie-free chemical substances that are used instead of sugar to sweeten foods and drinks

It has been suggested that the use of artificial sweeteners may have a stimulating effect on appetite and, therefore, may play a role in weight gain and obesity.

However, research into sweeteners and appetite stimulation is inconsistent. Also, there is little evidence from longer-term studies to show that sweeteners lead to increased energy intake and contribute to the risk of obesity.

• acesulfame K.
• aspartame.
• saccharin.
• sorbitol.
• sucralose.
• stevia (steviol glycosides)