Lose Weight And Have Fun? Here's Six Things To Try In 2015

Pasha Kovalev and Caroline Flack on Strictly Come Dancing - and dancing is one way to burn off calories while having fun

Full of mince pies, Quality Street and shortbread assortment, and desperate to shift the festive pounds now New Year’s here?

How about singing them off?

It might sound like an odd way to exercise, but a joining a rock choir is the latest - and possibly most fun - way to lose weight and get fit for 2015.

Studies show that singing as part of a group doesn’t just lift your spirits, it can actually help you get healthy. A 90 minute session at a rock choir can burn in excess of 200 calories as members not only exercise their lungs to belt out the songs, but also get moving learning dance steps.

Rock choir leader Anthony Seaman, who runs weekly sessions in Birkenhead, Liverpool, Maghull/Ormskirk, Southport and West Kirby, knows first-hand how much being part of the choir has helped his singers.

“It’s amazing to see how much the members benefit from taking part in rock choir on a weekly basis,” he says. “I’ve seen confidences grow and friendships develop and it’s awesome to see, especially when they’ve taken part in a performance.”

Professor Stephen Clift, who’s researched the benefits, agrees. “Singing, especially in a group environment such as rock choir, encourages deeper, more controlled breathing, giving the lungs an exercise work out,” he explains. “It also gives a boost to the immune system, reduces stress levels, improves mental wellbeing, enhances concentration and memory and builds confidence.”

Rock choir is kicking off the New Year by offering everyone a free first taster session, via www.rockchoir.com or 01252 714 276 , but if you don’t fancy a carrying a tune for 2015, here’s five other fun ways to lose a few excess pounds ...

Be Romantic

10 minutes of kissing, twice every day, can burn up to 100 calories depending on how enthusiastic you are. Locking lips with a loved one could burn between two and five calories a minute.

A kiss can burn calories

Add that up over the course of a year and it amounts to 36,500 calories which could help you lose 10 pounds. Get carried away with the kissing and head to the bedroom and you can take off a further 120 calories for an hour of passion.

Have sex three times a week and that burns around 7,500 calories - the equivalent of jogging for 75 miles, and far more enjoyable!

Shopping

Not the frantic sales type, but not just a slow wander round Liverpool city centre fashion stores either. Pick up the pace a bit as you walk from shop to shop in search of the perfect dress or shoes and you could reap the benefits.

Bargain hunters could lose 245 calories in a 20-minute dash between the rails. If you’re in one of those shops which offers a basket so you can carry all your best buys, take advantage of it and grab one, it’ll work wonders for your arms.

Let's Dance

Yes, you can go clubbing if you feel the urge, but a little boogie around the kitchen in the privacy of your home will work just as well for calorie shifting. Get your favourite dancefloor filling tunes blasting out and move like no-one’s watching (because they’re not). Keep it up for just 15 minutes and you’ll have burnt through 100 calories.

Not only that, but it’ll improve your leg muscle tone, cardiovascular fitness and give you the feelgood factor too.

Do the dishes

OK, this one probably isn’t as much fun as the others, but it will get you brownie points from your partner which is never a bad thing. Depending on just how many people came for dinner, you could burn up around 100 calories in one clean-up.

Standing at the sink on washing duties will lose you 22 calories for every 15 minutes - add to that, collecting the dishes from the table and walking backwards and forwards with them, and you’re up to 26 per 15 mins.

Sweep away calories

The Echo from December 1964 suggested housewives should improvise and “tone up after the eating spree” with a broom handle and washing line!

A cutting from the Echo in December 1964 offers Broom Handle Beauty tips

We published a series of seven-second Broom Handle Beauty exercises, courtesy of football fitness coach Bill Watson who said all women needed was a 12ft clothes line (costing about 2s 6d), two broom handles and “spare second between the housework.”

Source:- http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/real-lives/lose-weight-fun-heres-six-8369428

19 Tips On How To Lose Leg Fat Fast ...

1. GET MOTIVATED

This tip is one tip that is a must. Without doing this, you are not going to lose that fat fast. You see, motivation is the key to #everything, including losing leg fat. If you would really like to succeed, then strong motivation is something you will be in need of.

Think of something that might motivate you 3 times a day - it might be pictures of celebrities with gorgeous legs, a pair of skinny jeans you no longer fit it, the legs of the girl from 2B apartment you wish you had etc. These thoughts are not very pleasant, on the contrary, they kind of make us feel bad, but that's exactly what we need. We need to feel the pain, the lack of something we truly want and only that bad feeling will give us enough strength to achieve our goal - make the perfect #legs happen to us!

The Six Secrets of the Most Successful Slimmers

It's that time again when we all resolve to clean up our eating habits, get fit and lose weight but statistics show that less than 5% of us actually succeed long term.  So what does it take to make sure that you win the war against weight gain?

According to the National Weight Control Registry (a massive ongoing US study that has tracked the eating and exercise habits of over 10,000 people who have successfully lost at least 30 pounds for a year or longer) there are six habits that set the successful slimmers apart.

Habit 1: Successful slimmers are realistic goal setters
Instead of focusing on a weight that they would like to be to look good they focus on a weight that they know will help them feel good.

It's no use being super slim but eternally hungry or tired. Focus instead on a weight that is realistic for your body, one that will help you to be healthy and happy long term. Ask yourself what is the lightest I have been in my adult life for a period lasting longer than six months. This will give you a good idea of what is a realistic and achievable weight for you.

Habit 2: Successful slimmers want to be a 'tortoise' not a 'hare'
Weight losses of the study's participants have ranged from 30 to 300lbs and have taken between one and 14 years.

Whilst no-one is suggesting you should take 14 years to achieve your goals, these statistics do emphasise the importance of taking a slow and steady approach. Long term success is never achieved with a fast fix solution so aim to lose no more than two pounds a week. Any more than this and it is highly likely you'll be losing lean muscle tissue which will only reduce your body's ability to burn calories in the long run.

Habit 3: Successful slimmers take full responsibility
They realise that there is no point blaming external people or circumstances for their weight.  They also understand that they must lose weight for themselves — not to please others and accept that there are no magic pills or potions that will do it for them.

Be honest enough to identify the real reasons you have gained weight in the first place and have the courage to tackle those root causes head on. Accept that whilst others may be able to eat anything and never seem to gain a pound you simply cannot and therefore need to adopt an eating an exercising regime that takes this into account.

Habit 4: Successful slimmers exercise — a lot!
The successful participants lost weight in a number of ways, 55% with the help of some kind of programme whilst 45% achieved success by themselves.  However, almost all have found that in order to maintain their weight losses they need to exercise for approximately an hour a day.

Start by upping your general activity levels. 62% of the successful slimmers watched less than 10 hours of TV a week and 75% achieved their exercise hours through an increased amount of walking. Buy a pedometer and aim for the recommended 10,000 steps a day. Walk or cycle to work and back and power walk through your lunch breaks. Then, once you're moving more build in some structured exercise on top. Start attending fitness classes, swim after work, enroll in a tennis club or take up dancing. Whatever you do, find a way of exercising that fits with your lifestyle and adds quality to your life.

Habit 5: Successful slimmers don't even try to be perfect
They understand that to be a long term success it's all about getting it right most of the time — but not all! They don't ban foods and they certainly don't beat themselves up when they 'fall off the wagon'. They see exercise and healthy eating as something they deserve to have in their lives to help them feel better not as a grueling regime or a punishment. They eat smaller portions which enable them to have the odd treat here and there and they don't just reward themselves with food. They understand the value in other rewards such as a manicure or a hot bath and they don't obsess over the scales.

Habit 6: Successful slimmers eat real food 
They also eat at regular intervals. 78% ate breakfast every day and almost all monitored calories or portion sizes but steered clear of pills, potions or pre-packed diet foods.

Eat at least seven servings of fresh fruit and vegetables a day along side good quality, slow releasing carbohydrates. Limit fat, sugar and alcohol and adopt a consistent eating pattern regardless of whether it's a weekday, weekend or holiday.  Make sure you listen to your body too and only eat when you are hungry and stop when you are full.

This article is published on Yahoo Lifestyle and written by Rachael Anne Hill.  You can read it here:-   https://uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com/blogs/rachael-anne-hill/six-secrets-most-successful-slimmers-134705771.html

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