Lose weight naturally

DON’T BE FOOLED by miracle diets and get-slim-quick adverts. The only diet that really works is one that includes a workable food plan, exercise and motivation.

A workable food plan simply means a diet that works for you. If you restrict yourself to cabbage soup or powdered drinks, you’ll soon get bored and will go back to your old eating habits. A lasting weight control plan helps you to find a modified diet that will become as natural to you as breathing. It is fundamental to your long-term success and wellbeing to find a healthy relationship with food that doesn’t involve a love/hate obsession, relentless calorie-counting, starvation or bingeing.

Many overweight people find the thought of exercise daunting. It can be a chicken-and-egg situation, where you want to lose weight before you exercise, so you won’t look awful at the gym. Walk the kids to school, walk a couple of streets before you get the bus, take a twenty-minute walk at lunchtime. Begin with one small step and before you know it, you’ll be feeling confident enough to go swimming, join the gym or get on a bike. Exercise burns fat and builds body-firming muscle, it is also essential for heart and lung health and for a cheerful disposition.

Motivation is the toughest aspect of weight control. When you are lying in bed at night you are full of good intentions for the next day, but the toast and jam call to you at breakfast and it’s hard to resist elevenses. Weight Watchers, Slimming World and other successful slimming clubs offer a huge boost to motivation with weekly weigh-ins and motivational talks.

Additionally, or if this is not for you, call into your local health store each week and ask for expert help to plot your progress and give you the morale boost you need to keep you going.

The weight loss supplement programme that really works

Arginine / Ornithine
A duo of amino acids that can help transport fat cells to the liver where they are pooled, used for energy and metabolised. This has the benefit of using up the bodies own fat as a potent energy source and in the process actually dissolves your own body fat. Ideal time to take this is at bedtime on an empty tum for maximum absorption, so that as you sleep the fat can gather in the liver. When you wake, delay breakfast until you have rushed around for an hour or have exercised, then you will burn up the fats that have been stored in the liver at night.
Suggested dose: 1-2 teaspoons a day away from food – mixed in apple juice.
Caution – Do not take if have cold sores, shingles / as arginine & ornithine feed the herpes virus.
See: Viridian Arginine & Ornithine

GTF Chromium
A very important mineral that not only helps to reduce sugar cravings by regulating blood sugar levels, but also helps to reduce body fat and increase lean muscle tissues.
A trace mineral complex with added chromium in another ideal way to take chromium too, as the other minerals will provide extra endurance in exercise and stamina if needed.
Suggested dose: 1 a day with food.

Co-enzyme Q10 with MCT (medium chain tri-glycerides)
Co-Q10 is a natural enzyme present in all of us, but levels can reduce with a hectic lifestyle and getting older, hence we may feel more tired and have lower energy. A deficiency could decrease thermogenisis (heat production) and energy production. Co-Q10 literally helps you ‘burn’ more calories within the cell’s mitochondria. Co-Q10 is also an antioxidant, essential in heart health.  Add MCTs for maximum absorption of Co-Q10, MCTs are pre-digested fats from coconut oil and help the body to transport and utilise the Co-Q10.  MCTs stimulate the cell to produce ATP – Adenosine Tri-Phosphate, the energy chemical) and increase thermogenesis.
Suggested dose: 2-4 a day with food.

L-Carnitine
Energy, endurance and stamina. Carnitine is very important for fat metabolism, especially in heart and muscle cells.
Carnitine helps move fat that sits outside the cells into the cell’s mitochondria for burning into energy.
Suggested dose: 2-4 a day away from food.
See: Viridian L-Carnitine

Complete Fibre & FOS
Fibre is very effective at taking out excess fats in the body, via the digestive tract, thereby preventing them entering the blood stream where they can get stored. Also a great way to feel full without having to take on board the calories, so it is ideal to supplement around 3pm to ease tummy rumbles.
FOS – (fruit fibre) feeds the good bacteria in the gut, reducing bad bacteria.
Suggested dose: 2 with half a pint of water or 4 with a pint of water - at least 2 hours away from food.

Dietary/lifestyle issues
Reduce or cut out: Sugars,alcohol, fried foods, red meat and dairy produce.

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