Cardio and Weight Loss

Running will help you losing weight by burning calories, though of course you can't run only five or ten minutes - you will have to run around half an hour each time. Adding fruit juices is another way to give fresh flavor to your smoothies and weight loss drinks. For example, cranberry juice has positive health benefits for your kidneys. Add some cranberry juice, apple juice, blueberries, strawberries and banana together, then blend it until smooth. This makes an excellent breakfast drink and is a great way to start your day.

If you love the taste of chocolate, but can't eat it because it's too high in fat, then there is good news! You can add cocoa powder to your diet shake recipes. One good one is to mix cocoa powder, banana, low fat yogurt, honey and ice together. Now you can satisfy your chocolate craving without having to feel guilty about it. Of course you shouldn't drink a smoothie like this every day, but it makes for a nice change of pace that will help you stick to whatever diet plan you may be on. And there are plenty of weight loss shakes recipes and juicing recipes for weight loss for you to check out online.

While diet shake recipes and smoothies can be good for you. They are not the full solution to losing weight. If you are serious about shedding those excess pounds, then you need to do so from several different angles. You need to decrease your overall caloric intake. There are several ways to do this, but how you do it is less important than the fact that you're doing it. You also have to work on burning more calories. Again, doing it is what counts. You don't have to spend countless hours at the gym doing boring exercises. Just get moving and you will not only lose weight, but reduce body fat and even hit that stubborn belly fat.

Finally, feel free to experiment with diet shake recipes of your own. If you stick with low calorie foods, then the resulting shakes and smoothies should taste great and help you lose weight.

Thin is pretty. This is the premise on which the world functions. It is unfortunate but it is true. Women are subjugated to this unfair and absolutely incorrect norm that skinny women are considered hot while heavier ones are not. Why does this happen? The image of a woman and how she should be and what role does she play in society goes a long way in explaining this imagery. Feminine traits are for some absurd reason linked with being attractive and thin. This pejorative imagery is primarily based on the mindset of males. Since men 'desire' women to be a certain way - a way that does not threaten the dominance of the male and does not repulse or disgust him, over the years it has become a given that women who are thin are attractive. This imagery also flows through popular culture, further cementing it into human psyche.

This poses a very serious problem to all females. With a constant comparison to others around them and what they perceive to be the ideal type - most of them are obsessed with weight loss. In extreme cases, this leads to depression and can cause life threatening circumstances.