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Jonah Hill’s Dramatic Weight Loss
Jonah Hill reveals his strategy to his dramatic weight loss this year.
Jonah Hill’s Weight Loss Strategy
We’ve heard it all before. If you want to lose weight, you need to eat healthier and start exercising. Guess what? It works.
“I just started eating really healthy and exercising. That’s about it” – Jonah Hill
Jonah Hill knew he needed to lose some weight, so he received the help of a Nutritionist to learn how to eat healthier and also hired a Personal Trainer to learn how to exercise. Jonah admitted that losing weight wasn’t necessarily ”fun”, but it was important for him to change and create a healthier lifestyle. So far, Jonah Hill has lost at least 40 pounds!
It’s Just Hard Work
Like I’ve said before, weight loss can be just plain ‘ol hard work. There’s no secret or magic pill, and Jonah Hill discovered this himself:
”I wish there was some amazing book that I found in the center of the Earth that had all the world’s secrets in it, but unfortunately, it was just hard work.” – Jonah Hill
Want to lose weight like Jonah Hill? Eat right and exercise. No secrets.
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Know Your Heart Rate Zones
Too many gym goers just aren’t seeing the results they want to see. They don’t know what they are doing wrong, and most of them just stop going to the gym altogether. Problem is, just going to them gym and exercising your hardest just isn’t always the best way to see the results you are after. If you want to maximize your exercise results, the key to your problems is knowing your heart rate zones.
Calculating Heart Rate Zones
If you want to reach your goals in the gym, you first need to know what your maximum heart rate is.
Maximum Heart Rate
220 – age = Maximum Heart Rate
For example, if you are 30 years old:
220 – 30 = 190
Now that you know what your maximum heart rate is, you can determine what your heart rate zones are.
Heart Rate Zones
Zone One: 65% – 75% of Maximum Heart Rate
Zone Two: 80% – 85% of Maximum Heart Rate
Zone Three: 86% – 90% of Maximum Heart Rate
For example, if you are 30 years old:
Zone One: Heart Rate of 123.5 – 142.5
Zone Two: Heart Rate of 152 – 161.5
Zone Three: Heart Rate of 163.4 – 171
Advantages Of Each Heart Rate Zone
Zone One
• This is a great zone for your warm up and cool down during the exercise.
• If you are new to working out, this is a great zone to stay in during your entire cardio workout.
• This zone will help improve the blood’s ability to deliver oxygen throughout the body and remove waste which increases blood volume and allows the heart to become stronger.
• This is an Aerobic workout, which uses your muscle glycogen and fatty acids as an energy source.
• An example workout would be walking or even jogging.
Zone Two
• This zone is near the anaerobic threshold, which is when the body is at a point where it can no longer produce enough energy for the muscles with normal oxygen intake. As a result, higher levels of lactic acid is produced. Increase your anaerobic threshold should be one of your cardio goals.
• Exercising at an aerobic level, such as being in Zone Two, will result in more calories being burned with a higher percentage of those calories coming from fat. This is an effective zone for those who want to decrease body fat.
• This is the Aerobic/Anaerobic workout, which uses your muscle glycogen and lactic acid as an energy source.
• An example workout would be jogging, group (cardio) exercise classes.
Zone Three
• This is a high intensity workout that can’t be kept up for a long period of time. You should only stay in this intense zone for 60 seconds or less.
• Once you have worked your way up to this zone, you should only go into this zone about once a week – that’s it! If you go into this zone too much, you will overwork your heart and have less efficient workouts.
• Zone Three should only be used in conjunction with Zones One and Two.
• The benefit of Zone Three is to prevent plateaus and to continue improving your overall fitness level and boost your metabolism.
• Increases the amount of oxygen burned after the workout, also increasing the number of calories burned after the workout.
• This is an Anaerobic workout, which uses ATP/CP and muscle glycogen as an energy source.
• An example workout would be a fast run or sprinting.
Interval Training
Knowing how to use your heart rate zones to your advantage will help increase the effectiveness of your workouts.
Before you start any exercise program – especially Interval Training – I suggest that you get the approval from your Doctor to make sure your heart can handle the intensity involved in this kind of workout.
Beginners
Zone One: 20-40 minutes (entire workout)
• If you haven’t been exercising consistently, it’s important that you start here. You will still get a good workout in, without causing more harm than good. You need to develop a strong cardio base before you move on to other heart rate zones.
Intermediate
Zone One: 5 minutes (warm up)
Zone Two: 1 minute
Zone One: 5 minutes
Zone Two: 1 minute
Zone One: 5 minutes
Zone Two: 1 minute
Zone One: 5 minutes (cool down)
• You may only end up being in Zone Two for about 15 or 30 seconds, rather than the entire minute. That’s OK and is expected. Once the minute is up, it’s time to go back into Zone One for 5 minutes. If you never reached Zone Two during that minute, your heart may not be ready for Zone Two.
Advanced
Zone One: 10 minutes
Zone Two: 2 minutes
Zone Three: 1 minute
Zone Two: 1 minute
Zone One: 10 minutes
• This Zone should not be used by beginning or intermediate clients, otherwise it could result in a critical health-related injury.
I suggest buying a Heart Rate Monitor that can easily provide you with your heart rate throughout your workout so you can adjust your pace accordingly. You can manage your heart rate while walking, jogging, running, biking, or even on an elliptical machine or group exercise class. Just monitor your heart rate regularly and know which zone you should stay in.
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How Jennifer Hudson Lost 80 Pounds
Do you want to know how your favorite Diva lost 80 pounds? Jennifer Hudson was able to lose the extra weight when she focused on her diet, through Weight Watchers, and hired a Personal Trainer to help her get started with an exercise routine. Bottom Line: Diet and Exercise.
“It’s all about self-motivation because at the end of the day, you can have all the trainers and all the money in the world, but if you don’t have that mindset, it’s not possible.” – Jennifer Hudson on Oprah
Jennifer Hudson’s Diet
For Jennifer Hudson, it all started with Weight Watchers, which is basically a support group for those who want to calorie count their way into their skinny jeans.
The great thing about Weight Watchers is that you don’t have to buy a specific brand of food to participate in their program (such as the Special K diet or Slim•Fast), though, they do sell their own Weight Watchers products in the grocery stores. Another positive thing about Weight Watchers is that the program doesn’t completely eliminate an entire food group, such as all carbohydrates or all fruit. Other diets are just not as practical.
A couple of concerns about the Weight Watchers program is that dieters are allowed to eat as much fruit as they want. This may sounds like a wonderful thing, but all foods, including fruit, have their limitations. For those who truly want to lose weight, and unlimited amount of sugar is not ideal, even if the sugar is coming from a healthy source such as a piece of fruit.
Weight Watchers is a glorified calorie counting program that costs you money every month. You don’t need to pay a company to find out how many calories you should be eating. It’s common enough that it’s found free throughout the internet. For a free support group, let your family and friends know about your healthy weight loss goals and have them help support you with your efforts. Again, I just don’t think you need to pay for that.
If Jennifer Hudson found success with Weight Watchers, why not you? Something to consider. She was approached by this company and was offered millions of dollars to endorse their product. Trust me, I am sure that would motivate anyone to lose the extra pounds that they wanted to lose anyways.
Jennifer Hudson’s Exercise Routine
In addition to Weight Watchers diet plan, Jennifer Hudson hired a Celebrity Personal Trainer, Harley Pasternak, to help her start an exercise program that would work for her.
Harley started Jennifer with a 25 minute circuit training routine that included cardio, shoulder presses, lunges, sit ups, and ab exercises for five days a week. As Jennifer progressed, she worked her way up to a 50 minute routine. In addition to a traditional style workout with her trainer, Jennifer also gets in at least 25 minutes of cardio every day.
Jennifer tries to keep her cardio workouts fun, so she will enjoy playing some basketball or even jump roping. You don’t have to be in a gym on an exercise machine to burn calories and lose weight!
I am proud of Jennifer Hudson for learning how to eat well and starting an exercise program to help her become healthy. Yeah, she lost weight – but even if you aren’t trying to lose weight, it’s important for your health to eat right and exercise on a regular basis.
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Mariah Carey Reveals Her 70 Pound Weight Loss
The talented Mariah Carey recently revealed to the world how she lost 70 pounds after having her twins just six months ago. See the picture below? That’s a picture of her after she had twins! Continue reading to find out how Mariah Carey was able to lose 70 pounds!
Losing 70 Pounds
Mariah Carey had a very difficult pregnancy caring twins and gained excess weight from having edema. The first week after Mariah Carey had her twins, she lost 40 pounds in just water weight. After that, she lost 30 pounds of “baby weight” in three months.
How Mariah Carey Lost 70 Pounds
Mariah stuck to 1,500 calories a day (which is very reasonable) and once she was able, she started to workout three times a week.
Mariah didn’t lose her weight completely by herself. Jenny, formerly known as Jenny Craig, approached Mariah Carey to help her lose weight. Mariah Carey ended up as the new Brand Ambassador of the Jenny diet plan.
After three months of sticking to this regime, Mariah Carey was able to lose “at least 30 pounds”. Mariah doesn’t know how much she weighs exactly, since she is focused more on being more healthy. Now, Mariah boasts a flat stomach, toned legs, and easily fits into her size 6 clothes. Not bad for a 42 year old mother of 6 month old twins!
”I’m proud of how hard I worked to get my body back…I had to do this for me.” – Mariah Carey
I am not going to specifically endorse the Jenny diet plan, I’ll leave that to Mariah Carey. The reason I wanted to write about Mariah Carey’s weight loss is because (1) I wanted to give everyone an example that age doesn’t matter (as much as people think it does) when it comes to weight loss. Mariah Carey is in her 40′s, and she was able to lose 30 pounds in 3 months. (2) I also wanted to point out that Mariah was able to lose weight, get back into shape, after having twins! A women’s body gains weight and gets stretched out enough with one baby, but can you imagine trying to get back into shape after having twins?
“The whole point of this is not just like, ‘Oh, hey, look at me and my weight loss, I’m fantastic.’ It’s really health, I learned it when I became helpless and felt so vulnerable like never before in my life.” – Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey was able to lose weight without starving herself or living at the gym. Mariah focused on creating a healthy lifestyle that would work for her.
Do you need to go on the new Jenny diet plan? Not necessarily. If you are able to, I suggest hiring a Certified Personal Trainer and/or a Licensed Nutritionist to help you reach your goals. Otherwise, you can still figure out how many calories you need to eat each day to lose weight, and start an exercise regime. I suggest looking at our archived articles to find out what to eat and how to start an exercise program.
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Tags: Celebrity, Mariah Carey, Weight Loss
Mind Your Portion Sizes
Portion Control. Do you know why it’s important? Here’s a hint: If you want to lose weight or maintain your goal weight, you need to keep healthy portion sizes in mind when you are eating.
Here’s a quick little visual aide to help you understand the power of dish size, and how it will effect the amount you will eat.
Do you see these two bowls? The have the exact same amount of cereal in them.
It’s easy to see how you can add multiple serving sizes of cereal (or whatever else you are eating) in the larger bowl, compared to the smaller bowl, which ultimately leads to eating more than you should.
If you are trying to lose or maintain a healthy goal weight, try to eat using a smaller bowl (or plate!), and the less you are going to eat.
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