Whether you spend your days in front of a computer or can’t move around much in your daily life, your sedentary schedule may be impacting you more than you realize. Or, perhaps you understand that your inactivity during your workday is causing you to not look or feel your best, yet you don’t know what to do about it.

Either way, you do have options that will help you improve your fitness levels despite being desk or office bound.  But first, you need to understand why making changes to your sedentary job is important and needs to happen right away.

The Health Consequences of a Sedentary Job

According to the National Center on Health, Physical Activity, and Disability, living a sedentary lifestyle is detrimental to your health. For instance, they report that physically inactive people have a 40% higher risk of developing cancer in the colon or breasts and a 50% higher rate of dementia. Being sedentary also increases the rate at which you lose muscle and bone strength, as well as raises the possibility that you’ll suffer from depression.

It’s that time, yet again!  Is weight loss one of your resolutions for the New Year? If you’re like most people, this resolution is high on your list year after year – to get healthy and lose weight. Would you like 2014 to be the last time you make a weight loss resolution?

While it may seem like losing your love handles and jiggly thighs is a resolution that just keeps repeating itself, that doesn’t have to be the case. You can reach your weight loss goal this year, and here are our best suggestions to help you reach those goals, once and for all:

Define why you want to lose weight. You can’t go after something and expect to get it if you don’t have a clear understanding of why you want it. Take some time and think about why weight loss is important to you. Make a list of the positive ways your life will change once you reach a lower, healthier weight, and keep that vision in front of you at all times.

When you are on a weight loss journey, you’re always looking for ways to speed up the fat loss process. You know that it is going to take some time to get rid of the excess weight that you are carrying, but the sooner you can reach your goals, the happier you will be.

One way to do this is to take a fat burner. These are supplements that raise your metabolism by shifting it from neutral into overdrive, helping you create the body that you desire. A few of the supplements that can help you do this are:

One of the most envied body parts is a tummy that is flatter than a board. After all, there is something sexy and confident about someone that has a midsection that is tight and toned. And, if you’re like most people, you’ve even envisioned yourself with bikini worthy abs, strutting around the beach for the entire world to see.

Sadly, if you’re like most people, you’ve also given up the hopes of ever seeing that trim midsection become a reality. However, you can have a thinner tummy and we’ve got some ways to help you get it. Here are three things you can do that will help you create abs that others envy:

Lower Your Body Fat Percentage

It doesn’t matter how tone your muscles are in your core area, you’re not going to be able to see them if they are hidden under a layer of fat. Therefore, you’ll want to decrease your overall body fat so that your finely tuned abdominal muscles will be able to shine through.

Although your body’s ability to remain stable despite the constant changes around you is normally a good thing (such as keeping your blood pressure and blood sugar steady), it can actually work against you when your goal is to try to lose weight. Your metabolism automatically reduces in an attempt to keep you right where you are.

This means that sometimes you need to find a way to turn up your internal calorie burning furnace on your own. So, here are five quick and easy ways to do just that:

#1 – Drink More Water

Your body requires water the same way that an automobile requires gasoline. When you are dehydrated, your body is going to slow down if not stall completely. However, you can keep your engine burning hot by fueling yourself with water throughout the day. Always have a bottle by your side and you’ll naturally drink more, and burn more fat.

#2 – Eat Natural Foods

There is nothing more frustrating than trying to get your body to burn fat and having it defy you. It’s like trying to force a young child to share their favorite toy with a sibling. It doesn’t matter how much you beg and plead, sometimes you just have to physically remove the toy from their hands to get them to let go.

The same is true with body fat. You can talk to your jiggly thighs or round tummy until you are blue in the face, but sometimes you have to do things that make your body burn the fat because it isn’t going to do it on its own. What are those things? Here are seven of them:

Diet pills designed for weight loss have a very bad name. Thanks to health damaging ingredients like ephedrine, people are scared of taking any supplements that are designed to enhance the weight loss process. However, not all diet pills are harmful.

The one thing to always remember when it comes to dietary supplements, or any supplements for that matter, is to always choose one with all natural ingredients. When you are taking in the same products that are found on Mother Earth, you’re simply using nature’s goodness to help you achieve your goals.

What kind of all natural vitamins and minerals aid in weight loss?

Here are just a few:
 

It’s a fact revealed in the neon headlines splashed across every magazine cover in America, and a pressure that most women feel on a daily basis: you should strive to be tall, thin, and beautiful.

Entire fortunes have been made by diet companies selling all sorts of products to help you get there. There are plans such as the cookie diet and the South Beach movement, or others like grapefruit regimens and Paleo theories. The Slim Fast campaign sold itself in chocolate-flavored shakes and protein bars, while other methods like the Atkin’s Diet marketed purely based on a book and a theory that a low-carb life led to happiness.

Most people like French fries, and protein shakes never taste as good as the real sugary thing.

Of course, there’s always the good old doctor adage of daily exercise, but when you’re busy with work or kids or school, that doesn’t always seem like a feasible option either. There’s always something more to be done or cleaned, and the call of the treadmill or the nightly jog simply isn’t alluring enough to tear a woman away from the hectic pace of her life.

Recently, there have been plenty of rumors about the link between green coffee bean extract and weight loss. Truth or fiction? You’ll be happy to learn it’s true! In fact, a recent study showed that individuals who were overweight and took green coffee bean extract daily, lost a considerable percentage of body weight in a short period of time. Now it’s time YOU knew the secret behind green coffee bean extract!

The Active Compound in Green Coffee Beans

What is the active compound in green coffee beans that’s such an excellent fat burner? Scientists say it’s not the caffeine. What they have found is that the benefits of green coffee beans are linked to the chlorogenic acid in the beans. Roasted coffee beans don’t contain chlorogenic acid, because it is destroyed in the roasting process. Researchers from the study also point out that no negative side effects were seen by participants who received green coffee bean extract.

Green Coffee Bean Extract from Dr. Oz

The quest for weight loss has been an elusive chase for many people, so really it’s only fitting that this magical fruit would hail from an equally exotic locale. Native to the tropic forests of Indonesia, the Garcinia Cambogia plant is rapidly receiving attention for its medicinal qualities.  It has recently been praised by Dr. Oz as a miracle breakthrough for weight-loss. Who knew such a hard-to-pronounce plant would soak up so much limelight?

What You May Not Know About Garcinia Cambogia

The Garcinia Cambogia is an Evergreen plant which bears a round citrus fruit (commonly known as Malabar tamarind fruit) that vaguely resembles a small pumpkin. The fruit can come in a variety of colors, from bright yellow to orange to even purple in some cases. When cut open, Garcinia Cambogia clearly resembles the more common fruits of the citrus family.

Widely known in India and other areas of southern Asia, extracts of the fruit are traditionally used as a spice and for cooking curry; the rinds are also used as a preservative for fish due to the high acidic content it contains.