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Female fat loss requires different strategies than male fat loss only because women have a tendency to gain weight in different areas than men. Most women find it hard to lose the fat around their bellies, hips and buttocks. So even when they lose weight, it might be concentrated in other areas rather than in those places. Much of this is due to the fact that women give birth. When pregnant, a woman's body changes to adapt to the baby inside her body and the changes affect her gait as well as the curvature of her spine. So, because of this, the muscles in the front of her hips get shorter, her abdominal muscles get longer, and her body changes how it uses the buttocks to walk. Even though the body returns back to normal after birth, the patterns still remain and this is what causes the weight to accumulate [more..]

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Starting a diet doesn't have to be a total change in the food you normally eat, but by making healthy food substitutions you can get started the next time you go to the grocery store. I've met many people who believe that low fat foods are going to taste terrible, but from my experience many are very difficult to tell from the original. In this article I've listed some suggestions that I use often on how to start making healthy food substitutions in your diet. Try a turkey or a veggie product instead of the of the beef or pork version. I've been doing this for many years now and the alternatives are quite good as well with less than half the calories and fat, sometimes even less than that. Products out there are sausage, bacon, burgers, pepperoni, and so many others. If you drink milk try to scale down from whole [more..]