Up band by Jawbone | A New Way To Lose Weight

Then Up band by Jawbone is a cool new gadget that tracks your daily activities to help promote a healthier lifestyle and maybe the new way to lose weight.  The band works with i phones 3Gs, 4G, and 4 S, as well as the i pad, and i pod.  This is hot on the market although you do need an app for it too.

How Much Does It Cost?

If you own one the i phones or other products listed it is free for the app but the bracelet will set you back about hundred bucks right now.  Though with new techie gadgets, the cost is sure to be cut in half in a matter of time.

What Does The Up band Do?

After reading about it I think the real question is what does the Up band not do.  Here is just a few things this smart bracelet can do.  The UP band has a built-in motion sensor that automatically tracks your movement like how many steps you take, distance traveled, how many calories you burn and can even track your how much sleep you get a night.
It can gently wake you up by a soothing vibration at the ideal time your natural sleep pattern has ended.  you also can keep a journal of the food you eat by taking a picture and then writing how the food made you feel, tracking your diet plan and analyzing which foods make you feel good versus the foods that don't.

How Does The Up Band Work?

Using your i phone or other apple device you can sync the information onto the band kinda like you would with a zip drive.  The band is secured by a magnetic and on one of the ends you attach the band to your i phone.  It has a vibration motor to wake you up or remind you it is time to get your body moving.  The Up band also has motion sensors that track your movement and sleep.  It is sweet proof and you can shower with the band.  The durable band runs on a rechargeable battery that lasts about 10 days in a single charge.


The Up band by Jawbone just maybe the new techie innovation to lose weight and make quite the fashion statement.
Here is the official jawbone website to check all the cool things this "smart" band can do.

The Up band

A Closet, A Pair Of Scissors, And A Choice| A Memoir

I was in college, my first year, and I  was getting ready for class trying to find something to wear.  I still thought this was a big part of my social status, the way my clothes looked on my body.  Everything I tried on was tight, I could see the "muffin" bulge, and I started to cry, I was angry, I was hurt.

Gazing around my room at all the clothes that did nothing for my figure, I took a pair of scissors and began cutting all the material that was insulting my image.  Rage had overcome my will to control my tears and anger, ultimately this was my fault.  I continued to cut and rip anything that intimidated me to try to wear, crying, shaking in defeat.

Needless to say I missed class that day, in fact the entire week, over the closet of clothes that failed me and the distorted image in the mirror.  The chubby face, double chin, and extra bulge around the abdominal area were to much to bear this time and I felt that everyone would recognize the weight gain.

So I started to starve myself, this in my mind was the only way to get rid of the ugliness quick.  In fact i was punishing my body for not being able to keep the weight off and punishing myself for allowing myself to get to this point.  It didn't work.  It took about 8 months to realize what I was feeding my body was what was attributing to my fatal outlook of an image I had created in my mind.

The truth was I had only gained 10 pounds, yet my mind and the social network I was surrounded by was 20 pounds thinner than me, raving over their size 2 body.  Again, I was outraged.  Who was so important in society to claim the super skinny as the beautiful?  Why was it that the number inside my pants determined my social status? 

Thankfully 15 years later, society has begun to catch on that we are not to starve ourselves, we are not to feel rejected, we WILL not allow them to determine our inner and outer beauty by the size of clothing we wear. 

If you find yourself in this black desolate space of despair, please know you are never alone, you are not the only one and you are beautiful, you are of worth. 

The Best Way To Fire Up Your Metabolism, Burn Fat Fast & Developing Lasting Health

Ask ten people what type of exercise they should be doing to burn fat and fire up their metabolism and they’ll all probably tell you the same thing.  They’ll tell you that you need to do 30-40 minutes of moderately-paced aerobic exercise on a treadmill, elliptical machine, stair climber, etc. for 3-5 times per week. 

They’ll probably also tell you that more is better…4 times per week would be better than 3, and 5 times per week would be even better.

People will tell you this because that’s been and continues to be the mainstream recommendation for fat burning by many fitness professionals.  Get in a certain target heart rate and stay at that heart rate for 30 minutes or so, several times per week.  I am here to tell you there is a better way. 

Sure, you’ll burn some calories while you’re running to nowhere on a treadmill, but you won’t make a complete physique transformation with this type of exercise alone.

In fact, this type of exercise can actually be counterproductive to burning fat.  Here are just a couple of reasons:

Long duration, lower intensity aerobics calls upon your stored body fat for energy during the sessions.  While this may sound good, this can actually cause your body to create more body fat in reserve after the workout is over to have ready for your next workout.  Yikes!

What's worse, this type of exercise when done frequently as typically suggested, trains your cardiovascular system to be efficient.  Again, while this sounds good, your heart and lungs can actually reduce their capacity for work as they are getting more efficient at doing easy work (your long duration, low intensity aerobic workouts), which reduces their ability to handle stress. 

This can lead to a host of other problems including higher change of heart attack.  You are only working within your current aerobic capacity because you're never challenging it to go beyond what it's capable of.   And anything that is easy will not yield results even close to what’s challenging for the body to accomplish. 

Instead, you should be challenging the body to increase its capacity, so that it is stronger and able to deal with stress more easily.  How is this done?

The fastest and most efficient way to rev up your metabolism, burn fat faster, and develop lifelong health and fitness is to add lean muscle to your body through resistance training - period. You want life changing results in the quickest possible time? Get stronger and build some muscle. When you add lean muscle to your body you’ll be literally turning your body into a fat burning machine!

Let’s say that you were eating the amount of calories that allow you to maintain your current bodyweight, but began to add lean muscle to your body through proper resistance training…you’ll need to use some of those calories you’re eating to feed the new muscle, creating a calorie deficit in your body.

In addition, when you stimulate your body with proper resistance training like I teach my students, the repair and growth process will call upon your stored body fat for energy.  This calorie deficit combined with the repair and growth process will allow you to burn fat all day long, every day.  You’ll even get these fat burning effects when you’re sitting around doing nothing at all. 

Also, properly conducted resistance training actually increases your heart and lung's capacity for work.  By placing intense demands on your body, it is forced into being ready for anything you throw at it.  This makes you more resistant to cardiovascular health problems that plague most people...even those that exercise with aerobics frequently.

And the beauty is I’ve discovered that you don’t have to spend much time working out to get the fat loss effects, and strength and muscle gains that will create this environment…you can actually get it done with 2 or 3 weekly workouts that last between 20 and 30 minutes, and even less time at an advanced level. 

And it’s easy to make this type of exercise part of your life because of its efficiency…and it will help keep you lean and healthy for the rest of it...muscle is the stuff that fat burning furnaces are made of!  That I can promise you.

The Good Carb VS The Bad Carb

What is a good carb and if there are "good" carbs, then what are "bad carbs?

Depending on what diet plan you decide to try the definition of the two can vary and really confuse you on which one is which.

A carbohydrate is a type of calorie that contains energy, which is why you'll feel more energetic when eating foods which are rich in carbohydrates.  For example, if you eat a bag of candy or a piece of cake then you'll feel very energetic afterwards, because these are foods which are rich in excess carbs.  Although prepare for the sugar crash that follows because the energy mostly comes from the high content of sugar.

Not all carbs are fattening and since there are different types of carbs -- there are "good carbs" and there are "bad carbs" too.

Types Of bad Carbs
 
Sugar is a type of bad carb, and most people think they know how to avoid sugar.  But the truth is that sugar has different forms which are very hard to spot in foods. 



Complex carbs like white flour, white rice, and white bread contain a lot of sugar that causes your blood sugar to rise and then your body is forced in a way to mass produce the hormone called insulin and when this happens your body will store excess fat.

Types Of Good Carbs

Whole grains are a great source of good carbs, like whole wheat pasta, brown rice, and wheatberries, they will give you the necessary energy your body needs while keeping your insulin levels at a healthy range thus no threat of excess fat storage.

Fruits that contain a natural source of sugar are okay, although watch the amount of fruit you consume a day for this reason.  If you can't shake that sugar fix then grab an ounce of dark chocolate this will send a message to your brain that the body got it's way.  


The more you can switch out the bad carbs with the good carbs the easier it will be to boost your metabolism and burn off unwanted fat faster.



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