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LivinBest_Life
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G'day all, I am Chris 🙋♂️ living in Australia
I am on a journey to living past 100 years old, I am not kidding you! I tell u this life is worth living and there is no time like the present to get and be the best you internally and externally ......
I am a positive and happy man, motivated, passionate to help people, fun loving and adventurous, have a great knowledge of health and fitness and live this life always finding ways and ideas implementing NEW HEALTH HACKS to improve my life.
I am here to help improve yours with the hacks I have learnt to help transform you! Sounds like FUN, well it is so come ON m8!
I am on a journey to living past 100 years old, I am not kidding you! I tell u this life is worth living and there is no time like the present to get and be the best you internally and externally ......
I am a positive and happy man, motivated, passionate to help people, fun loving and adventurous, have a great knowledge of health and fitness and live this life always finding ways and ideas implementing NEW HEALTH HACKS to improve my life.
I am here to help improve yours with the hacks I have learnt to help transform you! Sounds like FUN, well it is so come ON m8!
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Great attitude
My grandma lived to be 103!! She had all her faculties but just kinda tired of life...wore out so to speak.
It's possible!4 -
Good morning! My first week using this app and I lost 4.5 lbs the first week. My question is I cannot seem to figure out how to have the app calculate net carbs or does it not have that function? I love the tracker but this is the one thing I am having a problem with can you help me?2
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LivinBest_Life wrote: »G'day all, I am Chris 🙋♂️ living in Australia
I am on a journey to living past 100 years old, I am not kidding you! I tell u this life is worth living and there is no time like the present to get and be the best you internally and externally ......
I am a positive and happy man, motivated, passionate to help people, fun loving and adventurous, have a great knowledge of health and fitness and live this life always finding ways and ideas implementing NEW HEALTH HACKS to improve my life.
I am here to help improve yours with the hacks I have learnt to help transform you! Sounds like FUN, well it is so come ON m8!
So what are some of your NEW HEALTH HACKS?11 -
Good morning! My first week using this app and I lost 4.5 lbs the first week. My question is I cannot seem to figure out how to have the app calculate net carbs or does it not have that function? I love the tracker but this is the one thing I am having a problem with can you help me?
Change your diary entries to show fiber instead of sugar or sodium. It then will take about a second to mentally subtract that number from your total carb number to get net carbs.
If you have a lot of time, you can create your own net carb entry for every food you eat. but I don't know anyone who has that time.6 -
Good morning! My first week using this app and I lost 4.5 lbs the first week. My question is I cannot seem to figure out how to have the app calculate net carbs or does it not have that function? I love the tracker but this is the one thing I am having a problem with can you help me?
Change your diary entries to show fiber instead of sugar or sodium. It then will take about a second to mentally subtract that number from your total carb number to get net carbs.
If you have a lot of time, you can create your own net carb entry for every food you eat. but I don't know anyone who has that time.
Everyone has time. It takes just a few minutes to create a spreadsheet and if you know how you can use the formula function to make all the calculations for you!
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fdlewenstein wrote: »Good morning! My first week using this app and I lost 4.5 lbs the first week. My question is I cannot seem to figure out how to have the app calculate net carbs or does it not have that function? I love the tracker but this is the one thing I am having a problem with can you help me?
Change your diary entries to show fiber instead of sugar or sodium. It then will take about a second to mentally subtract that number from your total carb number to get net carbs.
If you have a lot of time, you can create your own net carb entry for every food you eat. but I don't know anyone who has that time.
Everyone has time. It takes just a few minutes to create a spreadsheet and if you know how you can use the formula function to make all the calculations for you!
The poster was asking about doing it on MFP. If someone wants to recreate the wheel on a separate spreadsheet they can but I prefer to use the tools already available. BTW, I count total carbs, not net carbs, and I changed the sugars default to fiber anyway because it is very important to get enough fiber.5 -
LivinBest_Life wrote: »G'day all, I am Chris 🙋♂️ living in Australia
I am on a journey to living past 100 years old, I am not kidding you! I tell u this life is worth living and there is no time like the present to get and be the best you internally and externally ......
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v
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fdlewenstein wrote: »Good morning! My first week using this app and I lost 4.5 lbs the first week. My question is I cannot seem to figure out how to have the app calculate net carbs or does it not have that function? I love the tracker but this is the one thing I am having a problem with can you help me?
Change your diary entries to show fiber instead of sugar or sodium. It then will take about a second to mentally subtract that number from your total carb number to get net carbs.
If you have a lot of time, you can create your own net carb entry for every food you eat. but I don't know anyone who has that time.
Everyone has time. It takes just a few minutes to create a spreadsheet and if you know how you can use the formula function to make all the calculations for you!
Not sure what the spreadsheet would be for.
The poster you were responding to pointed out that you can track fiber and do the subtraction in your head (super easy and satisfying for me when I was tracking net carbs) or, if you'd rather spend the time, create new net carb entries for each food you log. That's a lot more time, but if you care about having only net carbs show in carbs it might be worth it to someone, dunno.
Neither requires a spreadsheet or formulas (and since the calculations are super basic subtraction everyone can do in their head I'm not sure why you'd want to use a formula function, but I assume this was just people talking past each other).2 -
Why do you say living in Australia Chris? Were you not born here? Hope you are not around any of the fires or floods. We got flooded badly last year.1
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miss_zita_2020 wrote: »Hi Chris, all the best in achieving your goals 🙌
Thanks so much miss_zita! Best of luck to you too😉😊1 -
Why do you say living in Australia Chris? Were you not born here? Hope you are not around any of the fires or floods. We got flooded badly last year.
All safe and sound thanks. Have avoided all of these disasters. YES I am living here in Australia 😊😎
Thanks for your kind words of concern Mockchoc! 🤗0 -
I am 55 years old, 8 years ago I was almost 200 lbs. I am down to 175, but seem to be at a dead end. I stay below my calories. Very active, exercise 5 mornings a week. Strength and cardio mix 3 days strength 2 days cardio.3
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Now who would disagree with that!! Love it, Thanks.
Fill your brain with some dopamine in the morning to help u feel good for the day ahead!1 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »LivinBest_Life wrote: »G'day all, I am Chris 🙋♂️ living in Australia
I am on a journey to living past 100 years old, I am not kidding you! I tell u this life is worth living and there is no time like the present to get and be the best you internally and externally ......
I am a positive and happy man, motivated, passionate to help people, fun loving and adventurous, have a great knowledge of health and fitness and live this life always finding ways and ideas implementing NEW HEALTH HACKS to improve my life.
I am here to help improve yours with the hacks I have learnt to help transform you! Sounds like FUN, well it is so come ON m8!
So what are some of your NEW HEALTH HACKS?
I wanna know this too... 🤔2 -
Hey all. I'm new, 7 days on the App. I am a 41-year-old man living in South Africa. I do Crossfit 3/4 times a week and eat below, or right on my calorie goal every day. I have given up all alcohol, but I must say, I am seeing centimeters drop off the waistline but no kgs. I often feel rather tired during the day despite getting to bed early every night. Any thoughts?1
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Hey all. I'm new, 7 days on the App. I am a 41-year-old man living in South Africa. I do Crossfit 3/4 times a week and eat below, or right on my calorie goal every day. I have given up all alcohol, but I must say, I am seeing centimeters drop off the waistline but no kgs. I often feel rather tired during the day despite getting to bed early every night. Any thoughts?
How long have you been doing this?2 -
LivinBest_Life wrote: »Now who would disagree with that!! Love it, Thanks.
Fill your brain with some dopamine in the morning to help u feel good for the day ahead!
This is a common misconception of dopamine. Serotonin is more the neurotransmitter of happiness, if we want to be that reductionist.
Dopamine does a lot of things depending on where it is being transmitted, but in terms of emotions, it is probably best considered anticipation. Just as an example, dopamine not only potentiates pleasure, it does potentiate pain - an increase in dopamine before a painful event will increase the pain perception, and I believe in the transmission levels of substance p. Putting those two together, it could even be said that dopamine is about learning, which you could guess based on this pedantic commentary almost brings me back around to calling it happiness, but I think many would disagree.14 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »
I know the feeling lol!3 -
LivinBest_Life wrote: »Now who would disagree with that!! Love it, Thanks.
Fill your brain with some dopamine in the morning to help u feel good for the day ahead!
Thanks I agree!1 -
Hey all. I'm new, 7 days on the App. I am a 41-year-old man living in South Africa. I do Crossfit 3/4 times a week and eat below, or right on my calorie goal every day. I have given up all alcohol, but I must say, I am seeing centimeters drop off the waistline but no kgs. I often feel rather tired during the day despite getting to bed early every night. Any thoughts?
Hi Donsenna, my thoughts are: Do you get enough sleep?
We are all different but a big cause of the body storing fat is stress. Cortisol is released in the body when we are stressed and some of us - a lot, lets face it are under stress bc of work, the lives we lead etc, it is everywhere. So if you are under stress your body wont be absorbing and processing your food as well as if you weren't under stress and so therefore it stores more bodyfat - usually around your mid section. Fight or flight...
In the days of the caveman we ate when we were hungry and could actually find food and didn't "graze" all day long like many of us do with Macca's, Supermarkets, 7 elevens, the abundance of food available all around us. Our bodies need a rest.....
HACKS
*Get good sleep, at least 7-8 1/2hrs - between the hours of 10pm and 1am each hour of sleep for the body at these times is worth 2 hours sleep - Take magnesium before you go to sleep - up to 2 hours before if u want and this will help you wake fresher among many more health benefits - more than 70% of people are deficient in this
*Gut health - we are what we absorb! Include in your diets foods that encourage "Good Gut Health" such as fermented foods - sauerkraut, greek yoghurt, fibrous foods - whole vegetables, fruits, garlic, sourdough bread etc
A probiotic supplement may benefit you too
*Intermittent Fasting - Give your stomach a rest to catch up! This is a great way to appreciate hunger and for your body to relax and reset. Maybe do some research here, but you can do it however you like and this will help with your belly fat. You might want to eat for say a 10 or 12 hour window during the day. Say your first meal is at 7am and under a 12 hour window you have your last meal at 7pm and then you eat nothing until morning again. But drink water.
Then if you want to be hardcore you take a day during the week randomly and you fast for the entire day.....
* Water - the first thing that should go in your mouth in the morning, at least 500mls - 2 cups, even with a little vinegar - I mean 50,000 Japanese cant be wrong, in a study of more than 50,000 Japanese who were over 100 years of age it is reported that they drank water when they first woke in the morning.....
* Drinking water in the morning will set you up for the day boosting your metabolism up to 30% !
There are sooooo many more hacks, but these are some easy ones to adopt that will help with belly fat. There will be skeptics on here but this is all scientific research so it is pretty accurate.
Best of luck and sorry it is so long. I post hacks on my page so FR me if you want to see them and join in.
Thanks
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Hey Snickerscharlie. A month.1
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LivingBest_life thank you. I usually go to bed at 21:00 and am asleep by 22:00. I get up at 5:30 am, however, I have a young daughter and she usually disturbs my sleep for about and hour or so on and off during the night. I normally have a glass or tow of water first thing along with an espresso coffee, no sugar. Then a do an hour of Crossfit, get home, have a 92 calorie health bar. At 10 am I have a 54 calorie protein snack. I also have two cappuccinos with no sugar. At lunch, I have whatever, a mix of protein, some veg, and starch. Dinner is usually protein with salad and starch. I drink about 3 litres of water a day. I take a multivitamin, vitam d3 and iron supplement.1
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LivinBest_Life wrote: »Hey all. I'm new, 7 days on the App. I am a 41-year-old man living in South Africa. I do Crossfit 3/4 times a week and eat below, or right on my calorie goal every day. I have given up all alcohol, but I must say, I am seeing centimeters drop off the waistline but no kgs. I often feel rather tired during the day despite getting to bed early every night. Any thoughts?
Hi Donsenna, my thoughts are: Do you get enough sleep?
We are all different but a big cause of the body storing fat is stress. Cortisol is released in the body when we are stressed and some of us - a lot, lets face it are under stress bc of work, the lives we lead etc, it is everywhere. So if you are under stress your body wont be absorbing and processing your food as well as if you weren't under stress and so therefore it stores more bodyfat - usually around your mid section. Fight or flight...
In the days of the caveman we ate when we were hungry and could actually find food and didn't "graze" all day long like many of us do with Macca's, Supermarkets, 7 elevens, the abundance of food available all around us. Our bodies need a rest.....
HACKS
*Get good sleep, at least 7-8 1/2hrs - between the hours of 10pm and 1am each hour of sleep for the body at these times is worth 2 hours sleep - Take magnesium before you go to sleep - up to 2 hours before if u want and this will help you wake fresher among many more health benefits - more than 70% of people are deficient in this
*Gut health - we are what we absorb! Include in your diets foods that encourage "Good Gut Health" such as fermented foods - sauerkraut, greek yoghurt, fibrous foods - whole vegetables, fruits, garlic, sourdough bread etc
A probiotic supplement may benefit you too
*Intermittent Fasting - Give your stomach a rest to catch up! This is a great way to appreciate hunger and for your body to relax and reset. Maybe do some research here, but you can do it however you like and this will help with your belly fat. You might want to eat for say a 10 or 12 hour window during the day. Say your first meal is at 7am and under a 12 hour window you have your last meal at 7pm and then you eat nothing until morning again. But drink water.
Then if you want to be hardcore you take a day during the week randomly and you fast for the entire day.....
* Water - the first thing that should go in your mouth in the morning, at least 500mls - 2 cups, even with a little vinegar - I mean 50,000 Japanese cant be wrong, in a study of more than 50,000 Japanese who were over 100 years of age it is reported that they drank water when they first woke in the morning.....
* Drinking water in the morning will set you up for the day boosting your metabolism up to 30% !
There are sooooo many more hacks, but these are some easy ones to adopt that will help with belly fat. There will be skeptics on here but this is all scientific research so it is pretty accurate.
Best of luck and sorry it is so long. I post hacks on my page so FR me if you want to see them and join in.
Thanks
Ah. As to your NEW HEALTH HACKS, I've bolded some of the things you wrote that I'd like to give my thoughts on:
Get good sleep, at least 7-8 1/2hrs - between the hours of 10pm and 1am each hour of sleep for the body at these times is worth 2 hours sleep.
How the heck does that work, and can you show us the scientific research you claim to have for this? What about people who work nights? Are they doomed to not being able to take advantage of this NEW HEALTH HACK?
Take magnesium before you go to sleep - up to 2 hours before if u want and this will help you wake fresher among many more health benefits
No one should take *any* supplements because some random person on the the internet told them to. They should speak to the their doctor before adding anything new, first to determine if it's actually needed, and second to make sure the supplement won't have a negative interaction with any other medications the person might be currently using. I find it especially disingenuous that (with all of your NEW LIFE HACKS) you're *telling* people what to do instead of making suggestions of things they might want to check out.
Gut health - we are what we absorb! Include in your diets foods that encourage "Good Gut Health" such as fermented foods - sauerkraut, greek yoghurt, fibrous foods - whole vegetables, fruits, garlic, sourdough bread etc
A probiotic supplement may benefit you too
Fermented foods are all the rage now. Again, you're telling people what to do instead of making suggestions, here. A probiotic supplement, (if even needed) should only be taken on the advice of a doctor in order to help with a specific deficiency or issue. It's definitely *not* a one-size-fits-all thing.
Intermittent Fasting - Give your stomach a rest to catch up! This is a great way to appreciate hunger and for your body to relax and reset. Maybe do some research here, but you can do it however you like and this will help with your belly fat.
Your stomach doesn't need "a rest." Your digestive system is designed to work 24/7. That's like saying you should give your lungs and heart a rest once in a while, too, and that wouldn't end well.
Intermittent Fasting is a great way for some people to restrict how many calories they ingest in a day. Eating less calories than you burn is the *only* way to reduce body fat - regardless of the method, diet or plan you use to achieve that. Intermittent Fasting does not magically target belly fat. Nothing does. Any caloric deficit achieved through diet (including IF) will result in loss of *overall* body fat, which will include belly fat at some point. For a lot of people, belly fat is actually the last place they will see significant reduction. The body does what the body does and there's no way to spot reduce fat from a specific area.
Water - the first thing that should go in your mouth in the morning, at least 500mls - 2 cups, even with a little vinegar - I mean 50,000 Japanese cant be wrong, in a study of more than 50,000 Japanese who were over 100 years of age it is reported that they drank water when they first woke in the morning.....
Drinking water in the morning will set you up for the day boosting your metabolism up to 30% !
I drink water first thing in the morning for 3 reasons: 1) I'm thirsty and my mouth is dry. 2) I need water to take my morning meds. 3) I'm waiting for my coffee to brew.
The vinegar? No proven health benefits, contraindicated for a *lot* of people with stomach issues, and it tastes like death in a glass. Would love to see this study, and I would guess up front that the longevity of these 50,000 Japanese likely has waaaaay more to do with overall diet as opposed to drinking vinegar water in the morning. Ditto on the drinking water boosting metabolism by up to 30%.
There are sooooo many more hacks, but these are some easy ones to adopt that will help with belly fat. There will be skeptics on here but this is all scientific research so it is pretty accurate.
I'm definitely one of those skeptics - especially when it comes to what you claim is "all scientific research."
To MFPers reading this. Please don't take advice from strangers on the internet, even if they try to position themselves as being authoritative and knowledgeable. Something that sounds benign and helpful can actually be very harmful to you, specifically.
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Hey Snickerscharlie. A month.
How are you measuring your caloric intake? Are you using a food scale? If not, I can highly recommend getting one. Best 20 bucks you'll ever spend on yourself!
There are lots of things that can be affecting your lack of results. Here's a chart to help you sort through it. Your answer is in there, I promise!
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Hey all. I'm new, 7 days on the App. I am a 41-year-old man living in South Africa. I do Crossfit 3/4 times a week and eat below, or right on my calorie goal every day. I have given up all alcohol, but I must say, I am seeing centimeters drop off the waistline but no kgs. I often feel rather tired during the day despite getting to bed early every night. Any thoughts?
How much total weight do you want to lose? If you don't have much to lose and the workout effort or frequency is new this month, your muscles might be retaining some water.
Take a look at your month of days logged and do a gut check - Are you calculating your serving size carefully? Are you double checking that the database entries you are choosing have the correct calories. Are you logging everything? It's not always what we want to hear, but 99% of the time, it's a logging issue. It simply takes most of us some practice to be able to be really honest and exact about what we're consuming.
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1
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LivinBest_Life wrote: »Hey all. I'm new, 7 days on the App. I am a 41-year-old man living in South Africa. I do Crossfit 3/4 times a week and eat below, or right on my calorie goal every day. I have given up all alcohol, but I must say, I am seeing centimeters drop off the waistline but no kgs. I often feel rather tired during the day despite getting to bed early every night. Any thoughts?
Hi Donsenna, my thoughts are: Do you get enough sleep?
We are all different but a big cause of the body storing fat is stress. Cortisol is released in the body when we are stressed and some of us - a lot, lets face it are under stress bc of work, the lives we lead etc, it is everywhere. So if you are under stress your body wont be absorbing and processing your food as well as if you weren't under stress and so therefore it stores more bodyfat - usually around your mid section. Fight or flight...
In the days of the caveman we ate when we were hungry and could actually find food and didn't "graze" all day long like many of us do with Macca's, Supermarkets, 7 elevens, the abundance of food available all around us. Our bodies need a rest.....
HACKS
*Get good sleep, at least 7-8 1/2hrs - between the hours of 10pm and 1am each hour of sleep for the body at these times is worth 2 hours sleep - Take magnesium before you go to sleep - up to 2 hours before if u want and this will help you wake fresher among many more health benefits - more than 70% of people are deficient in this
*Gut health - we are what we absorb! Include in your diets foods that encourage "Good Gut Health" such as fermented foods - sauerkraut, greek yoghurt, fibrous foods - whole vegetables, fruits, garlic, sourdough bread etc
A probiotic supplement may benefit you too
*Intermittent Fasting - Give your stomach a rest to catch up! This is a great way to appreciate hunger and for your body to relax and reset. Maybe do some research here, but you can do it however you like and this will help with your belly fat. You might want to eat for say a 10 or 12 hour window during the day. Say your first meal is at 7am and under a 12 hour window you have your last meal at 7pm and then you eat nothing until morning again. But drink water.
Then if you want to be hardcore you take a day during the week randomly and you fast for the entire day.....
* Water - the first thing that should go in your mouth in the morning, at least 500mls - 2 cups, even with a little vinegar - I mean 50,000 Japanese cant be wrong, in a study of more than 50,000 Japanese who were over 100 years of age it is reported that they drank water when they first woke in the morning.....
* Drinking water in the morning will set you up for the day boosting your metabolism up to 30% !
There are sooooo many more hacks, but these are some easy ones to adopt that will help with belly fat. There will be skeptics on here but this is all scientific research so it is pretty accurate.
Best of luck and sorry it is so long. I post hacks on my page so FR me if you want to see them and join in.
Thanks
Yeah, nope. Most of what you've posted above are myths and nonsense.6 -
Me too! Any tips for keeping my bp up ?0
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LivinBest_Life wrote: »Hey all. I'm new, 7 days on the App. I am a 41-year-old man living in South Africa. I do Crossfit 3/4 times a week and eat below, or right on my calorie goal every day. I have given up all alcohol, but I must say, I am seeing centimeters drop off the waistline but no kgs. I often feel rather tired during the day despite getting to bed early every night. Any thoughts?
Hi Donsenna, my thoughts are: Do you get enough sleep?
We are all different but a big cause of the body storing fat is stress. Cortisol is released in the body when we are stressed and some of us - a lot, lets face it are under stress bc of work, the lives we lead etc, it is everywhere. So if you are under stress your body wont be absorbing and processing your food as well as if you weren't under stress and so therefore it stores more bodyfat - usually around your mid section. Fight or flight...
In the days of the caveman we ate when we were hungry and could actually find food and didn't "graze" all day long like many of us do with Macca's, Supermarkets, 7 elevens, the abundance of food available all around us. Our bodies need a rest.....
HACKS
*Get good sleep, at least 7-8 1/2hrs - between the hours of 10pm and 1am each hour of sleep for the body at these times is worth 2 hours sleep - Take magnesium before you go to sleep - up to 2 hours before if u want and this will help you wake fresher among many more health benefits - more than 70% of people are deficient in this
*Gut health - we are what we absorb! Include in your diets foods that encourage "Good Gut Health" such as fermented foods - sauerkraut, greek yoghurt, fibrous foods - whole vegetables, fruits, garlic, sourdough bread etc
A probiotic supplement may benefit you too
*Intermittent Fasting - Give your stomach a rest to catch up! This is a great way to appreciate hunger and for your body to relax and reset. Maybe do some research here, but you can do it however you like and this will help with your belly fat. You might want to eat for say a 10 or 12 hour window during the day. Say your first meal is at 7am and under a 12 hour window you have your last meal at 7pm and then you eat nothing until morning again. But drink water.
Then if you want to be hardcore you take a day during the week randomly and you fast for the entire day.....
* Water - the first thing that should go in your mouth in the morning, at least 500mls - 2 cups, even with a little vinegar - I mean 50,000 Japanese cant be wrong, in a study of more than 50,000 Japanese who were over 100 years of age it is reported that they drank water when they first woke in the morning.....
* Drinking water in the morning will set you up for the day boosting your metabolism up to 30% !
There are sooooo many more hacks, but these are some easy ones to adopt that will help with belly fat. There will be skeptics on here but this is all scientific research so it is pretty accurate.
Best of luck and sorry it is so long. I post hacks on my page so FR me if you want to see them and join in.
Thanks
Yeah, nope. Most of what you've posted above are myths and nonsense.
Nor is it any of it even new. You would think the NEW HEALTH HACKS would at least include something creative and different.8
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