8 Most Overlooked Ways to Lose Weight

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img alt="Most Overlooked Ways to Lose Weight" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1815" height="333" src="http://womanitely.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Most-Overlooked-Ways-to-Lose-Weight.jpg?e343f1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="500" /><br /> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There are many effective yet overlooked ways to drop unwanted pounds. Many of us usually turn to exercise and strict dieting as the ways to get in shape when there are many other useful things we can do. Just because you are trying to lose weight doesn’t mean you should starve yourself and spend endless hours at the gym. You can make small changes and reach your fitness goal faster. Without further ado, here are 8 most overlooked ways to lose weight.</span></div> <h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 15px;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1. Ditch dieting</span></span></h2> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Although dieting can help you drop those unwanted pounds, it makes you always crave more and more of everyday foods. Ditch dieting, instead start eating healthier. Learn to opt for healthier foods and aim to have mini meals throughout the day. Leading a healthy lifestyle is one of the most effective ways to lose weight, boost your energy levels and improve your overall health.</span></div> <h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 15px;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">2. Eat more vegetables</span></span></h2> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When it comes to weight loss, you often focus on the things you must avoid eating. However, I suggest you to start focusing on the wholesome foods that you can add to your eating plan, such as vegetables. Add more veggies to your omelet, green smoothies, munch on raw vegetables during the day and have a vegetable stir-fry for dinner. Eating more vegetables each day is one of the most overlooked ways to drop pounds that really works. Veggies are high in fiber, phytonutrients and vitamins that help your body lose weight and feel better about yourself.</span></div> <h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 15px;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">3. Ditch processed food</span></span></h2> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Avoid eating all the fat-free and low-fat foods since they’re highly processed with plenty of chemicals and harmful artificial sweeteners. Incorporate more whole foods, veggies and fruits into your healthy diet to achieve your fitness goal. Not only are processed foods bad for your waistline, it’s also bad for your health.</span></div> <div> <br /></div> <h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 15px;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">4. Give up sugar</span></span></h2> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to lose weight, make sure you don’t consume refined and added sugars. A teaspoon of sugar has 16 calories and it can add up faster than you think. Try to reduce your sugar intake or eliminate it from your healthy diet completely. Even if you don’t want to lose weight, try to give up sugar for good. Your body and health will thank you.</span></div> <h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 15px;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">5. Cut out the alcohol</span></span></h2> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Maybe you are not a huge drinker, but that alcoholic beverage you drink with dinner may contain plenty of calories. Unfortunately, calories from alcoholic beverages are often overlooked and it might be a reason why you can’t lose weight. Reduce your alcohol intake to see fantastic results!</span></div> <h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 15px;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">6. Get enough sleep each night</span></span></h2> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you are sleep deprived, it will be harder to lose weight. Getting enough sleep every night will help reduce the cortisol levels. When your cortisol levels are high, your body tends to crave more fatty, salty and sugary foods to make it happy again, making losing weight much more difficult. No matter how busy you are, make sure you get 7-8 hours of sleep every night to balance the hormones that influence your appetite and hunger, known as ghrelin and leptin, which tell you when you need to eat and when you are really hungry. When you are sleep deprived, it disrupts their normal function and you may feel hungry when you are actually not.</span></div> <h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 15px;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">7. Turn off your TV</span></span></h2> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stop wasting your time watching TV; there are many wonderful things you can do instead of watching TV, which can help you lose weight. Get outside and play with your kids or pets, or enjoy the fresh air with a run or even bike ride. Move more each day to improve your health and get in the best shape of your life. This is another overlooked yet easy and fun way to drop excess pounds.</span></div> <h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 15px;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">8. Walk more</span></span></h2> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As I mentioned above, you need to move more each day to lose weight. Walking is the fantastic way to do it. Walking will help improve your mental and physical health as well as drop weight. Start walking today to slim down and save on gas, and you will boost your energy levels and mood as a result.</span></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> </div> </div>

8 Most Overlooked Ways to Lose Weight

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SES, CWG bring low cost digital TV platform to W/Africa

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">New digital television  platform  that will provide access to a greater number of stations to households in Nigeria and across west Africa at a relatively low cost has been launched in Nigeria.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The digital TV platform was launched recently in Lagos by the global satellite company, SES in partnership with Computer Warehouse Group Plc (CWG), a pan-African ICT company.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />With the new collaboration, SES would provide the space segment and specific ground services, while CWG will manage the teleport services required to project the signals to users, using high operational standards.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The new digital TV platform would afford broadcasters the opportunity of reaching a broader audience; millions of satellite homes in West Africa that receive broadcast signals with their dishes facing 28.2 degrees East.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The platform offers end-to-end contribution, ground and space services to local, regional, national and international TV broadcasters across West Africa at cheap rates. It would also afford broadcasters the privilege to migrate from analogue to digital TV to meet the digital migration deadline of June 2015.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Chief Technology Officer, CWG Plc, Mr. James Agada who spoke during the unveiling of the digital TV platform at the just concluded Broadcast Summit held in Lagos told the gathering that, “CWG  is evolving away from the traditional IT Company in the Nigerian context to becoming a utility enabler, under the CWG 2.0 initiative. According to him, “The brand new digital ‘Direct To Home’ (DTH) free-to-air platform is ultimately designed to help accelerate and alleviate the challenges broadcasters and content owners face in the digital migration process.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The platform is packaged as an innovative approach in order to address the challenges of the cost of migration, operation, operational and support challenges, platform agility and flexibility and platform neutrality”.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Also speaking, Russell Southwood, CEO, SES Balancing Act said that, “SES shares a partnership history with CWG that spans about ten years and CWG has proven to be a dependable teleport partner for this project”.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to Theodore Asampong, SES sales Director, Africa, “All that the subscriber is required to pay for is the cost of acquiring a decoder and installing a dish to receive broadcast signals. After this, they will have access to all channels available on the platform, without subscription fees”.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Speaking on the importance of the project, Mr. Austin Okere, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CWG Plc, said, “For years, the majority of households in West Africa has been shut out of the digital broadcasting experience.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“ Together with SES, we are excited to enable broadcasters to deliver their content cost-effectively, and in excellent technical quality to millions of households across the region.”</span></div> <div class="OUTBRAIN" data-browser="safari" data-dynload="" data-ob-mark="true" data-os="ipad" data-src="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/ses-cwg-bring-low-cost-digital-tv-platform-to-wafrica/" id="outbrain_widget_0" obdone="true" style="border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="ob_brnBox_cont NA" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span class="ob_empty" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><wbr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></wbr></span><span class="ob_org_header" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div> </div> <br /></div>

SES, CWG bring low cost digital TV platform to W/Africa

New digital television  platform  that will provide access to a greater number of stations to households in Nigeria and across west Africa...

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