In line with the recent wellness craze and the ever-increasing concern about appearance thanks to social media, more people are becoming interested in living a healthy lifestyle—and looking good in the process. Fat burners are among the most popular supplements out there, promising to help with weight loss. Depending on the ingredients, they can approach this in multiple ways: by convincing your body to burn fat into fuel, by boosting your energy, or by suppressing your appetite.
They sound like magic pills, but in reality, you can’t lose weight by relying on fat burners alone. Popping a pill or two daily without doing anything else will barely give you any results. Fat burners are more like add-ons rather than the foundation of a weight loss regimen, and you can count on them for getting you 10% of the way there—but only after you’ve done the work of exercising and eating properly.
Another caveat, as with any saturated market, is that not all supplements live up to their claims. Manufacturers can release them without having to get approval from the Food and Drug Administration, so it’s up to consumers to do the research and be discriminating.
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Ingredients in Fat-Burning Supplements
One of the most important things to check for is the list of ingredients and their dosages. Here are some common ingredients that have been found to be effective in burning fat:
Caffeine
Commonly found in coffee and tea, caffeine does more than keep us awake. It’s actually a stimulant that’s present in most fat burners, and studies consistently report that it increases caloric burn, boosts metabolism by as much as 16%, and gives more energy for working out. In particular, caffeine accelerates the breakdown of fat, which then becomes available in the bloodstream to be converted into fuel. Another benefit is that it reduces cravings and naturally makes people want to eat less.
L-carnitine
L-carnitine is often called an amino acid, but it functions like a vitamin. Among its many roles in the body is fat metabolism or using fat as fuel. The more L-carnitine you take in, the more your body becomes capable of burning fat , and that leads to increased energy. This process also chips away at visceral belly fat, which wraps around your organs and which can be fatal if allowed to accumulate over time. Here’s something neat: L-carnitine prevents lactic acid from building up as much in your muscles, so post-workout soreness won’t be as bad.
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Green Tea Extract
Green tea extract comes from green tea, which has been touted for its health benefits. Its main fat-burning components are caffeine and epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), an antioxidant that boosts metabolism and reduces belly fat. Its mechanism involves inhibiting a certain enzyme so that fat-burning chemicals remain active for longer. Because caffeine and ECGC complement each other, green tea extract as a whole, increase the breakdown of fat and prevents it from forming. In an analysis of six studies, people who took both green tea extract and caffeine burned 16% more than normal.
Capsaicin
Capsaicin is the active compound and source of spiciness in chili peppers. Aside from helping make your food more flavorful, it’s also helpful with weight loss. Scientists are still trying to understand how exactly this works, but a study observed that people who had red pepper for each meal felt more satiated, with fewer cravings. Because of its fat-burning properties, capsaicin has been labeled as a thermogenic chemical that suppresses appetite. The spiciness helps—because of the rise in body temperature, your body ends up burning more calories. Other studies have shown that it makes fat breakdown and metabolism more efficient and reduces the waist-to-hip measurement ratio.
Top Fat-Burning Supplements
Even knowing the top fat-burning ingredients, it’s easy to get lost in the sheer number of supplements out there. As backed by science and thousands of user reviews and experiences, BroScience recommend these three successful fat-burners:
This was originally only meant for MMA fighters and boxers who had to reach their required weight for a competition deadline, but it became so popular that the general public started using it. It’s excellent for muscle definition, as sworn to by many pro-MMA fighters, and its combination of fat-burning ingredients earns an A+: green tea extract, caffeine, capsaicin, green coffee extract, and glucomannan, all at effective dosages, as well as Vit B6 and B12 for that energy booster.
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Alpha Lean-7 is a multi-tasking weight loss product that aims high, conditioning your body and aggressively burning off body fat. One standout is that it’s free from DMAA (1, 3 Dimethylamylamine), which is found in many supplements and which may cause side effects. So-called advanced users or those who are already fit will benefit the most from this. At the top of the ingredient list are eria jarensis extract, caffeine, dandelion powder, betaine, green tea, and L-carnitine.
LeanMode is a sought after fat-burning supplement for those who want to do without caffeine or stimulants in general. It’s a product of Evolution Nutrition, a sports supplement company, and impressively, it’s the top fat burner on Bodybuilding.com for 2018. Aside from fast-tracking the body’s fat-burning mechanism, it cleanses and energizes cells with antioxidants. Its ingredients include conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), garcinia cambogia, green tea extract, green coffee bean extract, and L-carnitine.
While there is a vast difference in quality among fat-burning supplements, each person’s body is different, so a supplement that works for one may have zero effects for another. It may take a bit of experimentation before you figure out which supplement to take. Moreover, this isn’t an instant solution, so leave at least two weeks to check for results.
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If you do a bit of reading about the subjects of WordPress, SEO or content writing, then you’ve very likely to come across some of Maddy Osman’s work. After all, her writing has appeared in a who’s who of online publications for companies such as Adobe, Automattic, GoDaddy, Search Engine Journal, WPMU DEV and a host of others.
She’s also spoken at various WordCamps (in addition to being an organizer of the Denver, CO event) and is personally involved in a number of tech and social-related organizations. In other words: Maddy keeps quite busy!
Thankfully, she still took some time to speak with me regarding her early start in web design, the process of finding her passion for writing, advice for freelancers and her thoughts on an eventful time for WordPress. Below is our conversation, edited for brevity.
Tell us a little bit about your background in web design. I hear that you started out at quite a young age!
Do you remember those AOL CDs we’d get in the mail to try the service? My love affair with the Internet started around the same time my parents installed a dial-up connection at our house.
It didn’t take long for me to be inspired by other people’s creations, intrigued enough to learn how to make my own websites. Lissa Explains it All was where I turned for simple instruction on HTML and CSS and Geocities is where I experimented and refined my skills. I was 11 years old when I started this new hobby.
I knew I was on to something in high school, when I entered a local business competition in a web design category and ended up winning some college scholarship money two years in a row.
At what point did you know that you wanted to pursue a career in the field?
It was all for fun until college, when I realized that my web design skills could be traded for a job that paid (slightly) more than minimum wage. Working for my school’s student life marketing and design department gave me the opportunity to experiment with several different content management systems: SilverStripe, Joomla, and eventually, WordPress.
My boss at the time encouraged me to take on a freelance project that he didn’t have time for and it was at that moment that I knew that my early dabbling in web design could support me, even in situations where I wasn’t working for a company full-time.
Although my business, The Blogsmith, isn’t primarily focused on web design at the moment, it was because of this early experience freelancing that made me eventually feel solid in my decision to quit my full-time job to freelance full-time.
You have become a prolific freelance writer as well. How did that come about?
While working at that same college job, I was given the opportunity to also contribute to the student life blog and social media channels. I had a lot of fun coming up with new topics to write about, then watching our social engagement grow.
These were my earliest experiences with creating content for an audience and a defining moment for where my freelance career would eventually lead me. Web design was my gateway to freelancing, but writing took over as my passion.
I took on a few freelance content creation assignments on the side of my full-time jobs after college. When I finally quit to start my own business, content creation (especially freelance writing) became the majority of the work I was billing clients for.
Today, I still design websites, but mostly for my own projects.
As far as becoming prolific, I’m not sure if I’m worthy of that word quite yet but I do think I’m well on my way to becoming a known voice within the niches I specialize in writing for. As far as how I got there, the TL:DR; is that I leveraged writing for high-authority publications, sometimes for free, to build more bylines.
I talked about it in more detail on a recent Clients from Hell podcast if you’re curious about the finer details.
You’ve written quite a bit about freelancing. In your opinion, what’s the biggest challenge in starting out on that path?
I think that fear of the unknown and the fear that you won’t be able to provide for yourself (or your family) are the biggest reasons that people who would be amazing freelancers hold themselves back.
One thing I learned early, perhaps because my first job post-college involved doing sales at Groupon, is that when it’s all on you to provide for yourself, you’ll keep pushing until you stumble on the right approach to land and keep clients.
There’s something both terrifying and empowering about being in charge of how much money you make.
My advice for the people who are nervous to bridge the gap between a full-time job and freelancing full-time?
Start a side hustle. Establish processes. Build out your marketing materials and start building up a list of clients before you quit your full-time gig. By the time you’re ready to dive fully into it, you’ll have done most of the heavy lifting — hedging your bets for success.
It sounds like you have an incredibly busy schedule. How do you manage it all?
Over the years, you refine your workflow and the processes that support a productive workday. For me, this has involved hiring help for a number of tasks in my business that include research and administration. I also outsource the things I know I’m not good at(/hate), like bookkeeping.
As soon as you can justify it (which I can almost guarantee is sooner than you think), I highly recommend doing the same.
It’s hard to leave money on the table by paying people to do things that you could probably do yourself but I think that you’ll realize that your quality of life as a freelancer gets a lot better when you don’t work 80 hours to avoid working 40.
On that note, constantly re-evaluate your existing workflow to determine where things can be automated/outsourced. I’m a big fan of creating process documentation for recurring tasks — partially to demonstrate to myself that with the right direction, these tasks can be easily handed off.
As someone who is actively involved in the WordPress community, what are your thoughts on the major changes it has undergone in the last year?
The hasty deployment of Gutenberg has been pretty polarizing between different camps in the WordPress community and I’m still not 100% sure where I stand in the debate.
On one hand, change is often a good thing when it comes to new technologies, even though it can initially be hard to accept. It’s hard to adapt an established workflow for something so radically new but Gutenberg definitely holds a lot of promise.
On the other hand, Gutenberg shipped out with some major compatibility issues that are still being worked out. So I’m hesitant to dive deep into how to best make use of it until the first movers fully vet it and all the kinks are worked out.
On a different note, I’ve recently been working with BigCommerce on a series of posts that highlight their new WordPress ecommerce plugin. As someone who operates a WordPress-powered ecommerce store, I’m excited by the potential this headless commerce solution introduces to the market.
Will WooCommerce remain supreme with this powerful new challenger? In the short term, absolutely. But as more people test out the new BigCommerce plugin, the game could totally change.
I’m excited to see what 2019 will bring for the WordPress community!
As you look at your career, where do you see yourself in the future?
This is an excellent question that I don’t know that I can answer.
In the immediate future, I’m working on growing as a paid speaker. I’m also hoping to leverage my blog to create more sponsored content for clients after having a lot of accidental success with this in the past year. In general, I’d like to spend this year being more intentional about growing my business with regards to these two items, as opposed to just letting opportunities fall into my lap.
One of my big goals for 2019 is to find more opportunities to give back — both monetarily and in terms of donating my time to worthy causes. I have something big planned to help new freelancers but you’ll have to stay tuned as I finalize the details. ;) Stay in the loop by subscribing to my email newsletter, which goes out once a week.
Our thanks to Maddy Osman for her time and insight! Be sure to check out The Blogsmith to keep up-to-date with her latest articles and speaking engagements.
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The stock of NUTRAFUELS INC (OTCMKTS:NTFU) registered a decrease of 32% in short interest. NTFU’s total short interest was 8,500 shares in February as published by FINRA. Its down 32% from 12,500 shares, reported previously. With 78,600 shares average volume, it will take short sellers 0 days to cover their NTFU’s short positions.
The stock increased 11.44% or $0.0195 during the last trading session, reaching $0.19. About 375,178 shares traded or 816.95% up from the average. NutraFuels, Inc. (OTCMKTS:NTFU) has 0.00% since February 24, 2018 and is . It has by 0.00% the SP500.
NutraFuels, Inc. manufactures and distributes oral spray nutritional and dietary products to retail and wholesale outlets. The company has market cap of $20.20 million. The companyÂ’s products include sleep spray to support a healthy sleep cycle and improve the quality of restful sleep; energize spray to enhance energy, and restore vigor and vitality; and garcinia cambogia spray, an appetite and weight management spray. It currently has negative earnings. It also offers NRG-X extreme energy spray to enhance energy and stamina; headache and pain spray to relieve headaches and pain; and hair, skin, and nails spray to nourish and encourage hair, skin, and nail growth.
More news for NutraFuels, Inc. (OTCMKTS:NTFU) were recently published by: Marketwired.com, which released: “NutraFuels (NTFU) Files its Application to Up List to the OTCQB OTC Market – Marketwired” on January 29, 2018. Globenewswire.com‘s article titled: “Freedom Leaf Inc. Announces National Distribution Agreement Other OTC:FRLF – GlobeNewswire” and published on February 28, 2018 is yet another important article.
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