Weight Loss Diet - Fat Loss Diet and the Difference Between Them

If losing weight is your goal you need to understand the difference between a fat loss diet and a weight loss diet.

Here are some of the differences:

A weight loss diet:

• Is all about restricting calories in the hope of trying to starve fat from the body.

• Reduces food intake usually way too much causing the body to experience 'diet shock' and slowing the metabolism (the body's engine) as a result.

• Sucks the life energy from you and makes you miserable.

• Creates intense and often uncontrollable food cravings resulting in binges and overeating making you crazy.

• Processed and refined foods acceptable if calories are low.

• Does not increase health and fitness and leaves one flabby and weak.

• Lowered energy levels do not support a proper exercise program that needs some strength and energy invested in it to make positive changes to the metabolism.

• Is about less - less food - less energy - less strength - poor metabolic health - less fat burning.

• Creates fat storing hormones (cortisol) from the stress of lowered food intake.

• Is punishment to the soul

A fat loss diet on the other hand:

• Is all about creating a healthy metabolism to burn the fat from the body.

• More food than normal usually needs to be eaten to boost metabolism.

• Meals are 2-3 hours apart and contain 300-400 calories.

• Must have protein and complex carbohydrates at each small meal.

• A balance of macro-nutrients (protein/carbohydrates/fats) is essential for fat burning.

• Natural, whole unprocessed foods should be eaten at least 80 percent of the time.

• Eating this way creates loads of energy to be active and increase fat burning.

• A strength training exercise program needs to be done at the same time to keep the fat burning machinery (muscle tissue) burning fat at the highest rate.

• Creates fat burning hormones to make ditching the fat as easy as it can be.

• This way of eating and exercising creates a strong, lean, healthy, shapely body

• Gives you more food - more energy - more strength - more life and three times the results in half the time when done properly.

• Makes you feel a million bucks.

So now you have it. Which one will you choose? Bit of a no-brainer really. Forget the old fashioned dieting and get yourself a brand new body and healthy metabolism with a proper exercise program that keeps your muscle tissue toned, healthy and in good condition. Combine that with a proper eating plan that will boost your health and support your activity need and you have the recipe to get you in the very best shape of your life.

The Difference Between Flexible and Rigid Chimney Liners

Cylindrical metal chimney liners are available in rigid and flexible forms. Rigid liners are assembled from sections of pipe and lowered inside the flue. Flexible liners are made of continuous lengths of corrugated tubing which are installed inside the flue. Differences between flexible and rigid chimney liners include cost, ease of installation and situations where each is appropriate for use.

A metal chimney liner can be installed inside a clay tile chimney liner, or inside an unlined chimney, to seal the flue and prevent dangerous gases from leaking back into the building. A clay tile liner will deteriorate over time due to weathering, corrosive condensation from combustion products and foundation settling. A tile liner can be repaired or replaced, but this requires expensive masonry work. Installing a metal liner is often a better economic choice.

The type of metal liner that is appropriate depends on the physical configuration of the chimney and the type of application the liner will be venting gases from. The metal liner will be extended from the top of the chimney all the way to the vent of the fireplace, woodstove, furnace or other fuel burning appliance. If the flue is straight from top to bottom, a rigid chimney liner may be the best choice. If the flue is offset, or has one or more bends between top and bottom, then a flexible liner would work best.

The materials for a rigid liner are less expensive than the materials for a flexible liner, but you have to take labor costs into account when you are estimating the cost of your chimney liner. For a short, straight flue that will not require a lot of complicated joint work, a rigid liner would be the cheapest. But, a flue with offsets would require skilled pipe fitting and a lot of specialized parts to build a rigid liner that is properly sealed and safe to operate. The labor costs involved in installing a single piece flexible liner in a crooked flue will be far cheaper than the cost of a rigid liner.

Future maintenance costs are another consideration in choosing between a rigid and flexible liner. Since rigid liners are assembled from shorter joints of material, they have more places to develop future leaks than a single piece flexible liner does. Rigid liners have smooth interior surfaces, so they do not accumulate creosote as easily as the corrugated interior of a flexible liner. Some manufacturers offer smooth walled flexible liner material at a little higher cost.

Some chimney specialists believe that the expansion and contraction of the corrugated metal in a flexible liner actually keeps creosote from building up by cracking it and breaking it loose from the grooves as it accumulates. In either case, a flexible liner with smooth bends is easier to clean than a rigid liner if the rigid liner has one or more sharp angles between top and bottom.

If you are confused about the best type of liner to install in your chimney, your local chimney cleaning professional can give you advice during your annual chimney cleaning.