Many times the decision to lose weight is made in haste, usually fueled by anger or frustration. How many people angrily or disgustedly go on a diet and try to cut back on their food intake, only to find themselves craving food and overeating not long after?
A lot can be accomplished with anger or the energy built up over time with the frustration of living with a weight problem. It's okay to be angry and to vent your frustration. We don't need to go into the many ways stress and all the things in our lives may make us believe we are justified in our anger. Justified or not, the real question is, what are you going to do to help yourself?
You'd love to lose weight, great! But you may not know exactly how to go about it. There is help, you know. Many people have lost weight and you can learn from their experiences. There are also information online as well.
As a clinical hypnotherapist I learned a lot by watching the many inventive ways people dealt with their weight and problem eating behavior. One thing I can tell you is that the ones who were the most successful had a plan and had talked to an expert or other people who had managed to lose weight and keep it off.
The most important point I could make would be the old saying, "Those who fail to plan, plan to fail." My weight loss clients who were the most successful had thought about their eating habits and made plans for how they would deal with different situations that made them eat more. A plan doesn't have to be elaborate, but it does have to identify your strengths and weaknesses and have steps you can take to manage both. If you're going to put the effort into losing weight, then you deserve a fighting chance. Give yourself a plan.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Weight Loss Success - 5 Ways of Making This a Reality
Here are a list of things you can do to help you lose weight.
DRINK WATER- Drinking water is a vitally important thing you need to not only lose weight, but to keep you healthy by helping support all major organs in your body. This will help cleanse you from all of the daily toxins that builds up over time in your body. Water improves your physical and mental performance. It keeps your body hydrated allowing you to exercise longer without fatigue.
EAT YOUR FRUITS AND VEGETABLES - Eating your fruits and vegetables will give you your daily recommended intake of all essential vitamins, minerals, protein, and fiber that will help you look and feel young each and every day. All of this is great for your body, skin, hair, teeth, bones, heart and muscles. You will benefit greatly by eating as much fruit and vegetables you can throughout the day.
CUT BACK ON FATS - Try your best to cut back on foods that are very high in fat. Try not to eat three meals full in one serving. Four to six small servings throughout the day can help speed up your metabolism increasing your bodies ability to lose weight. Fats that you really want to stay away from are Trans fats, Saturated fats, Hydrogenated and Partially Hydrogenated oils. Be sure to read the label of the foods you buy to make sure you are not eating too much of these kinds of fats.
REDUCE YOUR SUGAR AND SALT INTAKE - Try to change your taste buds from the craving of too much sugar. Most foods have enough salt and sugar in them already. Enjoy foods natural tasted and save yourself from many health problems because of excess salt and sugar in your body. High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Weight Gain, Lack of Energy are just a few of the problems that are caused from eating to much salt or sugar.
BURN MORE CALORIES THAN YOU TAKE IN - Make sure you do some type of exercise that will increase your heart rate allowing you to burn more calories, so you can lose more fat. Cardiovascular exercises are great exercises to do for burning calories. This consist of jogging, running, swimming, spinning, and aerobics. Just make sure you are burning more calories than you are eating.
Following these simple steps should help guide you in the right direction so you can achieve your ultimate goals. Remember to never give up and keep pushing yourself to go that extra mile so you can lose that extra pound. I trust that you will do it and be very proud of yourself in the end.
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
The Secret to Weightloss
Perhaps you think that in order to lose weight you need to cut your calories way down. However, when we cut our calories below our Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR), which is the rate at which our bodies burn calories when we are resting, we do ourselves more harm than good.
Our bodies need calories to sustain the vital functions of our body like breathing, heart rate, waste removal, and cell repair and growth, even when we are resting. When we cut our calories way below our RMR, our body shifts into starvation mode, making our metabolic rate very slow. So, even though we are eating less, it's hard to lose weight because our bodies are fighting to keep the energy it has stored in body fat.
Lyssie Lakatos, R.D., and Tammy Lakatos Shames, R.D., authors of Fire of your Metabolism: 9 proven principles for burning fat and losing weight forever, offer these tips to boost our RMR:
1. Do 30 minutes or more of aerobic activity at least four to five times a week. Try brisk walking, biking, or dancing to burn calories and get your hard pumping.
2. Strength-train three times a week to increase your lean muscle and the rate at which your body burns calories (see the weight-training section in my Health4U site).
3. Don't wait more than five hours before you eat another meal (except at night). Skipping meals can slow your metabolism and deprive you of the energy you need.
4. Eat breakfast to wake up your metabolism after a night's sleep. Having breakfast gives you energy and helps prevent overeating at your next meal.
In order to lose weight, we need to boost our metabolism. To boost our metabolism we need to eat every few hours and we need to exercise at least five days a week. When your metabolism is high, you burn calories even when you are resting, so make sure you boost your metabolism by following the tips in this article.
Our bodies need calories to sustain the vital functions of our body like breathing, heart rate, waste removal, and cell repair and growth, even when we are resting. When we cut our calories way below our RMR, our body shifts into starvation mode, making our metabolic rate very slow. So, even though we are eating less, it's hard to lose weight because our bodies are fighting to keep the energy it has stored in body fat.
Lyssie Lakatos, R.D., and Tammy Lakatos Shames, R.D., authors of Fire of your Metabolism: 9 proven principles for burning fat and losing weight forever, offer these tips to boost our RMR:
1. Do 30 minutes or more of aerobic activity at least four to five times a week. Try brisk walking, biking, or dancing to burn calories and get your hard pumping.
2. Strength-train three times a week to increase your lean muscle and the rate at which your body burns calories (see the weight-training section in my Health4U site).
3. Don't wait more than five hours before you eat another meal (except at night). Skipping meals can slow your metabolism and deprive you of the energy you need.
4. Eat breakfast to wake up your metabolism after a night's sleep. Having breakfast gives you energy and helps prevent overeating at your next meal.
In order to lose weight, we need to boost our metabolism. To boost our metabolism we need to eat every few hours and we need to exercise at least five days a week. When your metabolism is high, you burn calories even when you are resting, so make sure you boost your metabolism by following the tips in this article.
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