Weight Loss - Lifestyle
Following a healthy lifestyle and weight loss diet will ensure you loose weight. Weight Loss is about eating the right foods and ensuring you
burn more calories than you consume. Your lifestyle will contribute
to the amount of calories you burn and the way your body stores
fat. Your lifestyle, to some extent, also sets your metabolic rate. If you lead the right lifestyle, you can raise your metabolic
rate. What is a correct lifestyle for weight loss?
Your lifestyle will have a direct effect on any weight loss program. To succeed in loosing weight you should:
- Exercise before breakfast.
- Have a morning Green Tea before breakfast.
Drinking a morning green tea to fire up your metabolic rate.
- Eat breakfast.
When you sleep your metabolic rate slows down, so
by eating the right break fast you will not only kick start
your metabolic rate again, you will also ensure that you do
not reach for bars of chocolate half way through the day cause
you feel hungry. You should have a bowl of porridge or museli
for break fast. Stay away from sugary breakfast.
- Eat a healthy snack.
Have a museli bar or fruit mid morning and mid afternoon. Remember, if you eat often and little, which raises your metabolic rate and helps your fat and weight loss situation.
- Eat carbohydrate low Glycaemic Index.
Complex Carbohydrates prevent heart disease and cancer, so what ever you do you should not cut out carbohydrate. By eating low GI carbohydrate, you will actually be likely to eat less through out the day as it stops you feeling hungry.
- Afternoon walk or jog.
Ideally you should walk, jog or cycle to and from work. Walking is especially beneficial for loosing weight safely.
- Add interval training.
By adding interval training to your normal weekly schedule you will burn more calories. Interval training is where you introduce fast 30 second sprints in between one minute slow jog intervals, for a total of 10 minutes. You will burn more fat in the long run this way than normal Weight Loss Jogging.
- Drink water.
Its essential to drink water for weight loss. Ensure you have a two liter bottle of water with
you at work and you drink it slowly through out the day. Stay
away from commercial drinks, even the diet ones and the so
called sports drinks.
- Do some weight training.
weight training does not necessarily turn you into a body builder. Weight training is important for healthy joint and the bone density. Also, do remember that the more muscle you have the more calories you burn.
- Eat fresh food.
Fresh foods is essential to any weight loss diet
as it provides your body with the maximum nutrition.
- Museli bar.
Museli bars are great for when you feel hungry. Have them handy and eat one as soon as you feel the hunger coming.
- Go to bed early.
Research has shown that people who slept four hours or less were 75% more likely to be obese.
- Grill your food.
You should ideally grill your foods rather than oven cook or fry. Use the kind of grill that draws the fat away from the food.
- Control the unused energy.
Carbohydrate is essential to your health and well being, but carbohydrate should only be eaten before 5PM to allow your body time to burn the energy before you go to bed. Remember, when you sleep, your metabolic rate slows down and any unused energy is stored as fat.
- Stay away from ready made meals and junk foods, as well as foods high in sugar. Remember sugar effects weight loss.
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 Children & Obesity
In simple terms, obesity is caused when the body stores excessive calories.
Obesity in civilized countries is reaching epidemic proportions. What
is worrying is that the children too are now more obese than ever before
in the history of man kind!
Child Obesity and Weight Loss
 Calories and Weight Loss Weight loss depends on the amount of calorie intake. Calories are used by the body to perform its day-to-day functions. However, when the calories taken in is greater than the energy burnt, then the excess calories are stored as fat. The most common reasons for excessive consumption of calories are:
- Psychological
- Emotional
- Lack of knowledge
- Habit
calories and weight loss
 Weight loss plans There are a number of VERY dangerous diet plans used to target weight loss. A dangerous, or misleading, diet is one which provides "rapid" result. Remember, in order for a diet to be effective and safe, your body needs time to adjust to the change in your lifestyle. This is because rapid dieting will almost always have health consequences, and in fact research has also shown that as soon as your body adjusts to the diet, you will start to put on weight at even a higher rate than before.
Weight loss diet
 Weight Loss plans to be avoided For legal reasons we are unable to actually name dangerous or misleading
weight loss diets, however, the following is a list which should help
you identify these diets for yourself.
- Any diet that cuts out any essential food groups (Specially carbohydrates!)
- Any diet that promises or guarantees fast result
- Any diet that involves you drinking only liquid food.
- Any diet that involves you buying processed and ready made "food
substitutes".
Weight loss diets
 Diet The food you eat is the single most important factor in your
weight loss program. Weight loss is only achieved through
a healthy diet.
Weight loss diet and health
 Exercise Exercise is vital not only to a safe weight loss plan, but, is also crucial to the general operation and well being of the human body.
Weight loss exercise
 Measuring Body Fat Measuring the Body Fat is a much more accurate way of measuring
how your weight loss program is going than using a bathroom
scale. The bathroom scales are highly misleading!
Measure Body Fat
 Swimming Swimming is a VERY effective and safe way of burning calories. Its one of the safest ways of exercising as you do not put any excessive force on the joints.
Swimming
 Walking Walking is one of the safest form of exercise as you burn those calories without excessive wear and tear on the joints.
Walking
 Pilates and Yoga Pilates and Yoga are important to any weight loss program as they both encourage good body posture and alignment.
Pilates
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