Sunday, October 3, 2010

How Can I Lose Weight - Sensibly, Safely and Permanently?


By Polly Standish

Everyone wants everything now...not tomorrow, not next week, but now. That includes weight loss. Nothing worthwhile comes easily.

you need to work at it and give it time. Your body uses calories as a car uses gas. It uses calories at the rate of 3500cal/lb of fat. To lose this weight you need to take in less calories and allow the body to use the calories it already has stored.


Is it easy? No. Can you do it? Yes. And you can lose weight insensibly and safely. You can lose it permanently. In almost every case of someone being overweight a new mindset toward food and learning a new way to move that body is required to effectively lose weight.


Mind over matter?


That is not an easy thing to master but you can do it. After all food is just that, food... a source of energy for your body


Losing weight requires two things - sensible eating and sensible exercising.


Exercise can be in any stage whether it be walking once a day or three times a day or going through a mild workout daily or weekly. Whatever you decide. The body needs to move to lose the energy it has already stored in it.


There are many diets out there to follow and after a while they all become boring and old and dull. It is much easier to use common sense when eating and calling on will power. Don't store those high calorie foods in the food pantry. Leave them on the store shelves.


Quick weight loss is not a healthy goal. Usually losing weight fast means losing muscle and water. You need muscle to keep your metabolism elevated. The more muscle tissue you lose the less calories you can take in daily without gaining more weight. It is much healthier to lose 1-2 pounds a week than 6 or 7. Remember, one pound requires using 3500 calories. If you take in 250 calories less each day and burn off 250 a day with exercise you will lose one pound a week.


Mind over matter is not as easy task but definitely possible and definitely self-satisfying once mastered.


There are also many exercise machines on the market. which all promise to work wonders for your body. They too become boring and dull after using a while and soon sit in the corner idle. How much better to get out of bed in the morning and do twenty "pushups" from the edge of your dresser. That will give you the start you need. Soon you will be doing thirty, then fifty. Soon you will be trying the real thing -pushups on the floor.


Exercise energizes your body. Try it. The blood flows faster. The mind is clearer and you feel good.


It can even be addicting and that is not a bad thing.


Most importantly, have patience with yourself. If you really want to lose weight and keep it off it will take that new mindset, one that says "I am tired of being overweight. It is silly to be overweight and that's all there is to it." Once that thought becomes real within you you will lose weight. But give it time
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You can lose weight. Make that effort and do it, sensibly, safely and permanently.


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