Lose Weight the Healthy Way

As mentioned earlier, the best weight to go about losing weight is to undergo gradual changes in your physical regimen and diet. It may not seem like it but even small changes can lead to a big difference. Losing weight is about understanding how your body stores excess fat.



Weight loss is often discussed in terms of diet and exercise and this is no coincidence. In simple terms, losing weight means getting the body to use up fat which give the body the energy it needs to move. In other words, exercising forces your body to burn stored energy. In the same manner, reducing the amount of calories you take reduces the fat your body can store.

How to Lose Weight

Among the biggest mistakes that people do when trying to lose weight is going through a crash diet and bursts of exercise. These do nothing more than push your body to the limit without any benefit at all. In fact, you are doing more harm to your body when trying to lose weight this way.

Crash diets often involve restricting the kinds of food you can eat without giving your body enough time to adjust. While it is true that calories have an effect on your weight, a sudden drop in calorie intake can have adverse effects on your well being. Restricting food intake could also result in vitamin and mineral deficiency.

An abrupt change in your physical activities is not good for your body either. People who are not used to exercising should not start exhausting themselves on a treadmill all of a sudden. The resulting struggle will just devastate and demoralize your efforts. On the physical level, pushing yourself to the limit might result in injury.

Nothing good will ever come out of going against the body’s natural rhythm. The same goes with any weight loss program. With this in mind, the proper and healthy way to shed some weight is to introduce changes gradually. This means getting into a program designed to take advantage of the body’s natural processes instead of going against it.

 

Thinspiration - The Importance of Exercise

Now that you have ensured a healthy diet, the next step to take is to increase your activity levels. Keep in mind that you have to move around more to burn that excess fat. For most people, this is the difficult part of any weight loss program. This transition becomes more difficult if you have never exercised before.

Most people often think of the gym when exercise is brought up. While this is correct, you do not even need the gym to exercise. Light activities such as a 20-minute walk go a long way in terms of burning calories. This of course can be done around your neighborhood or anywhere with enough space.

Other activities are available as well. Team and racket sports are a fun way to get your body moving. Taking aerobics classes can be done at the gym or in your own home. Running, swimming and cycling are great ways to burn calories as well. As long as you are moving more, you are good to go.

For better results, find something to do which you really like. Consider things such as practicality, location and cost as well. This makes it easier to turn your selected activity into a routine. Remember that you have to keep this up in order to keep the fat off.

The following are additional tips and simple things to do to burn excess calories:

• Use the weekend as an extra exercise day. Have a picnic at the park with the healthy food that you prepared yourself. Leave your car and walk the way.
• Instead of using elevators and escalators, use the stairs instead. Every step you take is a form of exercise and certainly adds up to the big picture.
• Once commercials play, use this time to stand up and do a bit of exercising. Better yet, use a stationary bike while watching.

If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying.