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Losing weight - small changes can make a huge difference |
| Date Added: February 07, 2010 04:33:30 PM |
| Author: chlloe52 |
| Category: Health: Weight Loss |
| Corpulence is the second principal cause of preventable death in the USA. A great many people are dissatisfied with their present weight, but the majority are not certain how to alter it. Weight management is about long-term success. People who lose weight quickly by crash dieting or other extreme ways usually put on back all (and usually more) of the pounds they lost, as they have not permanently changed their habits. The body likes slow alterations in terms of food and physical activity. The body converts food into energy. Any excess energy is stored as fat. So, if you eat more food than your body requires to function properly, you will put on extra pounds. To lose weight, you need to make your body use up these stores of fat. The most efficient way to do this is to reduce the amount of calories you eat and raise your levels of activity. Consume water instead of fizzy drinks and fruit cordials, swap whole milk for semi-skimmed, or semi-skimmed for skimmed, eat less lunch than usual, stop taking sugar in tea and coffee, have smaller portions of the food you prefer, avoid having a second serving at dinner, stop eating unhealthy treats - such as chocolates, sugary cookies and crisps - between meals, cut down on alcohol intake. Weight loss requires perpetual alterations of eating habits. While weight-loss aims are ordinarily set in term of weeks, the end game is to sustain these alterations over years. Somebody who begins to do exercise more, but sustains the same diet and calorie consumption, will almost certainly lose weight. No matter if you hate fitness centres, you will benefit from doing even light regular exercise, such as a 30-minute walk. Each time you do exercise more than usual, you burn calories. There are many means to increase the amount of exercise you do. Team sports, Pilates classes, running, walking and cycling will all better your fitness levels. All these things will impact upon your well-being in a positive way and bring the expected results. |
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