The Christmas holidays have passed and as usual one of the biggest New Year resolutions is to get in better shape. When you succeed not only do you look your best but you feel better also.
Whether the goals are weight loss, tone and strengthen muscles, or increase stamina and energy, there are many valuable resources on line to help you get in shape for your wedding. One of the healthiest recommendations would be to balance a nutritious diet with supplements and exercise regimen that results in a gradual weight loss.
The basics are simple: The calories you burn have to be more than what you take in. So begin your new year with a new diet lifestyle. Determine where you are at the start, where you are going, how you are going to get there, and how you will know when you made it.
In order to get healthy for life the best advice is to change the unhealthy habits. Avoid the sweets, eat more fruits and vegetables, choose lean meats and protein, stay away from fried and fatty foods, and be sure to drink plenty of water.
Start now if you want to be ready for summer. Keep your energy up with a safe, healthy eating plan that calls for a loss of 1 to 2 pounds a week, which, for the majority of us is about 1200 calories per day. Prepare yourself for a lifestyle change, have a schedule, throw out, or give away the things that could undermine your weight loss efforts, then replenish with healthy choices.
Exercise is essential to a good weight loss program. Just dieting loses mostly lean muscle tissue instead of fat. Add exercise to your daily routine and your body will use the fat stores for fuel instead of the muscle. If you’re really serious about getting in shape for your wedding day, you need to balance healthy eating and exercise.
Some people keep a journal that includes what, how much, and when they eat, as well as what they feel.
It can help you see your eating patterns and change them as needed. Awareness is the first step in making changes.
Before and after each exercise session, it’s important to stretch. This keeps you safe from serious muscular injury, increases your flexibility and improves your overall fitness level. Start by holding stretches 20 seconds at a time.
Aerobics are another way to burn fat and complement a healthy diet. Some cardiovascular choices include walking, running, hiking, swimming, cycling, or dancing. You might try starting with 20 minute sessions, three times a week. As your endurance improves, increase your exertion level and your length of exercise time. You don’t have to do it all at once either. Twenty minutes in the morning, at lunchtime and after work is as good as a solid hour at the gym.
If you are looking to tone up there’s nothing better than resistance or weight training. Some women believe that lifting weights will leave them looking like linebackers, but that is a myth.
Actually, resistance training is the perfect complement to aerobic exercises, and is great for improving bone strength and sculpting the body. Start with relatively low weights so that you feel muscle fatigue after one set of 12 to 15 repetitions. Like the aerobics, as you build endurance, add more weight and increase the number of times you do each exercise.
After sweating and straining it’s easy to tell ourselves that we deserve a break today and crave a fast food meal with the works, large order of fries and large soda. NOT! Remember, the key to weight loss is to use more calories than you consume, so if you’ve upped exercise only to up calorie intake, you won’t get the results you’re looking for.
As you get into your program, you need to pay even more attention to what you eat. Your body becomes more efficient and relies on the vitamins and minerals in healthy foods to fuel itself and develop muscle and lean tissue. In addition to lean meats and dairy, fresh fruits and vegetables, and whole grains, add a multivitamin to your daily diet to make certain you get the nutrients you need.
You know you have reached your goal when you fit perfectly into the clothes you wore last summer. Now the next goal is to be fit for the rest of your life. Long-term weight loss is all about making healthy eating and fitness choices part of your lifestyle forever.
This doesn’t mean that you can’t ever enjoy food or indulge yourself once in a while. Just avoid getting back into unhealthy eating habits and regaining the weight you worked so hard to lose.
Whether the goals are weight loss, tone and strengthen muscles, or increase stamina and energy, there are many valuable resources on line to help you get in shape for your wedding. One of the healthiest recommendations would be to balance a nutritious diet with supplements and exercise regimen that results in a gradual weight loss.
The basics are simple: The calories you burn have to be more than what you take in. So begin your new year with a new diet lifestyle. Determine where you are at the start, where you are going, how you are going to get there, and how you will know when you made it.
In order to get healthy for life the best advice is to change the unhealthy habits. Avoid the sweets, eat more fruits and vegetables, choose lean meats and protein, stay away from fried and fatty foods, and be sure to drink plenty of water.
Start now if you want to be ready for summer. Keep your energy up with a safe, healthy eating plan that calls for a loss of 1 to 2 pounds a week, which, for the majority of us is about 1200 calories per day. Prepare yourself for a lifestyle change, have a schedule, throw out, or give away the things that could undermine your weight loss efforts, then replenish with healthy choices.
Exercise is essential to a good weight loss program. Just dieting loses mostly lean muscle tissue instead of fat. Add exercise to your daily routine and your body will use the fat stores for fuel instead of the muscle. If you’re really serious about getting in shape for your wedding day, you need to balance healthy eating and exercise.
Some people keep a journal that includes what, how much, and when they eat, as well as what they feel.
It can help you see your eating patterns and change them as needed. Awareness is the first step in making changes.
Before and after each exercise session, it’s important to stretch. This keeps you safe from serious muscular injury, increases your flexibility and improves your overall fitness level. Start by holding stretches 20 seconds at a time.
Aerobics are another way to burn fat and complement a healthy diet. Some cardiovascular choices include walking, running, hiking, swimming, cycling, or dancing. You might try starting with 20 minute sessions, three times a week. As your endurance improves, increase your exertion level and your length of exercise time. You don’t have to do it all at once either. Twenty minutes in the morning, at lunchtime and after work is as good as a solid hour at the gym.
If you are looking to tone up there’s nothing better than resistance or weight training. Some women believe that lifting weights will leave them looking like linebackers, but that is a myth.
Actually, resistance training is the perfect complement to aerobic exercises, and is great for improving bone strength and sculpting the body. Start with relatively low weights so that you feel muscle fatigue after one set of 12 to 15 repetitions. Like the aerobics, as you build endurance, add more weight and increase the number of times you do each exercise.
After sweating and straining it’s easy to tell ourselves that we deserve a break today and crave a fast food meal with the works, large order of fries and large soda. NOT! Remember, the key to weight loss is to use more calories than you consume, so if you’ve upped exercise only to up calorie intake, you won’t get the results you’re looking for.
As you get into your program, you need to pay even more attention to what you eat. Your body becomes more efficient and relies on the vitamins and minerals in healthy foods to fuel itself and develop muscle and lean tissue. In addition to lean meats and dairy, fresh fruits and vegetables, and whole grains, add a multivitamin to your daily diet to make certain you get the nutrients you need.
You know you have reached your goal when you fit perfectly into the clothes you wore last summer. Now the next goal is to be fit for the rest of your life. Long-term weight loss is all about making healthy eating and fitness choices part of your lifestyle forever.
This doesn’t mean that you can’t ever enjoy food or indulge yourself once in a while. Just avoid getting back into unhealthy eating habits and regaining the weight you worked so hard to lose.
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