How To Keep New Year Weight Loss Resolutions

by admin on January 5, 2012

Every new year we try to make resolutions and weight loss figures prominently in our list. We secretly promise ourselves, THIS year, its going to happen!! We start our workouts and healthy meals with vigor and enthusiasm. But after a while, like an open soda can, our resolution to lose weight fizzles out. Why? What happens? Why we stop caring about new year’s weight loss resolution? What can we do to fulfill our resolution?

If we try to take care of certain simple things, we can keep our weight loss resolution and gift ourselves a healthy self to ourselves and our family.

Don’t Run to Measure Weight often: When you take steps to fulfill your weight loss resolution, avoid the scales. You have not gained weight in few weeks so you are not going to lose weight in weeks. But how to keep ourselves motivated then? How to know whether we are losing weight or not? Looks for signs. After few weeks pay attention to your body and how its responding to weight loss measures. Are you feeling energetic? Are you feeling light? Are you moving around a bit effortlessly? Have your clothes loosen a bit? If answer is yes, then feel happy. These are your rewards and motivating factors to keep your new year’s weight loss resolution.

Feel Good and Positive about Your Resolution: Don’t start your weight loss resolution with its so difficult to lose weight, I won’t, I can’t . Because this kind of mindset make you fight on two fronts. One you are fighting on weighing scales another you are fighting you, who else? Why waste your energy on two fronts? Why not concentrate on weight loss resolution only? We should feel happy that we have made a choice and if we make a conscious effort, our new year’s weight loss resolution is going to stick.

Be Realistic: While making a weight loss resolution on new year, take into account your lifestyle and responsibilities and set a realistic goal for yourself. If you are mother of young kids , definitely your schedule and time will be different from a single woman. Its very important that you set a realistic goal to achieve your new year’s weight loss resolution to avoid heart breaks and disappointments.

Stay Alert: Being alert is very important to achieve your new year’s weight loss resolution. Whenever we face a tough emotional, financial, professional or family situation, without knowing we start eating comfort food. Till we are able to devise a coping mechanism, we might have added many inches to our waistline. We have to stay alert and when we are facing problems in our life, instead of opening your fridge, pick up your phone and call a friend or family. Eating will not help, talking to a friend or family will give a fresh perspective or idea to meet the challenges of life. Meeting your new year’s weight loss resolution come from friends and family, not fridge.

Take Corrective Measures: New year’s weight loss resolutions face great threats from social gatherings, birthdays, marriage functions. They give your weight loss resolution a toss. Social occasions have emotional value too. We can’t refuse food and deserts. So enjoy the lavish spread but with some caution. Take small portions and savor each bite. If you can’t then let go and enjoy whatever portions you want. But after that be an ascetic for a week. Be frugal with sugar and fatty food and make your disposition like a saint as far as food is concerned. Eat healthy and healthy only till you reach your original weight.

Learn to Deceive Your Body: Your body has been used to whatever you are feeding it for years. So if you want your new year weight loss resolution to work make it Slow and Steady. Make slow changes in your diet and exercise. Give your body time to get used to these changes. This way you too will not suffer from withdrawal symptoms and your body too will not react in a strange manner. You will feel in control. Don’t make vegetables and fruits a measure part of your diet suddenly. Introduce healthy choices to your meals slowly. Slow and steady changes in diet will result in lifestyle changes without causing you and your body much distress. It goes without saying that your new year’s weight loss resolution will prove to be a success.

Make New Year Weight Loss Resolution Enjoyable: Be creative and introduce fun elements to your resolution. Weight loss resolutions are not some sort of punishment that you have to endure. Instead of doing exercise everyday, put on some music and dance. Go to a scenic place near your home and jog. Play some sports with your friends on weekends. Be imaginative and make your favorite dish in a healthy way. Share recipes with friends. Ask for new ideas to keep your new year’s weight loss resolution going.

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Why Losing Weight is So Hard

by admin on January 3, 2012

Why losing weight is so hard? If you wonder in amazement or disgust about the asked question, take a little bit of comfort in the fact that you are not alone. Pay attention to the formula written below:

Calories taken by You = Your Basal Metabolic Rate + Your Physical Activity

If your daily routine consists of less physical activity and more calorie intake then it will definitely result in weight gain. But weight gain is simply not an equation. Weight gain is a sum total of environmental, genetic, metabolic, behavioral and cultural factors. We love to blame our genes but genes are not that powerful most of the time.

Why we find it so hard to lose weight?

Changing Anything in Life is Hard: Actually issue is not confined to why it is so difficult to lose weight only. If you want to change one thing about yourself, you will find it extremely hard to change. For example try waking up early than your usual hours, it will not be a cakewalk. If you are an introvert, try being an extrovert. If you fear public speaking, try to go on stage and speak for five minutes. So making changes in your life is hard. We take comfort in familiarity. That’s why losing weight is also hard.

Our Modern lifestyle: More often than not, our modern lifestyle permit us to sit behind a desk or a wheel. Most of us work in a office, in front of a computer, it hardly demands any physical activity. We go for shopping, not by walking but sitting behind a wheel. We hardly have time to cook and conveniently located street food corners are bursting with delicacies that have high amount of fat, salt and sugar. We often feel trapped in this lifestyle.

Home Cooking: We can hardly squeeze in enough time for home cooking. Either we have mastered the art of opening cans or we love those take aways. It seems all the time we are doing one chore or another. So its time to compromise on cooking. But if we somehow lean to cook a decent meal, it will do wonders to our weight loss and waistline. But again, we have to change our habit and instead of grabbing a bite at someplace, we have to relearn simple cooking, with fresh ingredients. Otherwise we will always find losing weight extremely difficult.

Emotional Well Being and Food Carvings: Losing weight is so hard because we fall prey to our emotional upheavals. Whenever we feel emotionally isolated or low, we tend to enjoy food a lot. Eating a high sugar and fatty food gives us comfort for the time being though the main problem remains at the same spot, but we feel good and satiated for a while. This tends to form a vicious circle which becomes extremely difficult to break.

Difficult To Make A In Change in Habits: What we are used to make it difficult to lose weight. Its easy for us to diet and exercise for few months lose weight. But we tend to revert back to the same old lifestyle and weight gain. This again forms a vicious circle that is difficult to break. Most of us are used to our morning coffee cup. Imagine, if someone puts a ban on our morning coffee and gives us lemonade else to drink every morning? How lost and disoriented we will feel and how long it will take to drink lemonade every morning. The same goes with weight loss.

So losing weight is difficult as giving up alcohol for an alcoholics. As an alcoholics craves for his drink, we too tend to crave for our ingrained lifestyle. As giving up alcohol requires a great amount of will power and self discipline, so does a healthy lifestyle.

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Smoothies For Weight Loss

November 9, 2011

Smoothies can help you in losing weight. Though smoothies alone are not very effective tool in losing weight. You have to combine intake of smoothies with your daily exercise. Smoothies flush out toxins from your body and keep it hydrated. Fibers present in smoothies help cleaning your system thoroughly. Smoothies are said to reduce stress [...]

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