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I have come across so many people who are overweight who have given up on diets and weight loss programs because they ‘just don’t work’. They feel that they should just come to terms with the fact that they are always going to be overweight, it’s in the genes or they have a ‘dysfunctional’ metabolism.
In most cases it has very little to do with genes or a ‘dysfunctional’ metabolism. There is absolutely no reason why anybody should resign themselves to being overweight. It is possible for everybody to lose weight.
In simplistic terms, weight is all about calories consumed versus calories burnt. Burn more calories that you consume and you will lose weight. There are ways of burning calories. The first is through normal every day activity and the other is by taking exercise. How effectively you burn calories is again down to how much exercise you take and also to the health of your muscles, both contribute to making your metabolism more effective. Keeping properly hydrated is also important for better metabolic efficiency. If you have been a serial dieter, then your muscle mass may have been seriously depleted. Resistance exercises are needed to build your muscles back up and make your metabolism more effective.
How many calories you consume is very important. If you reduce your calorie intake too much your body will work against you and prevent you losing weight. If you consume too many calories you will put weight on probably whether you take exercise or not.
One common trait amongst those who have ‘given up’ trying to lose weight is that the majority of people fool themselves about the number of calories they consume. In one instance the person concerned was convinced that she was only consuming 1600 calories a day. She was incredibly proud that of her healthy diet. The reality was that her daily calorie intake was 3500 not 1600. The extra 1900 calories she consumed was due to the fact that her portion sizes were too big and that she was economical with the truth when it came to totalling her calorie intake. She was not destined to be overweight. She had it in her power to lose weight and lose weight permanently. A dose of honesty and new eating and lifestyle habits the answer to her problem.
There is no need to become a fanatical calorie counter, but you have to know how many calories you consume every day. Why is this so important?You need to have some basic calorie information so that, in your enthusiasm to lose weight, you don’t trigger the ‘famine factor’.
There’s a very simple, but obvious rule, which surprisingly few people understand:
To lose weight you have to burn up more calories than you take in.
The greater the difference between the two, the faster the weight loss. You will achieve this by changing your eating habits, taking the right amount of exercise, and adopting new habits – slim habits.
Being more aware of the calorie values of your food means you’ll be able to take informed decisions about what you should be eating. For instance, when you discover that a slice of chocolate fudge cake contains 420 calories and you would have to run for over half an hourto get rid of those calories, it should make you think. You should eliminate your unnecessary calorie intake and identify which foods you were eating too much of. Now is the time to increase your awareness of calories, not only how many you consume, but how many you are able to burn by increasing your activity levels.
Exercise is an essential component of any worthwhile weight loss program and certainly crucial if you are going to try and lose weight permanently. Permanent weight loss is very much a case of increasing your awareness of what you eat and how much you exercise. Get yourself a good weight loss plan and stick to it it’s one of the simplest and most useful weight loss tips you’ll ever get!
Do you know what’s going on in your mind? You might think you do, but are you sure? Every day you have about 60,000 thoughts. Are these random thoughts, or are they all part of a logical process? Sometimes our thinking is quite structured and logical, but actually, most of us allow our thoughts to run riot. One thought follows another, often with no rhyme or reason. We’re taken down alleys and cul-de-sacs, and then dumped unceremoniously as another thought zooms in and takes us off again into the unknown. This part of our internal dialogue, the ever-present conversation we have with ourselves. It’s called mind chatter.I
Is there anything wrong with mind chatter? There’s nothing ‘wrong’ with it, no – it happens – but it’s a symptom of out-of-control thinking which can be dangerous. Learning to slow down your thinking and to ‘notice’ your thoughts is an important skill to master. If you have no discipline in the way you think, you’ll end up being controlled by your thoughts.
Uncontrolled thinking allows negative thoughts to have the upper hand. When this happens, you’re likely to spend a great deal of your time ‘awfulizing’, allowing negative thoughts to balloon and multiply in your mind. This isn’t helpful when you’re trying to change your life and learn new habits. Self-doubt is always tapping at the door, and you need to be able to keep it out.
If you want to be successful at losing weight, you need to learn to control your thoughts. Awfulizing about your weight or how well or badly you’re doing will not be helpful. The best way to lose weight is to not allow negative thoughts to rule. Permanent weight loss can really only be achieved if your mental attitude is strong and you control the way you think.
The Wall Street Weight Loss Plan – are you crazy? Surely they’ve got other things to think about? Maybe they’ve got some spare time on their hands while things are being sorted out or some genius has decided that a little less ‘fat on the cat’ might do their public image a bit of good.
Wall Street is in bad health. Why? Because of excess and greed, it’s that simple. The situation is so bad that it is in the process of suffering a breakdown.
Weight gain is about excess and greed too. When we behave in an irresponsible or unconcerned way about what we eat and how much we eat, we too increase the risk of our health breaking down.
We all know that Wall Street is going to have to change if it wants to return to good health. It is going to have to behave in a different way in future. It’s going to have to learn new habits.
By learning new habits, and if it can maintain those new habits, (with a little help from a more watchful regulator) it can enjoy a healthy future.
The same applies to us. Sometimes we need to be brought up short to realize the error of our ways – as in Wall Street. We all know in our heart of hearts that the bill for our excesses and our greed is going to have to be paid someday.
What has gone on in Wall Street has a positive point which all those who are overweight or obese would be wise to note. It is in fact a very clear prompt that sometimes change is not an option, it’s a necessity.
Events on Wall Street show us that sometimes things have to change or survival is put at risk. In the same way, we have to make personal change if we are to lose weight and secure our health and survival. To do this we must do what they are doing on Wall Street right now – to recognize the behaviors that caused the problems in the first place and then learn new habits. Learning new habits will determine new behaviors. Only when we learn new habits – new Slim Habits, can we secure lasting change.
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