Weight Loss Routine
A weight loss routine is essential if you plan to lose weight and keep it off. A fad diet or diet pills may work temporarily, but the weight will come right back. Therefore, it makes sense to have a routine, something you do by a change in lifestyle.
A change in lifestyle is the only way to have permanent weight loss. It doesn’t have to be a drastic change, so that your life is turned upside down and you’re stressed out about it.
You can get a weight loss routine by changing one thing at a time this way it’s doable. Why set yourself up for failure? This is exactly why many diets and fitness plans don’t work. People attempt to make drastic changes and realize they can’t do it!
Or they may try someone else’s plan which won’t work either. It needs to be your plan a weight loss routine that you designed because only you know what you can and can’t do.
Okay, so where do you start? You start with the beginning of the day at breakfast. Just make it your goal for the week to eat a low calorie healthy breakfast, no donuts or junk. Did you know you can get rid of hundreds of calories just by doing this one thing?
After the week is up move on to doing lunch the same way; a low calorie healthy lunch for a week. The next week move on to dinner and pretty soon you will have a pattern of eating healthy. If you fall off the wagon a day or two just get right back on, don’t rest there.
While you’re doing this make it a point to add a little more activity each day like walking, playing with kids or maybe going up and down stairs at work or home. Something is always better than nothing. This is how you will gradually design a weight loss routine.
It needs to fit into your daily life, not something that totally disrupts and causes chaos by interfering with your job or family. I’m not saying there’s no effort, because there is and it’s all up to you to follow through. No reason to delay get started right away.
Maintain Weight Loss and Stay Healthy
If you want to maintain weight loss and stay healthy you can do it. The key is to stay consistent with the program that helped you get there. Many people gain weight back because they stop doing what they did to lose the weight.
They stop exercising and revert back to unhealthy eating habits. All this does is create a yo-yo gain and lose issue that can go on for years. When you do this it’s hard on your body and self esteem as well. Nobody feels good when they’re over weight.
Once you’ve reached the weight you desire it’s time to reevaluate weight loss goals. Now that you have lost the weight it’s time to maintain weight loss with a new plan.
The new plan will allow you to up calories a bit and not workout as hard as you did to lose. Only you know how many calories less you ate to lose, so only you know how many you need to maintain weight loss. If you feel comfortable with your workout leave it alone.
While you’re over weight you are out of balance and when you’re in the process of losing you’re out of balance too. However, now you want to create a balance.
Being in balance won’t feel natural at first because you’re used to being out of balance. You will want to under eat, over eat, exercise more, exercise less, back and forth like you have been. It’s a matter of habit more than anything, you crave being out of balance because that’s what you’re used to. This is what you’re up against to maintain weight loss.
The good thing is that now you know, so you can gain control over your emotions. Just because you want to do something doesn’t mean you have to do it. You can control your emotions with your mind. It’s called discipline!
Discipline is a foreign word to a lot of people, but it’s what you need to maintain weight loss. It will help to reset goals and write them down. It’s also a great idea to share them with another person who is going through the same thing, which will provide emotional support.
Remember it’s a lifestyle now not a diet and you’ve won the battle!