Small Steps For Weight
Loss
Lose Weight Easily With Small Steps In Life
If you have a considerable large amount of weight to lose,
like 20 pounds or more, it might seem really daunting to you
to achieve the target. Is it any wonder that so many people
try to cover it, or to deny that the problem is as serious
as it really is? But studies show that being severely overweight
will put you at huge health risk, so it is dangerous to deny
the weight problems that you are having and it can be deadly.
Still, when you think about it a solid diet program to lose
weight, it is depressing indeed. One pound is equivalent to
about 3500 calories, and just thinking about how much exercise
you would have to do to burn that much is exhausting. It is
easy to understand why people tend to put it off, even though
that has the potential of making the problem worse.
Maybe the best advice, take it slow, take things one at a
time. Don’t try to lose the weight all at once, especially
if you have plenty of weight to lose. What you can do is,
commit a small change in your life weekly so you move closer
towards your goal. For example, the first week you might decide
to add some exercise to your daily regime. If you have no
time or the energy to go to the gym and do a full scale work
out, don’t worry about it because you can still do your
part. You can try to commit to going for a fifteen minute
walk every day after dinner, just fifteen minutes, it is easy,
but you have to do it every day, rain or shine. It doesn’t
sound like an ambitious plan and almost anyone can do it.
The point is actually doing it, not just thinking about it.
The next week, you might decide to address your diet habit,
so you decide to eat fruit for a snack to substitute the regular
crackers or chips. Again, it’s a small thing, just one
modified snack a day. But again, when you do it in a long
run, soon it will start to make a difference.
Here’s the trick, though. When you start implementing
your second week’s change, keep doing the changes you
have made in the first week, since you are used to it and
each of these changes, in and of themselves, are small and
easy. So during the second week, you’re walking every
day and eating fruit. You are doing well on the path to diet.
In the third week, you may decide to eat a bit less. Here’s
an easy way to do it, for your regular meals, take away a
quarter of it. So, fill your plate and then take off a quarter
of the food and put it in a Tupperware container for later,
or buy a slice of pizza at lunch but tear off a quarter. After
that, you can just enjoy the rest of the meal or snack, regardless
of what it is. Fruits and vegetables are exempt from this
process. .
It is usually at this point, around the three-week mark,
people will start to see a difference in the way their clothes
fit. That’s when you start to see the effect of weight
loss, and it will only accelerate during the coming weeks.
We don’t recommend that you weigh yourself, however.
Save that for the end, and you’ll be surprised by the
result. In the meantime, just enjoy how different your lifestyle
changes are making you look and feel. Keep accumulating them.
If those are not enough for you, here are some more ideas
for some slow changes that you can do: In the fourth week,
you might want to give fried foods a pass if you have a habit
of eating them. Instead of taking elevator, walk instead.
Park three blocks away from home or the office and walk the
remainder. The point is this will slowly add up. Small changes
will slowly add up to a huge difference.
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