A good day of weight loss habits put into practice
Posted Sep 07 2008 8:36pm
Losing weight and getting in great shape is all about habits. You need to practice habits that help you achieve your goals instead of hindering. If your daily habits all lend themselves to helping you lose weight, then the road to fitness and leanness is not such as tough one.
Let's look at the daily habits of a person who is slowly getting fatter and then compare them to those of a person losing weight.
The weight gainer:
wakes up and gets ready for work, skipping breakfast
drives to work
gets to the office, takes the elevator and sits at their desk
at lunch, walks to the nearest fast food place and eats way to much because they are so hungry from missing breakfast, also because it is close and they didn't pack a lunch
spends the rest of the lunch hour sitting then goes back to the desk and sits until work is over
elevator back down to the parking garage
drives home
gets home and is so tired they have to sit on the couch for 1-2 hours
makes dinner, instant packaged stuff because their is no time
has dessert after processed dinner
sits on the couch until midnight
goes to sleep for 6 hours
Ok, so let's go over the habits that are making this person get fatter and fatter. Number one they don't exercise, not even by accident! In fact, their entire live revolves around sitting and doing nothing. Sitting in the car, at their desk and on the couch. Walking as little as possible and avoiding exertion. Also, the food choices are terrible! No breakfast to stimulate the metabolism, no healthy snacks to keep overeating down and no healthy food. How can someone have the energy to exercise if they don't feed themselves properly? Lastly, speaking of energy what is with the 6 hours of sleep? How can anyone be a healthy and productive person without sleeping at least 8 hours? Also, sleeping more will allow you to burn more fat and store less.
Now to our healthy subject:
wakes up and instantly makes a breakfast of eggs, fruit and other natural foods
walks or bikes to work, sneaking in some exercise
takes the stairs up to work, more exercise
works at their desk, sitting on an exercise ball and getting up frequently to move around a bit
has a light snack mid-morning of almonds and lots of water
works until lunch time
at lunch bikes or walks to get some exercise, possibly home to make lunch or take a nap
eats a healthy lunch of lean meats and veggies
works through the after noon, similar to the morning
walks or bikes home from work
once home, gets exercise gear together and has a vigorous workout, feels great
cleans up, relaxes then prepares a healthy, high protein home cooked dinner
relaxes until bed-time
8 hour sleep or more
As you can see, the healthy person has a lot of great habits. A solid eating plan of scheduled meals and nutritious food. Plenty of exercise both light and intense to burn up calories and keep healthy. And finally a solid nights sleep to really recover and reduce stress on a regular basis.
If you take a close look at the healthy person's routine, it is nothing crazy. In fact it is how every used to live only 50 years ago. All you have to do is start making these practices a habit in your daily life and before you know it you too will be one of those few skinny people still out there!
Losing weight and getting in great shape is all about habits. You need to practice habits that help you achieve your goals instead of hindering. If your daily habits all lend themselves to helping you lose weight, then the road to fitness and leanness is not such as tough one.
Let's look at the daily habits of a person who is slowly getting fatter and then compare them to those of a person losing weight.
The weight gainer:
Ok, so let's go over the habits that are making this person get fatter and fatter. Number one they don't exercise, not even by accident! In fact, their entire live revolves around sitting and doing nothing. Sitting in the car, at their desk and on the couch. Walking as little as possible and avoiding exertion. Also, the food choices are terrible! No breakfast to stimulate the metabolism, no healthy snacks to keep overeating down and no healthy food. How can someone have the energy to exercise if they don't feed themselves properly? Lastly, speaking of energy what is with the 6 hours of sleep? How can anyone be a healthy and productive person without sleeping at least 8 hours? Also, sleeping more will allow you to burn more fat and store less.
Now to our healthy subject:
As you can see, the healthy person has a lot of great habits. A solid eating plan of scheduled meals and nutritious food. Plenty of exercise both light and intense to burn up calories and keep healthy. And finally a solid nights sleep to really recover and reduce stress on a regular basis.
If you take a close look at the healthy person's routine, it is nothing crazy. In fact it is how every used to live only 50 years ago. All you have to do is start making these practices a habit in your daily life and before you know it you too will be one of those few skinny people still out there!
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