Have
you given up on Weight Loss?
By Greg
Landry (Sincere thanks to Greg for letting me reprint this
article here!)
I receive
several email messages every day from people who have given
up on weight loss. They are at wits end and they don't know
what to do. They've "tried it all" and they
believe it's impossible for them to lose weight.
Many of them
have lost weight and gained it all back, and more. Some of
them have struggled with losing weight all their lives and
have never been successful with it. One lady from Alabama
wrote to me last spring, "I have been trying to lose
about sixty pounds for over 23 years. I quit! I'm resolved
to the fact that I will be fat for the rest of my life"
How saddening
that comment is. but I'm happy to tell you this lady, with a
little guidance, is now 65 pounds lighter than she was one
year ago.. and she has some muscle tone. Needless to say,
she no longer believes that she'll be fat for the rest of
her life.
I tell you
this simply to illustrate the fact that you don't have to
give up on weight loss. YOU can lose weight, but you have to
be willing to do what it takes.. and here's what it takes!
If we look at
people who have been successful at weight loss *and*
maintaining that loss, a couple of things are very apparent.
These two factors are present in the lives of most of them..
1. They do
some form of aerobic exercise 5 to 7 days per week. These
people aren't exercise wimps! They know how critically
important this is to their weight loss/ maintenance and they
get out and do it! They average 45 minutes per day with the
range being 30 to 90 minutes per day. This not only burns
lots of calories, but, perhaps more importantly, it elevates
their basal metabolic rate.
2. They do
some type of weight training 2 to 3 days per week. This has
a tremendous affect on basal metabolic rate and muscle tone.
Success at maintaining a weight loss is much higher in
people who have weight trained while they were losing weight
versus those who haven't.
Now,
obviously, healthy eating habits are also very important.
However, most of these people say that their exercise habits
seem to dictate their eating habits.. meaning that if they
can be consistent with exercise, their eating habits seem to
fall into place.
I've had many
clients tell me that their daily exercise puts them in a
"healthy" frame of mind and helps them to make
better food choices. Bottom line; when they are exercising
consistently, their eating habits are better.
I firmly
believe that a major factor in most peoples frustration with
weight loss is that they haven't been told the truth about
exercise. You see, twenty minutes, three days per week isn't
going to cut it for weight loss. If you're serious about
weight loss, then you have to get serious about exercise.
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It's all
about changing your basal metabolism through exercise.
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It's about
looking at exercise as a part of your daily routine,
just like brushing your teeth.
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It's about
viewing exercise as something you're doing to get
healthy and feel great!
"If you
*vigorously* pursue fitness and health, weight loss will
happen"
I've seen this
work for many people who had given up on weight loss. It can
work for YOU! Get movin'!
Author and
exercise physiologist, Greg Landry, offers his free, "Fast,
Healthy Weight Loss" newsletter at his site:
http://www.Landry.com
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