Success in Dieting & Exercise Part 2

Perhaps the best way to increase your energy expenditure is to exercise first thing in the morning before eating. This will boost your metabolic rate, and increase your fat burning ability. Of course, if you have medical conditions like diabetes you may have to do things slightly differently. You will need to consult a qualified doctor or physician.

Ensure that you drink enough water. This will help to wash away the waste products and toxins that the body will release as you burn away the fat (which does store some toxins). And water will help you stay hydrated.

Adequate supplementation with good quality vitamins and minerals may also be important so that your body has the micronutrients it needs to drive its metabolic processes. If you don't like the idea of popping pills when you're supposed to be following a fitness plan ensure that you eat at least 5 different fruits everyday. And when you have your main meal you'll probably have some vegetables or salad, so you could consume 10 different fruits and vegetables a day.

Ensuring that your body does not think that it is in a state of famine is also important. While it is a good idea to decrease your overall caloric intake, you want to make sure that you feed you body on a regular basis, so that it knows that food is still available and is coming soon. Six small meals a day is generally a good idea. Your choice of calorie sources is also important. For many health reasons, it is good to avoid highly processed products. Vine ripened, organic produce is also a great idea.

Another way to help yourself succeed and give your body a greater variety of micronutrients and enzymes is to eat a large variety of foods. Our bodies haven't yet really adapted to the advent of agriculture, let alone a few monocrops. Variety, variety, and more variety is a great idea.

Ensure that your rest is adequate and of good quality. If you do not rest adequately, all of your body's processes can be adversely affected.

Take time for yourself. Meditate or pray. This will help you on so many different levels that there isn't enough time or space to go into it.

Set yourself reasonable, attainable goals with specific time frames. If you don't achieve them, reset the goals and review your plan. Maybe the goal was unrealistic or the plan was faulty. Entertain both possibilities. If you don't know how to tell, enlist professional help.

Measure your progress. Measuring in inches and energy is a better way to evaluate how you are doing rather than by pounds. Also very useful and a good measure of health factors, is to record how your body fat percentages change (for better or for worse).

So now you have the basic principles down. While a three month interval is a great way to look at progress points, if you stop there, you have failed. You need consistent persistence. At every goal point, re-evaluate your plan, refine it, work it, and then repeat the process. If you need a holiday from your routine, schedule it, don't improvise or you are likely to fall out of the routine and have a difficult time getting back into it.

Work it, re-evaluate it, measure your progress, and repeat.

Consistent persistence is the key to your success. This success must also be built on sound principles and be realistic, sustainable, and varied.

Don't let yourself be discouraged, keep at it and fight to maintain your consistent persistence because this is where success lives.
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