There's one factor that'll determine your success in dieting and exercise. This is the ability to persist in doing the correct things. Eating healthy foods, and taking adequate exercise.
It goes without saying that if you persist in doing the wrong things-- having fried breakfasts each day, or smoking-- you will reap those consequences!
Too many people have dieted for years, and their weight has yoyoed up and down. And after each "failure" or relapse they go on another diet, and then find it harder to lose the weight. In order to progress, and not become a professional dieter, you need to see losing weight as a permanent lifestyle change.
If you are trying to lose weight, you should have a goal of maintaining that weight loss for at least five years. How many of the fad diets out there today could withstand a five year test? Not many.
With the diet changes (that can be maintained for five or more years in a healthy fashion), it is essential to increase your energy expenditure. If you don't exercise more than you were doing the chances are your good intentions will come to nothing.
Long term changes in your diet cannot be sustained over a significant period of time without similar changes in your exercise routine.
Sunday, July 31, 2005
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