Are you a woman who is looking to lose weight? Whether you are interested in losing weight to improve your physical appearance, your health, or both, you may be feeling a little bit hopeless. While many women are able to lose weight when they want to do so, others have a little bit harder time. If you are finding it difficult to lose weight, it may be because you are trying to go about losing weight all on your own.
When it comes to weight loss, there are many women who find it easier, as well as less embarrassing, to doing their own weight loss program from home. While it is more than possible to exercise and workout by yourself, do you know that you don't have to? In fact, many women who have a workout partner or a workout buddy find it easier to lose weight than going at it along. Two popular reasons as to why those who have a workout partner or a workout buddy see success is because of support and motivation.
As nice as it is to hear that you should think about getting a workout buddy or a workout partner, to help you exercise and to help you lose weight, you may be wondering where that person may come from. Unfortunately, many women do not realize that they don't actually have to look very far. If you are married or if you have a romantic partner, you may want to think about asking them to join you. Even if your partner isn't a fan of exercising and working out, you can place a "quality time," spin on it. In fact, if your partner is a little bit overweight or out of shape themselves, they may even want to join you in your weight loss adventures. This is the ultimate show of support.
In addition to a romantic partner, you may want to think about asking any of your friends or family members if they would like to be your workout buddy or workout partner. When approaching your friends or family members, it is important to not focus on their weight or their physical appearance. Unfortunately, many women make the mistake of assuming that those that they know who are already in perfect shape wouldn't have any reason to exercise, but you may be surprised. For that reason, you are advised to ask any friends or family members that you know to join you when you workout.
If you have asked those that you know to join you as a workout buddy or a workout partner and you have still come up empty handed, you may want to consider joining a weight loss program. Locally operated weight loss programs are ideal, as you often get membership perks, like access to proven exercises, as well as healthy meals. Another benefit to joining a locally operated weight loss program is the support from other members. There is a good chance that one or more of your other weight loss program members would love to join you when you exercise.
If and when you get a workout buddy, it may be a good idea to "spice up," your exercises a bit. For instance, you may want to let your workout buddy or partner choose your exercises or activities for one day and then you choose for the next. This may help to keep your exercises fun and exciting.
Every week you are bombarded with advertisements claiming that the fastest and most effective path to losing weight is to diet, and there are thousands of fad diets to choose from, each claiming to be the simplest, easiest and fastest way to lose weight. But stop for a moment and think: if you "go on a diet" the implication is that you will, sooner or later, "go OFF the diet". It's a temporary solution! I'll show you how you can make tiny and incremental changes to your lifestyle that, taken together, will leave you feeling great and give you a set of tools that you can use to lose unwanted fat and keep it off.
Increasing your resting metabolic rate is a well known and well documented method for losing extra body fat and keeping it off. By increasing your resting metabolic rate (the rate at which your body burns calories while at rest, also known as your RMR) you can shed extra pounds and keep them off. Muscle tissue burns calories; adding muscle tissue to your body will cause you to burn more calories even at rest, increasing your RMR. You'll feel better, have more energy, and you'll maintain all of the weight loss that you achieve as your body burns more calories even when you are resting.
Loss of muscle mass is one of the most well documented problems that comes with aging, and it has major healthcare implications. After age fourty men and women both begin to lose between 1/2 and 1 pound of muscle mass per year. Over the years that decline in muscle mass can result in a significant decline in strength. This is called Sarcopenia (loss of muscle strength and mass due to aging) and it is estimated to account for over $18.5 billion in health care costs. As people age and become less active they feel worse and are more susceptible to disease including heart disease, one of the top killers globally. And as for appearance, the loss of muscle mass results in a reduced number of calories that your body metabolizes while at rest, so the calories you eat turn into fat! So loss of muscles leads to an increase in FAT!
Diets are temporary fixes - they don't address the long-term issue of losing fat and keeping it off, and they don't address the fact that gradual loss of muscle mass over time accelerates the rate at which you put on fat. The best approach to losing fat and keeping it off is to find an acceptable level of exercise that will get you and keep you strong, fit and lean. Here are a few things to keep in mind as you develop such a plan:
1) Start slow, keep it simple. Most important if you're new to exercise. If you are new to exercising, you're in for a surprise: your routine does not have to be difficult at all to start with in order to make a big difference in the way you feel. Start by making simple changes to your everyday activities. Take the stairs when you can, don't use that elevator or escalator. It doesn't matter whether you are at home or at your place of work, walking, even if it's just for a short distance, is a great form of exercise and a wonderful way to break the tedium of a workday.
2) Set a goal and keep it. And don't make this a difficult goal. Set a goal for yourself that is easy to reach and simple to understand and explain. For example, you could start with a goal of just five minutes of exercise per day, and then you can grow this to 10 or 15 minutes at the end of a month. The key is keep it easy, especially in the beginning! You don't want to set an initial goal that is hard to reach - it's a recipe for failure.
3) Write it down, and tell others. If you can choose a goal and write down daily how you perform against this goal, you will begin to see progress. This is key. Also, if you make it a part of your routine to report your performance against your goal to other people - friends, family - it will help motivate you and keep you true to your program.
4) Grow your goal. As time goes by you can gradually increase your goal, adding increments of time and then perhaps by adding more strenuous exercise.
These steps are for those who are new to exercise as a way of losing weight, and if you follow them for several months you will find yourself feeling better and in better shape. You will eventually exhaust your own knowledge and ability to self-recommend the next steps for growth. This also happens frequently with those who are familiar with exercise and its benefits, but who might need guidance in growing or aligning their exercise routine to fit their goals. In either case new and fun additions could come in the form of more vigorous exercise such as jogging, swimming or weight training. These are examples of forms of exercise that will permit dramatic increases in the demands that you place upon your body, and in the returns that you gather in the form of your sense of well-being, your appearance and weight loss. When you think you're ready, there are a number of written training guides and professional advice available that can lead you through the steps to a stronger, leaner you.
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