Simple Strategies for Losing Weight
To effectively lose weight you must change your life style. You
body is in the shape it's in because of choices you have made,
thoughts you have thought and beliefs you have accepted. These must
change if you want to permanently lose weigh. I'm not talking about
drastic or painful changes. Often you only need to make small changes
to have a dramatic impact on your weight.
Review the following practical strategies and make them a part of
your daily life. If you do this for 1 month you will see and feel your
body begin to change.
-Move your body throughout the day by becoming more physical in your
daily activities. This might include walking instead of taking the car.
Maybe its time to give your house a good cleaning or painting the
walls. When driving to a store park further from the store so you have
to walk more. Get down on the floor and play with your pet or go
outside and play with your kids. Just look for more opportunities to
move. Movement is life.
-Increase your oxygen intake by doing deep breathing exercises a couple
of times a day. Just sit comfortably, close your eyes and take a deep
breath in and slowly let it out. As you do this allow all the muscles
in your body to relax and allow your thoughts to relax. Focus your
thoughts on the body you wish to create. By doing this exercise for
about 5 minutes 2 to 3 times a day you will become more relaxed and at
the same time increase your metabolism.
-Eat more fruits and vegetables. Your body was designed to efficiently
process fresh fruits and vegetables; it was not designed to ingest
processed foods and high levels of carbohydrates. So when you are
craving a sweet snack reach for some grapes or an apple and stay away
from those Twinkies.
-Drink more water. Water helps to flush the toxins out from our body
while drinking soda or coffee just add to the toxins that build up in
our body. Nothing is as refreshing as a cold drink of water. For the
next 3 days just drink water whenever you are thirsty and after 3 days
notice how different you feel. If you're like most people you will
notice that you eat smaller meals, and that you will feel less
fatigued.
-Get enough sleep. Studies that shown that when we fail to get enough
sleep our bodies begin to crave sugary foods and larger quanties of
food. By giving into these cravings we get on the hypoglycemic
rollercoaster that will have detrimental effects to our bodies. When
we're exhausted we often turn to caffeine to give our bodies a boost
which only adds to the imbalances of our bodies.
-Eat only when you are hunger. We have programmed ourselves when and
what to eat. Often we eat unconsciously. When 12 o'clock comes we eat
a meal just because its time to eat not because we are hungry. The next
time it time to eat ask yourself am I hungry? And if you are hungry
decide if eating a banana or a light salad will satisfy your hunger.
-The same goes for snacking, people snack because they have programmed
themselves to snack at given times during the day. Before you snack ask
yourself if you are hungry. And if you truly want a snack the reach for
an apple.
-Don't diet or starve yourself. Your body is perfectly designed to
regulate itself and maintain good health providing you give it balanced
nutrition, exercise and emotional balance. By starving yourself or
going on some crazy diet you push your metabolism into disarray. Your
metabolism slows down, your cravings increase, you have to struggle
more and more each day to maintain your craze diet until at some point
you crash and begin eating everything in sight. In most cases you wind
up weighting more then when you started. You goal should be to get your
body into balance. This can best be done by eating a little less and
choosing more natural healthy foods.
-It no secret that your body is the way it is because of your internal
programming. You focus on food, what your next meal will be, how fat
you look, what you don't like about your body. You need to change
your focus and you'll change your internal programming. Focus on what
you like about your body, look in the mirror and say to yourself, I
love you and you're beautiful. Look for reasons to love yourself and
your body. Do this for 1 month and notice the difference.
-Another reprogramming secret is to quietly repeat to yourself the
following affirmation as you drift off to sleep each night. "Each day
I am doing things to lose weight and create a healthy strong body. My
power word is Redwood" Repeat this to yourself each night and it
alter your subconscious so that you will automatically choose a
healthier lifestyle. If during the day you feel a craving coming on or
you need a boost to help you exercise just repeat your power word
"Redwood" This word represents the mighty Redwood tree and it will
remind your subconscious of your weight loss goal.
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