Decide what you want to do with your life. Do you want to look good, feel good ? That decision is yours alone. Develop a lifestyle that incorporates fitness and good nutrition. With 1 caveat, have a cheat day and on other days, go by the book for just 90% of the time. This leeway makes following your diet and fitness program more flexible and achievable, and leaves aside the guilt.
2.Cast out your net for support
Don't go on a solo journey. Enlist the help of your family, possibly also your friends. Sometimes this may backfire cos you will get bombarded with information overload. But, filter out the useless information, and you will find a support system is very powerful in keeping you on the straight and narrow. A gym buddy, a walking companion, or a friend who wants to lose weight at the same time, rope them all in!
3. Educate Yourself
This is very often overlooked. You have to make a concerted effort to educate yourself about the basics of good nutrition. There is no urgent need to buy a book or purchase a diet plan. Just trawl the internet or go to the library. Once you start reading and correlating the facts, you will soon be able to draw certain conclusions and how best to incorporate the diet/excercise principles into your own life.
4. Perseverance , Persistance and Consistence.
If at first you don't succeed, try try again! Any fat loss program, no matter how good will fail if the will power to adhere is not there. Nothing ever comes easy, do not give up. A plateau will come, that's 100%, but persevere, be persistant and consistent, and results will show.
5. Goal Setting Short and Long Term Success
Set moderate goals that you can achieve and the whole process will be less daunting. Say 1 lb a week, or 1 inch off in 2 weeks. Small goals are better than crazy ones like, I want 6 packs in a month! Every time you successfully accomplish a goal, reward yourself and then go on to your next goal. In this way, the whole project becomes manageable and feasible.
6. Keep A Log
A food and excercise log in the initial stages is an extremely valuable and vastly under rated tool. Why? Reality stares at you coldly in your face. What you ate, how often and how much. Ditto for excercise. So with this tool, you can analyse with cold precison which part of yopur program you are unknowingly digressing from. After a period of adjustment with referral to your food and excercise log, then you can be less rigid about it.
7. Think Thin, Don't Think Fat
Why is it thin people always say they can eat anythiong but can't get fat? The mind tells them they are thin, getting fat is the furthest thing from their minds!
8.I think, therefore I am.
Tell yourself you are thin, convince yourself that you can eat and not get fat. ( But of course, stay clear from the list of forbidden foods.)
9. Sleep well, Reduce Stress and Drink Lots Of Water
Sleeping well is very important for fat loss. Not enough sleep instructs the body to store fat as a reflex. So make sure you get your 7-8 hours of sleep a night. Stress essentially also does what not enough sleep will do for your body, so eliminate stress as well as you can.
Drinking water is incredibly vital. It is recommended you drink hourly, up to 2-3 liters or pure water daily.
10. Lifestyle Long Term
After having shed off the fat, you must be able to remain slim and fit. This is a lifestyle long term unwavering stand. Don't take the path of Oprah Winfrey, yoyo ballooning and slimming. After a cheat meal, there is no need to starve to make up, just go about your usual good nutritional meals. Stick to your plan 90% and you will do just fine.
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