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Fat Loss and Daily Regime
If you have already tried all kinds of imaginable diets and you still can't get rid of all the fat that has been torturing you for years, don't get desparate. First, permanent weight loss is not always achievable and second – to achieve long-term effect, you need to make long-term efforts – i.e. you can't lose weight once and forever. Even people who visit medical institutions that combine dieting and active exercise can't always keep the positive results for a long time when they return home and get back to their bad habits of eating a lot and no physical activity. As we already said a couple of times, dieting is only one part of successful fat loss. Physical activity is another. And when you combine them, you get really good results. But there is another important factor – daily regime. It takes only one evening of excessive eating and one week of no physical activity, to undermine the success of a fat loss program. In such cases what you need is not a new diet but a new daily regime. While it is true that business activity and stress do not contribute to a healthy daily regime, it is still possible to fit healthy living in your busy schedule. First, do not skip breakfast. Breakfast should be the main meal for everybody and having only a cup of coffee for breakfast is really harmful. There is a saying to eat your breakfast alone, divide the lunch with a friend and give the dinner to you enemy. While it can sound very simplified, actually the healthy daily regime dictates exactly this - get up to 50% of your daily input of calories at breakfast, 30% at lunch and no more that 20% at dinner. Well, if you have 5 meals a day instead of three, the percentages change a little but still dinner is the time for light food only. The standard 9-5 job favors eating in the evening. When you get up in the morning, you are in a hurry and breakfast is the last thing on your mind. At lunch, most often the lunch break is too short for a normal meal and you have a sandwich. And when you come home in the evening, you eat a heavy dinner. And in the worst case the heavy dinner is less than an hour before going to bed. Such a daily regime is a nightmare and no wonder there are so many overweight and obese people. How can you correct this? Easy – get up half an hour or an hour earlier than the usual, cook something for breaksfast, eat it without hurrying and then go to work. If you can afford a full dinner instead of a sandwich, do it but if you can't – eat your sandwich and at 4p.m. have a snack – an apple, on orange, some youghurt, etc. Then when you return home, make some salad, not a steak. Leave the steaks for Saturday lunch. You see, with some effort and good organization on your side, having a healthy daily regime is not impossible, even if you work long hours. If you have the time for some physical activity in the evening (two times a week is a good start), then it is even better. There are several more activities that you can do in the morning before you have breakfast. First, check your weight. This is a basic rule that precise control of your weight requires that you measure yourself early in the morning (after visiting the toilet and before having breakfast) and in the same garment. Only this way you can get precise results. Because if you measure yourself at different times of day, you will notice that in the evening you are heavier because all the food and water that you have input throughout the day is still inside you. Besides the daily regime, there is another kind of regime – an annual one. In other words, there are times of the year when weight loss is easier. Generally in winter people have less activity and eat more. The holidays in December and January also contribute to unhealthy life style. Spring is a better season for fat loss but have in mind that the body is exhausted after the winter (though this depends on your location, there are many countries where winters are not cold and fruit and vegetables are abundant) and dieting should not deprive the organism of all the vitamins and minerals it needs. Spring and autumn are time for physical activity. Summer is also suitable for sports and the hot weather makes you drink more liquids and eat more fresh food, which certainly is healthy and contributes to losing fat.
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