Make your number one goal health rather than weight loss. If you are setting your goal as a healthy lifestyle, then you are much more likely to succeed not only in improving your health but also in attaining a permanent level of weight loss. You should not be too anxious about dropping a lot of weight right away because what is extremely crucial to this process is enjoying the entire experience from beginning to end. You are going to want to associate this experience with reaching a healthy and natural weight through healthy eating. It may take longer to achieve your goals but it is much better for your health this way.
One major reason that leads people to drop out of their weight loss program is hitting a plateau. Your weight loss may be halted as a result of muscle mass gaining and the expansion of blood vessels, but these are actually phenomena that you should desire rather than despise. If you are hitting a weight loss plateau, it may mean that you are gaining muscle, and muscle weighs much more than fat does. If you are doing everything right and still not losing weight, the odds are you are gaining healthy muscle mass rather than simply not getting healthy.
Do not ever rush your reduction of weight. One of the most vital issues when it comes to weight loss is doing it slow and steady. Most people that lose weight too quickly end up gaining it all right back. You need to take it slow, steady and easy and let it come naturally rather than forcing weight loss. Your body knows what weight is right for you, so let it happen gradually for the best results.
Get enough exercise. Physical activity is vitally important to lowering your set point where your body gravitates to a specific weight, burning calories and increasing your natural metabolic level which is the level at rich you will burn calories naturally, even while at rest. You should burn at least 300 calories through exercise every single day in order to achieve the best results.
Finally, you need to do whatever you can in order to naturally raise your metabolic rate. One of the primary factors involved in determining your own personal metabolic rate is the number of cell mitochondria. These are tiny little energy factories that are responsible for fueling every cell in your entire body. The more of these cell mitochondria that you have, the more energy you are going to burn, which is going to keep you in better shape. Muscle cells have more cell mitochondria, so building muscles is vitally important in allowing yourself to burn calories and speed up your metabolism for health and wellness.
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Originally posted 2009-09-02 03:44:26. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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Yes I agree that it should be the health on top over weight loss goals. Health should come first as this is where everything starts.
Great Tips! Especially the first one. Health should Always be the top priority when it comes to any fitness or weight loss program.
In CST, our fitness hierarchy is:
1. Health – being pain-free
2. Mobility – having full range of pain-free motion in all directions
3. Function – being able to move normally with good technique
4. Attribute – strength, endurance, qualities for performance
5. Physique – having a beautiful body
What most people don’t realize is that all these physical goals must come in this order. Like in most other systems, doing it in any other way and putting the cart before the horse could result in injury.
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