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3 Fitness and Health Tips for Blasting Through Weight Loss Obstacles
By admin | August 5, 2008
These fitness and health tips came about from a conversation with a friend of mine the other day.
She was explaining to me the results she’s been getting from her weight loss program as well as what she’s been struggling with.
I let he know that she’s not alone. She hit on three big weight loss obstacles that almost everyone who wants to burn fat runs into and must overcome to reach their goals.
One of her biggest challenges is controlling her eating from an emotional standpoint. This is a huge problem for a lot of people.
We attach emotion to food. And that’s the fault of the environment we all grow up in. We attach emotions to food long before using it as a coping mechanism.
Almost everything social centers around food whether it’s family gatherings, birthday parties, going out for pizza or fast food as a team when you play sports at a young age and on it goes.
It’s only natural as we get older to extend that and use food as a coping mechanism for things we try and deal with.
The second is the not knowing what to make for our meals.
And the reason for that is that good, healthy foods, while there is an incredible variety and stuff that tastes great, are not readily and convenient. They have to be prepared.
Good food doesn’t sit on the shelf for weeks, already prepared, like junk foods do (because of all the junk chemicals, of course).
So almost every time you go to eat you have to prepare something, which starts with trying to figure out what to prepare (by the way, this is what’s so great about the quality of protein powders and meal replacements nowadays, as long as you use only them to supplement your program).
Which makes it easier to say the heck with this and grab something convenient which won’t be something health.
And third is that little things do add up. While it’s a real pain, calories should be counted every once in awhile.
They should be counted for a few days even if it’s just every five or six weeks.
When you don’t, it’s easy to do those things that damage your weight loss program more and more often.
Just an extra hundred calories a day will put on a pound of fat every 35 days. And a hundred calories isn’t much.
Heck, it’s 1 1/2 medium sized apples, or less than one tiny Balance Bar.
So it starts out by having a cheat meal once a week and before you know it you’re sneaking a tiny something every day and it’s insidious because it’s so unnoticeable until it’s all of a sudden really noticeable.
On the flip side of that, it is good to treat yourself every once in awhile.
A good nutrition plan is a lot harder to stick to if you’re telling yourself you can’t have your favorite foods EVER again! That’s exactly when you start craving all that stuff.
One thing you can do that I do from time to time is to spend some time on Sunday preparing and cooking stuff that you put in the freezer to take out when you want to eat that week.
I know people that cook practically all their meals for a week on Sunday, stick ‘em in tupperware in the freezer and they are set for the week.
You could just try doing that with 5 meals and they can be the meal you have in the evening when you get home from work.
Another thing you can do is to have higher calorie days but you have to plan it.
Instead of having little things here and there when you feel like it that add up, know that you’ll have a cheat meal or food on Saturday.
As long as you don’t go crazy it will help with your discipline and your fat loss because if you have the same exact calorie amount each day and/or eat too few calories for too many days, your body will get used to it and reset your metabolism at a lower rate.
Our bodies like the status quo. They have a set point weight and they want to keep it.
Put these fitness and health tips into your weight loss program and see if your results don’t start to improve!
Topics: Nutrition |