New Year, New You?
Firstly, happy New Year dearest readers! Thank you for all of your support over the past year. Hopefully, 2010 will bring about the best. Confidently Single will continue to provide articles on the topics that are on your minds.
Watching the TV and reading the Headlines on various magazines this past week, common key phrases keep popping up: “New Year, New You”, “How to Have Your Best Year Ever”, “Have the Body You Always Wanted” and so forth. As we all know, this is the time of the year we see gym memberships go up as people flock to the gyms to lose the holiday weight. Come February, the gyms will pretty much have the same amount of people before the holidays. Same thing goes for product marketing and diets. While these things are valid to consider, don’t buy into the hype. I can assure you that there is not a single product out there that will help you lose weight quickly! If you are on diet that promises rapid weight loss be weary that severe calorie restriction only results in decreasing your metabolism. Therefore, when you resume your normal eating patterns, the now excess calories will be stored as fat. And what’s worse, you may even gain more weight than what your initial weight was before the diet. People often ask me how to lose weight quickly or get six pack abs. My answer is always the same: diet and exercise.
Losing weight is a process that requires commitment. If your goal is to lose weight, be realistic and understand that there is a timeline to healthy weight loss; about 2lbs a week. There are many ways to go about it and the outcomes depend on: your level of fitness, how much time you have available to work out and having a good support system. The other crucial part of weight loss is diet. Food is life giving and meant to be enjoyed. Many people have negative relationships with food that become detrimental to success and good health.
There is another component that is equally essential and that is your lifestyle. If you don’t get enough sleep, constantly feel stressed, never make time for yourself, smoke and drink large amounts of alcohol, for example, no amount of diet and exercise will give you results. Losing weight is not about fitting into a size 0 pair of jeans. It is about feeling healthy, feeling energized, feeling durable to do daily activities. It is about having a healthy relationship with yourself. To truly attain an optimal level of health, you need to have a good balance of mind, body and soul.
If weight loss is one of your goals for this year, be patient! Do not get discouraged and stick to your plan. This month, I will go into further detail about the mind, body and soul concept.
Please refer to my other articles as well:
http://confidentlysingle.com/?p=89
http://confidentlysingle.com/?p=70
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I think this article was actually a sweet start to a potential series of blog posts about this topic. Most users pretend to know what they’re preaching about when it comes to this area and generally, very few people actually get it. You seem to understand it however, so I think you need to start writing more. Thanks!
Calorie Restriction really helps in avoiding some diseases like diabetes and heart disease.’:.
research suggest that calorie restriction can also lengthen a person’s life span-~,
studies have show that we need calorie restriction diets to live longer’.`