Making Weight Loss Foods, Exercise, and Motivation Work in Harmony

It seems like these days, there’s always an ad on TV talking about these diets or exercise routines that are as easy as falling out of bed. Then when we try them, it turns out that they are not as easy as they imply, so we lose interest and abandon them altogether. After all that, we look forward to the next series of promises.

Let’s start with the basics that we all know, food is our body’s fuel and fat is the stored energy reserve. With that out of the way, the solution is to just burn through the reserves, right? So why is it so difficult to get any of these programs to work? The answer is to stay motivated.

1. Diet, exercise and the real reason we fight

Although exercise and diet are the workhorses of the trio, motivation is the engine of the group, without exercise stopping and diets derailing. The trick to staying motivated is to make sure the cure doesn’t seem worse than the original problem.

2. “Variety is the spice of life”… and weight loss foods

At this point, we need to know which junk foods to avoid (chips, soda, fast food, artificial sugars) and which fruits and vegetables are good for us (simple sugars and nutrients that the body can easily process). While it’s important to follow the guidelines for healthier eating, it’s also important to diversify what you eat. People will get tired of eating the same thing over and over and often break their diets and fall back into their old familiar routines. To avoid this, try various simple recipes you find, even if you wouldn’t normally consider them. I found a spaghetti squash recipe that replaces a standard pasta recipe that turned out to be delicious and is now a regular in my repertoire of quick and easy meals. . This is an area where the Internet is our friend.

3. Baby steps are better than no steps at all.

When making changes to your diet, try to improve the quality of your meals or control your portions one meal at a time. Honestly, Rome wasn’t built in a day. As an alternative, try reducing the portions of one of your meals, or better yet, split it into two meals. For example, eat half of your lunch when you normally do and have a healthy snack a couple of hours later, this will also help curb your appetite come dinner time and also train your body to burn food at a faster rate. steadier pace compared to trying to handle heaps of bulk food and storing the rest.

4. More baby steps

Exercise should also be handled in a similar way, even if you’re just being a little more active, you’re using more energy than before, and it’s easier to make several seemingly inconsequential changes than to add a big task in between. of your day Some examples include parking a block further from work or taking the stairs instead of the elevator, or if you are already a runner who walks or is actively doing some other form of exercise to increase the difficulty or increase the effort in small amounts .

5. Always more fun with friends

Friends are a great source of motivation. Try not to exercise or workout activities alone. Yes, there will be walks or other activities that your friend can’t do, and you still need to exercise that day, but everything is more fun when you have someone to distract you from the task at hand. It makes it more interesting and if you end up falling into a healthy rut, you’ll tend to stick with it because subconsciously you don’t want to let your friend down (or don’t want them to show you, whatever your impulse is). maybe).

conclusion

There are many training programs that try to entice people with before and after photos of “non-typical results”, and it is in these moments that we must be stronger and look at these programs at face value. There are programs that work and I could even recommend some, but it’s important to do everything you can to keep these programs going, stay motivated, and take them one step at a time.