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The Permanent Diet - Why Fitness Is A Lifestyle
Have you ever tried to diet your way to a better body? I
have a slight hunch that you have, and I'm willing to bet
that at some point you terminated that diet. Any mention of
the word "diet" will leave most people with awful memories:
restrictive, boring, and painful sound accurate.
Why I ask? Why? Simply put, a diet is not a solution, it's
a marketing gimmick. They're all temporary and short
sighted, setting you up for failure.
If you think about it, in order for someone to gain weight,
you have to live a lifestyle that caters to gaining weight
- whether that be from excessive eating or lack of physical
activity. The weight doesn't just jump onto you overnight.
It may take years of poor habits to get to your current
level.
If it took you 10 years to accumulate the excess weight,
it's not going to come off in 1 month or even 6 months in
some crash diet. There lies the answer, if it took a
certain lifestyle to gain weight, it's going to take a
different lifestyle to take it off. It's a change in
lifestyle, not a quick fix diet. Being in shape should be
the result of how you live every day.
If you fix the habits or actions that have caused the
weight gain, you can cause the weight to come off
automatically. Cleaning up some daily habits will often do
the trick. For example if you drink 1 can of soda every day
with your lunch - exchange that for water. Just that one
simple change added up over 1 year will result in a 16
pound difference. Add 30 minutes of physical activity 3-4
times a week and there's at least another 12 pounds each
year.
Maybe it's the glazed donut at work 3 times a week - 12
months later there's another 11 pounds. These are simple
conscious actions that you take throughout each day to make
a difference in the long term. A great habit is to just
drink water all day long - not only will you get the
benefit of hydration you'll also skip the extra calories
from soda, fruit juices and coffee mocha delights.
How about switching to skim milk instead of 2%, while that
may not be for everyone, it's just an idea of how simple
taking away a few calories here and there can be. Take 1
year, and week by week, improve upon your current habits
with nutrition or physical activity. By the end of the year
you will have seen significant results, all from those very
slight changes. Losing weight doesn't have to be
restrictive or obsessive in any sense of the word. It all
comes back to what your lifestyle is like, that's what will
ultimately determine what your weight will be. You've
probably heard of someone getting liposuction or another
form of weight reduction surgery. Often times they just
gain every bit of the weight back, they got their quick
fix, but in the end their lifestyle just puts the weight
back on.
Lottery winners get their "get rich quick" scheme, but in
the end, many of them are just as poor as they were before
they had won their money. They're original lifestyle
catered to that style of living. Although they got a lucky
break with the winnings, their habits of spending,
attitudes toward money and no savings ultimately put them
right back at where they started.
So if you are looking for that "get thin quick" scheme, I
urge you to reconsider your perception on how you view
weight loss. Weight loss is a process and not a one time
event - as I'm sure you would like to maintain your ideal
body weight once you reach it. The word diet alone implies
that you will at some point quit the behavior and quite
possibly gain all the weight back. This continues in a
cyclical fashion, just like a yo-yo, going up and down and
up and down. Weight loss is more than just a temporary fix,
it's a lifestyle change. Be like a rock, when a rock is
dropped it just drops, and stays down.
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Zach Hunt is the owner and head fitness coach of Physzique,
a high-end personal fitness coaching service in Spokane,
WA. He helps his clients to quickly and permanently drop
unwanted fat and transform their body with a proven system
that takes less than 3 hours of exercise each week. Go now
to http://www.SpokaneFitnessCoach for immediately usable
health and fitness tips.
