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Glitzy advertisements will tell you that the most effective path to losing weight is to diet, and there are loads of fad diets to choose from that each claim to be the simplest, fastest, easiest, tastiest way to lose weight. But stop for a moment and think: if you "go on a diet" the implication is that you will, sooner or later, "go OFF the diet". It's a temporary solution! I'll show you how you can make tiny and incremental changes to your lifestyle that, taken together, will leave you feeling great and give you a set of tools that you can use to lose unwanted fat and keep it off. Increasing your resting metabolic rate is a well known and well documented method for losing extra body fat and keeping it off. By increasing your resting metabolic rate (the rate at which your body burns calories while at rest, also known as your RMR) you can shed extra pounds and keep them off. Muscle tissue burns calories; adding muscle tissue to your body will cause you to burn more calories even at rest, increasing your RMR. You'll feel better, have more energy, and you'll maintain all of the weight loss that you achieve as your body burns more calories even when you are resting. Loss of muscle mass is a very well documented problem that arises as a result of aging, and it has major health care implications. After the age of forty both men and women begin to lose between 1/2 and 1 pound of muscle mass per year. Over several years this decline in muscle mass can result in significantly reduced body strength. This is known as Sarcopenia (loss of muscle strength and mass due to aging) and it's estimated to account for over $18.3 billion in health care costs. As individuals age and become less active they feel worse overall and are more susceptible to disease, especially heart disease, one of the top killers worldwide. As for appearance, this loss of muscle mass results in a reduction in the number of calories that an individual metabolizes while at rest, so the calories he or she eats turn into fat! Loss of muscles actually accelerates an increase in FAT retention! Diets are temporary fixes - they don't address the long-term issue of losing fat and keeping it off, and they don't address the fact that gradual loss of muscle mass over time accelerates the rate at which you put on fat. The best approach to losing fat and keeping it off is to find an acceptable level of exercise that will get you and keep you strong, fit and lean. Here are a few things to keep in mind as you develop such a plan: 1) Start slow, keep it simple. Most important if you're new to exercise. If you are new to exercising, you're in for a surprise: your routine does not have to be difficult at all to start with in order to make a big difference in the way you feel. Start by making simple changes to your everyday activities. Take the stairs when you can, don't use that elevator or escalator. It doesn't matter whether you are at home or at your place of work, walking, even if it's just for a short distance, is a great form of exercise and a wonderful way to break the tedium of a workday. 2) Set a goal. DO NOT set a difficult goal - set a goal that is very simple and easy to obtain. For example, start with a goal of five minutes of exercise per day. You can grow this to ten minutes after a month and so on, but start easy! Don't set an initial goal that will be difficult to obtain - it's a recipe for failure. 3) Write your goals and progress down, and share them with others. If you choose a good goal and write down your performance against it every day, you'll see the progress very quickly. This is a huge key to success. Further, if you report your performance and progress against your goal to other people such as family and friends, you will find that you are more motivated and that you will be more honest and faithful in sticking to your goal. 4) Expand your goals. As time goes by you will want to change and increase your goals - gradually of course - adding more time and then perhaps adding more strenuous exercise. If you follow these steps for several months you will find yourself feeling better and in better shape, and you will eventually exhaust your own knowledge and ability to self-recommend the next steps for growth, which could come in the form of more vigorous exercise such as jogging, swimming or weight training. Jogging, running, skiing, swimming weight training - these are examples of exercises that will permit dramtic increases in the demands that you place upon yourself, and in the returns that you gather in the form of weight loss, appearance and general well-being. When you're ready, there are many professional trainers and written training guides available that can lead you through the next steps to a stronger, leaner, healthier you.
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