Healthy Weight Loss

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Healthy Weight Loss
Two is company

Healthy weight loss is much easier to accomplish if you have a partner or friend to share the experience. Studies have been carried out which result in up to a 350% improvement. Below are three tips to follow.

1. Write down your reasons: Take a half hour with your spouse to write down all the reasons you want to lose fat. Maybe it's to look and feel better for each other … to set a good example for your kids … or maybe it's because your doctor told you that you're pre-diabetic. Whatever the reasons, discuss them with your spouse, write them down, and continually remind each other your reasons for healthy weight loss.

   The next time either of you are tempted to "stray" from your your healthy weight loss plan, ask each other this question: "Is it worth sabotaging your progress?" Coach each other through it if you have to: "I bet you'd eat that piece of cake in less than 5 minutes. Is 5 minutes of pleasure really worth it?" The answer is simple when you take a moment to reflect and it's very empowering once you put it to practice.

2. Daily reminders: there are a variety of strategies you can use to keep your portions under control, stay active, and continually achieve new levels of results. For example, before each meal have a large glass of water, a slice of apple, and a couple almonds. This way, you won't go into your meal starved and ready to devour anything in site. Instead, you'll feel much more in control, relaxed, and ready to make wise decisions and put your fork down when comfortably full, not stuffed. Make a pact with your spouse that you'll remind each other of this trick before each meal and look forward to a variety of other effective strategies like this in February!
3. Be active, have fun: rather than going out for drinks with your spouse, invite him/her to do something active that you both enjoy, such as going on a bike ride, rock-climbing, racquetball, or hiking. You get to enjoy good quality time with your spouse, as well as help create the very important "caloric deficit" (expending more calories than you consume) that's necessary for healthy weight loss.

Also, if you have a favourite TV show that you enjoy with your spouse, incorporate some sort of physical activity with it, such as jumping rope or an ab routine. Any amount of extra activity (wink, wink ; ) adds up and contributes to your fat loss efforts!

David Ogden
Healthy Weight Loss
Phone 386 308 1956 after 6PM EST

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