Saturday, August 26, 2006

Tips and advice for my healthy weight loss week....? -

I ve got a week off of work and I m going to dedicate it to weight loss. (Obviously do a few things inbetween!)I go to slimming world which is a healthy eating/weight loss club, I ve been following the diet for 6 months now and I ve lost 17lb, it s easy to follow, basically healthy eating. I m also a regular at the gym (Just not so regular as before!)I ve got a week off of work, to just chill. But I m going to dedicate it to losing weight. I m going to follow the diet religiously and work out at my hardest at the gym...Any tips at all? Such as workouts? Detox stuff? The maximum I ve lost in a week is 3.5lb purely doing the diet. Any tips or advice will be much appreciated! Thanks! (In advance!!)

I always find when i have time away from work i can workout out more. I would leave my diet alone because you are already losing weight with the diet you have, but i would spend the extra time focusing on working out more. Go Hiking or play a sport that you dont always have time for. It will be a vacation of sorts from your routine activities at the gym. I hope this helps, but remember to have fun while you are on vacation so you can go back to work recharged. I just went on a vacation myself for 3 weeks and i managed to lose 5 pounds just because i had time to workout more and i spent more time focused on my diet and exercise plan. I still had fun like played basketball, went swimming, etc. , but it gave me a chance to recharge my battery.

there are 3 things that are important when trying to lose weight - diet, cardio and weights - when you do all 3, you are insuring that you losses come from fat and your gains come from muscle - if you lost 15 pounds of fat and gained 15 pounds of muscle, you would still weight exactly the same but do you know how much better you will look and feel? diet alone isn t enough, you may be eating you muscle away - if you lose muscle, your metabolism gets slower because you have less actuive tissue than before - do all 3 and committ to the long run - it shouldn t be a quick fix, it should be a life change