Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Creating Health With Womens Fitness

By Helen Carswell

Women are busy, they do not have time nor the inclination to pay attention to their own needs. Most women are caught up in such a hectic lifestyle that they don't have time to get healthy. But with a minimum amount of effort and just a few minutes a day, it is possible to change your lifestyle and your weight easily and without making major adjustments to your schedule.

So, instead of stopping our lives, making a desperate change, or starting one more diet and exercise program that won't work, perhaps it's time to try something else. By adopting a holistic approach to our lifestyles we can significantly change our health inside and out by starting slow and easy with some simple techniques that work.

Diet and exercise are the keys to losing weight and becoming healthy. We already know that, we hear it every day from someone. But, it is possible to change diet and exercise with a plan that works and commitment to do it. Instead of dieting and exercising to lose ten pounds, how about the commitment be just to get healthier. Start off with telling yourself that maybe you'll weight, maybe you won't but you'll be healthier.

Most people fail to take the first step when they want to change their lifestyle or lose weight. It is imperative to find out where you are at. Getting a journal and recording your progress will be a great way to keep track of how you are doing on your program. By putting your weight, BMI, how much energy your currently use, and how much, and what, you are eating, you will have a great starting point.

A successful diet and exercise program will not require that you weigh yourself on a regular basis. If you are exercising you will be gaining weight in muscle and losing fat. When this happens a scale is not going to tell you which is the good weight and which is the bad weight.

Starting an exercise program that will work up to 30 minutes a day will help you to stick with it. By starting off with a fifteen minute walk to the corner and back, you can gradually build up to 30 minute walks. When walking is not a challenge any more move to jogging. Each time that the thirty minute exercise becomes less of a challenge do something different.

Diet is going to be a sneaky game that you play with your brain to keep it from throwing up obstacles as you are swaping out bad foods for healthy alternatives. Start with replacing snacks with fresh fruits and vegetables. The body becomes addicted to many of the chemicals in processed foods and refined sugar. Most diets tell people to stop eating those foods right away. Instead of putting a halt to food cold turkey, just swap out healthier foods in small increments.

Start eating five times a day instead of three. By eating five small meals a day you will find that you not be hungry during your day. In the beginning, add healthy foods to the two new "meals" you eat a day and reduce the other three meals. Then start introducing healthy foods into one of the three meals at a time. By doing this on a regular basis you will find that you will have a healthier lifestyle that will create the leaner and trimmer body that you want. - 29161

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