Permanent Weight Loss
Losing weight is an important part of many people’s lives, and equally, many people find this difficult. It is true that unfortunately, nothing that is enjoyable or interesting is good for you – fast food, takeaways and lazing around in front of the TV is much better than exercise, but will not help with weight loss.
Weight loss involves effort, making lasting habit changes with a sensible and healthy diet and plenty of exercise. This can be hard to maintain, especially for those who are new to attempting weight loss. However, there are many different things that you can do to make the workouts and healthy eating much more enjoyable.
1 – Mix It Up
As with anything else in life, doing the same thing over and over again gets boring. Exercise and healthy eating are no different to anything else. One way to avoid boredom is to vary your diet, including meals and snacks. Continue reading
Often when we find our waistlines expanding, we are quick to blame the fat we are consuming in our diet and immediately begin to reduce that without looking at the other factors that might be causing weight gain. In reality, it is the sugar in our diets that is often responsible for sabotaging your weight and well-being.
We already know that sugar can lead to tooth decay, diabetes, and a sugar crash, but what most people don’t know is the effect that sugar can have on our weight. In order to understand why sugar is so detrimental to our weight loss efforts, especially in the area of our stomachs and hips, we first need to understand what happens in our bodies when we consume sugar.
Sugar In the Body
Once we have consumed a food with sugar in it, our body converts it one of two ways, it either burns it for energy or converts it to fat and stores it. In moderate amounts, our bodies are capable of using fiber to convert the sugar into energy and not having any significant amounts of sugar left over to convert to fat. Continue reading
