Permanent Weight Loss

We are often told that we need to work out more to lose weight; we should go to the gym or go for a run. However, until recently, there has been a whole system of weight loss that seems to have been ignored; the idea that small movements can all add up to make a significant difference to our health.

By simply performing small movements, and allowing your body to do what it does naturally, you can burn calories. These calories burned all add up and can help with weight loss and boosting your metabolism.

NEAT

The technical term for this is nonexercise activity thermogenesis, or NEAT. NEAT includes all movements and body functions, so even when you are lying down and doing leg lifts, or just watching TV while pushing some dumbbells, you are still burning some calories.

Research has found that individuals who have even moderately sedentary lifestyles, such as office workers, can lose more weight by simply incorporating a range of small movements in the normal working day. Continue reading

Do you try repeatedly to lose weight, but always fail in the long term? Do you try fad diets, extreme workout regimens, or products on the diet market only to drop the routine or have weight return?

You are not alone.

Every year hundreds of thousands of people go on crash diets only to be disappointed with their results. Researchers at UCLA have found that dieting is not only ineffective, but can often make you gain more weight that you originally had after a small loss of usually only 5-10%.

In the United States, inactivity is a serious problem. It is extremely important to know that a person does not have to run a mile every day to be fit and healthy. Finding reasons to walk a mile by adding up daily steps, such as parking slightly further away from the mall or taking the stairs instead of the escalator, will end up burning exactly the same amount of calories. Continue reading