Natural Healthy Weight Loss
Posted by Health articles on May 13th, 2009
To achieve natural healthy weight loss is not as difficult as one might think. But it does take some effort, the feeling of achieving your goals is one of great satisfaction. Natural healthy weight loss is not something that your going to achieve overnight. The first thing you have to realize is that a healthy rate to lose weight is about 2-3 lbs a week. After you realize that your not going to lose 20 lbs in your first week you need to set some realistic goals. I suggest setting goals every 4 weeks. That way you give yourself enough time to exercise and diet correctly rather than going on a dangerous crash diet that will give you results but can be very devastating to your physical health as well as mental health.
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Now that we have a very basic idea of what natural healthy weight loss is lets take a look at how you can achieve your goals. First we need to get away from the traditional 3 meals a day. Look at your body as a wood burning furnace, you have to keep adding wood every few hours to keep it stoked. The same applies to your metabolism, you have to eat every few hours to keep your bodies metabolism burning those calories. This means you need to eat 5 – 8 meals a day. If you currently consume only three meals a day the easiest way to achieve this is take those three meals and break them down into smaller meals. This way you aren’t doing any extra work other than eating smaller portions of the meals you have already made. What your trying to do is keep your metabolism burning calories by eating smaller but more frequent meals this will ensure that you are burning more calories throughout the day.
The next step in the process of healthy weight loss is to perform some kind of exercise creating a calorie deficit and in return lose those unwanted pounds. In order to lose weight your looking to burn around 500 calories more a day than you consume. This equates to about 3500 calories per week burned or 1-3 lbs lost. There are many ways you can do this such as running, walking, weightlifting, or bicycling just to name a few. Ideally you want to do some kind of exercise 3-4 times per week to achieve results. Pick something that you enjoy because you will be more likely to get out and do what you need to do. These are just a few thoughts on natural healthy weight loss. I wish all of you good luck with your goals however big or small they may be.
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