To Lose Fat Requires Determination

The trouble is that evolution equipped us to survive starvation by storing fat in the good times so we could live off it in the bad times. We are successful walkers and runners as a species and activity should burn off what we accumulate.

The trouble is that we sit around too much and consume food with too many 'bad fats' from the convenience stores. The result is a national disaster of obesity.

Yo-Yo Effect of Poor Weight Loss Plans

If you starve yourself or eat a low energy diet for quick weight loss,you generally lose water and decrease your 'lean body mass' or muscle mass. The scale will show that you have lost weight, but you have simultaneously decreased your body's fat burning potential as well as your metabolism.

Calories and Kilojoules

The energy that we consume as food and utilize as energy is measured in kilojoules (kJ) or calories (Kcal). 1 Kcal = 4.2 kJ. You can convert one into the other either, by dividing or multiplying by 4.2.

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Exercising For Weight Loss

Metabolic Rate - it used to be thought that long slow activity was the best way to enhance metabolic rate, but recent research suggests that shorter, repetitive bursts of high-intensity exercise are as good, if not better. After exercise your resting metabolic rate increases for at least 6 hours!

Some exercises to consider

How To Lose Weight

Once you start your FAT LOSS PROGRAM you are in charge. Don't allow work circumstances, holidays and functions to control you. It is like a race; you will stumble over obstacles and fall, but if you keep going you will succeed.

We often create mental blocks, doubts and a sense of despondency because some of our initial expectations are unreasonable and we land up thinking will can't succeed and will fail. Remember success is comforting and failure is painful. So get going simply and get some of that comfortably feeling going by developing realistic expectations initially. This is the time to start thinking and behaving differently.

Don't let temporary setbacks get you down. Get straight back to your winning ways!

Weight Management - Is It A Problem?

Weight gain is something a lot of people think happens to them and not something they are responsible for. In most cases, it is the result of their lifestyle habits. Something they did to themselves. That is why, they can do something about it and do not have to rely on someone else for the solution.

Obesity....

A worldwide problem. Occurs in both sexes, in the first and third world and unfortunately more and more in children.

27% of Americans are classifies as obese.
Obesity is responsible for 325 000 deaths every year.
Obesity costed an estimated $75 Billion in 2003. Treatment of the problem requires time and can be labour intensive, hence it becomes an unnecessary and expensive burden to national health and insurance schemes because it is avoidable.
300 million people worldwide are obese.

Overweight

750 million people worldwide are overweight.
48 percent of people in Europe are oveweight.
65 percent of Americans are overweight.
About $61 were spent last year by Americans on products related to fat loss and weight management.
Being overweight and obese is one of the biggest factors responsible for 'age onset diabetes' (i.e. Type 2 Diabetes).

Do You Know How to Determine Your Goal Weight?

How heavy should you be?

Not sure.

You can determine your own weight goal by using the following simple method. You goal weight will differ according to your bone and muscular structure. Your personal ideal weight may be anywhere between the maximum and minimum limits indicated.

Formula for MALES:

Height (cm's) - 100 = Goal Weight
Allow + 10 kgs for maximum limit

Formula for FEMALES:

Height (cm's) - 100= Goal Weight
Also allow + 10 kgs for maximum limit

EXAMPLE:

Height is 170cm - 100 = 70kg
70kg is the minimum limit and 70kg + 10kg is the maximum limit