Year of the Boar:
Starting it Right! (ii)
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By Suzy Guttler | Published March 2007
Your New Year’s Resolution?
Mine too! Coincidence?
I don’t think so.
After all the new year celebrations
and the ten extra pounds
we’ve regretfully gained, top of the
list on everyone’s new year’s resolutions
is to go back down a dress
size. Chances are however, that we
natzi-starve ourselves for the first
month, and then forget that we ever
made that resolution. This year, stick to your fitness plan with these five easy tips.
The Third Step - Design Your Healthy New Diet
A healthy diet should give you 5 to
9 servings of fruits and vegetables per
day, 25 grams of fiber per day, 5 to 6
ounces of protein per day and a small
amount of omega 3 essential fatty acids
each day. To stick with your new diet,
you will want to include foods you enjoy.
If you love hamburgers, that’s OK.
Make them at home with whole grain
rolls and cut down the size of the hamburger
patty. Learn which foods can
substitute for the unhealthy foods you
have been eating.
The Fourth Step – Exercise and Fitness
Healthy nutrition is just part of a
healthy lifestyle. Another component
of health and fitness is exercise. If you
lead a sedentary lifestyle, you need to get out and get moving. Walking, running,
aerobic exercise and weight lifting are all
great exercises. If you want to loser weight,
it is important to increase aerobic activity like
walking or running. If you need to increase
your strength, then you need to start resistance
training such as lifting weights.
The Fifth Step - Motivation and Maintenance
Sometimes getting started with a new
healthy diet and fitness plan is the easy
part. Many of us hit occasional road-blocks
due to busy schedules, loss of motivation
and sometimes we hit weight loss plateaus.
Those weight loss plateaus are the times
when we feel like we do everything right,
but the scale doesn’t seem to budge. When
this happens, don’t give up. Remember that
maintenance is the key to successful weight
loss and fitness goals |
