As you move into adulthood your priorities change and you give up sports and focus more on work and social activities such as parties and drinking. You notice that you have some extra body fat but by now you’ve programmed your lifestyle and still don’t worry about weight loss too much. As you get to your 30’s or 40’s however you have a considerable amount of body fat and you start to see the health problems associated with your unhealthy lifestyle.
What you have unwittingly done in your life to date is set the snowball effect in motion, accumulating all the little unhealthy lifestyle habits along the way until the snowball has not only gained speed but also become bigger year after year, and so have you. Like a large snowball rolling down a mountain, your health and body fat appear to be out of control and unstoppable.
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The Good News
The good news is that you can use the snowball effect in a way to achieve health and weight loss by making incremental improvements to your lifestyle across several areas. This will cause your new weight loss snowball to grow and gather speed and lead you back to health. The most important thing to realize is that while you may not see immediate results from the slight changes to your lifestyle, the combination of incremental improvements across a number of lifestyle areas over time will achieve the weight loss you’re looking for.
Here is a list of things you can do to start your new weight loss snowball rolling:
1. Get Active – To burn off some of the body fat and strengthen your heart you need to do some form of exercise. A good starting point is walking as it is a low impact, low risk activity. Start out with a short walk at first and aim to walk further and for longer each time. Once you have improved your fitness a little incorporate some star jumps; perhaps stop half way through your walk and do some star jumps and then do the rest of your walk.
2. Eat Healthier - Gradually replace high fat and high sugar foods with healthier alternatives. First start with perhaps one meal a day and progress from there. After a while you will be more accustomed to healthy food and will make better food choices.
3. Eat Smaller Meals – It is better to have more frequent meals than fewer large meals, so try cutting down your portion sizes and have a piece of fruit between meals.
4. Cut out Sugar Drinks - Eliminate soda drinks from your diet as they wreak havoc with your blood sugar, add body fat, and interfere with your hormonal system.
5. Reduce Alcohol – Alcohol has similar effects as soda drinks on your body so try to reduce your consumption as much as possible.
6. Drink lots of Water - Water helps eliminate all the body’s byproducts and is needed to flush the body of the waste associated with weight loss.
7. Get plenty of Sleep - It has been noted that a large proportion of people who don’t get adequate sleep are overweight. This can be attributed in part to the effect that sleep deprivation has on the body’s hormonal system among other things.
If you're sick of the unsightly spare tyre or love handles then you can get serious and invest in a good quality program specifically tageted at not only losing the fat but also improving your health which should be your ulimately goal anyway.
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There is however no quick fix when it comes to weight loss, but if you make gradual changes across a number of areas, the combined effect will put the brakes on the obesity snowball and have your weight loss snowball rolling before you know it.
Copyright © 2006 Colin L Wolfenden
