The truth about cutting a few kilos

By Bridget Nyamushagi

Last week we were talking about the weight loss diary. Weight loss is a major trend today more than it was back in the day because we live in a society where media scrutiny has made physical appearance more important. The article will build onto the earlier posted article “Are You Beautiful?”

Don’t be afraid to set your own goals

Yes cook! For many people weight gain is a result of not knowing how to make themselves a nice home-made heartfelt and healthy meal, and the over dependence on fast food which is low in nutrition and packed with saturated fat.

Making your own meals will allow you to be able to create servings that are in in line with your health goals.

It’s always going to be content over quantity

As far as food goes, you have to develop a sixth sense that will help you intuitively understand the content of food in order to be able to achieve your goals. Nutritional fact information of all foods is readily available at your fingertips.

But to kick start the process and simplify everything, cross reference your shopping lists with this, remove the following from your meals;

Meat, diary, eggs, sugar, alcohol, processed foods, wheat, artificial sweeteners and coffee these all harbor several complex sugars and saturated fats. Once that’s covered fill your fridge with more of water, fresh fruits, vegetables, brown rice, whole grain cereals like bran and oats and salads keep it light, fresh and filled with fiber.

Fruits ensure energy and vitamins, vegetables ensure nutrition while water replenishes and revitalizes every part of your body through circulation. Giving your body everything it needs to push out the excess fat.

Whatever happens, never forego your mission for the taste of fast foods. Cravings will happen, but you have to trust that you can make from fruits and vegetables low calorie and low fat amazing meals too. SatisfashionUG will keep you covered with several recipes to adapt.

Upping your metabolic rate

Perhaps I should briefly explain the metabolic rate. This is the rate at which your body uses up the calories you consume. So for smaller people, their metabolic rates are high which explains why they are small, their bodies work so fast to consume energy leaving hardly anything for storage as body fat. The reverse is true for slightly bigger people. Remember always the mission is never to become pencil thin, a little fat under flesh is desirable, but the body is always more appealing with muscle tone.

Acquiring muscle tone is simple, join a gym for easy cardio classes, it doesn’t have to be heavy lifting, aerobics is good enough. A good massage once in a while will ease the whole body of tension, and with tension out of the way, the body is able to work better. An easy jog every evening over time will also build up your body’s metabolic rate.

The key to all this is consistency and balance, a few tips on working out are:

• ·         Check with your doctor in case of any complications
• ·         30 minutes is enough exercise for 5 day
•             Exercise at least 2 hours after eating. 

How does one know if it’s necessary to lose weight

The first step would be to know your Body Mass Index, you BMI is the ratio of your body’s weight to your height at a particular age. These ratios will explain whether or not to a good extent you have excess weight. You can do this at home on the weighing scale and if you can determine your height, and some apps from the internet should be able to help you understand the calculations. Or you can ask your doctor to do this for you.

Many people just get into weight loss without understanding what it  means, and so it becomes a very destructive place, but with clarity on some issues, it can become an achievable objective after all. Seek to know, read widely on the topic, read about food, about what has worked and above all what ways you can enjoy this journey.

Nothing is impossible, we are only limited by the illusion of what we think is enough and what we think we know. Do not lose hope, aside from the way, the will to is the most important of the human resources we have. If you want it enough, it will definitely come to pass, enjoy yourself!!

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