Get active, control your weight

Getting active
Physical activity is a good way of using up extra calories, and will help you to control your weight. But being physically activity doesn’t mean you need to join a gym or hire a personal trainer to bark orders at you! Just opening your front door opens up fitness options including running, walking and cycling. The key is to incorporate sensible and sustainable levels of exercise and activity in your day-to-day life, and to incorporate them in the most convenient places. As with diet it is overall habits that count. One walk across the lounge to pick up the TV remote won’t see you shedding inches from your waistline. Similarly missing one session in a healthy lifestyle will not see your belly expanding before your eyes! Get a good routine going and then you can be flexible around it when the need arises.

Be active every day and build up the amount you do. Try to fit in as much walking as you can into your daily routine. Get off the bus a stop early or walk to the shop rather than jumping in the car. By the time you have taken account of how long it takes to park it really doesn’t take that much longer. Try to walk at a good pace. A little and often will add up.

Whenever we eat more than our body needs, we put on weight. This is because we are taking in more fuel we are burning up and the body will store this energy we don't use up – usually as fat. Even relatively small amounts of extra energy each day can lead to weight gain over time.

Crash diets aren't good for your health and they don't work in the longer term. The way to reach a healthy weight – and stay there – is to change your lifestyle gradually. Adopt a new healthier routine where you activity levels and foods intake both work to help make you healthier. Aim to lose about 0.5 to 1kg (about 1 to 2lbs) a week, until you reach a healthy weight for your height. This is a far less painful way of going about it, is far healthier and will actually work – so why on earth take the painful, unhealthy, doomed to failure crash diet option?!

Losing weight sensibly will see you able to still enjoy your food, and leave you feeling healthier and more in control of your life. You will draw more and more encouragement as you see and feel the benefits to the way you look and the way you feel.


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