How To Maintain A Healthy Weight
Healthy Weight is the weight that is in accordance to your height and body composition. Your lifestyle, your calorie burning proportion as compared to your food intake and your hereditary factors may be some reasons that determine whether you tend to maintain a healthy weight or not. It is all about focus and determination that you need to imbibe in order to remain physically active. This become all the more important once we reach the age where we are much susceptible lifestyle diseases.
Top Ten Tips To Maintain A Healthy Weight:
1)Know what should be your Healthy weight: Whether you have a healthy weight or not or whether you are obese, overweight or underweight can be measured by a Body Mass Index measuring tool and Body Composition Analysis machines.BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is considered healthy, between 25.0 and 29.9 is considered overweight, 30 or more is considered obese. However BMI alone is not the indication of Healthy Weight. Apart from this another tool which does your Body Composition Analysis (BCA), might help you know the fat percentage, muscle mass, bone density, waist to hip ratio and other details. Taking all this in consideration you can decipher what weight is healthy for you.
2)Hit the Gym or start with a well planned exercise schedule to arrive at the healthy weight: Once you know how many excess pounds you weigh, think and devise a proper exercise regime aimed at loosing the excess weight in a reasonably realistic time span. Know your motivation factors and set up a manageable time for the exercise schedule so that you can maintain the regularity and do some bit effectively every day. This will definitely make you maintain the healthy weight and get good results in the due course.
3)Know the ideal intake needed to help you the reach desired healthy weight: Indulging in physical activity alone will not give the optimum results unless you see a proper dietitian or understand how many calories are needed daily by you. To maintain the healthy weight you should know how much of physical exertion burns how many calories and what should be your ideal calorie intake which will facilitate the desired weight loss.
4)Know the nutrition facts and what contributes a balanced diet before counting the calories: Seeing a good dietitian will help you know the nutrition facts and the nuances of a balanced meal. In case you are devising a plan for yourself then make yourself well versed with high Protein – Low Carbohydrate diet, saturated fats – unsaturated fats, calcium and other nutrients your body requires. Knowing these details helps you a great deal to maintain the healthy weight. Follow a well planned diet. Don’t skip the power meal, i.e. Breakfast. Eat small proportions at proper intervals. Learn to cook some interesting low calorie dishes, which will satisfy your taste buds.
5)Concentrate on increasing your Metabolic Rate: Keep your major focus on building body strength, increasing stamina and getting the tone by building muscle mass. This will help increase your metabolism. Maintaining a healthy weight will not look like a big deal at all once you have a good metabolic rate because after that weight loss comes as a side effect of any physical activity performed by you.
6)Speed up your life: Try to walk more. Take stairs instead of lift whenever possible. Take out-door trips or outdoor activities more often. Maintaining a healthy weight will become easy if you know that Sunday might be more fun if spent gardening and mowing the lawn rather than just relaxing and dozing off.
7)Try to curtail the stress: Most important to maintain a healthy weight is to beat the stress, which is the silent killer. It is the major factor responsible for weight gain in most cases. It is even the cause of procrastination.
8) Ingrain the completed picture in your mind: Just imagine the leaner and the well- toned you and save the picture in your mind. Remind yourself of the benefits of maintaining a healthy weight; the dresses which you long to wear, the appreciative glances, the glowing skin and the pleasing personality it will give you.
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9)Towards a healthier you: Maintaining a healthy weight is desired by all because not only does it give you that attractive frame and structure but also lessens the health problems arising due to excessive weight. The most common health problems one faces because of not possessing healthy weight are Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and high blood cholesterol.
10)Be persistent in your efforts to get that healthy weight and to maintain it:Know that the biggest reason why we fail to achieve and maintain the healthy weight is that we tend to give up as soon as we achieve some results. Resist the temptations to be satisfied with milder results and keep your pursuit going to achieve the healthy weight until you reach it.
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