Fitness for Life: 4 Steps To Achieve Your Weight Loss Goals

The stereotype image of a slim physique and a 6-pack does not necessarily equate to ‘good health’ or a ‘healthy body’, which is ultimately the point of why someone may want to lose some excess weight – to get fit and healthy.

Weight loss essentials.

Whatever your motives, always make sure you are eating enough of the ‘right’ foods, you can’t function or workout effectively if your body doesn’t have the right fuel in the first place.

Also, try not to stress too much about calories, it is a journey, and it won’t be totally easy, but be patient with yourself and the process, adjust and tweak accordingly, keep it simple and in the long run, it will be worth it.

Here are 4 steps you can take to achieve your weight loss goals and get into overall better shape and good healthy habits:

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Step #1: Set Foundations

Beginning your fitness journey.

• Focus on nutrition first.

• Put yourself into a calorie deficit by eating a high-protein, sustainable diet with a suitable target for daily calories to ensure you can stick to it.

• For at least the first three months, try to be disciplined. You can weigh things out and track things using various apps, which can be painstaking at first, but you’ll soon get used to portion sizing.

Step #2: Get Moving

Aerobic movement.

• Commit to hitting 10,000 steps a day – there are many apps out there that can help you track this, basically, get more active.

• Although you may not feel too confident to do any exercise over and above the 10,000 steps initially and may even feel too self-conscious and uncomfortable in workout gear to set foot in a gym just yet, stick with it and perhaps try wearing loose fitting clothing and going to a gym at quieter times of the day.

Step #3: Fine-Tune

Hitting the target.

• At some point, you will have to start working out – whether that’s solo, with a friend, with weights, without, at home or the gym. You can also consider getting a fitness coach to help you with focus, it will be a game changer.

• After you lose your first gram, ounce or stone, and start incorporating a strength training routine of around three times a week, along with one to two cardio sessions, you’ll start to feel the change and improvement more as time progresses.

"...start incorporating a strength training routine of around three times a week, along with one to two cardio sessions..."

• Even if you’re not a natural runner, push yourself to improve, set targets, e.g.: a first 5k, a quicker 5k etc. You can also start out using a cross trainer/elliptical.

• As time progresses, try to start lifting heavier weights to challenge yourself.

Step #4: Mindset

Clarity of mind.

• Your body is only one part of the equation when it comes to fitness, the other part is your mind.

• Maintain social interactions can also help you stay motivated and accountable on your fitness journey – whether that is time with friends, family or colleagues at work, every interaction is useful.

• Therapy can also be a good option to help you dig deeper into whether there are any deeper issues you’re struggling with when it comes to your relationship with food and how that connects with weight gain.

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Achieve Your Weight Loss Goals: Summary

Diet alone may not be the only solution to losing weight.

You could probably eat more than you think you can and still lose weight – but what happens instead is people go on a diet, pluck a number like 1200 calories out of the air to stick to, and then discover it’s not enough to live on.

The best place to get to, is what is called the ‘maintenance zone’. This is when you can go back up to the required number of calories required for your body (knowing that your body needs that fuel), without the need to calorie count and enjoy total freedom in the sense that you won’t feel guilty if you have a treat every so often.

Fitness should feel like a way of life. Be strong, be happy and be healthy!

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• Take a few moments to ‘check-in’ with yourself each time you get ready to practice any form of exercise and be sure to warm-up appropriately.

  
  

• f your body is not able to do any of the movement postures, just sit comfortably and run through them in your mind, never do anything that causes pain or discomfort – less is often more.

  
  

• Always, consult your doctor or medical practitioner before carrying out any new exercise routine.

  
  

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