Losing Weight Facts
You would probably want to lose weight and get your confidence back. However, you should also understand some truths about weight loss so that you can have a full picture about it.
Most of us have hopped on the wagon to lose weight and become healthy. While we are on it, here are some facts that you know at the back of your mind but are not ready to accept.
When you are done, you might not look like that poster girl/boy, you adore.
Everybody is unique and so is their body. Some people naturally have a great body. Besides, a lot goes into photography and pictures.
Therefore, do not be let down when you do not have that perfect body. You still look great and feel great. You do not need to be perfect. Feel good about yourself and your self-confidence will make you look even better.
Muscles are better, even if they weigh more remember, while muscles weigh more than fat, they also burn more calories than fat.
It is much better to have muscles and weigh 130 pounds than to weigh 100 pounds and be flabby. Muscles will give you energy and make you stronger.
Fitness takes more than a week.
If you have just begun your fitness program, do not give up after a week saying you are seeing no results. It took time to gain all that flab, so give it some time to get rid of it.
Fitness requires work.
You can sit on your bed thinking how you can start exercising and what else you can do. This will not help you to lose weight. If you want to think, get up and take a walk. Think while you walk. Make a plan and stick to it.
Your diet needs to be balanced.
You do not need to go on a crash diet. However, you do need to eliminate or at least lower the amounts of unhealthy foods and increase the amount of healthy food in your diet.
You need proper nutrition to exercise. Therefore, feed yourself with healthy foods instead of junk food.
You will not be slim down overnight.
As I said earlier, it will take time. You cannot do it in a week; you cannot do it in a day. It is as simple as that. It will take time. While you might start slow, you will see results as you keep to it.
There is nothing like spot reduction.
This is the one truth that everybody wants to ignore. However, it is true. Your genes decide what area loses fat.
Therefore, if you are focusing on a single part, then give it up; you might end up injuring it. Your body will lose fat, one layer at a time. Therefore, in time, you will become fitter and more shapely.
You will have to keep going all your life.
Fitness does not end when you achieve your goal weight, because if you stop exercising you will again gain weight. Therefore, do not give up and keep working out for your health.
