Sunday, June 15, 2014

Key Number Three: What Not to Do

Diets don't work. It is one of the most ineffective ways to lose weight. It involves you depriving yourself of food for weeks or months, denying yourself what you like, and then seeing your goals weight sabotaged the moment it is achieved. What’s curious is that some people put themselves through this all the time! Instead of achieving optimum health and vitality they drain themselves mentally, spiritually, emotionally and physically.

Why don’t diets work? Aren’t you usually thinking about what you want to eat and what you’re not allowed to eat? How can you succeed in achieving anything if you’re focus is on something else?

Depriving yourself is not the answer to achieving long-term health.

When we go on a diet we throw our system into turmoil. Our cells learn to hang onto the sustenance they get because they aren’t sure when they will get more. You teach your body to go into survival mode. Then when you hit your ideal weight, you come off the diet. Your cells don’t know that. All they know is they are getting the substance they weren’t getting. And you’ve taught them how to store up for lean times.

No wonder the weight goes on faster than ever. And no wonder it seems harder to get it off!

Make a commitment to yourself right now to dump harming your body with diets!

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Key Number Two: Motion is Emotion

Regular and varied types of exercise creates a “rush” without the need for relying on the foods or drugs that can cause the chemical imbalance we spoke about in Key Number One. By exercising you increase your levels of serotonin, which improves your tolerance of stress and your ability to sleep. It also provides you with more energy and less prone to injury.

If you don’t exercise then you have simply developed the habit not doing it. It doesn’t mean you can’t, it only means you need to develop the habit. If you tell yourself you're not motivated then make it easy to become so… Put on your exercise gear in the morning, and don’t shower or change until you've exercised. Exercise whilst you watch TV, instead of eating. Take the stairs. Walk to work or to the shops. DO whatever it takes to encourage your body and your mind to get used to the new habit.

What are three things you can do to make exercise a priority in your life? How will doing these things benefit your life?