Weight Loss: Weight Loss is All in Your Mind!
“The kind of thoughts that you plant in your mind, determine what you produce in life.” Letting negative thoughts rule your mind can never make you achieve your goal. The magic key is to identify these negative thoughts which are keeping you away from your goal, keep throwing them out of your head as soon as they try to overpower you, brainstorm new positive thoughts (your inspirations and motivations), write them down and keep reading them until they don’t become a part of you.
If negative thoughts like i will always be fat, i just don’t have discipline to follow a healthy diet, or exercises are not meant for me as they are too hard and time consuming, keep you from losing weight, then you are not alone. But some of these same people eventually lose weight, reach their goal because they decide to fight, they decide to overcome their negative thoughts, THEY DECIDE THEY WILL MAKE IT HAPPEN. The idea here is to be focused and overcome your negative thoughts because everyone of us deserves to lead a healthy life.
Tip: Enjoy the journey and you will definitely reach your destination.
First of all, imagine the life after you lose weight. It might make you feel more confident at work, sexier to your spouse, so energetic with your kids and above all, will give you eternal happiness. Right down your reasons to lose weight and keep it in your wallet, stick it at your desk or on your fridge. Its obvious that when you are trying to change your behavior, you might experience stress, anger, sadness or depression. Instead of finding poor substitutes like alcohol, video games, shopping, television etc, you can fight these experiences. Fight in the sense, that whenever these negative aspects occupy your mind, just catch hold of them and throw them out. It isn’t as easy as it sounds BUT THEN NOT EVEN IMPOSSIBLE.
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Most of us know what we have to do in order to lose weight but only few of us can actually lose weight. Why? Why are not you able to do it? Because bridging the gap between knowledge and action requires mental strength, requires you to get in control of your life completely and don’t allow external factors like depression, anger, sadness to rule your life. Getting in control will not only help you lose weight but will help you in every sphere of life.
Fact: Weight loss is 90% mental and most programs don’t address mental strength training in their training schedule and hence it accounts for their failure. If you are tired of mundane weight loss programs, tired of trying various supplements which don’t fetch you results and you end up weighing the same, then its time for you to try something new.
Make losing weight an enjoyable endeavour. It requires commitment, goal setting and planning. Stick on to wall your specific goal, goal date, reason to lose weight, life once you lose weight and read it every morning. Be loyal to yourself and there’s nothing which can stop you from losing weight. Wish you all the best in your endeavour!
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Slowing Down Can Help You Lose Weight Faster
Running For Weight Loss??.Slow Down
You may be out running your fat burning hormones
So you’ve loved running since your track days of high school. It’s simple, you can do it anywhere and all you need is some good running shoes and pair of comfy cotton footies. But now it’s taken on a sub-purpose. Age has allowed those extra pounds you use to leave choking on your dust to catch up with you and hit you right in the gut, literally. There are a billion reasons (or excuses) that justify your 10 or even 20 pounds that keep you company.
You are busier now, so you don’t run as often, or as fast, or as long as you use to. You’re getting older and your body can’t take the as much. Or maybe it was the curse of the evil eye of all those non-runners over the years. (you know they were really jealous they can’t run and sweat and look as good doing it 🙂
Whatever your justification, the bottom line is it’s time to lace up the old running shoes a little more often. For the last few weeks you’ve hit the ground running. Enjoying the days of old. Marveling at your new found dedication to your workout schedule. But as you get on the scale once again the numbers barely budge. The problem may be your love for running. The pure exhilaration for the sport. If you consider your self a runner then your gut instinct will tell you to run faster. Try to shave another 2 minutes off your course time.
This time however DO NOT follow your gut feeling or you will be left with your gut to feel. As runner you are use to trying to run faster, cut your course time, beat your personal best or at least don’t get any slower than you already have. But if you want to drop those pounds you have to slow down and work at a lower intensity. Using a heart rate monitor is the best way to determine if you are exercising at the proper intensity to reach your weight loss goal. Heart rate monitors due exactly as the name implies. They monitor the rate in which your heart is beating. (By the way, Heart Rate monitors are an invaluable tool for any serious or even semi-serious runner, no matter what your goal is. )
Knowing your personal heart rate percentage numbers can mean the difference in reaching your goal and trying to reach your goal. For weight loss you want to work at 60% to 70% of your heart rate max (HRM). Your hear rate max is the maximum amount of times your heart can beat in a minutes. To determine that number use the standard formula of subtracting your age from 220. Then take that number and multiply it by .60 and you have 60% of your heart rate max. Follow the same steps except replace .60 with .70 and you will come us with 70% of your heart rate max. Stay between these two numbers on your heart rate monitor and you are on the straight and narrow path to weight loss. (For example someone who is 30 years old. 220-30=190 190 x .60= 114 190 x .70 = 133. A 30 year old must stay between 114 and 133 HRM for a weight loss workout)
Over these percentages of your HRM your body tells your fat burning hormones (epinephrine, nor epinephrine and growth hormones) to shut down so it can use their energy, along with all other available energy, to your respiratory system to maintain your pace.
Working above 70% of your heart rate max over an extended period of time, like your whole 45 minute run, may allow you to burn more calories but less of those calories will be from fat. In the end you don’t just want to burn calories, you want to burn fat calories for lasting weight loss. When your body can’t use your fat stores to burn the next place it turns is to lean muscle stores, which is the last thing you want. Lean muscle is what keeps your metabolism up and running allowing you to keep off the extra pounds. For efficient and effective weight loss we want our calories to come from our fat stores not our lean muscle store. Working over 70% HRM may be beneficial speed training but it’s just not an efficient way to loose weight. Despite popular opinion of "more is better" and "faster is the best", slowing down is a faster route to loosing weight. Don’t misquote me you will burn calories no matter how fast or slow you run but for weight loss you want to burn as many calories from fat as you can.
Lastly and probably most importantly when trying to loose weight weather it’s 5 pounds or 50 pounds. Now isn’t the time to multi-task. Pick one goal and stick to it. Don’t practice for a 5K to loose weight. You’d do yourself and your recorded time a favor if you loose the weight first then start a race prep running schedule. ( To be detailed in the next article) At 60% to 70% of your HRM you may not be running at your fastest pace or pushing your personal best time. In fact you may even have to slow down to a speed walking pace. And that’s okay because you will arrive at your weight loss goal a lot faster if you slowed down.
Mubarakah Ibrahim is an AFAA certified personal trainer and owner of BALANCE fitness, a personal training service for women in CT that offers in-home personal training, on-line personal training, outdoor boot camps, and hiking clubs for women. She also lectures, promotes and conducts workshops on health and fitness through out the northeast. She can be contacted by visiting her website balanceCT.com or e-mailed at [email protected]
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