Keep Fit By Keeping Your Weight Down

Many people today are streaming to gyms and health clubs for one reason, they want to become fit. The idea of being fit is an excellent one because it will provide you with a lifetime of being healthy. However, there is one aspect to being fit that often escapes people's notice. If you want to be truly fit then you need to make sure that you are not over weight. Therefore, to be fit a person that is overweight needs to lose those extra pounds, you need to lose weight.

Weight loss is a war that can only be won by winning one battle at a time. People who are overweight obviously are aware that they need to lose those extra pounds and they do try various ways to do it, but it seems that they are just never able to lose that extra weight and more importantly keep it off. Does that mean that there is no hope?



The simple answer to that question is no. The secret to losing weight is that you need to understand that you cannot win the war if you do not win the battles. What that means is that you need to take it one step at a time. The key is that you need to do simpler and smaller baby steps. This is often very successful because you are tackling smaller steps rather than bigger ones.



The reason that most of us do not lose weight is that we want it all now without sacrificing anything. We eat vegetables for two days straight and then follow that up with two days of exercising. We jump on the scale and are horrified to see that we have actually gained a pound. Meanwhile behind the scenes we are still having the odd chocolate bar or bag of chips. This is why most people fail to lose any weight.



The main thing that you need to understand is that you are on a life style change and not a 3 month diet or exercise program. To lose weight permanently we must understand that we need to change many things in our way of living one step at a time. The first step could be something as simple as exercising for 15 minutes each day. With all of the steps you can increase or decrease the amount as you go along.



So let’s say that week one is 15 minutes of exercise. At the beginning of week two you can eliminate bread for all days of the week except two. Of course you will continue your 15 minutes of exercise. At the beginning of week three you can add a day of vegetables and fruit only to the previous two weekly goals. Each week you can add a new small goal or make one of the existing goals a little bit more difficult. In no time you will have lost that weight and will be living in such a way that it will never return.