Losing excess and undesirable body weight is something most people, if not everyone, want to accomplish so they look good whether they are in a swim suit or a pair of jeans and a polo shirt.
By taking these steps they will regain their confidence in life.
It is truly difficult in our present life to lose the excess body weight for several reasons.
Let me mention some major ones so you can have a better and clearer background, and then I will reveal to you how to go about it so you can look forward to your next visit to the beach or the Banana Republic Clothing Store.
Why It Is An Uphill Battle To Lose Weight One major reason is that our food quality has gone South.
The food industry has a cleverly designed machine to produce the mass volume of foods which are highly processed and unsatisfying to the health-conscious individual.
A better explanation is that highly-processed foods are not nourishing to the human body.
So at the end of the day you get packaged food that tastes good because of the flavor enhancing chemicals, but it is not fulfilling.
Therefore,.
you keep eating more frequently because your body, or more accurately your brain is simply saying, " I need more food.
" There is an abundance of good quality food that is full of vital nutrients to feed your body.
But unbelievably, more people are being told to eat T.
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dinners, high fructose and other sweeteners of breakfast cereals, vending machine snacks, fake juices that are loaded with sugar and artificial colors, and the liquid candy aka: pop soda.
These are some of the man-made food creations, and they are making us fat.
I urge you to avoid all these types of food if they are qualified to be called food.
And start eating whole foods and learn to spend time to prepare your own meals, period.
We Are As Sedentary As A Rock Our life as humans has shifted towards sedentary life.
When we started the agriculture lifestyle modeled after the hunter and the food-gatherer, it was a life of movement (not sedentary) practically from dawn to dusk.
But in our time, the sedentary life has a new meaning where most of sit and answer phones, use computers, and sitting around in meeting(s) for hours.
This type of pattern is going on everyday and it is ongoing for years.
So what you have is not only more incoming calories and less expending of calories but sadly our bodies are becoming tight and dysfunctional where walking or hiking (God forbid) can be painful to our joints.
And that leads to a more limited movement and maybe a dysfunctional and disabled body.
How to Start Losing Weight and Bring Your life Back As I mentioned above, you need to minimize your dependence on prepared foods that come in packages and list ingredients that you can not even comprehend although you might have a PhD in our English language.
When you read ingredients that you never heard of in nature and only biochemists can decode these chemical names, then it is good idea to avoid these types of food.
Eat food like your Grandmother or Great Grandmother used to make by purchasing minimally processed whole foods and take the time to cook them at home.
Start moving physically by taking short walks and then longer ones.
After a few weeks start to jog or do trail hiking that includes up hills and down hills, and even perform resistance exercises whether in your home, outdoors, or a gym.
The important thing for you to understand is that you will lose weight and start gaining confidence by exercising little by little and more consistently.
And that will fuel the other part of the program until you reach your desirable body weight.
But keep maintaining your active lifestyle as long as your body can.
Your body needs to move as much as it needs to eat, drink, and sleep.