Make Walking to Lose Weight a Lifestyle
Take the focus off weight loss. Put it on life! This is not a weight loss program but a lifestyle.
Yes overweight people have a life. Look at Oprah. Overweight isn’t a code word for loser but for lifestyle habits which don’t encourage bodily well being. What is needed is a life style which supports our continued healthy active well being.
Lifestyle change is the answer because hanging onto the lifestyle which caused the problem in the first instance isn’t.
If you are prepared to make weight loss a lifetime activity then lose weight and then go back to exactly what you were doing in your life before which resulted in the weight gain.
Lifestyle modification is the key. That means activity or walking or other exercise for several hours a week.
Somehow most of us seem to believe that keeping weight off should be easier than losing weight but is it?
Perhaps one day there will be a way for that to be true and that would be fantastic but let’s do what needs to be done today, today.
And eating less and exercising is only the start. When you are a successful weight loser than your focus shifts to keeping that wonderful feeling of living in your body instead of using your body as a way to feel less. Walking is a great way to start-it’s non-threatening- but a lifetime interest demands variety, to keep up the motivation of daily activity, when in our world, it is voluntary, not a necessity, to use our bodies, and consume less. So Wii Fit and walking DVDs, or other ways to keep yourself interested are good.
The good news is that it has recently been discovered that exercising 3 to 4 hours daily will keep obesity at bay, even if you have the newly discovered gene which predisposes 30% of Caucasians to obesity.
For example if you lead an active-around-the-home lifestyle which requires daily gardening, walking, housework to the point where you are moderately active for an extended time, say 3 to 4 hours, then you are unlikely to be overweight.
On the other hand I don’t think they’re saying that the people without this predisposition can avoid exercise, eat what they like and still not put on weight.
The real point here is the question of why finding out that 3 to 4 hours will stop any obesity tendencies is news? This is surely not a surprise.
Don’t bother going for a gene test when it is available: if you’re already obese or overweight you know that 4 hours of moderate activity daily would have avoided this problem. Does it matter if you know that you have the gene?
If you don’t have the gene does this mean you can avoid activity and still be healthy? Probably not.
With the enormous amount of research being done it is important to use it for good i.e. let’s not look for excuses for the condition, because it doesn’t matter why someone is fat unless it is a cause which can be changed.
Daily news activity on the web around just walking and weight loss provides constant examples of contradictory “evidence” for many popular approaches. People’s personal experiences show that they can lose weight. It doesn’t mean that everyone is going to lose weight that particular way. Scientific tests or results of research also offer solutions a lot of which are self evident such as eating less and exercising are good for weight loss, but again they often prove contradictory themes. Many reports say that doing a weight loss or exercise program with others and in groups is the most successful way to lose weight and many more deny this is the way to do it at all.
Is life so dangerous that we need scientific answers to avoid making the decisions which will lose the weight we have gained?
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