| There are reasons why you and I continually fail | | | | with the free online calorie counter will continue. |
| with weight loss and diets. Any weight loss plan | | | | So how do we ensure that our weight loss |
| can if not implemented correctly lead to your | | | | dreams start to be realized? |
| metabolism slowing as your calorie intake is | | | | Firstly you must go into your weight loss plan |
| reduced. The key to successful weight loss can | | | | with your eyes wide open. If you are like me and |
| be found in the many muscles of your body. | | | | in excess of 305lbs this may be to set a target |
| Weight loss plans and diets fail due to a plethora | | | | weight loss of 50 lbs. I would be a lot wealthier if |
| of reasons from hormone imbalances as a result | | | | I had a dollar for the number of times I have |
| of diets to muscle loss and plain dissatisfaction | | | | started a diet over the years with the unrealistic |
| with the diet. In fact I continually find that after a | | | | idea that in 12 months I will look like Brad Pitt. So |
| few weeks of following a weight loss plan or the | | | | set realistic goals and when you reach these |
| new 3 day diet fad I become increasingly | | | | goals, set another goal - small steps add up to a |
| frustrated up until the point where I convince | | | | long journey. |
| myself that one day of binging will not hurt. This | | | | The second point I would try to understand in |
| more often than not becomes a weekend then a | | | | your attempt to lose belly fat is to see the |
| week with the result that before long that 3 day | | | | weight loss plan as a long term plan. Not a 3 day |
| diets a distant memory and I have put back on | | | | diet, a month diet or a 12 month diet but a rest |
| any weight that I had lost. Now the real reason | | | | of your life plan. Changing your lifestyle for the |
| diets fail is that as we reduce our calorie intake | | | | long term is the real key to losing belly fat. The |
| the human body has a natural mechanism to | | | | third point I would say is the most important to |
| conserve energy in the form of fat. This comes | | | | your long term weight loss plan and all round |
| from ancestral times when food was scarce and | | | | healthier lifestyle. Increase your activity levels, |
| humans could go days without eating much food. | | | | walk to work, take the kids swimming; anything |
| Now when food is plentiful, especially in developed | | | | to increase the amount of cardiovascular exercise |
| western societies, this mechanism does nothing | | | | you undertake. If you have not been doing any |
| but hinder our weight loss plans. So put your free | | | | exercise for many months' even years, pay for |
| online calorie counter to one side for a minute and | | | | doctor a visit to ensure it is safe to do exercise |
| look at what you need to do to make your | | | | then join a gym of walking club; whatever is your |
| weight loss dreams a reality. | | | | choice. If you start doing exercise that builds |
| If you rely on you free online calorie counter to | | | | muscle like weight training as you muscles develop |
| much and your diet lasts many months eventually | | | | they will require more and more calories to |
| your body will start to break down muscle tissue | | | | survive and you will find that before long you will |
| and use this for fuel. As muscle needs calories to | | | | be burning more calories than you consume. If we |
| exist the resulting muscle loss as a result of your | | | | do this for life we will lose belly fat and our weight |
| long term diet will mean you need to further | | | | loss dreams will soon become reality. |
| reduce your calorific intake and your obsession | | | | |