The diet industry has done a good job over the years convincing us that you must deprive yourself and sweat your butt off if you want to lose weight. While some of us do enjoy a good workout, it’s not for everyone. The best way to lose weight and keep it off is very simple:
Learn to live a healthy lifestyle that YOU CAN LIVE WITH.
The body is meant to move daily. It doesn’t have to be high intensity cardio, but some walking, going upstairs to get something rather than sending your kids to do it, playing, and general thinking about inserting small activity into your daily life can work wonders. Strength training just once a week will give you healthy benefits. It may not cut you up, but it will save your bones. Eating fresh fruits and veggies, whole grains, lean proteins, and cutting out sugar, salts, and bad fats over time will take weight off. Slowly you start feeling better, pounds disappear, and you really haven’t changed a lot about how you are living.
I truly believe the biggest aspect of weightloss that gets lost on people is realizing you must do it for a lifetime. Losing weight can’t be a quick fix. Right now is where we decide how enjoyable our 70’s will be. By the time most of us hit 70, science will have found more cures and ways for us to live longer. It is realistic to think you will live to be 90 or 100. Decide now how you want the last 20-30 years to be…active and vibrant or hunched up in a chair waiting for someone to help you to the toilet.