Finding the ability to efficiently maintain your excess fat through the holiday season
Found the ability to successfully maintain your excess fat through the holidays, or perhaps even lost several pounds? If so, congratulations! If you’ve gotten off track over the last month or two, now could be the time to be back on course by putting your nutrition first.
Here’s steps to make: Keep only health- promoting foods. Clean your cupboards and pantry of all items which are not advocated choices for the Take Shape For Life Plan or(for those successful maintainers) that provide empty calories. Do away with all of the extra baked goods, excessive calorie finger foods, etc that may be surplus from holiday parties. Store your fridge and pantry with only health- promoting items—lean meats, fresh/frozen or canned vegetables as recommended for use on the 5 & 1 Take Shape for Life Plan
; add fresh/frozen fruits, whole grain products, and low- fat dairy products to your shopping list and cupboard for those currently following the transition/maintenance phases.
Planning your surroundings for success may be the key to sticking to your goals. Here’s to a fresh re- commitment of the necessary fitness objectives!
If you’ve neglected your workouts over the holidays, don’t expect to resume them at full force. Unfortunately, it takes much less time to lose aerobic capacity or strength than it does to gain it. Exercise physiologists call this loss of fitness “detraining. ” How rapidly you detrain depends largely on genetics and on your level of fitness; interestingly, the fitter you are, the faster you are likely to detrain.
Using Medifast and following the 5 & 1 Take Shape for Life BeSlim Plan you can expect to lose 2-5 pounds a week. Each Medifast suppliment contains only 100 calories.
Generally, you can expect to lose 5 percent of your aerobic capacity after one week of inactivity, 15 percent after 2 weeks, and up to 25 percent after three weeks. If you have managed to get in at least one workout per week, chances are you’ve maintained your previous fitness level. Begin slowly, if you haven’t worked out for over a month. And don’t worry- you’ll be back in shape right away!
Now’s the time when you start thinking ahead towards the New Year. So what will you modify? How will you adjust? What will you start? If you’re interested in making real changes toward a greatly improved diet and lifestyle, begin by evaluating your goals. Are they sensible? Are they doable? Are you able to put them in a time frame? You’ll find it wonderful to start the New Year with new changes ahead. Just be sure that your goals are doable, to help you see real improvement.