Health & Well being

How to lose weight without a diet – Part Two

In part one of this two part article series, we introduced the concept of weight loss as a product of lifestyle change in lieu of crash diets and fad diets. We spoke about how to set up your weight loss goals and how to become more aware of your current eating habits and figure out your current baseline diet. Finally we discussed how to clean up your baseline diet to free up caloric currency. If this doesn’t sound familiar to you, then you haven’t read Part one and you should click here to go read it right now.

In Part two, we’re going to figure out exactly how you can customise your baseline diet to help you achieve your weight loss goals like I achieved mine not long ago.

 

#progress July 2015 – Jan 2017

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Get enough Protein.

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Tired in spite of Sleeping enough? Here’s 4 things you can do!

Lets assume you’re doing most things right, – you’re sleeping between 6 – 8 hours a day. You have a good diet. You’re also exercising regularly. Regardless, somethings not right. Your energy levels are dipping. You’re tired. You’ve stalled in your progress, or maybe you’re even getting weaker every training session.

Well, you’ve got to realise there’s more to recovery than eating and sleeping right.

How one becomes stronger, faster, bigger etc.?

Exercise is a controlled stressor that we administer to our bodies. With sufficient recovery, our bodies adapt to the stressor, thereby becoming stronger, faster, bigger or an increased range of motion (depending on how you structure your training). With gradual increase in the intensity, volume and frequency of the stressor, we continue to illicit the adaptation response and keep getting better and better.

To get the most out of your body ie. to optimise results, we need to optimise all areas of our life:

Training

Nutrition

Rest & recovery.

Today we’re going to talk about rest and recovery. More specifically, what to do about rest and recovery even though you seem to have everything under control!

Whether you’re an elite athlete that’s trying to edge out every small bit of performance that you can, or a regular person just trying to stay healthy and not slump through your day feeling tired, – it’s worthwhile to understand that our minds affect our bodies more than we realise.

In this article, we’ll talk about how your mental stress might be holding you back from your full potential. Finally we’ll look at a few techniques and tactics you can use to optimise this part of your recovery.Read More »Tired in spite of Sleeping enough? Here’s 4 things you can do!

How to lose weight without a diet – Part One

Weight loss may not be easy, but its nowhere beyond the realm of possibility. I struggled to lose the extra 10 kilos I’d been lugging around for most of my teen and adult life despite regularly working out for years until I hit upon the right amalgamation of Nutrition and Exercise to get the job done. Today we will take a closer look at the former.

“Fad diets” or “Crash diets” don’t work. Certainly I’ll admit that there are people who have actually lost weight following some of these diets. I just don’t think that the excessive caloric deficit and restrictive food choices recommended by these diets are sustainable in the long term. So most people who see some success in weight loss following the GM diet or another similar diet usually end up gaining the weight back when they revert to their normal way of eating.

Instead, I feel a gradual shift in our attitudes towards food and change in our eating habits is much more sustainable for lasting results.

Following the method I’am about to explain to you I lost 10 kilograms over the course of 5 months and then kept them off. The proof is in the pudding.

 

#progress July 2015 – Jan 2017

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Part One of this two part article is going to focus on gaining awareness about our current food consumption and taking the first few steps towards this attitude shift.

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