lose weight using bmr

Well done, you’ve successfully managed to lose the weight you wanted to. It was a battle but you got there in the end, but the biggest battle is yet to come. How do you maintain your weight loss?

Most of the people I know are ecstatic when they have lost a few pounds and are impossible to upset when they have achieved their target weight, yet these same people, less than a month later, are more miserable than ever because the weight they fought so hard to lose has reappeared with a vengeance, often with an extra pound or two to boot!

Why? Resorting back to the old lifestyle is the culprit.

The battle for weight loss is fought on two fronts; diet and exercise. What happens when someone reaches their weight loss goal is that they stop their diet and exercise programs that they reached that goal with and resort back to their old lifestyle and diet. Needless to say this old lifestyle and diet is the very same that made them overweight in the first place!

Why people think that once they have lost weight they can revisit their previous lifestyles and the weight will stay off is beyond my comprehension but millions of yo-yo dieters do just that, and then complain that they can’t lose weight effectively. The trouble is people enjoy their lifestyles and want to be slim also; something has to give and the constant indecision is what leads to the yo-yo effect.

Peoples’ misconceptions about losing weight is that once they have lost it they can stop the diet and the exercise, the truth of the matter is that to maintain your weight you now have to find the right balance between calorie intake and calorie usage.

In order to have lost this weight you must have been burning more calories than you were eating therefore you can afford to ease off a little without putting any weight back on. For many, who don’t like exercise, it would be the gym workouts that they found grueling and miserable, now that in itself isn’t too bad as long as you have a replacement that will be able to burn enough calories for you to be able to maintain your weight; and walking is ideal for this.

Here are three things to consider before taking up walking:

1. Always consult with your doctor. You may well feel perfectly fit and healthy but as a precautionary measure always check with your doctor, he may be able to advise you on a good structured schedule that you will be able to follow.

2. Get yourself a pedometer. A pedometer is a device that counts the number of steps you have taken and then will calculate the distance you have walked, a brilliant little piece of equipment, and really cheap as well. But don’t go setting yourself a minimum distance to walk, look to set yourself walking goals and targets extending them as you become fitter and fitter. You never know, you might actually start to lose even more weight!

3. Wear the right attire. Once committed to walking for weight management ensure you are always as comfortable as possible by wearing comfortable shoes and clothing, a pair of ill fitting shoes or clothing that causes discomfort are the most likely reasons why people give up walking as a health activity.

Once a positive mental approach has been attained it is only a matter of time before you start to benefit from fast weight loss and it will be a lot easier than you ever imagined possible. Please allow me to give you an example.

If you close your eyes and visualize yourself I would like to bet that the mental picture you have of yourself is one of a fat person, and that is why you struggle, or are unable to lose any weight, I wouldn’t be surprised if you look at the person you are visualizing in your head and hate that person. Don’t be afraid or upset about feeling like that, it is perfectly normal and is how many people visualize themselves, and not just about weight issues either.

The trick is to change the way you view yourself, imagine if you saw yourself slim and dressed in clothing designed for thin people; the positive impact it would have on your goal of fast weight loss would be amazing. Your attitude and your mindset will either make or break your weight loss goals, and we will now look at ways to develop a positive mental attitude.

As you know, fast weight loss cannot be achieved overnight nor should you expect a sudden eureka type transformation of your mental attitude, so give yourself some time and allow these changes to be incorporated into your life slowly!

1. Your Reasons:

Why do you want to lose weight? Why is it that you are driven relentlessly towards losing weight? Are you fed up of the taunting and the ridicule from your workmates or complete strangers, or maybe it’s because you want a figure like Jessica Alba? Or is it because you are getting turned down for dates or maybe you’re not even being asked. Whatever the reason is, you need to write it or them all down. You need to be completely honest with yourself and no matter how stupid you may think the reason sounds or how big or small it is it needs to be noted.

Now go get yourself some Post–It-Notes(r) stickers and jot down your listed reasons on them, and make many copies of them. Now the fun part, you need to stick these Post–It-Notes(r) in every conceivable corner of your home especially the fridge and cookie jar and anywhere where temptation rears its ugly head. What you are doing is reinforcing your desire to lose weight by using a forced suggestion method as a trigger to stop you eating un-neccesarily or things you shouldn’t be eating.

2. Motivation and goal setting:

You need to set some realistic goals for yourself and in order to do that you will need to know what your ideal weight is for your height, you can do this by using a BMI Index chart which you can find here. Once you have your ideal weight you need to subtract your current weight from it and the remainder is what you need to lose. Now, if look to realistically lose no more than 2 pounds a week you need to divide the total weight you need to lose by 2 and you will have the number of weeks required to reach your ideal weight.

Once you have done this it is time to get motivated, and for this you again use your list of reasons. If for example the main reason is because of taunting you receive from colleagues at work why not do something drastic like having a bet with one of the main instigators or if it is because you want to have a figure similar to a celebrity you like, post pictures of that celebrity around your home with current pictures of yourself alongside. As stated motivation is about how you perceive yourself and if you can perceive yourself to be a winner, a fighter and thin you will be all three.

On a final note though, I know I mentioned that 2 pounds a week should be your expected weight loss each week, but there are fast weight loss plans that do work on a consistent basis and not just for the first two to three weeks, as is the case with most plans. These programs use a calorie shifting plan that enables you to continue eating well and still loose weight quickly. To findf more information about these methods visit the sites linked to at the bottom of this article.

There is a program that has been around a little while now called Fat Loss 4 Idiots, this program uses a method called calorie shifting it is not a new idea but the way this program has adapted it and turned it into a successful 14 day repeatable cycle diet is excellent.

Where most diets fall down is that they concentrate on reducing the calorie intake to a level lower than what the body is burning. This works great for a limited time as the body still burns calories at the original rate. But, once the body has become accustomed to receiving a lower amount of calories, the amount of calories the body burns lowers also, to the point that weight loss invariably either slows to a trickle or completely stops. This point of a diet is commonly known as the weight loss plateau.

If you an habitual diet monger you will probably experienced this more than once, as this is true of virtually every diet out there. What happens is that a person will give up on the diet because they are not losing any weight anymore. What happens then is that once they return to their pre diet food they instantly put on weight and in a lot of cases exceed the initial pre diet weight also. This is because the body is still burning calories at the lower rate that the diet had changed it too!

With the calorie shifting method, the body is fooled into maintaining a high metabolism therefore continuing to burn calories even though you have dropped your calorie intake.

So how is the body fooled?

When the body is fed low calorie foods all the time it becomes predictable for the body therefore it adapts to the newer lower calorie intake; with calorie shifting the body is fed low calories and occasional high calorie foods. This is done at specific times and this alternation confuses the body into not changing to a slower metabolism. The specific foods and intervals are devised to keep your metabolism at the optimum level as this is where the greatest burn of calories is done.

Unlike other diets and weight loss programs, Fat Loss 4 Idiots doesn’t leave you feeling lethargic and weak. On other diets there are sacrifices that you are expected to make that may not be beneficial to your health, Fat Loss 4 Idiots allows you, no, insists that you eat well and properly but at certain times as stipulated by their plan.