Welcome to Day 8 of our 25 days to weight loss program. We hope that by now you’re realizing you have found what we’ve all been searching for: fast, healthy weight loss.
Too many of us have spent too much of our hard-earned money buying those magical weight-loss pills or other products with secret proprietary blend ingredients designed to help us lose weight quickly. We’d try them for a few days, then quit when we discovered those secret ingredients made us jittery or made us spend all day in the bathroom. Or, they just plain didn’t work (unless we followed the diet plan included inside each specially marked package).
We hope you’ve discovered that this program really is geared toward healthy weight loss: By eliminating between-meal snacks and second helpings and by incorporating exercise and a food journal, you’re naturally eating more healthfully. And you’re doing it without eating tofu or other exotic food items.
Healthy weight loss is all about using the foods your body was meant to have: Protein to provide energy, whole grains to provide fiber and fruits and vegetables to provide vitamins and minerals. Water helps to flush toxins from your body and push nutrients through your system. You also need healthy fats in order to digest some nutrients and to help insulate your body. It’s okay to admit that fats also help your food taste better.
Be sure to eat enough of these foods to keep your body as it should. Healthy weight loss means you should be losing about 1 to 2 lbs a week (after an initial loss of about 5 lbs, which is mainly water loss). If you lose much more than that, you may be depriving yourself of the essential nutrients you need for truly healthy weight loss. You may also be putting your body in starvation mode, meaning that your bodily systems will start conserving energy so you’ll actually stop losing weight.
Also be careful not to overdo it when you exercise. Quite often, in our push to lose weight, we dive into an exercise program, hoping to burn off every excess calorie in one session. Then we wake up the next day to find every bone and joint screaming at us and refusing to move. That’s not healthy weight loss either — you could be injuring yourself. Exercise is good but only in the amounts your body can handle. Go at your own pace, your body will signal when it’s ready for more.
In your drive to lose wait, it is also important to remember that healthy weight loss includes emotional health as well. Remember that the numbers on the scale and on your clothing are just that: numbers. Your life will not miraculously change when you reach your goal weight. You will not be a better person simply because you are a size 6 rather than a size 12. You will likely be healthier and you may be more confident but the dream career and romantic life won’t automatically come to you.
Following this program, but not being enslaved by it, will result in healthy weight loss. Keep on doing what you’re doing to make your body the best it can be.
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