Exercise Less and Eat More

What about the food? Don’t I have to give up all the “good” things to eat? Not at all – in fact, you can eat more than you do now.

More often, that is. Many people get fat because they don’t eat enough throughout the day and then binge at meal times and late at night after work. This is bad, bad, bad.

If you feel tired, slow and faint headed, it’s because you waited too long to get food into your system. The body’s reaction to this is to make you feel hungry – the longer you go, the hungrier you feel – until you’re ready to “eat a horse”. And that’s what we do – we eat too much and then feel tired and drowsy.

The extra calories we pack away at meal times get converted to fat since your body simply can’t handle so much at once. But if you eat smaller amounts throughout the day, you won’t feel as hungry and your body won’t get fatter.

What you eat is also important, but you already knew that, didn’t you? Not sense in lying to yourself and saying “these extra 6 doughnuts per week are not going to kill me.” They are, and quick. But having one doughnut per week is not.

Indeed, once a week you can eat pretty much whatever you want – that you should really want to is another story. Eating fatting food is gross after awhile – especially when you can plainly see the result in the mirror.

Indeed, once you activate your metabolism – which may take a few weeks – you can start to eat MORE food – the right kind, of course. You will need more calories – especially in the form of proteins. That means more lean steaks, more chicken breasts, more low fat milk, more vegetables – basically more of anything but fats and simple carbohydrates like sugar unless you want to defeat your progress.

Right in there with the “less is more”, people need to stop agonizing about it so much. Less stress on the whole process means more time to enjoy being slimmer. Many folks simply “lose it” and decide to throw in the towel because they missed a workout or had a piece of cherry pie. You didn’t get fat overnight and your not going to be slim in a week or month – even if you do go supper strict on everything.

Getting lean takes time – months and years. Enjoy the process – take it slow. Try to make incremental, not geometric progression. Once you get into your fat burning program you may want to take it to the next level – but because you can, not because it’s that or a gastric bypass.

So less of the bad and more of the good – but you don’t have to go crazy. Water instead of soda, 4 smaller meals instead of 2 big ones. Less junk food and French fries. And more thinking about what you are doing.

If you’re reading this, it’s because you care about yourself – take the time to get educated and you’ll see living healthy doesn’t mean concentration camp diets and marathon workouts.

It means being wiser. Once you learn the truth, you’ll wonder why you’ve been beating yourself up all these years and start burning fat instead.

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