Healthy For Weight Loss
Healthy for weight loss is the name that I gave this blog because there are so many choices when you are thinking about losing weight but how many of them are healthy? The reason that I say this is that if you lose a lot of weight very quickly this is not always good for your body. I found this out to my cost a few times and maybe you have experienced this as well. Please visit often as I plan to include many healthy tips for weight loss here.
Everybody dreams of the day that they can look and the mirror and feel proud rather than ashamed at what they see. I was verging on obsession with this at one point in my life even though I knew that this was not good for my soul – can you relate to this? The problem that I was facing was that I wanted results extremely quickly but I didn’t want to put in much effort to achieve it. This, I am afraid to say, is an all too common problem in today’s world – I wanted instant gratification. So I went in search of a quick weight loss diet or other miracle.
Now although there are some ways in life to benefit from overnight success without putting in much effort such as winning a lottery or being discovered on a national talent show, this does not exist in the field of healthy weight loss. I remember sitting on the toilet for the umpteenth time one day (that fat has got to come out somewhere!), after taking a course of super fast weight loss pills, thinking “there’s got to be a better way than this”. And there is – leading a lifestyle that is healthy for weight loss.
After Callie was born I put on over 35 pounds of unwanted blubber. Being a “let’s do it now” kind of girl, I decided that I had to get rid of this as quickly as possible. With a new baby to care for I had to find the easiest way to do this so I started checking out web sites and magazines and tried numerous weight loss pills and near starvation diets. The result of this madness was that I lost weight initially but then put it back on (and some) and felt pretty wretched during the whole process. My husband Ted was so worried about me he took me to see nutrition specialists and other medical wizards because I looked so pale and lifeless.
Shortly after this I contacted a good friend of mine who I went to school with. Her name is Kelly and she has a body to die for despite having three young kids. I wanted to know her secret and she agreed to take me through her typical day and the diet that she was on. The reason that I chose Kelly was that at school she was a little plump and was often overlooked by the boys. She has turned out to be a wonderfully trim and healthy girl.
Kelly explained to me that we all have different body types and rates of metabolism and that this was the key to a healthy diet. She told me that she experimented with different foods and noticed that they had dramatic effects on her body. Some so called “healthy foods” would make her gain weight, while other foods high in fat would make her lose weight. She also found that by doing some gentle exercises everyday that her metabolism improved and she felt so much better.
Armed with this knowledge I began to search for a healthy diet for weight loss that took these things into account. I found a few that claimed to do this but ended up being disappointed with just about all of them except one. The diet I found that finally worked for me didn’t make me lose weight super fast. If I remember I only lost about four pounds in the first week. But what was good about it was that I felt great and the weight loss was consistent week by week.
I combined this with 30 minutes of gentle exercise for weight loss every other day and now I feel healthier and happier than I ever did before. If I can do it so can you. You need to change your thinking from instant results to consistent results and that a little effort is needed on your part but believe me after a while it all becomes automatic.
If your interested to learn more about the healthy diet for weight loss that I used (and still do today) that gave me the best and most healthy results click HERE.
