How To Get Fit And Live A Better Life

Many people struggle with their weight loss and methods that claim out to be the best of the market.

Yes, I said market.

Remember that the diet industry is a giant corporation that moves billions of dollars every year from desperate people looking for a solution to their problem.

Don't get me wrong. These products are mostly well-focused and well-intentioned. And by far, in many cases, needed.

But at certain point, products and services do notdetermine whether you succeed or not, as you are the one to make itwork.

I am going to help you reach that milestone, even if I have to speak straight talk to help you do it.

If you are losing weight, or if you are alreadyin a plan or diet or system to lose weight, the one thing you need to understand is that you have to think, act, take decisions in terms of longterm lifestyle changes.

For you to lose weight, one of the first things your body needs to do is to fasten your metabolism. And you can not achieve that in an overnight get-fit-fast scheme. Not even if you starve to death for a week or two.

Let's get started.

1. The first step to change your already sluggish metabolism is to reduce your food intake (I think you already knew this).

But wait a minute. Don't starve your body to death. It doesn't work. Why?

Your body is built-for-perfection mechanism that understands that you are putting him under the stress of starvation and therefore, it begins to burn calories in an even slower way.

If you want to do it fast, then your body will start to take the nutrients from the tissues, organs, bones and teeth to survive. That could get your health depleted.

Bottom line: Don't do it overnight. Do it slowly.

Your stomach will downsize along with your 'need'.

2. You need to eat more healthy foods.

Again, don't do it drastically. Start with small changes of adding more fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and to your meal portions. That means bringing more balance to your metabolism rather than stressing it out.

Besides, you quickly get used to it.

3. Set regular meals schedules.

This means do not skip any meal. Why?

When you do that, the sensation of hunger catches up with you, and emotionally you end up eating more food that you need at the moment. And again your body intelligently, uses the amount of calories that it needs up to that moment, but will store the rest for the next time you skip a meal.

But even if you cut down your overall calories intake, you would take your body off balance by doing that. And again,skipping meals may lead your body to take emergency plan listed in #1.

4. Instead of 3 big meals a day, take 5 or maybe 6 small meals a day.

Leaving yourself with a slight sensation of hunger, means that your body will have to optimize his process of burning fat.

Loading your body with big bulks of food will only slow your day down, as it would need more energy to process that food, leaving you tired, depressed and lacking of energy.

The more fat you have the worst you are. Fat cells make your body produce a lot estrogen, more than you actually need.

Estrogen makes you feel depressed, weak, tired, slower, and even worst, you become less decisive.

(You wonder now why you’ve felt like this or feel like this so often?)

5. Start your day by eating the proteins and the carbohydrates that may need for the rest of the day.

Thus you give your body the opportunity to burn these when you are more active.

You are giving your metabolism the chance to get the nutrients it needs anyhow.

6. Try to eat more 'good' fat. By this I mean that, fat is needed for the body. The only problem is when we eat more fat than we actually need (Remember that word of mouth always saying 'excesses are always bad'?).

There are basically two types of fat: monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fat.

You can find monounsaturated fat in peanuts, avocados, olive oil, almonds and walnuts.

They're pretty good for your weight loss and help you lower your bad cholesterol or LDL.

Polyunsaturated fat can be found in salmon,corn, flaxseed, sunflower oil and other fish oils.

7. Be careful with what you eat. But do not over-count calories.

You may starve for a whole day but if late a night you decide to gulp a few chocolates thinking they represent less food or calories, you are wrong.

Don't be overstressed either with being the calories-count-freak that loves to sum up and subtract calories from the product label at the supermarket to match up with your daily calorie intake plan!

Just be conscious of what you are eating and be more analytical about the types of food, preferable processed food.

8. Exercise is ABSOLUTELY important. Even if you carry a six-pack on your belly and have a slim body. 

A 30-minute daily workout fastens your fat loss as the metabolism gets speedup and could more efficiently burn the fat you have stored and that you are not using if you are fat. 

Try to make it a habit. Don't start up the self-killing routine that most people want to run ending up unmotivated in just a couple of days. Remember, losing weight is a mental set of mind and it means you truly understand the consequences of not being fit and carrying a lot of fat in your organism. 

Remember the statement about the long term lifestyle changes.

9. I want to retake my statement about the role you, yourself play. Any diet system, pills, methods, habits or workout,need yourconstant effort, persistence, and willpower to be completed.

Post a picture of yourself with those unwanted kilos in the fridge or at your door and remind yourself every single time that you need to lose weight in order to live a happier, healthier, and more fulfilling life. Post memory ‘joggers’.

It is scientifically proven that being fat not only reduces your life probabilities, but also your capacity to live a better life.

A high self-esteem is a cornerstone for success in many areas of our lives.

Clinically speaking, fat reduces your self-esteem, and gives you a moody and negative out-view of life.

Remember you are meant to be happy, full of joy and achieve your utmost happiness.

And I stressed this part out as there are hundreds of weight loss methods, that merely focus
in the mechanical part of dieting, forgetting that the most important part of the process which is a human being called you.

We do eat emotionally most of the times.

We do eat according to the primary feeling, sensation or emotion that such food brought us back when we first ate them.Or also by unconsciously looking and wrongfully trying to duplicate calmness, joy and feelings of happiness that the process of eating provides.

By knowing yourself and controlling those emotions of anger, anxiety, depression, guilt, lack of forgiveness towards ourselves and others, you could get in the right path to reflect what you think in your body.

Reinforce your self-esteem and beliefs by repeating constantly that you can achieve whatever task or challenge you have ahead of you, no matter how overwhelming it might look at the moment.

Bring back the positive feelings you had in the past when you achieved something you eagerly wanted to achieve and use those flashbacks of emotions to couple it with your challenge of losing weight.

And remember, there's no such thing (in my opinion) as failure.

The brain, as a perfect computer does not record what we know as failure as such. For the brain there are only results. Once you put into your mind you want to achieve something it doesn't matter for the brain whether you attempted to succeed, but that the final goal of that programming is to lose weight, as the case.

I might have gone a little off the track to emphasize the importance of our thoughts and feelings in this process. Thoughts and feelings determine our actions, and actions outcome in results.

Keep your self up by remembering this tips and I know it will be a lot easier for you.

Yours in success,

Michael Lopez