losing weight and keeping fit and healthy means more than arriving at your local fitness centre or sports club. The ability to lose weight is a state of mind and one that you have to persevere with. Diet plans and fitness workouts are only a device which you can use to lose surplus weight and get fit, but by themselves, unused, they are pointless.
Predictably there is a increase in the membership of health clubs and gyms, at the start of each year. It is so easy to start the New Year with a new resolution to slim down after stuffing themselves over the holiday period. Each year the gyms try to understand why they have such a problem keeping members and then to make sure that they keep returning after the novelty has worn off. The secret lies in appreciating what makes a customer to sign up to a gym in the first place.
The answer is easy, you join a health club or gym to lose a few pounds and make yourself fitter. You don't become a member of the gym to buy a diet, or to be sold any other fitness services or products. A healthy body is about people and their dreams and not about making money.
Ok, you need some direction on what to do and you need a plan of how to go about it. You may benefit from a particular diet type and you may benefit from vitamins and healthy food types, but it is all too easy to become over-whelmed by all of the detailscalculations of an exercise or diet program. Sometimes focusing too much on the numbers can and will result in losing sight of your original motivation andas a result, set you up for failure.
In place of thinking positively about losing weight and getting fit, which is the mind set that you started with, you may start to worry that all of the calorie counting, reps, and heart rate tracking are too much to deal with. The detail starts to take over and you start to lose sight of your goals. Now it becomes more of a job than a hobby and instead of being a means of stress release the whole thing becomes very stressful! You may even be tempted to quit exercising and dieting as a consequence.
Yes, you are going to have some tough days, it would be silly to think otherwise. It's hard work losing weight. It takes determination and discipline. More importantly, you need to be able to see through the hard times when it all seems pointless, and remember why you started. Whatever you do, you should not get too concerned about hitting all the numbers on the charts all of the time.
The biggest challenge for anyone who is going to lose weight or get fit is to be able to follow through. In order to follow through, you have to be a weight loss LIFER!
The term 'lifer' comes from the military where it is a phrase for 'a person who has been in the military a long time or plans to stay in long enough to retire'. These are people who have the commitment to finish the course. If you are serious about losing weight or improving your fitness, then you have to be Weight Loss Lifer. Are you a Weight Loss Lifer?
A Weight Loss Lifer has a mindset that knows that there will be hard times to go through; that there may even be really bleak times in the future, but they get through them or they go around them. It may need support from others, but whatever it takes, it gets done. They know that losing weight is so much more than the result of a single day, or a single week. It is the total of everything that you have done to date.
You may not be a lifer today, but you won't ever become one if you don't make changes now! New Year's Resolutions are good because they are a great reason for making a lifestyle change. On the other hand they are bad because few people expect to keep their resolutions for very long and give up at the first problem. If you didn't give up on your weight loss promises to yourself then you would still be loosing weight. You would already be a Weight Loss Lifer.
We are all individual. Each one of us is different. You cannot just purchase a diet plan or an exercise regime and "guarantee the results." It just doesn't work that way. Each one of us needs to fit the diet or exercise plan to match our own requirements. You can buy different diet types and plans or exercise plans but what you can't buy, is the determination of a Lifer.
Do not get over-whelmed with the details of losing weight or getting fit. Make exercising and eating properly a true priority in your life but make sure that it is not the only thing in your life. Be aware of the long term goal and make sure that you keep your eye on the ball. Bad days happen, but they are much easier to get over if you are a true Weight Loss Lifer.
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