How to to efficiently maintain your weight through the holiday season
Have you managed to efficiently maintain your weight through the holidays, or even lost a few pounds? If so, congratulations! If you have gotten off track over the last month or two, now is the time getting back on the right track by placing your health and wellness first.
Here’s how to start: Keep only health- promoting foods. Clean your cupboards and pantry of all items which have been not recommended choices for the Take Shape For Life Plan or(for those successful maintainers) that provide empty calories. Get rid of all the extra baked goods, high calorie finger meals, etc which will be surplus from holiday parties. Store your fridge and pantry with only health- promoting items—lean meats, fresh/frozen or canned vegetables as recommended for use on the 5 & 1 Take Shape for Life Plan
; add fresh/frozen fruits, whole grain products, and low- fat dairy products to your to-do list and cupboard for those currently following the transition/maintenance phases.
Organising your surroundings for success is the key to sticking to your goals. Here’s to a fresh re- commitment of all your fitness objectives!
If you’ve neglected your workouts over the holidays, don’t expect to resume them at full force. Unfortunately, it takes much less time to lose aerobic capacity or strength than it will to gain it. Exercise physiologists call this loss of fitness “detraining. ” How rapidly you detrain depends largely on genetics and on your level of fitness; interestingly, the fitter you are, the faster you may well detrain.
Using Medifast and following the 5 & 1 Take Shape for Life BeSlim Plan you can expect to lose 2-5 pounds a week. Each Medifast suppliment contains only 100 calories.
In general, you can expect to lose 5 percent of your aerobic capacity after one week of inactivity, 15 percent after 2 weeks, and up to 25 percent after three weeks. If you’ve managed to get in at least one workout per week, chances are you’ve maintained your previous level of fitness. Start off slowly, in case you haven’t worked out for over a month. And don’t worry- you’ll be back fit very quickly!
Now’s the time when you start thinking ahead towards the New Year. So what will you modify? How will you transform? What will you start? If you’re thinking about making real changes toward a healthy way of life, begin by deciding on your goals. Are they realistic? Are they doable? Can you put them in a time frame? It’s wonderful to begin the New Year with new changes ahead. Make absolutely certain that your goals are feasible, so you can see real improvement.
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