Step 5 Keep active as a way to lose weight

As well as releasing happy hormones that will help you stay positive about the changes you’re making, increased activity is something almost all successful long-term dieters do, as it helps you see physical results.

With WEIGHT, it all comes down to a very basic formula:

Eat and drink = add calories 

Exist as a being = lose, subtract or burn calories

Add more than you lose and on goes the weight and the opposite is true if it goes the other way.

We lose calories even as we sleep. It's true! Eat nothing in the evening weigh yourself. Then weigh again when you rise in the morning. You will have lost weight.

However, it's safe to say that real weight loss is made by movement and working the body. If you want to lose weight you have to alter YOUR formula. 

Cut down on calorie intake or increase activity or do both!

Actvity can be walking for longer or walking at a higher tempo. Tackle the stairs and set a target of going up and down a number of times, walk around the house, up and down the garden. Whatever works up a little sweat burns calories when doing it and for hours afterwards.

I like the HIT (High-Intensity Training) where you exercise two or three times a week for very short intense bursts. It can be as little as a minute or two. To find out more about exercise sessions of sixty seconds click here for Dr Michael Mosley's short video about HIT for the ordinary person. 

For the more able and active of you please visit Wikipedia for further information

WARNING IMPORTANT - please check with your GP or doctor before making any changes to your diet and exercise levels. 

Alert!  RTE's Operation Transformation started yesterday. This program takes groups of ordinary people and helps them transform themselves through healthy eating and exercise. 

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Footnote - My Progress - This time it's personal!

Today I can report a drop of .40 of a pound. I upped my exercise regime by actually jogging 5 kilometres and I held strong in the evening with one glass of red wine and no nibbles. The two packets of biscuits remain unopened but it's getting harder and harder to ignore them. So down 1.4o pounds this week. Its still a small loss that can be wiped out by one bad night so not there yet!

My target is to lose 12 pounds and aiming for one pound per week.

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