Magic & Logic behind Weight Loss

    I am writing after a long time today, as we all are in this pandemic situation. As a Health Coach, I get this question so often that in unprecedented times like these, how do we stay healthy? How can we stay focus on our heath commitments? We want our bodies to be at a healthy state to fight this, but at the same time, it is so hard to stay focused on Heath. We all are wanting to be out there or our having much needed social connections. Sitting inside a house, dealing with new challenges and uncertainty... It all takes a toll on health and our Heath commitments. That's why I am trying to answer a few of your concerns and get a clear picture of how we can do it right. Many of us start taking care of our health in some or other way, but then we lose interest, or it becomes impossible to do it every day. If that's you, let me assure you, you are not only one. And as much as it's common, it definitely can be fixed. Once you understand the logic that goes behind it, you will feel like following it is a piece of cake.

    I am going to explain why we fail to stick to our Heath commitment, and how can we overcome this. As we all know Weight loss and maintaining a healthy weight are a big part of a healthy life. Weight loss and maintenance have the same age-old basic principles behind it. You need to check your calorie intake & expenses. As long as you keep your intake lower than you burn, you keep losing weight. Similarly, to maintain a Heathy weight, you just need to keep your calorie intake & expenses equal. Having said that, once you know how much calories you burn in a day, that gives you a blueprint of your intake. One more important aspect of fitness is building healthy eating habits for life. Having your daily calories from good sources like healthy veggies, fruits, protein, and taking small, but frequent meals can give you impressive results.

    So first things first, knowing your calorie burn is important. You can use any device like an Apple Watch or Fitbit or any other device. Get an idea of your calorie burns each day. Once you know how much calories you should be eating depending on what you want, be it maintenance or losing weight. You can plan your daily intake accordingly. Just adjust your intake according to your goal and your calorie burn. The second important thing to break your total intake into multiple meals. Never stay Hungry at any cost, that's a thumb rule. If you are thinking of staying hungry to lose weight. Believe me, it is not going to help. The third important aspect is to watch where your calories are coming from. It is essential to have a major intake of your calories coming from fresh nutrition-rich and healthy food.

    

    Once you settle down with this eating pattern. The second important part is to increase your calorie burn. For that, you need to be physically active. Now that's a big problem. When I said physically active, the things that might have come to your mind are hitting the gym or hours of intense workouts. But hold on, I am not going to ask you to sweat in a gym for hours unless you are a true athlete. Yes working out in the gym is an awesome habit for life. But you can't start your health journey by asking yourself to run a marathon with 200lbs of weight. It won't work that way, no matter how hard we try, or how desperately we want to get healthy. It's like asking someone to go for an advanced college degree without having a prerequisite of a high school diploma. So you should make exercise as part of your daily routine, but only after completing prerequisites of getting healthy. 

    As this is quite a long topic to cover so, I am going to break it in a few parts, maybe 2 or 3 parts. We will dive deep into calorie-burning and how to increase it without going to the gym in the next part of this series. So, stay tuned!