Weight Loss Programs

Weight loss programs or plans or schemes are beneficial for those who are overweight and troubled with their bulging waist lines and want to get rid of both flab and the snide remarks of other people. A proper and suitable weight loss program will enable you to consistently and uniformly lose weight through out the week, without getting stagnated or getting trapped in a dreaded plateau.

Your weight loss program will monitor or control your calorie intake and ensure that your metabolism rate is high and calories are being burnt fast. An effective weight loss program will never let your metabolism rate slow down. The good news is that you don't need to starve yourself slim as a healthy lifestyle will always win.

Most weight loss programs are successful in the first few days or weeks depending upon circumstances. But after that, your body’s rate of burning calories or metabolism rate gets diminished. As a result, you continue to cut calories as much as you desire but the process of weight loss slows down.

After some time, few people even lament that they have stopped losing weight altogether! Naturally such a person will feel frustrated and demotivated and even leave off his weight loss program. They tend to think that their weight loss program has stopped yielding visible results.

But there are specialized weight loss programs available where the consumption of calories will be dissimilar on two consecutive days. Your rate of losing weight will remain continuous because such a program will trick/fool your body’s metabolism in to not being aware of the fact that you are on a diet.

Thus you will gain your target weight and achieve a new slim and trim look.

This has to be followed by maintenance or back up program so that you continue to possess your shapely figure through out your life and not bloat up by returning to your old unhealthy habits.

Weight loss programs are available free of cost in health and fitness magazines, websites and periodicals. But if you desire a professional and scientific customized and tailor made weight loss program, you have to consult your doctor, nutritionist and fitness instructor who will work in tandem to chart out a proper program for you. You may choose to visit a reputed weight loss clinic, where you will obtain all these facilities under one roof.

A weight loss program is a combination of proper diet, regular exercise, back up program, and /or medication, that is, anti obesity drugs. But this last one is not an absolute must and your doctor will decide on the dosage and the type of medicine you require.

Stay away from programs which claim to reduce 5 inches in 5 days or 7 pounds in 7 days. They are just taking you for a ride to make some quick money and the claims are usually highly exaggerated. Doctors, nutritionists and fitness experts will all unanimously agree that losing more than 2 pounds per week is unhealthy and unsafe. Always chose a healthy weight loss regime.

Vary Your Exercise Regime

If you have only been working your cardiovascular system then it’s time to add in other types of exercise too. Stretching is often ignored but if you don’t stretch your muscles do you know what will happen? You can pull your muscles and cause a lot of damage and pain. Don’t start exercising until you have made sure that you are really supple. This is advice you shouldn’t ignore. Lifting weights is also very important for a complete work out because muscles burn calories faster than fat so if you want to loose fat then build up your muscles. There are some great cheap exercise videos that you can buy online.

How Much To Spend on Exercising?

Do you really need to spend a large amount of money on exercising. Yes, so OK, there are items of equipment such as an exercise bike, eilliptical trainer or rowing machine but you can also exercise in ways that cost you no money at all. If you work in an office building, instead of taking the lift, you could go by stairs. This really can have an amazing effect on your fitness. Then there are pressups, lunges and tricep dips. You don’t need any equipment at all and yet these exercises work your most important muscle groups. Exercising is very important if you want to stay slim and trim and just as important as dieting.

Types of Exercise

There are so many different types of exerxise sometimes it’s just not very clear what method you should choose. Some types of exercise and can be seen to be very “girly” such as the swiss ball or bosu ball however they are actually very good for men too. They are important for working your core muscles which are found in your stomach and back. So many people suffer from backpain so using a swiss ball or bosu ball will help prevent this from happening. Hopefully.

Some people find exercising boring, yeah me too a bit. It's pretty cool to start trying oiut some other exercises, even if you dont think you'll like it you might end up loving it. You just never know! Why not get yourself a gymnastics leotard and start getting fit this way?

How Long To Spend in the Gym

Do people really need to spend so much time in the gym? Sometimes people can be there for 3 hours working away. But it might be that they could work out their body just as well in half the time if they are clever about it. Certain types of exercises can work many more muscles in your body than others. These types of exercises are called compound. A typical example of this is pressups because you are exercising your chest, shoulders, arms and even your lower body. However a bicep curl just exercises the biceps and not really any thing else.

There is then the problem of some people not spending enough time in the gym because they find it boring. If you find that this is the case then you need to consider some music you can take along with you. I found this website that provides you with workout songs.