Moving more means being more fit and less fat

The one thing that all experts agree on about weight loss is that dieting alone is not enough to help keep you fit and trim. Sure dieting alone can help you to lose weight, but what experts have found is that if you do not make physical activity a regular part of your life you are just going to end yup putting that weight back on. Therefore, if you are committed to losing the weight and keeping it off you are going to need to get used to moving more.

Here are some tips that you can follow to help you get moving more in your life. Recommend these to your employees to help them get moving more as well.

Tip one:
One of the best things that you can do is get a friend to join you in your activity. Having a friend around makes the exercising more social and it can also help to keep you going when you are tempted to skip a session. The main reason for that is because you get to have socialization when you are exercising, nobody likes to do it alone.

Tip two:
If the thought of exercising is too much for you will just need to start off small. Rather than jumping into exercising 30 minutes a day three times a week you can start off by walking twice a day for five minutes at a time. Then as time goes by you simply add to your walk until you have moved up to 30 minute walks three times a week. Something else that you can do is wearing a reliable pedometer for one week so that you can establish a baseline value of the number of steps that you take each day. Then try to add about 250 steps each day.

Tip three:
Decide on a personal fitness goal, which is going to be how much your want to exercise and how often you want to exercise. Make sure that you write down the fitness goal in your weight loss diary so that you have a record of it. Then start off with ten minutes each day and then slowly progress until you have reached your fitness goal. Another good thing to do for your fitness goal is to choose an activity that you enjoy, this will make exercising easier. It will also make it easier to stick to your exercising routine because you will enjoy the activity.

Tip four:
Plan to do things in your everyday routine that will allow you to get more activity into your day. This is going to mean planning for inefficiency in some of the tasks that you normally do. For example, rather than taking all of the clothes upstairs in one trip do it by rooms, one trip per room, which will really get your heart going.

Make sure that you add a variety to your fitness plan so that you can keep it interesting. You can still do the activities that you enjoy, but you just want to mix things up so that you don't get bored. The reason for this is that if you get bored you will end up stopping your fitness routine. For example, take a walk around the mall or grocery store but wear your pedometer so that you can figure out how much you have walked so you can add it towards your fitness program.

Tip five:
Set aside a thirty minute block of time each day for your fitness program. You want to make sure that the time you set aside will not be interrupted so that you can devote your entire attention to your fitness plan. The time spent on your fitness plan is going to include reevaluating your plan every six weeks so that you can see what is working and not working for you and so that you can monitor your progress.

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