Stepping Your Way To Lasting Weight Loss

The principle of natural weight loss with eating only the amount needed for the amount of physical activity performed is difficult for many people to understand. The number of overweight American citizens is on the rise. Once you are overweight, you usually want to lose those excess pounds for a whole lot of reasons, some related to health and others having to do with looks. Research shows that wearing a pedometer every day helps people to get more exercise and therefore either maintain or lose weight.

Maintaining your weight is actually easier than losing those extra pounds and the heavier you become the harder it is to drop the weight. One thing is for sure, weight gain is going to happen if we do not take steps to control it.

If you have lost weight by watching and counting calories and you are not increasing your activity, it won't take long for you to revert back to your old eating habits and you will begin to see the pounds add back on. With the number of health problems related to weight and obesity on the increase, experts suggest people following a natural weight loss program.

Taking 1000-2000 more steps every day can make the difference between weight gain, maintaining or losing weight. 2000 extra steps every day may sound like a lot, but over the course of the day you can spread it out. You can take the steps instead of the elevator, park a little further away when running errands, take a stroll during your lunch break, or even a walk around the block with a friend. Once you start counting your steps with a pedometer, you will find new and different ways to add more steps to your day.

To start, you should first establish how many steps each day you take right now by wearing your pedometer every day for a week and recording your daily steps. After a week add all the steps together and then divide by 7. This will give you your average daily steps. You then can begin to add more steps to your day.

Maintaining a natural weight loss program means sticking to low fat meals that are high in fiber and contain complex carbohydrates with a moderate amount of protein. Manufacturers realize that there is a huge market for fat-free and even low-fat products, but the particular disposition and popularity of these foods are not lowering the average weight of the nation.

What people do not understand is that it isn't just fat in their food that is making them put on weight, it's the amount and the high caloric content of the food they are consuming. What happens is that overweight people think that if it's fat free they can eat more of it.

Many experts disagree on when to eat and how often, but the latest thoughts suggest that keeping to regular meal times, eating low fat foods, monitoring portion sizes and eating small nutritious snacks between meals may be the answer. Therefore, maintaining a healthy weight is just that; a natural weight loss program, with a low fat diet and moving around a little more by increasing your activity, can help you to live a long healthy life.

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