Lose Those Last 10 Pounds
I’m sitting here reading an email that just arrived in my inbox with suggestions for losing 10 pounds fast. I’m in agreement with most of it.
- Drink fewer calories from soda, alcohol, flavored water and energy drinks.
- Cut back on white sugared foods like candies and desserts and replace sugar with agave or raw honey.
- Watch what goes on your salad. Refined carbs and bad fats lurk in things your sprinkle on top.
- Replace whole milk with skim.
- Drink a glass of skim milk before you eat. You’ll get fuller, faster.
- Reduce portion sizes, even eat on a smaller plate as people tend to fill their plate. Less plate equals less food.
The email also talks about exercise and that’s the part I’m not in alignment with. Total emphasis was place on getting powerful cardio exercise to really boost weight loss. Any exercise is helpful, but cardio only burns calories while your doing it. Therefore, to burn a lot of calories you have to do a lot of exercise. When you stop, so does the calorie burning. Personally, I don’t want to spend a lot of time exercising.
Resistance exercise not only burns calories while you’re doing it, but continues burning calories long after you’ve stopped. This after burn period is referred to as ‘excess post-exercise oxygen consumption’ or EPOC. It represents the oxygen consumption above resting level (sitting still) that the body is using to return itself to its pre-exercise state. The more intense the workout, the greater the oxygen consumption. Plus, doing it with intensity will get your heart pumping just like cardio. Aside from the benefit of prolonged calorie burning, you don’t need to put so much time into it like you do with cardio.
Here’s a great article called EPOC Exposed and it will explain how to generate the greatest metobolic effect.
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7 Responses to Lose Those Last 10 Pounds
Thanks for the article – losing weight is definitely a two part goal, and it takes self control and will power.
As you mention, people don’t need to spend a lot of time doing cardio if they don’t want. (If they favor doing it this way because they enjoy it, so be it, but…) the truth is doing interval training, moderate cardio with short bursts of all-out-effort yield the best results, and take much less time up.
Resistance training and interval training works well to shift fat, provided the diet isn’t letting the person down.
Every small thing we do in our daily diet always affects our weight in the long run. Choose the healthy, low calorie food in order to lose weight.
sometimes it is those last few pounds that kill us the most.
Really great point here all around, staying fit can be really tough these days. We all have busy, stressful lives and fitness is a great way to counter-act life!
I have been using bodylastics for about a year and have had fantastic results. But I would like to see them tweak the resistance to 2 lbs per upgrade rather than 5 lbs.
You can tweak it yourself with my resistance band chart download. Click the ‘Free Bodylastics Download’ tab on the menu bar to get it. It will show you how to combine the bands to make any increment you want. Is that slick or what!