Make Exercise A Part Of Your Life

Lots of you can probably relate on what I’m about to tell you. You’ve got that special occasion coming on and you do your best to lose weight. You make the mistake of leaving it to the very last minute. What I mean is you crash diet and try to lose weight as quickly as you can, I’ve been a yo-yo crash dieter for several years now. But I have finally come to my senses and said to myself enough is enough. I have done crash diets in the past were I have been able to lose over 20 pounds in under 4 weeks.

When I’m on a diet and trying to lose weight I always do exercise to improve the results that I get through dieting. But once I lose the weight I’m a fool and begin to start eating like I did before, and you guessed it I stop doing the exercise as well. Exercise is such an important part of your life not your for helping you to lose weight but for your overall health.

For most people we all have to go to work to pay the bills, so why don’t we make exercise a part of our lives and something that we must do to stay healthy and fit. At the moment I’m exercising like crazy because I want to see quick results. But I know that I can not continue at this pace for much longer. Not only will I start suffering from over training but I will begin to resent going into my home gym. Exercise should be fun, I really do enjoy lifting weights because after a few sets on each exercise you change the exercise and its feels like more of a variety. Whereas cardio training on my exercise bike for one hour can get a little boring. This will get easier once I complete the 50,000 calories in 50 day challenge because I’m going to reduce my cardio workouts to 30 minutes. But they will be much more intense, instead of doing them on a set level for the duration of the workout I will doing high intensity interval training which will burn a lot more calories which means I will be burning more fat in the long run.

Apart from my little nibbles in between meals and the odd blowout 2009 has been a good year for me so far. I’ve lost 35 pounds and lowered my body fat percentage, in fact I’m now below the weight I targeted for myself before I started my body fat loss journey. I’ve still got a long way to go though and this will only be achieved by continuing my diet and exercise plan.