Healthy Mind & Body Expert

You have to realize, that losing a lot of weight, or gaining muscle and strength , is not a race. This process has to be long-term with realistic short-term goals.

“Rome wasn’t built in a day”. I realize that most of us are familiar with this quotebefore, but It has never been more truthful than in a healthy weight loss program. People first start out all motivated and excited to train . They have goals of losing 30 lbs, or bench pressing 300 lbs, along with other long term goals. But after training for a month , they begin getting demoralized. Because they are not attaining their goals quickly enough for their liking . Weight loss and exercise is a life altering process. There is no quick-fix settlement.

To make changes in your life, you have to want to . Exercise is a way to help improve the overall health for women or men. There are no healthy quick fixes that have long long-lasting effects.

Take your time and set short term goals that will help you reach your ultimate long term goals, 5 years from now. I’ve seen a lot of people come and go in the gym. They all started out like gangbusters, but a couple of months down the road, they quit.

A sure fired way to set yourself up for failure is by setting short term unrealistic goals.

Let’s say you want to lose that 30lbs, I mentioned earlier, in 1 year. You have an exercise program set up and a good healthy eating plan in place. There are 3500 calories in a pound. Let’s break that 30lb weight loss goal into calories per day. 30lbs x 3500calories=105,000 calories divided by 365 days=287.67 calories per day. To reach your goal of a 30lb weight loss in one year, you would have to burn off an extra 287.67 calories every day. That is the same of roughly one chocolate bar per day.

Now, to make this happen, you need to have a healthy eating plan and a good exercise program in place , which should include weight training for women. Through healthy eating habits and exercise , you will have no problem reaching a 30 lb weight loss in one year.

If having a 300lb bench press is one of you’re goals, and you currently bench 100lbs at a body weight of 150lbs, don’t expect to bench 300lbs overnight. It’s going to take some time.

Make changes to your life style and take you time ,and you will easily meet your weight and fitness goals .