It’s already Friday again! This shortened work week went by pretty quickly for us, but it’s still great to think about the Saturday ahead. But before you sign off and head blissfully into the weekend, let’s go through the best fitness suggestions we found on the internet this week. That way, you can live healthily this weekend or plan your next week to better reflect healthy weight loss habits!
This week, we’re going to take a look at an article that Popsugar put out called The Definitive Guide to Losing Weight. This article goes really in depth with 56 tips and techniques to lose weight fast, so we’re going to weed through all of the posts and give you the ones that we find most interesting, most helpful, and most important for you to know when developing healthy habits and achieving weight loss!
One of the biggest take-aways of this article is that the easiest and fastest way to achieve weight loss is to really make your workout count by adding intensity. Adding an intense 45-minute cardio workout to your routine a few times a week increases your metabolism and helps you burn belly fat. While research is still not solid on what produces this increase in calories burned, most data leans toward the afterburn effect, in which a period of intense activity causes the body’s metabolism to spike and burn off more belly fat than usual.This allows you to burn more calories over a shorter period of time so that you can get back to the rest of your day faster! If you are looking for a more personalized fitness routine that incorporates intensity in a way that your body responds to, check out GxSlim– a workout and diet program that uses your DNA to build a health regime personalized to your genetics.
Another tip that we think is extremely important is to step away from the scale when focusing on the big picture. A healthy lifestyle and healthy body is not determined by the number you see on the scale. No need to rely on a no carb diet! While weight loss has many health benefits, it is important to remember that better health and a stronger body are the real goals of fitness. Allow yourself weekly weigh-ins to check on your belly fat, but also factor in that what you see isn’t always the most accurate measure of weight loss efforts. You could be building fat-burning muscle, which could be pushing the number up.
The final point is that almost all of these weight loss tips rely on building healthy habits. It’s a constant process and can start off as slowly as you like, but doing simple things like drinking more water, never skipping a workout, decreasing the amount of time you spend sitting, and eating more fruits and veggies and less junk food can create dramatic changes in your lifestyle and your weight or belly fat. Make sure to flip through the article to learn more healthy habits that you can incorporate into daily life. Learn how your GxSlim telehealth coach can offer you lifestyle recommendations based on your personal genetic profile, and help you adopt them on a regular basis so that you don’t have to try something drastic like a no carb diet. You can start by changing one thing at a time, but the more you add to your routine, the healthier you will be in the long run!
With that in mind, make sure that you start the weekend off by reaching for one last healthy snack at the office instead of the bag of potato chips, going for a quick walk or run before your evening plans, researching a diet that works for you (like a no carb diet) and planning out some fruit and veggie-packed meals for the weekend ahead! Let us know your progress, or learn more about how our personalized health plans and fitness coaching can get you on the right track to a healthy lifestyle: Genetic Direction
