Have you managed to successfully sustain weight through the holidays, or perhaps even lost a few pounds? If so, congratulations! If you have gotten off track over one more month or two, now is the time to be back on the right track by placing your nutrition first.
Here’s steps to make: Keep only health- promoting foods. Clean your cupboards and pantry of all items which are not advocated choices for the Take Shape For Life Plan or(for those successful maintainers) that provide empty calories. Eliminate all the extra baked goods, excessive calorie finger meals, etc which will be leftover from holiday parties. Store your fridge and pantry with only health- promoting items—lean meats, fresh/frozen or canned vegetables as recommended for use on the 5 & 1 Take Shape for Life Plan
; add fresh/frozen fruits, whole grain products, and low- fat dairy products to your shopping list and cupboard for those currently following the transition/maintenance phases.
Planning your environment for success will be key to staying with your goals. Here’s to a fresh re- commitment of the necessary fitness objectives!
If you’ve neglected your workouts over the holidays, don’t expect to resume them at full force. Unfortunately, it takes much less time to lose aerobic capacity or strength than it does to gain it. Exercise physiologists call this loss of fitness “detraining. ” How quickly you detrain depends largely on genetics and on your level of fitness; interestingly, the fitter you are, the faster you are likely to detrain.
Using Medifast and following the 5 & 1 Take Shape for Life BeSlim Plan you can expect to lose 2-5 pounds a week. Each Medifast suppliment contains only 100 calories.
In general, you can expect to lose 5 percent of your aerobic capacity after one week of inactivity, 15 percent after two weeks, and up to 25 percent after three weeks. If you have managed to get in at least one workout per week, chances are you’ve maintained your previous fitness level. Begin slowly, because haven’t worked out for over a month. And don’t worry- you’ll be back in shape in no time!
Now’s the time when you start thinking ahead to the New Year. What will you modify? How will you change? What will you start? If you’re interested in making real changes toward a healthier lifestyle, begin by deciding on your goals. Are they realistic? Are they doable? Are you able to put them in a time frame? It’s wonderful to begin the New Year with new changes ahead. Just make sure that your goals are doable, to help you see real progress.