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The beginning of another new year and with it are the resolutions that are going to make us fitter, healthier, wealthier, less cluttered, more organised, etc, etc, the list goes on. Of course, one of the greatest new year resolutions it to lose weight, or as we like to say, get in shape.
Yet, according to Jessica Bartfield, MD (who specialises in nutrition and weight management at the Loyola Center
In the list of reasons why people run, weight loss comes near the top.
Running is obviously a very effective way to reduce and control weight. Indeed, many runners who started when overweight have long since left behind any concerns they had about their weight.
Of course it’s not as simple as that.
Consciously focusing on weight loss means being focused on being overweight, which in
Until now, we’ve not produced a weight loss training plan because the personal requirements are so diverse.
However, we’ve now devised a plan that is suitable for most people, regardless of their fitness level, and one that can be tailored according to those abilities.
It’s on our other site: Run-Slim, which is written specifically
It should come as no surprise that if we are highly motivated then we are more likely to exercise. And obviously, if we exercise more then we are less likely to have problems managing our weight.
The problem is that being motivated to exercise is not the same as being motivated to lose weight. Motivation to lose weight is usually not in short supply, but motivation to actively do something about
According to researchers at the University of Surrey, people who fail to lose weight while taking anti-obesity drugs do so because they fail to alter their beliefs about their own ability to lose weight. This is in line with Henry Ford’s famous quote, ‘Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right‘.
What we believe influences our thinking and hence
I think most of us know that dieting doesn’t really work, the research tells us that much.
I think most people agree too that if a certain lifestyle has tipped the energy balance towards weight gain then that is what happens. It might take weeks, it might take years, but slowly and ever so surely the body changes shape. That’s all fine until we decide that we are too heavy, or too fat,
