Is Not Just About The Weight You Lost!

Is Not Just About the weight you lost, but it's also about the weight you did not gain.

Many people measure their fitness success by looking at how much weight they lost over the weeks and months. If they lost weight they feel successful, but if they did not, they feel like failures. Here is another way to look at things. There is a person who is 40 lbs overweight and their weight goes up at a rate of 1lb per month. They decide to start an exercise program and work on their diet in order to lose weight.   Due to their busy schedule and high stress job, they have not been able to be very consistent with their exercise program and their healthier eating habits. Nonetheless, they managed to lose 4 lbs in 4 months. Most people, seeing that they lost only 4 lbs in 4 months, would view this as failure. They forget the fact that their weight, before the program, was going up at a rate of 1 lb per month. This means that if they had not started the weight loss program they would have been not 4 lbs heavier, but 8 lbs heavier.   When it comes to weight loss and health, something is better than nothing. So, if you are too busy to start a full fledge exercise program, start by walking for 5 minutes 3 times per week and go from there.