Fitness and Diet in Balance

After 20 years of fad diets people have learned that there isn’t much use in dieting or exercising unless you make both a part of your lifestyle. Most people fail at weight loss programs because they wait until they cannot bear their shape or size. They instantly dive into a program hoping to undo several years of abuse in a few months.

That is right, lack of exercise and over eating is abuse to your own body. It cannot be done over night. You need a strong heart and muscles to exercise and burn weight. But, a junk food diet will not give you these. That is why people should always use vitamins and supplements when they start exercising.

Junk food is low in vitamin B. If you do not have enough vitamin B you will be too tired to exercise. Or, if you do exercise, you will sleep longer and feel less rested. The result? You will quit the exercise program. It has nothing to do with your will power or your desire to loose weight, and everything to do with a lack of vitamins in your body.

The same with your heart, it is a muscle. You need to strengthen it, remove the fatty deposits around it. Fun sports like hiking, swimming, biking, dancing, and spending an afternoon walking around the neighborhood, will start to exercise the heart.

I use to join aerobics’ courses and drop out after a few weeks. I felt horrible every time I left the gym. I was sweaty, dragged out, and felt like eating two full dinners. This was because I was depleting the carbs in my body, but not the fat. And, because I was making my heart work twice as hard as it needed too.