The secret to losing weight for good



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My story

You know some of my story if you read my blog.

Basically, I needed to lose 24 kilos. I walked 10,000 steps a day every second week and lost 14 kilos. I am a huge advocate that walking works.

Uh oh 

Then I put back on my weight. 

I was dealing with something pretty hard and was in survival mode so stopped looking after myself. It was between a 3-6 month period of survival mode and then another 3-4 months of healing mode. And I put all the weight back on because I stopped walking.

What’s the result? 

So that’s my history but what I have realised is. Yes, I have proven that if you want to lose weight and not go hard at the gym etc, you can lose weight by walking. Walking a lot. 

You need time to walk. So if you have time and enjoy the outdoors or you have a treadmill and can watch movies or listen to music then give 10,000 steps a day a go. 

Important information about losing weight

What I really need you to know is and this is so important. Is walking 10,000 steps isn’t a goal that once you lose your weight you stop walking. No, once you lose your weight you then keep walking. You have to keep walking to then maintain your ideal weight. 

This is so important because you don’t want to be losing weight over one to two years and then stop walking and then regain it all and trust me the weight regains quickly! 

What if you don’t enjoy walking? 

So when you starting out if walking isn’t for you, research activities that you do enjoy that you could see yourself doing 3-5 times a week and it doesn’t have to be just one type of activity. 

For example, I recently started kick boxing. But I can’t do it every day, so I am walking on the other days. I also love to dance and on one of my online class apps, I even have a ballet core body class that I would like to do once a week. 

The point is, to keep your exercise for each day simple but do plan for the week ahead so each day you know what you are doing. 

How to create a fitness plan? 

It’s simple! Work out the type of activity you want to do. Think of what will give your body strength? This could be weights, yoga etc. What will give your body cardio? This could be swimming or walking etc. Then over six days do strength one day and cardio the next. Just google different types of fitness activities and have a good search about what you can do. 

There are a range of free online classes you can enjoy, just type in the activity to YouTube add workout to the end of the search and see what you can find. For activities like swimming, look for your closest swimming pool and find out costs and times you can go. 

Then workout when you can exercise each day. For some people, each day is different because of different commitments. For others, you get home at the same time each day and can work out then. So write down what time and how long for you can workout each day. 

By creating a fitness plan, you can plan ahead what your week looks like and find when you can make time for it in your day. 

#walkingforhealth #fitnessplan #meltoye 

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