Stress Free Living – Move It Or Lose It

If you’ve ever tried to lose weight you know the mantra eat less and exercise more.  This same prescriptions can help you decrease the effects of stress in your life.  Here are a few helpful tips:

1. Aim for 30 minutes of exercise at least three days a week.  This includes simple steps and changes in your lifestyle.  Take the steps in a building instead of the stairs. Park further away from your office or the store.  If you have steps in your home make the trip up and down the stairs twice instead of once.  You’d be surprise how much more activity you can get by simple changes in your lifestyle.
2. Stretch – stretching can keep your muscles feeling relaxed and helps to relieve stress.
3. Accept the aging process- many people have trouble coming to terms with their body’s changes as they age.  Remember aging is a natural process.  But that doesn’t mean you don’t do things that will make yourself feel good and be happy. Your hair may turn grey but that doesn’t mean your muscles have to turn to flab.
4. Don’t just drink water, enjoy water.  It’s important to drink 8 – 10 eight ounces of water each day.  It doesn’t have to be a chore.  Put a slice of lemon or a few strawberry’s in your water it will not only be fun to look at but add a little flavor. 
5. Hide or throw away the scaleif you tend to weight yourself too often.  A scale can be an ingredient for disaster when it comes to self improvement and loosing weight.  The scale doesn’t tell all.  You can gain muscle mass and loose body fat although the scale won’t move because muscle weights more then fat you will be doing exactly what needs to be done and more. 

If  you liked these tips or want additional information let me know in the comment section below.

Use Positive Thinking For Stress Free Weight Loss

First ask yourself can I use positive self-talk for losing weight the stress free way.

There is no single answer because there is no weight loss program that will work for everyone. Certainly just sitting down and talking to yourself about losing weight will not be the only thing you have to loss  weight. .

It cannot make pounds drop from your body, but if used properly and effectively it can help alter your mental state and your receptiveness  that will lead you toward long term and healthy, balanced eating and weight loss. Positive self-talk is not about accomplishing things without having to do anything one at all, but rather about motivating oneself to find the willpower needed to accomplish them.

What is the first step toward losing weight through positive self-talk?

First, you must make a definite decision about the weight-loss process. Begin by reminding yourself that you are fully committed to giving yourself a healthier body and more balanced lifestyle. Tell yourself how great you will feel once you have achieved your goals, and continually reinforce those goals as your own.

But you can’t just tell yourself once.  You do it repeatedly over and over again.  Write out statements on index cards and post them around the house in places your sure to see it every day like the bathroom mirror.  Say it a few times when your in the car going around your day to day business.

And if you want it to be super effective record it with a small tape recorder and listen to the recording again and again.