Your increase in body weight is due to one or a combination of factors like: a reduction of daily exercise; an addiction to soda and coffee; an increase of food intake (especially if there is free food in the office); and a decrease in your focus on health. If you are worried about your waistline, all you have to do is create a sensible weight loss plan that will fit your new life style.
People are noticing that once they have established their daily routine at their new day jobs, weight gain seems to be slowly creeping up on them.
Well, in most cases, the weight gains are not even gradual. It’s a steady and relentless onslaught of additional pounds on your bellies, hips and hind quarters. Later or sooner you should get aware on your figure and start your mission on finding health resources and maintaining sound health.
This is especially true if you are stuck in the office all day, basically chained to a chair and doing rather repetitive tasks with little chance of variety. Your seeming increase in body weight is due to one or a combination of factors like: a reduction of daily exercise; an addiction to soda and coffee; an increase of food intake (especially if there is free food in the office); and a decrease in your focus on health.
People create routines to make their daily work more comfortable - or at least, more tolerable. Once that routine is established, it becomes like a bad habit – something that is very difficult to break. If you had a rather active lifestyle before you started your day job (like jogging 2 miles or pressing iron or doing yoga daily) a sudden reduction of exercise will affect your metabolism and your weight will increase.
You may not think of soda and coffee as something that can lead you to sudden weight gain, but it can – inevitably. Almost all sodas contain sugar, and if you take your coffee with sugar then you just might find yourself putting on the pounds. Sugar, you see, causes our metabolism to slow down. It is also a form of food carbohydrate that if take excessively, makes you want to eat more carbohydrates. Unfortunately, the more carbohydrates you take, the more you want to consume them. And this will lead to an increase in food intake.
Obviously, an increase in food intake will affect your waistline (and many areas of your body as well.) You may lose the battle with weight control especially if free food is handed out in the office like candy. Your need to lose weight might be overridden with your desire to save money (by taking advantage of all that freebies) or the need to socialize (office celebrations with all those cake too).
Your new job may be stressful or may demand too much of your attention that you lose focus on your health. Instead of jogging 2 miles to and from your house, you jog to the vending machine every so often. Instead of popping your muscles on the bench press, you pop potato chips to help you with those overdue papers. Instead of watching your weight, you watch the computer screen as you consume one bar of chocolate after the other.
If you are worried about your waistline, all you have to do is create a sensible weight loss plan that will fit your new life style. Losing weight does not necessarily mean rapid weight loss. It should mean a gradual but healthy weight loss regiment. For example, try regaining your active lifestyle. If you exercise in the morning, try doing waking up a bit earlier than usual. A 10 minute jog is better than not jogging at all.
Or, if your schedule won’t permit you to do so, try incorporating a bit of leg work in your daily routine. Walk or bike to your office everyday. If you have to eat out, try picking a restaurant that is a bit far from your office so you can walk a bit. Take the stairs whenever you can, and instead of sending IM or phoning a person in your office, why not walk over there when it is convenient (and non-intrusive) to both of you. Try also to stand up every hour and do a bit of stretching, even when you go to the bathroom. These are simple solutions, but may work wonders for your metabolism.
Also, try not to be so dependent on soda and coffee; or if you must have them, switch to sugar free brands and use artificial sugar on your coffee. This will make you less hungry and less likely to binge. Increase your water intake instead. Learn to say no to most office food freebies or if you have to partake in some, try cutting your carbohydrate intake by half. Share your slice of a cake with a friend, for starters. Not only do you foster relationships, you are also looking out for your office mate’s health as well.
At home, you could check your body mass index or BMI. This will show your ideal weight against height. You don’t really have to exacting in this matter, but it will help you keep a target weight in sight. You can also measure your caloric intake at home. Try balancing your food intake at the office with the ones you take at your house. Consult a dietician if you can, or at least seek the dietary advice of a doctor.
And just so you can see whether improvements to your diet and daily exercise regiment are working, try to fit into body-hugging outfits. This will accentuate your figure, and you (and others) can clearly how well you are faring.
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