When people diet they may temporarily lose weight. If they don't excercise to at least maintain muscle mass at the same time, what they lose is muscle as well as fat. Eventually they fall off the diet and the weight comes back. And they ask themselves why it comes back even faster than it went off. Well you wind up with less muscle, and a slower metabolism. So it's easier to gain the weight back and more and you wind up with a higher body fat % than when you started this yo-yo process. You have got to realize it takes effort, eating right, and exercise. I have never been on a diet, but I did come to the point where I chose to make a lifestyle change.
Here are some basic differences between a diet and a lifestyle change:
Diet: The goal is self-limiting.When you get to your goal weight, you stop the diet
Lifestyle: The goal is open-ended.Weight management becomes part of your daily life, with strategies that vary as circumstances, priorities, and needs change.
Diet: A diet is a surface level change.It involves simple changes in behaviors you are already doing (or not doing). You take in fewer calories from food and (maybe) expend more calories on activity. Foods are "good" or "bad" based on calorie content.
Lifestyle: Lifestyle changes are made on many levels.In addition to healthy changes in your relationship with food and exercise, you will challenge the basic attitudes, beliefs, thoughts and feelings that made you overweight (and unhappy) to begin with.
Diet: Progress and success are measured by the scale.Anything that results in weight loss is considered acceptable, even if it poses potential problems or risks. Failure to lose weight as fast as desired is very upsetting, and the process feels like a constant battle. High stress is constant.
Lifestyle: Progress and success are measured in terms of satisfaction & quality of life.Weight loss and maintenance continue to be important, but are put in perspective as one way you can move towards larger, more rewarding goals. Daily ups and downs become much less stressful when you realize that you can replace the fat with muscle and even if the scale doesn't always move you're improving your body in so many ways.
Diet: Results don't last.Even if you manage to stick with all the unpleasantness of a diet long enough to reach your weight goal, your odds of keeping it off permanently are less than one in twenty.
Lifestyle: Results are lasting.Your lifestyle change is an open-ended, ongoing process with goals that continue to expand and grow. There is no reason to go back to the habits that got you overweight in the first place.
Coach Randy
http://www.randysfitnessspot.com/
About Me
- Coach Randy
- My professional life involves sitting in front of a computer most of the day, so I've always tried to stay active. Outside of work I played, coached and reffed soccer for over 20 years well into my 40's until the knees started going. Then I turned to cycling and fitness training. As an independent coach with Beachbody, I am out to prove by example that we can be fit at any age. I will work with everyone on their own goals and fitness level. I particularly want to help other baby boomers defy the aging process by preventing problems instead of waiting to pay doctors to fix problems. I want to help you invest in yourself. No matter what condition you're in today, the next 90 days can change your life. So let's get started.
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