Last weekend Andrea and I were out with my sisters and brothers-in-law for dinner and drinks (yes I, the personal trainer, has drinks on the weekend...I'm not a total health nut).
That's when I heard it.
It's something I've heard from clients before, but I thought I had taught my family better.
It's something a lot of people do and think they're helping themselves, when in actuality they're hurting their fat loss goals.
My sister said that she didn't eat very much earlier in the day so she could eat worse later in the day.
She thought she was "saving calories" by not eating them earlier and that would make it OK to eat more with dinner.
In my sister's defense a lot of people think this and put this into practice quite often.
Unfortunately that's not the way your body works.
You can't eat little to nothing early in the day and then eat lots of calories later in the day.
Sure you may think you came in "under" on total calories for the day, but that's not even the case.
Most meals/drinks eaten when this rationale is taken are thousands of calories in total, not hundreds.
Heavy meals like pastas, sandwiches with lots of sauces or melted cheeses, foofy foofy alcoholic drinks and desserts that are loaded with so many calories they'd make the guy who takes 5 trips to the buffet line stop and shake his head.
Plus your body just doesn't understand the thought of "saving calories."
Your body can only process so many calories at once and if you consume more calories than your body can process at one time, the remainder will more than likely get stored as body fat.
Stored in the form of stomach fat, hip and thigh fat, butt fat, man boobs for the fellas or bra fat for the ladies.
Please don't misunderstand.
I'm not saying you can't treat yourself every now and again. You should treat yourself on a regular basis if you're on a fat loss plan. It helps keep you sane and looking forward to something so you don't splurge.
All I'm saying is that you can't skip meals or eat like a rabbit for part of the day in the hopes of "saving calories" for some event or meal later on in the day.
It won't matter and might even make you gain more fat.
So the next time you have that thought, block it out and keep eating normally (healthfully) and allow yourself a couple treats rather than going crazy and feasting like it's your last meal.
If you've working out with consistency and eating healthy fat fighting foods the majority of the time, the occasional treats won't derail you.
Have a good day!
Ed
P.S. - If you need to know what a good, healthy, fat fighting day looks like and all the fat loss nutrition information you need - not some fad diet - check out my Fat Loss To Go program at www.fatlosstogo.com You'll find all the workouts you'll ever need, plus all the healthy fat fighting habits needed to lose fat and keep it off...without turning yourself into the "no fun person" at the party who won't eat cake or have a drink.
Showing posts with label fat loss tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fat loss tips. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
Busy Mom Fat Loss Tips
I think the term “busy mom” is really an idiotic statement. If you’re a mom isn’t it assumed that you’re busy?
I can’t think of any mom who wasn’t working her hands to the bone taking care of her family. It just kind of comes with the territory.
Unfortunately, this often doesn’t include much time for yourself when it comes to taking care of your body and fat loss.
Many of my training clients are busy moms trying to lose fat and they all want to know how to fit fat loss workouts into their busy days and nights.
The good thing is that it’s not as difficult as you think to fit effective fat loss workouts into your busy days.
You just need to follow these tips.
1) Stop following the fat loss workouts you find in the women’s magazines from the checkout counter. Most of those fat loss workouts are designed by people who don’t actually train people, let alone busy moms who have limited time to lose fat if they can even make it to the gym.
Plus they load those workouts up with goofy exercises that some gymnasts wouldn’t be able to do, or spend the whole time dealing with “isolation” exercises that when done need at least 45-60 minutes of gym time.
You need to start following a fat loss program that is designed to be done quickly and from the comfort of your own home. The program needs to focus on movements that get your whole body moving in order to lose fat. Movements like push-ups, squats, lunges, and full body ab exercises rather than thousands of crunches.
It should have you in and out of the gym in less than 20 minutes or make it so you can do it from home.
Your free time is precious. Do you really want to spend what little you have loading the kids up to head to the gym, driving there, working out, then loading the kids back up to commute home?
2) Stop trying to do cardio for 60-90 minutes per day. I don’t even want you to think about that anymore. It’s just not feasible for a busy mom who wants to lose fat to try to do slow, boring cardio for that long.
Rather you need to start doing interval training for your cardio. You’ll get done a lot quicker, and burn a lot more fat.
As a matter of fact, much of the cardio I have my female clients perform gets them done in less than 20 minutes and they lose a lot more fat than by doing it my way than they had in the years of doing long, boring, monotonous bouts of cardio.
3) Stop eating like you’re a kid. Most moms I know gained weight after their kids were born because they would eat what their kids didn’t. If their child didn’t eat all of his hot dog, she finished it for him. Or, if she was making cookies for the kids, she would eat just as much, if not more than the kids.
You have to stop doing this to yourself if you really want to lose fat.
Instead you need to focus on eating lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, lean sources of protein like chicken and turkey breast, soy, almonds, salmon, etc. while cutting out processed carbohydrates, which basically means anything found in a bag or box.
Have a good day!
Ed
P.S. - My Fat Loss To Go program is an excellent source for moms on the go who are looking to lose fat...and lose it quickly. The workouts only take about 15 minutes to complete plus one of the free bonuses is a whole load of 10 minute workouts. Check it out at www.fatlosstogo.com
I can’t think of any mom who wasn’t working her hands to the bone taking care of her family. It just kind of comes with the territory.
Unfortunately, this often doesn’t include much time for yourself when it comes to taking care of your body and fat loss.
Many of my training clients are busy moms trying to lose fat and they all want to know how to fit fat loss workouts into their busy days and nights.
The good thing is that it’s not as difficult as you think to fit effective fat loss workouts into your busy days.
You just need to follow these tips.
1) Stop following the fat loss workouts you find in the women’s magazines from the checkout counter. Most of those fat loss workouts are designed by people who don’t actually train people, let alone busy moms who have limited time to lose fat if they can even make it to the gym.
Plus they load those workouts up with goofy exercises that some gymnasts wouldn’t be able to do, or spend the whole time dealing with “isolation” exercises that when done need at least 45-60 minutes of gym time.
You need to start following a fat loss program that is designed to be done quickly and from the comfort of your own home. The program needs to focus on movements that get your whole body moving in order to lose fat. Movements like push-ups, squats, lunges, and full body ab exercises rather than thousands of crunches.
It should have you in and out of the gym in less than 20 minutes or make it so you can do it from home.
Your free time is precious. Do you really want to spend what little you have loading the kids up to head to the gym, driving there, working out, then loading the kids back up to commute home?
2) Stop trying to do cardio for 60-90 minutes per day. I don’t even want you to think about that anymore. It’s just not feasible for a busy mom who wants to lose fat to try to do slow, boring cardio for that long.
Rather you need to start doing interval training for your cardio. You’ll get done a lot quicker, and burn a lot more fat.
As a matter of fact, much of the cardio I have my female clients perform gets them done in less than 20 minutes and they lose a lot more fat than by doing it my way than they had in the years of doing long, boring, monotonous bouts of cardio.
3) Stop eating like you’re a kid. Most moms I know gained weight after their kids were born because they would eat what their kids didn’t. If their child didn’t eat all of his hot dog, she finished it for him. Or, if she was making cookies for the kids, she would eat just as much, if not more than the kids.
You have to stop doing this to yourself if you really want to lose fat.
Instead you need to focus on eating lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, lean sources of protein like chicken and turkey breast, soy, almonds, salmon, etc. while cutting out processed carbohydrates, which basically means anything found in a bag or box.
Have a good day!
Ed
P.S. - My Fat Loss To Go program is an excellent source for moms on the go who are looking to lose fat...and lose it quickly. The workouts only take about 15 minutes to complete plus one of the free bonuses is a whole load of 10 minute workouts. Check it out at www.fatlosstogo.com
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