I am no expert on this, but I do have 6 years experience trying out different diets and guess what? They all sucked! I am now on a permanent “non-diet” plan. I have lost 28 pounds within 3 months. Please don’t expect to lose this much as fast as I did because I do lose and gain weight abruptly and dramatically. Everyone is different so concentrate on staying fit and healthy rather than numbers on weighing scales. Give your body time to adjust to your new lifestyle. If you want to know how I did it, do read on. I hope my post can help you save 6 years because I have spent over 6 hours on this post to share all my experience and the information I have leafed through books, magazines and websites. I’ve already helped a few of my friends with their diet plan and the yoga workout. I would be happy if I have helped you with this too.
This post isn't just about helping you to lose weight, it also includes facts on how to maintain that fit body of yours so it's for anyone who is interested in health and fitness.
How to lose weight
A lot of people asked me, what was the secret to my weight loss? Was it the pills? Was it the Chinese tea? Was it the yoga workout?
So finally, here is the answer. All you need to do is watch what you eat, and use up more energy than you consume. It’s that simple! You can actually stop reading this note now, you now know everything you need to know and I can stop pretending I’m mysterious too. There are no secrets to losing weight but there is a will involved. That is dedication.
16 year old Kelly
I started caring about how I look when I turned 16. Before that, I was a chubby Asian kid and don’t wanna be. So I went on a diet. That’s what people do when they want to lose weight, right? They go on diets. So I did. I was officially on a diet. Yay.
I started jogging day and night combined with an hour of cardio workouts. I drank 1 litre of skimmed milk a day. I didn’t eat breakfast. I would take a creamy soup, vegetables, meat and very little carbs for lunch. I ate nothing else but just a few biscuits for dinner. I was almost on Atkins diet, which is very extreme and the worst kind of diet ever so don’t even Google it. I lost 28 pounds in three months and also became the moodiest teenager in the world. I was a skinny exhausted kid who couldn’t concentrate on studies so my grades began to drop as so did my weight. I was starving! So I dropped that routine a year later to become a regular gym girl.
17 year old Kelly : Gym girl
I was fit and healthy. I started eating properly again and I was careful. Everyone was really impressed with how I managed to keep up with studies, work out every day for 3 hours but still found time to hang out with my friends. They just didn’t know how difficult that was. Especially near the time of the exams, I would be so stressed out. I find it really hard to control my calorie limits when I'm studying. At the same time, I had to give myself a break from the gym to concentrate on my studies because I really couldn’t afford to screw up my grades in college. Luckily, I didn’t this time. But I gained a bit of weight back again after every set of exams which came every 6 months, joy.
I realized I gain weight and lose weight so fast but that’s not even good for my health so I won’t brag about it. I couldn’t do the daily gym thing in the long run because I was so tired. The weather was really hot in Burma and I knew I couldn’t keep up with this forever. So I divorced Gym.
So I gained weight, again.
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Sooo, why did you even bother going on a diet? Just for the Oscars? ...Or was it for the high school reunion? That’s where the problem starts; getting yourself into these diets that are seldom only temporary. Once the diet’s over, you eat the same and weigh the same again.
However, when you are changing your dietary lifestyle, you are changing your habits and putting yourself on track for strategic weight loss program and weight maintenance as a continuous process. This won’t be easy but if anyone can change you, it would be yourself. It took me a week to adapt but I did it, I really believe you can too.
20 year old Kelly: The Yoga Lifestyle
The first step is to identify your ideal exercise and then identify your ideal weight that matches your height and body type. It took my brilliant mind 4 years to come up with the workout that I actually enjoy. I have found Yoga as the most peaceful workout so far! You can lose weight either by decreasing your calorie intake or increasing the number of calories you burn. Any health strategy should include both, but if you want to lose weight fast, exercise is essential so therefore I do yoga since it suits me best but YOU should do something you enjoy so that it isn’t too much of a chore for you.
If you like it, it's more likely you'll stick to it. Not all workouts are at a gym: try biking, tennis, rowing, martial arts, swimming, basketball, soccer, even dancing around your bedroom with an ipod. Enjoyment is the key to sticking with it. I wouldn’t recommend buying into that whole “no pain, no gain” shmucks. I’ve lost weight in peace, and you probably can too.
A weight loss strategy based on reducing calorie intake and increasing activity can be adjusted to maintain your desired weight once you reach it. Unlike typical diets, this method is sustainable; it is a lifestyle change, not a binge-and-purge exercise. Please do not expect an overnight miracle but I can assure you if you follow these steps you will lose weight rapidly, healthily and sustainably AND it doesn’t tire you out. Healthy weight loss can be achieved fairly quickly, but you'll need to be patient.
Slowly adjust your diet and exercise to include more weight training and calories, as much as is comfortable for you. If you do gain any weight back, you want that weight to be lean, toned muscle, not fat. The greatest thing about my new lifestyle is I can eat anything I want as long as it stays within my daily calorie limit and so far- it’s awesome!
I do yoga once in the early morning and before I go to sleep. I usually watch movies while I’m at it. I will be energized the whole day after the workout. If you are trying to lose weight, you should go for at least two hours yoga work-out. If you are trying to maintain your weight, an hour of yoga should be sufficient to stay in shape. I go jogging with my ipod nearly every day as a hobby. I can’t jog without it since music is my stimulus when I’m exercising. I try to be useful around the house to burn extra calories. It gets the work done too. I don’t go to the gym anymore so I spend quite a lot of money to pick over food to make sure I get the best possible quality of all kinds.
Tips: To be an efficient calorie-burning machine, you need at least eight hours of sleep a night. If you think that you’re doing yourself a favour by sleeping less, you’re mistaken. Give your body time to rest, both mentally and physically.
FACT 1: What shall I eat? Train that happy tongue!
Is it REALLY true that if you want to lose weight, you have to consume fewer calories?
Yes, if you are not willing to give up anything you eat on any day, you stand no chance in the game of losing weight, pal.
My dietary plan doesn’t restrict me from any type of food groups so that I get all the essential nutrients every day. I eat everything. After all, life is too short. You don’t want to be missing out on anything. So I eat bread, potatoes, pasta, chips, savoury snacks, cakes, cookies, sweets, candies, chocolates and sugary drinks but I know my body and I know my limits. The things I’ve listed above are all high carbohydrate [high fat] foods but if you reduce your intake of high-fat, high-calorie foods you'll lose weight faster but don’t think about eliminating them from your food chart. You need to eat foods high in carbs since they are your body's main source of energy. And what if you come across them in life again? Are you just gonna pretend they don’t exist? We are not dealing with ex boyfriends here. Be realistic.
I’ll tell you why eating in denial isn’t good. Read what happened to me.
• Do I remember the time I pretended I don’t actually like Chips-ahoy for a month and then the next thing I knew I ended up having two whole packs within an hour? Yes.
• Do I remember the time I tried reverse psychology with Ben and Jerry by convincing myself that ‘it’ was actually starring at me? That didn’t work out either.
• Do I remember the time I didn’t eat carbs for a whole week and almost fainted? Yes.
O.K, I think we all get the point now...that I was mental.
The deal is to choose the right carbs. Simple carbs like sugar and processed flour are quickly absorbed by the body's digestive system. It causes a kind of carb overload, and your body releases high amount of insulin to combat the overload. Not only is the excess insulin bad on your heart, but it encourages weight gain. Eat plenty of carbs, but eat carbs that can slowly digested by the body like whole grain flour, hearty vegetables, oats, and unprocessed grains like brown rice. These kinds of food not only contain complex carbs that are slowly digested by the body, but are usually higher in vitamins and other nutrients that are beneficial to the body and they are higher in fibre which keeps your digestive system running smoothly.
What matters is how much calories you have consumed and how much you can exercise to burn them off. You can start off by simply reducing the amount of soda you consume per day or the mayonnaise you put on your sandwiches. Slowly, you may like to substitute some of your meals with low-fat, low-calorie healthier options. Drink water instead of soda, for example, or use mustard instead of mayo.
I would recommend you to eat more carbs and proteins such as vegetables, fruits, lean meat and eggs. You can eat as much of your favourite fruits and vegetables as you want. Make soups from a mix of vegetables or buy low-fat soups. Why lean meats? Lean meats like Chicken and fish are both very low in fat, and certain fish like salmon, sardines, and fresh tuna are an excellent sources of antioxidants and Omega-3 fatty acids, which are also beneficial to your health, so aim to replace some or all of the beef or pork [red meat]in your diet with these foods. You can eat red meat maybe once or twice a week.
You have to replace high-calorie side dishes with healthier alternatives for some of the days in the week. There are tons of calories in side dishes like macaroni and cheese, French fries, or onion rings. You can eat healthier and lose weight by replacing these with fresh vegetables and salads. Pre-made salads are usually such failures, but if accompanied by a reduced-calorie dressing or no dressing at all, they're weight-loss gold. If you want a snack then go for it and reach for those jars but know your calories and know your limits. Just because you're getting healthy doesn't mean you can't snack. In fact, eating small meals and snacks throughout the day, or grazing, has been shown to aid weight loss, compared to eating three large meals a day, by keeping metabolism steadier. Try to eat out less if you are trying to lose weight because you never can be sure how much calories are involved in those meals.
Yes, you can eat anything you like but you really have to try to go for a smaller portion especially if it’s really fattening. You really got to know how much you want and how much your body actually needs when you are about to let those calories into your body. Otherwise, don’t get so hung up about what to eat, try to choose the healthiest from the menu that you would actually enjoy.
I would like to share an article I came across online with you too. Please read this.
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/15-reasons-why-youre-not-losing-weight.html
FACT 2: “You are what you buy and you are what you eat.”
Do you ever do your food shopping? Maybe it’s time you do once in a while. Go pick up those groceries and snacks you will be consuming for the week in the nearby market. Don’t take your car. WALK! Don’t bring your maid to help you carry the load. You have two hands, make them useful. Don’t take the taxi, walk home.
How did that feel? Tiring? Really, if you are struggling to even carry your food bags for 10-15mins, how could you even think of storing them in your body?
Remember, you are what you buy and you are what you eat. Don’t ever buy or eat the amount that you can’t even carry for a few minutes.
FACT 3: How much shall I eat? Know your calorie limit.
Eating a whole bag of crisps in one sitting won't help you to keep your weight down.
It’s time for you to go buy those snack jars so that you may stop faking the need to finish the leftovers in your packet of crisps for the world to be a better place. Do yourself a favour! Once you get your hands on those snacks and cookies, put them straight into your brand new snack jars. When you feel like having a bit of snacks, grab yourself a plate and go for a reasonable amount for the day. That way you won't mindlessly eat a larger portion than you had intended. You don’t see Will Smith gaining weight from saving the world, do you? Even if you only make minimal changes to your diet choices, reducing portion size will reduce caloric intake inevitably.
Know that in general, the portion sizes of your meals are probably too big. Acceptable portion sizes have practically doubled from the past five decades. Remember that your stomach is about the size of your fist. Don't expect to stuff 12 fist-size of food into your stomach it without consequences. Your stomach will stretch if you're used to eating a lot. If you only eat small amounts of food at a time, your stomach won't ever stretch out like it does when you gorge yourself on a big meal. With a smaller stomach, it won't take as much to make you feel full. Train yourself into only taking small, right-sized portions of food onto your plate, and when you're done with that, sit back and feel whether or not you're still hungry. Give yourself 10 to 15minutes. If you really are still hungry after that time has passed, take a tiny bit more; however, if you give your body time to signal your brain, you'll find that you're usually not still truly madly deeply hungry.
You need to know your daily calorie limit. You can eat anything you want throughout the day, so long as you stay beneath that number. It doesn’t have to be 100% accurate but you need to know the rough estimate. Daily calorie requirements will vary based on body size, weight, muscle/fat ratio, age, sex, rate of metabolism, activity level, and height. Check out the Calorie calculator here.
http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm
You're not going to lose weight if you consume the same amount of calories by eating different food. Let’s put it this way. If you want to lose half the weight you are now, you must at least be ready to give up nearly 20% of the total calories you consume daily. However, many dieters make the mistake of cutting calories too much too soon. They choose to follow a calorie intake diet in the belief that more fat will be burnt from their excess fat stores.
They lose weight rapidly but they don’t realize that most of the loss is simply fluid lost from the cells. The body ends up using up a large portion of protein and carbohydrate stores (Glycogen in the muscles), in order to balance energy metabolism. This is required to provide energy to make up for the deficit from the low calorie intake. Fat is used up but, only a small percentage.
A sensible weight loss for healthy adults should start with a 500 calorie intake reduction from what the body requires. Then if progress halts for a week or so, calorie intake can be reduced by burning a further 200 calories. This way the body can slowly operate with a new energy balance, rather than shocking the system by leaning weight, which actually helps keep the metabolism high, which means more calories can be burned.
The calorie intake shouldn’t fall below a 1200 calorie diet mark, and in most cases, it should stay above 1500 calories. Remember, with 3500 calories to each pound, losing stored fat will be gradual therefore; a reduction in calorie intake should be gradual too.
It won’t be easy. You know that. I know that. I’ve done it, so of course I know that. But do it ONLY because you want to. The key is never to give up. Don’t be so hard on yourself when the train wrecks because it will happen. Don’t ever feel guilty about something you ate last night because that’s not going to make you any less fat. Instead of repeating the overindulgence, just put yourself back on track the next day. You’re allowed to “mess up” every now and again, so as long as you don’t make a habit out of consuming an excessive amount of food. It sounds simple but it’s a real challenge. Change requires effort. If you don’t believe in yourself, no one else would. As long as you haven’t given up, it’s not a letdown. So do yourself a favour and prove them wrong! [..Do I sound like Obama?]
Tips: Sometimes when you are hungry, you only need fluids so drink water, or fresh fruit juice, and your hunger will kiss off!
FACT 4: When shall I eat?
Eat when you are hungry. Duh. I’ll tell you why I eat my brunch at 11:00am and why I eat my so-called dinner at 2:00pm. It’s because most of my heavy daily activities takes place between 9 to 6pm like most people - I need all the energy in day time so that I can concentrate on my work. Metabolism slows down towards the end of the evening and is less efficient at digesting foods. That means more of the energy stored in the food will be stored as fat and your body won't absorb as many nutrients from the meal. After 2:00pm, I will have tea or coffee when I get hungry or else another meal if I have been involved in more activities than usual. My evening yoga session takes place around 8pm. That’s probably dinner time for most people but I try to burn my calories with Yoga to produce energy. So after my work out, I will feel energized again.
I never go to a meal hungry and I don’t eat a meal till my stomach explodes. Most cultures theorized that people get hungry at about 9 AM, 12 noon, and again at 6 PM. While this may be a generally good schedule for eating, remember that (usually) you don't have to eat at meal time if you're not hungry yet. Also, if you are hungry between meals, go ahead and have a healthy snack. It's not good to starve yourself between meals; if you allow yourself to become too hungry, you'll just overeat when the meal comes. It's all about listening to your body. I mostly try to avoid buffets so that I am less likely to be overwhelmed by abundance of food. I do eat fast-food because I WANT TO. No way I’ll ignore my greasy food so I go for my MCD about 3 or 4 times a month and my regular exercise is good enough cover the calories! Ha!
I started drinking more water instead of sodas and juice. Adequate water intake prevents dehydration, cleans out the body, and promotes healing processes. Substituting water for beverages high in calories can also help control weight. It’s also great for your skin. I have been on this program for 2 years now. It has become a new lifestyle for me. There are still a few facts that are quite essential for you to know about diets and workouts.
This is very important. Try not to drink water during meals, as it dilutes the digestive juices and your digestion become less effective and slows down. Drink water half an hour before or after.
Try not to eat near your bed time as the calories will burn less as your whole body will be lying static and shut off most of the time. Otherwise our organs will have stay awake digesting the food, so even if YOU fall asleep, part of your body is not "sleeping" and overall you still have less effective sleep which is not restful. You need more sleep which in turn will not let you wake up easily.
Same applies to drinking lots of water, soda or any other drinks. You will feel uncomfortable and your sleep will get disturbed when you get up to urinate during the night. Going to bed hungry or thirsty is not good either and can be just as disruptive to sleep as going to bed too full. Having very light snack or glass of milk will help you ease the hunger.
FACT 5 “Finish your breakfast or you’re not going to school today!”- My mother
Turns out Mom wasn’t just being really annoying all those years. I didn't feel I need to eat breakfast and I was never hungry first thing in the morning. Research shows that people who skip breakfast are usually fatter than those who eat a well balanced breakfast. Although you might not feel hungry first thing in the morning, if you skip breakfast you will feel extra hungry at lunch time, making you more prone to overeating for your afternoon meal.
In addition, skipping breakfast makes your body judge that you are starving. After all, by lunch time, you may not have eaten in almost 10 hours or more. For the rest of the day after you skip breakfast, your body will store up most of the energy you get from food, instead of allowing you to burn it, in anticipation of food scarcity. Not only will this cause you to be tired during the day when your body isn't using the food that you ate, but the extra energy stored up will result in weight gain.
Don't even think about skipping breakfast! Now I sound like my mom. It helps you concentrate on your activities better too. Eating a healthy breakfast increases your metabolic rate earlier in the day, and reduces snacking before lunch time.
You might want to trade a fattening breakfast of bacon and eggs or a pastry with yogurt, oatmeal, high-fibre, low-sugar cereals; or fresh fruit for fruit smoothies. Get more fibre. Fibre keeps the right amount of water in your intestines, making your digestive system work more efficiently and helping to keep you regular. Thus, just eating enough fibre may help you slim down in just a day or so.
However, for those on a low carb diet bacon and eggs are a great combo for breakfast, since neither associate carbs.
FACT 6: You don’t get fat because you stop going to the gym, you get fat because you’re still eating the same.
Some people tell me they start gaining weight once they have stopped the visits to the gym. Well that’s true but you can’t say going to the gym isn’t effective just because you gain weight once you've stopped working out.
The reason why you start gaining weight once you've stopped "gyming" is because there is no longer a balance between your calorie intake and the workout. If you can’t exercise or work enough to burn off the calories you take in, they are going to be stored in your body as fats for later use. So once you've stopped the work out, you may need to reduce the amount of calorie intake as well. Think woman!
FACT 7 “HUNGRY OR BORED?”
I know a lot of people that munch and chew in calories simply to occupy themselves while working, watching tv or studying. My dad is one of them. I’m also one of them but I manage to control myself better than my dad. It’s a bad, bad, bad habit. I’ll tell you why. I know some of us like to think we are very good at multitasking but eating and doing something else are two processes that should never be mixed. Seriously! Did you know that your brain needs to be signalled by your brain cells that you’re full so that you can stop eating? To be able to do that, it is best when your mind is in full concentration in your food.
Whether you’re an emotional eater or eating out of boredom, try to find more activities to fill up your day instead of lounging about at home and ending up eating junk.
FACT 8 Chew your food properly
Chew your food until it turns to mush and take your time in eating. The more you chew, the less work for your internal digestive system therefore speeds up the process. Eating slowly also helps to keep the amount of food you're eating small until your body gets the taste of the full feelings. It also prevents you from gorging yourself, and gives you more time to accurately reflect on whether your stomach feels full yet or not. It takes around 15 minutes for your stomach to signal the brain that you are full, so you could be eating 15 minutes more than your body wants. Eating slowly makes this excess food amount lower and sometimes even nothing at all.
Even after having your teeth chew and grind the food into small pieces, the food molecules are not small enough to go through your veins. It gets broken down into smaller molecules by the rest of your digestive system. Digestion begins in the mouth, when you chew and swallow, and is completed in the small intestine. Finally, the digested nutrients are absorbed through the intestinal walls and transported throughout the body.
Tips: To help you eat slowly, make a habit of putting down the utensils every time you’re taking a bite. Don't pick them up again until you've chewed and swallowed. Try eating with chopsticks if you want to slow down your eating.
FACT 9 “Supersize meal and a diet soda please”= FAIL.
First of all, I love carbonated beverages. Diet soda- not one of them! It’s a clever little way of beverage companies to sell their products especially for dieters so that people will still buy their yucky tasteless drink instead of drinking water which is free and healthy. I’ll tell you what else I can’t stand. Ok, I can’t bloody stand those “people” living off carrot sticks and diet cokes in public THEN they go home and eat loads of junk when we’re not looking!! Then they like telling you they have nooo idea why they are gaining weight and called you fat too. I’ll tell you why, it’s because they are being stupid.
Diet soda does not make you lose weight. I repeat- people who drink diet sodas do not lose weight. In fact, they gain weight; according to the eight years research by Sharon Fowler and her research team [University of Texas Health Science Centre]
When they looked into those who only drinking diet soft drinks, their risk of obesity was apparently even higher. To be specific, there is a 41% increase in the risk of being overweight for every bottle or can of diet soda.
Fowler followed over 600 normal weight adults ages 25-64 over a seven to eight year period of time. She has a number of theories as to why weight gain may be a result of drinking a zero-calorie beverage:
1. Artificial sweeteners may affect your body’s ability to judge how many calories you consume because you are getting something sweet without any calories. When no calories are consumed, the body may continue to crave what it expected and could lead to overeating or bingeing.
2. Some people give up regular sodas to justify their favourite dessert and still take in too many calories. A regular soda contains about 9-12 teaspoons of sugar (yes, you read that correctly) and about 150 calories while your dessert may be double that in calories easily.
3. For others who were gaining weight already, switching to diet soda wasn’t enough to stop the gain. You’ve heard this one before…you’re being good by ordering a diet soda along with your fast food burger and French fries but the calories are still quite high.
Since her first piece of research, Fowler has tracked another 2000 people with similar results. Do the faux sweet products induce people to want more sweets? Fowler suggests that perhaps it’s not the soft drinks themselves that cause weight gain but that there is some link between diet soda drinking and overweight/obesity.
“Roses are red and violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet and so is the substitute.”
Note: The painful truth is that sugar is actually evil. Sugar substitutes are just as evil as sugar itself but they are also two-faced just like that betch you never liked in high school so watch out girlfriend! Taking in sugar substitutes may actually increase your level of hungerrrr.
FACT 10 “Drinking Water makes you fat.”- NO.
Ok, I have no idea which idiot came up with that nonsense. Just to remind you all, up to 60% of our body is made up of water, that’s whether you’re skinny OR fat. Water contains no calories, carbs, sugar or fats. About 83 percent of our blood is water, which helps digest our food, transport waste, and control body temperature.
Each day a person must replace 2.4 litres of water, some through drinking and the rest taken by the body from the foods eaten. Too much water may cause you to bloat or retain some water weight, but it won’t be permanent and will be off soon enough.
Water also cleanses the body of any toxins, foods, and waste it may have. It also helps to keep you skin looking good and to keep you hydrated! caffeinated beverages and alcohol don't count as water as they are dehydrating so if you are a caffeine addict, you need to drink more water.
If you are not much of a water drinker, try adding lemon or lime to your water. This makes it taste better and make you drink more of it. Drink more of cold water if it tastes better for you. Cold water takes energy for your body to regulate the temperature [apparently], and if that’s true that will burn some calories so that’s good news people. Room temperature water is better if you're dehydrated. Your body can absorb the room temperature water immediately, instead of the body having to raise the temperature of the water first in order to process it.
FACT 11 Determine how much water you need
Drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water per day (2 quarts, 1.8 litres) - but the amount of water a person needs depends on your weight, activity level and climate. Climate can drastically change how much water you need. In summer time, you should drink more water to counteract the fluids you lose from sweat.
Another way is to determine your specific recommended water intake is to divide your weight (in pounds) by two. The resulting number is the number of ounces of water you need each day. For example, if you weigh 150 lbs, strive to drink 75 ounces of water daily. For those who use the Metric system, divide your weight (in kilograms) by 30 (ex. somebody weighing 70 kg is going to need 2.3 litres per day).
Keep in mind that these recommended intake numbers are controversial and some experts believe they are a gross exaggeration.
FACT 12: Avoid Chewing gum
Chewing gums do make you hungry for no reason. When you chew something, your body stimulates the salivary glands to secrete more saliva. It slowly reaches your oral cavity and when the saliva production increases with time, a signal is sent to the rest of your digestive system that food is on its way. When the food doesn't arrive, the system is still ready to go, which gives off the same basic signals as an empty stomach. So, your brain receives hungry signals. I know that sucks, but it’s true.
BONUS: Fun exercises!
For those who are too zombie-like to exercise or say they simply do not have time for it, palm off it! That is a lame excuse and you know it. I do understand some of us have a very busy lifestyle. Honestly though, if you can’t even pencil in at least half an hour a day for your well being, who the hell are you living for?
Don't have enough time for a separate workout? Take a walk during your lunch break, do crunches and jumping jacks while watching television, or pace while talking on the phone... In other words, take in every opportunity to exercise.
And who said you can’t get exercise in office!? Think about how creatively active you can be throughout your workday, and you won't be stressing over a lack of opportunity! There are plenty of ways although some maybe slightly evil. I’ll give you a few tips. If you don’t thank me for it, I totally understand.
• You burn calories when you walk, did you know that?
• Get your ass up to greet your boss in the morning. Be a total suck-up. That’s one point to Gryffindor!
• Your boss won’t be impressed if you just sit glued to your chair and look miserable all day. So you may want to stop using Facebook wallposts during office hours to communicate with co-workers to bitch about your boss. Besides, written statements are far more dangerous than verbal.So, carry loads of files to make you look busy and important, then go up to your co-worker's department. You can tune in opportunities or hot gossips along the way so keep your eyes and ears wide open. When you get there, have that business talk face on and bitch away. It’s twice the fun and a great work-out. That’s one point to Slytherin!
• If you’re the boss, it wouldn’t kill you to get your ass up to get your own coffee once in a while instead of getting your assistant to do it every 2 hours.
• If you see a familiar face from your office struggling with a heavy load of files, be a sweetheart and help her out. People will start to see how helpful you are and guess what, you just lost calories!
• Plot out a day to get up early in the morning and be the first to mess around in your workplace. Record a video of you hopping around your boss’s office using your phone, simply because YOU CAN! [AND because he’s not here yet, hehe]. Guard that video with your life. You are safe as long as it doesn’t get on YouTube. If you get caught, laugh it off! [laughing burns calories too]
• If you’re hungry for something, eat it. Don’t deny yourself the simple pleasures. You need all the energy to concentrate on your work. If it’s possible, eat only half of what you want and parcel out the other half to the girl in the next cubicle; maybe she will stop bitching about you for a while then.
Note: I am definitely not responsible if you get fired.
Useful Links for you
http://lifegetinit.greenmaplewellness.net/new/articles/article.html?artid=1364
http://caloriecount.about.com/
http://www.calorie-counter.net/
http://www.thecaloriecounter.com/
http://www.myfooddiary.com/
Merry Christmas!
