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What does it mean when someone says they are living a healthy lifestyle? Typically, it means that they are eating a healthy diet, getting a moderate amount of exercise and maintaining a normal height to weight ratio. Doesn’t sound simple, does it? A great way to motivate yourself to live a better lifestyle is by hiring a personal trainer. Trying to balance an active life with a healthy life may get a bit easier if you have a physical fitness trainer there to help motivate you.

Exercise does not have to be something you avoid and dread. If you lead a couch potato lifestyle, then begin slowly and gradually increase your activity level as you reach the small goals you and your fitness personal trainer set. You may begin by simply using the stairs at work instead of using the elevator. Over time, you can integrate a walk during your lunch break. Eventually, your trainers training may encourage you to hit the gym to help increase your progress. Go at a pace designed according to your fitness level.

Eating right does not have to be a chore. Some personal training programs and certified trainers have knowledge of nutrition guidelines and can help give you ideas on healthier meal plans. They can suggest simple changes to make while on your next trip to the grocery store. Personal training programs can educate you as well as motivate you to get on the right path to eating better. Typically, they will ask you to make small food substitutions in your diet like eating more fruit and vegetables and eating less processed and refined foods. Over time, small changes can save calories and add nutrients to your diet.

A personal trainer can help you regulate your diet and show you which exercises to do to help stabilize your weight. To help you calculate what a healthy weight is for your height and body type, know your body mass index (BMI). You can calculate your BMI by dividing your weight by the square of your height, or go online and use the BMI calculating tool at www.hhlbisupport.com/bmi.

Whether you’ve let yourself go and now want to get in shape or whether you just don’t feel fit because you lack energy, a personal trainer can help you meet your lifestyle goals. It is beneficial to have someone there to help you integrate fitness into your routine, as well as encourage you to add healthier food choices to your life. Each little change gets you closer to the lifestyle goals you and your fitness personal trainer set for you.

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You probably wonder what I mean by diet free weight loss. I mean you will be free of having to diets again. I would not suggest to anyone that they should diet. I have learned the hard way that diets will never work long term.  You see, they can’t your own body will not allow it.  You need to understand the reasons for this so you can adapt your life to suit your own body, rather than a prevailing trend.

During the past five years, I have become an expert on diet free weight loss. I happened to discover the main cause for the epidemic of weight problems we see today. I now know that our body will always resist a diet that cuts down on your daily calories.  Your brain perceives an extended shortage of food as a famine. When that happens, it will signal your metabolism to respond, to slow down, and to store up on reserves. That means fat.

The more often you put your body through the ordeal of a diet, the more weight you will gain between dieting.  Dieting is a no win situation.  You will always land right back where you started, with more fat than when you began.  If we do not do something to turn this trend around, at least in our own family, there will be very few people left who are still slim.  This is not the way human beings were destined to end up.

If we do not act to start to make some changes to what we eat, our fate is only a matter of time. We will all become fat.  Sixty percent of us are already there.  If you gauge the frequency by which you see overweight people today, you will realize it is not going to take very long for the rest of us to get there.

The only way to achieve what I describe as a diet free weight loss is to never embark on a diet at all.  I have spent five years practicing what I preach and I am living proof that it works.  Think about it:  If it works for me it will work for you too. I am not unique.  In fact, for me to lose weight has been far more difficult than it would be for most people. You see, I have what is called a thyroid condition which causes my metabolism to slow to a crawl.

Although I am medicated, I am still much less likely to hold a long term weight loss than most people. Yet I have done it, persistently, using my diet free weight loss plan for more than five years. Clearly I must be doing something right.

So what led me to discover a diet free weight loss plan?  When I was in in my early 40′s, I was diagnosed as a borderline diabetic. That was a little scary and I set out to diligently follow the advice of my doctor.  I quickly agreed to consult a dietician to learn the correct diet to prevent full blown diabetes.

Till that time, I had never had a weight problem. Sure, I’d sometimes put on a couple of pounds over Christmas, but like everyone else, all I had to do was to cut out sweets and cakes for a couple of weeks to bring the weight back to normal.  Sadly, that would not work today, but in those days, it was easy to deprive myself of sweets because diet cravings were unheard of.

The diet prescribed by the dietician was deceptively simple.  I was to eat three serves of carbohydrates to each serve of protein.  It was my first diet and it turned my regular eating habits completely upside down.  You see, I was used to eating the way my parents and their parents had brought me up to eat, which had served me well for forty years without causing me a weight problem.

We tend to think that everything new and modern is somehow superior to the old.  I embraced this new diet and stuck to it fervently, for three to four years.  I finally had to accept that my health had not improved, my weight had gradually increased and I had developed a powerful craving for bread.  That’s when I went on a dieting binge. I embarked on every new diet that came along and promised me a weight loss.  By this time, all that mattered to me was to get back to the weight I had before the first diet.

With each diet, I followed the same routine. I would stick to the rules till I lost the weight. I would then return to a normal, quite modest diet.  Then slowly but surely the weight would start to creep back, always with an extra bonus. I also noticed that with each diet it became more difficult and took longer to lose weight than it did with the one before.

My discovery of a diet free weight loss happened almost six years ago.  My weight had reached eighty kilo’s. That was the heaviest I had ever been and it shocked me. I was desperate and I knew I was at a cross road. If I dieted again, I would end up even heavier. If I did not diet I would still end up heavier because my diet cravings were causing me almost continuous feelings of hunger.

Of course, there was always the third option. I could give up and accept my fate. That seemed the worst option of all.  So I decided to forget everything I had ever been told about what foods to eat and what to avoid. Instead I would trust myself, my considerable knowledge of history and my vast experience with just about every diet invented over a period of twenty years. Somehow I would find an acceptable answer to my weight problem.

It took a while, but what I discovered could be called an epiphany: A moment of complete clarity. In that instant I knew I had found the way to achieve a diet free weight loss, one that would become permanent.

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The TRX enables over 300 upper and lower body exercises, each one can be progressed to reflect your fitness levels. The difficulty level can be adjusted by where you place your body because your body weight is your resistance.

Because the TRX weighs less than 1kg, sets up in under a minute, and stores in a small bag, you can use it just about anywhere. Train at the gym, on the field, at home, on the road, outside on a sunny day – anywhere that has a sturdy support. You can change from exercise to a new exercise at ease within 15 seconds. This allows you to maximize your training time and enables circuit style workouts.”

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