Stop Struggling with Exercise
The best exercise for losing weight – is not what you think.
After decades of experimenting with how to balance my love of food with my desire to be happy, slim and healthy, I am filled with easy weight loss tips and healthy weight loss tips that I want to share with you.
Here is another easy weight loss tip that goes against conventional dieting wisdom. To lose weight easily and effortlessly stop doing exercise you hate. (Yes, you read correctly. If you are doing exercise you hate, stop.)
Stop Doing Exercise You Hate
In our more is better world, it is a common assumption that if a little exercise is good than more must be better and that the best exercise for weight loss is the kind that feels punishing and painful.
But have you found this to work? Do you find that your body responds well to long sessions at the gym?
Why not? I mean the solution is so simple, right? Losing weight is just a matter of calories in versus calories out. (Or that is what all the current weight loss wisdom would have you believe.)
They tell you that all you need to do is eat less and exercise more and you will have the body of your dreams! It makes perfect logical sense, so you decide to get motivated and formulate a plan…
The Typical Approach to Exercise for Weight Loss
You ask yourself, “When can I fit working out into my busy schedule?” And then you manage to find a way to squeeze in the workouts because you are desperate to lose the weight and get in shape NOW!
You begin to run and/or increase your time at the gym, even though you hate running and hate the gym.
All goes well for the first couple of weeks, and then ”life happens” – you have to travel for business or work or your schedule gets out of control and there go the runs and gym time, right out the window.
OR
You find a way to keep increasing your time at the gym, and find yourself asking “Why am I not seeing the numbers move?” when you hop (or tread ever so lightly) onto the scale. So why does the scale refuse to budge and the pounds refuse to melt when you cut the calories and are kicking your butt at the gym?
Then you reason that, “I’m doing something wrong. This is the wrong kind of exercise for losing weight or I’m creating more muscle, which weighs more than fat.” And really want to believe that, but you still feel heavy and your clothes are still tight.
So you try different classes, or spend even more time at the gym or higher a personal trainer.
Weeks go by and the scale has not moved at all. Your experience is defying science and logic. Your trainer looks at you in a way that suggests, “You must be eating more.”
Why Doing Exercise You Hate Won’t Work for Weight Loss
Can I let you in on a little secret? It’s not your fault. You followed the expert wisdom and it didn’t work.
The reason you can exercise your butt off but not see any results is because your body is not a machine.
You are NOT flawed or broken. The belief that weight loss is simply a matter of calories in vs. calories out is what is FLAWED!
And you thought it was you this whole time 
(You may be thinking woo, hoo! I don’t need to exercise! Not so fast! Your body loves to move. It’s your mind that often gets in the way. They key is to enjoy what you are doing. More on that in a minute.)
The truth is that you body is always reacting as best as it can to your actions. It is a sophisticated super computer that is constantly interacting with your brain to keep you alive.
Your body executes thousands of different reactions every second all on auto-pilot. If you tried to attend to even a few of these functions manually you would be dead in seconds. (You would forget to tell your lungs to breathe or your heart to beat, for example.)
Not many things in life are perfect but I believe our bodies come pretty close, especially when you consider the way they deal with what we subject them to (no sleep, drinking too much, worry, stress, starvation, deprivation, too much exercise or not enough and so on).
The factors that influence the weight loss game are many and varied – what you eat, how you eat, how you feel when we eat it, how you move your body, how you deal with stress, your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs – to name just a few.
Ready to try something radical?
If you don’t enjoy it, stop going to the gym or engaging in any other form of exercise you hate. Exercise that feels like drudgery will cause a stress-like chemical reaction in the body, something you don’t need when you are trying to lose weight. Exercise that you enjoy, on the other hand, will be perceived like sex, creating an environment much more conducive to weight loss.
So, what kind of exercise would you find fun? (I love brisk walks with my golden retriever and doing yoga.) Have you considered belly dancing, rumba, ball room dancing, swimming, biking, jumping rope, yoga, pilates or bouncing on a trampoline?
OK. Now get moving in a way that you enjoy! Just do it. Your body, mind and soul will thank you.
Let me know how it goes. I would love how to hear what effect trading in exercise you hate for movement you find enjoyable has on your health, happiness and weight. OR if you feel you need a little support in creating the slim, happy, healthy life you desire, I can help .
Stop Struggling with Exercise
The best exercise for losing weight – is not what you think.
After decades of experimenting with how to balance my love of food with my desire to be happy, slim and healthy, I am filled with easy weight loss tips and healthy weight loss tips that I want to share with you.
Here is another easy weight loss tip that goes against conventional dieting wisdom. To lose weight easily and effortlessly stop doing exercise you hate. (Yes, you read correctly. If you are doing exercise you hate, stop.)
Stop Doing Exercise You Hate
In our more is better world, it is a common assumption that if a little exercise is good than more must be better and that the best exercise for weight loss is the kind that feels punishing and painful.
But have you found this to work? Do you find that your body responds well to long sessions at the gym?
Why not? I mean the solution is so simple, right? Losing weight is just a matter of calories in versus calories out. (Or that is what all the current weight loss wisdom would have you believe.)
They tell you that all you need to do is eat less and exercise more and you will have the body of your dreams! It makes perfect logical sense, so you decide to get motivated and formulate a plan…
The Typical Approach to Exercise for Weight Loss
You ask yourself, “When can I fit working out into my busy schedule?” And then you manage to find a way to squeeze in the workouts because you are desperate to lose the weight and get in shape NOW!
You begin to run and/or increase your time at the gym, even though you hate running and hate the gym.
All goes well for the first couple of weeks, and then ”life happens” – you have to travel for business or work or your schedule gets out of control and there go the runs and gym time, right out the window.
OR
You find a way to keep increasing your time at the gym, and find yourself asking “Why am I not seeing the numbers move?” when you hop (or tread ever so lightly) onto the scale. So why does the scale refuse to budge and the pounds refuse to melt when you cut the calories and are kicking your butt at the gym?
Then you reason that, “I’m doing something wrong. This is the wrong kind of exercise for losing weight or I’m creating more muscle, which weighs more than fat.” And really want to believe that, but you still feel heavy and your clothes are still tight.
So you try different classes, or spend even more time at the gym or higher a personal trainer.
Weeks go by and the scale has not moved at all. Your experience is defying science and logic. Your trainer looks at you in a way that suggests, “You must be eating more.”
Why Doing Exercise You Hate Won’t Work for Weight Loss
Can I let you in on a little secret? It’s not your fault. You followed the expert wisdom and it didn’t work.
The reason you can exercise your butt off but not see any results is because your body is not a machine.
You are NOT flawed or broken. The belief that weight loss is simply a matter of calories in vs. calories out is what is FLAWED!
And you thought it was you this whole time
(You may be thinking woo, hoo! I don’t need to exercise! Not so fast! Your body loves to move. It’s your mind that often gets in the way. They key is to enjoy what you are doing. More on that in a minute.)
The truth is that you body is always reacting as best as it can to your actions. It is a sophisticated super computer that is constantly interacting with your brain to keep you alive.
Your body executes thousands of different reactions every second all on auto-pilot. If you tried to attend to even a few of these functions manually you would be dead in seconds. (You would forget to tell your lungs to breathe or your heart to beat, for example.)
Not many things in life are perfect but I believe our bodies come pretty close, especially when you consider the way they deal with what we subject them to (no sleep, drinking too much, worry, stress, starvation, deprivation, too much exercise or not enough and so on).
The factors that influence the weight loss game are many and varied – what you eat, how you eat, how you feel when we eat it, how you move your body, how you deal with stress, your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs – to name just a few.
Ready to try something radical?
If you don’t enjoy it, stop going to the gym or engaging in any other form of exercise you hate. Exercise that feels like drudgery will cause a stress-like chemical reaction in the body, something you don’t need when you are trying to lose weight. Exercise that you enjoy, on the other hand, will be perceived like sex, creating an environment much more conducive to weight loss.
So, what kind of exercise would you find fun? (I love brisk walks with my golden retriever and doing yoga.) Have you considered belly dancing, rumba, ball room dancing, swimming, biking, jumping rope, yoga, pilates or bouncing on a trampoline?
OK. Now get moving in a way that you enjoy! Just do it. Your body, mind and soul will thank you.
Let me know how it goes. I would love how to hear what effect trading in exercise you hate for movement you find enjoyable has on your health, happiness and weight. OR if you feel you need a little support in creating the slim, happy, healthy life you desire, I can help .