Natural Weight Loss Guide Part 13: Keep a journal in your efforts to losing fat and weight
As soon as you start your fat weight loss program, the first thing that
you must do is start a journal.
In this journal, record all of the exercise that you do, noting the type of
exercise you have been doing, how long you are doing it for and the
intensity of your activity.
For example, you can walk extremely slowly or you can walk at the
speed of an Olympic race walker and there is going to be a significant
difference between the calories you would burn off in these two
alternative scenarios, so having a record of activity intensity is
essential.
Remember that when you first exercising again, you are mechanically
inefficient and heavy, and that the number of calories you’re burning off
is therefore larger.
On the other hand, as you become more used to regular exercise, you
should be able to ‘up’ the intensity level so that you burn off the same
number of calories as you did in the early days, or perhaps even more.
Don’t forget to take this into account, and factor this in when you try to
calculate a ‘net calories burned’ figure for recording in your journal.
You need to keep a constant record of your (declining) weight in this
journal, plus a complete record of everything you eat and drink.
This journal will become your ‘fat loss bible’ over the coming weeks,
and you should not underestimate the importance of keeping a journal
of this nature because it can serve many positive purposes.
Firstly, there will be times when you will be tempted to skip an exercise
session or tuck into a large bowl of ice cream with chocolate sauce. One
quick glance at your journal should dissuade you from this (at least
most of the time anyway! )
Secondly, I have no doubt that by following a regular program of
exercise combined with eating and drinking in the way I recommend
later in this manual, your weight will fall and you will become both
slimmer and fitter.
When you are trying to lose weight, there is nothing more encouraging
or inspiring than to see actual written proof that what you’re trying to
achieve is working, and do not forget the point I raised earlier about
having a final target weight and sticking to it.
You should not realistically expect to see a massive weight loss every
day unless you start off from being very obese indeed.
For this reason, I would not recommend that you take a note of your
weight every day, but perhaps do so once or twice a week.
In this way, the weight loss becomes far more apparent, which is much
more encouraging and far more likely to keep you going when
temptation strikes from time to time (as it inevitably will) .
To be continued
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