Losing weight is not an easy task. Anyone who has embarked on this journey knows how tough it is to sustain in the path. A mistake, minor it may be, can derail the journey and waste weeks and months of effort.
While the known reasons why weight loss plans often derail are unrealistic expectations, inconsistent habits, and lack of long-term commitment there are certain hidden reasons as well. Poor planning, such as skipping meals or over-restricting calories, leads to binge eating. Social influences, busy schedules, and misleading fad diets also contribute to failure.
Celebrity fitness trainer Vinod Channa, who was instrumental in the weight loss of Anant Ambani, has shared the 4 tips to lose weight easily.
“Many people usually complain that they are not losing weight/fat or reaching their target even after following a healthy diet and regular exercise. This is one of the major reason due of which people gets de-motivated and almost 80percent of them leave everything. They do not even attempt further to lose weight after initial failures wherein they have tried their best for 3 to 6 months. Only about 20 percent go a step further to search out for the best trainer, seek right guidance and find out the gaps or errors in their diet and way of exercises,” he writes on his website.
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Here are his four recommendations to lose weight.
Stop following other’s plans:
“Stop following others diet and exercise plan from internet or any other source which does not match with your requirement and lifestyle and it may not be suitable as per your fitness level,” he says.
Invest in a good trainer:
He suggests getting guidance from a good trainer. “Invest in a good trainer even though it might be expensive to understand correct form, technique, range of motion, intensity of workout and small steps which will take you to higher level of fitness without muscle wear and tear, understands body type, make you believe in yourself for challenging movements with the right guidance and will pull your potential out in effective manner and save your valuable time,” he suggests.
Watch your cheat meals:
Vinod Channa breaks myths around cheat meals. “There are some people who follow diet for 4 to 5 days and thinks that 1 day cheat meal is allowed. However, this actually spoils their entire week’s hard work. It depends upon your body fat percentage whether you need to cheat in a week or once in 15 days,” he recommends.
Challenge yourself:
The celebrity fitness trainer touches upon an interesting part of weight loss. “Some people do not seem to challenge themselves while working out and do not come out from comfort zone which makes their workout ineffective as per their required intensity. This is the main reason that they do not progress and there is no fat loss. Sometimes, they tend to follow wrong form and range of motion which literally spoils 60 percent of their workout effect and they have quite high chances of injury,” he recommends.
If you are aiming to lose weight consult a fitness trainer and also your doctor. It is always advisable to take help from experts regarding any lifestyle change.
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