First taste

Previous I talked about how vital it is to create projects and goals you enjoy. To create a lifestyle you enjoy. What is more important; don’t delay it; don’t wait. Start write down the steps I wrote in the first posting; your current situation; what it might result it; and write down your ideal situation.

Next start writing projects and goals you can start with right away; don’t tell yourself you will do it tomorrow; or next week, or next month. Make actions now and start the changes. There is not really any point hesitating if you already know what you want.

For those who remembered the first posting; I said we should still eat what we enjoy; some fast food; and some chocolate, potato chips, chocolate etc. But we are to eat limited amounts, and when eating it we should eat it slowly and really enjoy it.

If you are serious about changing your life you know there should be some room for what you used to do previous; it might be you don’t want or desire any of it anymore, but if you are still hungry for burgers etc; make sure you ate regular food at morning and regular meals through the day. There is really no point overeating something in a hurry at the evening.

I personally prefer using Fridays and Saturdays to give myself some additional chocolate or “unhealthy” meals. But I make sure to do normal exercises and eating normally at during the day; and only spoiling myself some at the evening. I really have no desire for burgers and more as thinking it only make me feel the fat around the burger. Somehow I don’t want it at all anymore; but I still enjoy popcorn and cola to a good movie at Friday evening.

I also enjoy eating homemade pizza at Saturday evening before or while watching television. And you can do the same; enjoy some additional for yourself and your loved ones at Fridays and/or Saturday. Just make sure you eat controlled and slow; enjoying it and don’t start eating a lot on empty stomach. And please try to eat some hours before going to sleep. The body really shouldn’t be working on processing the food you ate while you are sleeping, but instead work with it while you are awake.

I hope I inspired some people to start changing their life. I will also start sharing the 5k training schedule really soon.

-Kentaki-

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First taste

Previously we talked about creating efficient exercise programs; and to stop wasting hours at the local gym, spending most time looking or talking others. But instead focus at something we want to be good at; and keep improving ourselves.

This is really the foundation to the life we are given; to keep learning and improving ourselves. When we stop having goals, and improvements we are getting lazy. We become sheep.

I talked also a bit on eating healthier. But there is something I should have talked previous. It is valid both for eating healthy and for exercising efficient; make sure you have projects and goals you enjoy. This is also how my method is different for others that promise great results; I want you to enjoy your life while you make the changes; and still having a chance to enjoy fast-food, chocolate etc.

If you don’t enjoy what you do; if your projects don’t give you motivation and hope there is not chance you will succeed changing your life, and keep the life you want. This is why the diets work for bit previous; we got thinner; but we missed eating and felt suffering all the time. We wanted back our burgers and chocolate and gained weight again.

But you should never create a life you don’t enjoy, and project you don’t enjoy; you will not maintain the new life style if it doesn’t give you hopes or motivation; or you aren’t enjoying it. So make sure you make food you might enjoy, make sure you eat fruits you like, make sure you exercise something you enjoy exercising for. Just don’t make a new life style you hate and makes you suffer. You will only lose yourself again, and never get the life you desire if you don’t keep your goals and projects realistic and enjoyable. I would never enjoy running if I made it too hard for myself, and muscles gave pain each time, or I felt blood taste in my mouth each time I tried. That’s why I make sure I create homemade meals I know is healthier then what I ate previous; and I make sure I allow myself to walk before running the entire course without breaks. This is the key to success; to enjoy every project and goal you create; to not suffer and everything you do to get the life you want.

And please; I am not forcing you to change; I have decided to change myself and I am sharing what I do and how I do it with other to find the same joy and beauty of life I am looking for. You should do it for yourself; not for other. Keep this in mind when you create goals. And when you educate yourself in cooking; make sure it’s healthier than fast-food; not try to make it completely green and fresh if it’s not your style. Just forget fast-food and prefabricated dinners; focus on simple; tasty; healthier and better than you used to eat. There is no point having a super healthy life you enjoy. You only want to be better than you were previous, and keep creating projects and goals making you better; improving food; cooking skills; exercising and other aims you put to get a new life. Please; get the life you want and enjoy it. Improve yourself. Don’t listen to others; and don’t blame others for your situation. Be responsible for your actions and your life. Don’t blame friends; work; family; or anything else. You choose what you wanted; and only you can change it to become better.

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First taste

As you might recall from the last post I advised to start several small projects or goals brining you closer to your ideal situation.

I also asked to start with homemade food, fixed eating times and eating fruits and vegetables as snack.

The next stop should be to create an exercise plan. And by exercises I do not mean social training with friends etc; but efficient training. I want you to train for something specific; not to waste your time talking and socializing. This way you will reduce the amount of training, but still do more than staying hours training. Really; why should you exercise for hours each day, when you could reduce it to less than an hour, and 3-4 days a week?

I know I have aerobic muscle types; hence I exercise something I enjoy, and more suitable for my muscle type; I have started an exercise program running 5k (5k training). Within it I have added normal running, interval exercises and interval exercises. This means I will exercise endurance and speed; and I have made my research to create a good program. Neither of the exercise taking more than 45 minutes to an hour to complete, and only 3-4 days per week to make sure my muscles get time to rest and grow naturally. In my next scehdule I will start natural strength exercises for 15 minutes twice a week for further improve speed, and other muscles in my body.

Did you understand what I tried say? It’s quite simple; find a sport you want to master; research it and create a varied exercise schedule/project. Start by creating a simple 8-10 week program, and keep creating new programs which will help you master and become good at it. I can’t really suggest something for you, but I will write about the exercise program training for the 5k as I started, to give you some ideas.

The point is really simple; create efficient exercises instead of wasting hours each day talking and daydreaming at the gym. Create goals and improve yourself.

And if you play soccer, do martial arts or any or other sports needing endurance you might start exercising for 5k or 10k as they are good foundations for other sports. I am not saying they are the best for you, or even the only option, but that it’s a good foundation to start efficient training.

I really do not understand those wasting hours each day; when they could have exercised better, using less time each week. As you progress you might even learn you enjoy the sport you dedicated to and get better goals, and better equipment for it.

-Kentaki-

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First taste

In the previous section I started by realizing what kind of life you are living; finding the consequences of living the life as we do today; and to create a ideal situation giving you hope and inspiration. It might be an inspiration in itself to be more attractive for others; and finding the love you miss in your life. Or starting to feel more attractive for the one you already fell in love with, and want to share your life with.

Now; I briefly mentioned you can still enjoy sweets and other good things now and then; but eating less; and slower. Your main focus should however be to start to eat 5 meals a day and each of them smaller than normal. It is a fact you digestion system work slower when it doesn’t have something to work on, and suddenly having to digest a lot. I think this is a mistake many; including myself do. We eat a lot on a few meals each day.

I guess I forgot to mention; but after we have realized what we want we should start setting goals, or projects. Projects as setting fixed time to eat each day. We should start projects as learning to cook homemade meals.  You will start lots of projects; and continuously creating new goals and projects to achieve the life style we want.

The first project should be to start eating five times a day; and writing down fixed time of the day when we will eat. The first meal should be shortly after awakening, and the last meal should be some hours before going to sleep. Both of them are logical as the first meal will let the body start working with the food once you start; and eating some hours before going to sleep will make sure your body has worked with the food well before going to sleep and resting. The other three meals should be distributed throughout the day.

The next project is of course to educate your-self to creating healthy and good food, and to teach your-self to enjoy sweet fruits and vegetables. These sweets and vegetables can easily replace sweets you normally eat, and you will feel much easier while eating them. There is nothing wrong cutting some fruits and vegetables to a plate and eating it as snacks. Apples, small carrots and grapes are good things to serve on a plate.  Just try fruits and vegetables and learn which one you enjoy eating as snacks.

-Kentaki-

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First taste

What is the secret for rapid weight loss? Diets? Starving yourself? Magical pills? What could it be? Exercising for hours each day? I would say neither; or maybe a combination.

I have decided to find a solution. I doubt it will be within one week; but bit more since I want a way working; and keeping the weight down. Most of us have tried to eat a bit less; practically starving; or diets. And yes; they work for a bit; but shortly after we have the same weight again; or even heavier than previous.

I think the only way to lose weight easily; and keep the weight down is simpler. It’s not about forcing ourselves to starve or exercise for hours. And for those magical pills; forget them. If there really was a pill helping you lose weight the newspapers would write about them; and doctors would gladly give them to patients. But face it. There is no such miracle cure to get away from overweight.

The solution to lose weight, and still slim is simple. We have to change our lives. It’s not as easy as it sounds like; but it’s easier that the other options of suffering.

The first thing we have to do is realizing our situation; what do we eat that is unhealthy? Do we eat a lot of fast-food? Do we sit all day without moving enough? Do we eat or drink lots of chocolate or soda? These are questions we; each for ourselves have to answer. Next we have to realize what might happened if we keep gaining weight? What are the consequences of a life as overweight? Heart problems? Hyper tension? Diabetes? There are a waste amount of lethal or dangerous illnesses we have a risk of getting if we don’t have a healthy life style. And please don’t give excuses for yourself; I face its dangerous living as I do; and so should you. I am no better than anyone; but I want to improve myself. I want to get in control. I want to be happy with myself. No longer hating what I see in the mirror. No more blaming everyone else for my short-comings. Hence I write down my current life situation, and I write down consequences of living as I do today.

When we have written down these bad things we start focus on the life we want; what kind of food do we want eat?  Which kind of sports do we want to master and become good in? How would our self-esteem be if we felt slimmer and healthier? Would it help yourself and those around you if you got happier with yourself?  Just put happiness and goodness to the life you want; let the new life you imagine inspire you and give you hope. This is vital to succeed to change your life; to enjoy everything you do. Don’t feel you go on diet; but feel you are changing to more healthy food. And please don’t misunderstand. I still want you to enjoy fast-food; chocolate and soda; but in limited amount; and when we taste those things that are unhealthy we should eat it slowly. We should be enjoying the taste.  It’s healthier; and you will not gain as much weight if you eat slowly. Eating in a rush; not taking the time to enjoy what we eat is one of the problems that might cause you to gain weight again.

-Kentaki-

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