Healthy Weight Loss Takes a Holistic Approach

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It is important to tackle your journey from every angle and one of the most important aspects is to understand how balancing your hormones can improve your chances for achieving permanent results. Regular self-monitoring is an important component of a successful weight-loss program as it provides you with valuable insight into your daily food intake and exercise habits, which also encourages you to make other changes.

Exercise can help speed up the metabolism and fat burning and should be done regularly to achieve long-term outcomes. With new eating and exercise behaviors in place, you should be able to achieve sustainable weight loss results over time. Men and women who have been living a sedentary lifestyle, a slow progression is the recommended strategy. Starting with thirty minutes of low-impact daily exercise with a gradual build-up over several weeks is a prudent approach.

Benefits of Tracking Lifestyle Interventions

Evaluating the effectiveness of specific changes in lifestyle habits can be extremely important for making adjustments to dietary intake along with increased physical activities. Listed below are four benefits of tracking your food, weight and daily exercise:

1) Triggers Mindful Behaviors – Mindfulness is commonly defined as the awareness that arises when paying attention to the present moment with an openness to disengage from distractors and be open to cognitive monitoring.

2) Better Understanding of Your Habits – Although self-monitoring does not create new knowledge, it does provide you with a better understanding of the frequency and intensity of your eating and exercise habits.

3) Reduces Chances of Weight Regain – Current scientific recommendations encourage individuals to continue to self-monitor lifestyle changes to dietary intake and exercise for long-term maintenance of lost weight.

4) Helps You Reach Your Goals – Higher frequency of self-monitoring is associated with reaching goals in individuals who did regularly but had little impact on weight change for those who were inconsistent.

Monitoring Technology Can Improve Results

Digital tracking tools allow adult dieters to be more aware of what they are eating and how much they are moving as well as how those lifestyle changes may be impacting weight control. The advantage of technology lies in removing the previous hassle of self-monitoring results. In contrast, the use of the latest self-monitoring technology alone, without the addition of human support, is highly unlikely to produce meaningful changes in weight to support healthy living over the long term. Anyone on a weight loss journey can leverage the information obtained from self-monitoring their body’s feedback to stay directly engaged with the lifestyle interventions they’ve implemented for living healthy.

At Metabolic Research Center, our experienced staff understands that managing lifestyle interventions for dietary intake and physical activity can be key to successful, long-term weight loss and weight management success.