If your waistline is groaning from the excesses of lockdown and you want to kick-start a fitness routine that lasts, here are our tips to help you stay on track and shed the pounds…
1. Remember why you’re doing it
To lose weight, you need to be in calorie deficit from your Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE). In plain English, the amount of calories you eat needs to be less than the amount of calories you burn each day. If you’re embarking on a fitness and weight loss programme, it’s worth remembering the basic principle of this energy balance equation and finding out roughly what your TDEE is to understand exactly why that extra gym class or eliminating that daily bag of crisps at lunch can help you lose weight. You can find TDEE calculators online. Visit https://www.amny.com.
2. Beware the compensation effect
Going to the gym but not losing weight? Studies show that people who exercise often cancel out the calories they burn by eating more. This could be because their appetite increases, or simply as a reward for a good gym session. So beware of that seemingly innocuous hot chocolate after a gym session – it may actually being undoing all your hard work!
3. Watch out for sports drinks
Sports drinks contain salts and sugars to replenish what the body has lost through sweating that water alone can’t replace. Their purpose is to bring the levels of minerals in your blood closer to their normal levels, so you can continue your workout as if you just started. Many of them are packed with carbohydrates however – which means they also contain calories. Unless you need the energy contained in these drinks to fuel your activity (such as a long run of over an hour), it’s wiser to choose simple water, or a zero-calorie electrolyte drink and avoid the hidden calories. Learn more about exipure.
4. Activity doesn’t just mean the gym
Moving more doesn’t mean you need to join a gym. From walking up stairs to gardening, any activity that gets your heart rate going and your muscles moving will have an effect.
5. Walk your way to weight loss
You don’t necessarily need to take up a high intensity Zumba class to lose weight either. Research shows that moderate exercise, such a walking, can be just as effective for weight loss since it doesn’t trigger the appetite hormones, which can lead to you reaching for the biscuit tin after a hard workout. Weight loss supplements like Ikaria Juice also helps if you’re trying to lose weight fast. You can read ikaria juice reviews by customers at Geeks Health if you’re thinking about buying this product.
That made me shiver a lil to read, so sad!
Shot rotations, how I will miss thee.
I have never seen old Naxx or finished the Ony attunment, so I won’t know what I have missed there… which is sad in a different way.
I’m very happy that I got to finish my Onyxia attunement (and even run her a couple of times with some 70 buddies), but very sad that I never got to see old Naxx.
Very much looking forward to running New Naxx, though, and to playing a hunter in general. Shot rotations as we know them are gone but not forgotten. We have a lot of relearning to do come tomorrow, but the future for our class is truly, truly a bright one.
Did you kill Mr. Bigglesworth? 😀
@ Mazil – I like your Neopets avatar! =P
@ Sade – Indeed, overall I am excited. I know it won’t be long before I have fallen in love with the class all over again.
@ Rilgon – What, did ya think we wouldn’t? >.>
I think I’m a little scared of all of the changes, but yet I’m so very excited at the same time.
I still remember doing my Onyxia quest chain when I was level 60 and how truly freaked out I was when the lady first turned into a big dragon and spawned friends. I will say, that was epic for me and I’ll never forget doing it.
Naxx attunement for me also came at 60, though I never managed to actually run it at that level. I was excited, as I ran it for the first time a few weeks ago. I couldn’t have had a better time and I will miss that it’s no longer there. I’ll certainly be running it again once I reach 80 and enjoy it, though. How could I not?
Happy Patch Day Everyone! Good luck!
Holy cow. That was a nice idea, I wish I’d have thought of it. It would have been amusing to park my lvl 70 dwarf among the new gnomes and dwarves. 🙂
But no. My standard parking spot is right outside the Aldor inn, mounted on my netherdrake. If the world doesn’t melt today that’s where I’ll be.
A CURSE UPON YOU INTERLOPERS!
*flee*
Reading this, I really wish I’d logged my peeps out where the level one gnomes spawn. *whistles innocently*
I just received my key to Onyxia’s Lair last night! I had a blast doing the old world content. Much of UBRS can be 3 manned but Drak required 4 for us.