Moderation Is The Key To Success

Everything in moderation – that is the key to success in weight loss as in most things in life. If we take anything to extremes, it has a habit of biting us in the back.

The reason that most of us gained weight was because we were eating or drinking to excess. We were not applying the golden rule of moderation.

Since we are used to doing things to excess, we then try to diet in an extreme way: cutting out whole food groups completely, or eating virtually nothing at all.

Then we are surprised when it does not work and we are soon back to our starting point.

In the same way, if you make huge changes in your level of exercise too suddenly, the consequences are likely to be bad. You could strain a muscle or even cause serious heart problems. It is vital to begin an exercise program slowly.

When it comes to diets, it is true that can be an advantage in kick starting a diet with a more restrictive first phase lasting from 10-14 days. This makes the most of the high motivation that most of us have in the first few days of a new diet.

However, after that time it is very important that we begin to introduce more foods. This way we will soon have a diet that is flexible enough to handle most of the situations that we find ourselves in, such as restaurant meals, weddings or vacations.

We can also concentrate on positive changes such as drinking more water or getting a little more exercise.

The important point to remember is that both exercise and food are good for us in the right quantities.

Taken to extremes, having either too much or too little food will kill us. The same is true of exercise.

Food is not bad in itself. It is what we do with it that counts.