CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
Sedentary Countermeasures
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Besides the diet and exercise program, there are other steps you can take to help lose weight. Use the following countermeasures to increase activity:
• Avoid television or stand up and move around while watching
• Avoid long hours at the computer, get up and walk around
• Make brief appearances at social gatherings
• Take the stairs rather than the elevator all the time
• Walk to the store, post office, or library when possible
• Go dancing
• Learn Tai Chi
• Learn Pilates
• Go bowling
• Go swimming
• Practice Yoga
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Both a diet and an exercise program are needed to counter a sedentary lifestyle and the body’s defenses. The proper diet will keep you from gaining weight, and exercise will burn excess body fat. This type of weight loss program will force the body to draw on its stored fat, place the fat in the bloodstream, and burn it for energy.
With activity, the body will continue to burn fat as long as the person consumes food that promotes fat burning and avoids food that hinders fat burning. With the proper food, the body will burn fat when the person is involved in light activity such as walking or housework. However, even with the body burning fat continuously, you may not lose much weight.
Since the body has such a fantastic system in place to protect body fat and prevent weight loss, how does one lose weight? How can you win?
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You can win by learning how the body handles and processes food, how it protects body fat, and by using countermeasures to overcome your system’s protective measures. The following countermeasures can be used against those protective measures:
• Eat vegetables, multi grain bread, legumes, and fruit. They keep your metabolism high.
• The Skip A Day Diet helps overcome the body’s buffer zone defense system and a plateau.
• Do not over exercise and trigger your appetite.
• Exercise to speed up metabolism.
• Balanced meals can be used to help control the appetite.
• Plain Food meals can cut calorie consumption.
• Use high fiber meals to help prevent constipation.
• Use activities such as housework, car care, yard work, and play to counter a sedentary lifestyle.
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All of these activities work as countermeasures against different protective measures. Use all of the counter-measures as much as possible because no one countermeasure can be used exclusively against a particular protective measure.
If you are working full-time, raising a family, or running a business, it might be difficult to find time for exercise. However, the Skip A Day Diet makes the time available to you. You can start by walking during meal times on diet days. If you have a sedentary job, plan to do most of your exercises before or after work.
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When you skip a day of eating, you set precedence for your body. You will be empowered by the Skip A Day Diet because you will realize that you do not have to eat every time you have a slight appetite. You will learn that if you can skip eating a whole day, you can learn to cut back on foods high in sugar and fat. This brings a whole new dimension to dieting. It gives you the power and knowledge you need to take control and manage your weight.
Losing weight is a battle you must fight with yourself. However, you can win the battle, but it will not be easy, and you will need help. That’s why you are invited to visit www.skipaday.com to find other weight loss resources.
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• Avoid television or stand up and move around while watching
• Avoid long hours at the computer, get up and walk around
• Make brief appearances at social gatherings
• Take the stairs rather than the elevator all the time
• Walk to the store, post office, or library when possible
• Go dancing
• Learn Tai Chi
• Learn Pilates
• Go bowling
• Go swimming
• Practice Yoga
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Countermeasures Summary
===========================================Both a diet and an exercise program are needed to counter a sedentary lifestyle and the body’s defenses. The proper diet will keep you from gaining weight, and exercise will burn excess body fat. This type of weight loss program will force the body to draw on its stored fat, place the fat in the bloodstream, and burn it for energy.
With activity, the body will continue to burn fat as long as the person consumes food that promotes fat burning and avoids food that hinders fat burning. With the proper food, the body will burn fat when the person is involved in light activity such as walking or housework. However, even with the body burning fat continuously, you may not lose much weight.
Since the body has such a fantastic system in place to protect body fat and prevent weight loss, how does one lose weight? How can you win?
===========================================
You can win by learning how the body handles and processes food, how it protects body fat, and by using countermeasures to overcome your system’s protective measures. The following countermeasures can be used against those protective measures:
• Eat vegetables, multi grain bread, legumes, and fruit. They keep your metabolism high.
• The Skip A Day Diet helps overcome the body’s buffer zone defense system and a plateau.
• Do not over exercise and trigger your appetite.
• Exercise to speed up metabolism.
• Balanced meals can be used to help control the appetite.
• Plain Food meals can cut calorie consumption.
• Use high fiber meals to help prevent constipation.
• Use activities such as housework, car care, yard work, and play to counter a sedentary lifestyle.
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All of these activities work as countermeasures against different protective measures. Use all of the counter-measures as much as possible because no one countermeasure can be used exclusively against a particular protective measure.
If you are working full-time, raising a family, or running a business, it might be difficult to find time for exercise. However, the Skip A Day Diet makes the time available to you. You can start by walking during meal times on diet days. If you have a sedentary job, plan to do most of your exercises before or after work.
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When you skip a day of eating, you set precedence for your body. You will be empowered by the Skip A Day Diet because you will realize that you do not have to eat every time you have a slight appetite. You will learn that if you can skip eating a whole day, you can learn to cut back on foods high in sugar and fat. This brings a whole new dimension to dieting. It gives you the power and knowledge you need to take control and manage your weight.
Losing weight is a battle you must fight with yourself. However, you can win the battle, but it will not be easy, and you will need help. That’s why you are invited to visit www.skipaday.com to find other weight loss resources.
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