Exercise, Diet, and Weight Loss

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - April 7, 2013 - PRLog -- When it comes to your health, there are two big natural ways for you to help regulate your weight. Like with any lifestyle change, these things might take some time before they become a habit, but with some attention, you can make the changes that you need to in order to start living a healthy life at a healthy weight. Paradise In-Home Care and the Paradise Gardens Care Homes encourage you to both start exercising and eating better in order to improve your health prognosis over the long term.

The first thing you need to do is start exercising. This is important for several reasons. For one, it helps you to boost muscle and heart strength. For those people that might be at risk of cardiovascular disease, such as a heart attack or a stroke, this is a big plus. Just by exercising 20 minutes per day, you are taking a big step toward improving your health. The most important thing that you will be doing, though, is increasing the amount of calories that you burn every day. Exercising at any intensity allows you to burn more calories than if you were completely sedentary. Even sitting around on the couch all day we will expend energy just staying awake and breathing, but if you are active, the number of calories that you will need each day goes up. For those people suffering from weight problems and the illnesses that stem from these, this is an easy way to begin curbing this problem.

However, exercise alone is not enough to help you stay at a healthy weight. In order to stay within a healthy range, you need to find a good balance between your diet and your levels of activity. If you burn 2,000 calories per day, but you’re taking in 2,500, you will still gain weight. The same is true if you are really active and you burn 4,000 calories per day. If you take in 4,500, you will gain weight still. So in order to maintain a healthy weight, you need to find a balance between how much you are taking in, and how much you are expending. You won’t be perfect every day, and you will have to approximate the amount of calories that you burn off at times, but if you evaluate your progress on a weekly basis rather than a daily one, you should see steady results.

This becomes a lot easier when you are acting under the guidance of someone else. This doesn’t necessarily need to be a licensed physical trainer or a dietician, but working with an in home caregiver that is knowledgeable about these things will also suffice. Basically, you want to work with someone who will help you stick to a certain plan and supervise you to help keep you safe. Even if your exercise only consists of going for a walk around the block, you will be doing yourself a favor. Studies have shown that for every one minute spent walking, your lifespan increases by about two minutes. If you are worried about exercising on your own, having an in home caregiver or an assisted living facility employee watching over you might be all you need to do to get started toward a healthier lifestyle. Paradise In-Home Care and the Paradise Gardens Care Homes can help with this in a big way.

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