UK's Healthy Lifestyle

Enjoy a healthy lifestyle with great diets and exercise programs, hints and tips on losing weight and staying fit and healthy here at the revamped and updated UK Healthy Lifestyle. Your personal health is the most important thing you can have, so doing all that you can to maintain it makes a lot of good sense.

So what can you do to improve your health if you feel it may be under par? Or what do you need to help you to lose a little weight or tone up a flabby body? And what would you like to be able to do in order to maintain a healthy body once you have achieved what you may consider is the perfect level of personal physical health? All these questions and many more are answered in our collection of helpful and useful health related articles that are written by a professional health and nutrition expert and are original and unique.

Improving Health

Health comes from getting a good proportion of several life qualities that include exercise that brings vitality motivation nutrition action along with a positive mental attitude to wards attaining the perfect level that you should have. Improving health is all about taking action and getting started on the things that will help you, while the rest just naturally follows!

You don't have to do it all by yourself either. If you can't afford the time or the cost to go to teh gym, there always alternatives such as video or DVD fitness programs that you can do at home. If you feel a little under the weather and need a pick me up, then you'll find some really helpful information on just how you can do that right here!

Losing Weight and Toning Up

Are you overweight and in need of some help in shedding some of those unwanted pounds? Do you feel you have become unfit and flabby and need to tighten everything up a little? Find out how in our series on losing weight and toning up!

Maintaining a Healthy Body

Once you have achieved your ideal level of health and fitness, it is all the more important to maintain it. Find out some easy and enjoyable ways of doing exactly that right here in amongst our great articles!

Achieving Fast Measurable Weight Loss

The experts agree that a rate of one pound lost per week is acceptable and this is the figure a person should realistically aim for. But not everyone will fit the preferred "average" and some will lose weight faster than others and others will lose weight more slowly. So what can be done for those who are dissatisfied with their own, personal slow rate of weight reduction? Here are a few ways in which a person can learn how to lose weight fast while keeping things as natural as possible and therefore safe?

There are a great many programs and systems available to help people to lose weight through diet and exercise individually, or a combination of the two. For many people, their chosen strategy will work as long as they stick to their program and don't cheat or relax their level of participation and motivation. But often, while weight is gradually lost over time, there are people who see only very slow results and lose their momentum because they think that it is not working for them.

This is a shame because weight loss is supposed to be gradual and somewhat slow. The experts agree that a rate of one pound lost per week is acceptable and this is the figure a person should realistically aim for. But not everyone will fit the preferred "average" and some will lose weight faster than others and others will lose weight more slowly. So what can be done for those who are dissatisfied with their own, personal slow rate of weight reduction? Here are a few ways in which a person can learn how to lose weight fast while keeping things as natural as possible and therefore safe?

Increase Metabolism

Often the thing that keeps certain people losing weight at a very slow, often almost non-existent rate is the sluggishness of their physical metabolism. In its most simplistic terms, this is the body's process that converts food into energy and then causes that energy to be used up at a certain rate, which is often referred to as the metabolic rate.

Some people have a slow metabolic rate while other people have a fast metabolic rate and most of us have a metabolism that runs somewhere in between those two extremes. If you believe you have a slow metabolic rate that is causing your attempt to lose weight to run out at a very slow rate, then there are certain things you can do to speed it up.

If you already lead a sedentary lifestyle, then this could be the main reason your metabolic rate is slow. Lack of physical activity causes the body to slow down its life support system to match the rate of activity the body is being made to undertake. It means that you will require much less food to maintain your weight at its correct level because the body will only use the fuel it needs and whatever is left over gets stored as fat for later use. Unfortunately, that "later" never comes and the body just keeps adding more and more fat to its store. This creates weight gain coupled with muscle wastage through lack of use.

To break out of this cycle takes some work, but it can be done. Exercise is the only workable answer in this case.

Getting Exercise

Leading an inactive lifestyle and being overweight is a dangerous mixture when it comes to a person's health and life expectancy. Heath deteriorates and life expectancy shortens! This is not a situation you want to be in. trying to lose weight with a low calorie diet is often unsuccessful because the body, upon receiving even less in the way of nutrition, slows its metabolic rate down even further to compensate! This is why so many people who lead a sedentary lifestyle fail to lose weight on any diet they try. It's not the fault of the diet. It's the fault of the person!

But by getting active on a daily basis, you can slowly increase the body's metabolism to the point where it is burning all the energy you are feeding it through your diet. This brings your body into equilibrium but it will not be enough to cause any weight loss at this point. You have to keep working and keep believing because this can be a hard road that many quit because they don't see rapid results.

But once you get past the equilibrium state by continually increasing the level of exercise each day, then you will be burning more energy than you are consuming. This forces your body to start giving up some of its store of fat to make up the shortfall. Once you start losing weight this way, the effect starts to slowly snowball.

Increased Muscle Strength

Your muscles will grow in strength through extended use, which causes them to demand more fuel to continue working. The further down this road you go, the faster the rate of fat loss because your body is becoming fitter and more efficient as a fat burning machine. But remember that muscle weighs more than fat by volume so that while you are losing fat, you are gaining muscle mass. This will create a strange effect of keeping the rate of weight loss slower than you would naturally expect it to be, while at the same time your body will be getting much slimmer and better toned while looking and feeling fitter.

This physical effect is the real result you need to strive to achieve. Merely losing weight is not enough and without exercise is not sustainable. With daily exercise however, you will find that over the course of several months, you will have increased the rate at which you are losing weight to what would be considered "fast" and this is probably the safest and most productive as well as desirable ways to go about it.

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Maintaining a Healthy Weight

Staying healthy is a really important thing to do, although when you look around you and see so many people not enjoying good health, you may begin to wonder what it is that so many people are doing wrong! A growing number of people are gaining weight and even becoming obese, which is counterproductive when it comes to maintaining good health and so unnecessary when you consider al the very good wight loss tips that are available to read online. So what should you do to maintain a healthy body weight and avoid slipping onto that downward spiral that leads to obesity?
The first thing that anyone who is worried they might gain weight should do is stop worrying about it! Allowing such a destroying mindset to become predominant in your thoughts is highly likely to bring about the very thing that you do not want to happen.

Positive Thinking

It's true that positive thought brings with it a positive nature and that is conducive to good health and a stable body weight. By making some effort to only think about the things that make you happy and feel secure, relaxed and healthy, you will attract those good qualities into your life more and more, while banishing the worrisome thoughts to a place where they can't bother you.

You may notice that many people who spend the majority of their time talking about ill health, whether it is their own or someone else's and thereby predominantly thinking about ill health, they tend to attract ill health to them if they haven't already got it. The trick is to think and talk good health and you will attract that to you.

Diet and Exercise

No article on health and weight would be complete without a few paragraphs on the benefits of eating a healthy diet and getting plenty of exercise as often as possible and every day if that can be done. While it may seem like listening to a well worn record, there is no getting away from the fact that a poor diet and lack of exercise will lead to weight gain and poor health, so it stands to reason that a good diet and lots of exercise will produce better weight control and good health.

What to Eat and What Not to Eat

It almost seems like so much duplication to harp on about the foods that you should not eat and those that you should to make up a healthy diet, yet the statistics yell that too few people are taking any notice! It seems that far too many people believe they can live on a diet of hamburgers, pizza and fries followed by all manner of high calorie puddings and washed down with copious volumes of carbonated, flavoured drinks and retain their health and natural weight. Of course, this way of eating and drinking will catch up with anybody, no matter how fit and healthy they are to begin with.

While it may seem impossible to give up eating all the things that you like to eat, no matter how unhealthy they may be, you really do have to try if you want to . If you can't cut them all out, at least make an effort to cut down drastically and replace them with some good, healthy home cooked meals made from fresh ingredients and not things you buy in packets at the supermarket.

If you are drinking a lot of fizzy drinks, then for heaven's sake, switch to plain water! Yes, I know it's boring and tasteless but it is the best thing to hydrate your body with. And believe it or not, drinking lots of water can really help you lose weight. Unlike carbonated drinks, plain water contains no harmful additives, flavourings or artificial sweeteners and is calorie free. It boosts the efficiency of your digestive system so that less of what you eat gets stored as fat, while it improves your brain to stomach communication system so your stomach can tell your brain that it full quicker, to help you avoid overeating!

Activity Boosts Metabolism

The other side of the health equation when it comes to maintaining a decent physical weight and body shape is to exercise regularly. Keeping your body weight in balance is all down to ensuring that the amount of calories going in equals the amount of calories being burned through physical activity. There are other aspects to this equation, such as ensuring those calories are coming from the right foods and that those foods are nutritionally balanced and not mostly comprised of carbohydrates, saturated fats, sodium and refined sugar.

But when the fuel is of the right quality, the exercise will be more effective.

Exercise means keeping your body active enough for long enough so that its muscles use up all the energy that the body has consumed through its diet each day. You can do that by working all day at a manual job that forces you to work hard, such as certain areas of the building trade, gardening or farming, lifting and stacking or anything that makes you feel at the end of the working day that you have worked pretty hard.

However, if your job entails remaining fairly motionless all day, such as a desk or driving job, then you will need to spend some time in the evenings (or early mornings before going to work) getting some exercise in. You can try running, swimming, or even going for long, brisk walks with your dog if you have one. Really anything that gets you out of the house, into the fresh air and being active for a prolonged period of time will be beneficial to you.

The end result of following these easy weight loss tips, should be that you feel good every day, you feel that you have plenty of energy and zest without feeling tired and that your weight and body shape is where you want it to be. If you can achieve that and maintain it in the long term, then you will naturally enjoy better health than you would have done had you not taken those steps to improve it.