How Effective Is Your Weight Management - Some Food For Thought!

As someone who has had to struggle with my weight management for all of my adult life, there have been many many occasions when I have asked myself whether or not I was having any success at all. There are so many conflicting pieces of advice, and articles published in women's magazines in particular, telling you the do's and don'ts of successful weight management, and weight loss techniques, that quite frankly, I for one often end up totally bamboozled by it all.

I think that everyone is different as far as dieting and weight control are concerned, and therefore there is no "one size fits all approach" to achieving your ideal weight, or for that matter your dream figure. That said however, I firmly believe that there are many small but significant routines that you can and should implement into your daily life, to at least give yourself a fighting chance of success.

Here are a couple of suggestions for you to mull over:-

Did you know that the average human body has between 25 to 30 billion fat cells. These serve as storehouses for the fat molecules which accumulate both from the food that we eat, and also from the body's own fat making process. Typically these cells can congregate on the abdomen, on the hips, and on the thighs, as well as ending up as layers of fat beneath the skin.

So by eating a few large meals in a day, as most of us tend to do, the existing fat cells can become overloaded so to speak. This in turn triggers a hormonal signal which the body interprets as a need for more fat to be stored, and this is how we gain weight. The other thing to remember is, that when you eat a few large meals in a day, it can cause sharp fluctuations in your blood sugar levels. This is another important factor in the battle to lose weight.

When it gets that initial spike in blood sugar levels, the body releases a larger than normal amount of the hormone insulin, which is the specific hormone responsible for transferring blood sugar from the bloodstream into cells. It would be a good habit to try and discipline yourself to eating small but frequent meals throughout the day therefore, because not only does that stabilize your blood sugar levels, it also has a positive effect on your cognitive functions.

Also for successful fat loss, it is vitally important to break the habit of eating to much food in too few sittings. This really does take a lot of willpower, as you have probably been conditioned to having three square meals a day since the time that you were a child.

Once you start to train yourself to eat smaller meals and snacks at more frequent intervals, amongst other things, you will notice almost immediately a big improvement in your energy levels. This is the result of a more stable sugar level, and once you experience the improvement in your energy levels, you will wonder why you did not do this before! This small but significant change in your lifestyle habits will work wonders with your weight management efforts.

As far as your cognitive functions which I mentioned above are concerned, there is also growing evidence that taking a small break throughout the day can enhance performance and productivity, and believe it or not, the simple act of just taking a break from your daily routine to eat, helps you build up what is known as vital memory. A brief period of even just a few minutes away from the normal influx of information, will allow your brain to do some of the filing necessary to sharpen your memory.

It is a very good idea therefore to follow each meal or snack with a few minutes of easy activity, such as walking around your work area, or performing a few muscle tone ups. Medical research confirms that the alertness boosting and fat burning effect of these active minutes, turns your body into a fat burning machine instead of a fat storing one.

As I said at the outset of this article, we are all different, and different things work for different people. However, everyone can adopt these habits to benefit their overall health and well being, and to make the goals of their weight management campaign, that much more achievable.

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