Health Hop

Welcome to Health Hop where you can learn all about how a healthy diet and fitness regime can help you improve your looks, your weight and your health! We also have a running commentary on how our main contributor lost weight and improved hi health through determination, belief and some clever ideas that made it possible for him and anyone else that wants to do this to look and feel better, slimmer and healthier.

Eat Healthy, Exercise More

There really is no substitute for eating a healthy, well balanced, home prepared and cooked diet while boosting your body's strength and metabolism by getting as much exercise as you can. There are no hard and fast rules to follow as everyone is different and has different limits and abilities. The best rule of thumb that you can follow when it comes to exercising is to do as much as you can manage yourself and if you can push that envelope a little each day, then do it.

Most people can manage to adhere to a healthy diet as long as it allows a decent variety of foods and is not too restrictive in all areas. Staying healthy is not so much about counting calories as counting the number of healthy foods you can and should eat while avoiding the unhealthy junk that is jammed in everyone's face on television and magazine ads. Be sensible and you can still eat very well while the food you are eating is healthy, wholesome and enjoyable.

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Determined to Diet the Easy Way

After more time than I care to remember being overweight, I finally decided to take the bull by the horns and do something positive about it. This was a few years ago and I don't mind admitting that at first the going was really tough! I tried loads of different things but had little or no success. I knew that if I gave up, I would lose and if there's one thing about me that I'm proud of, I'm no quitter!

So I just kept at it. I researched different diets and workout programs and determined to succeed, I tried more. Eventually, I got there after mixing a pretty easy diet plan with the kind of exercise plan that I could do pretty easily. I think a big part of my problem, same as many other folks, is I was trying too hard!

It's true. When you aim too high at a target that is really out of reach, it seems to be so impossible you just never seem to be making any headway. So I set the bar lower -- a lot lower. And to my surprise, I started losing weight. It was still slow going, but I was making progress and I could see a difference at the end of each week at the weigh in as well as the way my clothes were no longer tight. I started to feel like I had more energy and that spurred me on to exercise more and really stick out the diet.

Okay, it took well over a year to shed thirty-six pounds but it felt good to achieve a real big target by breaking it down into small, monthly targets of a few pounds each month. That was over two years ago and I have not put back an ounce. I still eat healthy food, no processed junk and I don't drink any soda any more. I still exercise most days when the weather is good I get outdoors and go for long walks or short runs whatever I feel like doing. It's great!

Anyone can do this as long as they're determined enough and refuse to quit. Just break it down into small chunks and it's so much easier. Anyhow, that's my first post and later, I'll let you know more of how I did it and how my brother followed my lead and also lost 28 pounds in a year.
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Diet with Convenience

Despite what he had read in a lot of reviews that tried to pour cold water over a lot of popular diet plans, my brother was determined to try one of them to see how easy it would be for him to lose weight and still keep up with his busy lifestyle. He chose to try the convenience of one of the most popular diets from Nutrisystem as there seemed to be far more positive press about it than some of the others, or maybe that was just due to the websites where he did most of his research.

I guess you can't really get a full understanding of how people are rating certain diets unless you read then all and to do that would likely take you months. That time is better spent just getting on one of them and seeing what you can do with it. Well, my brother was not disappointed, although he was a little curious when he took delivery of his food package. That was mainly because at first glance, the box did not look big enough to contain a whole month supply of food, but when he opened it up and got everything out and packed away, it sure did!

He actually lost more weight than he expected to do with that diet, which made him extremely happy and he had not problems with the meals at all. In fact he said that they were so quick and easy to have ready to eat, he would consider doing the diet again not so much to lose weight but to just feed himself next time he is on a really busy project at work!

Well, that's at least part of how my brother lost weight, but there's of course more to it than that. I'll be giving you more of the info in later posts, if anyone is interested, of course!
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