Think of yourself as a marathon runner. You start to cover the distance with your tempo beginning from start line towards the finish line. Your heartbeats which accelerate, your leg muscles which start to get swollen and your field of view which starts to bluring slowly begin to advise you to give up the marathon immediately. If you are enough in physical fitness you reach to happy result, if you are not enough, you give up the marathon shortly.

In these days, you can be one of those runners who take their position on the  line in order to start the marathon for diet.  Even if you are an athlete from Kenya, as we know you can not run for a long time, we wanted to share our practical advices with you in order that we could inform you about the wrongs which are known as true.

“The diet which is made to get rid of excess weight”is the name of the set of applications which are made for losing weight and for purifying the body under the leading of a programme in control and with conscious.

When we observe million dollars diet industry, offering new diet products and solutions for sale with the logic of “all or nothing” every year,  is the indicator that the old products and methods are ineffective, consequently all routes lead straight to the getting less calory and exercises.

About Weight?

When you get on the scale, what do the figures (namely your pounds) appearing on the screen mean?  First, the weight should be understood well. When the weight which exists as muscle, fat and water in the body is lost  (without exercise) stagnantly, our body bears a loss of the muscles and fats, even if this makes us smile in a short period of time, in further terms along with the getting the same weights again, the things lost from the body are gained as only fat again; of course if you are decisive to move and to exercise, these results may change.

On the other hand, in the exercises which you make by wearing sauna sweat suit in order to look more beatiful and to welcome to the summer as fit, your body can lose water intensely.

Is Going Hungry a Solution?

The ones who go hungry by the means of the thought as “ i can also do success” without having enough information concerning the diet, the ones who limit their food amounts at very high levels, start to put in store the fats in their body in the presence of emergency alarm of their body system. In this way, situation which is expressed in public as “whatever i eat, that is always good for me ” appears.

As a result of the programme which you apply, if you follow your weight both at low and at top like an instable stock certificate in stock market, this means something go wrong. Because saving your body weight stable is better than the getting and losing weight quickly with choosing a wrong diet method. In the same way, in spite of the fact that you have been satiated, it is not good of you to eat somethings just as it is the dinner time.

Our Life Style

-  You should start the nutrition and exercise marathon just with your own wish and will, not with the insistence of others. 

-  When the prescriptions diet are presented to a fat person, psychology illness may happen and that person wants to get rid of this immediately. Consequently, the diet should be preceived as a life style and a new nutrition programme, it should be applied by whole family.

- You should develop a support system with the people who know your targets, weak and strong sides.

- You should give up thinking too much, thus you can give up eating too much.

- You should define the emotional and physical effects which may cause you to get weight and go over them.

Our Advices for Exercise

Exercise is very important in the view of weight control, getting stronger and good circulation system in the body. Before applying the exercise methods, we advise you to measure the circumference of your belt and to take photos of your body lines. Because in further stages, the tightening and changings can happen in your body lines, even if obvious changings may not appear in your weight being on the screen of the scale.

( Ideal belt measure is 82 cm and below for women, it is 88,5 cm for men.  1,5 cm overmeasure in belt means half a pound fat.)

Our purpose is to turn the fat in our body to muscle by following the exercise programme and to increase the current amount of muscle, to increase the flexibility of the muscle lenght. Because the muscles need calories to work effectively and half a pound muscle burns calories between 40-120 rates, as for the fat it needs only 1 or 3 calories.

- Walking 30 minutes every day is healthful for heart and vessel health.

- Follow the aerobic exercises, for example jogging,  swimming, riding a bicycle, etc..

- While swimming, if you tighten your leg muscles and abdomen, you can increase the effect on these parts of your body.

-  Breath exercises provides much more oxygen to your body, besides they help your metabolism to boost.

-  By the means of the applications such as yawning, balance postures, yoga, tai chi, pilates, which develop resistance against the gravity, you can develop your central muscle system. (Upper body, abdomen,legs)

In an age which the technology nails us on the chairs, You dont lose anything by going to the grocer next to only 1 station on foot instead of going there by car, by using the stairs while going to your flat at 3 rd floor, in contrast to this, you have got a very active life style.

With the condition of not being very heavy, in place of your home you can provide  a “dumbbell set” or more practically “ elastic band”, also work on the exercises such lifting weights and providing resistance.

Adding Meaning to Your Life

No matter what reasons such as better looking, business, entertainment, competition or health you go on a diet, it has not been found the easy way of losing weight or remaining slim yet.  It is not possible of you to save your ideal weight by eating or drinking whatever you wish.

You can develop a new nutrition form by changing your life style and define the most appropriate exercise programme for you. We dont mention a programme for 3 days or 1 week. We wish you a qualified, balanced, happy life and also we wish you to raise to top point in this life marathon. We conclude the article with the remarks of Ibn-i Arabi as follow:

“ The root of the existence is action. Inaction is not available in the existence, because the existence can not be inactive. If it is so, then it returns to its source namely nothingness, that’s why the journey in the world and hereafter does not stop. “

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