Weight Management: A Routine Is Just As Important As Diet

When it comes to weight management or losing weight, everyone jumps on the diet and exercise train and struggles their way through. No matter how much they eat, no matter how much they exercise, they can’t seem to lose weight and many are left wondering why. When it comes to our day to day lifestyle, we’re forgetting the most important part of the process, the routine.

The reason it’s so hard for most people to lose weight and keep it off is a poor day-to-day routine. People’s lives are so overrun by sporadic instances of eating, exercising, and resting when they can that their body is forever adapting to changing nutrient intake. We eat on the go, snack when we can, and extend periods between meals with each passing day. Even if we can get to the gym each day and burn off one of the meals we’ve eaten throughout the day, the other meals we consume still store the extra calories and nutrients to use stored energy as needed.

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By not having a routine your body is spending energy to burn off the extra nutrients your body stores between meals. When it comes to physique, people envy actors like Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson and Mark Wahlberg as the pinnacle of diets and exercise to keep their form. They’ve marveled at their ridiculous regimens as if it takes these over the top sacrifices for their bodies that make them stand out above all. But the most important part of their crazy diets and exercise is the routine of them.

When it comes to diet and exercise, we forget our bodies have muscle memory. Most people assume a lower calorie diet and the occasional trip to the gym every couple of days is enough to get it done. But your body has a natural ebb and flow to it and ignoring it and not retraining it is the sole reason people cannot lose or keep weight off.

Yes, at times you have to change your workout and conditioning to keep your growth going. Also, yes it does make sense to switch up your foods and calorie intake to keep your body adapting. However, when it comes to the day to day, the workouts should be roughly the same time each day. Your meals should occur at the same time. You should try to go to bed at the same time each day.

Our routine is the most important part of the weight-loss trend. Programming your body to take in and distribute nutrients routinely will keep your body from storing the extra. Exercise at the same time will train your body into burning the excessive calories without the demand for replacement. Training your body to focus on checkpoints throughout the day will program your brain to ignore impulses for excess. If you want to lose weight and keep it off, train your body and mind to get into the same routine each day.