Fit & Healthy Buffalo- Fitness Success After 40

Have you noticed how people jump onboard with a popular fad diet, lose 5, 10 or even 20 pounds…only to gain it all back and then some? Why does this happen? It’s actually a simple concept, and once you understand it you will be forever saved from the tortures of yo-yo dieting. Fad diets saddle you with unsustainable calorie restrictions and some even cut out entire food groups just to produce that short-lived drop in weight—a process that is actually harmful to your long-term metabolism. The fad diets also ignore one major component to shaping up: exercise. You see, most fad diets operate on one age old premise: cut calories, cut calories, cut calories. By restricting the type and amount of food consumed the fad dieter usually sees an immediate drop in weight. If only it stopped there… But it doesn’t stop there. Life continues, and the fad dieter returns to their pre-diet eating habits—with one major difference in their body due to the sudden drop in pounds. Their calorie requirements

  You CANNOT out-exercise a bad diet. Ever get really bad food cravings (who hasn't!) Well, the real secret to controlling food cravings is keeping them at bay before they even start. Step #1 : BE AWARE of your cravings, so you can 1) notice patterns and 2) feel more in control of them. So … what’s the next step? Step #2: BE PREPARED. The Scouts were onto something with this one. If you know that you start craving salty/sweet/crunchy food every time you crash on the couch at night after a long day, BE PREPARED. If you know that every afternoon you start having visions of chocolate chip cookies dancing in your head, BE PREPARED. If you always associate eating beer and wings with watching the fights or the game on the weekends, BE PREPARED. What “being prepared” looks like will depend on you and your situation. But it can include these two simple tactics: Find a diversion. I quit snacking on junk food at night when I got tired. (yes, it happens to me too!) Instead of just watching T

  I have a very short – but important! – message for you today. For some of you, it may be hard to hear. Here it is: Feeling like you don’t have time to exercise is  NOT  an excuse to skip your workouts... Because workouts are THAT important for your health! Your workouts are literally the  Fountain of Youth  for your cells. (Even older “aging” cells.) Among all the other benefits of exercise, short & intense workouts actually can boost the mitochondria in your cells, which are tiny “powerhouses” that help your body make energy. These powerhouses start to slow down over time … but working out can help delay that process! Even if you only have 5 minutes to get in some exercise , doing SOMETHING is far better than doing NOTHING. You can … Do squats while you’re waiting for your coffee machine to do its thing in the morning. Park farther away from your office or the grocery store. Crank out a 5-minute core routine. Speed-walk around the block. Repeat a circuit of 15 squats, 10 push-up