Welcome all of you, the first day of diet starts tomorrow. How did it go? And what did you and I do.
In my humble opinion the most important is to do it.
Doesn't matter what, if it's walking up the stairs, bicycling to work, tai chi, yoga.
Anything will do, to get you started.
The body will start releasing endorfine wich will simple said make you feel well.
Plus set various mechanisms in our bodies at work. Such as higher metabolism, fatburn, increase of body muscle, improved cardio vascular health and the list goes on. But you get what I mean.
So for physical exercise we could go for a walk , cycle, stairclimb, run, box, etc. these are meant to improve our cardiovascular system. And improve the metabolism. Even like 20 min a day ,best on empty stomach. Will start to to give benefits. If you can last longer built it up to 30-40 min. More challenging but in my view more effective is HIT or LISS (high intensity interval training).
But later more about these in depth.
Then the lifting part. What seems still very confusing is; by training hypertrophy, resistance training, if that's weights or body weight. The body gets stronger but it isn't that you suddenly have body builders muscles. I noticed big improvement in posture and pain relief from wrists, back and numb hands and feet. Mentally it improved my wellbeing and joy drive in life.
Just started off with push ups, chin ups sit ups and squats. I really prefer 4 sets of 10-15 reps of each exercise and at least 2x a week. When fitter bodies could do well on split training or ppl. There are many ways but it has to suit you. Have much time you're willing to put in it.
Here later also more about.
Diet better eating habits. Same as above improved well being, health. Simply said; if you wanna loose weight. Eat lesser calories than burn. When gaining weight, eat more then you burn. Of course a calorie is not a calorie. A base of lentils, rice, oats, quinoa and greens leefs, vegetables will improve the body functions. We all know that the processed food is not the best. So I try to avoid that. Now it's already part of me. Sometimes when I eat crap, it makes me physical uncomfortable. Especially high sugar products. About Keto and other diets like plant based, vegan, later more. It's a whole different subject which deserves a more in depth analysis. So with fasting and training.
I really hope you get inspired to move yourself physically and start to improve your life quality well being. Often