More About Exercise

Anyone else watching the Biggest Loser tonight? I was totally blown away by the weight loss of the Unknowns during their first week on the ranch. The lowest percentage would have been at the top of the other group! Seriously- how can you go home after losing 3.59%???

What it signifies to me is how important it can be to change up your fitness routine. The ranch players, while obviously still losing weight and being successful, didn't have their routine changed as much as the unknowns did, by completely changing locale and having new equipment to use. Look at the effect it had!

With diet as well as exercise, it's important to keep your body guessing so that your metabolism stays revved up and it doesn't have time to acclimatize to what you are doing. There was a discussion on the Nutrisystem boards about having high days and low days- where you vary your daily food intake based on how hungry you are. You still eat everything on your meal plan and don't save anything, but perhaps you choose all lower calorie entrees one day (since there's quite the variation in each category), or have smaller servings for your dairy/protein add ins. Conversely, if you're hungry, go for the higher calorie entrees and max out your dairy/protein to 100 calories per serving.

But if just changing up your exercise can have an effect like that- I'm really excited about the idea. Adding in the 30 Day Shred clearly had a positive effect on my weight loss. Hopefully trying the FitMom + Baby class on Mondays will also change things up a little. Maybe I need to add in more time on the elliptical machine as well.

So here's my challenge to you- this week, try one new exercise related thing that you haven't done before. It doesn't have to be a huge change- maybe something as simple as wearing arm weights when you go for a walk. Let's see if we can shock our bodies into letting go of those pounds!

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