Things change during the winter months, the sun sets earlier making your evenings at home longer and you are not able to be as active outside. Because of this you want to come up with a different dieting and exercising strategy. One that allows you to eat your favorite foods so your diet doesn't stagnate and one that allows you to get more benefit from less exercise.Let's modify your diet plan.
When you diet, typically you keep your calories low week after week. What happens is your body adapts to this lower calorie intake by slowing your metabolism. During the more active summer and fall you might have been able to keep your metabolism higher with added activity but now in the winter, you likely notice your weight loss slow.
What you want to do to keep your metabolism pumped up and also keep you from feeling deprived during the winter months is add a high calorie cheat day to your dieting week. This one day will boost your fat burning metabolism up and speed fat loss.
This concept is not new, in fact it has been well researched and proven to work and it is just what you need to keep your body from adapting to your low calorie diet!
Let's modify your exercise plan.
You simply cannot be outside getting the same level of exercise, so it will help to learn a way to exercise that allows you to cut your time commitment in half while increasing your fat burning. The way to do it is to vary your intensity during your workout.
Simply take 20 minutes of cardio and vary your pace between periods of low intensity and periods of maximum intensity and you will be burning fat more efficiently the entire day.
Losing weight during the winter is easier when you learn how to make your diet and exercise work better and burn fat more efficiently!
~The above is an excerpt taken from an EZineArticle entitled "Losing Weight During the Winter - Secrets and Strategies to Easily Burn Fat Over the Winter" by Dr. Becky Gillaspy, EZineArticles.com Expert Author
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