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How to Reach an Ideal Weight?

There are useful methods for calculating your healthy weight. Reaching and maintaining it can help you control and prevent many diseases and conditions. When it comes to dieting, hitting the gym, and getting to your perfect weight, the ultimate goal should always be health.

There are many reasons that traditional diets may not help you to achieve sustainable healthy weight reduction.  Keep in mind that:

To make improvements that prompt long term ideal weight, it is important to begin with accepting your present pounds, while also grasping an inspiration for change.

Here are a few tips you can use to reach your ideal weight:

1. Make sure you are on a real calories deficit

Research shows that individuals tend to overestimate the number of calories burned and to underestimate the number of calories they consume. You need to make sure you are creating a real calorie deficit. What’s more, the best way to do this is by counting every single calorie. This will give you an unmistakable estimate of the quantity of calories you consume every day.

But you don’t have to be obsessed by calories counting for the rest of your life. Stop counting calories when you can precisely eyeball portions.

2. Change your exercise routine

Exercises turn out to be less effective as the body gets used to them. You will start burning fewer calories doing the same exercise than you were before, because your body adjusted to it.The changes you have to make to your exercise routine will rely upon your current workout. Increase the difficulty and the intensity of your exercises, if you don’t practice a lot. If you have been training overwhelmingly, lessen the intensity of your workouts for 7 days to reboot. After the break start a challenging new workout.

3. Get rid of stress and get enough sleep

Studies have found that the stress and lack of sleep can trigger high cortisol levels. This causes fat to settle around the abdominal area, because the metabolism is slowed down. The amount of sleep a person needs varies, but the National Sleep Foundation recommends 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night for grownups.

Talk to your health care provider if you are concerned about your weight. And remember – the ultimate goal is being within a normal, healthy weight range.

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How Many Hours Sleep Do You Need?

Sleep is the key indicator of well-being and good health. We spend up to 1/3 of our lives sleeping and the general condition of our sleep health is an essential question through our life. Getting plenty of rest each night is important to make your entire day more productive.

But how many hours of sleep do you actually need?

Researches cannot pinpoint an exact measure of sleep needed by individuals at different ages, but the chart of the National Sleep Foundation, which features maximum and minimum ranges for health as well as “recommended” windows, identifies the “rule-of-thumb” amounts specialists agree upon.

  • Older adults (65+): Sleep range is 7-8 hours
  • Adults (26-64): Sleep range did not change and remains 7-9 hours
  • Younger adults (18-25): Sleep range is 7-9 hours
  • Teenagers (14-17): Sleep range widened by one hour to 8-10 hours
  • School age children (6-13): Sleep range widened by one hour to 9-11 hours
  • Preschoolers (3-5): Sleep range widened by one hour to 10-13 hours
  • Toddlers (1-2 years): Sleep range widened by one hour to 11-14 hours
  • Infants (4-11 months): Sleep range widened two hours to 12-15 hours
  • Newborns (0-3 months): Sleep range narrowed to 14-17 hours each day

To open a new chapter where healthier lifestyle and healthier rest are a priority, start by assessing your individual needs.

Ask yourself: How does my body respond to the different amounts of sleep?; Am I experiencing sleep problems?; Do I depend on caffeine to get me through the day?; Do I feel sleepy when driving?; Am I productive after 7 hours of sleep?

If you are experiencing symptoms such as insomnia, sleepiness during the day, difficulty breathing during sleep, leg cramps, snoring, gasping or other symptoms that is preventing you from a good sleep, you should consult your primary care physician.

Above all, listen to your body and mind and make sleep a priority. You should plan sleeping like some other daily activity. So put it on your “daily agenda” and check it off each night.