What's the Best Exercise For Weight Loss?

It works just like food. To make eating "easy" you eat the natural foods you like. To make exercise "easy" you do the type of activities you enjoy.

Just like it doesn't matter what natural foods you eat, it doesn't matter what exercises you do. All that matters is that you challenge yourself five or six days a week. I repeat, that challenge is relative to where you are in life right now.

If you're older or out of shape, then start with walking. You can work up to a bigger challenge later. All that matters is that you do something. Walking, running, swimming, weight lifting, tennis- it does not matter. All that matters is that it's a challenge- and you get into the habit of challenging yourself everyday.

My challenge is using an old stair machine. It's easy on my old joints. I can stay inside where it's cool, and I use my computer at the same time. What challenges you is totally individual. And you need to take an honest look here. Golf, bowling, fishing- don't count. Your body was designed to be physically challenged on a daily basis. [In mu opinion, you want to do something that challenges your heart three days a week- and something that challenges your skeletal muscles three days a week. And don't forget to talk to your doctor FIRST. Especially if you haven't been active in awhile, or are over 40.]

So what's the BEST exercise to lose weight, feel great, and get fit?

The one you'll do.

Your body was designed to be active. Fighting that design does NOT work. Use the design to your advantage. When doing nothing more than what should be done [treating your body the way it was designed to be treated] you will lose weight, look better, and feel better faster and easier than imagined.

Everything becomes better with just a little regular exercise. From weight loss, to moods, to sleep, to disease prevention, to mental capacity, to faster healing from injury, to longevity- everything in your life will get better.

You're not attempting something all that hard or impossible. You're just going back to what you never should of stopped doing. Eating healthy foods and getting in some daily exercise might feel a little hard at first- only because you're not used to it.

Once you tweak the habits, you will NEVER want to go back to how life used to be.

The trick is making that "new" life a habit.

Many of us became overweight and unfit because we got in the habit of eating the wrong foods- and stopped challenging ourselves physically. As simplistic as it sounds, only ONE thing will work: Stop doing what makes you unfit- and start doing what does.

Do what is guaranteed to work- and you are guaranteed to succeed.

You have a decision to make. Do you want a new body and life? If you're not sure, then wait until ready. If this is tried without really wanting to change, no changes will happen- and no change makes you never want to try again.

That's the worst thing that can happen.

Once the diet is cleaned up physical challenges are started, change will happen. And the more changes made, the faster the results.

A scale and mirror are all you need. If the scale goes down, just keep doing what you've been doing until you lose all the weight you want. If the scale is going up or not budging; you only have two choices: Eat less calories [not less food- less calories] or get more active. If you want the scale to change faster- do both.

All in your daily choices.

Here's how it works: First you identify the habit [or habits] that need changing. Then identify what habit you're going to change it to. For example, I had a bad habit with soda. For a long time, I told myself that those daily sodas were no problem. I justified drinking them with every excuse I could think of: The caffeine will help me to work longer, a little bit of sugar is no big deal, soda was a special "treat" that I "deserved."

Those were all lies.

All those lies did was keep me from taking that honest look. And not taking an honest look slowed or stopped my new body progress. The TRUTH is, soda is not something my body is designed to run on. An honest look told me that I needed to change that habit to drinking water.

My next honest look made me realized I never challenged myself physically. Again, a habit that made getting my new body almost impossible. I had to change my inactivity habit over to an activity habit. To transform my body and life, all I had to do is what I've been telling you to do:

I had to see my habits and choices as they were- and change them. Changing some habits were easy, changing others were challenging. However, when I finally did nothing more than treat my body the way it was designed to be treated, I felt just the same at 50 as I did at 20.

All in the habits and choices, all mental.

Losing weight and transforming your body, mind, and future is simple. It's your mind that makes it difficult. However, with just a little persistence, your new actions will start to work, and it will get easy. Then just like me, you'll wonder how you ever made losing weight so difficult; and you will transform your life and future more ways than you can imagine.

Michael Marsh, age 50, is the author of New Body New Life, a four step manual that helps readers with the only thing proven to work for weight loss; the changing of unhealthy choices to healthy ones. Please visit http://mynewbodynewlife.com to learn more.

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