Its Easy to Stay Slim and Keep Fit
I am a 50 year old man and I am the same size today as I was when I was 15. People say to me ‘You’re so lucky, you never put on any weight’ as if I possess magic genes that prevent me from putting on weight.
I’m just like anyone else. I’m just like anyone else, if I eat more than I need I put on weight. If I don’t take any exercise I know my weight will increase, just the same as it will for anyone. So my trick, if it is such a thing, is to only consume as much as I need.
A key aspect of the way that I maintain my weight is exercise. I don’t do any sports, I don’t go to the gym and I don’t jog, so how do I maintain my youthful physique and remain fit and healthy? I use a technique I call passive keep fit.
What is ‘passive keep fit’ you ask? Passive keep fit, for me, means getting exercise while going about my daily business. For example I will walk to my local shops rather than use my car. And when I walk I walk fast so that I get a little breathless. Driving to and from the shop will just make you fatter and lazier but my visits to the shop burn off calories and help me keep in shape.
I use the same approach in buildings with lifts. I will always use the stairs and often two stairs at a time to burn even more callories. Also, when sat in front of my computer screen at work, I’ll take a break and get a little upper body exercise by lifting myself on the arm rests maybe 10 or 20 times a few times a day.
I also try to get a little light exercise while relaxing in front of the TV by doing a bunch of abdominal scrunches that help to keep my stomach flat. This has helped me keep my six pack and flat stomach, much envied by my friends and workmates.
I always try to stick ot a healthy diet by eating and drinking sensibly. I try not to eat any junk food and when I do I consider it a very big treat. I actually get a lot more satisfaction from resisting temptation than I ever do from giving in. I have a pretty good idea of how much I can eat before I begin to accumulate fat so I have a habit of visualising everything that I have consumed in a day, as if it was all spread out on a table in front of me. This visualisation technique clearly highlights how many cups of tea and coffee I’ve consumed, whether I’ve eaten enough fresh fruit and vegetables and any other aspects of the days consumption that was less than ideal.
So I don’t count calories, I don’t work out in a gym and I don’t play sports. Yet I am the slimmest and fittest 50 year old man that I know, and I still look OK in Roxy or Animal surf clothes, which can’t be bad.
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