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Weight management is a process wherein you follow a healthy lifestyle, focus on eating healthy, indulge in physical activity, and essentially adopt healthy lifestyle habits.
In other terms, it is balancing between the calories you consume and the calories you burn, and ultimately, working towards maintaining a healthy weight.
What Are the Key Components of Weight Management?
Like everything else, even weight loss management has key elements that you must know about. Without these factors, you won’t be able to optimize the process.
Here are some important factors in weight management that you should keep in mind while watching your weight:
Eating Healthy
When it comes to weight, healthy eating refers to picking your food sources wisely. You should focus on adding these food sources to your diet that provide you with the important nutrients your body needs, especially macronutrients.
Physical Activity
Physical activity is important to keep your muscles healthy and improve your fitness levels. You do not need to necessarily go to the gym and focus on resistance training for physical activity. You can opt for exercises such as running, jogging, or even swimming. These are activities that engage your muscle groups and make them stronger.
Monitoring Progress
A healthy lifestyle aimed towards weight management needs to be monitored. You don’t have to be extremely strict with it, but every couple of days, you can weigh yourself to know if you’re on track with your weight management plans.
Adopting Healthier Habits
Healthier eating habits and healthier lifestyle habits can have a massive positive impact on your weight since they cut out habits that negatively affect your plans.
Seeking Support (optional)
Sometimes it can be difficult and overwhelming to know where to begin. Everybody will have different opinions based on what worked for them. As an individual, you must understand that your body has its own demands and preferences. Hence, it’s better to seek professional support to get an understanding of what may work for you before committing to a routine.
Relationship Between Weight Management and Nutrition
Now, more often than not, weight management is aligned with eating healthily and being aware of the nutritional aspects of your meals. Since nutrition plays a key role in the process, it’s important that you understand some of the tips that will help you manage your weight through nutrition:
1. Nutrient-dense Foods
These refer to whole foods such as vegetables, fruits, lean meat, etc. You should be able to get more nutrition from a lesser portion size.
2. Minding Portion Sizes
Speaking of portion sizes, while consuming a larger portion size may seem tempting, it’s best to be mindful of it. You should consume a portion size that is suitable for your diet rather than going off the charts. This will help with your weight loss management plans.
3. Limiting High Calorie Food and Beverages
High calorie foods and beverages such as desserts and sugary drinks should be avoided as much as possible. You want to save your daily calories and use them wisely throughout the day with various meals, and not use up much of the calories with one meal or dish.
4. Planning Ahead
When you don’t have a planned diet or you don’t know what your next meal should be, a plethora of options will make it a difficult choice. In such moments, it’s easier to give in to a craving. Instead, if you plan your meals ahead, you’re taking away the confusion of choosing what to consume before every meal.
5. Limiting Empty Calories
Limiting empty calories refers to limiting alcohol consumption. It so happens that while you’re consuming calories when you’re drinking alcohol, you’re not actually receiving any nutritional value from those calories, making them empty calories.
Now, it’s important to understand that weight management and weight loss management may not always refer to the same process.
Some use weight management to refer to the process where they focus on maintaining their current bodyweight. However, weight loss management refers to the process where the focus is on following a calorie deficit diet to cut fat and lose weight.
Obviously, you shouldn’t align weight loss management with starving yourself or depriving yourself of anything. In fact, for healthy weight management, you should never starve yourself. However, you have to be aware of what you’re consuming, and how much of it you’re consuming.
If you’ve never built a diet for yourself before, a professional can help you with dietary plans for weight loss and a healthy approach to weight management.
