Losing weight in New York City has got to be one of the easiest things that one can do, but many times, new residents will find themselves gaining weight from all the new foods that they try on a daily basis. If you live and work in the city, you have an unprecedented opportunity to go and lose weight without ever setting foot in a gym or paying for a personal trainer, and for the most part you won’t have to alter your daily life much, find more about this.
If you are younger, and your work is under 30 short blocks (a short block is from one street to another while a long block is from one avenue to another; a long block is about four short blocks) from work then you are in luck. If you choose to walk to work, you can accomplish this in under 50 minutes and you will end up feeling great after only a little time doing this. The great thing about this is that a 30 block walk will burn a few hundred calories, which is a significant percentage of your daily caloric intake. If you choose to walk to and from work, you can burn even more calories and will feel better about yourself. The reason that I only recommend this to younger people is that as you get older, you body becomes less able to bounce back from working out and depending on your personal health you could really hurt yourself if you are older.
One of the things that I do to make myself walk a little more in New York every day is to only go to lunch at places that are more than five blocks away from work. If I do this, I will walk 10 blocks without really thinking about it and get out of the office for a little while; something that helps me to concentrate and be more productive in the time that I am at work.
Now walking isn’t for everyone, and some people will not want to walk to work or go somewhere far away for lunch, so for those people I recommend that they focus more on their nutrition than on fitness. For most people, lunchtime is a time where you go out and get food because it is a certain time of day. Regardless of how hungry you are, you will go out and get lunch at that time because it’s what is expected of you or you just need to get away from work. If you are going out to lunch and you are not hungry, it means that you are eating too much for breakfast or dinner the night before and you really need to reevaluate your meal choices. If you don’t believe that your meal choices are the problem, then you could also try eating only when you are hungry. Each day, when you think about going to get food just ask yourself if you are really hungry. If you aren’t, stay in the office or just go for a walk. When you do get hungry, you can go get food. The important thing is that if you don’t get hungry until before dinner, you really need to consume less food each meal because your body is telling you that you don’t need food during the day because it already has enough. There you go, three ways to lose weight in NYC.
They’re not groundbreaking, but if you follow any of these steps and are good about it, you will see tremendous changes in your weight and your overall health, generally very quickly.
