Sound all too familiar? We don’t fuss as we indulge and slowly pack on the pounds over months or years. But one day we wake up “fat” and decide we have to lose weight and so we go on a hunt for the best healthy weight loss diet we can find. Oh, I slipped that word “healthy” in there, didn’t I. Pity.

You see, when it comes to weight loss and dieting, we cannot expect fast results. When we get anxious, we set our expectations too unrealistically and when we cut our food intake and eat rabbit food for a week or two and find that we only lost 8 pounds, we whine!

Mind if I talk straight? You cannot expect to lose it any faster than you gained it. As a matter of fact, it will be tougher to lose it as your body sort of got “stuck in” at the current intake of calories and when it feels that intake is threatened, it will sense when you change gears and adjust downward.

So, eating less is not the only factor here. What will help your body to kick in gear to the new plan so to speak is to give it a jolt. What kind of jolt? Exercise!!

[moans and whines] Yes, my friend, good stout, sweaty exercise is the only thing that will tell your bod to jump out of storing fat to burning fat.

Which bring me to the point of this article… there is some waiting involved while you lose weight. No two ways about it. BUT the wait will be shorter and more efficient when you add regular, internal training and resistance exercise.

The great thing is that it doesn’t take 4 hours a day to achieve some significant results. In as little as 15 minutes a day you can see great changes. Holly Rigsby makes a point that 15 minutes of resistance workouts every other day alternating muscle groups with interval training daily is enough to make big changes in your dress sizes, for you ladies.

And guys, Tom Venuto of Burn the Fat, advocates longer workouts.  As long as they are regular, daily sessions, you can notice huge differences in how your pants fit.

Weight loss is a waiting game, let’s face it. But you can see those pounds melt off almost as quickly as they came on when you add regular, sweaty exercise to your day.