After my first child I was one of many mothers who felt that in order to lose weight I needed to throw myself in the deep end.

When my husband got back from work, I would drive myself to the gym twice a week and make myself go on every piece of equipment that was available. And the result? Well I managed to keep it up for about 2 months, but with the strains of being a new mother I soon crashed and ended up putting all the weight I had lost back on.

Since that experience I have luckily learnt that to successfully lose weight, less is sometime more when it comes to exercise. Yes, you need to make exercise part of your daily lifestyle, but you can lose weight without having to push your body to the extreme.

The real key to taking charge of your weight loss – whatever your reasons – is incorporating quick metabolic resistance workouts with fat burning regimes in-between.

No more and no less.

Below I have listed an exercise that has personally worked for offering my body a top quality workout:

5 minutes – do a dynamic warm-up that consists of body weight movements
20 minutes – metabolic resistant workout spaced out over intervals, which uses little equipment
5 minutes – workout out on a cardio piece to burn fat or use body weight exercises
5 minutes – cooling down and stretching.

Simple? It is, and the great part about this kind of workout is that it works to prevent muscle deterioration. Instead you can benefit from long term successful weight loss with none of the risks of muscle definition loss.

You see fast weight loss of 3-4lbs a week usually equates to muscle being burned, not fat. Why? Because it is much easier to burn the calories found in muscle than those found in body fat:

1lb of body fat stores 3,500 calories in stored energy
1lb of muscle stores 600 calories in stored energy

Now before you start thinking that by reducing your calories by 3,500 a week you will lose 1lb of fat, don’t.

The types of foods you eat and what exercises you do are also important, which is why the above routine is so lucrative. It can give you the helping hand you need to burn the right calories – your fat calories, not muscle.

But if you are still worried about this happening, I recommend that you eat a wider variety of foods filled with carbohydrates, protein and fats.

By eating these kinds of foods and ensuring that your workout consists of muscle building training sessions, you can keep your muscle definition, tone up and still lose weight.

Next on the list is making sure you do these exercises more than twice a week, and that you also do other outside activities.

I know, I know, I know – all this is easier said than done. Even I from time to time have turned to a 20 minute treadmill jog when the kids have particularly worn me out. But this is not enough.

It is all about the quality of your workouts and what you do.

Yes, quantity can factor into the equation to a certain degree. Work out too little and nothing will happen. But this can be said of if you work out too much.

You need to find a balance that considers the length of your workouts with the type of exercises you do.

Proactol™ of course can also make taking this first initial step to weight loss success easier. By taking 2-3 of their natural herbal supplements after every meal they can help you to lose a steady 1-2lbs a week whilst reducing your fat intake by 28%.

But by combining Proactol™ with the above workout, you can also make sure you’re losing weight in all the right places at a pace that is right for you.

So remember quality, quality, quality the next time you work out, and give your confidence that extra boost.