by Annette Hatton

Created on: July 10, 2010   Last Updated: July 11, 2010

21 M&M Diet Move-It Lose-It Tips

“600-pound Woman Grows to Couch, Dies,” headlined south Florida news in August 2004. “Authorities estimated she had not moved from the couch in 2 to 5 years.” This woman is a sad illustration of an unmoving couch potato gone too long without exercise. As people in the USA get heavier each generation, the time may come when 600-pounds is not be so newsworthy.

We, the overweight and obese, are caught in the crossfire knowing we need to exercise and hard-body gyms and spas. Those places are for thin people not those of us who have physical limits or are 50-pounds or more overweight. Though they say they do not discriminate, they are double-tongued, our request for help virtually unheard by owners, personnel and exercise gurus. After they collect membership fees we are shamed into quitting with the “fat and physically limited are not good for business” discrimination attitude fueled by movies and media.

It is time to take responsibility for our own weight and put behind us or at least come to terms with, the callous ignorance of ego-assassination discrimination. In another Helium article, 28 M&M Diet Tips, there is an explanation of how not consuming empty calories can make “dieting” seem effortless and how reducing caloric intake by 500-calories and exercising away 500-calories per day can lead to a one-pound weight loss per week.

M&M Diet Move-It Lose Tips are the other half of the equation. They are not necessarily exercises, rather creative ways of simply moving your body and joints, something some of us have difficulty doing. As you Move-It remember walk or exercise only as fast as you have breath to talk, and check with your doctor before beginning.

These Move-It suggestions are but “the tip of a very large iceberg” of things you can do to move your body more and burn away 500-calories a day. By the time you become strong enough to begin an exercise program, exercising will be as welcome a habit as breathing.

1. Microwave Moves: While you wait do one or two exercises 5 to 10 times each.

a. Do standing push-ups against the counter top.

b. March in place raising arms and knees high.

c. Lower one ear to one shoulder without lifting your shoulder, do both sides.

d. Drop your chin to your chest then bend it back.

e. Tighten and relax buttock muscles, then tighten stomach muscles.

f. Slowly turn to one side then the other and hold.

g. Drop your chin to your

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