Lose weight through good posture
It doesn’t matter how hard I try to diet and exercise, the inches don’t come off where I want them too. In fact they always come off where I don’t want them too! But I did learn a little trick…
“There is one sure and safe method to look slimmer and feel better immediately, and that’s to stand up straight.
James Emmett is a chiropractor and owner of the Centrum Chiropractic Clinic in Ottawa. Emmett says people who improve their posture see positive results, not just physically, but also mentally and emotionally. “If we can teach them about body posture, that can have a widespread effect,” he says. “Because they’re carrying themselves better it takes tension off the whole body and everything starts to flow better.”
Without your mom around to constantly tell you to stand up straight, we often begin to slouch without thinking about it. I know that I certainly do and then I realize what I’m doing and immediately correct my posture. But one thing that really surprised me was how much I could elongate my waistline by simply standing up straight. It also makes me look a lot taller.
Now if I could just learn to sleep without twisting, I probably wouldn’t have an aching back to complain about either. And I know that this can be traced back to posture. There are some mornings when I wake up and feel great and other mornings when my back is aching so much it’s nearly Advil time!
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