How to Lose Weight
But you know what? It's really worth the effort in the long run. If you're overweight or obese, just decreasing your weight by 10% is enough to reduce your risk for diseases like cancer and cardiovascular disease. If you plan your diet and stick with it, you'll lose the excess fat and get healthier and learn to love your scale instead of hate it.
But when it's time to lose weight, do it the right way. Think of your diet as a life-long commitment and not some kind of a way to lose 35 pounds quick. It just doesn't work that way. Crash diets are a waste of time - they don't teach you how to eat healthy and the weight loss is rarely permanent. The key to successful weight loss is eating foods that are good for you and in the right amounts, not starving yourself or following fad diets.
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Great advice! A healthy lifestyle also creates a healthy body, when going on a diet the main aim should be to improve your overall health and lifestyle. That way you can almost gaurantee you’ll keep the weight off!
We probably ought to purge the word “diet” from our vocabulary, at least in its sense of restricting what we eat to lose weight. I can not begin to count the number of people I know who “diet” (myself included) without achieving long term, sustained success. I am convinced that we don’t lose weight for good with any diet. We lose weight by PERMANENTLY changing the way we eat and live. When we start to look at weight management as just ONE PART of a permanent overall healthy lifestyle, then we will see meaningful progress against this obesity plague.
I agree with Steve. Most diets, although effective in the short-term, actually work against us. When we reduce caloric intake over a period of time, our metabolism tends to slow down thus reducing the fat burn rate. When we come off the diet, we are more likely to gain weight faster.
In the past few months I’ve lost 13 lbs. without dieting or increasing my exercise level. The only things I’ve done are eat more chocolate every day and limit my intake of fast foods. Now, I’m not pitching this as a diet plan – just noting that being more selective with what we eat is probably more beneficial than cutting out eating.
I could not agree more! With over 100 lbs to lose, I determined to not be on a “diet” but to make an overall long-term plan for good health. It has been a process for sure but well worth it.
I couldn’t agree more! “Diets” are ridiculous – the reason you gained weight was most likely due to lifestyle and so to really lose that weight you have to change your behaviors, not just cutting out certain foods for a few months. Check out this site weightgainaftermarriage.wordpress.com its got a bunch of details on how your lifestyle makes you gain weight
Very true! My clients benefit from for fresh, nourishing, whole foods that support the body’s natural ability to balance its weight.