How to Achieve Healthy Weight Loss
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The best way to lose weight and make sure it stays off is to take a long-term approach to your weight management.
Healthy weight loss is not about losing half a stone in a week, or dropping three dress sizes in as many months.
Below are some tips for losing weight in a more balanced and healthy way, rather than jumping from one fad diet to the next.
" Walk before you can run
Lots of people start off a weight loss programme with all guns blazing, only to fizzle out soon afterwards.
If you've not done any exercise for some time, your new healthy weight loss programme should be focused on walking as a means of exercise rather than high impact activities.
Making small changes to your eating and exercise habits can have a significant impact over time. As a general guide, a healthy weight loss regime should see you lose around 2lbs per week.
" Reduce portion sizes rather than cutting out foods completely
There are lots of weight management plans and diets around that suggest cutting out entire food groups, such as carbohydrates.
Your body needs a balanced diet containing all food groups, rather than just some. This form of weight loss isn't healthy or sustainable long-term.
You can get more gradual and long-lasting results by reducing portions sizes of what you do eat (obviously trying to avoid things you know to be unhealthy such as chips and pizzas), rather than eating something like lettuce for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
" Set yourself targets
Setting realistic goals is another paving stone to successful weight management. If you set targets that are either very difficult or impossible to achieve, you'll end up disheartened.
Using the example above, 2lb is a healthy weight loss so you could set yourself a target of 8-10lbs per month through a combination of healthy eating and exercise.
If you're able to achieve your targets every week and month, it will keep you motivated to carry on losing weight until you reach your goal.
" Keep a food and mood diary
Writing down what you eat and what mood you were in when you ate it can help identify triggers for unhealthy eating. A lot of people struggle with weight management because of 'emotional eating' i.e. eating chocolate when they feel upset.
With a healthy weight loss programme, you can still eat some of the things you enjoy occasionally. Keeping a food diary also documents how often you may have slipped up, which could explain a lack of weight loss in a certain week or month. |
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Author Resource:-
The Co-operative Pharmacy website has more information on healthy weight loss as well as products such as Alli, which can help you with your weight management.
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By :
Gareth Hoyle
Submitted
2011-11-01 09:07:38 |
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