Proven Ways to Lose Weight Quickly and Naturally

By: M Chileshe

Proven Ways to Lose Weight Quickly and Naturally

Losing weight requires major lifestyle changes, including dietand nutrition, exercise, and behavior modification. Once youhave made up your mind to lose weight, you should make thatcommitment and go into it with a positive attitude. We all knowthat losing weight can be quite a challenge. It takes time,practice and support to change lifetime habits. But it's aprocess you must learn in order to succeed.

1. Change Your Eating Habits - To be successful at losingweight, you need to change your lifestyle and not just go on adiet. This requires cutting back on the number of calories youeat by eating smaller amounts of foods and choosing foods lowerin calories. It also means being more physically active.

Consider limiting portion sizes, especially of foods high incalories, such as cookies, cakes and other sweets; fried foods,like fried chicken and french fries; and fats, oils, andspreads. Reducing dietary fat alone without reducing calorieswill not produce weight loss.

2. Increase Physical Activity - Most health experts recommend acombination of a reduced-calorie diet and increased physicalactivity for weight loss.

In addition to helping to control weight, physical activitydecreases the risk of dying from coronary heart disease andreduces the risk of developing diabetes, hypertension, andcertain cancers. Researchers also have found that daily physicalactivity may help a person lose weight by partially lesseningthe slow-down in metabolism that occurs during weight loss.

Exercise does not have to be strenuous to be beneficial. Andsome studies show that short sessions of exercise several timesa day are just as effective at burning calories and improvinghealth as one long session. Look at the exercising aspect ofyour program as fun and recreation and not as a form of gruelingand sweaty work.

To lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight after weightloss, many adults will likely need to do more than 30 minutes ofmoderate to intensive physical activity daily.

Doctors now say that walking is one of the best exercises. Ithelps the total circulation of blood throughout the body, andthus has a direct effect on your overall feeling of health.There are things such as aerobics, jogging, swimming and manyother exercises which will benefit a weight loss program.Discuss the options with your doctor and take his advice inplanning your exercise and weight loss program.

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