Proven Ways to Lose Weight Quickly and Naturally

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Proven Ways to Lose Weight Quickly and Naturally

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Title: Proven Ways to Lose Weight Quickly and Naturally

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Proven Ways to Lose Weight Quickly and Naturally

Losing weight requires major lifestyle changes, including diet and

nutrition, exercise, and behavior modification. Once you have made

up your mind to lose weight, you should make that commitment and go

into it with a positive attitude. We all know that losing weight can

be quite a challenge. It takes time, practice and support to change

lifetime habits. But it's a process you must learn in order to

succeed.

1. Change Your Eating Habits - To be successful at losing weight,

you need to change your lifestyle and not just go on a diet. This

requires cutting back on the number of calories you eat by eating

smaller amounts of foods and choosing foods lower in calories. It

also means being more physically active.

Consider limiting portion sizes, especially of foods high in

calories, such as cookies, cakes and other sweets; fried foods, like

fried chicken and french fries; and fats, oils, and spreads.

Reducing dietary fat alone without reducing calories will not

produce weight loss.

2. Increase Physical Activity - Most health experts recommend a

combination of a reduced-calorie diet and increased physical

activity for weight loss.

In addition to helping to control weight, physical activity

decreases the risk of dying from coronary heart disease and reduces

the risk of developing diabetes, hypertension, and certain cancers.

Researchers also have found that daily physical activity may help a

person lose weight by partially lessening the slow-down in

metabolism that occurs during weight loss.

Exercise does not have to be strenuous to be beneficial. And some

studies show that short sessions of exercise several times a day are

just as effective at burning calories and improving health as one

long session. Look at the exercising aspect of your program as fun

and recreation and not as a form of grueling and sweaty work.

To lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight after weight loss,

many adults will likely need to do more than 30 minutes of moderate

to intensive physical activity daily.

Doctors now say that walking is one of the best exercises. It helps

the total circulation of blood throughout the body, and thus has a

direct effect on your overall feeling of health. There are things

such as aerobics, jogging, swimming and many other exercises which

will benefit a weight loss program. Discuss the options with your

doctor and take his advice in planning your exercise and weight loss

program.

Copyright © 2005. Chileshe Mwape writes for the Weight Loss Diet

Tips Website at: http://www.proven-weight-loss-tips.org/ and he's

also a regular contributor to the Home Fitness Equipment Website at

http://www.home-fitness-equipment.org.uk/

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