Article Submitted by: Charles Jones
Wednesday, 12 April 2006
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Who wants to be obese?
Ask the little girl staying next door and she would say don't call me chubby-dubby call me sexyyy!
And who doesn't want to look good and sexy? I think if a survey is carried on there is hardly a possibility that any girl would not want to look sexy.
Losing weight is a tough and challenging task for most of us who experience the effects of growing waistlines and concerns related with it. Once you have made up your mind and you are fully determined to lose weight, start your weight loss campaign with a positive approach. We all are aware of the fact that to lose weight is a difficult challenge for all of us. It takes a lot of time to lose even a few pounds and maintain that weight in future.
But no worries here are some simple tips on how to reduce weight.
Start with pragmatic goals. Diet failure is extremely common and the odds of significant weight loss are poor, particularly in people with the highest weights.
- The simplest (but still difficult) approach to weight loss is reducing calories and exercising at least 150 minutes a week. Confront psychological barriers to exercise. Understand mechanisms linking exercise to weight control.
- Once a person has lost weight, maintenance is required. Most of us after reducing weight think that now we are slim without realizing that obesity can return. The hard work doesn't end there. It's just the successful climbing of the first stair.
- Weight loss, in any case, should not be the only or even the primary goal for people concerned about their health and obesity. The success of weight reduction efforts should be evaluated according to improvements in chronic disease risk factors or symptoms and by the adoption of healthy lifestyle habits, not by just the number of pounds lost.
- Hunger pangs should not be taken as cue to eat. A stomach that has been stretched by large meals will continue to signal hunger for large amounts of food until its size reduces over time with smaller meals.
- Eliminate environmental triggers to eating, identify your rate of eating, reduce it and keep food record.
- Night eating should be avoided. Consuming between 25% and 50% of daily calories between the evening meal and the next morning is referred to as night-eating syndrome and is associated with obesity.
Obesity is the root cause to myriad diseases. It is easily acquired but it becomes a great challenge to get rid of it. Diseases like cardiac disorder, hypertension, diabetes come in inheritance with obesity.
But losing weight is not so easy; it requires a great deal of physical labour along with an enmity with your taste buds, a ban on most of those dishes you really relish. But we have an easy solution - Diet pills. The market id flooded with these pills to name some - phentermine, didrex, ephedrine etc. Buy these today and start getting slimmer tomorrow.
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