Your Weightloss Program Should Not Play 'See-Saw'; It Should Make You Lose AND Keep the Weight OFF!

Your weightloss program should tackle the bulge at the source of the problem: extra calories. HOWEVER, if the extra weight is as a result of bad lifestyle habits (it is in most of us), avoid quick fixes and fad diets.

If your weight loss program requires drugs with side effects, or if it ties you to a fitness program contract, you're playing the fat game.

If you have diabetes, high cholesterol, hypertension, cardiovascular problems, or any condition requiring you to control your weight, pay attention to this information.

Americans are the fattest people on earth! That would have been good news if the extra pounds never carried diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, and other problems with it.

The average weight of a 5' 4" person in the US is 164 lbs, compared to 124 lbs in Asia. Wow! Yet we have more fitness programs and gyms per square mile.

The problem causes more than the extra fabric it requires to make our clothing.

The health risks associated with obesity have prompted the creation of a long list of weightloss programs and quick weight loss fad diets.

Survey shows that 65% of people in the US who are 20 years old, and above, are either overweight or obese.

By declaring obesity a disease, drug makers will be concocting fat burners, and doctors will be prescribing quick fixes - a cycle which is more successful as a business than as a health program.

Any weightloss program adopted by diabetics and people with other degenerative lifestyle conditions should be part of a lifestyle change. Why?

If we are treating symptoms alone and not eliminating the lifestyle habits or behaviors that created the health condition in the first place we are wasting time and effort.

Signs of being overweight

Answer these questions (adopted from Health by Choice, Not by Chance):

1. Do you skip breakfast regularly?
2. When eating, do you take big bites or eat too fast?
3. You don't drink enough water. How can you know that? Is your urine deeply colored most times?
4. You do not get enough exercise.
5. You use a lot of salt.
6. You like caffeinated beverages; e.g. Coke, Pepsi, etc.
7. You snack. That means you eat or drink something other than water between regular meals.
8. You eat mostly refined foods - white bread, white rice, juices, and candies.

If any of the above is true, you probably are overweight or may become overweight.

If you are overweight, don't turn your weightloss program into a cycle of losing a few pounds and then re-gaining a few pounds.

Your lifestyle-motivated weight loss program should make re-gaining your correct size as easy as it was to lose your figure in the first place.

That's why the anti-diabetes diet and regular aerobic activity, e.g. walking, make the best weightloss program. And that is something we all can do quite easily AND successfully for a long, long time.

Regardless of what your previous attempts at weight loss may be, and no matter how difficult it is to shed the pounds, you can lose your weight for good.

If your efforts at losing weight goes up and down like a see-saw year after year, it is obvious you are not doing the right thing. It is not as hard as you think.

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