Weight loss is the process of reducing of total body mass due to the person’s conscious effort to become fit and/or improve a state of being overweight or obese. According to the statistics, two thirds of adult population in the United States are overweight or obese.
People spend about 50 billion every year on all sorts of weight loss products ad services. There are countless tips and diets both online and printed in the magazines, and although most of these dieting efforts turn out to be short-lived, the willingness of so many people to stay fit is impressive. Since modern society promotes a thin figure it may be incredibly hard for a person to decide whether they fit into the publicly accepted image of a fit person or not. It’s not rare for people with ideal body weight to consider themselves fat and try to lose weight. Most people trying to lose weight fail – and while some of them are most likely to start it all over again, whenever it’s Monday, first day of the month or a year, others can give up on themselves and the foods they eat for a long time.
The first thing you need to do before you start trying to lose weight is consult a qualified specialist – your treatment may depend on the reason for your excessive weight. Your health care provider will also help you to understand whether you really need to lose any weight, and tell you if you are overweight or obese. In fact, this may be easy to do on your own, and there is a fine line between being overweight and being obese. Body Mass Index is a figure that can help you estimate the scale of your weight problem. You are required to know just two measurements – your weight and your height. You need to take your (weight in pounds multiplied by 703) and divide it by your height in squared inches. Body mass index over 30 means you are obese, while anything higher than 25 means you are overweight. Obesity is a very dangerous health condition that can cause a number of other problems, such as diabetes, high blood pressure and heart problems.
There is a special weight loss pyramid that demonstrates which foods you should avoid and which foods are good for you in terms of maintaining the necessary level of energy and healthy body weight. At the base of the pyramid, which is green, there are foods you can eat to feel full but without getting fat – some of them include vegetables, rice and other grains, legumes and fruit. The second part of the pyramid is yellow and includes foods you can enjoy without any particular harm to your body mass, including eggs, milk, fish, meat, cheese, meat substitutes and yoghurt. The third section of the pyramid contains foods that you should avoid as they are calorie-rich and quite unhealthy. Some of the products that should be crossed out from your shopping list include butter, oil, nuts, cream, sugar and fried foods.
As it was already mentioned having your doctor involved into your program of weight loss is the best recommendation that can be given. Without qualified guidance people are more likely to try unhealthy and dangerous ways of losing weight, such as crash dieting or switching to just a few kinds of food that contain almost no calories. For effective weight loss you really need to understand the processes going on in your body and the way the calories you consume are used. However, there are cases when dieting and exercising are unlikely to work – and the patient may be prescribed some remedy that proved efficient in the treatment of obesity. Some of the most popularly used drugs include
Acomplia, Xenical, Herbal Phentermine, Orlistat, Alli, Zimulti, Ephedraxin, Hoodia, Yerba Diet, Green tea, CLA, AyurSlim, Metabo925, Maximum Lipotropics, Corticyn Trimplex, Extreme Thyrocin, Cha De Bugre, CarboZyne, Lipotrexate, Slimpulse, Microlean, Metabo UltraMax, Liponexol, MetaboSafe, Advantage Carb Blocker, Nutridrine, ChromoNexin, CarboXactin, Anaphen Hardcore, Metabo Extreme, Hoodia Gordonii HG p57, Omega 3-1, Hoodia Weight Loss Gum, Fatblast Extreme, Medithin, LipoSafe, Lipothin, Hoodia Patch, Phentrimine, Rimonabant, Evening Primrose Oil, and Colon Clean Supreme. These meds are not going to burn the calories for you – so you will need to stick to a healthier diet and exercise regularly. The drugs mentioned will just reduce your food cravings and make you feel full sooner – which means you will not continue eating the same amounts of food, and there is a very good chance your body will get used to it and you will be able to maintain the progress. If you do everything right and taken
Acomplia as directed, combining it with a healthy lifestyle, you can lose up to 20% of body mass after one year. These results depend on the scale of obesity you have and how determined you are to lose all that extra weight.
You need to remember that there is no one dieting plan that will work perfectly for every person, which is why it’s better to spend some money and get your individual diet plan complied by a professional dietician. This way you will be able to avoid the foods that contribute to weight gain and still enjoy your meals. Good weight loss plans, however, have some common features – you will be often offered to keep a food journal to count the calories and 7 hours a week of exercising, including cardio and strength training. Another very important thing is looking far into the future – it’s easy to lose a couple of pounds a week, but it’s completely different when you have to maintain the progress for a year or even longer. So, take it slow and think about quality, not the quantity of pounds lost – in the long term that’s the attitude that will help you become fit again.
Weight loss often involves drinking more water, being physically active, choosing foods that are low in fat and calories and eating less food. The general rule is – all the calories you eat must be burnt when you do some tasks. Therefore, the less you exercise during the day – the less you should eat, as the calories that your body does not use are stored as fat. You can still enjoy a nutritious diet with a great variety of foods – excluding a particular food group (such as carbs) will not help you lose weight. It’s basically just the matter of quality and quantity – do not try to eat a lot to satisfy your hunger, go for foods that make you feel full but are not too fattening. A slow and steady weight loss during several months is a lot healthier than losing a lot of weight suddenly – and it is more likely to be maintained, while people who prefer crash dieting are usually back to their «normal» quite soon.
There are plenty of painless ways you can start exercising – walking being one of them. You have to walk during the day anyway – so make sure you prefer it to driving. If you have a bike and there is an option of using it to get to where you work – use it, and you will be burning calories without even noticing it. But besides everything else you must have a strong motivation – make sure your effort is stimulated regularly. It can be the smaller-size clothes that you manage to fit into, or writing down the magic numbers that you see on the scales, or being complimented by your co-workers and members of the family - just find that thing that will keep you going every time when you are too tired and desperate to carry on. Some people need a personal trainer or even a support group – you can do whatever works best for you. Weight loss surgery is really the last resort, and it’s reserved for people with body mass over 35-40 with very serious and life-threatening diseases.