Losing Weight

Did you know there is truly a way to lose up to 3 dress sizes within 1 month without taking pills, drugs or having surgery?

Do you understand why the fad or weight loss diets will never work permanently for anyone in today's society?

Did you know your genes play an important part in weight gain, and that you may be able to stop the effects?

Would you like to know why as you age you just get bigger and fatter, no matter what you do?

Would you like to see a real difference in your body's appearance within just one hour?

Obesity is a disease that affects nearly one-third of the adult American population approximately 60 million. The number of overweight and obese Americans has continued to increase since 1960, a trend that is not slowing down. Today, 64.5 percent of adult Americans (about 127 million) are categorized as being overweight or obese. Each year, obesity causes at least 300,000 excess deaths in the U.S., and healthcare costs of American adults with obesity amount to approximately $100 billion.

The prevalence of obesity in the United States has doubled in the past two decades. Nearly one-third of adults have a body mass index of 30 or greater. One of the fastest growing segments of the population is that with a BMI 30 with accompanying co-morbidities. Over the last two decades, the prevalence of overweight among children and adolescents has increased substantially; it is estimated that as many as 16 percent of children and adolescents are overweight, representing a doubling of the rate among children and tripling of the rate among adolescents. A high prevalence of overweight and obesity is of great public health concern because; excess body fat leads to a higher risk for premature death, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular disease, stroke, gall bladder disease, respiratory dysfunction, gout, osteoarthritis, and certain kinds of cancers.

Ideally, the goal for adults is to achieve and maintain a body weight that optimizes their health. However, for obese adults, even modest weight loss of 10 pounds has health benefits, and the prevention of further weight gain is very important. For overweight children and adolescents, the goal is to slow the rate of weight gain while achieving normal growth and development. Maintaining a healthy weight throughout childhood may reduce the risk of becoming an overweight or obese adult. Eating fewer calories while increasing physical activity are the keys to controlling body weight. While overweight and obesity are currently significant public health issues, not all Americans need to lose weight. People at a healthy weight should strive to maintain their weight, and underweight individuals may need to increase their weight.

In previous sections, I have tried to provide you with information that can make a difference in your quality of health. I have shown you vitamin supplements will not get you well, even though vitamins and minerals are very important.

I have told you that it is crucial that 50% of your diet should consist of fruits and vegetables. But, I also know in the real world that you probably will not eat properly no matter how much I try to convince you. Unfortunately, you are part of the junk food and processed food generation. That's just a fact and I have to adjust my thinking as a physician in order for me to reach those goals necessary without you having to work at it very hard.

I can offer you a way to help fulfill your daily requirements of fruits, vegetables, help you to lose those inches, eliminate the bad kind of excess weight (fat) and show you how to keep it off permanently with you doing just a few simple things.

I would bet each and every person has heard one or more of the following:

THEY SAY, "If you wouldn't eat that junk, you wouldn't get fat" --- YOUR THINKING, Sure, like I haven't tried to eat better.

THEY SAY, "If you would eat less, you wouldn't have a weight problem" -- YOUR THINKING, Like I haven't starved myself over and over again to lose a few pounds and end up gaining back even more.

THEY SAY, "Looks like you been eating really good lately"-- YOUR THINKING, Like I don't know it is harder to button my pants.

My favorite failed approach to losing weight to fast and never keeping it off in the future is; You go out and buy special prepared meals and spend $300.00 to $400.00 per month for synthetic, nasty tasting stuff that does not even taste like food, let alone look like anything you would make or eat in a restaurant . Also, you can never go out and eat regular foods, because you must stick with the program to hopefully make it work and try to justify spending so much money on the plan. That may work for a few months and then you will start what is called cheating on your diet, Right? Or the fighting begins with the family on what is for dinner and why can't we eat out tonight? You have wasted money and time and will still get bigger as you age, unless you make some simple changes in your life..

The right amount of weight that the average person should hope to lose in a month is about 4 to 8 pounds. That is a good, healthy, safe, smart, effective amount to lose. That right there is fast weight loss. So, if you are losing weight at that speed, then hang on tight, because you are going the maximum smart weight loss speed limit! Not as fast as most people would hope for, but sadly, that's just the way it is. You just can't lose weight fast, or at least, as fast as most people would like to. Aside from all of the obvious health risks and possible negatives of losing any more than that a month, losing anymore than 4 to 8 pounds per month means you may be losing lean muscle mass, not fat. As you can guess, that is not a good thing.

If you do exercise everyday and burn calories, you will still lose the race,

Because you have already tried that many times and it never gave you any lasting results.

STEP 1. CALORIES

This is one of the simple steps of things to do.

If you take in more calories than you will use today, it will be stored as fat tomorrow.

If you want to know the MAXIMUM number of calories you can eat for your daily intake and start to lose weight, click on the following link. Keep this in mind; if you eat fewer calories then what is stated, you will lose the excess weight faster, by following the program that I'm going to recommend:

http://www.bcm.edu/cnrc/caloriesneed.htm

NOTE:*Enter all the data correctly that is required, with the exception of two areas and they are where it asks you for your exercise level and your current weight. Put in "Rarely" for activity level and instead of your current weight, put the weight you realistically want to be..

When you get the number of calories you can have, write down that number and this is the maximum calories that your body needs to maintain that weight.

Now you know what your TOTAL DAILY CALORIES for your daily meal's intake can be and then return here.

Example: A 45 year old female who is 5 foot 4 inches whose weight is 155 pounds and wants to weight 130 pounds would be allowed 1775 per day to cover her lunch and evening meal. This is about 130 calories below the minimal daily requirements established by the USDA for a person in this age group. She would lose at least five pounds per month and reach her goal weight in 5 months or less in a healthy and safe way.

CAUTION: But, if she chooses to be real aggressive in reducing her calorie intake, she could take off another 700 calories. This would provide herself with around 1,075 calories for dinner. By reducing this amount of calories she would reach her weight goal earlier, but she may cause her system some minor shock by reducing her calories to this level.