Weight Loss Programs: Discover Weight Loss Programs, Weight Loss Plans And Exercise Equipment to help you reach your goals.
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Weight Loss Programs - Learn about
weight loss programs,
weight loss plans and exercise equipment
Looking for a weight loss plan?
Many people are, what ever you do, make sure that it is a
plan that will work for the long run, not just a quick weight
loss plan. Click
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Smart Weight Loss Plan
One of the first things that you'll do when you decide to lose
weight is to set a goal weight.For most, that goal will be their
'ideal weight', but for many, that 'ideal weight' may be exactly
the wrong weight for them to be aiming for.
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Years of dieting or being overweight have the physiological
effect of moving the body's concept of the 'ideal weight' from
what is truly considered ideal. The 'set point' is the weight
at which your body naturally feels most comfortable.
If you've been overweight for a very long time, or if you've
consistently 'yo-yoed', your body |
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may respond to your initial weight loss program
by lowering its metabolism because it believes that you are starving
to death. This slowing leads to discouraging plateaus that often
knock people off their diets entirely, and lead to regaining
all or part of the lost weight.
In addition, choose your exercise
routine you want to do, whether it is just walking, riding your
bike or using a treadmill.Using
exercise equipment
can strengthen and build muscles which will help you burn the
fat off more quickly.
Set Short Term Weight Loss Goals
Instead of aiming for an 'ideal weight' that calls for you to
lose weight steadily for months or even years, many experts recommend
aiming for shorter-term attainable goals.
Since the bulk of diet research shows that most dieters lose
weight steadily for about 12 weeks, then hit a plateau, that's
the number that they suggest you aim for with your weight
loss plan. The strategy that many have found works best for
them is one of alternating periods of weight loss and maintenance,
each lasting 8-12 weeks.
Choose a realistic amount of weight that you can lose in 8-12
weeks. Figuring that the most reasonable and healthiest weight
loss rate is 1-2 pounds per week, 30 pounds in three months is
not unreasonable. Diet until you reach that goal, or for 12 weeks,
whichever comes first, and then switch to a maintenance diet.
Maintenance Of Your Weight Loss
Why switch to a maintenance diet at that point? In part, you're
giving yourself a 'breather', a break from more restrictive eating.
The other part, though, is that you're re-educating your body
and letting it establish a new 'set point'.
Once you've maintained your new weight for 8-12 weeks, set
another weight loss goal, and move back into weight loss mode.
By giving your body a break from 'starvation', you'll have overcome
its resistance to losing more weight, and be back to dieting
for 'the first two weeks' - the weeks that most people lose weight
more rapidly.
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You'll also be giving yourself a chance to 'practice' maintaining
your new, healthier weight. Researchers have found that more
than half of the dieters who take off significant amounts of
weight do not maintain that weight loss once they go 'off' their
diet.By practicing weight maintenance in stages, you'll be proving
to yourself that you CAN do it, and removing a powerful negative
psychological block. |
This will work with any long-term weight loss diet, no matter
the focus. You'll find it much easier to do if you choose a diet
that has concrete 'phases', since the weight loss and maintenance
phases are clearly laid out for you to follow.
Well, that was long, but detailed. This information gives you
a broad picture, so you can see that this is not a quick weight
loss site, but one that will help you
find a weight loss plan and lose weight in a healthy and safe
way.
By doing this your weight loss will be more permanent with
less stress about depriving your self of foods you would eat
on a regular basis. Of course, as you will see through out the
reviews of weight
loss ebooks, weight
loss article section and the weight
loss blog, I suggest a healthy way of eating.
Regardless of the weight loss plan you choose, though, by
alternating between weight loss phases and maintenance phases,
you'll teach yourself and your body how to maintain a healthy
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