Healthy Weight
Loss & Dieting Tips
How
to Lose Weight and Keep It Off
In our
eat-and-run, massive-portion-sized culture, maintaining a healthy weight can be
tough—and losing weight, even tougher. If you’ve tried and failed to lose
weight before, you may believe that diets don’t work for you. You’re probably
right: traditional diets don’t work—at least not in the long term. However,
there are plenty of small but powerful ways to avoid common dieting pitfalls,
achieve lasting weight loss success, and develop a healthier relationship with
food.
The
key to successful, healthy weight loss
Your weight is a
balancing act, but the equation is simple: If you eat more calories than you
burn then you gain weight. If you eat fewer calories than you burn, you lose
weight.
Since 3,500
calories equals about 1 pound of fat, if you cut 500 calories from your typical
diet each day, you'll lose approximately 1 pound a week (500 calories x 7 days
= 3,500 calories). Simple, right? So why is weight loss so hard?
All too often, we
make weight loss much more difficult than it needs to be with extreme diets
that leave us cranky and starving, unhealthy lifestyle choices that undermine
our dieting efforts, and emotional eating habits that stop us before we get
started. But there’s a better way! You can lose weight without feeling
miserable. By making smart choices every day, you can develop new eating habits
and preferences that will leave you feeling satisfied—as well as winning the
battle of the bulge.
Not
all body fat is the same
Where you carry
your fat matters. The health risks are greater if you tend to carry your weight
around
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