How To Lose Weight Fast / No Surgery

Losing weight fast without surgery can be done depending on your time frame of fast. If you want to lose 60 pounds in 6 months, that is a realistic and attainable goal. Losing 160 pounds in the same time frame is dangerous and ill advised.

There are numerous diets and plans in the market today to help you lose weight. Many of them have a gimmick and are not sustainable for a long period of time. As soon as the diet suggests changing to a 'less restrictive' regime, beware. You are being asked to send your body into some form of shock to quick start a rapid weight loss.

Atkins and South Beach diets are two of the most popular forms of these. You are asked to completely eliminate grain products and dairy and initially fruit. You eat 'high protein' and 'good' carbs including low starch vegetables. You are creating a state of 'ketosis' forcing your body to burn fat instead of glucose. These diets have the following drawbacks:

* There is some weight loss initially but difficult to maintain long-term. Some side effects can include constipation, kidney insufficiency, bad breath, fatigue, high cholesterol and even life threatening cardiac arrhythmias.

* These diets are richest in saturated fat, the food element most associated with cancer.

* Frequently changing dietary plans can accelerate the progression of atherosclerosis and can predispose you to a life-threatening cardiac arrhythmia.

Other diets require measuring and portion control and monitoring and essentially attention to the detail of eating that most normal people simply cannot sustain.

Weight Watcher's diet is the most popular. Drawbacks to this form of dieting include:

* Most people do not maintain the ongoing schedule of record keeping needed for this diet and consequently do not keep the weight off permanently.

* By reducing the essential nutrients, dieters can become prone to heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and cancer.

Other alternatives to surgery for weight loss include a variety of other 'gimmicks' for weight loss such as products that artificially expand in your stomach leaving you feeling full as a well as a number of diet pills (drugs) from diuretics to appetite suppressors. These may give rapid results. However, none of these promote the lifestyle shift required to maintain and sustain the weight loss.

Those needing to lose a significant amount of weight may consider surgery for a quick fix. A quick fix has inherent dangers including serious side effects and even death from the surgery itself. However, getting and keeping the motivation to change and keep on a healthy regime consistently is a big challenge. To get that motivation, try the following:

* Surround yourself with a cheering section that will push you forward when you want to slide back

* Think lifestyle change. You got overweight by making day to day choices. Change them day by day to get a lifetime lifestyle change.

* Set realistic and attainable short term goals to keep you motivated. Once more you didn't get to this point overnight. Give yourself time to achieve small successes that will build into larger milestones of success.

* Use tools that help you track your progress. You wouldn't build a house without tools. Use tools to rebuild your lifestyle.

Now that you have the framework for weight loss you need to identify the basics of the change. Here are the absolute basics:

* Only drink water

* Exercise daily

* Do not eat fast food

Water is essential. It hydrates allowing the digestive processes to work better and faster. It also flushes out the debris you want to be rid of... the bad fat you want gone.

Exercise uses up the food you put in your system to fuel your body. Food is fuel. Exercise drives the food through your system productively. Lack of using up that fuel causes it to store as fat. To get started KEEP IT SIMPLE. Start with walks interspersed with light runs. Cardio (walking/running/biking) burns that fuel quickest. Some strength exercises tone your body. Muscles use fuel but weigh more than fat. Build them slowly though to maximize the effect of weight loss. Exercise daily and increase regularly.

Do not eat fast food; refined foods; over processed foods. Stick to healthy natural foods. The less cooking you do the better for weight loss. LOTS of fresh fruits and vegetables especially the vegetables will rev your system, give your body the essential nutrients to curb cravings and lead to weight loss without the need for surgery.

Now get your team and getting going - get losing!

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