5 Tips For Weight Loss

Are you ready to lose some weight? Perhaps you’re surfing for
the magic pill that will vanish your weight away. Maybe you’re
simply searching for the right information to help you lose and
keep the weight off. Whatever the case, here’s some surefire
tips to help you with your weight loss.

1. Do your homework. As you start your weight loss plan, take
the time to carefully evaluate your situation. What caused the
weight gain? Pregnancy? Inactivity? Overeating and binging?
Emotions? There are many triggers in our lives that will cause
us to gain weight. Some can be prevented or eliminated, some
can’t. It’s important as you begin your weight loss to
understand and come to grips with the cause of your weight. Be
honest with yourself. Don’t cheat on this one. Obviously, you
want to have your weight loss become permanent.

In order to keep off the weight in the future, you may have to
make some lifestyle changes to stay slim. Don’t give up before
you start. There’s usually more than one solution to any weight
gain reason. Just remain open-minded, and be willing to change
to get the results you desire. Don’t hesitate to read and learn
as much as you can about weight gain. It’s really easy to
understand, and you may be surprised at what you learn.

2. Avoid Hidden Calories. Here’s an over simplified version of
weight loss and weight maintenance… if you eat more than your
body needs, you gain weight. If you eat less (reduce calories)
than your body needs, you lose weight! While it sounds simple
enough, just eat less ….Right? Basically that’s true. Yet, there
are other things that come into play as one is trying to lose
weight. One common mistake many people make as they diet is the
fact they don’t really understand how much is provided by the
food they are eating. This is especially true with eating out
and eating snack foods and beverages.

A serving as defined by the scientific communities on weight
loss and a serving that your local restaurant provides is most
often very different. For example, one serving of bread is
typically one slice. Yet, the average bun in a fast food
restaurant is actually almost three servings. A single serving
of French fries is 15 fries. Just take a guess at how many
servings are in a “Biggie” French fry container.

Also, don’t be fooled into thinking just because a bag of
popcorn is small, that it’s a single serving. The same thing
goes for beverages. The bottle may contain16 oz. Yet, the
serving size may be 4 ounces. Pay attention to actually how many
servings of food and beverages you are actually consuming. The
amount may surprise you.

I’ll give you an example, my son-in-law who’s 28 was had put on
several pounds. His favorite cola is Mountain Dew. Mountain Dew
has higher sugar content than most other cola’s. He didn’t have
a clue as to how may calories he was consuming by drinking 3 or
4 24 oz bottles a day. When my daughter told him, he was amazed.
He replaced the cola with water and went from a 38″ waist to a
34″ waist in about two months. Be careful, you may be consuming
more than you think.

3. Consider Diet Pills Carefully. Maybe one of your diet buddies
has decided to buy diet pills, or maybe you’ve seen or heard a
commercial for diet supplements promising easy fast weight loss.
If so, please evaluate CAREFULLY! Even the most natural-sounding
diet pills or weight loss supplements can be useless for weight
loss, or dangerous, or both. Diet pills are very tempting things
if you want to lose weight, especially if you have tried several
conventional weight loss plans without success. The side effects
and dangers of some diet and weight loss pills can vary
enormously because many of these pills contain a cocktail of
ingredients and because dosage instructions may be inadequate.
Possible side effects include: nervousness, tremor, diarrhea,
bulging eyes, racing heartbeat, elevated blood pressure even
heart failure.

There are some instances when diet pills can be helpful. Usually
these are indicated in the truly obese person. For the person
wanting to lose 5 or 10 pounds, they usually aren’t necessary.
So you may ask, how does the diet pills work to cause weight
loss, while I continue to eat the same amount? In recent years,
it seems everyone has the PERFECT answer to help with your
weight loss. There are almost as many weight loss methods and
diet pills available as there are people who want to lose
weight.

There are diet pills that stop your hunger so you eat less and
burn more fat. There are diet pills that cause the body not to
metabolize all the food you eat, so it’s passed out of your
system and not stored as fat. There’s combination of these two.
As you begin your search for the perfect diet pill, be careful
as some can have harmful effects on your body. Diet Pills work
by shifting levels of brain chemicals (neurotransmitters) that
control satiety (fullness) and desire for food. Some also
slightly increase your metabolic rate – the rate at which your
body burns calories.

Examples of weight loss diet pills include: Diethylpropion
hydrochloride (eg. Tenuate) Mazindol (eg. Mazanor, Sanorex)
Phendimetrazine tartrate (eg. Bontril) Phentermine hydrochloride
(eg. Adipex-P, Ionamin)

4. Monitor/Increase Your Activity – Regardless whether you’re
taking diet pills or not to help with your weight loss, it’s
still important to maintain a regular exercise program. This is
beneficial not only for your weight loss, but also for your
overall health. In many ways we in the developed country have a
much more sedentary lifestyle than our bodies need. Obviously
it’s easier for us than in the era when people had to be very
active simply to survive, yet it’s not necessarily healthy for
us not to be active. Start and maintain some sort of exercise
plan no matter what your age. Especially for the middle-aged and
older people exercise play a very, very important role in the
quality of health and staying within normal weight ranges.

5. Develop a Plan for Maintenance. Even if you’re taking diet
pills to help with your weight loss it’s important to keep in
mind, that once you stop the pills, unless you maintain a
balance between your activity level and the food you eat the
weight will come back. While it may take some time to become
accustomed to a change in diet and activity, the rewards are
well worth the time and effort spent to reach and maintain a
healthy weight.

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