Basic rules of healthy weight loss?

Melinda Johnson from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics says that the key word to focus on here is "healthy"! There are plenty of ways to lose weight, but the trick is to make it last. She suggests that you do the following three things for healthy weight loss:

• Reducing the number of calories you consume daily by about ten percent.

• Increasing the number of calories you burn in a day by about ten percent.

• Making behaviour changes that may help you accomplish number one and two. The list here is highly personal and may vary from person to person. Examples may include switching from your daily cooldrink to water, or grocery shopping with a list. etc.

Try making small behavioural changes regularly and stick to them on a daily or weekly basis, depending on when necessary. Start with what you find easy and make the more difficult changes when you are more confident.
When you take on weight loss in this manner, you are aiming for slow and steady weight loss. This means that you are more likely to keep that weight off in the long term. Consulting a dietitian or nutritionist can prove to be very valuable in this process as he or she will help to show you where you can easily shave off calories, and which behaviour changes will make a difference to your efforts.

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