Tips To Lose Weight

Most successful weight loss programs have you start off with easy changes.  That’s because you need to do this slowly to be successful.  Start off by making a few relatively easy changes.  Be conscious of walking a little more.  It may even be walking around the room while watching the TV.  Cut out sodas and chips and concentrate on drinking 8-10 glasses of water every day.

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Many ads and stories of weight loss talk about dropping 10 pounds in a week and losing pounds quick.  What’s really happening when that occurs is you are losing water weight.  Your body will go into starvation alert and the metabolic rate slows way down.  When you start eating normally after this, your body packs and stores the fat thinking that down the road this starvation thing may come again.  Boom!  You’ve just added more weight.  You lost some pounds in water and gained more in fat.  This isn’t exactly keeping the weight off.

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This article and my previous article, “Weight Control Tips- Keeping Weight Off After Losing”, are based on findings from a study done by Brown Medical School in Rhode Island.  Their study was linked to what really successful dieters had done in keeping the weight off.

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