There are only two ways to lose weight:
• One is to eat less food than you have been eating in the past.
• Two is to exercise more than you have been doing in the past.
The trick behind success in weight loss and control is to balance these two activities so the efforts are comfortable and lasting.
Yes, if you want to maintain an ideal weight for the rest of your life, you will have to eat less and be more physically active. There is no way you can go back to your old ways and achieve success. You have to change your lifestyle to a new, better and healthier one.
Don’t expect that your battle of the bulge will be a quick one. You have added those kilograms on your hips and waistline by eating small amounts of food in excess of what your body really needs, over the past few decades. You may have started to overeat during childhood when your mother told you to clean your plate. You may have started to overeat during your teens when you found out you weren’t the most popular student. Or you may have started to overeat when you began to be stressed out by your job.
For you, overeating may not have been doubling the size of your food portions. It may only have been an extra scoop of ice-cream in your nightly snack. That scoop of ice-cream, at the end of one year, produced 2.5 extra kilograms of weight, usually in the form of stored fat. If you have had this ice-cream habit, with all other food intake and exercise expenditure equal, for the past ten years, you now carry twenty-five extra kilograms.
Now you can cut out the ice-cream, not change anything else, and ten years from now you may be twenty-five kilograms lighter. But there are more effective and faster ways for you to fight the fat monster. The first thing to remember is that you should approach weight control as a long-term lifestyle change. Don’t expect to change your eating and exercise habits overnight.
Don’t be tempted by the quick weight-loss diets touted on TV and in magazines. Most people who go on quick weight-loss diets eventually gain back all the weight they originally lost—and possibly more. The next time they try a quick weight-loss diet, they find it is more difficult to drop kilos and much easier to gain them back. If you’re tempted to follow this kind of weight-off, weight-on diet cycle (often called the yo-yo syndrome), you would be far better off to stay with your presently overweight body and not attempt any weight loss programme at all.
You can lose weight by cutting down on food or by increasing exercise. Either of these two approaches can work alone, but your weight-loss programme will be much more effective when you do both things at the same time. When you cut kilojoules and increase physical activity at the same time, weight loss becomes easier.
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TYPE II DIABETES AND WEIGHT PROBLEMS: SLOW TWO-STEPThere are only two ways to lose weight:• One is to eat less food than you have been eating in the past.• Two is to exercise more than you have been doing in the past.The trick behind success in weight loss and control is to balance these two activities so the efforts are comfortable and lasting.Yes, if you want to maintain an ideal weight for the rest of your life, you will have to eat less and be more physically active. There is no way you can go back to your old ways and achieve success. You have to change your lifestyle to a new, better and healthier one.Don’t expect that your battle of the bulge will be a quick one. You have added those kilograms on your hips and waistline by eating small amounts of food in excess of what your body really needs, over the past few decades. You may have started to overeat during childhood when your mother told you to clean your plate. You may have started to overeat during your teens when you found out you weren’t the most popular student. Or you may have started to overeat when you began to be stressed out by your job.For you, overeating may not have been doubling the size of your food portions. It may only have been an extra scoop of ice-cream in your nightly snack. That scoop of ice-cream, at the end of one year, produced 2.5 extra kilograms of weight, usually in the form of stored fat. If you have had this ice-cream habit, with all other food intake and exercise expenditure equal, for the past ten years, you now carry twenty-five extra kilograms.Now you can cut out the ice-cream, not change anything else, and ten years from now you may be twenty-five kilograms lighter. But there are more effective and faster ways for you to fight the fat monster. The first thing to remember is that you should approach weight control as a long-term lifestyle change. Don’t expect to change your eating and exercise habits overnight.Don’t be tempted by the quick weight-loss diets touted on TV and in magazines. Most people who go on quick weight-loss diets eventually gain back all the weight they originally lost—and possibly more. The next time they try a quick weight-loss diet, they find it is more difficult to drop kilos and much easier to gain them back. If you’re tempted to follow this kind of weight-off, weight-on diet cycle (often called the yo-yo syndrome), you would be far better off to stay with your presently overweight body and not attempt any weight loss programme at all.You can lose weight by cutting down on food or by increasing exercise. Either of these two approaches can work alone, but your weight-loss programme will be much more effective when you do both things at the same time. When you cut kilojoules and increase physical activity at the same time, weight loss becomes easier.*39/210/5*