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YOU DESERVE TO BE THE WEIGHT YOU WANT. Do not forget that. It is true. Everyone deserves to be healthy. We normally mean you deserve to lose the weight down to your ‘ideal’ weight. But the same goes for people who are ‘under’ weight.
After you accept that you deserve to lose weight and you want to lose, THEN you can really start taking steps towards that goal. Until then it will probably be an exercise in futility. What do I mean by steps? I mean you don’t have to do it all at once. And you don’t have to lose it all at once. After the initial weight loss from excess water weight, etc, during the first month, the ideal weight loss rate is 1.5 to 2 pounds a week. This is considered a healthy rate.
Fad diets – what can I say? I find that with fad diets we get burned out rather quickly. You might lose weight, but once you get burned out on that food, people tend to binge. Most fad diets deprive your body
of something it needs to be healthy. When you start eating normally again, it grabs the food and stuffs it in storage (fat) as quickly as it can.
Step 1. Ensure you are getting your daily vitamins and minerals, with an extra dose of chromium picolate and zinc. When you add Zinc to your diet, you also need to take copper to balance it. 11 mg of Zinc and .9 mg of Copper a day generally is the recommended daily intake. Chrome is available very inexpensively in Chromium Picolate – normally in 200 mcg tablets for weight loss. Both of these minerals help your body to eliminate the excess fat.
As a side effect, they also help your immune system. It seems unreal that people are not buying out the Zinc and Chromium Picolate at the stores!! I guess it remains an unknown secret – even though Chromium Picolate is in a lot of ‘diet’ compounds and Zinc is in cough drops. You might want to ask your doctor or pharmacist how much they would recommend you take.
Step 2. Start cutting down on your sugar, starch, and fat intake along with upping your intake of non-starchy vegetables. If you want something sweet, eat a fruit – usually 3 a day is a good limit to put on yourself. I weaned myself from Coke a Cola by drinking peach tea and raspberry ice by Crystal light and also available in generic brands. Now when I want a sweet drink, I open a Coke Zero (vanilla or cherry or mixed). It is amazing how quickly I was able to satisfy my sweet tooth with those drinks. I also was able to become accustom to the sugar substitutes. Later I discovered a brand of pop cycle which is sugar free and 15 calories day.
Cutting out French fries and fast foods was a little harder for me, but I did it. I even was able to pass by the donut box at work without grabbing one.
Step 3. Get started increasing your daily physical activity. Park a block or two away from work and walk to the building. Take your dog for a walk around the block. Play basket ball or tag with your kids. Turn on your DVD or CD player and dance/move to your favorite music. When you go shopping, park in the far corner. All of this will increase your activity.
After you get going, you start to feel physically better. It is easier for me to ‘diet’ when I start feeling physically better – which makes me feel better about myself. I get a sense of accomplishment. And I really start to believe that I deserve to lose that extra weight to be a healthier, happier me.
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yes, you are right excess of weight loss needed to the reduce. Above three steps are useful for the loss of weight. Thank you for giving this information.