Health and Fitness

You keep on practicing all the possible ways to lose weight like dieting, exercise and diet pills, but still they haven’t give that promising result. Then, the fault is with you. It’s correct. It is just because of lack of strong determination to lose weight. First, stabilize your thoughts and practice the below given measures, then you will definitely observe a fall in your weight.
• Step one as said above, make a strong determination to lose weight. Do not let anything come on the way.
• Plan appropriately. While planning take a squared approach, like consider each and every detail like your health condition, number of pounds you are overweight, foods you like the most and those you hate, drugs currently being used and your daily routine. May be consulting your doctor is the best. He will help you out in planning considering all the above factors.
• Now, coming to the actual practices dieting is of great importance. Eat to live but not live to eat. Consume only the amount your body needs. If you consume excess, then all of it gets deposited in the form of fat. The number of calories you burn should be greater than or at least equal to the calories needed by the body.
• Consume fiber rich foods that give the feeling of satiety very easily. Fresh fruits and vegetables are rich source of fiber.
• Drink plenty of water. Avoid sweetened fruit drinks.
• Next to dieting, practice of regular physical exercise is important. If your body doesn’t cooperate, start with something simple like brisk walking, and cycling. Walking alone will help you to burn a great number of calories. If you are youngster you can even consider attending sports training sessions. You can improve the health of entire family by involving them in practices.
• If your daily routine doesn’t give you time for exercises make it a part of your work. Wondering how? It is just very simple, move as much as you can. Do not take the help of others to get a file or book. Prefer steps over elevator. If you are out for shopping prefer to hold them yourself without taking the help of a cart.
• If you are very strict and nothing seems to work consult your doctor. Be frank about the workouts and dietary habits that you have been adopting. If obesity runs in your family history, then it will take a long time, you will reduce but not to the extent of models. Basing on the condition he will either recommend diet pills or surgery in worst cases.
• Use of diet pills is not compensation to dieting and exercises. They are used to boost the overall weight loss regime. While purchasing the diet pills, check if they are approved by FDA. Be cautious; never overdose with an intention to lose weight fast. It would result in side effects.
• Last approach where the diet pills fail to work is surgeries. There are a variety of surgeries that mainly act by reducing the stomach and small intestine volume. Everyone is not a candidate for weight loss surgery. Only people whose body mass index is above 40 are ideal candidates for weight loss surgery. Surgical procedures should be followed by strict dietary habits and workouts.