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Weight Loss Program

By: jacobson

Over 65% of adults 20 years or older can be classified as obese. Additionally, 17% of adolescents of ages 12-19 years are overweight and 19% of children age 6-11 years. Obesity is and will continue to be a serious problem in the future. In fact, it is predicted that obesity will reach epidemic levels by the year 2020.

What is the most effective weight loss program? Are you finding it difficult to stay motivated? Are your diet and exercise programs not working for you? Are you struggling to lose weight? Its essential to have a plan for proper nutrition and regular exercise, but theres a one more thing you need to lose weight fast and maintain your ideal body weight.

Walking Weight Loss Program

Walking for health, fitness, and/or weight loss in any combination is easy to get into. You put on your shoes, head out the door and then you...walk! Oh sure, there are some more complicated instructions if you really want to get into walking as a big deal, but most people just want to know how to get started and what it will do for them.

The basic rule to begin tailoring any exercise program to your own needs is to start small or easy and build up. The magazine may be showing you a walking program that is too advanced for you. If this is so, it is not a problem. All you have to do is walk the distance and pace that is comfortable for you. As you reach levels where you are sure that you are comfortable with what you are doing, increase the distance slightly. You will also notice over time that your walks, while the same distance, are taking less time to complete.

Healthy Weight Loss
Does the program provide counseling to help you change your eating activity and personal habits? The program should teach you how to change permanently those eating habits and lifestyle factors, such as lack of physical activity, that have contributed to your weight gain. Of all of the strategies you can use to successfully lose weight, this one concept is, perhaps, the most important.

Is attention paid to keeping the weight off? This concept is the single biggest consideration when evaluating the efficacy of any healthy weight loss program. As you know, the vast majority of weight loss programs fail. In other words, of the people who initiate a weight loss program, 95% of them will gain all of their weight back plus add some within six to twelve months of getting off the program.

The truth is, that while the facts of effective, healthy, permanent weight loss are well known, and have been well known for many years, there are many, many people who have not gotten the word, or who heard it and didn't believe it. To make matters worse, the pill pushers and fad diet spinners know that many people who don't really know the process, or are not willing to make the effort required by a valid, effective weight loss program, will be easy prey for their pseudo-scientific, or just plain bogus, claims.

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