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on 2007-12-28 01:43:20
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Learn About Safe Weight Loss
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on 2007-12-28 01:43:20
Smilie _WRITES: " One of the biggest mistakes dieters make is to “crash,” that is, to go on a starvation or total liquid diet in order to realize huge weight loss quickly. There are two problems with this:
1.The body is thrown into a type of shock. The dieter may experience a variety of symptoms, to include dizziness, loss of any energy, insomnia, anxiety to name a few. Physical activity may become to taxing and so it is simply avoided.
2.The weight loss will probably be only temporary. You cannot keep up this type of regimen for long, and, as soon as you cease, the pounds will come back.
It is also unsafe to rely totally on liquid diet drinks. I have seen many friends do this with the same effects as listed above. Diet drinks should be used to replace perhaps one meal a day, and it should not be breakfast. The food you consume at breakfast is the most easily metabolized, because your general schedule in mornings means you will burn it up. A diet drink used for lunch would be appropriate, along with an early dinner. Never, never eat after 7:00 p.m. in the evening. Your body uses the least energy in the evening and while you sleep. If you work a second or third shift job, you have to alter this schedule, because your days and nights are reversed.
When you begin to cut your food intake, make certain that the choices you make are healthy. Plan for a balanced intake of foods that will give you iron, vitamins and minerals that are essential for your well-being. The best foods to cut are those that you probably love – fried anything, sweets, high fat content foods. But cut these you must.
When you begin an exercise regimen, go gradually. If you have been basically sedentary, a jump into 1-2 hours of exercise a day can be injurious. People who decide to run, for example, will experience all kinds of muscle and tendon ailments if they have not worked up to it. Likewise, aerobics and workout machines can cause lots of inflammations, and you will set yourself back because of the necessary recuperation. Start walking, gradually picking up the pace and distance, then move onto additional more strenuous forms of exercise. The key here is moderation until you are physically ready to assume the more demanding forms.
Never get into a practice of binge eating and then regurgitating. This is bulimia, and it is horribly dangerous. As well, totally cutting out food for long periods of time will affect every system in your body. Anorexia is always a danger when you begin these types of procedures, and people die from this!
Read more: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=46739
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