Lose Weight Slowly
I have clients who get frustrated because they are working out regularly and making small changes to their diets and when they get on the scale they see only one or two pounds lost that week. I tell them they are on the right path and losing more than two pounds a week can lead them to a diet disaster.
For many dieters their sole motivation is to lose weight as fast as possible. Maybe it's for a class reunion or to look great this summer in a bathing suit, but either way the "lose weight fast" strategy can lead many dieters down a dangerous path. They cut calories drastically and workout like a fiend to shed the pounds. They hit their weight goals and think they are done and slowly go back to their bad habits. Next thing you know they have put all the weight back on and for most even more.
What most don't understand is to maintain long term weight loss you have to make good decisions everyday about what you put in your mouth and exercise. You must slowly get in the habit of making these decisions so it becomes a natural way to live everyday. When you drastically cut calories, food groups or over exercise, that is not a natural way to eat and live EVERYDAY of your life for the next several years.
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