Originally published August 22 2005
Mayo Clinic offers successful guidelines for weight loss
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Follow these six simple strategies from the Mayo Clinic to find weight loss success.
You probably know that virtually hundreds of different fad diets, weight-loss programs and outright scams promise quick and easy weight loss.
But the foundation of every successful weight-loss program still remains a healthy diet combined with exercise.
You must make permanent changes in your lifestyle and health habits to lose significant weight and keep it off.
Keep in mind that no matter how prepared you may be, you'll occasionally overeat or eat foods that you should avoid.
Motivate yourself by focusing on all of the benefits of losing weight, such as having more energy and improving your health.
Seek support from your partner, family and friends.
If you sit in a corner and just listen, you may hear some good suggestions.
But if you actively participate, you're more likely to reap the potential rewards of the group, such as support, encouragement, feeling that you're not alone and helpful suggestions specific to your concerns.
To do this, you need to burn 500 to 1,000 calories a day through a low-calorie diet and regular exercise.
Losing weight more rapidly means losing water weight or muscle tissue, rather than fat.
Anything you undertake too intensely or too vigorously may quickly become too onerous, so you're more likely to give up.
In addition, make your goals "process goals," such as eating judiciously and exercising regularly, rather than "outcome goals," such as losing 50 pounds.
The goal of exercise for weight loss is to burn more calories, although exercise offers many other benefits as well.
Strength training exercises, such as weight training, also are important because they help counteract muscle loss associated with aging.
To do that, you have to change the behaviors that helped make you overweight in the first place.
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