Women Weight Loss Methods

According to a recent report, ANY DIET that limits calorie intake to 1500 calories per day will result in weight loss. However, this groundbreaking report emphasizes that only a diet that is moderate in fat and high in complex carbohydrates will help you keep weight off permanently. In addition, this moderate fat, high carbohydrate diet -- which is what we serves up in our daily meal plans--is the only proven way to produce long term health benefits such as lowering cholesterol and blood pressure levels and reducing cancer risks.

This basically tells you that you can loose weight on any of the diets, if you keep the calories down. The trick is how you maintain that weight loss and that, according to experts, can be achieved through a daily diet with no more than 30% of calories as fat and 20% of calories as protein.

The recent report rowns at unorthodox but yet popular weight loss programs such as the high protein Atkins diet and other similar dietary regimes. While high protein diets seem to produce a significant weight loss in a quick amount of time such diets produce a greater loss of body water than of fat. Other evidence against these high protein diets include the fact that there are no controlled, randomized studies which support the loss of body fat even over the long haul. One other strike against them: there is no evidence that such diets help to reduce blood cholesterol or improve blood sugar levels.

Carrying excess body weight is a significant risk factor for heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and other chronic health conditions. In addition to daily eating a moderate fat, high complex carbohydrate diet, regular exercise and social support are critical adjuncts in keeping weight off.

Think your way to weight loss!

Positive thinking is absolutely essential when attempting to stay on a weight management plan. But, many of us lack some of the positive focus that's necessary to reach our target weight. Try to consider habits that will accent the positive aspects of yourself and the "up" side of weight loss:

Write and say affirmations. Affirmations can be any statement that reinforces a positive quality about you. For example, "I'm beautiful just the way I am."