Lose Weight

Many people who need to lose weight try crash dieting, which is a short-term solution that will increase your body fat levels in the long term. Continual cycles of dieting, weight loss and weight gain are called 'yoyo' dieting. Yoyo dieting does not help you to maintain a healthy body weight they will slow your metabolism. Your body responds to these periods of semi-starvation by lowering its metabolic rate. When you lose weight, you lose fat and muscle. Muscle burns calories but fat doesn't. So, when you then stop dieting and eat normally again, your body will burn even fewer calories than before because the relative amount of muscle in your body has decreased and your metabolic rate is slower. This kind of eating pattern can also affect your general health - just one cycle of weight loss and weight gain can contribute to an increased risk of coronary heart disease, regardless of body fat levels. That's why it's important to maintain the weight loss and engage in a more active lifestyle.

Tip: Think about when and why you overeat
Some of the factors that can lead to weight gain include:
" Night eating
" Social eating
" Habitual eating
" Eating while stressed out
" Eating food while drinking alcohol.

If you can avoid eating at these times, and keep to regular meals and snacks, it will help you to lose weight. You could also try to eat less food at each meal and increase the number of high fibre, high carbohydrate, low saturated fat meals and snacks throughout the day.

Losing weight can be difficult at times because we are emotional creatures. Learn how to lose weight by learning how to deal with food when you're emotionally distressed. You should try to find healthy ways to cope with stress or emotional upsets.

Marg Roukens
202-657-5874
SKYPE: marg_roukens
Tri Power Team

---

Tags: diet, health, lose weight, weight loss