Tuesday, September 30, 2008

How Much Time Should I Diet

By Ricardo d Argence

How long should I diet if I am looking to lose weight fast? When you are trying to lose weight, these questions always come to mind: For instance, what you ought to be eating and when, or what diet plan you ought to try. I'll let you know the duration of a diet and how your success on it will be affected by that particular period of time.

Does anyone know the real answer? The answer is to do it however long it takes to lose weight. While that may be the easy response, the fact is it's false. Most people plan on dieting on a short term basis and then revert back to their old eating habits. The hard work will just be useless if they go back to their old eating habits..this is the only problem.

The true answer is: make a healthy diet a new habit, where you do it for life. You, see a diet shouldn't be a temporary fix. It should be a lifestyle change.

This common error is usually the cause of post dieters gaining more weight than they lost.

The truth of the matter is that for a dieter to maintain their new slimmer shape, they need to stay on a comprable diet regimine permanently; it will be a bit more flexible, however they cannot exceed their daily caloric comsuption. Enjoy all the cookies you want! Don't worry about dipping into that cookie jar.

After a diet, the dieter still must include in their daily meal plan sufficient energy to maintain a lwan physique. When you consume too many calories, the excess is kept as fat storage in cells which shows up as extra pounds on your scale.

Poor eating habits made you gain weight to begin with. Be sure not to ruin the progress you've made by repeating the same things you used to do.

Once you have lost the weight you will need to patiently monitor yourself in order to maintain a healthy body.

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