Monday, December 8, 2008

A Look At Weight Loss Plans For Teens

By Louis Soul

A wise approach for natural weight loss is to ensure your calorific intake meets your physical activity levels. This should be an easy concept but for many overweight Americans (around 35 percent) and for people in other countries, who are gradually catching up, this is not the case. Despite this, most of these overweight people want to be trim again although it is probably more for cosmetic reasons than those related to their health.

The strange thing is though that it is so much easier to stay trim than it is to lose weight because as soon as you start putting on weight, many things become more difficult. Even though many people know this subconsciously very few actually plan to ensure that weight gain doesn't happen to them.

Studies have shown that it is more likely a person who has lost weight using a calorie controlled diet, even if they actually enjoyed it, are more likely to go back to their old eating habits at some point. You can maintain your weight through natural weight loss methods and even if being at the centre of unwanted attention doesn't convince you, surely your health should.

The truth is there is a huge price to pay with your health when you are overweight and in particular, clinically obese. The basics of eating correctly while maintaining a healthy weight is not all that complicated, in fact most people know pretty well what is best and that is losing weight naturally.

Healthy eating on a natural weight loss program means learning to eat the right foods such as complex carbohydrates, those high in fiber, low in fat and a little protein. If you were looking at a meal then this would be a baked potato (carbohydrate), the vegetables would be the fiber and a little meat, is the protein.

Dietitians also say that the body has a capacity to retain dietary fat more than calories for regular foods so weight gain is more likely. Another problem is the obsession with fat free or low fat foods that food manufactures are stacking the shelves with which despite their popularity are not stopping the problem of obesity.

What people fail to understand is that it isn't just fat in their food that is making them put on weight, it's the quantity of food they consume and the calorific content of it. Weight control methods ensure you avoid the fat-free products but suggest you eat healthy and nutritious snacks if you are hungry.

Schools of thought differ on this subject but many nutritionists agree that eating smaller meals with a snack every 3 to four hours or between meals could be beneficial providing main meals are not missed. If you are really serious about getting rid of those unwanted pounds, you will have to consider natural weight loss as a long term proposition.

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