Being overweight or obese puts you at serious health risks, and morbid obesity puts you at risk of early death. The more overweight or obese you are, the harder it is to lose weight – and this is the more reason a proactive plan must be started as early as possible to forestall a breakdown of personal health.
Here are the things you can do to lose weight fast and safeguard your health –
Have a weight-loss plan: You can’t achieve any weight-loss target without having a definite plan in place. And you must follow through with your plan with all discipline and rigor, or you might find yourself failing before you even started.
Lose weight gradually: It is not good to lose weight too fast, but gradually – because of your health. You must set out to lose a given number of pounds per week, and do all that is necessary to achieve your goal.
Eat less, exercise more: You must consume less food and exercise more to lose weight effectively. When you eat less, you have lesser calories, and physical exercises will help you burn these calories on your road to losing weight.
Work with a dietician: A dietician will assist you a lot to lose weight by eating the right diet. With the help of a dietician, you can eat the right combination of fruits, vegetables, fiber, and whole grains with the aim of cutting down on calories and losing weight. You can reduce your calories by 500 per day to lose about one pound a week, or cut 1,000 calories a day to lose about two pounds a week.
Medication and surgery: Medication could help a lot when an individual is extremely or morbidly obese, but you must be mindful of the fact that weight-loss drugs are very expensive and could have side effects. Surgery could be an option where medication failed, and this is where bariatric or metabolic surgery may be required, but this also comes with risks.
Fight off cravings for food: There are times when you are physically hungry for food, and there are times when you experience psychological or emotional hunger. You could eat sparsely if you are really hungry, but you must resist food if your mind just craves it. Emotional hunger could occur when you are bored, upset, tired, or fed up, but you must fight it off and shift your attention to other productive things.
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