Weight Loss

If you're reading this, then you are probably looking for a way to lose weight that will work for you and have probably tried plenty of other things that didn't.

That's nothing to really worry about because we are all different and some weight loss programs, diets or strategies that will work for some people won't necessarily work for everyone.

However, there are some of the more basic, or fundamental strategies for losing weight that will work to a certain degree for everyone as long as they follow them.

These are the basic building blocks upon which the entire weight loss industry is based and while they may come out with new ideas, new programs or new diets every so often, they will all have to follow at least in part, the basic fundamentals of how to lose weight. These are very simple and from a physical standpoint exist in diet and exercise.

Diet

Your diet is hugely important in the way you look, feel and pretty much are.

If you fill your body up with junk food, sugary sodas and artificial additive laden processed foods, then you are not going to enjoy the best of health no matter what you do. Eventually, your health will deteriorate, your weight will increase and you will be doing more harm to the long term life expectancy of your body that you could ever know.

If you want to be healthy, feel fit and lively and maintain a healthy body weight and shape, you must eat a healthy diet. There are no short cuts here. Out must go all the processed and junk foods and with them all that soda, artificially sweetened stuff and anything that is not natural.

In must come fresh fruits and vegetables, lean fresh cuts of meat and fish, nuts, grains and pulses. If you can't cook, then you had better learn how. Preparing and cooking your own food from fresh ingredients is the only way you can be assured of eating healthily. Or, at a push, make sure you live with someone who can cook!

Exercise

The other half of the equation for maintaining a healthy looking and feeling body is to exercise it!

You can eat a healthy diet and get partway there, but if you want to finish the job and tone up that flabby belly, firm up those wobbly upper legs and upper arms and get everything back into the shape that its supposed to be in, then you must exercise and you must do it regularly. You can choose the kind of exercise you want to do as there are many different types.

They can be as easy as walking, swimming or playing some moderate team sports activities, or they can get tough with gym workouts, endurance running or more strenuous team sports.

The choice is yours as to which you prefer, but the harder you work your body, the better the results will generally be. That doesn't mean you have to flog your self half to death to get a great looking, slim body but it does mean you have to exercise almost daily and work on different muscle groups with your exercises.

One of the best forms of exercise is swimming as it exercises most of the muscle groups in the body and as long as you vary your swimming stroke, you can, over time, end up with a great looking figure if you only do this form of exercise.

So that's the long and the short of it when it comes to the most basic of weight loss methods. Eat healthy and live healthy and you will be healthy.

Does that sound like a no brainer? Well, for losing weight and getting a great look, it is really!

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What Readers Say:

"I know it sounds really boring, but I eat a simple, low carb, low sugar diet and walk loads every day and I'm as slim as I was as a teen and feel great. I'm in my 50s now, by the way!" - Alison

"I used to eat a load of junk and sit around all day, but not anymore. Yo hit the nail on the head in this article: eat a healthy diet and get plenty of exercise and fresh air. It works." - Bernie

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