Most of us think about diets short-term, seldom bothering to look at long-term dieting for permanent result, even though long-term is much safer and lasts longer without the fear of regaining the weight.
Do you want to know how to lose fifteen pounds? Well, to avoid any risk of them returning, you should think of small, consistent changes in you weight that will, over time, lead to an impressive number. You choose how small are the changes will be. For example, you can reduce a mere seventy-five calories every day from your meal and exercise to burn another seventy-five. Ten to fifteen pounds drop off your body in one year. As you can see, it can be very easy to lose weight in a short period of time.

Some call this the tortoise approach: You seem to inch forward slowly, finally reaching your goal.
I do not believe the words in many dieting ads that promise you’ll lose this and that in no time flat. Any diet program that assures you of weight loss which exceeds a pound per week will not work.
Taking in only 1,200 calories a day, is a near starvation diet, and believe me, starvation isn't the best way to lose weight.
I am asking you to cut only seventy-five calories from your daily meal routine, not 750 or 1,000.

You should also exercise at various times during the week to improve appearance and performance. Thirty minutes a day four days a week is okay. You do not need a gym or expensive equipment. If a thirty-minute commitment is too much for you to handle, try fifteen minutes daily to improve your health and looks. Do a few simple exercises, such as, walking the dog. You can also dance to MTV videos, perhaps only five videos a day.

I've seen about 4,000 women in my career. Diet and exercise both changes affected their lives strongly. They each lost about fifteen pounds a year, which might seem like a small number, but their overall health was truly enhanced by this diet. In addition, they lowered their risk of the heart disease, diabetes, and cancer of the breast and colon.
First, you have first to know the basis for your daily calorie intake. This is done by writing down every detail of everything you eat daily for three weeks. The approximate amount of each day’s consumption is calculated to represent your daily baseline.

You will be surprised to notice that when the numbers of calories varies very little from one day to another, your body naturally tends toward this baseline.

Now let us assume your baseline is between 2,500 to 3.000 calories per day. By cutting seventy-five calories from this number, you will lose about a pound a month. If you want to speed up the process a little, double the cutback. What I mean is, cut one hundred fifty calories, exercise to burn one hundred fifty more, and you will lose thirty pounds a year.

The seventy-five calorie decrease in your meals represents about three-quarters of a tablespoon of fat, or half a can of classis Coke. You see? It is very simple, just half a can daily without any extra effort or starvation.
The second part is exercise. Seventy-five calories can be burned by walking 5,000 steps, or a fifteen-minute walk. Go shopping (do women love this?) or move the sofa and bed to clean underneath (all women love to do this).
Finally, if you want to enjoy losing weight, make a game of it by asking yourself first thing in the morning, ‘From which meal will I cut today’s seventy-five calories? From a snack? Or from my glass of wine at dinner?

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