When a person is fit and healthy, it is obvious to all around that person. He or she gives off a striking appearance of confidence that originates with those physical and mental attributes of the fitness lifestyle.
130 million Americans, almost two-thirds of the population, are overweight. Obesity’s role in shortening lives and increasing vulnerability to illness and disease is documented incessantly. Every week we read of new medical tests which prove increased harm to the body from the effects of excessive weight. The trend is toward increase of this medical and social problem, not toward correction of it.
Most overweight people want to change their condition. They want to lose weight and keep excess weight off forever. They want to be healthy, and they want to be seen as healthy. Their desire is the right starting point to do something to improve themselves. Unfortunately, the greatest problem these people face is finding an effective way to turn their desire into action.
We are going to concentrate here on the tools available to help those of us who want to lose weight. We are not going to reveal any miracle breakthroughs. We do not think that is where relief from this problem will be found. Rather, we are going to look for the answers in sound medical and scientific knowledge that is readily available. We are going to focus on incorporating sound medical and scientific knowledge into action plans and programs.
We are looking for plans and programs that have four essential features. First, they must allow for a normal lifestyle, one that does not require its users to enter into completely unfamiliar daily routines. Second, they must allow for eating some familiar and nutricious foods, while eliminating the foods that so corrupt our goals of rebuilding healthy bodies. Third, they must, if adhered to, cause our bodies to shed their excess weight in a timely manner. And fourth, they must include tasty and desirable meals with foods that will control weight over the long term without making the users feel food-deprived.
Such plans and programs exist. For rankings and descriptions, go to Top 10 Weight Loss List.
