Saturday, August 22, 2009

Weight Loss Tips

Weight Loss Tips By Hilda Maria

Are you ready to lose some weight? Perhaps you’re surfing for the magic pill that will vanish your weight away. Maybe you’re simply searching for the right information to help you lose and keep the weight off. Whatever the case, here’s some surefire tips to help you with your weight loss.

a) As you start your weight loss plan, take the time to carefully evaluate your situation. What caused the weight gain? Pregnancy? Inactivity? Emotions? There are many triggers in our lives that will cause us to gain weight. It’s important as you begin your weight loss to understand and come to grips with the cause of your weight. Obviously, you want to have your weight loss become permanent. There’s usually more than one solution to any weight gain reason.

b) Avoid Hidden Calories. Here’s an over simplified version of weight loss and weight maintenance… if you eat more than your body needs, you gain weight. If you eat less (reduce calories) than your body needs, you lose weight! A serving as defined by the scientific communities on weight loss and a serving that your local restaurant provides is most often very different. A single serving of French fries is 15 fries. The bottle may contain16 oz. Pay attention to actually how many servings of food and beverages you are actually consuming. Mountain Dew has higher sugar content than most other cola’s.

c) Consider Diet Pills Carefully. Maybe one of your diet buddies has decided to buy diet pills, or maybe you've seen or heard a commercial for diet supplements promising easy fast weight loss. Even the most natural-sounding diet pills or weight loss supplements can be useless for weight loss, or dangerous, or both. Diet pills are very tempting things if you want to lose weight, especially if you have tried several conventional weight loss plans without success. The side effects and dangers of some diet and weight loss pills can vary enormously because many of these pills contain a cocktail of ingredients and because dosage instructions may be inadequate. There are some instances when diet pills can be helpful. So you may ask, how does the diet pills work to cause weight loss, while I continue to eat the same amount? There are almost as many weight loss methods and diet pills available as there are people who want to lose weight.There are diet pills that stop your hunger so you eat less and burn more fat. Diet Pills work by shifting levels of brain chemicals (neurotransmitters) that control satiety (fullness) and desire for food. Some also slightly increase your metabolic rate - the rate at which your body burns calories. Monitor/Increase Your Activity - Regardless whether you’re taking diet pills or not to help with your weight loss, it’s still important to maintain a regular exercise program. Especially for the middle-aged and older people exercise play a very, very important role in the quality of health and staying within normal weight ranges.

d) Examples of weight loss diet pills include:

Diethylpropion hydrochloride (eg. Tenuate)

Mazindol (eg. Mazanor, Sanorex)

Phendimetrazine tartrate (eg. Bontril)

Phentermine hydrochloride (eg. Adipex-P, Ionamin)

e) Develop a Plan for Maintenance. Even if you’re taking diet pills to help with your weight loss it’s important to keep in mind, that once you stop the pills, unless you maintain a balance between your activity level and the food you eat the weight will come back.