Many people who hear horror stories about people who suffered ill effects after taking diet pills or getting involved with quick weight loss schemes wonder if there is such a thing as safe and effective quick weight loss.

A person can lose 1-4 pounds rather safely a week – some can even lose 7 pounds a week, although this amount of weight is stretching dietary standards and guidelines.

It is when you start attempting this kind of loss in the realm of 10, 20, 30 pounds a week that you will encounter trouble. This is because such loss is a jolt to the system, and can cause a host of medical and health problems, some of which may include:

* Weight fluctuations resulting in yo-yo dieting
* Extreme cause diarrhea followed by dehydration can cause [ Continue Reading ]

Since excess weight puts you at risk for many health problems, you may need to set some weight loss plans to help avoid those risks and prevent disease.

But what should be your long-term goal? And what short-term goals should you set to help you get there? You have a better chance of attaining your goals if you make sure that the weight loss plans that you will use are sensible and reasonable right at the beginning.

Here are some guidelines from the experts in choosing weight loss plans and goals.

1. Be realistic

Most people’s long-term weight loss plans are more ambitious than they have to be.

For example, if you weigh 170 pounds and your long-term plan is to weigh 120, even if you have not weighed 120 since you were 16 and now you are 45, [ Continue Reading ]

Have you taken up swimming as an exercise to help you to lose weight? If you are, you are not alone because most people think that swimming is effective way to tone muscles and lose weight. This is why the public swimming pools everywhere are always packed in the evenings and on weekends.

Before I disappoint you, I must first declare that I am not against swimming. On the contrary, I swim regularly for the sake of my cardiovascular health.

However, some research seem to suggest that swimming is not an effective way to lose weight and in fact, one can even gain weight with swimming. Getting more bewildering eh?

Swimming is considered by many as one of the best exercises to lose weight and to tone muscles because when you swim, most of your muscles are called into [ Continue Reading ]

When I had my first child, I gained a lot of weight and became quite a plum size! I did not pay much heed on it in the beginning because I was more concern with my baby’s health. Friends and family advised that I should eat for two when I was pregnant. Therefore, for the sake of our child, I did nearly all that was advised to me without realizing that eating for ‘quality’ is better than ‘quantity’.

After my delivery, I did not loose my weight and I found myself feeling very sloppy and losing my self-confidence due to the extra weight, fats or water retention all over my body. I felt lousy and depressed.

Not too long after our first child was born, about 7 months later ~ I conceived again. I became so depressed because I didn’t [ Continue Reading ]

Hoodia is a natural appetite suppressant that derives from a cactus within the Kalahari Desert, called Hoodia Gordonii. Essentially, this succulent tricks the brain and maHoodia Cactuskes it think that your stomach is full. It can be purchased in many different forms such as powder, pills, or teas. To make the natural appetite suppressant, producers take the seeds and pulp from the hoodia cactus. This unusual product has proven to be a successful aid for those who have had problems in maintaining various diets and want to use a natural aid in weight loss.

Many people have begun to add this weight loss supplement to their daily diet regimen. It is not directed at any one type of body, in other words it works well for those who are severely obese and need to lose a good deal of [ Continue Reading ]