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Your Healthy Lifestyle
Experts say that in order to be successful at losing weight, you must change your
lifestyle----not just go on a diet. Health and fitness are not about counting calories or
cutting fat. Getting into great shape and staying fit means eating right, exercising
regularly, and monitoring your weight and body fat together.
Losing Weight Alone Does Not Mean Getting Fit
Individuals who attempt to “loss weight” by cutting calories and trying
“fat-free” diets may actually become “fatter” in the end. Although it may appear as
though you have become “thinner”, with diet alone, you often lose weight by losing
beneficial muscle and bone tissues mass, or water weight, and not fat. This is not
necessarily a healthy strategy for weight loss. According to the FDA, fat diets such as
the low-carbohydrate diet or high-carbohydrate diet also neglect federal nutrition
dietary guidelines, and can potentially cause risk factors for high cholesterol, gout,
kidney stones, etc.
Alternatively, by reducing your calories intake and adopting a regular aerobic
exercise and strength-training regiment, you can lose weight more positively by
decreasing your body fat. Through regular exercise and healthy eating, you can burn
fat and lose excess weight. Thus, by monitoring your body fat, you can lose your
“unhealthy” fat mass, and not mistake the short-term loss of your healthy muscle
tissue or water weight as being positive. Losing weight safely and keeping it off
requires long-term changes in your daily eating and exercise habits. A research study
called the National Weight Control Registry believes that people who have been
