Pointers on Losing Weight Safely - a Revisit

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Amongst my friends there are many who are overweight or obese. This is true amongst Asians, especially after our streets are swarmed by fast food restaurants.

Our friends who are obese suffer diseases related to obesity. The most common are hypertension, diabetes and arthiris, not to mention other diseases like heart problem, stroke, and cancer.

If you ask them, "Are you not going to lose weight?" The spontaneous response is "of course I do want to lose weight, but is there any quick way I can do that?" Sad, really sad. There is no such thing as quick fix to overweight problem. You have to do it slowly but with specific target to achieve.

Just a few reminders to our friends who are serious about losing weight. Please... please... please... DO NOT starve yourself. Your body needs sufficient well balanced food. Eat regularly but a little at a time. Having one big meal now and starve yourself for the next eight or ten hours is a bad strategy for losing weight.

Just to mention briefly...

- Start your day with a good breakfast because it helps to burn your fats all day long,

- Drink a lot of water (I mean water not sodas, coffee or tea). 1.5 liters a day is a good quantity.

-Avoid too much sugar, especially that sweetener like fructose etc.

- Be extra cautious when you take in fats. Do your own search on healthy fats. To mention a few healthy fats - olive, peanuts and canola. Tuna, salmon, and mackerel have omega-3 which is good for the heart.

- Last but not least... EXERCISE, EXERCISE, EXERCISE. There is no point to control your diet if you don't exercise. You must exercise to build your lean muscle. Lean muscle burns your calorie.

Hopefully, the information I wrote above will benefit you.

See you next time.... Happy losing weight.