If you are currently overweight or obese (when measuring body fat percentage via the BMI scale), it is always an excellent idea to work to reduce your weight. As you will probably already know, there are a huge number of benefits of being inside the optimum BMI band - which is “normal” - and hence, anything you can do to get there will provide additional benefits to your health, lifestyle, and even your confidence.
We say this with a slight hesitation however. As we wrote in other articles on this website, you will soon find that there are two different methods of losing weight:
In this article, we will be looking at the healthiest way to lose weight - and why this is a genuinely better approach than the alternative, dangerous methods.
Nutritionists, weight loss experts, and doctors all agree that the absolute best way to lose weight is to do so by “gradual weight reduction”. This means that instead of going on a hugely dramatic diet for one week and losing 20lbs (as many people would think to do), weight is taken off the body gradually by a change in lifestyle and other factors - over weeks or months.
An example of a healthy weight loss regime might be:
Assuming that you are able implement such a change in to your lifestyle, you should be able to ensure that a continual rate of weight loss is achieved, and thereby assume a healthy style of weight loss in to the long term.
Usually, it would be the case that we would recommend that you get in to the best shape possible - as quickly as possible. So why is it that we are recommending that you take your time, and only settle for a moderate level of weight loss?
The answer is that fast and extreme weight loss is very bad for not only your body, but your health in general.