Should you lose it fast or slow?

A lot of people are thinking, planning, aiming, and wanting to lose weight right now. Simultaneously, they are being pelted with ads promising effective and quick weight loss.

How long would it take you to put on 100 lbs if you were not trying to gain weight? Certainly months or years.

So why do we believe we should drop the weight as if it can just free fall under gravity?

When the body senses rapid weight loss it goes in a defensive mode after a while. It is similar to that which happens in starvation. It's the same mechanism that helps to save a victim trapped in an earthquake rubble, for example.

Never go on a diet you cannot maintain for the rest of your life because the pounds will come back, especially as you get older.

Most QUICK weight loss programs cause you to lose fat and muscle. When you lose muscle, it means you are losing your fat-burning capacity as well.

A lifestyle change is the safest route

Eat high fiber foods, don't snack, AND use natural food supplements that will regulate and optimize your metabolism. I use the Limu product (http://choosenow.originallimu.com/), a seaweed extract because of it's benefits beyond weightloss.

Both my sisters tell how limu regulated their cravings and helped them to stay on regular eating schedules.

My suggestion is to go the healthiest, safest way - a change in lifestyle. This is not the quickest way, but by this time next year you will find yourself having the nicest gift you could ever have - a new body.

Remember, you can put down the weight and still keep your shape. But you've got to do it the healthy way - the natural way.