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Oct 13

Get that summer bikini body the healthy way

Summer will soon be upon us and the realization that the itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, yellow polka dot bikini hanging in your closet will be revealing all is more than a little daunting. Soon showing skin will be the norm. Pale tummies and thighs will be exposed for God and everyone else.

That work out and diet plan you set up at the beginning of the year has been long since forgotten and anxiety is setting in. Google quickly becomes your best friend as you search frantically for diets that will help you lose 20 pounds in a week.

First of all, darling, you look fabulous dont let anyone, even that stupid yellow polka dot bikini, tell you otherwise.

Second, losing 20 pounds in a week is just not healthy by any means or even physically possible. Anyone who claims otherwise is lying and only wants your money.

Third, all of those diet fads are a sham, especially if you have to pay for them.

An article by The Los Angeles Times detailed a recent study that was part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. In the study, fads were seen as less helpful than simple exercise and eating right. Of the two-thirds of obese individuals who try to lose weight every year, only 40 percent were successful because they ate less food and less fat, switched to foods with fewer calories or took weight loss medications that were prescribed by a doctor.

Of those who were not successful, diet regimes included drinking more water, eating diet foods or products, using nonprescription diet pills including herbal supplements, or sticking to a liquid-diet formula plan.

Liquid diets, nonprescription diet pills and fad diets show no correlation to losing the weight and keeping it off, according to the study, which was published by the American Journal of Preventative Medicine.

The study also mentioned that it helped participants to be part of a support group.

This in itself is achievable. It creates accountability between the members of the group, even if it is just you and a friend or two. Through joint encouragement and participation, success in your fitness is more likely.

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Get that summer bikini body the healthy way

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