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Finally, 2022 is upon us. If you're looking to shed some pounds or get healthier this next year, you're certainly not alone.

For those embarking on a weight loss journey this year, you may need some helpful inspiration to get you started. That's why we've collected 13 different pieces of advice from people who have successfully been down the tough road of weight loss.

Continue reading for some helpful weight loss tips, and for more healthy weight loss help, make sure to check out 15 Weight Loss Tips That Are Evidence-Based.

"If you're hesitant, that means you're ready for a change. It's okay to be nervous. Take that leap. The day you start is the day your life will change forever. When you look back 11 months from this day, you will be so proud that you started and did not give up."

Amma Okrakru, who lost 72 pounds using WW (formerly Weight Watchers)

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"WW is a tool to help you live a balanced healthy lifestyle. It's not all or nothing. You can and should eat what you like! If this is going to be the way you live the rest of your life, you've got to find a happy medium where you are eating foods you enjoy and moving in ways that feel good to you! Have patience this is not a race and there isn't an endgame this is about changing your mindset forever."

Jenni Crutcher, who lost 27 pounds with WW

"Take it one day at a time. I know that sounds really simple, but on my first day, I felt so overwhelmed about how long it would take to hit my goal or to 'get healthy' but I then realized I didn't have to worry about the future, I just had to worry about today. And just focusing on my meals and exercise for that day made it easier to do it that day, and the next day, and the day after, and the journey became less daunting."

Meghan Fernandes, who lost 58.4 pounds with WW

"One key weight loss tip that helps me stay on track is refraining from eating meat, which also greatly improved my gout. I am now more active, going for walks, and doing yoga for exercise."

Paul Kirchubel, who lost over 200 pounds with Lose It!

"My main tip is to stick with something that is realistic for you. Cutting out something entirely is not always realistic and you could end up binge eating afterwards."

Zoey Rowe, who lost 130 pounds with Lose It!

"Becoming more active was key for me, and now I feel physically much better and more confident. Since I began weight training, I hits my protein goals every day to help build muscle along with fat loss."

Nestor Rene Williams, who lost 92 pounds with Lose It!

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"I've been using a program from a company called MetPro. They help you hack your metabolism. There are no pills or shakes or anything. I've never eaten healthier. I'm a very picky eater. I always joke that I have the palette of a 10-year old boy at a theme park. I eat five times a day (three meals and two smaller snacks). I've learned to eat in a way that's sustainable. I think that's the biggest change."

-Tom O'Keefe, who lost 50 pounds this year with MetPro.

"I first lost weight by using a weight loss meal delivery service to get some weight off quickly and then started heavy lifting 4 days per week to build muscle. I worked with a trainer over Skype and set up a gym in my garage so I could work out without having to drop my kids off at a child watch. So, my number 1 tip is just start and stop putting it off!

Maggie Sutherland, who lost 35 pounds

"My #1 tip for lasting, sustainable weight loss has always been taking the focus away from weight loss and more on muscle growth. Before I lost 60 pounds, I was stuck on the yo-yo cycle of "eating less, exercising more" in the hopes I would see the number on the scale drop. But, I had no idea what this does to sabotage your metabolic rate. It was only once I started focusing on building muscle (and everything that came along with itlike eating enough calories and protein, consistently strength training, and getting adequate sleep) that I started watching the fat and weight melt off with ease."

Larissa Nicole, a certified personal trainer and nutrition coach who lost over 60 pounds

"In hindsight, I think the number one tip is to do it slowly. Developing good habits that can last a lifetime rather than rush and starve yourself and gain it right back. Two pounds per month rather than two pounds per week."

Leslie Saul, who lost 22 pounds

"I lost weight by learning thought management techniques to overcome emotional eating. I did this with the help of a life coach who inspired me to go on to become a life coach myself."

Natalie Fayman, CPC, who lost 85 pounds

"8 years ago, I read up on low carb diets and about 4 years ago discovered intermittent fasting. I also started interval training and running regularly. At this point, I was 30 pounds overweight. Through the low carb/intermittent fasting combination, I lost all the weight and have kept it off."

Jonathan Bennet, certified wellness coach who lost over 30 pounds

"My number one tip is to cut sugar out of your diet. Sugar was the culprit behind my food cravings. Once I cut it out, the cravings were gone."

-Gregory Cole, who has lost 100 pounds

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Dec. 28, 2021 -- Numbers are easier. That may be why a persons weight -- and the desire of millions of people to lose weight -- is the first topic under discussion when it comes to health and longevity. Not long after you walk into your doctors exam room, for example, youll step on a scale. Its usually the first measurement they take, ahead of vital signs like blood pressure and heart rate.

This makes sense. Its a number, which means its easy to see if your weight has changed in either direction since the last time they weighed you.

But theres an unintended result: You come away thinking that your weight is every bit as important as how well your heart and blood vessels are working, and that losing a few pounds will improve your health in tangible, long-lasting ways.

Yes, weight loss has proven health benefits. But should weight loss be the top priority for everyone classified as overweight or obese -- a demographic that now includes three-quarters of all American adults?

The weight loss message is not, and has not been, working, says Glenn Gaesser, PhD, a professor of exercise science at Arizona State University.

Hes among a growing number of health experts who believe that weight loss may not be the most important benefit when it comes to adopting a healthier lifestyle. Thats especially true if you compare it to the benefits of increasing your fitness level, as Gaesser and a co-author did in a recent study.

Intentional weight loss -- that is, losing weight on purpose, rather than because of an injury or illness -- is usually associated in studies with a lower risk of death from any cause. The effect is most powerful among those with obesity and/or type 2 diabetes.

But heres an interesting wrinkle: The amount of weight lost doesnt seem to change the risk of dying. If the weight itself is the problem, why wouldnt those who lost the most get the biggest risk reduction?

Gaesser is skeptical that the health benefits of weight loss are entirely or even mainly caused by a lower number on the scale. Many clinical weight loss trials -- studies in which people take part in a structured program -- also include exercise and diet components.

Moving more and eating better are consistently and strongly linked to less risk of death from any cause. And the health benefits of exercise and diet are largely independent of weight loss, Gaesser says.

Thats especially true for exercise and living longer. Studies show that increasing physical activity lowers the risk of death from any cause by 15% to 50%, and the risk of heart disease by up to 40%.

The change is even more dramatic when you exercise with enough effort to improve your heart fitness. Moving from the lowest fitness category to a higher one can cut your mortality risk by 30% to 60%.

The Challenge of Sticking With It

But heres the rub: Exercise only helps if you do it, and a higher level of fitness works best if you maintain it.

Adherence to exercise is just as challenging as adherence to diets, Gaesser says. I think one of the reasons is that exercise has been promoted primarily as a means to lose weight.

Its not that exercise is doesnt work at all if youre trying to lose weight. According to a review of studies published in the 2010s, average weight loss ranges from 3 to 8 pounds, mostly from fat loss.

The problem is that the amount of weight you lose strictly from exercise tends to be disappointing. Your body will make up for many of the calories you burn during exercise (28%, according to one study) by slowing down your metabolism in other ways. Exercise can also increase your appetite, knocking any calorie savings for a loop.

If a person starts an exercise program with a particular weight loss goal, that person will quickly see theres a huge gap between actual and expected weight loss, Gaesser explains. Most will give up out of frustration.

Thats why he says our best hope is for people to finally realize just how important movement is to long-term vitality, and for doctors and other health professionals to encourage their sedentary patients and clients to exercise for their health and for a longer life. Still, he acknowledges that exercise tends to be a tough sell once you take the promise of weight loss off the table.

If theres an encouraging takeaway, its this: It doesnt matter why you exercise, or how you do it, or if you fall short of your goals.

There are health benefits to making the effort, Gaesser says. Exercise has intrinsic value, regardless of changes in body weight.

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Glenn Gaesser, PhD, professor of exercise physiology, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University.

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Diets are tough, trendy, and controversial. Every day, a new diet trend hits the internet. You will find no dearth of diets that promise to address your health goals. While there are many fads, most lack scientific evidence, are quick-fix regimens and do not address the wholesome nutrition needs.

The wellness industry has been swarming with diet fads over the past year, without much long-term success. A large segment of the global population is becoming overweight or obese with time and trying to find ways to lose weight quickly, causing the diet industry to boom. Almost any weight loss diet produces some short-term results, and so people often neglect to choose a more nutritious one.

Lets check out some popular diet fads from 2021 and how to avoid them by adopting a wholesome, balanced, sustainable eating habit.

Blood type diet This type of diet has been popular for two decades now. In 1996, Dr Peter DAdamo, a naturopathic physician popularised it in his book Eat Right 4 Your Type a New York Times bestseller. This diet advises to curate eating habits according to the four blood groups A, B, AB, and O. According to this diets principle, Type A people are called agrarian or cultivators and must stay away from eating red meat. Their diet should contain plant-based foods. Type B are known as nomads and can eat plants and most meats except chicken and pork. Type AB is called the enigma and can eat a mix of both plants and animal foods except corn, kidney beans, beef, and chicken. The last in the group is type O who is known as the hunter and recommended a high-protein diet based on meat, fish, poultry, certain fruits, and vegetables, but limited in grains, legumes, and dairy. This diet closely resembles the paleo diet by principle.

All these types of eating patterns bring some health benefits, but according to the scientific evidence, they are unrelated to the blood type. A review of existing evidence on blood-type diet was conducted in 2013, but not a single study could prove the scientific basis of blood-type diet or any of its positive health outcome. Another study involving 1,455 participants reported type A diet was associated with reducing cardiovascular risk. However, these results were seen in people from all blood groups and not just the one with A blood group. The authors concluded, .these associations were independent of an individuals ABO genotype, so the findings do not support the Blood-Type diet hypothesis.

The egg diet This diet fad comes next after blood-type diet and is based on consuming several servings of hard-boiled egg, other lean proteins, low-carb vegetables, low-glycemic index fruits that promises faster weight loss. Evidence-based health and wellness blog Healthline rated this diet 1.33 out of 5. A rich source of essential nutrients such as lutein, choline, and first-class protein, eggs are considered a nutritional powerhouse. But, an egg-only diet is nutritionally deficient. Although the egg diet promotes weight loss like other low-carb-low-calorie diets, it is considered a fad due to its restrictive nature, lack of well-controlled studies, and elimination of an entire food group. Furthermore, the weight loss achieved on this diet is short-term, and it is quickly regained once you return to a normal diet.

Commoditisation of immunity Indias dietary supplement market was inundated with numerous immunity boosters during the COVID 19 pandemic. In fact, sweets were sold as immunity boosters in some places in India. There were relatively few regulations assessing the safety and efficacy of available immunity-boosting products. Considering Covid is a continuing threat, people are naturally more focused on their immune health than ever before. A study reported Google Trend for the words immune boost and immune boosting increased sharply in February 2020, around the time concerns about the virus intensified.

In addition, the hashtag #immunebooster increased on Instagram posts by over 46 per cent from April 15, 2020 to May 15, 2020. Most of these products had commercial interests with less or no scientific background. You must remember that immunity-boosting requires a long-term process, which cannot be accomplished with a single food or supplement. An individuals immunity is influenced by factors such as eating healthily, sleeping well, exercising regularly, and managing stress.

Juice cleanse Recently, juicing fruits and vegetables has become immensely popular. As meal replacements, commercial juices promise to cleanse the blood of toxins and promote quick weight loss. Juicing removes 90 per cent of the dietary fiber from fruits and vegetables. A diet rich in dietary fiber has been associated with a lower risk of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes type 2, hypertension, dyslipidemia, cancer, and obesity. While comparing consumption of whole apple to clear apple juice, one study found people who drank the juice had an increased level of low-density lipoprotein (bad cholesterol) by 6.9 per cent. Moreover, human body has self-sustaining, complex mechanism to remove toxins and doesnt require any special aid to do so.

Your focus in 2022 Diet fads are trendy, quick fixes that often fail to provide substantial results. To obtain optimum health and prevent non-communicable diseases, the golden rule in nutrition is to stick to a wholesome, balanced diet that includes all essential nutrients. Fill your plate with versatile, colourful vegetables, fruits, enough protein, probiotic, and antioxidants. To avoid monotony, follow the 80/20 rule 80 per cent of the time eat nutritious foods and 20 per cent of the time, have a treat. Most importantly, develop a nourishing relationship with food to sustain healthy eating for long.

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MANY people will be looking to lose weight in 2022 and here are some top tips from local experts.

Louise Hough has a Slimming World group in Winsford at Wharton Trinity Church Hall on Thursday evenings at 7pm.

Here are her top tips:

What youre eating is much more important than how much.

Swapping high calorie, unsatisfying foods (think chocolate, alcohol, pastries) for foods that are lower in calories and more bulky, so they fill you up for longer, is key to losing weight.

Some quick and easy changes include using less fat when you cook, swapping full fat dairy products for low fat or fat free, ditching sugary drinks in favour of low calorie drinks and adding more fruit and veg to your daily meals.

Many people make the mistake of joining a gym, overdoing it in week one and quickly giving up, thinking exercise isnt for me.

Finding an enjoyable, achievable, and sustainable way of building new active habits into your routine is key.

A Slimming World survey of 1,700 slimmers showed that when they did have a slip up, being self critical was more likely to lead to comfort eating and giving up completely, whereas when they kind to themselves they got back to healthy eating more quickly.

Its hard to achieve a goal if you dont set it out clearly in the first place.

And when youre thinking about your dream weight, dont be afraid to be ambitious.

To avoid becoming trapped in a yo-yo diet cycle, its important to approach weight loss as a permanent change to your lifestyle and focus on developing new healthy habits that are sustainable for life, as well as getting support to make those changes.

An all-or-nothing approach is rarely effective when it comes to weight loss.

A little bit of what you fancy is key!

That might be a Saturday night glass of wine or a bit of chocolate in the evenings.

Studies show that embarking on your weight loss journey alongside other slimmers brings more success than going it alone.

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The year 2021 was difficult for my health. I had moved away from New York during the start of the pandemic as a means of distancing myself from the most popualted city in the U.S. It also meant I wasn't near my neighborhood gym, which I often frequented, nor was I walking miles a day for lunch.

I moved to suburban Houston, a city built around cars and highways, where sidewalks suddenly end and grocery stores require a three-mile drive. Suddenly, my life was a lot more sedentary. Afternoon jogs turned into weekly ambles, which then became monthly guilt-ridden limp-legged wheeze-fests. It didn't help that Governor Greg Abbott deliberately went out of his way to rescind local mask mandates, helping coronavirus particles spread through the community all the faster. He recently did the same for vaccine mandates as well.

Local gyms did away with mask mandates just as quickly. It seems that the gym clientele in Houston prefer listening to vaccine skeptic and horse dewormer aficionado Joe Rogan over immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci. This meant that going to the gym, even when masked, presented risk as runners huffed and puffed on treadmills a few feet away.

In the nearly two years since leaving New York, I had packed on an additional twenty pounds. T-shirts became tight and my pants didn't require a belt to stay up. After a decadent Friendsgiving, filled with fried chicken, green bean casserole and pie, I knew something had to change.

Since getting vaccinated, I did slowly start making my way back to the gym. I remained masked but opted to go late at night when traffic was low. Even then, pounds weren't shedding as quickly as I would have liked. Clearly, I was doing something wrong.

I remembered using calorie counting app FatSecret back in New York when I was on a major cut, but was hesitant to redownload it on my Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3. The app (available on iOS, Apple Watch and Android) wasn't what scared me: it's a good app, but deep down I knew that by tracking all my food metrics, I could visually see why I needed to change my diet entirely. Like going to the dentist, there was some uncomfortable handwringing around that prospect, so I put it off.

At the end of November, I did redownload FatSecret. I pulled out the digital food scale and started meticulously counting every calorie.

Unlike other fitness and calorie counting apps, such as MyFitnessPal or LoseIt, FatSecret is completely free. There's no monthly subscription cost and it still delivers a solid overall feature set, even if the app looks plainer by comparison. It tells me my daily and weekly calorie intake and also breaks down my macronutrient consumption.

I'm personally aiming to eat around 1,500 calories a day, putting me into a calorie deficit as my body will naturally burn around 2,000.

The thing I like about FatSecret is its enormous library. Like LoseIt, it allows community members to upload calorie metrics of various foods. I've uploaded some items myself, such as the chicken gyro (minus the white sauce), found all throughout New York's various street carts. While most calorie counting apps will have the basics, such as grilled chicken, or a litany of pre-packaged food products, I've found FatSecret's library to be the most robust. Being Pakistani, it's harder to calorie count some of my family's more traditional foods. But, more often than not, FatSecret has items like chana masala or baingan bharta, giving me a reprieve from the standard chicken and broccoli.

While some may argue that the nutritional information on home cooked foods could never be entirely accurate, at the very least it gives some measure. It's better to track an approximation over nothing at all.

While it's impossible to fully know, I believe that FatSecret's large food library has to do with the app being free. It likely brings in more users, as there's a lower barrier to entry. Plus it's not limited to its apps, as it's also possible to access FatSecret via a web browser.

Since starting in late November, I've lost seven pounds. That was largely with dieting, as the Omicron variant has pushed me away from the gym. Given my current trajectory, I estimate that by March or April I should be back to my pre-pandemic weight. Honestly, I wish I had started sooner.

For those that have set New Year's resolutions to lose weight in 2022, I feel that 80% of the battle is having a controlled diet. Whether it be FatSecret or the various other calorie counting apps out there, knowing exactly what and how much is being consumed makes a massive difference.

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Teachers are worried that our kids' are consuming too many energy drinks and it's leading to poor behavior and possibly poor health. Tony Spitz has the details.

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A young man was recently brought to the ER by friends who were concerned by his sudden behavior change,restlessnessand abnormal sweating. He was complaining of chest pain. On the cardiac monitor, his heart rate was accelerated and his blood pressure was spiking.

I usually consider a broad differential diagnosis for such an ER patient that includes infection, heart attack, drug overdoseor environmental exposure. His friends denied any knowledge of him having medical problems or taking prescription medication. And they denied drug abuse.

While ruling out an infectious cause, I was able to bring down his heart rate and blood pressure with some intravenous anxiety-reducing medication and fluid hydration. When he was more alert, he was able to tell us he had earlier consumed two energy drinks back-to-back beforeworking out.

As Ive discussed in previous columns about apple cider vinegar andvitamins, the supplement industry in the U.S., which includes energy drinks, is grossly underregulated. The dearth of quality research limits our critical evaluation of which supplements are effective. We are flying just as blind when it comes to knowing which supplements are potentially harmful.

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Consumers are under the dangerous misconception that if you can buy a supplement over-the-counter without a prescription, it must be safe. But because the FDA does not evaluate all supplements for safety, consumers cannot be sure that all the ingredients or the combination in a supplement are safe.

The most common supplement culprits that could land you in the ER are weight loss pills and energy drinks.

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A landmark 2015 study showed that dietary supplements such as weight loss pills send an average of 23,000 people to the ER annually. Thats out of a massive 150 million Americans who combined spend more than $2 billion a year on weight-loss pills.

Companies typically promise their product will help you lose weight through one of these mechanisms:

"Fat burners" are the most well-known weight loss supplement and typically include high doses of caffeine, green tea extract, carnitine, yohimbe, soluble fiber and a slew of other herbs. The amount of weight loss from these ingredients is minimal, according tothe limited research we have. The strongest evidence for calorie burning is for caffeine.

Patients quickly get into trouble when they take powerful prescription weight loss medication outside a doctors supervision, combine multiple weight loss supplements particularly stimulants aimed to speed up metabolism with illegal stimulants like methamphetamine or cocaine. They present to the ER with an accelerated heart rate and elevated blood pressure, altered or agitated mental status, potential damage to liver or kidneys, and diarrhea or rectal bleeding.

Energy drink use was associated with 20,000 ER visits in the U.S. in 2011. Toxicity occurs via one or both of the following pathways: either via an extremely high dose of caffeine or from the compounding effect of caffeine with other ingredients.

The safe limit of caffeine for adults 18 and olderis up to 400mg a day. For those 12 to 18, the limit is 100mg. Energy drinks contain 70mg to 240mg of caffeine per serving. For example, Java Monster contains 100mg, and 5-Hour Energy includes 200mg. As a comparison, a cup of coffee contains about 100mg. Energy drinks also contain excess sugar that make them easy to down, and compared with the slow sipping of coffee, can lead to caffeine toxicity if consumed quickly.

By themselves, most of the ingredients in energy drinks are commonly found in our diet or occur naturally in our body and are not inherently dangerous:

However, the amounts of the aforementioned ingredients packaged into the energy drinks is often significantly higher than what is typically found in foods and plants. Combined with high levels of caffeine, and you have a perfect storm of cardiac toxicity.

As with weight loss supplements, a study in the Journal of the American Heart Association found that rapid or overconsumption of energy drinks can alter the heart's electrical activity and lead to an elevated or irregular heart beat (known as arrhythmia) and increased blood pressure, both of which put strain on the heart. This can be exacerbated in people with underlying heart conditions. In some extreme cases, these ingredients have been known to cause thickening of blood in the coronary arteries and have led to cardiac arrest.

In the ER, our treatment options are limited for the toxicity from either weight loss pills or energy drink supplements. Common treatments include medications to reduce the stress on the heart and intravenous fluid for hydration.

Bottom line: Thoroughly review the full list of ingredients for any supplement you are considering. Pay particular attention to the amount of caffeine and be sure to not drink more than the recommended amount daily. If your goal is calorie-burning, amuch safer option is a pre-workout cup of coffee that is sipped slowly. Also, remember there's no magic bullet for weight loss. Any weight loss program should combine healthy eating choices with cardio or strength training, both of which are effectively at burning fat per new research. If your program includes a weight loss pill, please take it only under the direct supervision of a physician and be wary of combining that with other supplements.

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Jamie Oliver, 46, explained he managed to easily lose two stone following an easy diet plan and cutting down on two things.

Jamie significantly reduced his meat intake and focused on eating healthy.

He explained he opted for healthier meals and admitted he saw an instant transformation.

"I lost 12 kilos quite quickly and I didn't do it through not eating. I ate a lot, more than I was used to, Jamie explained during an interview with Radio Times.

He also swapped large servings of meat for more vegetables.

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Avoid snacking between meals or going for healthier options is essential to losing weight.

Jamie shared his favourite snack to stay in shape: nuts.

He said: They make you half as likely to have a heart attack. Feed them to your kids as well."

After he started his weight loss journey, Jamie decided to take his fitness journey even further and made another lifestyle change.

"I thought seaweed was hippy, globetrotting stuff but our ancestors ate seaweed. It has got a load of iodine and is the most nutritious vegetable in the world," he explained

The TV chef decided to slim down when he realised how unhealthy his life was.

"I realised I hadnt spent much time looking after myself. I went back to school and started studying nutrition, started travelling to parts of the world to where people live the longest lives and started looking at their lifestyles.

"That was the journey and its been amazing, he said on Loose Women.

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January is a time when most of us want to lose a few pounds after overindulging over Christmas.

There's something many people find motivating about the new year and having a fresh start.

To help people who are looking to lose weight, get fitter and gain confidence in 2022, Slimming World has revealed its seven secrets of success.

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These top tips aim to help you to stay on track with your weight loss and live a healthier lifestyle in the long term.

To lose weight people often think you need to eat less, but what you're eating is much more important than how much.

Swapping high calorie, unsatisfying foods for foods that are lower in calories and more bulky, so they fill you up for longer, is key to losing weight in a way thats easy to live with.

Claire Marsh, from Netherton, said calorie counting left her feeling lethargic, dehydrated and bored because she wasn't eating proper meals.

But since joining Slimming World, Claire said "I never feel hungry or deprived as there are so many different foods that you're able to enjoy."

Claire has lost two stone and credits her weight loss to the flexibility of food optimising, which has helped her to "make informed choices about what I eat."

Slimming World District Manager Sarah Stringfellow said: "Some quick and easy changes include using less fat when you cook, so you boil or dry fry instead of frying in oil, swapping full fat dairy products for low fat or fat free, ditching sugary drinks in favour of low calorie drinks and adding more fruit and veg to your daily meals.

"My members find that by making simple changes to their shopping and cooking, which we talk about in our group every week, they lose weight without feeling hungry."

If its your goal to get fitter, remember you dont have to become a professional athlete to get active - just making a commitment to moving more all adds up.

Many people make the mistake of joining a gym, overdoing it in week one and quickly giving up, thinking exercise isnt for me.

Finding an enjoyable, achievable, and sustainable way of building new active habits into your routine is key.

We all start January with great intentions, but its all too easy to go off track.

Its what you do next that matters most and the most important thing is not to beat yourself up about it.

A Slimming World survey of 1,700 slimmers showed that when they did have a slip up, being self critical was more likely to lead to comfort eating and giving up completely, whereas when they were kinder to be kind to themselves, they more quickly got back to healthy eating, lost weight and they kept it off.

Claire said she used to be an "emotional eater" with an "all of nothing approach to food."

Claire said: "Now, I think about food in a less emotional way and I suppose I see it as fuel for my body to function.

"I am taking more notice of how particular foods make me feel and that in turn is allowing me to know what I need at certain times.

"My treats are no longer food related, but are much more about self-care now."

When you're thinking about your losing weight, it's important to set a goal and not be afraid to be ambitious.

Research from Slimming World shows that slimmers who set ambitious targets lose twice as much weight as those who try to be realistic.

Slimming World District Manager Sarah Stringfellow said: "Shoot for the moon you never know where you might land!

"As well as setting an overall weight loss target, all my members set a mini goal every week whether its to lose weight, to get more active, to plan ahead or to try something new making that commitment to a goal definitely helps them achieve more."

Dawn Mcshane said she had tried a number of "fad diets" over the years in the hope of losing weight quickly, but she would end up "feeling deprived and then binge eat the wrong foods."

Since joining her local Slimming World group, Dawn, from Bootle, has lost two stone and hasn't looked back.

To avoid becoming trapped in a yo-yo diet cycle, Slimming World experts say its important to approach weight loss as a permanent change to your lifestyle.

This means focusing on developing new healthy habits that are sustainable for life, as well as getting support to make those changes.

An all-or-nothing approach is rarely effective when it comes to weight loss.

Restricting yourself when it comes to food and drink might work in the short-term, but pretty soon youll be fed up, hungry and giving up completely.

Instead, taking a flexible approach and having a balanced mindset is key.

The principles of losing weight are quite simple, yet if it was that easy wed all be doing it!

Dawn Mcshane has found seeking support from her Slimming World consultant and group members has helped to encourage her to keep going with her weight loss.

Dr Jacquie Lavin said: "The power of the group and the peer support members give one another is what sets Slimming World apart. Our members become part of a community, something special, which helps them to realise that they are not alone in the challenges they face.

"Thats combined with our personalised approach called IMAGE Therapy which helps every member discover more about themselves as a slimmer, identify their own pitfalls and danger zones, and create practical plans to overcome them.

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With the rising number of food delivery start-ups and easy access to restaurant food, it has become very difficult to maintain a healthy diet and lifestyle. However, thepresent generationsare also becoming health conscious with whatever they eat.

Amongvarious diet plans available on the internet, GM diet is a very common diet used by many to shed extra pounds quickly. The famous General Motors diet assures people to lose up to 6.8kgs (15 pounds) within a week. But before you start this 7-day diet, we at LatestLY, have brought together some facts that you must know about this diet.Here Are 5 Plant-Based Foods For Healthy Heart.

Detoxifies the body

This diet focuses on food that is loaded with water content. Therefore, it keeps the body hydrated, sheds excess fat and helps to clear the toxins from the body.

Improves digestion

As the food you eat during this diet is high in fibre and keeps you full for a longer period, therefore, it improves digestion.

May cause behavioural side effects

As the first two days of GM diet include low-calorie intake, it can cause behavioural side effectswith feelings of lethargy, tiredness, fatigue etc.

No processed foods

GM diet is a very simple diet with no added sugar or preservatives. You will not find any packaged or highly processed foods on this diet.

Weight loss is temporary

It is a hyper-specific and short-term diet, and, therefore, once you drop this diet, youll almost definitely gain all the weight back.

It can be dangerous

A weight loss of about 1-2 pounds per week is considered to be healthy, whereas a GM diet promises a weight loss of about 10-17 pounds in the same time frame. Therefore, it can be dangerous to your health.

A GM diet might promise you 15 pounds of weight loss in a week, but it is temporary and unhealthy depriving you of many essential nutrients. Therefore, focus on a diet that promises good health along with weight loss.

(This article is written for an informative purpose and should not be substituted for medical advice. Kindly consult your doctor before trying any tips.)

(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Dec 23, 2021 10:51 AM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).

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Perplexed, Dr. Hall recently began to reconsider the Biggest Loser studies in light of an emerging concept about how human metabolism fundamentally works. This idea grew out of an influential 2012 study showing that highly active hunter gatherers in Tanzania burn about the same relative number of calories every day as the rest of us, even though they move around far more.

The scientists involved in that research postulated the tribespeoples bodies must automatically be compensating for some of the calories they burned while hunting for food by decreasing other physiological activities, such as growth. (The tribespeople tended to be short.) In that way, the researchers felt, the hunters bodies could keep the overall number of calories they burned each day in check, no matter how many miles they jogged in search of tubers and game. The scientists called this idea the constrained total energy expenditure theory.

Aware of this research, Dr. Hall began to see potential parallels in The Biggest Loser results. So, for the new analysis, he looked back at his groups data for hints about whether contestants metabolisms had behaved, in effect, like the metabolisms of the hunter gatherers. And he found clues in their resting metabolic rates. That number plummeted early in their Biggest Loser filming, he noted, when they slashed how much they ate, and their bodies, understandably, reduced the calories they burned to avoid starving.

But in later years, when contestants typically returned to eating as they had before, their metabolisms stayed depressed because, he concluded and this was key most of them still exercised. Counter-intuitively, he wrote in the new analysis, frequent physical activity seems to have prompted their bodies to hold resting metabolic rates low, so total daily energy expenditure could be constrained.

Its still just a hypothesis, Dr. Hall said, but it seems like what were observing in the Biggest Loser data is an example of the constrained energy model.

So, what could this rethinking of The Biggest Loser story mean for the rest of us, if we hope to keep our weight under control? First and most fundamentally, it suggests that abrupt and colossal weight loss generally will backfire, since that strategy seems to send resting metabolic rates plunging more than would be expected, given peoples smaller body sizes. When people drop pounds gradually in weight-loss experiments, he pointed out, their metabolic changes tend to be less drastic.

Second and more befuddling, if you have lost substantial weight, Biggest Loser style, exercise likely will be both ally and underminer in your efforts to keep those pounds at bay. In Dr. Halls new interpretation of contestants long-term weight control, frequent exercise kept contestants resting metabolic rates low but also helped them stave off fat regain. In essence, the contestants who worked out the most wound up adding back the least weight, even though they also sported the slowest relative resting metabolisms.

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