In any successful program for weight loss, it is highly depends on balancing in both eating and activity done.  If you want to lose weight, substituting new activity patterns is as important as substituting new eating habits.

Although it could be challenging to fit exercise into a too-tight schedule, but you can always “sneak” activity into everyday and learn to exercise for fun.

Sneaking-in Activity
If you want to lose weight, you can help burn off excess calories just becoming a bit more active in your daily routines.  Why not cancel the paper delivery and walks to the news stand instead! Or, make a habit of using the stairs instead of elevator.  If you drive to work, try parking a few blocks away from the office and walk the extra distance.  Or, if you take public transportation, get off a few blocks before your regular stop and walk all the way to your office.  Or you could try to have window shopping as you will enjoy seeking your favorite products without feeling tired.  If you really want to lose weight, start trying a way or two of these sneaking-in activities.

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If you are serious about weight loss and want to success in a weight loss program, you have to concern about what you eat and do in your daily basis.  Losing weight needs both time and effort to see rewarding results.

During the initial stage of a weight loss program, record keeping can help you plotting your eating and activity patterns – what, where, why, when and how you eat, as well as how active you are.  Records are extremely important, because most of us underestimate how much we eat, and overestimate how much activity we get involved.  The only way to be completely truthful and to avoid lapses of memory is to write it down if you want to success in your weight loss program.

Why we need to keep eating records in weight loss program
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, women take 335 more calories per day (about 20% more) than they did back in 1971.  If you crunch the number, 335 more calories a day will result in about 16kg of weight gain a year! Men consume only 168 more calories per day, which will result a weight gain of (only!) 8kg each year.  The figure is scary, right?  That is why we need to keep eating records in a weight loss program.
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For those who want to lose weight, you need to aware and adjust what, where, why, when and how you eat. When you eat right, you can enjoy losing weight in any program for weight loss.

There are 4 million people admit they are overweight worldwide. So, it is not surprise that your hear somebody want to lose weight. From the statistic, 64% of those being overweight admit this happen via their “mouth” or diet habit. The real culprits are stated as below:

# 32%: Over consume of carbohydrates mainly from grains (cereal, bread, pasta, rice etc)
# 27%: Over consume of sugar mainly from sweets and beverages
# 25%: Over consume of oily or deep fried food
# 23%: “Meat eater”
# 11%: Over consume of cakes and pastry

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It is advisable to join a weight loss program if you are being overweight.  Research has shown that being overweight increases the risk of developing few diseases stated below.  You just need to aware of it before it is too late to take care of your health.

Cardiovascular disease
One of the risks of being overweight is suffering cardiovascular disease.  Cardiovascular disease is a disease in which blood circulation and the heart do not function normally as they do.  Usually, the arteries become hardened and narrowed down.  In consequences, you might suffer from heart attack, hypertension (high blood pressure), high cholesterol, stroke, congestive heart failure, angina (chest pain) or abnormal heart rhythm.  In some cases, cardiovascular disease might cause fatal death.  For example, in a stroke, blood and oxygen do not flow as normal to the brain, possibly causing paralysis or death.

Type 2 diabetes
Being overweight increases the risk of suffering from type 2 diabetes.  Fatty acids floating around in the bloodstream may promote insulin resistance, and this will cause blood sugar level are always above normal range.  High blood sugar is the major cause of kidney disease, blindness, amputation, and most of the cardiovascular diseases.

It is important to know that overweight people are twice as likely to develop type 2 diabetes as people who are not being overweight.  The only way to reduce the risk of this disease is losing weight through a healthy weight loss program.
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