For most people, making some very subtle adjustments to their lifestyle can help immediately. Things like cutting down your meal portions by one third, and eating slower, can make a big difference. Taking stairs instead of elevator. These little things can make a difference, and most people can implement and maintain them without too much grief.

You have to give your body a chance to adjust over long term. The cells in our body reproduce themselves once or twice a year, and when they do, they carry memory of their environment with them. Therefore you must provide them with a new environment for at least that long before your body stops fighting you.

Also remember that if you starve your body, or even just lose a lot of weight quickly, your body is going to strive to regain it's original weight, and store what you take in. Again you must give it time to adjust and fight impulses that it sends you. The experts know that a good rate of weight loss for keeping it off is about 2 to 5 pounds per month. This allows body to gradually adjust. You can lose more than that, but expect your body to react more.

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Secondly, as you think about losing weight, carefully and honestly evaluate your current situation. Is it just a few pounds, say 5 or 10 you want to lose? Maybe it’s 20 to 30? These amounts usually can safely be lost without help of health professionals. If you need to lose 50 or more pounds, I strongly suggest you see your physician before you begin any weight loss plan.

Next, you need to evaluate why you’ve gained weight. There are many reasons people gain weight. Some eat more than they need as a mental pick-me-up. Some eat because they have nothing else to do. Others don’t really overeat, they simply make wrong choices of what they eat. Then there’s those of us who have put on a few pounds each year and now all of a sudden, nothing fits anymore. Whatever case, you can lose weight. It will take right attitude, level of commitment and right actions. Yes, there are plenty of diets and pills available to help you along way. They aren’t all bad, but do keep in mind that unless permanent lifestyle changes are made, weight will come back when you stop diets and pills.

Diets and Pills

There are almost as many weight loss methods and diet pills available as there are people who want to lose weight.

There are diet pills that stop your hunger so you eat less and burn more fat. There are diet pills that cause body not to metabolize all food you eat, so it’s passed out of your system and not stored as fat. Then there’s combination of these two. As you begin your search for perfect diet pill, be careful as some can have harmful effects on your body.

Diet Pills work by shifting levels of brain chemicals (neurotransmitters) that control satiety (fullness) and desire for food. Some also slightly increase your metabolic rate - rate at which your body burns calories.

Examples of weight loss diet pills include:

Diethylpropion hydrochloride (eg. Tenuate) Mazindol (eg. Mazanor, Sanorex) Phendimetrazine tartrate (eg. Bontril) Phentermine hydrochloride (eg. Adipex-P, Ionamin)

All these can be used to help with weight loss. Be careful of pills containing ephedra, or caffeine. These can have negative and sometimes even deadly effects on body. Use with caution.

Three Steps

Whatever method you choose to help you lose weight, here’s three steps that will help. Evaluate your situation and reasons behind weight gain honestly. Sometimes it’s difficult to accept true facts about why we’ve gained weight, only by realizing and accepting truth can you being to deal with it using a positive attitude. Make sure your attitude is positive about changes you make. Don’t dread changes or say things like I hate not eating cake…. Instead whenever you have one of those kinds of thoughts think about how much happier you will be with your new slimmer body.

Visualize positive effects your good actions are having. Get a mental image of “new you.” Whenever you’re tempted not to be active or to eat wrong things, picture “new you” you will be if you overcome temptation.

Don’t believe magical ads. You can’t keep doing same things, and expect something different to happen. You can use products to assist you with weight loss, but ultimately you must be in control for weight to stay off without taking diet pills.