Healthy Ways to Lose Weight

"Lose weight."  Isn't that what all the health experts tell you when you go searching for help on how to be healthy?  Lose weight, they all say.  Maintain a healthy weight.  We've heard it all before, and it just doesn't work.  Eat less, exercise more.  Well, that's easy for them to say, isn't it.  Much easier said than done.

What are you to do if you're living a healthy lifestyle, eating nutritious foods, and even exercising, but still can't keep your bathroom scale on the number you want?  Or what do you do if you are so fatigued and in so much pain all the time that you can't even think of exercising?

Unfortunately, when people look at us, they make a judgment, oftentimes based on how much we weigh.  People judge us to be lazy and careless if we weigh too much, or if we're underweight, we're "bulimic" or "anorexic" or otherwise "unhealthy."  In the meantime, we're trying to do everything we can to be healthy and have that reflect in how we look.  It's very frustrating to be seen for our size rather than the amazing people we really are.  And what's worse, we tend to be our own worst critics when we look in the mirror!

But what if we can't lose weight because we're sick?  What if being overweight is just as much a sign of chronic autoimmune disease as is being underweight?  As it turns out, that is actually most often the case.

The key is to forget about your weight.  That's right.  Put it out of your mind, and love yourself unconditionally for who you are.  In this section, we're going to focus on the actual reasons why we have weight problems and how to fix them.  Improper weight is another symptom of imbalance in the body, just the same as any other chronic illness.  Once the root of the problem is corrected, the weight symptoms disappear.

The links below will direct you to various means of getting healthy by correcting the imbalances that cause weight problems.  You will learn how your personal metabolic type fits into the equation, and how important your liver is for healthy weight.  You'll also learn about a hormone called leptin and how it directly affects our ability to lose weight, as well as a variety of other factors that we need to consider.  You'll understand that there is no such thing as a "one-size-fits-all" answer to diet and exercise plans.  Each segment will focus on specific reasons why our bodies are out of balance and how our bodies work, but more importantly, how to correct the source of the problem and ultimately get to the weight that is right for each of us.