Weight Loss

What is the best way to Lose Weight ?

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Set yourself a weight loss target
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Losing weight can feel really difficult. To start with, work out how much weight you want to lose. With more people becoming overweight, how we view a ‘healthy weight’ can become skewed.

Your body mass index (BMI) is a measurement of your weight in relation to your height. If you know these measurements, you can use a free online tool to find out your BMI and the weight you should be aiming for. You can use our BMI calculator.

If you weigh more than you think, don’t be disappointed or feel you have to take extreme measures. Break it down into small goals and focus on one step at a time.

If you have a lot of weight to lose, aim to lose 10 per cent of your body weight. This will have big health benefits – even if you are still overweight afterwards – and can feel more achievable. Don’t be disheartened if it’s going to take a long time to get to your ideal weight. It’s not surprising – it probably took a long time to come on gradually.

Why am I overweight?'
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Despite what you might read, the problem of obesity isn’t caused by any single food and it’s not just a question of ‘a lack of willpower’. In fact, many factors influence what we eat. Our environment and lifestyles have changed in recent decades which means healthy choices are not always the easiest to make, and we tend to have more ready-made or take-away meals. This usually means more fat, sugar and salt compared with home-cooked meals, and often larger portion sizes too.

At the same time, we’re doing less physical activity than previous generations. Our jobs and leisure activities are more likely to involve sitting down, and we’re less likely to travel on foot or by bicycle. Many of us are also working from home more now, meaning we've lost the opportunity for exercise on the way to work.

By being more active, you can reduce your risk of developing heart and circulatory disease by as much as 35%.

This means we need to make conscious choices about what we eat and how we stay active. Often that means making an effort to eat healthily even when we’re busy, and finding ways to fit exercise into our busy lives.

A good first step is to think about why you might have put on weight. Is this a recent change or a longer-term pattern? Did you start doing something differently – eating out more, being less active, or eating different foods – around the time you began putting on weight?

If you’re not sure where you’re going wrong, try keeping a food and drink diary for a week in a notebook, or record what you eat using a diet tracker app on your smartphone.