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Will Your Plan Lead To Permanent Weight Loss? How to Tell: Part 4
Dr. David Nganele
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 For your weight loss plan to be a weight loss success, it’s absolutely critical that you understand the difference between weight loss fad diets and safe, effective weight loss routines that produce long-lasting weight loss results. In addition to this helpful article on weight loss, be sure to take our FREE Fitness Analysis! Once you've completed the brief questionnaire, you'll receive specific weight loss recommendations based on your responses, as well as information on your very own customized weight loss program. As a special thank you, you'll also receive the new weight loss e-book, Big Fat Lies, absolutely FREE of charge. Click here to get started!
There are all sorts of weight loss programs out there that can help you lose weight (not necessarily fat), but they are so miserable that it's impossible to stay on them very long - even more difficult is keeping the weight loss results you achieved before going off the weight loss plan. We wanted to create a plan for weight loss that was both VERY effective and a pleasure to implement all along the way. The GHF Customized Diet Plan is just that! Click here to learn more!
 This is the fourth part of our four part weight loss series on what a weight loss plan should have in order to result in long-term weight loss. In this article, we discuss the fact that for any weight loss plan to result in long-term weight loss, it has to be one that you can live with for a long time. This might sound obvious but it always amazes me that this is not taken into account by many weight loss programs.
As a reminder, the four characteristics of successful weight loss plans are:
1. The weight loss plan must avoid cravings
2. The weight loss plan must avoid hunger
3. The weight loss plan must call for increasing your activity level
4. It must be a weight loss plan you can live with for a long time
Weight is like blood pressure. The body, through a mechanism called "homeostasis" wants to keep basic metabolic functions like blood pressure and body temperature at a constant level. Weight is one of the things that your body doesn't want to change and if you do anything to change it, it will fight back. Fortunately, like with high blood pressure, we can bring it down. But like high blood pressure, we can't just bring it down and stop doing what we did because it will go back up.
 So, if you engage in a weight loss program to lose weight that you cannot live with it for the rest of your life, the weight will come back. So make sure any weight loss program you start is one you can live with for the rest of your life. That is why it is important for you to be the one who designs your weight loss program. Seek help if you need one but you must be the final decision-maker.
Just like with high blood pressure, there are individuals who have genes that can cause them to become overweight. But again, like with high blood pressure, you can still keep it down and maintain it at a lower level. You must, however, do whatever you are doing to keep it down for a long time, for most people, that is for the rest of their lives.
So, before you start or continue any weight loss program, you must ask yourself this question: "Can I Live With This For The Rest Of My Life?" This answer to this question explains why the most successful long-term weight loss programs are ones that have no gimmicks or special weight loss programs. Any thing that is gimmicky or "special" is very likely not going to last.
 If you start a weight loss program, only to stop and then start another, any weight you might have lost will come roaring back and then some. This is the reason why people go through the so-called "Yo-Yo" dieting phenomenon.
This is the last of our weight loss course and I hope you found it very informative. When you put this all together, you will be in a position to start making an educated opinion about any weight loss program you might be considering joining or are already involved in. You can actually use this information to design your own program.
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And don’t forget, click here to take our FREE Fitness Analysis for a free sample weight loss program and for the weight loss book, Big Fat lies!
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