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When looking into health issues relating to weight, medics take note of our Body Mass Index. A BMI ranging from 18.5 to 25 indicates a healthy height to weight ratio. Above twenty five, and we have a problem with our weight. Above 30, and we join the category of obesity, moving into morbid obesity above 40.

A simple calculation can be done to work out your BMI. Take your height in metres and your weight in kilos. Take your metric height and square it. Then divide the answer by how many kilos you weigh.

For instance – say you’re 1.55 metres tall and you weigh 78 kilos, your index would be 32.5. The above illustration plainly shows that with those stats you would be designated obese.

Unless we restrict highly calorific food to high days and holidays, the weight will stay put! We can lower our fat reserves (and therefore our weight) if we trim down our portion sizes and stick to more natural foodstuffs.

You’ll just feel unwell though if you plunge straight into a crash diet – and they rarely work long-term. Dietary regimes that propose a calorific consumption of no more than 1,200 a day are what we consider crash or ‘miracle’ diets. Speedy results can often be obtained, but they’re nearly always followed by more weight going back on.

As the saying goes, ‘there are no short cuts to any place worth going’! If you reduce your calorific intake by a fifth, there’s a good chance you’ll take off up to a couple of pounds a week. This won’t drop two dress sizes in a month, but it could well keep you two sizes down 12 months from now.

We get the majority of our excess calories from fat-laden food. It makes sense therefore to drastically reduce that type of food. To avoid feeling desperately hungry eat more whole grains, and to balance your diet include plenty of fruit and veg. The health benefits soon start to make themselves feel apparent.

It may seem like a good idea to skip a meal, but it isn’t. (Snacks become too irresistible when the hunger really bites!) Actually, eating more and smaller meals is a better way to do it. Starving yourself actually makes it more difficult to lose weight. Your metabolic rate (which affects your body’s ability to lose weight) is assisted when you nourish yourself little and often.

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