Give attention to keeping weight off to stay slim

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Give attention to keeping weight off to stay slim
Switching the main objective from weight-loss to preventing excess weight helps women stay slim.

Annually, Australian women spend more than $400 million on weight-loss products and programs. Yet the Dietitians Association of Australia says that about 95 per cent of people that diet regain everything - and a lot more - within 2 yrs.New research through the Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health in Melbourne implies that as opposed to struggling to shed excess fat, women should give attention to simple lifestyle strategies that prevent excess weight to start with.

Preventive measures

Preventing gradual kilogram creep inside the 30s and 40s may mean women reach their later years about 20 kilograms lighter, says Dr Catherine Lombard, senior research fellow on the Jean Hailes Research Unit at Monash University. The Healthy Lifestyle, or HeLP-her, Program has just been published inside the British Medical Journal and shines some light regarding how busy women can avoid excess weight, as opposed to seeking to lose excess fat at midlife.

"We're seeing small weight gains of around a kilogram annually in younger females and we don't have a tendency to notice those gains," Dr Lombard says. "But by the time women get to midlife, they can be 10 or 20 kilograms heavier and at higher risk of diabetes, cardiovascular and gallbladder disease, high blood pressure and some cancers because of that gradual gain in their 30s and 40s."Preventing weight gain is easier because the changes needed are tiny compared with the changes you have to make to lose weight."

The HeLP-her research involved 250 women with the average chronilogical age of 40. Women that walked regularly in groups, were asked to have a healthy lifestyle with regular SMS messages, discussed practical solutions in group meetings using a dietitian and who monitored their weight avoided excess weight through the 12-month study."Women are busy and require support. It will be wonderful to view a treatment program similar to this rolled out to communities around Australia," says Dr Lombard.Just what exactly came out from the study which will help you avoid excess weight?