America is getting fat. Statistically speaking, 64.5 percent of Americans aged 20 and above are currently overweight, and 30.5 percent are obese. These percentages are vastly higher than years passed. Many people have obesity related health problems and diseases such as type two diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and many others. Being overweight or obese also increases your chances of stroke and heart attack. You would think with all of these drawbacks, people would make an attempt to be healthy and stay in shape. But it seems that the opposite is happening. People are becoming more and more obese. A rise in fast food, processed sugars and inactive lifestyles can be part of the blame. People are working more, spending more time away from home and stopping for a quick bite on their way home. Before you know it, your jeans don’t fit and you’re short of breath when walking up a flight of stairs.

Frustration, yo-yo, hungry, low-fat, low-carb and all-liquid. These can all be terms tied to the different diets that are available. We all know someone that is on, has been on or will be on a diet. Most of us have gone on one our self. There’s no doubt that most people are not satisfied with their body, so they turn to diets. Diets basically restrict the number of calories you eat in order to help in weight loss. The most successful diet plans include exercise. Going on a diet should not be taken lightly.

How much do you weigh? It’s a question that makes everyone’s skin crawl after a certain age. Although most people do in fact know how much they weigh, or have an idea, no one likes to answer that question. With Americans and others all around the world having monumental weight increases, everyone seems unhappy with their weight. Even some of the healthiest people out there are ashamed of their bodies.

Have you ever gone on a diet? Chances are if you’ve gone on one, you’ve gone on ten. Most people that diet find themselves caught in the spiral of serial dieting. They have some success on a diet, only to gain the weight they lost back once they stop dieting, and usually gain a few extra pounds. Then they start again later as part of a new year’s resolution or to get into shape for the summer, only to have the same thing happen. Others simply give up and resign that they are forever doomed to be out of shape and overweight. But just because you’ve been on diets that didn’t work in the past, doesn’t mean you can’t be successful and take control of your health. There are several diets to choose from that you can be successful at if you follow them properly. The key is finding a diet that will work for you and your preferences.

Losing weight. There are so many questions surrounding this popular subject. How do you start, what's the best diet, do you have to exercise. All of these are some of the things that might pass through the mind of someone wanting to tackle weight loss to get rid of a few pounds. The concerns can be even more rigorous for those needing to lose large amounts of weight. It's all so overwhelming sometimes. You think about how easy it seems to be to put on weight, and then how hard you have to work to get it off. It just seems unfair. Why can't weight disappear as quickly as it suddenly appeared and started making our jeans hard to fit into?

Have you ever fantasized about having your dream body? If you pay attention to any type of mainstream media, you’ve seen the hard bodies of celebrities, super models and many others on the cover of magazines, in movies and on television. Many people that are glorified as having great bodies don’t represent the norm. However, there are a number of people that suffer from obesity, or have weight-related diseases that give them health problems. It doesn’t have to be that way though. There are tons of resources available to keep you healthy, or help you get healthy. By making some simple changes to your diet and incorporating exercise into your everyday life, you can easily get into shape.

Contrary to popular opinion, diet doesn’t have to be an evil four letter word. Because of all the fad dieting, unhealthy diet gimmicks and yo-yo effects of some diets, people have made the word out to be something negative. The word diet actually means food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition and its effects on health. So pretty much anything you eat or drink is part of your diet. Because the more popular definition of diet consists of restriction or limitation of the food that a person eats in order to lose weight, that’s where the negativity comes. Whenever you think of or mention a diet, you might cringe, but it doesn’t have to be all bad.

When it comes to losing weight, one of two elements that you usually have to have is dieting. The other element that’s important is exercise. But how do you figure out the best way to do both and get the best results? There are some diets out there that allow you to lose weight without emphasizing the exercise portion. Some of the more successful diets do emphasize the importance of pairing with exercise. Dieting can be a very difficult undertaking when considering how many different formats are available. It’s hard to sort through diets to find which ones are healthy and which ones are just gimmicks. A typical rule of thumb is if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Diets that promise unrealistic results in a short amount of time are sure to lead to your wallet being the only thing that’s thinner. Experts suggest a steady weight loss at the rate of one to two pounds per week. Of course those numbers might vary the first couple of weeks that you are on a diet, but losing more weight than that for an extended time can be unhealthy.