Weight loss

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There are tons of information online about this topic and most are misleading because they lead nowhere, only frustration and pain. The best way to lose weight is to train the mind, plain and simple. If you adopt a healthy lifestyle you will lose weight, I can guarantee you that. If you sit on your bum the whole day you won't lose an ounce of fat.

All those crash diets, pills, and guru-like programs are plain marketing. They just want to make money out of you. The information I provide in my page is 100% free and it will remain like that. The only thing that will ever change this ethos is if I either die or decide to put the page down (following anicca).

Anyway, start exercising and following a sensible diet eating as much fresh food as possible (and organic if you can afford it) and make it part of your lifestyle. Weight-loss is achievable if you are able to follow it consistently and the maintain your achievements over a long period of time.

Fasting is excellent way of losing weight but only when combined with a meditative practice, otherwise you will only crash and burn. I will discuss this method in a separate entry.

Activities that will help you to lose weight without undergoing too much stress are the following:

1. Swimming
2. Hiking
3. Walking for long distances
4. Cycling
5. Cross-country skiing is also great it you happen to live in a mountainous area.

I never advice running due to the excessive stress that it places on the spine and the lower body (knees and ankle joints and ligaments). Same goes with rowing due to lower back strain.