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When you begin a diet, the last thing you need is a nightmare weight loss plan, but for many people that is exactly where they begin. A weight loss plan must be healthy and allow you to lose weight steadily rather than like a yo-yo. Yet, when you try to lose weight too quickly, this is where you find yourself.

Calorie counting is less important than finding a healthy way to eat, and that means eating three meals a day composed of healthy foods rather than attempting to skip meals. Strangely enough many people feel the less food they consume, the more weight they will lose, and, though in theory, that is true, in reality it is not.

That statement probably totally confuses you, so allow this simple explanation. To lose weight, you must burn off more calories than you consume. To elaborate, you naturally must consume fewer calories, but you also must consume an amount that keeps your body healthy and your metabolism in top condition.

Where people make a mistake and create a nightmare weight loss plan is when they think they can skip breakfast, relieving hunger pangs with just water, and have a lunch that consists of no more than a yogurt or some other very light/low calorie food. This is fine if you eat breakfast, but if you fail to eat the most important meal of the day, your weight loss plan will fail, and you will find your weight loss bringing you to a plateau.

In order to effectively lose weight, you have to throw out those starvation diets and find a healthy plan that includes all of your essential nutrients. Even with this, you do not want to skip meals but distribute the food throughout the three meals of the day.

When you skip meals, you allow your body to enter into the starvation mode, which slows down your metabolism, thus preventing you from burning calories at the same rate. It’s also essential to include exercise, even if it’s only walking, and drink eight full glasses of water every day.

The key issue is not how quickly you can lose weight, but to lose it gradually, so that it doesn’t come back. The slower you lose weight, the more likely you are to keep it off, because slowly losing means you are probably developing new eating habits.

With any single nightmare weight loss plan, you will not learn new eating habits, and that is the most important part of maintaining weight loss. You gained weight because you did not eat properly, so to lose that weight and keep it off, you have to learn new, healthier eating habits. A weight loss plan has to incorporate all of the essentials in nutrition and health in order for it to be of any benefit. It isn’t good enough to just lose weight—you have to learn to eat, so you maintain the new weight and health you have acquired.