The constantly rising graph of obesity in the United States has triggered the demand for weight loss programs. These programs are not always advised by healthcare centers. Nowadays, there is a growing awareness about the hazards of obesity, thus inspiring more and more people to take some novel steps towards losing weight.
Classification of Weight Loss Programs :
I. Do-It-Yourself Program: This program can be initiated with the support of like-minded people, groups, or communities. Those vying for a Do-It-Yourself program rely on their own judgment, group support, diet books or charts available in stores. However, one must be careful since all diet books do not offer genuine information on weight loss.
II. Non-clinical Program: This program may or may not be commercial-oriented. A number of these programs are circulated through privately-owned weight-loss chains, which use books and pamphlets prepared by healthcare providers. Non-clinical programs offer counselors (who may or may not be professional trainers) for advice.
III. Clinical Programs: These are generally commercial-oriented and licensed by health professionals like physicians, nutritionists, psychologists. Clinical programs are provided in health-care settings as hospitals. The program allows patients complete services on nutrition education, medical care, physical activity, and behavior change therapy.
Clinical programs also include other weight-loss methods:
i. Very low calorie diets
ii. Prescription drugs
iii. Bariatric Surgery
The selection of weight loss programs depends on individual choice. However, one must remember that mental preparation is highly essential prior to indulging in any sort of weight-reduction program. If an individual is not emotionally prepared to undergo a weight loss session, then things won’t work out well. In fact, lack of mental preparation or emotional stress often leads the patient to acquire more weight. That is why quality weight loss programs include psychological counseling to overcome emotional stress and enable the patient cope with his changed lifestyle.
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1. Which of the following most accurately defines good health today?A. The ability to recover from an illness
B. The ability to endure a 30-minute workout
C. The absence of disease
D. Complete physical, mental, and emotional well-being
2. Which of the following is important in maintaining a healthy lifestyle?
A. Getting less than six hours of sleep a night
B. Developing muscular bulk
C. Monitoring your diet
D. Exercising at least three hours each day
3. Which of the following is good for your health?
A. Smoking
B. Positive behavioral change
C. Substance abuse
D. Eating fatty foods
4. Which of these factors is most important in your fitness program?
A. Consistency
B. Joining a health club
C. Doing stretching exercises
D. Using mirrors in your exercise program
5. Which of the following statements is true?
A. Unexercised muscles turn into fat.
B. Unexercised muscles lose bulk but don't atrophy.
C. Regular exercise makes muscles firm and strong.
D. Exercise slows down your metabolism.
6. Cardiovascular fitness exercises strengthen which two organs?
A. Heart and brain
B. Liver and lungs
C. Brain and liver
D. Heart and lungs
7. What five fitness goals should you set for any comprehensive fitness program?
A. Flexibility, endurance, substantial weight loss, proper nutrition, and muscle power
B. Disease prevention, fad diets, coordination, muscular bulk, and relaxation
C. Flexibility, endurance, muscle power, proper nutrition and weight control, and relaxation
D. Disease prevention, endurance, tight muscles, fast-food diet, and thin appearance
8. Which of the following is the major cause of most back problems?
A. Muscular weakness and lack of flexibility
B. Long drives in an automobile
C. A poor mattress
D. Unaligned posture
9. High blood pressure is the major risk factor for
A. cancer.
B. stroke.
C. osteoporosis.
D. muscular atrophy.
10. Endorphins help rid the body of
A. cholesterol.
B. fat.
C. sodium.
D. acid.
11. Good health was once viewed as a combination of
A. having a good doctor and eating three hearty meals a day.
B. possessing good personal habits and good luck.
C. living in the right place and possessing good personal habits.
D. good luck and the right parentage.
12. To maintain a healthy weight, it's important to avoid being
A. five pounds or more overweight.
B. 10 percent or more over the suggested weight for your height.
C. either overweight or underweight.
D. underweight by five pounds or more.
13. Who is primarily responsible for your health?
A. You
B. Your doctor
C. Your family
D. The medical care system
14. Which of the following statements is true regarding the benefits of managing your health?
A. Your self-esteem will decrease.
B. You'll have more energy and improved cardiovascular health.
C. Your metabolism will decrease, allowing for higher caloric intake.
D. Your stress levels will increase.
15. There's no health advantage to changing your weight if
A. it's within the range on the weight tables.
B. you feel energetic.
C. your waist-to-hip ratio places you at risk.
D. you've never been successful at dieting.
16. Personal fitness trainers usually work with
A. employees in a corporation.
B. parks and recreation departments.
C. individuals seeking a more personalized workout.
D. hospital nutritionists.
17. According to this study unit, which of the following is acceptable nutritional advice?
A. Lose weight as fast as you can.
B. Skip one meal a day, other than breakfast.
C. Eat every meal quickly to speed up your metabolism.
D. Eat three meals a day at regular times.
18. What is the number of beats per minute for an average resting heart?
A. 64
B. 72
C. 80
D. 96
19. Which of the following is considered a fitness goal?
A. Watching a physical exercise program on television
B. Obtaining optimal weight where you feel your best and you have healthy eating habits
C. Relaxing for 10 minutes once a week
D. Developing muscles only by lifting weights
20. Which of the following statements is true?
A. Lungs are strengthened through cardiovascular exercise.
B. Inactive people find it easier to change lifestyle habits than active people.
C. Regular exercise softens bones.
D. Psychiatrists avoid recommending exercise as a way of dealing with depression.
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November 12th, 2009 on 8:35 pm
Wow! I just love Abraham, Esther and Jerry! Thank you so much!!!!!!! I got my results!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 12th, 2009 on 9:00 pm
oh my, I just had the weirdest experience… I stepped on the scale and the number shocked me a little at first – 116 lbs! But that wasn’t the weird part, the weird part was my reaction! I was like >Yay! 116 lbs! Bless this contrast that gives me the opportunity to desire other than that! Now as I am more allowing every day I expect the number on the scale to go down and down and down… I must be doing really well if that was my reation…
November 12th, 2009 on 9:22 pm
I thought the first time I heard this: “AH HA ! not this one Abraham, I think for first time your wrong.” Well I did listen and I made personal & dietary changes carefully. I am at least 20 lbs smaller in FAR better health and it’s only been two months since I heard this. AS ALWAYS ABRAHAM & FRIENDS THANK U AGAIN. YOU were right, I wasn’t thinking about it properly!
November 12th, 2009 on 8:28 pm
What you need to do is ditch this Anne Collins thing and go to a weight loss spa. I went to Fitness Ridge Weight Loss Spa in St. George, UT and lost 34 pounds in 4 weeks. Great hiking and terrific staff.
Stop wasting your time with this Anne Collins stuff.
November 12th, 2009 on 9:34 pm
If you would give anything to lose this weight then start making a plan and stick with it:
1. Get a physical from your doctor informing him that you want to lose weight.
2. Find a local community gym that is free. If not, find a gym that is close to where you live and join. Or you can start out by just walking daily without joining a gym. This might be frightful to you because you are big and may feel that others are looking at you…………WHO CARES !
3. 150 pounds to lose is a lot of weight. You may need to see a counselor to find out why you are addicted to food while losing the weight.
4. You need to buy a book on binge eating/food addiction so that you can find out what type of relationship you have with food. Please keep in mind the following:
You already know how to lose weight. You know that if you eat less and exercise more eventually you’ll see the pounds come off. What’s getting in your way? Why do you usually regain the weight you lost? The answer to all these questions is the same “Emotional Eating.” Simply defined, emotional eating means you eat to satisfy emotional hunger; it means you use food for comfort or as a way to cope with life; and it means you eat for reasons other than what your body needs. Whenever you reach for a boredom-breaking snack despite your commitment, or whenever you eat to quell anxiety, that’s emotional eating. Whenever you binge after a fight, or double up on portions because your day turned sour, that’s emotional eating. Whenever you feel that sharp craving for your favorite food, that’s emotional eating. When we eat during these times while on a diet, we believe the diet doesn’t work or that we lack self control and then look for the quickest way to lose weight (fasting/diet pills, ect) after eating all we can since we already messed the diet day up.
Get control of your emotional eating and any diet will work. Best of Luck !
Diets do work
Diets can work but because we know so little about ourselves and our relationship with food, it makes it difficult to win the battle. A lot of us have problems with dieting because we have a problem called "emotional eating" we eat to comfort ourselves during difficult, stressful, sad, etc times in our lives.
You may experience all those emotions during dieting as we continuously get on the scale hoping to see a big difference in numbers after dieting only for a day or two. Also what is stressful when dieting is that we try to lose a large number of weight in such a short period of time which in most cases is unreasonable.
This all brings about stress, discomfort and sadness. When we feel this way, we turn to our best friend for help and support which for many of us is food. The diet is now broken and we feel that we can't stick to diets. We then try fad diet after fad diet hoping to lose the original 20 pounds and now we may have as much as 30 pounds to lose because we continue to put on weight as we continue to break these fad diets by binging for starting our next diet.
Please learn about your relationship with food before your next diet so that you may achieve your goals. To help a little, keep in mind the following:
You already know how to lose weight. You know that if you eat less and exercise more eventually you’ll see the pounds come off. What’s getting in your way? Why do you usually regain the weight you lost? The answer to all these questions is the same “Emotional Eating.” Simply defined, emotional eating means you eat to satisfy emotional hunger; it means you use food for comfort or as a way to cope with life; and it means you eat for reasons other than what your body needs. Whenever you reach for a boredom-breaking snack despite your commitment, or whenever you eat to quell anxiety, that’s emotional eating. Whenever you binge after a fight, or double up on portions because your day turned sour, that’s emotional eating. Whenever you feel that sharp craving for your favorite food, that’s emotional eating. When we eat during these times while on a diet, we believe the diet doesn’t work or that we lack self control and then look for the quickest way to lose weight (fasting/diet pills, ect) after eating all we can since we already messed the diet day up. Read the information below but remember that emotional eating plays a big part in why we don’t continue dieting and why we regain lost weight and why we binge today and start a new diet tomorrow. Best of Luck.
P.S. After learning about my relationship with food, I was able to drop my weight from 263 pounds down to 151 pounds which is a 112 pound weight lost
November 12th, 2009 on 11:53 pm
Last year I was able to drop 16 pounds. In addition to jogging I joined a weight loss center in Ohio. Maybe you should try becoming a member of a weight loss clinic in Georgia.
http://www.weightlossexercisetips.com/Georgia-Weight-Loss-Clinics.html
It would have been impossible to loose the weight without some help and encouragement. I now feel great and glad that I did not put it off.
November 13th, 2009 on 2:19 pm
that is very possible…..
go jr go
November 13th, 2009 on 5:59 pm
The only way to lose weight and keep it off:
Diet and Exercise
Diet and Exercise
Diet and Exercise
There are no shortcuts!
If you're really serious about losing weight, prove it. Weight watchers is a healthy and reasonable solution.
November 14th, 2009 on 7:58 am
A warm and gentle person with a great sense of humor
November 14th, 2009 on 5:40 am
Sounds like you are doing all the right stuff. Think about the rice dishes once a week, moderately, and add more spices …… Sounds like your doing all the good right things tho!!!!!
Being a diabetic myself, I've had to omit, bread, sugar, and starch…..and incorporate more veggies, and salads, and poultry,,,, no red meats. So I can relate. But sounds like your doing well.
November 14th, 2009 on 12:51 pm
Thank You Abraham-Hicks
GloZell
November 14th, 2009 on 12:30 pm
Fat People and lots of patience!!!
November 15th, 2009 on 1:55 am
Thanks.
November 14th, 2009 on 7:59 pm
Yes! http://www.sparkpeople.com .. you can customize the diet plans according to your food preferences, weight,age , fitness level etc. Best part is that it's all free. I've been using sparkpeople since july and I've lost 50lbs…so I know it works!
November 14th, 2009 on 9:11 pm
Sounds like a test question. C appears to be the most accurate answer.
November 15th, 2009 on 7:14 am
I Love You Abraham!!! Thank You!! Thank You!! Thank You!! <3<3<3 ; )
November 15th, 2009 on 8:20 am
I love you Abraham!
November 16th, 2009 on 2:18 am
It’s the bouncing off place to soooo much more =)