More and more teenagers are being classified as overweight or obese. It's an epidemic so severe, some studies suggest that within 20 years 100% of American youth could be overweight-but if you are an overweight teen or you have one in your household, you can fight back. Losing weight will help you live a long, healthy life free of the ridicule and social ostracism that can come with having extra fat on your body.
Most people who are unsuccessful at losing weight either fail to dedicate themselves to the process, or they follow the wrong diet. The good news is, with the right information, teens can lose weight more easily than almost anyone else.
First things first, though: get it out of your head that to lose weight you have to starve yourself. Eating less doesn't work because it causes your metabolism to slow down. As a teenager, you have the potential to have an incredibly fast metabolism, but it depends on certain choices you make. Not necessarily the specific foods you eat-but things like when you eat them, and how long the intervals between your meals are, and when you eat larger vs. smaller portions, are important.
Collectively these techniques are called calorie shifting. Thousands of people have used them to get bodies that they had only dreamed of when they were using typical salad-and-carrots starvation diets. Unfortunately calorie shifting is a new technique and there aren't many diet plans on the market that take full advantage of it yet-but FatLoss4Idiots is one, and it can dramatically speed up your metabolism, helping you lose as much as 9 pounds every 11 days. FatLoss4idiots is easy to follow, too-just enter the foods you like into the online diet generator, and it'll tell you exactly what to eat for the next 11 days.
About the Author:
The author, Aaron Patterson, went from couch potato to kickboxer in less than a year! His favorite passion is helping people get off their butts and start leading healthier, more active lives through his Website, Eliminate the Weight.