Welcome to Healthy Weight Loss Guide

You see ads featuring skinny models selling everything from cars to beer. Many people think that that is the "normal" size that everyone should be. Most models are way too thin - and way too unhealthy!

Healthy weight loss should mean healthy eating habits and exercising for optimal fitness. You don't have to exercise to the point of exhaustion for results.

Quick Weight loss Does't Mean Healthy Weight Loss.

Think about this. You've made the decision to lose weight as quickly as possible. You have your diet in place and you expect to follow it religiously. At this point, you may be wondering how much weight you can lose in a given week and whether fast weight loss can be dangerous for your body. There are a number of things that can affect your weight loss. For instance, family history, or genetics, can play a significant role. Also, your weight loss may depend upon how much exercise you're engaging in, as well as how much stress you are under. Your metabolism, or how quickly you burn calories, can also have a major effect.

Theoretically, you could lose as much as 20 pounds a week. However, much of that weight could be water weight. That means that, once you go off your diet, you are likely to gain much of that weight back. Also, unless you engage in strength training, you will be losing muscle as well as fat, since about 1/4 of the body's weight consists of muscle. It is interesting to note that, at most, you can probably lose four pounds of fat in a given week.