Can a health and fitness book help you lose weight?
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Re: Can a health and fitness book help you lose weight?
All joking aside...you have to be self-motivated.
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Well put!LeannMA wrote:I think a health and fitness book can help a person loose weight in the same way a self help book can give a person confidence. A person can read on any topic and choose to believe the information to be true or false. A person can also read a book, such as a health and fitness book, and not apply any approach learned. Whether it be reading books on strategies for loosing weight or self help books on ways to improve confidence, a person will only succeed if they choose to use the information and put forth the effort to applying the information.
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Mum died of heart failure at 66. dad is still running circles around us at 90. I think this says something about "dieting". Me? I've gained at midlife, nothing awful...from size four to size eight...that's not hippo like or anything. I Love walking my dogs miles and miles. My job has me on my feet almost full time. I don't think any diet really works, it has to be a change in lifestyle or you lose the weight on a diet, then it comes back if you go back to your old habits.
If you follow a book and KEEP following the book you can keep your weight reasonable certainly.
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It took several years for me to get control of my weight and it was all through reading and experimenting with what the books I read were telling me.
Basically, I would have a question like how to get rid of tummy fat and would find authors who wrote about this. In the days before the internet this was a slow process. Now getting the answers is a Google away of course, but it still requires my own empirical research and asking the right questions.
So, yes, books help immensely but so does taking action: 50-50 or maybe more like 30 (books-70 (action).
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