Fat Facts

• 58 million adult Americans are well over what health care professionals consider a healthy weight.

• Each year more than half of all Americans try to either lose weight or maintain a recent weight loss. While some people are successful at losing excess weight, most do not succeed at keeping weight off.

• Even modest weight loss can provide such important health benefits as reducing high blood pressure and lowering blood glucose and cholesterol levels.

source:  ADAF http://www.eatright.org/nfs/nfs63.html

My Balanced Approach to Losing Weight

The Universal Balance approach is a method I've created for myself.  

I've had this site for quite some time.  The theme has changed from balancing my life to balancing my weight.  I've gone up and down on the scales so much that I finally decided that yo-yo diets and spurts of exercise alone aren't enough to help me keep the pounds off, so I decided to take a more lifestyle approach to losing weight.

I've discovered that controlling your weight is not like running a marathon.  There is no finish line.  You can't just go on a diet, join a gym, shed the pounds, reach your goal, and go right back to your unhealthy lifestyle.  It is a lifelong commitment.  It will change how you eat, sleep, play, work, socialize, and think.  Once you make the commitment, the world and habits that you have become familiar with will transform in both positive and negative ways.  It takes strength to endure the ups and downs and a deep passion for a healthy lifestyle that you deserve.  A balanced approach to losing weight must address all areas of your new lifestyle.  This is the new approach that I am taking.