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Step 5: Modify Your Diet
Step 6: Break Your Unhealthy Food Habits
Step 7: Get Moving
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Step 9: You CAN SO Do It
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Step 11: Medication and Surgery
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Step 2: What is Your Ideal Weight?
Step 3: Medical Considerations
Step 4: How to Lose Weight the Healthy Way
Step 5: Modify Your Diet
Step 6: Break Your Unhealthy Food Habits
Step 7: Get Moving
Step 8: It is the Little Things
Step 9: You CAN SO Do It
Step 10: Choosing a Weight Loss Program
Step 11: Medication and Surgery
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| Weight loss: Personal stories |
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As you begin a weight loss program, it's helpful to hear how other people overcame hurdles and were successful in meeting their goals. The following stories give two examples of how a weight-loss plan can be carried out. In addition to reading these stories, ask friends and family to support you in your weight-loss goals, and maybe you'll even find someone willing to lose weight with you!
Kim, 52: Has learned the benefits of healthy eating...
Anne, 38: How she finds the motivation to stay active...
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Review Date:
4/17/2007
Reviewed By: Patrika Tsai, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.
Reviewed By: Patrika Tsai, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.
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