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Great article entitled "No Gimmicks: Eat Less and Exercise More" on the New York Times site. I love it. People always ask me what I've done to lose weight and I tell them, "I eat less and I exercise more. I wish I could tell you it is easy but it is not." You'd be surprised how many of the people I give this advice to look dejected... as if they were hoping I would say that I took a magic pill. Here is a philosophy I've totally adopted: Gradual weight loss, achieved on an eating-and-exercise regimen that you can sustain indefinitely, is most likely to be permanent weight loss. I've lost a lot of weight and added a lot of muscle over the past six years. Overall I'm down 71.6 pounds and I'm sure I've added quite a bit of lean muscle mass as well because I'm stronger than ever. As if you needed another reason to shed the pounds here is another interesting tidbit from the same article: Based on 7,000 studies of 17 kinds of cancer, it concluded that being overweight now ranks second only to smoking as a preventable cause of cancer. Wow. I know many of my friends, family and colleagues would never smoke because of the health risks, but many of them are overweight. Now here is more solid evidence that being overweight can kill you.
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