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The No-Diet Approach to Weight Control

Weight Gain Shockers Slideshow

Dr. Melissa Stoppler, Editor of MedicineNet.com discusses a successful no-diet weight loss program.

Listen now to Dr. Melissa Stoppler discuss the no-diet approach to losing weight. (MP3 3:46min 1.73MB)

The following is a partial transcript taken from this audio broadcast:

"Dr. Stoppler, I am always working on a diet and I've decided since they never work for me I'm going  to take the word 'diet' out of what I'm trying to do and just call it a weight loss program.  Do you think you can give me a specific example of a successful 'no-diet' weight loss program?  Sure, I think you've made a wise decision. I think that the best way to lose weight and keep it off  is to make some gradual and small modifications in your lifestyle, rather than to follow a strict and restrictive diet that is just going to make you feel deprived and hypoglycemic most of the time.  Let's take the case of a woman in her mid-forties who complains that she put on 12 pounds in the past year... "

Listen to the entire audio segment of The No-Diet Approach to Weight Control in this edition of / Checking Your Pulse/.

Read MedicineNet article: Weight Loss on MedicineNet.com.

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