If you have wasted years of your life trying to lose weight by dieting and/or exercising and had no success, I urge you to try this:

Give up the dieting! - Diets don't work; they really DO NOT WORK.

Instead of limiting your food intake, limit your intake of salt/sodium. - By avoiding salt and salty food you will lose excess fluid from your body, because it is salt that is holding that excess fluid in your body. - Everyone who is overweight has some fluid retention and that is the problem that needs to be addressed. - You've wasted years being unsuccessful with your diets. - Surely you could spare a couple of weeks or a month trying the salt reduction way of losing weight? - You would not have to give it up because of hunger, or because you have no energy or feel cold. - These are problems associated with dieting, not with losing weight the way that I have suggested to you.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, heart attack, vascular dementia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs, hunger or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

And see Sodium in foods and

http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/story.html - my 'political' page

http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/socio.html - social and economic considerations

amitriptyline

prescribed steroids and HRT

See advice for pregnant mothers

Children and Obesity

Associated health conditions

and FAT RETENTION

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