by Skylar Majesta King

Created on: March 16, 2009

Many of the diet and weight loss products and services in today's marketplace appeal to a desire to be thin and attractive as quickly as possible. Some even guarantee a dramatic weight loss in a very short time, even within a week or less. The fact remains, however, that losing weight at a seemingly lightning speed can be extremely dangerous, even deadly. However, in spite of the risks and the medical profession's overall aversion to many products and services aimed at speedy weight loss, many individuals continue to pursue fast paths to weight reduction.

Furthermore, while a slower and safer rate of weight loss is advocated by doctors and other professionals in the medical fields, the issue of motivation continues to influence the situation. For example, individuals may need to lose a large amount of weight in order to have needed surgery, or for health-related or other reasons. They may, however, not have the motivation they need to even start a slower weight loss diet or program, or to maintain the high degree of motivation required to lose after they get started, especially if reaching their goal weights require many long days, weeks, and months of diets and programs. In such cases, a faster rate of weight loss may offer an effective solution.

But while fast weight loss is not healthy, it is still very possible to lose weight at a significantly quicker rate than otherwise thought possible, if a few simple guidelines are observed:

#1. ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE. Make every pound lost and even every successful daily attempt a reason to celebrate. Don't make the mistake of accentuating the negative or ignoring the hard work and success you are making each day. Examples include: a) Getting on the scale and discovering you lost two pounds and celebrating your success with a reward, examples of which will be provided later in this article. This is instead of feeling unhappy and thinking you should have lost more, and b) Feeling very tempted and wanting to eat a candy bar one day but going out and taking a walk instead, thereby allowing you to give yourself another reward at the end of the day for your successful effort at sticking to your weight loss plan, whatever it may be. Both of these examples may seem like small achievements that you don't think much of rewarding. However, it is just such opportunities to appreciate and affirm your seemingly small accomplishments that will allow you to not only continue but go on to even larger successes.

#2. ESTABLISH A PERSONALIZED

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