Healthy Weight Loss. First Things First.

Don't ever want to have drastic body weight loss or you'll endanger your body health badly. 3-4 pounds weekly is the ideal target if you are obese. Of course you can have more than that weekly but I strongly suggest you to have your physicians supervise your diet program.

Why it is not good to have drastic weight loss? Because, when we loose our body weight, we do not only loose fat but also muscle tissue. The fat loss, according to some studies, is about 75% and the muscle tissue loss is about 25%.

In average normal persons, water dominates about 70% their body weight. Fat tissue contains roughly 50% water while muscle tissue 75%. So, if you reduce your weight drastically, most the loss would be water. If you return to your normal eating pattern, you'll be quickly regain your initial weight. Moreover, loosing that much of water in your body will harm your health very badly as water is very essential for our body.

What are the side effects of having drastic body weight loss? There many, but the main 3 side effects are:

• Gallstone. Loosing too much water will expose you to greater risk of having gallstone or causing "silent" gallstone to become active
• Appearance of loose skin. Loosing weight too quickly will not give your skin enough time to shrink to your leaner body shape.
• Weight rebound. Usually, drastic body-weight loss are the results of artificial changes of meal habit, for example through very-low-calory diet plans. Obviously, we still don't have time to be accustomed to the new meal habit. Soon, we'll be back to our normal meal habit and as the result: return to our initial weight quickly.
  

But please be noted that 3-4 pounds weight loss weekly is only for those who obese. If you are not obese but just want to loose some weight, 1-1.5 pounds weekly is sufficient.