How to Get to Your Healthy Weight

Our daughter Lindsay, sent the following link as a suggested post for our blog.  Lindsay is a Registered Dietitian and is our "go-to" person when we are looking to get reliable and up-to-date information about food, eating, metabolism .....just about everything related to nutrition.  Lindsay is also a fitness instructor and is often asked these types of questions by her clients.  Rather than dissect anything from this article, you're getting the whole thing.  It addresses the following:

• Obesity and Health Risks
• What's a Healthy Weight? Body Mass Index (BMI) Defined
• Waist Size Matters Too:  Abdominal Fat and Health Risks
• Keeping Things Level
• What Causes Weight Gain?
• What Leads to Weight Loss?
• Lessons From Losers
• General Strategies for Achieving or Maintaining a Health Weight
• The Bottom Line:  Recommendations for Health Weight
• References

Many of the points above maybe questions you have too.

Here's the link:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-weight/healthy-weight-full-story/