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Dear
KRS,
I am concerned about a friend of mine. She walks a lot during the summer and last year lost a lot of weight walking. The problem is she gained it back again in the winter months, and this summer she plans to do the same thing she did last summer. Is putting on and losing weight so rapidly healthy?
Yo Yo Dieting Friend
Dear Yo Yo,
Gaining and losing weight repeatedly can play havoc with your metabolism and helps explain the sticky scale syndrome experienced by so many chronic dieters. However, walking is an excellent, safe way to lose weight.
Unfortunately, a change of weather is too often followed by a change in exercise and good diet motivation. Your friend needs to acknowledge the impending "brick wall" of fall schedules, weather and shorter daylight hours ahead and modify her exercise program accordingly. If she can figure a way to keep it up year round she won't have to take her body and mind through such an ongoing ordeal.
And now YOUR assignment: Resist the temptation to give friends (or family) unsolicited advice, even though your intentions are good. Everyone needs to learn her own lessons and uninvited advice is usually taken as criticism which only slows down the process. Worse, it can lose friends.
KRS
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