Join a health club and commit yourself to working out no fewer than three days a week. Then get your activity in other ways. Try walking to work instead of taking the bus. Use your lunch hour to take a walk or to make use of an employee fitness room at your job. Take the stairs instead of elbowing your way into the elevator.
Conventional wisdom holds true.
Healthy diet and exercise are the cornerstones of proper weight management. Despite the warnings from physicians about taking short cuts to weight loss, many young women choose fad diets, go on starvation diets, skip meals, or take diet pills because they want to obtain the glamorized image of thinness and beauty. But, some young women are being influenced by advertisements for popular diet drugs that promise a 'natural' way to shed pounds quickly. Taking some of these pills can be risky business, cautions Dr. Wax. For one thing, the product might not even work.