Losing the Last Ten Pounds is the Hardest Part of any Diet Confirms Weight-Loss Expert...

Losing the Last Ten Pounds is the Hardest Part of any Diet Confirms
Weight-Loss Expert and Author Dr. Sanford Siegal

South Florida physician Sanford Siegal, D.O., M.D., explains why the Law of
Diminishing Returns applies to weight loss and reveals how to overcome this
obstacle to reaching a normal weight

MIAMI, April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Sanford Siegal, Medical Director of Miami,
Florida-based weight-loss practice, Siegal Medical Group, today confirmed the
widely held suspicion among dieters that the most challenging part of reaching
a healthful weight is shedding the last ten pounds.

"Losing that last ten pounds is, in fact, the greatest challenge, but it's
more complicated than that," said Dr. Siegal. "It's more accurate to say that
the next pound is harder to lose than the previous one because, like it or
not, the Law of Diminishing Returns applies to weight loss. The more you lose,
the harder it is to lose more."

In his forthcoming book, Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet Book (Hyde Park Publishers,
Ltd.), Dr. Siegal explains that the more one weighs, the more calories he
burns just transporting his own weight. As a dieter sheds pounds, the amount
of calories he burns simply going about his normal routine decreases.

"One of the great ironies in losing weight is that your own weight helps you
lose it," continued Dr. Siegal. "A person who weighs 250 pounds burns many
more calories performing the same activity as one who weighs 150 pounds."

According to Dr. Siegal, many overweight people don't recognize that carrying
excess fat inside their bodies takes the same amount of energy as carrying
around an object of the same weight.

In his practice, in order to put things into perspective for his patients, Dr.
Siegal asks them to imagine what their life would be like if they were to
strap a fifty pound weight to their body and never take it off except to sit
or lie down. In most cases, he says, people recognize the tremendous amount of
effort they would have to expend just to go about their normal activities.
They have no trouble imagining how taxing it would be to ascend a flight of
stairs, take out the trash, or put away the groceries. Yet, while they are
able to imagine the consequences of carrying around a heavy weight, few of his
patients recognize that they are already doing so.

"Someone who is fifty pounds overweight at 200 pounds uses the same amount of
energy to get around as a 150 pound person with a fifty pound weight strapped
to her body," continued Dr. Siegal. "Imagine how many extra calories you would
burn if you were to lug a fifty pound barbell everywhere you went!"

In his book, and on his web site, CookieDiet.com, Dr. Siegal provides free
tools to help people cheat the Law of Diminishing Returns and lose weight at a
fast, predictable, and consistent pace, even when they reach the hurdle of the
last ten pounds.

ABOUT SANFORD SIEGAL, D.O., M.D.
Sanford Siegal, D.O., M.D., is a practicing physician whose South Florida
medical practice, Siegal Medical Group, has treated more than 500,000
overweight patients. Although he has achieved notoriety for his books on such
subjects as high fiber diets, hunger control without drugs, and
hypothyroidism, he is best known as the Cookie Doctor(R) behind the venerable
Dr. Siegal's COOKIE DIET(R) weight-loss program and hunger-controlling foods.
Dr. Siegal is frequently in the news and has been profiled by dozens of media
including Good Morning America, The New York Times, The Today Show, National
Post, and Forbes.

SOURCE Siegal Medical Group

Media Relations, Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet, CookieDiet.com, 1-877-377-4342
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