As a rule, when you desire to shed off weight, the first thing you do is to eat less food than you burn everyday.  The quality of food you eat is key to losing weight and when you take away from your diet foods that are low in nutrients such as caffeine and sugar and replace them with highly nutritious foods, then your body will easily be satiated with less food intake because the body will have adequate nourishment and will not need more food to compensate for anything.

An equally important tip to remember is that exercise also plays an important part in weight loss.  You can speed up the time to achieve your desired weight by assisting your body to burn calories faster through exercise.   Meditation is also a good way to lose weight as it helps reduce tension and stress from the body and soothes the mind of those who suffer from extreme emotions such as anxiety and depression which oftentimes are factors that can cause overeating.

Listed below are some other ways to help lose weight rapidly, safely and effectively.

1. Acupuncture – Palm Harbor Acupuncture is thousands of year old treatment that originated in China.  It is now one of the most popular alternative treatments in the world.  Acupuncture works by enabling blocked energy and blood in the body which cause all kinds of health problems including excessive weight and obesity to flow again normally throughout the body.  A very good benefit of acupuncture for weight watchers is its ability to help a person control his food cravings and binge eating.  Acupuncture also takes care of hormonal imbalances usually encountered by women, which cause physiological problems such as excess weight.  For weight loss, ear acupuncture is the preferred treatment of qualified and well trained acupuncturists for their patients. The acupuncturist will also tape metal balls to the ear so that after session whenever craving starts to stir, a person will rub the metal ball on the ear and it can generate a therapeutic effect the same as the needles give during an acupuncture session. Use of metal balls is only temporary and used in between sessions.
2. Hypnosis – People who have tried hypnosis believe it to be a very strong treatment not only to control appetite but even to treat various health conditions from skin disorders to extreme negative emotions such as anxiety and depression.  Hypnotism does help the patient prevent eating the wring type of foods.
3. Avoiding fad diets – These are usually advertised crash diets or some concoction of various types of food and they only weaken the body including the immune system.  The only thing to remember is to eat wisely, exercise and if you want you can always seek help with acupuncture.