Over the years, my friend had tried all sorts of diets such as the famous Atkins diet – a low-carb weight loss plan.

There was also the Soup diet – a 7-day plan comprising of eating only soup leading to a substantial weight loss in a short amount of time as it was designed for obese patients needing to lose weight quickly before having surgery.

She tried the Food Combining Diet – eating certain foods in combination and avoiding mixing carbs and protein on the same day, supposed to speed up weight loss.

Next she decided Complan – a diet that guarantees weight loss as major meals are replaced with quite a tasty calorie-controlled drink - was the way to go.

She also gave the low calorie "fad" diets, found in gossip magazines, a go!

Though there are more that I haven't listed, you get the idea. Ultimately, there wasn't a diet in existence that she hadn't tried!

Most of the time, these diets did do what they promised. Weight loss ensued and for a few weeks afterwards too. However, once my friend returned to her "normal" lifestyle, naturally, so too the weight returned with it, as well as disappointment and the feeling she had wasted her time.

That was when she went to a dietician who told her that natural weight loss was possible if she combined a healthy diet with a little daily exercise. Simply put, all she had to do was burn up more calories per day than she was eating. Not that this was news to her. I mean, let's face it, everyone knows that!

What most people don't know is that with a relatively small amount of high-powered exercise, weight loss is possible. The key is to do it regularly, ideally, daily.

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