Wellness and Weight Loss Approach One-Pager

[Lowell: here is an article I published to my personal blog back in May of 2009]

I’ve taken time away from writing for the last month to do lots of research across a range of topics.  We’re still working on a clinical issue of some sort with Cailyn and I also decided I wanted a similar level of understanding with regards to exercise topics (resistance, endurance, and anaerobic types)… so I’ve been in information gathering mode and couldn’t quite get myself to flip the switch over to information distribution mode.

I want to take a few minutes to lay out my current overall approach and guidelines, as I think it’s important to help tie things together.  So, here we go.

First, I’d like to quickly touch on weight loss, as this is often the most important thing people are looking for.  The approach here, overall, is all about overall health and wellness (which includes weight), but weight loss is often the most important concern.  The benefits of the rules below are not limited to weight loss, and in fact I consider the other benefits—long term disease prevention, mood, energy levels… overall wellness—to be far more important.  But weight loss is where it all usually begins.