Tips & tricks to losing weight the old fashioned way

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Registered dietitians say 80 percent of America is headed toward a weight loss problem. And they say many people seem to be on a quest for that magic pill to make it all slip away.



So we decided to take a look at losing weight the old fashioned way.

Jay Edenborg's weight gain was a gradual thing, until his doctor started throwing around the word Lipitor, at the young age of 35.

"So something that had always been a bit of a problem, suddenly becomes a bigger problem and then all of a sudden you're at a point you really didn't want to be at," he says.

That moment hit Jay about three years ago, around the same time his daughter Grace was born.

"I just came to the realization, especially as she started getting mobile and I knew I wanted to be an active dad, I knew I wanted to be involved with her in sports or whatever she wanted to do," he says.

Jay says he wasn't about to let something he could control like his weight, to negatively impact the relationship he dreamed of having with his daughter.

And so Jay joined Luther Midelfort dietitian Diane Dressel's health management resources weight loss program, which in its first phase consists of only consuming meal replacement shakes.

"It's a controlled diet, which worked just fine for me," Jay says.

"I think it's critical when people are at their high weight, it's critical for them to see that scale go down, down, down, down. They need the momentum of that, otherwise they give up," Dressel explains.

Jim Jenson and Alice Kleinke are both participants in Dressel's weight loss group.

For Jenson, the father of three young children, it took years of prodding by his doctor, being put on high blood pressure medication, and finally getting gout in his big toe to realize he had to make some changes.

"It was kind of like the last straw, something had to give or I was gonna end up diabetic. Heart problems are in my family, so something had to change or I knew what was coming," Jenson tells us.



"The weight had been creeping up and then I started having medical issues, my blood pressure was going up and I was on two different meds for that and I was pre-diabetic and each year at my physical it got closer and closer to having to go on medication for diabetes," she explains.

"For many people this is life or death I've heard so many stories through the years where people, they're just existing, they're really not living and they get the weight off and they start to enjoy life again," Dressel says.

In Dressel's weight loss group she teaches a variety of tips and tricks to eat better and helps participants set exercising goals.

"What people get out of the group, they get the how to's they develop skills, and today it's thousands of skills and strategies that people have to do to counteract the environment that we're in that's designed to put weight on," Dressel explains.

Dressel, along with other weight loss experts we talked to say losing weight is really only half the battle, maintaining that weight loss which includes learning how to eat healthy, is the key to keeping that weight off.

"When you're looking at a weight loss program you really want to have a lot of vegetables and fruits in your diet," Sacred Heart Hospital registered dietitian Susan Kasik-Miller says.

Kasik-Miller acknowledges that meal replacement shakes do help people lose weight faster than traditional methods, but she says changing your lifestyle to maintain that weight loss is key.

"The only way to maintain your weight loss, and that includes surgical opportunities you may have; the only way to maintain that weight loss long term is to adopt new eating habits that are low calorie, low fat, learning portion control, those are the tools you are gonna need to maintain weight loss long term," she explains.

"If you look at the labels and do a little comparison you'll see that 2 percent milk has 130 calories versus 90 in skim milk. Little things can make a big difference," Kasik-Miller explains.

Kasik-Miller also suggests keeping a food diary, which she says research has shown helps people lose weight. It's also a practice Dressel has her weight loss patients practice.

But both dietitians say exercise is also an important part of losing weight.

"What you are looking for is retention, and retention is to be able to have a lifestyle change and not just jump into some type of a fad diet," Gold's Gym personal trainer Darrin Kelly says.



"I feel really good, I mean my energy level is much better than what it was, I used to come home after work and not have anything else to give, and that's not a problem anymore.

So three years later, and 85 pounds lighter, Jay Edenborg says he's healthy, happy and definitely not talking about Lipitor anymore.

Kasik-Miller suggests some of these healthy recipes found below for some easy to make dinners at home:

Darlene's Healthy Salad

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