If you are 100 pounds or more overweight, extreme weight loss can be crucial to your health and will also eventually save your life. However, extreme weight loss is not without risk. A safe and effective extreme weight loss diet requires a healthy combination of fitness, diet, and lifestyle changes. If you are extremely overweight, you are not going to be able to go right out and start running 5 miles per day or doing yoga. At the same time, it is going to be difficult and dangerous to cut down to a 1,500 calorie per day diet. But there are things you can do that will begin to help immediately and will change your body and health for the better over the long run.
If you really want to start the weight loss process and maintain it, it is important to have a long term plan and to start with small steps but make sure that you continue to make progress. For example, if you are 6 feet tall and weigh 400 pounds, and are shooting to get back to 200 pounds, you need to realize that this is something that is probably going to take some time. Most likely it will take a year or even two years. It is not going to happen overnight. If it does you are losing weight at a dangerous rate and should consult a physician on the safety of your program.