Losing weight has not only been a personal goal for most people, it has also become a lucrative endeavor for most businesses advertising products that enable easy ways to lose weight. Food supplements and medications like Hydroxycut are considered an easy way out of the rigorous labors of losing weight, for a price. Indeed, some cases have shown how heavy a price some unnatural medical interventions proved to be. On May 1, 2009 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning after some Hydroxycut products became linked to actual cases of liver damage, rhabdomyolysis (skeletal muscle breakdown) and at least one death. Some would go for liposuction by which the expensive endeavor promising a guaranteed success also goes hand in hand with the possible and almost inevitable risks involved. But do we always require an expensive and possibly deadly solution? With these above mentioned options, people are willing to overlook the risks and the expenses due to the misconstrued propaganda against traditional means of losing weight.

But this article seeks to clear away any misunderstood notion about the natural means of attaining success in losing weight. This, henceforth, is called the Husband and Wife Formula for successful traditional means of losing weight.

In order to understand this concept, one should think about Diet and Exercise as an inseparable pair like a husband and wife. Diet is a concept centered on strict monitoring of one's food intake. This is very important for people who are medically diagnosed and required to lose weight, such as people suffering from hypertension or diabetes. Dieting is an indispensable means that will aid losing weight and curb the risks from health hazards found in food. Studying nutrition charts could help one attain the kind of weight loss regimen through a form of "passive deterrence". Dieting also serves to be a productive culinary education through the exploration of recipes related to the diet program. This task requires constant passive reflection and far-sighted reckoning.

If Dieting is a form of passive deterrence, Exercise is a form of active deterrence. Exercise is the most orthodox traditional means of losing weight. There are various exercises to choose from and the kind of regimen preferred by someone is often relative to his or her behavior. Some people with a positive outlook and pacifist ideology would go for swimming, kayaking or simply jogging. Some people with competitive and extrovert personality would try sports requiring teamwork such as basketball, volleyball and soccer. There are also people with competitive personality and an often fiery disposition would dare try activities that will challenge their bodies as well as their character, and they find this solution by joining a martial arts club, boxing, extreme aerobics and self-defense classes. Nonetheless all these activities require constant active participation and immediate focus.

Combining Diet and Exercise is a very effective way of losing weight. Diet and Exercise should be treated like husband and wife. In this analogy, a husband and wife should have equal respect and love for each other or at least they must have a happy union, with both of the couples compensating the strengths and weaknesses of one another in order for their relationship to bear fruits. Diet alone or Exercise alone would amount to futile labors, in the same way as either husband or wife alone doing all the effort resulting to irreconcilable differences. The greatest benefit of the natural Husband and Wife Formula is that it does not require unnecessary excessive spending and there are no health risks or side effects. The "Husband and Wife" formula offers a healthy and happy lifestyle, derived from the concept of this essential dual equilibrium.