The New Year's resolution made is "reduce unwanted weight," followed tightly by "getting into shape." There is no age group restriction on attempting to look great and feel great. Dieting and exercise often are both equal opportunity endeavors. Here are some top healthy diet tips to follow.
Males and females of all nationalities and those who are youthful, aged, or perhaps somewhere in between are all encouraged to join hundreds of thousands of others in consuming less and working out more in search of looking better and getting healthier.
The initial step in a dieting and exercise program is generally determining what KIND of diet to use. There are plenty of alternatives. You are able to pick a diet plan that needs that you count calories, carbohydrates, or fat grams. You are able to pick one that features various techniques that produces counting calorie intake, carbs, or fat grams less complicated or perhaps simpler.
You can choose a diet where meals are delivered to you weekly or month-to-month ready to eat and in the proper serving size. Altering your own routine of eating could be a bit distressing for your digestive system. You need to make certain that your current health is good enough for you to make a serious changes without disturbing your system.
Be warned: dieting, even moderate and practical dieting, can upset your digestive system. Our body demands particular vitamins, minerals, and trace elements to perform properly. Consuming less food can cause a debt from the lack of nutrients provided to the body.
The thought of any good diet would be to eat less however to eat a well-balanced diet that provides the entire body with every one of the "things" that it requires to perform the right way. Check out more healthy diet tips at my website below.
For a FREE 7 Part Video Course on need to know healthy diet tips visit http://freediettips.org
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Roger_Ruzzier
Showing posts with label Diets dont work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diets dont work. Show all posts
Thursday, 6 May 2010
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Make Positive Changes - Avoid Dieting
Why is it that merely saying the word "diet" immediately fills your head with thoughts of failure? Maybe it's because we've all learned through trial and error that diets simply don't work for most people? You're probably thinking "isn't this an article about dieting?" Yes and no. For many people dieting seems like the kiss of death, but for others a lifestyle adjustment like changing your diet could be just the thing that will mean success for you and your fitness and health goals.
Let's admit it, the majority of us love to eat. For some people, eating is an addiction. We don't like to feel deprived and a diet that never allows us to have a cookie of piece of cake can be pure torture. Eating stuff that tastes like cardboard can make you not want to eat at all. Unfortunately, you can't exactly give up eating all together. You have to eat to survive. This means that if food is a problem in your life, you should probably find a healthier way of viewing food.
Isn't this where diets generally come in handy? The short answer is no. This is where diets often fail. Diets do very little to change how we view food. In fact, most diets only serve to tell us which foods are good, which foods are bad, and which foods (typically most of the foods we enjoy most) are strictly taboo. Diets begin by forcing people to feel deprived or punished. And no one likes to feel either of these things.
Even worse however, is that we punish ourselves further when we slip up and stray off the straight and very narrow pathways upon which our diets place us. Then we wallow in guilt over every little misstep we take until we give up and decide to over indulge once again, completely ignoring the guilt.
In order to have real success you must make a lifestyle change. This is the only way that you will be able to shed those unwanted pounds without experiencing the horrible guilt that so many dieters go through each and every step of the way. Set goals for yourself. Keep them aggressive but realistic for fitness, dropping pounds, and eating new healthy foods. Even if your goal is as simple as eating 5 vegetable servings a day it is a great place to start. Taking baby steps is easier than running a marathon from day one.
Change your way of eating. Then change your way of seeing food and you will experience amazing changes in your attitudes toward your health, your body, and even your fitness level. As the first pounds begin to drop, you'll start to feel more energetic. You'll probably even feel pain when you're exercising. This should help keep you motivated to do even more as time goes by.
Long term weight is not easy. Meeting your weight loss goals will take commitment and discipline. The first five or ten pounds might come off quickly and easily. After that, the weight comes off more slowly and this is where most people get discouraged. Consistency is vitally important when making lifestyle changes. Take each day as it comes and begin again the very next day. This means that even if you fall completely "off the wagon" today, you can start over tomorrow. The trick is in staying the course and learning moderation and balance when it comes to trying not to stray from the straight and narrow.
There are numerous ways to mess up when it comes to dieting. Most of us will slip up from time to time and we have to remember that it's ok and we can get back on course pretty easily. Keep in mind that there no such thing as failure when you're making positive changes in your life that are getting positive results. It may take weeks, months, or even years to reach your goal. As long as you are making steady and continuous efforts and progress, you are doing many great things for your health and well being. Stick with it!
Denise Villani is an author and the webmaster of several websites and article directories. Find more articles and information on dieting and weight loss by visiting WeightLossStuff.info.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Denise_Villani
Monday, 19 April 2010
Why Diets Don't Work - The Non-Dieter Mindset
So you're probably asking, "so what is the alternative?" I can't manage my weight on my own. At least diets give me something I can follow and much needed discipline. If not a diet, then what?
Well before we go further into this subject let us discuss what you can expect from this article series. What it is not is a magic formula. A formula is great to predict chemical reactions with precise accuracy in a controlled environment. But you are not a predictable chemical reaction. Every person reading this book right now is in a different environment, under different circumstances. There is no one thing that will work for everyone. This is the premise of diets, and this is what we are trying to get away from.
What the Non-Dieter Mindset seeks to do however, is to promote the attitude of the nondieter; to attempt to deprogram you so that you will never put yourself through the agony of another diet again. Perhaps this is the question of the century, and there's hardly one answer to it. But if you've ever been on one or two or 50 diets, you've probably answered this question by way of a trail of stories from here to infinity. But really, there are 5 fundamental reasons why diets don't work in my opinion.
#1 Reason Diets Don't Work: They regulate and dictate to you what you should and should not eat, taking all of the pleasure out of eating, and making it feel like a chore.
Now probably you are that unique type of person who loves chores, but for most of us chores really suck. Having an enjoyable meal is one of the greatest pleasures of life, and to put it frankly, diets spoil all the fun. Most diets get the boot before they pay off in pounds lost what they cost in dollars. Let's face it; we humans are not very good at doing non-fun things for too long.
#2 Reason Diets Don't Work: Someone who has most likely never met you or knows the lifestyle that you lead is dictating to you a 'cookie cutter' magic weight-loss formula. If you're the regular dieter, then you've probably purchased oodles of books and guides and programs developed by this or that fitness guru. You believed what they say, because after all, they're the expert, right? Try as you may, if the diet plan they're offering does not fit into your lifestyle or requires a dramatic overhaul of your everyday life that you are either unable or not ready to take on, then you are not likely to stick with it.
#3 Reason Diets Don't Work: Putting all our eggs in one diet. Many see a diet as the end-all, magic solution which it was never meant to be. Diets are never meant to be longterm, but in most cases achieving and maintaining your desired weight is. There is the possibility that a diet, for the duration of time that it lasts, could initiate an improvement in your eating that you are able to carry through long-term. However, diets can't replace good and healthful everyday eating practices.
#4 Reason Diets Don't Work: There are just too many diets out there, making it easier for people to simply drop off one hot diet craze, to get on another. If you want to loose weight, like yesterday, then you want to see results quick, and most diets play on this urgency that most dieters have to loose that weight. In fact, they often use this as part of their pitch line. "Loose 50 pounds in two weeks". You're desperate and you would do anything, so why not try it? Two weeks later you've barely lost 5 pounds, and you're beyond despondent. So you try another diet, because something must work. Slowly you're becoming a chronic dieter, and the vicious diet cycle begins.
#5 Reason Diets Don't Work: One word-Deprivation. We are surrounded by a bountiful supply of exciting and varied foods, but many diets force you to deprive yourself of entire groups or types of food at a time. The High-Protein Diet (Anti-starch), the Juice Diet, even the Bread Diet. But what about all of the other foods out there? Self deprivation of this magnitude might pass for a day or two, but hardly survives for a long time.
Of course, there are methods that do work. The one I recommend the most (thought about this for hours...) is currently offering free trials. This is a method that does not require dieting to be effective! Check below:
Read the free reports here to see what I mean. Here's where you'll learn how to naturally lose weight fast.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Bruce_Chen
Well before we go further into this subject let us discuss what you can expect from this article series. What it is not is a magic formula. A formula is great to predict chemical reactions with precise accuracy in a controlled environment. But you are not a predictable chemical reaction. Every person reading this book right now is in a different environment, under different circumstances. There is no one thing that will work for everyone. This is the premise of diets, and this is what we are trying to get away from.
What the Non-Dieter Mindset seeks to do however, is to promote the attitude of the nondieter; to attempt to deprogram you so that you will never put yourself through the agony of another diet again. Perhaps this is the question of the century, and there's hardly one answer to it. But if you've ever been on one or two or 50 diets, you've probably answered this question by way of a trail of stories from here to infinity. But really, there are 5 fundamental reasons why diets don't work in my opinion.
#1 Reason Diets Don't Work: They regulate and dictate to you what you should and should not eat, taking all of the pleasure out of eating, and making it feel like a chore.
Now probably you are that unique type of person who loves chores, but for most of us chores really suck. Having an enjoyable meal is one of the greatest pleasures of life, and to put it frankly, diets spoil all the fun. Most diets get the boot before they pay off in pounds lost what they cost in dollars. Let's face it; we humans are not very good at doing non-fun things for too long.
#2 Reason Diets Don't Work: Someone who has most likely never met you or knows the lifestyle that you lead is dictating to you a 'cookie cutter' magic weight-loss formula. If you're the regular dieter, then you've probably purchased oodles of books and guides and programs developed by this or that fitness guru. You believed what they say, because after all, they're the expert, right? Try as you may, if the diet plan they're offering does not fit into your lifestyle or requires a dramatic overhaul of your everyday life that you are either unable or not ready to take on, then you are not likely to stick with it.
#3 Reason Diets Don't Work: Putting all our eggs in one diet. Many see a diet as the end-all, magic solution which it was never meant to be. Diets are never meant to be longterm, but in most cases achieving and maintaining your desired weight is. There is the possibility that a diet, for the duration of time that it lasts, could initiate an improvement in your eating that you are able to carry through long-term. However, diets can't replace good and healthful everyday eating practices.
#4 Reason Diets Don't Work: There are just too many diets out there, making it easier for people to simply drop off one hot diet craze, to get on another. If you want to loose weight, like yesterday, then you want to see results quick, and most diets play on this urgency that most dieters have to loose that weight. In fact, they often use this as part of their pitch line. "Loose 50 pounds in two weeks". You're desperate and you would do anything, so why not try it? Two weeks later you've barely lost 5 pounds, and you're beyond despondent. So you try another diet, because something must work. Slowly you're becoming a chronic dieter, and the vicious diet cycle begins.
#5 Reason Diets Don't Work: One word-Deprivation. We are surrounded by a bountiful supply of exciting and varied foods, but many diets force you to deprive yourself of entire groups or types of food at a time. The High-Protein Diet (Anti-starch), the Juice Diet, even the Bread Diet. But what about all of the other foods out there? Self deprivation of this magnitude might pass for a day or two, but hardly survives for a long time.
Of course, there are methods that do work. The one I recommend the most (thought about this for hours...) is currently offering free trials. This is a method that does not require dieting to be effective! Check below:
Read the free reports here to see what I mean. Here's where you'll learn how to naturally lose weight fast.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Bruce_Chen
Thursday, 8 April 2010
Three Dieting Myths That You Should Not Believe
When you are dieting and losing weight, there is quite a bit of contradictory information out there. At times it's hard to know what is true and what isn't. There are three common myths that you should not believe when you are on a diet. Learn the truth about these dieting myths.
Myth: If you eat later in the evening, that food will turn into fat.
This has been general dieting advice for quite some time. The rule might be not eating at all after 8 in the evening or something similar to that. The reason that this is a myth is because food in your body can't tell time. The body doesn't digest food differently after 8 in the evening any more than it does in the morning.
If you eat too much food that day, you will store fat. If you are eating late at night but it's still part of your diet plan, it's perfectly acceptable to eat then. The reason that this is normally given as advice is because most people had already ate the food they need by the late evening. This food typically is extra food on top of their diet that the person does not need.
Myth: Low fat foods will help you lose weight.
While purposely eating foods extremely high in fat will add pounds and lower fat foods do help, many foods that are called low-fat have quite a bit of calories in them. You have to watch your calorie and sugar intake as well. Don't fall into the trap of eating low-fat foods and think that you will not gain any fat because this is simply not true.
Myth: Crash diets will help you lose weight.
In some ways, this myth is true. You will lose weight. But this weight is mostly water. Crash diets don't actually burn off any fat. Most are just a few painful days of not eating that doesn't do your body any good.
If you want a diet that works, you need to add in exercise and healthy eating over the long run versus a gimmick over a few short days.
Pat Dean has recently purchased the Quicksteam humidifier. To read her opinion on this and other Honeywell humidifier products then take a look at her website. Here you will also find some great deals on your next purchase.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Pat_Dean
Myth: If you eat later in the evening, that food will turn into fat.
This has been general dieting advice for quite some time. The rule might be not eating at all after 8 in the evening or something similar to that. The reason that this is a myth is because food in your body can't tell time. The body doesn't digest food differently after 8 in the evening any more than it does in the morning.
If you eat too much food that day, you will store fat. If you are eating late at night but it's still part of your diet plan, it's perfectly acceptable to eat then. The reason that this is normally given as advice is because most people had already ate the food they need by the late evening. This food typically is extra food on top of their diet that the person does not need.
Myth: Low fat foods will help you lose weight.
While purposely eating foods extremely high in fat will add pounds and lower fat foods do help, many foods that are called low-fat have quite a bit of calories in them. You have to watch your calorie and sugar intake as well. Don't fall into the trap of eating low-fat foods and think that you will not gain any fat because this is simply not true.
Myth: Crash diets will help you lose weight.
In some ways, this myth is true. You will lose weight. But this weight is mostly water. Crash diets don't actually burn off any fat. Most are just a few painful days of not eating that doesn't do your body any good.
If you want a diet that works, you need to add in exercise and healthy eating over the long run versus a gimmick over a few short days.
Pat Dean has recently purchased the Quicksteam humidifier. To read her opinion on this and other Honeywell humidifier products then take a look at her website. Here you will also find some great deals on your next purchase.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Pat_Dean
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Common Diet Myths
When you go on a diet, it is going to be a difficult process to keep with it and actually lose the weight that you are trying to lose. There is tons of information about dieting that you can read about. While much of this tends to be true, there are also many myths out there. Don't believe in these and make your diet much more difficult.
Myth: If you eat late at night, you will become fatter.
While this is generally good advice, it's simply not true. If you have already ate your calories for the day then add a late night snack, then of course this will cause some extra weight gain. But if you have meals or snacks that tend to be later it's just food. Your body isn't sitting and timing when you eat certain foods waiting to add more fat to your body at certain parts of the day.
Myth: Eating the carbohydrates in fruits are bad for you.
There are many who believe in low carbohydrate diets. Fruits have carbohydrates so these are discouraged. This isn't wise thinking at all. There is nothing wrong with eating fruits. Processed carbohydrates eaten in mass can cause weight gain but there are also significant calories in this food as well. Don't ever avoid natural foods like fruits, vegetables, or greens.
Myth: Exercise alone will help you lose weight.
This might be tough for some to accept, but you can't ever exercise harder than a bad diet. If you are eating hundreds of extra calories more than you need each day, you could very well exercise all day long and not get many fat loss results. Your diet needs to be in control for exercise to be able to help with weight loss.
Whatever you do in your weight loss plans, don't buy into these myths. Doing so simply will not help you.
Get more information on pocket sheets, visit the author's website and we will provide you with the best deal on deep pocket sheets.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Avril_Daniels
Myth: If you eat late at night, you will become fatter.
While this is generally good advice, it's simply not true. If you have already ate your calories for the day then add a late night snack, then of course this will cause some extra weight gain. But if you have meals or snacks that tend to be later it's just food. Your body isn't sitting and timing when you eat certain foods waiting to add more fat to your body at certain parts of the day.
Myth: Eating the carbohydrates in fruits are bad for you.
There are many who believe in low carbohydrate diets. Fruits have carbohydrates so these are discouraged. This isn't wise thinking at all. There is nothing wrong with eating fruits. Processed carbohydrates eaten in mass can cause weight gain but there are also significant calories in this food as well. Don't ever avoid natural foods like fruits, vegetables, or greens.
Myth: Exercise alone will help you lose weight.
This might be tough for some to accept, but you can't ever exercise harder than a bad diet. If you are eating hundreds of extra calories more than you need each day, you could very well exercise all day long and not get many fat loss results. Your diet needs to be in control for exercise to be able to help with weight loss.
Whatever you do in your weight loss plans, don't buy into these myths. Doing so simply will not help you.
Get more information on pocket sheets, visit the author's website and we will provide you with the best deal on deep pocket sheets.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Avril_Daniels
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Gluten-Free Alternative Diet
Have you or someone you care about been diagnosed as having Celiac Disease? Looking for information on how to get started into the Gluten-Free world? Never panic, Celiac Disease has been researched thoroughly already; there's much we know about it, and a lot of information and functional systems to get through it in a decent manner: you always have professional advice at hand.
If you are a Celiac, this is just for you. Now, if you're just looking for a Gluten-Free alternative diet....don't you leave just yet; get along, keep on reading: here are some tips to "help you in" to a successful Gluten-Free way of life.
3 Tips For A Gluten-Free Diet, And Way Of Living
TIP 1 - NO WHEAT: that's the name of the game when it comes to gluten-free diets. Barley, Rye, Malt and, in most cases, Oats are keywords for the prohibited.
TIP 2 - READ THE SMALL LETTER: always pay attention to the package's list of ingredients; make sure that none of the above mentioned "keywords" are in it. Any products containing Grain, Flour, such as most Breakfast Cereal, Cookies, and Malt related products, among others, are all out of the question and can't be consumed either. Now this point may seem like obvious, but you'd be surprised to see the numbers of people getting themselves into trouble just for not taking a proper look at packages' ingredients lists and nutritional info. (let alone expiration date!)
TIP 3 - YOUR ILLNESS, YOUR WAY OF LIFE: being a Celiac is a life-long condition, and it can be a real downer and make you feel like you've been excluded from society; much like with any other life-enduring illness or impediment OR, it can be like having a lifetime membership for an exclusive association!
And that is simply because "much like with any other life-enduring illness or impediment" it gets people with a similar condition to come together, which ultimately makes for a group of interest. As a faithful proof of that, there are many of Celiac Gathering Clubs, Celiac Support and Excursion Groups, Tour Groups and Breakfast Clubs; also Celiac oriented material such as WebPages, Forums and Magazines, and Radio shows.
Also, most countries have at least one State's Official Celiac Associations, which are most likely to be capable of providing you with not only first-hand professional info. , but also, with some new friends who'll understand and support you as much as any friend or relative.
Bottom line is: you're NEVER ALONE. So, please become aware of that as fast as you can. It'll give you a completely new and optimistic look on things, IF you don't already have it.
Now, that's good news.
The gluten free weight loss diet has also caught on for people all over the world as a form of alternative weight loss diet but before jumping on the bandwagon of the gluten free diet, make sure that you are properly informed on what it can do for you. A lack of understanding to this form of alternative diet can be dangerous.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Yan_Susanto
If you are a Celiac, this is just for you. Now, if you're just looking for a Gluten-Free alternative diet....don't you leave just yet; get along, keep on reading: here are some tips to "help you in" to a successful Gluten-Free way of life.
3 Tips For A Gluten-Free Diet, And Way Of Living
TIP 1 - NO WHEAT: that's the name of the game when it comes to gluten-free diets. Barley, Rye, Malt and, in most cases, Oats are keywords for the prohibited.
TIP 2 - READ THE SMALL LETTER: always pay attention to the package's list of ingredients; make sure that none of the above mentioned "keywords" are in it. Any products containing Grain, Flour, such as most Breakfast Cereal, Cookies, and Malt related products, among others, are all out of the question and can't be consumed either. Now this point may seem like obvious, but you'd be surprised to see the numbers of people getting themselves into trouble just for not taking a proper look at packages' ingredients lists and nutritional info. (let alone expiration date!)
TIP 3 - YOUR ILLNESS, YOUR WAY OF LIFE: being a Celiac is a life-long condition, and it can be a real downer and make you feel like you've been excluded from society; much like with any other life-enduring illness or impediment OR, it can be like having a lifetime membership for an exclusive association!
And that is simply because "much like with any other life-enduring illness or impediment" it gets people with a similar condition to come together, which ultimately makes for a group of interest. As a faithful proof of that, there are many of Celiac Gathering Clubs, Celiac Support and Excursion Groups, Tour Groups and Breakfast Clubs; also Celiac oriented material such as WebPages, Forums and Magazines, and Radio shows.
Also, most countries have at least one State's Official Celiac Associations, which are most likely to be capable of providing you with not only first-hand professional info. , but also, with some new friends who'll understand and support you as much as any friend or relative.
Bottom line is: you're NEVER ALONE. So, please become aware of that as fast as you can. It'll give you a completely new and optimistic look on things, IF you don't already have it.
Now, that's good news.
The gluten free weight loss diet has also caught on for people all over the world as a form of alternative weight loss diet but before jumping on the bandwagon of the gluten free diet, make sure that you are properly informed on what it can do for you. A lack of understanding to this form of alternative diet can be dangerous.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Yan_Susanto
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
Diet's Don't Work - 12 Facts Why They Never Do Or Will!
You heard me right! They Never Have! They Never Do! They Never Will!
The Diet Industry is a 40 Billion Dollar Industry filled with misinformation.
96% of people who go on diets can't stay on them to reach their desired goal.
98% of people who go on diets gain the weight they lose back + 5 extra pounds. (National Institute of Health)
50% of Americans are on a diet at any given time yet 70% of Americans are overweight and 30% are obese.
My Story
When I was in my late teens I took up bodybuilding and after a couple of years I began competing. A typical year consisted of me gaining fifty or more pounds in the off season by eating lots of food and then dieting and loosing fifty or so pounds over the next few months as I prepared for the competition. After doing this for six years I stopped competing in bodybuilding. Over the following years I continued to gain fifty or so pounds a year and then go on a diet and lose all or most of it over the following months. I became an expert and gaining weight and loosing weight. I became an expert dieter. I could lose weight on the Atkins, Stillman, Scarsdale or any other diet. I was master of the low calorie, low fat and low carbohydrate diets. The only problem that once I lost the weight I couldn't keep it off and eventually would gain it all back plus some. I eventually ended up gaining and losing almost a thousand pounds. After giving up on dieting I began researching why people gain weight and why diets don't work. After spending over five years researching why diets don't work and discovering what does work when it comes to loosing weight and keeping it off. I began applying the principles I discovered and today I am celebrating over ten years at a body weight that hasn't fluctuated more then five pounds up or down.
Why Diets Don't Work
Fact #1: Diets are downers. People hate to diet. Have you ever met anyone on a diet that liked it? Does anyone like doing anything with the word DIE in it? When I went on diets I hated it. It made me unhappy and depressed.
Fact #2: Dieting slows your metabolism. The longer you diet the slower your metabolism gets causing you to eat less and less until your weight loss stops entirely. Then when you resume normal eating the weight quickly returns + extra pounds due to it taking months for the metabolism to return to normal. Then guess what? You need to go onto another diet.
Dieting simply is a way to create an artificial famine. Your body doesn't know that it's a diet. All it knows is that its in a famine. So it slows the metabolism as much as 40%. If you naturally need 2000 calories a day to sustain your current body weight and go on a diet where you are consuming 1000 calories a day your metabolism will get lower and lower to say 40% or 1200 calories below its natural level of 2000 calories. At that point weight lose is minimal and extremely difficult. Then when you return to eating 2000 calories a day which is what the majority of people do you begin adding 800 extra calories daily. That's 800 calories about 1.75 pounds of fat per week.
When I was on the dieting roller coaster I'd lose 50 pounds in six months and go off it and gain all the weight back over the next six months. One thing I noticed was that as soon as I'd go off the diet the weight would quickly come back due to my metabolism having slowed due to the dieting.
Fact 3: Diets offer a poor temporary fix What's really needed is a lifestyle change. The only people who lose weight and keep it off are the people who change their lifestyle once and for all. Changing your lifestyle is easier then dieting and far more rewarding.
I used to go on diets knowing that they were only a quick fix. After losing hundreds of pounds and gaining it back convinced me that dieting could never able me to sustain the weight lose. Dieting was just a superficial way of treating symptoms instead of the cause of my weight gain.
Fact 4: Since 96% of people who go on diets gain the weight they've lost back plus some the next time they diet it gets a little harder to lose weight. With each never dieting round the body becomes more resilient to giving up the weight and dieting gets tougher and tougher. With each new diet I went on it became more and more difficult to get the weight off. Finally after years of yo-yo dieting It became almost impossible to get the weight off dieting.
Fact 5: Diets fail to deal with the things that cause people to overeat. People overeat due to a number of psychological reasons. Some overeat because they fail to eat consciously. After years of eating on the run, in the front of the television or while stuffing a hot dog into their mouth while driving down the highway; they eat like dogs never stopping to taste, savor and enjoy the food their eating.
Another thing that causes people to overeat is previous conditioning that can go back to their childhood. As a child I was told to clean my plate because children were starving in Africa. I was also told that if I didn't clean my plate I couldn't have desert. The experts in my life conditioned me to eat every scrape on my plate even if I was stuffed. They conditioned me to overeat. Something that took me years to understand and change.
Fact 6: Dieting Causes Eating Disorders. People who get onto the dieting roller coaster can develop eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia. Dieting serves as a precursor to these illnesses.
During my weight gain and dieting cycles I frequently would binge and after the binge think nothing of purging while standing over the toilet. I eventually got pretty good at it and could down five burgers and a dozen Dunken Donuts and drop them in the toilet only to be back eating fifteen minutes later.
Fact 7: Dieting Causes Obesity. Dieting slows down the metabolism making it harder and harder to lose weight. Eventually the metabolism slows to a crawl and even a well balanced healthy diet causes the person to gain weight. Have you ever seen an obese person who says, "I don't eat a lot and continue to gain weight." They may be telling the truth. After years of dieting their metabolism is running slow and low making it really easy to keep on adding the pounds.
You would think that in America with all the diets, diet pills, and diet centers that we would be the thinnest country on the globe. But instead we are the fattest and getting fatter every year. With all the dieting I was doing and all the expertise on dieting I was gaining I still just kept getting fatter.
Fact 8: Diets cause starvation or semi starvation. Starvation occurs at 900 calories or less that's when you start to die. Most diets are in that range. Starvation plays havoc with the systems of the body and brain and if continued will cause permanent damage. When faced with starvation your body will do everything it can to survive. Things like slowing your metabolism to conserve energy and creating intense hunger to drive you to find food. When I was dieting I has hungry all the time. I didn't know it at the time but I was starving. I was putting my body through what people in famines go through.
Fact 9: Diets damage your body and cause disease. Studies show that ongoing dieting causes heart disease, osteoporosis, gall stones, high blood pressure, anemia, constipation, kidney stones, dry skin, hair lose, depression, anxiety.
When I was on the dieting roller coaster I would frequently get sick. I would get frequent colds, the flu, tonsillitis, sinusitis, and constipation was a daily experience. Over the past ten years I've had two colds.
Fact 10: Dieting Causes Malnutrition. Dieting restricts people from getting the necessary macro and micro nutrients. Not getting these nutrients causes damage to our bodies and results in sickness. I didn't know It back when I was dieting that the main reason why I was getting sick so frequently was that I was suffering from malnutrition. I simply wasn't getting the nutrients that me body needed.
Fact 11: We don't fail at dieting, diets fail us. Diets simply don't work. Every person who ever quit dieting or gained the weight they lost back did so due to the fact that diets are built upon false premises. If you build a house upon a foundation of straw it will crumble. Diets are built upon a foundation of straw.
While on the dieing roller coaster I continuously felt like a failure. I struggled to stick to the diets I would go on and always gained the weight back. I felt like a frustrated failure. I didn't know at the time that I wasn't the failure but that the entire diet industry and everyone of their diets was a failure.
Fact 12: Diets Cause Death. The name Diet fits well. Dieting shortens your life span. Diets cause a number of problems that lead to sickness, disease and eventually death.
Had I not discovered the truth I likely would have dieted myself to death. I am eternally grateful for discovering the truth. For the truth truly set me free.
Why Diets Don't Work
1. Diets treat superficial symptoms instead of causes.
2. Diets cause major deprivation. You deprive yourself of food. Not only food, but food that you like. This drives people crazy. When I used to diet all I did day and night was think about food. When I wasn't dieting I thought about other stuff like the geo-political situations in the world and sex. But while on the diet I just thought about Italian bread, pasta, and cannoli's.
To Your Health!
Frank Bolella
Learn how to lose weight without dieting ever again...Ever! Health & Vitality is the only true way to prevent disease and create a happy healthy long life. Let me reveal to you many of the ways I can help YOU live a Healthier life! By revealing things like the Real Fountain of Youth...and what foods you are eating that could be killing you! What Super Foods could change your life dramatically! I invite you to learn more at http://frankbolella.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Frank_Bolella
The Diet Industry is a 40 Billion Dollar Industry filled with misinformation.
96% of people who go on diets can't stay on them to reach their desired goal.
98% of people who go on diets gain the weight they lose back + 5 extra pounds. (National Institute of Health)
50% of Americans are on a diet at any given time yet 70% of Americans are overweight and 30% are obese.
My Story
When I was in my late teens I took up bodybuilding and after a couple of years I began competing. A typical year consisted of me gaining fifty or more pounds in the off season by eating lots of food and then dieting and loosing fifty or so pounds over the next few months as I prepared for the competition. After doing this for six years I stopped competing in bodybuilding. Over the following years I continued to gain fifty or so pounds a year and then go on a diet and lose all or most of it over the following months. I became an expert and gaining weight and loosing weight. I became an expert dieter. I could lose weight on the Atkins, Stillman, Scarsdale or any other diet. I was master of the low calorie, low fat and low carbohydrate diets. The only problem that once I lost the weight I couldn't keep it off and eventually would gain it all back plus some. I eventually ended up gaining and losing almost a thousand pounds. After giving up on dieting I began researching why people gain weight and why diets don't work. After spending over five years researching why diets don't work and discovering what does work when it comes to loosing weight and keeping it off. I began applying the principles I discovered and today I am celebrating over ten years at a body weight that hasn't fluctuated more then five pounds up or down.
Why Diets Don't Work
Fact #1: Diets are downers. People hate to diet. Have you ever met anyone on a diet that liked it? Does anyone like doing anything with the word DIE in it? When I went on diets I hated it. It made me unhappy and depressed.
Fact #2: Dieting slows your metabolism. The longer you diet the slower your metabolism gets causing you to eat less and less until your weight loss stops entirely. Then when you resume normal eating the weight quickly returns + extra pounds due to it taking months for the metabolism to return to normal. Then guess what? You need to go onto another diet.
Dieting simply is a way to create an artificial famine. Your body doesn't know that it's a diet. All it knows is that its in a famine. So it slows the metabolism as much as 40%. If you naturally need 2000 calories a day to sustain your current body weight and go on a diet where you are consuming 1000 calories a day your metabolism will get lower and lower to say 40% or 1200 calories below its natural level of 2000 calories. At that point weight lose is minimal and extremely difficult. Then when you return to eating 2000 calories a day which is what the majority of people do you begin adding 800 extra calories daily. That's 800 calories about 1.75 pounds of fat per week.
When I was on the dieting roller coaster I'd lose 50 pounds in six months and go off it and gain all the weight back over the next six months. One thing I noticed was that as soon as I'd go off the diet the weight would quickly come back due to my metabolism having slowed due to the dieting.
Fact 3: Diets offer a poor temporary fix What's really needed is a lifestyle change. The only people who lose weight and keep it off are the people who change their lifestyle once and for all. Changing your lifestyle is easier then dieting and far more rewarding.
I used to go on diets knowing that they were only a quick fix. After losing hundreds of pounds and gaining it back convinced me that dieting could never able me to sustain the weight lose. Dieting was just a superficial way of treating symptoms instead of the cause of my weight gain.
Fact 4: Since 96% of people who go on diets gain the weight they've lost back plus some the next time they diet it gets a little harder to lose weight. With each never dieting round the body becomes more resilient to giving up the weight and dieting gets tougher and tougher. With each new diet I went on it became more and more difficult to get the weight off. Finally after years of yo-yo dieting It became almost impossible to get the weight off dieting.
Fact 5: Diets fail to deal with the things that cause people to overeat. People overeat due to a number of psychological reasons. Some overeat because they fail to eat consciously. After years of eating on the run, in the front of the television or while stuffing a hot dog into their mouth while driving down the highway; they eat like dogs never stopping to taste, savor and enjoy the food their eating.
Another thing that causes people to overeat is previous conditioning that can go back to their childhood. As a child I was told to clean my plate because children were starving in Africa. I was also told that if I didn't clean my plate I couldn't have desert. The experts in my life conditioned me to eat every scrape on my plate even if I was stuffed. They conditioned me to overeat. Something that took me years to understand and change.
Fact 6: Dieting Causes Eating Disorders. People who get onto the dieting roller coaster can develop eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia. Dieting serves as a precursor to these illnesses.
During my weight gain and dieting cycles I frequently would binge and after the binge think nothing of purging while standing over the toilet. I eventually got pretty good at it and could down five burgers and a dozen Dunken Donuts and drop them in the toilet only to be back eating fifteen minutes later.
Fact 7: Dieting Causes Obesity. Dieting slows down the metabolism making it harder and harder to lose weight. Eventually the metabolism slows to a crawl and even a well balanced healthy diet causes the person to gain weight. Have you ever seen an obese person who says, "I don't eat a lot and continue to gain weight." They may be telling the truth. After years of dieting their metabolism is running slow and low making it really easy to keep on adding the pounds.
You would think that in America with all the diets, diet pills, and diet centers that we would be the thinnest country on the globe. But instead we are the fattest and getting fatter every year. With all the dieting I was doing and all the expertise on dieting I was gaining I still just kept getting fatter.
Fact 8: Diets cause starvation or semi starvation. Starvation occurs at 900 calories or less that's when you start to die. Most diets are in that range. Starvation plays havoc with the systems of the body and brain and if continued will cause permanent damage. When faced with starvation your body will do everything it can to survive. Things like slowing your metabolism to conserve energy and creating intense hunger to drive you to find food. When I was dieting I has hungry all the time. I didn't know it at the time but I was starving. I was putting my body through what people in famines go through.
Fact 9: Diets damage your body and cause disease. Studies show that ongoing dieting causes heart disease, osteoporosis, gall stones, high blood pressure, anemia, constipation, kidney stones, dry skin, hair lose, depression, anxiety.
When I was on the dieting roller coaster I would frequently get sick. I would get frequent colds, the flu, tonsillitis, sinusitis, and constipation was a daily experience. Over the past ten years I've had two colds.
Fact 10: Dieting Causes Malnutrition. Dieting restricts people from getting the necessary macro and micro nutrients. Not getting these nutrients causes damage to our bodies and results in sickness. I didn't know It back when I was dieting that the main reason why I was getting sick so frequently was that I was suffering from malnutrition. I simply wasn't getting the nutrients that me body needed.
Fact 11: We don't fail at dieting, diets fail us. Diets simply don't work. Every person who ever quit dieting or gained the weight they lost back did so due to the fact that diets are built upon false premises. If you build a house upon a foundation of straw it will crumble. Diets are built upon a foundation of straw.
While on the dieing roller coaster I continuously felt like a failure. I struggled to stick to the diets I would go on and always gained the weight back. I felt like a frustrated failure. I didn't know at the time that I wasn't the failure but that the entire diet industry and everyone of their diets was a failure.
Fact 12: Diets Cause Death. The name Diet fits well. Dieting shortens your life span. Diets cause a number of problems that lead to sickness, disease and eventually death.
Had I not discovered the truth I likely would have dieted myself to death. I am eternally grateful for discovering the truth. For the truth truly set me free.
Why Diets Don't Work
1. Diets treat superficial symptoms instead of causes.
2. Diets cause major deprivation. You deprive yourself of food. Not only food, but food that you like. This drives people crazy. When I used to diet all I did day and night was think about food. When I wasn't dieting I thought about other stuff like the geo-political situations in the world and sex. But while on the diet I just thought about Italian bread, pasta, and cannoli's.
To Your Health!
Frank Bolella
Learn how to lose weight without dieting ever again...Ever! Health & Vitality is the only true way to prevent disease and create a happy healthy long life. Let me reveal to you many of the ways I can help YOU live a Healthier life! By revealing things like the Real Fountain of Youth...and what foods you are eating that could be killing you! What Super Foods could change your life dramatically! I invite you to learn more at http://frankbolella.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Frank_Bolella
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
