Want to lose weight but tired of weight loss gimmicks? Follow this sensible advice.
1. Eat only real food: how much of what you eat comes from a box? If it’s processed, it’s probably no good for you. Real foods are the foods that you find in the fruit and vegetable aisle of your grocery store. Come in a box? Read the ingredients. If there are too many, or the names of the ingredients are unpronounceable, then don’t buy it. In doubt? Leave it. Fruits, vegetables, complex carbohydrates and lean proteins should be your diet. Don’t waste your money on processed foods that will only bog you down.
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Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of ads online for weight loss supplements that all make essentially the same claim – the diet industry sets its customers up for failure on purpose. While this is an ironic statement coming from companies hawking their own miracle diet solutions, I’ve been wondering if there’s any truth to it.
The main argument is that if those diet pills actually worked, then the companies that make them would lose all the customers they need to stay in business. The truth is that people often do lose weight on these products, but then gain it all back, and then some. A recent review of dozens of scientific studies on dieting (American Psychologist – April 2007) concludes that, “there is little support for the notion that diets lead to lasting weight loss or heath benefits.” It goes on to state that as many as 83% of dieters will actually weigh more than their pre-diet weight two years after they started their diet program. But who’s to blame for this massive failure – the customer or the companies?
While we as consumers theoretically have free choice, diet supplement advertisers prey on our ignorance, hopes and insecurities to get us to buy their pills. They often market their products using studies of questionable objectivity, and have resorted to setting up fake blogs devoted to hawking their products. Who hasn’t seen blogs or websites telling us about ‘Jessica’s (or Jane’s or Debbie’s or Jason’s) Real Story – How I lost 500 lbs using this simple weird trick!’ And the weird trick turns out to be some exotic berry growing on the underside of a jungle fungus harvested by pygmies. Yours for only $139.97 each month!
We want to be like Jessica. We identify with the images of her as an overweight person and we want desperately to achieve the same results as she did. We want a slim healthy fit body. But is it realistic? When a company promises us unbelievable results we do know better, but we can’t help ourselves because really, just taking a pill would be sooo much easier than actually having to make any lifestyle changes. As consumers, our lack of critical thinking is just as much to blame as the diet industry’s unscrupulous marketing tactics.
But enough blame: How can we make our weight loss plans truly successful, and keep the weight off for good? The fact of the matter is, people fail on diets because they take a pill or make a temporary, unsustainable change to their eating habits, and once they’ve lost a bit of weight, revert back to their old habits. Presto, the pounds fly back on and it’s back to square one. Unless you address the underlying cause(s) of your overeating and make true changes to your lifestyle, you are just setting yourself up for failure.
How do we identify the causes and find solutions? Emotional eating has gotten a lot of media attention as of late, frequently discussed on shows like the Biggest Loser and Joy Behar, but it’s only one factor that affects our overeating.
Here’s a simple exercise you can do to analyze why you eat, along with practical and unusual solutions to modify your eating habits for good.
References:
http://mann.bol.ucla.edu/files/Diets_don’t_work.pdf
Copyright 2010 Living-Well.net
How can you expect to lose weight if you don’t know exactly how you gained those pounds? Dieting, like quitting smoking, is about a lot more than just eliminating certain foods or cutting back. For true success, you have to know your weaknesses and understand their underlying causes. So many diets are destined to fail because people don’t restructure their lives to support their changed eating habits. Without addressing underlying causes and habits, no diet is sustainable.
Want to lose weight but tired of weight loss gimmicks? Follow this sensible advice.
1. Eat only real food: how much of what you eat comes from a box? If it’s processed, it’s probably no good for you. Real foods are the foods that you find in the fruit and vegetable aisle of your grocery store. Come in a box? Read the ingredients. If there are too many, or the names of the ingredients are unpronounceable, then don’t buy it. In doubt? Leave it. Fruits, vegetables, complex carbohydrates and lean proteins should be your diet. Don’t waste your money on processed foods that will only bog you down.
When people say they want to lose weight, they’re usually talking about losing excess fat.
If you want to lose fat, then it’s important to know under what conditions fat cells multiply, grow ‘fatter’ or shrink. Yes, fat cells can get fatter also. They are the cells responsible for storing the unused calories you consume, so the more calories and less exercise, the larger they will get. What’s more, when a fat cell grows fat enough (3 to 6 times its original size), it multiplies. These new cells, in turn, can get fatter.
5 years ago, I was under a lot of stress and I was constantly coughing and had problems breathing. I thought I had a cold or some virus. Went I went to the hospital, they took an X ray and found that my heart was so enlarged it was almost the size of one of my lungs. My stress hormones were also elevated – they found high levels of cortisol in my blood. I discovered that I was born with cardiomyopathy (a disease that involves the weakening and inflammation of the heart). The doctors installed a defibrillator, as a protection in case my heart stops beating, to shock it back to life.
Since my daughter was born, whenever she would get a cold, it would go straight to her lungs. We used to have to put her to sleep in her stroller at night when she was sick, because the incline would help her breathe through the congestion. Then, when she was two, she got a really bad cold, and her breathing was so shallow and labored that my husband and I rushed her to the hospital in the middle of the night.
A little older, a little wiser. But what if we could keep our wisdom and recapture our youthful energy? Growing older does not have to mean dealing with age-related diseases, and our physical age needn’t
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That distinction is based on recognizing the two main forms of energy that exist in our cells, all of them, and most notably the nervous system and brain. There is the bio-chemical form of energy with which most people are familiar. This is so because the mainstay of nutrition addresses different kinds of bio-chemical, bio-available nutrients in the form of vitamins and phyto-nutrients, the family of B’s, C, A, D, E, K and on. These are, make no mistake, vitally important to health and moreso, optimal wellness. The bio-chemistry of foods, herbs, nuts, seeds and roots are something human nutrition requires.
For many years I have searched for an effective approaches to induce the human body to a higher level of energetic health. Biophotons and Bioelectronics are the “translators” of life information in the metabolism of our cells. By an excess of free electrons, the cell can best use biophotons. Electrons are the telegraph stations and Biophotons the messages sent.
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