To Tell The Truth - Where Diets Go Wrong |
Seems simple, right?
When most people realize that they’ve gained a bit of weight, the first obvious solution is to immediately begin to eat less food. Sounds pretty smart since it is food that caused the weight gain in the first place! 
So any reasonable person could easily assume that to eat less of the food that “caused” the problem would easily resolved the weight problem. Eat less food and all will be right with the world again. It just isn’t that easy.
Aren’t you simple sick of hearing it!
It seems that every diet or eating plan in the magazines or on the Internet say the same basic thing… eat less food and you too will be model skinny. Sure, going with less food than usual is a challenge, but if it helps you to reach your goal then it is ok…right?
It really is too bad for those who blindly wish that decreasing their food intake will help them to lose the unwanted pounds, soon learn that this just does not work. The human body has been so incredibly designed to keep itself from starving to death.
Think about our forefathers before us who managed to exist on tiny amounts of food, surviving long periods of starvation and yet still surviving. So simply decreasing the amount of food taken in is not going to make that big of a difference because our super-smart body will just compensate for it by lowering the energy produced and by limiting our capacity to exert energy.
So if you really want to reach your weight loss goal then you have to figure out how to work around the body smart system designed to protect you from starvation. There’s a school of thought that says that the overweight and the think eat approximately the same number of calories every day because they share the same amount of food required by the body every day to exist.
But, the obese seem to eat much more fat than the thin folks, who seem to lean towards the complex carbohydrates that are easily broken down and metabolized by the body. What a simple idea! So when you are trying to decide how best to change your eating patterns think first about this very elementary idea and consider eating more complex carbohydrates.
There’s no quick fix and a good diet always takes time in order to succeed. You didn’t gain the extra weight overnight and you certainly aren’t going to lose it overnight.
Every day there are hundreds of people roaming the Internet and reading magazines in order to get latest and greatest dieting tips and to find the ever-illusive answer in a diet pill that can make fat disappear in an instant.
Of course if you’ve done any reading at all then you’ve seen plenty of advertisements promising incredible results with the help of some super-secret and perhaps a little “magical” ingredient of one kind or another. And I am quite certain that you learned rather quickly that losing weight doesn’t work like that.
It is pretty basic. The only way to permanently lose weight is to avoid eating foods that are rich in fat and to exercises on a regular basis. Dieting without exercising is completely worthless since the weight lost by reducing your food intake will just come right back in the following months.
A primary cause of the increase in the obesity is the sedentary lifestyle most of us lead. We sit behind a desk at work after we drive there in our car, eat a breakfast and lunch full of rich fat foods and then drive home again at the end of the day and sit on the couch until bed time. Not really a good habit. And just like everything else, this lifestyle has a price and the price is our health.
So what are you going to do about it? Diets done right are few and far between. More often than not we watch the diet go wrong and then search some more for the next right answer.
Let's figure it out once and for all and get healthy!
