DIET OR EATING LIFESTYLE
So many Americans today want to live a healthy lifestyle. For most this means loosing weight. They want to loose the weight quickly so they often get sucked into these “Fad Diets”. Often a quick 5 to 10 pounds will come off, then their old eating habits return. If they stick with it to attain their weight goal, they may still find themselves back at the same weight or higher in a few months. Why don't diets work?
A Diet is a Lifestyle, Not an Event
On many diets, you are not eating the way you will eat for the rest of your life. You eat foods you may not like very much and don't find satisfying. If you are determined enough, you stick with it until you reach your goal. But you know this is "just for the diet" rather than finding healthier foods you enjoy in amounts that don't cause weight gain. What you need to do is change your eating lifestyle. Change the way you look at food. You need to realize that no matter how many “Diets” you try as long as you are eating the wrong foods, these “Diets” won’t work.
Diets Can Be Depressing
The very word "diet" is depressing to many of us. We think of giving up foods that are comforting and enjoyable. We think of sitting a party with celery sticks while others are eating the cake. We may even stop socializing because food is a big part of how we interact with friends and family. We feel deprived, alienated and alone, except for others who are dieting. Eventually we give up and enter back into the world of happy uncontrolled eating, carrying negative feelings toward healthier "diet foods."
Diets Are Stressful
Studies are finding dangers in the diet cycle of losing weight, gaining it back plus a little more, losing, and gaining again. It is stressful on the body systems to have wide swings in body weight. We think each time that this time we won't gain it back, but the statistics show that most of us will. When we do gain back the weight we end up blaming ourselves and then begin to overeat because “What’s the point anyways, I guess I will be fat for the rest of my life.” We need to realize that it is not our fault. The fault is in the “Diet”.
The stress of dieting on our bodies also affect our immune system. Studies show that the more times a woman dieted to lose weight, the greater the decrease in her immune system function. Women with more episodes of losing and gaining weight had greater decreases in "natural killer cell" activity. The opposite finding was true for women who maintained the same weight for five or more years.
Natural killer cells (NK cells) are vital to the immune system. They kill viruses and have been shown to attack and kill cancer cells in lab tests. Decreased NK activity has been associated with increased incidence of cancer as well as an increased susceptibility to colds and infections.
Counting Calories
Many people try to “Diet” by counting calories. They are obsessed with how many calories they consume in a day. They feel like they have taken control. They may even see success as they watch the scale drop those first 5 – 10 pounds. But soon the problems start. The cravings for certain foods start to become more intense, you start feeling hungry all the time, and your energy level drops dramatically from the lower calorie level.
Your body reacts to fewer calories by slowing down your metabolism -- burning fewer calories each day just to maintain your body functions. If you don't add exercise along with the diet, you will lose lean muscle mass as well as fat and water weight. When you lose muscle, your metabolism is slowed even further and you would have to eat even fewer calories per day to continue to lose weight. It takes a conscious effort to increase exercise when on a diet.
All of these problems start to stress you out and eventually you start to “Cheat”. You may still be losing weight but it has slowed down. You find that cheating leaves you more satisfied and soon you are in full-blown rebellion and you return back to your old eating habits.
If you didn't exercise and then you fall off of the diet, the weight will come back on even faster, as your body is burning fewer calories per day. Even worse, the weight will come back on as fat rather than as the muscle you lost. Your body will look even less lean and healthy.
Now, I am not saying that people do not need to keep an eye on how many calories they take in. Ideally, a person should keep their calorie count below 2000 calories per day. The caloric break down should be easy and after a while with a new eating lifestyle you won’t even need to count the calories you will just know what foods and how much to eat.
What Do I Need To Do To Loose Weight, Stay Healthy, And Keep The Weight Off?
Get Active for an Hour a Day:
Your first step to improve your health and appearance is to begin daily exercise. The exercise doesn't have to be intense -- pick activities you enjoy such as walking, biking, or swimming. Get your body moving most days of the week. The U.S. Surgeon General recommends a minimum daily requirement of 30 to 60 minutes a day of walking or other easy-to-moderate intensity exercise for weight management.
Change The Way You Look At Food And Start Making Healthy Choices:
In “The Natural You” Eating Lifestyle ebook, you will learn how to change your eating habits so that it becomes the “way you eat” not just a “Diet”.
You will learn:
1. The importance of your body’s pH balance and the difference between Alkaline foods and Acidic
foods.
2. The problems with Artificial Sweeteners, MSG, High Fructose Corn Syrup, and other food
additives and preservatives.
3. How to detox and get rid of the build up in your body that can be preventing you from loosing
weight.
4. How to eat the right way so that you feel satisfied, build up your metabolism, and have energy.
5. The importance of Vitamin and Mineral and other Supplements.
It will supply you with an eating schedule with delicious recipes. It will even teach you how to substitute so you can turn your favorite recipes into healthy recipes.
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