DID YOU KNOW?
In 1980 only 35% of the population in the United States was overweight...
Today approximately 65% of adults in the United States are overweight or obese.
Obesity Epidemic
Don't Buy Into The "Fad" Diets You See All Over TV
News flash: these "fad" diets are not part of a healthy life. They may have less calories or have the meals all planned out for you etc., but they barely have any nutritional content whatsoever.
Simply put, frozen microwave dinners sent to you from a factory are not "food." These diet programs are full of chemicals and other junk you never want to put into your body. Ever.
The Dreaded Diet Cycle
If you're like most people, you’ve struggled with your weight at one time or another and you've been on every diet known to man.
Initially you lose some weight, but then you gain it back and find yourself heavier than before. This is the dreaded cycle of yo-yo dieting.
Yes, in the short-term you can lose the weight, but every time you do this you may be doing more damage than good because your body thinks it’s experiencing a "famine."
In response to that famine, your body goes into survival mode and conserves energy by slowing down your metabolism. Your body does its best to hold on to the fat you have for as long as it can.
So with many diets, the weight you initially lose is from fat and muscle. And that loss of muscle slows down your metabolism even further because muscle burns calories.
So, preserving muscle mass prevents your metabolism from dropping.
Muscle = Metabolism
Many diets are too restrictive or monotonous, or leave you feeling deprived and don’t teach you how to permanently change your eating and exercise habits. They leave you feeling hungry, tired, and craving the foods you miss most.
You’ve about had it, so you return to your old eating habits and gain the weight back. And the sad part is, the weight you put back on is fat weight. Not to mention the common challenges — emotional and other physical ones that
come along with dieting.
Ask Yourself - Why Am I Eating So Much?
What is the void you are trying to fill?
Most people overeat for emotional reasons, such as:
* Stress
* Bad personal relationships
* Anxiety
* Depression
* Boredom
You need to deal with these issues before or at the same time you're trying to lose weight. If you have underlying emotional issues, your weight loss efforts will only be short lived. You need to get to the root cause of why you eat so much and/or why you eat an unhealthy diet.
If you uncover the causes of your eating habits it will be easier for you to make a permanent change in your lifestyle.
Are There Good Weight Management Plans?
Yes, and while there are some good weight loss plans out there , your weight loss plan should be powered by leucine to help preserve the muscle you currently have while you lose the weight from fat reserves.
Leucine is an amino acid that heads straight to the muscle where it initiates
protein synthesis (the process of building muscle). That's why many professional and Olympic athletes take it as a supplement.
The Mental Secret To Weight Loss
If you are "sick and tired" of looking the way you do, then use the following mental exercise to give you the motivation you need to change yourself:
* When you wake up and before you go to bed, look in the mirror and envision yourself with the body you want, instead of dwelling on the body you currently have.
* Every day spend ten to twenty minutes picturing yourself exercising and eating right. See yourself happy, full of life, and motivated. This may sound corny, but it works. Stick to it and you will have the motivation you need to act on your thoughts.
At Diet Health and Fitness we (at one time) also struggled with our weight. We know how awful it feels to be overweight and how hard it is to get yourself motivated to change.
However, once we used the mental exercise laid out above, and got on the following weight loss plan, the inches dropped off and stayed off.
