"Dieting - the practice of ingesting food in a regulated fashion to achieve or maintain a controlled weight”
Wow what a question that is! And here’s the thing, now that I’ve got you here, I don’t know the answer.
So that’s it sorry I haven’t a clue………………. ok so maybe I do have inkling. The thing is and the reason that I say I don’t know is that I don’t know you; I haven’t the foggiest idea why you’re overweight, and the answer will be different for each individual, what works for you may not work for me, you may have allergies or intolerances that cause other symptoms to flare up, you may have a thyroid problem that I don’t, or you have very high cortisol levels that will cause you to gain weight if you go for a long run, while I can run and it will fall off due to my high metabolism (which incidentally I don’t have – I am not one of the chosen few who have the gift!)
Over the past few years diets
have had a bad press, and with good reason, the main one being that a diet tends to be something you “go on” and therefore something you will come off, and that’s when most people relax.
Having lost the weight they wanted or some of it they return to their normal eating habits only to find themselves back to square one a few weeks or months down the line, so they go on another diet, and so the cycle continues. But this time it is a little harder to lose those few pounds because during this cycle – known as yo yo dieting the body’s metabolism has slowed down in response to the lack of calories and therefore energy coming into the body.
So each time the process is repeated it becomes a little harder to achieve the weight loss desired. The harder it gets the quicker you give up meaning most people end up heavier than they started in the first place – not good!
What makes it harder is that everyday in a thousand different ways we are bombarded with messages from the multi billion pound food & diet industry who tell us that weight loss their way is easy and that they have the secret answer, by following them you to can have the body of your dreams.
A particular pet hate are the companies who provide energy dense bars and shakes to replace meals leaving you too exhausted to exercise and giving you the metabolism of a snail – having lost a lot of weight and feeling great in your new (untoned) body you return to eating food and expect your sluggish metabolism to cope, it doesn’t – I have never meet anyone who has kept their weight off with this type of diet – its insane!
But here is what I do know that
successful diets and exercise plans work for the following reasons,
Nature doesn’t process foods, such as grains, stripping them of vital nutrients, it doesn’t add salt to meat and fish so it stores for longer in a tin on the shelf or add 10 teaspoons of sugar (the amount found in a standard can of cola) to water to make it taste better.
It doesn’t use trans fats or additives to prolong its shelf life, or numbers to give foods nicer colourings, or pesticides so fruit looks prettier – I could go on but you get the picture.
We have toyed so much with the foods we eat we no long have a concept of what real.
In my next blog I will tell you my view of the world’s best diet, the nutrition my yummy mummy fit campers, 1 to 1 PT and online clients follow, the same plan that has helped clients to lose 7lbs and 5 ½ inches in their first WEEK, the results they get are amazing – but if you can’t wait for the next blog and want to get a heads up just look around at the foods nature provides!
For more info check out our website at http://www.personaltrainerleatherhead.com/
Wow what a question that is! And here’s the thing, now that I’ve got you here, I don’t know the answer.
So that’s it sorry I haven’t a clue………………. ok so maybe I do have inkling. The thing is and the reason that I say I don’t know is that I don’t know you; I haven’t the foggiest idea why you’re overweight, and the answer will be different for each individual, what works for you may not work for me, you may have allergies or intolerances that cause other symptoms to flare up, you may have a thyroid problem that I don’t, or you have very high cortisol levels that will cause you to gain weight if you go for a long run, while I can run and it will fall off due to my high metabolism (which incidentally I don’t have – I am not one of the chosen few who have the gift!)
Over the past few years diets
have had a bad press, and with good reason, the main one being that a diet tends to be something you “go on” and therefore something you will come off, and that’s when most people relax.Having lost the weight they wanted or some of it they return to their normal eating habits only to find themselves back to square one a few weeks or months down the line, so they go on another diet, and so the cycle continues. But this time it is a little harder to lose those few pounds because during this cycle – known as yo yo dieting the body’s metabolism has slowed down in response to the lack of calories and therefore energy coming into the body.
So each time the process is repeated it becomes a little harder to achieve the weight loss desired. The harder it gets the quicker you give up meaning most people end up heavier than they started in the first place – not good!
What makes it harder is that everyday in a thousand different ways we are bombarded with messages from the multi billion pound food & diet industry who tell us that weight loss their way is easy and that they have the secret answer, by following them you to can have the body of your dreams.
A particular pet hate are the companies who provide energy dense bars and shakes to replace meals leaving you too exhausted to exercise and giving you the metabolism of a snail – having lost a lot of weight and feeling great in your new (untoned) body you return to eating food and expect your sluggish metabolism to cope, it doesn’t – I have never meet anyone who has kept their weight off with this type of diet – its insane!
But here is what I do know that
successful diets and exercise plans work for the following reasons, - they involve a reduction in un nutritious empty calories
- they are nutritionally dense
- they use resistance training
- and effective cardio
Nature doesn’t process foods, such as grains, stripping them of vital nutrients, it doesn’t add salt to meat and fish so it stores for longer in a tin on the shelf or add 10 teaspoons of sugar (the amount found in a standard can of cola) to water to make it taste better.
It doesn’t use trans fats or additives to prolong its shelf life, or numbers to give foods nicer colourings, or pesticides so fruit looks prettier – I could go on but you get the picture.
We have toyed so much with the foods we eat we no long have a concept of what real.
In my next blog I will tell you my view of the world’s best diet, the nutrition my yummy mummy fit campers, 1 to 1 PT and online clients follow, the same plan that has helped clients to lose 7lbs and 5 ½ inches in their first WEEK, the results they get are amazing – but if you can’t wait for the next blog and want to get a heads up just look around at the foods nature provides!
For more info check out our website at http://www.personaltrainerleatherhead.com/
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