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Weight Loss Tips – Why Restrictive Diets Don’t Work

Why Diets Don’t Work.

You wouldn’t be reading this article if diets worked. Diets can’t, and don’t, work. Here’s why: Pause for a moment. If all these so called quick weight loss diets actually worked as promised, then the current problem we have with obesity would not be anywhere near as bad as it is now – if it existed at all. Instead, what have we got? Well, the hard facts of the matter are that over 60 percent (that 2 out of every 3 adults) are overweight or obese.

Even more worryingly, the problem is on the increase. The obesity epidemic has increased more than 4 times during the last 3 decades. At any point in time, 20 percent of women (that’s one in five) are on some kind of diet; and frighteningly enough the figure for teenage girls on a diet is almost the same. More worryingly, girls as young as nine actively consider dieting. In the US alone. 45 per cent of women are on a diet on any given day. Does that sound like resounding success to you?

Diets are so ineffective in controlling weight that around 95 per cent of people who go on one end up just as fat a year later (and sometimes fatter too). Around half of the people who embark on a diet quit within a few weeks.

Here’s my friend’s story:

I’m 39 and have been obese for at least ten years. I am now 17 stone 3 lb (110,4 kg). I’ve tried every diet under the sun, but none have been a long-term success. On most I managed to lose only 1-2 stone (6-13 kg), but I always seem to end up putting all of the weight back on again, plus more. I’ve become depressed about my weight and how I consistently fail to shift it. I can see why I should be able to do something about it, but I just don’t have the drive to do anything about it any more. Being overweight has depressed me throughout my whole adult life. Over the last five years it’s got even worse.

Everything I’ve tried has failed. During the fast six months I’ve sought help from my doctor, a specialist and a hypnotherapist. None have helped. You’re my last hope.

Still Steadily Losing Weight

She knows that her weight will naturally stabilize around her ideal. If it’s a little more, so what? A little less, so much the better. She is no longer obsessed by either her weight or her food. She doesn’t suffer from depression, anxiety or guilt. Instead, she focuses on seizing all that life has to offer in the secure knowledge that she’s losing weight steadily and healthily.

Since contacting me, Johanna has enrolled on a health research program I told her about. She’s been losing weight in a steady, healthy way ever since. She completed the program in one month as planned and lost 7 lb (3.2 kg) in weight. Five months later she had lost a further 2 stone (15.5 kg). And guess what? She is still steadily losing weight because of the long-term lifestyle changes made possible by following a healthy and normal eating plan.

My friend now realizes the reasons why diets have never worked for her, for you, or for practically anyone else.

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Weight Loss Tips – Is Your Diet Secretly Making You Fat?

Is your diet secretly making you fat by forcing you to eat more than you should?

By restricting what you can and can’t eat, most diets mean that lots of your favorite foods are now forbidden. Realistically how long do you think you can live for and not eat your favorite foods? And if you could, would life really be that much fun?

Restrictive diets don’t work – and scientific research has proven it.

Most people find food less appealing when they have already eaten. In one scientific study, slim people rated food as less desirable after they had eaten a lot of it. Overweight people didn’t. They thought it tasted just as good even when they’d eaten platefuls of it.

Diets sound great in theory, but they all share a major flaw; it’s extremely difficult to endure intense food cravings for any length of time. To make matters worse, you are surrounded by temptation. You know that forbidden fruit is the sweetest of all. And to add insult to injury, diets focus on food, which means they constantly remind you about the things you cannot have.

If you possess immense willpower you can put up with the cravings for a while. But the chances are you won’t be able to live like that for the rest of your life. So eventually you’11 abandon the diet and go back to your normal way of eating. Once again, your bad habits will have got the better of you.

For a diet to work, then every day – for the rest of your life – will have to be a diet day!

And who wants to spend their life like that? Dieters tell us they wake up in the morning and the first thing they think of is food. Images of toast, chocolate, cakes and chips float through their minds. There’s not a lettuce leaf in sight.

Through an immense effort of will, these thoughts are pushed aside. This obviously makes you unhappy. So if you’re on a diet, the first thing you feel in the morning is a lingering sense of unhappiness, of paradise lost. It takes a lot of willpower to force yourself to continue living like this for any length of time. The sensual temptations are just too powerful to ignore. How long can you remain in a constant state of self-denial? Is it really possible to be restrained all of the time? Quite simply, no it isn’t. We’re not designed that way. We are hedonists who will always get our pleasures in the end. And the constant denial is not just miserable, it also induces feelings of anxiety and despair. Not only are these feelings just as corrosive as hunger, they are infinitely more damaging psychologically.

The results have been used by relief workers helping the victims of famine and natural disasters ever since. Interestingly, as soon as the conscientious objectors started to lose weight, they became obsessed with food. They spent inordinate amounts of time chatting about food, planning meals and creating recipes. In short, they developed an almost pornographic obsession with food. Sound familiar?

To illustrate the point, in the 1950s, a group of conscientious objectors in America embarked on a controlled hunger strike to see how extreme lack of food affected the human body. In essence, they were starved, studied and brought back to health.

Trying not to think about food, when you are famished, is virtually impossible. And thinking about food inevitably leads to one thing – eating it.

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Read my list of top weight loss tips to help show you the best way to lose weight and keep it off for good.

No gimmicks, no fad diets, just healthy weight loss tips that work.

The best way to start losing weight and keep it off for good is to detox your body with a healthy detox diet. Detox diets are only short term and help your body eliminate the build up of toxins, which could well be making your body store fat rather than losing it.

Weight Loss Diet Plans – Get Faster Results by Using the Jump Start Method

There are many weight loss diet plans out there that can give you fast results but if you add the Jump Start method to your plan you will see even faster results.

Slow weight loss is common in people who have been overweight or inactive for a long time or in people who follow a generally poor diet that is high in refined carbohydrates.

The challenge many people face when they decide it is time to lose weight is that their body has become resistant to weight loss and even though they are putting the maximum effort into changing their results are coming slow.

To get faster results from your weight loss diet plans you can use this Jump Start method which primes the body for success.

1. Shift carbs to the mornings. By eliminating carbohydrates such as breads, cereals, pastas and rice from your diet after lunch you force your body to burn alternative sources of energy such as body fat and in a short period of time your body becomes an efficient body fat burner.

2. Remove refined carbohydrates from your diet for 2 weeks. Refined carbs breakdown super fast in your body and actually set up an internal environment that prevents fat loss.

3. Drink water and avoid calorie-containing drinks. Drop the calorie drinks, they have little value and a lot of calories.

4. If you must eat before bedtime make it protein or veggies. Try to avoid late night eating but if you are truly hungry your body will handle these foods without causing an insulin spike which can block fat loss.

You can get faster results from your weight loss diet plans by giving your diet a jump start and priming your body for success.

Losing this extra weight you are carrying is possible but there are things you must do first.

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Dr. Becky Gillaspy is an experienced and respected weight loss coach helping clients understand their weight issue and reach and exceed their weight loss goal.

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