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Best Weight Loss Diet Programs
Losing weight is big business in most of the developed world, and it’s likely to stay that way for a long time, thanks to the lies of omission perpetrated by the diet industry itself. Here’s an example of what the diet gurus don’t want you to know about their weight loss diet programs:
“Our program has probably been done before.” That fantastic new breakthrough diet program you just discovered on the internet? It’s probably old news. Most diet programs are just recycled versions of older weight loss methods, rumors, or myths. That’s why they all sound vaguely familiar.
The Three Essentials of Any Successful Weight Loss Program
There are two considerations for anyone who
wants to lose weight. The first is diet; the second is exercise. By
"diet" we mean everything you put into your body; by "exercise" we
mean every means you use to get it out again. A good weight
loss diet program will have three facets; two will be
diet-related (cutting calories and increasing the nutrition in your
food) and one, of course, is exercise related. Let's look at
exercise first.
Finding an exercise that works up a bit of a sweat but is still
enjoyable is important. A 45-minute walk every morning before work
is ideal. Walking is the most natural of human activities. Mankind
was made to walk; now, thanks to cars, planes, elevators,
escalators, and rolling swivel chairs, we need never walk more than
a few yards at a time.
Whatever exercise you do, try to do it first thing in the morning if
you possibly can. Early-morning exercise "sets" your metabolism, so
that through the rest of the day, even when you're sitting and
driving, you're burning more calories than you would have without
that morning exercise.
The second facet of any best weight loss diet program is,
of course, cutting back on your calories. This is the difficult
part. When you set out to lose weight, you are essentially giving
your body fewer calories than it needs. Your body is forced to turn
to the calories it had stored up for "famine" in the form of fat. As
your body uses these stored fat calories, you lose weight. But—as
anyone who has ever dieted before knows—it is a very uncomfortable
process. And why not? Your body is essentially eating itself by
using up those fat reserves.
Remind yourself every time you feel those hunger pains that what you
feel is your body actually "eating" your fat. If you eat something
when you feel hungry, you give your body something else to eat, and
it stops eating those fat reserves. Which, of course, brings us to
our final point.
Last but not least, it is essential that you increase the nutrition
of your food when you want to lose weight. If you were eating a
hamburger, a side of fries, and a coke for two meals a day every
weekday, don't think that by simply skipping lunch, ditching the
fries, and going with diet cola, you will lose weight successfully.
You won't. Instead, you will become tired, worn down, and easily
stressed. Weight loss should be a happy time, as we purge ourselves
of fat and impurities. Of course your energy levels will decrease
the first week or so as your body adjusts to new exercise routines,
new food restrictions, and the "self-cannibalism" you impose on it.
But if you get your vital nutrition, every day that passes will find
you feeling better, healthier, and more energetic than the one
before. That doesn't happen when you eat one burger instead of two,
and nothing else.
Instead, focus on getting more nutrition into your diet. Eat lots of
fresh fruits and vegetables, and eat them raw as often as possible.
Cooking destroys nutrition, so if you do cook them, steam them
instead of boiling them. Baby carrots, celery sticks, broccoli
florets and radishes are all examples of foods that are delicious
raw. And celery and radishes have another advantage. They are "free"
vegetables (meaning that they have so few calories, you burn away
any calories they give you just in chewing and digesting them). If
you were constantly satisfying your craving for munchies with candy
bars, potato chips, popcorn, and hard candy, then each night before
you go to bed, prepare five or ten small sandwich bags full of
washed and cut celery and radishes. Snack on them every time you
feel a craving for a candy bar or a handful of potato chips. Instead
of getting too many calories and no nutrition, you'll be getting no
calories worth counting, and plenty of nutrition!
Drinking lots of water is also important when you begin a weight
loss program. Find a 32-oz. bottle and make sure you fill it and
drink it at least twice a day, preferably three times. You're
probably already familiar with all the health and weight loss
benefits of drinking water (flushes the system, eliminates toxins,
purifies the kidneys, increases energy, improves blood flow to the
brain, and on and on the list goes), but did you know that it also
helps to curb your runaway appetite? Whenever you feel hungry, drink
water. (This, by the way, is an excellent way of making sure you get
your 8 glasses a day; if you're depriving your body of the food it
was accustomed to, you're going to feel hungry more than 8 glasses
worth per day.) Water makes your stomach feel full, so it stops
complaining, and it also gives your hands and mouth something to do.
You might be surprised how much of our eating is fueled by bored
mouths.
Balance out these three elements, and you can be sure of a
best weight loss diet program that leaves you feeling fit,
trim, sexy, and energetic. Leave out one element, and the whole
thing will fall apart.
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