Diet and Weight Loss – Diet yourself fat
Taking the decision to get rid of your unwanted pounds can be difficult, can't it? You know it's what you need to do, but somehow taking the decision is difficult. 'I'll start next week'... 'when I get back from holiday'... 'after the children have gone back to school'... 'not before Christmas'- the excuses are endless aren't they?
If you know you need to do something about being overweight, why the delay? Why not get right in there and get on with it? Why are you so reluctant? If you're overweight it's a fair guess that losing weight in the past might have been a bit of a battle, and not much fun either. You've probably tried a number of diets before. You know what they're like. You're very aware of the effect they have on you. You know it's not going to be easy to live a normal life. You know that you're probably not going to be very nice to live with. Above all, you know that however hard you've tried, the weight's come back on again. The fact that you're reluctant to start another diet is very understandable.
If you were asked what the four worst things about going on a diet were, the following might appear high on your list:
- Diets say they're easy but in reality they're complicated and difficult to follow.
- What you're asked to do is often very restrictive and difficult to fit into normal daily life.
- When you're on a diet you feel tired, listless and irritable.
- As soon as you stop dieting the weight piles back on again.
It would be very easy to trash the Atkins or the South Beach, to ridicule the Cabbage Soup or rubbish Weight Watchers. If you go on any of these programmes you will lose weight. But there's always a price to pay It can often be a less than enjoyable process with an unsatisfactory long-term outcome. (If the long-term outcome had been positive you wouldn't be reading this!)
What you should be aware of is one simple, highly researched fact. 'Diets don't work'. Yes, you might lose weight initially, you might even reach your weight loss target, but the inescapable truth about diets is that they are not the answer to long-term, permanent fat loss. The majority of dieters put back the weight they've lost within six months – with interest – as you might have experienced. There is no 'quick fix' to losing weight and keeping it off. Diets that offer you instant weight loss are doing you no favours. Remember that the faster you lose weight, the faster you'll put it back on again.
What a lot of people don't realise is that your body actually works against you when you try to lose weight. Your brain is programmed to maintain the status quo or to keep things in balance. This is called homeostasis – maintaining a balance. When you try to change the status quo and disturb the balance your body reacts against your efforts. When you dramatically reduce your calorie intake it goes into 'famine mode' and slows everything down to try and preserve energy. It makes you feel tired and listless to prevent you from wasting energy. It increases your appetite to persuade you to make greater efforts to find food. Gradually you start to lose your fat reserves, and you lose muscle too. When you stop dieting, your body thinks the famine is over and tries to return you to what it considers your default state. It thinks it's doing you a favour by helping you to put the weight back on again...and on goes the weight again!
If you want to lose weight and keep it off - to achieve permanent fat loss - you need to change your status quo, your default state. This is not something that can be done instantly. It needs to be done gradually and sensibly. You need to engage your body and your brain in the process. The way to lose weight and keep it off is not to concentrate solely on what and how much you eat, but to learn new habits, habits that will enable you to change your default state. This is the key to permanent weight loss.
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