Did you know that on any given day, there are about 60 million U.S. Americans on a diet to lose weight? Out of a population of about 300 million, that means one in five of the people you might encounter today are right now in the process of attempting to take off extra pounds.
A simple fact, commonly known and frequently ignored, is that some diet products and diet plans don't work and some actually keep you from losing weight.
Buyer beware.
Understanding a few key concepts would help many people avoid the mistake of starting a diet plan that is doomed to failure.
Often, it is not the dieter who fails, but rather the flawed premise of the diet plan that ends up failing to work for the dieter. It is heartbreaking to know that someone who is giving their best effort, and suffering discomfort, unnecessary hunger, and
emotional pain during the process of dieting has a 98% chance of regaining all the weight they lost, plus a few pounds more.The most important thing for anyone contemplating a diet to understand is this one: Dozens of studies have shown conclusively that 'traditional' dieting - restricting caloric intake - does not work.
In a nutshell, here's why simply reducing calories will not ever work. Our bodies are programmed in miraculous ways for survival, and the part of our brain that does the work to keep us alive couldn't care less about fitting into a smaller sized pair of jeans.
Faced with a radical reduction of food, the alarms go off and our bodies set to work: conserving energy, creating more fat, slowing down metabolism, and engaging in a battery of survival mechanisms that keep us from starving. In the process of restricting calories, people inadvertently trigger these "starvation responses," which make weight loss very difficult and which guarantee that when the diet is over, all the lost weight will be regained.
People fall for diet programs that defy common sense for a number of reasons.
1. There is confusion because so much conflicting information is published by the media.
2. We are barraged with some very effective marketing as companies compete for our dieting dollars (35 billion is spent annually in the US alone).
3. The truth is that most of us want to believe there is some magic answer, an easy, quick and effective way to get fit. Source
There is a way to lose the weight and keep it off from now on. And, there's no starving, no calorie counting, no low fat foods, and the biggest thing, no pills, shakes or need to buy special packaged diet foods.What is it?It's an online weight loss plan based on eating real food.
The program opens to the public January 21, NOON PT 3PM EST.The live program starts January 31. Everyone has the week before to get situated and do a few preliminary things online.Listen to Dr. Heidi's intro call here:
BTW, Dr. Heidi will be interviewed by Jimmy Moore in March for a podcast featured on his blog.
Stay tuned for the opening of the online ER fat burn program this week!
Real Food with Dr. Heidi Dulay - Little Spa
My Whole Food Nation website. Good Food Making You Fat Video w/Dr. Heidi
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