DIET DISASTER!
Why Binge Dieting Doesn't Work
Only about 5% of dieting individuals manage to keep their weight off for more than one year. That's not at all encouraging when you consider the average American diets 3-4 times every year. Why are so many individuals involved in this self-defeating act? An obsession with thinness and the limited view that dieting will help you lose weight, has Americans running to buy diets to the tune of several billion dollars every year. But the final analysis is that "diets" just don't work.
Our Attitudes Towards Dieting
| Deprivation is the downfall of all diets. You can have a small portion of dessert to satisfy your sweet tooth and still stick to your diet. |
The audience laughed when a comedian said the root of the word diet is "to die." It conjures up the dying urge to eat, and a life filled with deprivation and having to say know to all the tasty foods. The phrase "I'm on a diet" makes you think you can get off whenever you want. Just mentioning the word "diet" makes you have cravings for foods you weren't even thinking about. Dieting may be the "in" social thing to do but the statistics show that it is simply not helping.
 I If diets are so effective, why do Americans continue to spend several billion dollars every year? |
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How yo-yo dieting works against you
Avid dieters often can lower their metabolisms enough to decrease their caloric needs. This can be done in two ways.
| Myth: Never eat at night Fact: Calories don't know time |
First, a diet of less than 1000-1200 calories can actually cause ketosis, a starvation state, and force your body to conserve calories. The body will minimize its caloric needs to survive. Therefore, you won't lose more over the long haul on an overly strict 500 calorie diet than you would on one above about 1000 calories. The effects of starvation can be long lasting: The metabolism can stay lowered for as long as a year.
Second, binge dieting can change the composition of the body. Let's say you lost 10 pounds in two weeks. much of that weight was water (5 pounds), some was fat (3 pounds), and the rest was muscle (2 pounds). When the weight is regained (as 95% will do), it returns in the form of fat and water. Every successive diet can cycle this downward trend of reduction in muscle mass until the chronic dieter can change their body fat percentage over time from 25% to 35-40%. Surprisingly, the scale may not show significant amounts of weight change. Muscle burns up more calories than fat and their binge dieting has made them lose a significant percentage of what helps them keep trim. This yo-yo effect of deprivation and regaining can harm the body. Yo-yo dieting is more dangerous than maintaining an even weight.
What Does Work
What does help lose and maintain weight loss is healthy eating habits and foods choices and a more active life-style. Take a fresh look at your daily food choices and exercise—quit thinking that a diet is something to endure for a month after which you can go back to your old habits. Make short and long term goals to slowly change your life-style to include healthier food choices and to be more active at work and play. You'll be healthier and happier when you give up dieting and will be closer to achieving a permanent weight change by focusing on the quality of your diet and exercise habits.
The South Beach Diet Quick and Easy Cookbook: 200 Delicious Recipes Ready in 30 Minutes or LessArthur Agatston
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The G.I. Diet: The Easy, Healthy Way to Permanent Weight LossRick Gallop
For years we’ve been told that a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet is the way to lose weight and stay trim. But anyone who has diligently followed that regimen knows that it doesn’t work. Rick Gallop, former president of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, tried it, along with countless other diets, and ended up back where he started: twenty pounds overweight. Frustrated, he set out to find a diet that was healthy and that would actually work. When he came across the Glycemic Index, or G.I., he realized he’d found the magic bullet.
Developed by Dr. David Jenkins, a professor of nutrition at the University of Toronto, the G.I. measures the speed at which your body breaks down food and converts it to glucose, which is used for energy or stored as fat. When losing weight, it is critical to avoid foods that have a high G.I., because they are digested too quickly by your body. With Rick Gallop’s G.I. Diet you won’t have to calculate the glycemic ratings and calories because he has done that for you, by listing foods in one of three categories: foods to avoid, foods to eat occasionally, and foods that you can eat as much of as you want.
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Dr. Atkins' Quick & Easy New Diet Cookbook : Companion to Dr. Atkins' New Diet RevolutionRobert C. Atkins
$14.00(USD)
Great taste in no time -- the Atkins way!
Since its original publication, Dr. Atkins' Quick & Easy New Diet Cookbook has sold more than one million copies. Based on the bestselling Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, the recipes in this completely revised edition will let you eat the most up-to-date Atkins way, whether you're just beginning to slim down or want to maintain your goal weight and enhance your health and well-being. The new edition will make it easier than ever to follow the controlled carbohydrate lifestyle pioneered by Dr. Atkins. Highlights include:
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