Many reducing plans boast quick weight-loss results. But how do popular weight-loss strategies really measure up?
Very Low Calorie Diets - Such plans claim to help you lose pounds very quickly. But severaly limiting calories may deprive your body of essential nutrients and create hunger, making these diets difficult to maintain. Weight is usually regained once normal eating is resumed.
Omitting Food Groups – Some fad diets limit your food choices or encourage select foods in large amounts, such as ultra low-fat, low-carb or high-protein plans. Boredom from limited food choices makes maintenance difficult. These diets are no more effective at keeping weight off than other plans, according to research.
Skipping Meals – Going without breakfast or lunch often encourages overeating later in the day. Typically, dieters who eat 3-plus meals a day and include breakfast are more successful at maintaining weight loss.
Pills and Gimmicks – Studies show that expensive seminars, pills or prepackaged meals work no better than less costly methods.
What’s Next? Design a permanent eating plan you can live with. Keep in mind that losing takes using more calories than you consume. Combine increased activity and eating fewer calories for weight loss that lasts.
Intake – Keep the emphasis on eating a wide variety of wholesome, unprocessed foods. Fill up on whole (less refined) grains and 5-9 servings of fruits and vegetables every day. Low-fat dairy products, legumes, poultry, fish and soy foods are healthful protein choices. Good idea: Watch portion sizes and limit caloric drinks.
Output – With your provider’s okay, aim for at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise each day. Gradually increase activity and be sure you are combining aerobic activity with strength training for total health. Good Idea: Gradually increasing to 60-90 minutes of cardio can help you lose pounds. Most experts recommend a safe weight loss of 1-2 pounds per week.
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95% of those who lose weight will put it back on.
95% of weight control is food control. For every five calories you burn, you become six calories hungrier.
Thin people aren’t thin because they exercise; heavy people aren’t fat because they don’t
People aren’t thin because they run; they run because they are thin.
If you’ve always been fat (and your parents are fat), chances are you will always be fat. You can lose weight, but it is almost a certainty you will but it back on. It in your genes. Sorry.
Sounds like a cynic who has quit trying and looking for excuses to me. The CDC confirms that obesity is not due to genetics but due to the amount of food we put into our mouths. http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/causes/index.html
Yes, if your parents are fat, you will probably be too. But it is not genetics, it is due to a lifetime of developing and indulging bad habits that you learned from those parents beginning early in your childhood. It is a cop-out to say there is nothing that you can do to affect your weight – the trick is to develop life long habits that support and enable you to maintain you weight. No,you cannot continue to frequent McDonald’s, Dominos, and Krispy Kreme and then say, “my parents are fat, I am fat – there is nothing I can do.”
It is time for people to start accepting and owning the results of their actions and the poor choices they have made. Until people do this, they are doomed to continue repeating the same lifestyles and habits that they were raised with. And as a result, the national obesity rate will continue to rise – just like the out of control spending and credit card abuse (all of which are “not my fault”).
By the way, please don’t let some of the testimonials on this website hear you – these people have done a great job of keeping their weight off. It would be a shame for them to hear the cynism and start thinking there was no way for them to maintain their healthy lifestyles and choices.