To lose weight is simple, we have to move more and eat less.There is no magic cure, no powder, pill or cream that will make it any simpler for us to do. We need to haul our jumbo, super-sized rear ends up and off of the couch and move it. We need to shove back the troughs that pass for dinner plates and put down the fork, (preferably before the fourth or fifth course comes our way.) And we need to do them both together. Diet without exercise will not work. Exercise without diet will not work. Diet and exercise must work together- period.
As soon as we learn that,, the sooner that we will all get off of the fit and fat roller coaster. What happens is this: We gain ten pounds. We turn on the television or grab a favorite magazine or even worse, listen to one of our own associates and the next thing we know we are eating some crazy routine of food. Particular foods are only allowed at certain times. No foods that begin with the letter P after two p.m. The first meal must be eaten at 8, the last meal at 3, no exceptions. Soon, the trouble with such a restrictive diet becomes all too clear. This is a busy, busy, fast paced world. We do not have such luxury any longer- and even if we do, who is to say that our tummies will agree to it?
So, how long did the Time Diet last? About a week? It doesn't really matter, because now the new one is the orange diet. You can eat all of the oranges that you would like, along with all other foods that are orange. But, the rule is, nothing else. If it is orange, you gorge, if it's not, you put it back. Alright, so you won't get scurvy, but really, how many orange foods are there? A few days into this one and you are not only sick of all things of that color but your skin is starting to take an odd hue as well.
Starting to feel dejected, you find what you think is your perfect salvation on a late night infomercial- always the perfect place to look for health answers and salvation, you know. You order the pills that the svelte hostess is touting and even kick in for the rush shipping. Things are finally starting to look up for you, or so you think.
Flash forward a month. You started with ten pounds that were bothering you (not to mention the weight that you technically needed to lose to be at what is deemed a healthy weight.) You have tried and failed a diet that was so rigid that it did not take real life into account. You have tried and failed a diet that focused on only one type of food and banned all others. And, by now you have tried and failed to use diet pills to help with your weight loss because they either made you feel a bit jittery, jumpy and nervous because they a)contain caffeine or similar ingredients or b) nothing at all. Your total weight loss for this month? Unless you count the money you are out for the pills and the rush shipping, if you are like the typical newbie dieter, the answer is probably zero. And, to tell the truth, you have probably picked up a couple of pounds as well.
Nobody wants you to figure out weight loss for yourself. They want to sell you their book, their gadget, their pills. The more confusing, conflicting information that they can flood you with, the better. Fad diets will come and go, some of them more dangerous than others. We follow them, hoping to finally find our way to the skinny person we know is within us and then when they do not work, berate ourselves for being failures. We are not failures. We are human. Humans are hardwired for survival and that does not always make it easy to be skinny if that is not the weight that our own body thinks is right.
There are a million things that try to keep us fat- including our own body and its instinctive fight for survival. We have to accept a few things and we will finally start to win the weight loss war:
1. Diet and Exercise must work together
2. We must understand our bodies set point.
3. We must understand hunger and what it means.
4. We must accept that no one food is magic.
Dieting and weight loss are not new concepts, they have been around for centuries- weight and what we eat have been the subject of many fads for all of history. Body ideals have changed nearly as much as clothing styles as you will see in other FREE articles at WeightLossDietToday.com
