HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT. This is my personal view built on personal ideas. It works for me.The plain truth is that we are not stupid, we all know how to lose weight. There is no miracle cure, no overnight sensation, no morning after pill, as
times we live in would love to have you believe. They want you to believe this so money can be made out of misery year on year with amazing new breakthrough diets. As I said, we are not stupid, but somewhat lazy and glad of excuses bandied about what is actually a simple truth.
You would not expect a major operation to be folllowed by a training session next morning, followed by discharge in afternoon, and work next day, these things take time to overcome, a gradual recuperation period.
I think we all accept that is pretty much of a fact, yet we seem to think that weight loss from a grim start weight is achievable overnight with no attendant dangers if we rush our attempt using dangerous techniques.
The plain truth is that to lose weight you have to take less calories in than you are burning off. End of story. Period.
In order to do this we might like to exercise more as this speeds up our sluggish and near terminal metabolism towards a semblance of its old self.
Tell me if Im losing you at any stage here, but I am assuming you are all intelligent enough to be with me so far.
There is only one major obstacle to this being a life changing revelation. The obstacle is you, and that is a large obstacle.
Insidious advertising does not help much either.
The problem is your body, your triggers, your impulses and your mind set. There is also question of duration. Many can adopt a new regime for days, weeks or even months at a time, but making this into a permanent change is also a huge problem, especially given that advertising wants you to do it EVERY year, not just once. There is little money in your just doing it once, for people whose job it is to sell you on diets.
The Atkins diet seemingly defied odds, and propounded you could eat as much as you liked and eat yourself slim. It seemed calories in were meaningless, that they would disappear without exercise or effort. That calories in versus calories out was wrong. It appears now that fact that high protein foods contain less calories than carbohydrates, pound for pound, coupled with fact that in most cases high protein foods trigger body into saying, now hold on here Im already full up with food, does in fact follow age old principle of calories in must be less than calories out.
I would question whether it is necessary to be swimming in fat and not just grilled or poached or boiled, as I see main benefit being in eating of high protein in exchange for high carbohydrate, that is my own deduction from data available to date.
This high protein being a lower calorific value and a trigger to being full and damping down pangs of screaming appetite, must surely be basis of a simple dieting plan. Let us investigate other known benificial tools for us to diet and choose for ourselves our own method from resulting possibilities, as contrary to what advertisers would have you believe there is no set way for a whole nation of slimmers.
It also is seemingly true that leaving a thirty minute gap between courses actually means you often do not want next course, as apparantly body takes about fifteen to twenty minutes to tell you you are full after a main course. You want a dessert or a sweet as it is different, and most of us have a sweet tooth, but your body probably does not need it. You would not eat your main course twice, but a sweet is appealing. If you leave it twenty minutes, chances are you will not need it, as better Restaurants will allow. Perhaps this is why we are sometimes rushed to order in lesser establishments.
Obviously also there has to be a set amount of calories per day that is a pseudo upper limit for that day, depending on hieght, structure, age, and exercise regime, otherwise we would be eating right things in inordinately large amounts.
There has to be a balance.
Below is a list of what I would say are most salient points to note. 1. Exercise increases metabolism. 2. A faster metabolism burns more calories. 3. Substitution of high protein for carbohydrates works. 4. Our metabolism is fastest in morning, slowest late at night. 5. Food eaten early will burn up quicker than food eaten later. 6. Leaving a thirty minute gap after a course may save a course. 7. Small portions over a day put on less weight than same weight of same food in say three sittings. 8. Weight watchers type unit watching works if followed. 9. Eating after seven pm accumulates fat due to slow metabolism. 10. A large obstaclee is our sweet tooth for chocolate, cakes, sweets biscuits, and desserts. 11. Few of us take in enough water per day, though it makes up eighty per cent of our being, and is important in releasing toxins.
These seem pretty obvious statements, but we can glean our own weight loss plan for future just using these simple ingredients.
I have evolved my own method, which I will endeavour to explain to you, not as a follow this this is way, but as a this is how I used above information to help me in my own way, as no doubt you are clever enough to adapt it to your own way. This is where many weight loss programs fall down. They make it seem insurmountably hard to achieve without their patronisingly know all ideas and cures and proclamations.
I was in computing when it first started, and programming was nowhere near as difficult as people would have had you believe, but you hardly tell your customers that when you are charging earth for your services. You make it seem difficult, almost a guru type thing, so clients will not worry too much over cost.
It seems this way to me with slimming. Certain companies would have it deemed almost an insurmountable obstacle without help and guidance, which of course you pay for willingly, believing it to be of benefit, and like all things having a healthy self doubt in your own ability, unless you are Prime Minister. My own method is as follows. You may well view this as a dont try this at home.
