A Few Weight Loss Basics

Today, Americans and people in other advanced nations are constantly going on diets. Yet, we don’t need to diet in order to lose weight. This should be obvious by now, given the fact that for 99% of us that dieting isn’t working. With all of the dieting going on, statistically we should be seeing great results by now. Obviously, this isn’t the case.

Drinking diet sodas doesn’t work, either. Have you ever noticed that with only the rarest of exceptions it’s only fat people who drink diet soda? If diet sodas were a solution to weight problems, there wouldn’t be that many fat people left. No, the chemicals in diet sodas make people even fatter. Sad, but true. (And who says that you “need” soda pop, anyway?)

The hard core workouts that are so often prescribed for losing weight cannot be sustained by most overweight people. Those workouts are great for attaining elite conditioning, but you have to start from the start if you’re fat. You’re seriously risking a heart attack or quick heat exhaustion if you’re fat and try those workouts, anyway!

Get Some Basic, Elemental Facts

You seem to be unable to solve your weight problems for two basic, elemental reasons:

Your metabolism is screwed up.
You are too sick. And you are too sick because, as the vicious cycle goes, you are fat.
People with weight problems are thoroughly proven to suffer from more health problems than people who are fit, lean, or slender. Diabetes, heart disease, and liver problems, among other conditions, are all substantially more prominent in overweight people. Then there’s the general lack of sustainable energy. If your body needs to pour so much more energy into sustaining energy and fending off illness, how does it have energy available to melt away the unwanted pounds?

The vast majority of overweight people tend to try, at some point, some self-denying, go-without-eating methods. You can forget them. When you under-eat, your body quickly concludes, in a bio-chemical sense, that some type of famine has set in within your environment, or you’re otherwise having trouble finding food to eat, and in response your metabolism slows down to conserve the very things that you want to burn off: glucose and fats.

You’ve also screwed up your metabolism by eating food with barely any nutritional value. This has caused your body to store lots of sugars, and this in turn causes the body release high doses of insulin into its systems. What does this do? It significantly impedes the burning of fat-that exact thing that you are seeking.

What You Can Do

There are some basic things that you can, and must, do to begin losing weight, improving your metabolism, and getting your health back.

• Cut out all refined sugar from your diet. You can replace sugar with honey, fructose, or stevia. If you simply “must” consume a few certain thing such as, for example, soda pop or ketchup, restrict your buying of these products to those that are made with natural sugar only-and, greatly restrict your level of consumption. (Try to make it just one day per week.)
• In conjunction with the above, start making or preparing your own food. In other words, stop buying processed foods. You’ll never get rid of the sugar with them.
• Cut way back on the grains-yes, even whole grains. They get converted into in the body, and your screwed up metabolism can’t handle that. Limit bread and pasta to just one serving of each per week. (However, you can have lots of rice.)

These are just starting points for losing weight, but they will work. Then you can expand your efforts and become even fitter.