Why Tradition Weight Loss Diets Don't Work
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What would you say if I told you that you could have a dramatically improved physique in just six weeks? What if I could guarantee that, 42 days from today, you will barely recognize your own reflection? Staring back from the depths of your bathroom mirror, picture someone with slimmer hips, firmer thighs, tighter buns, flatter abs, more denned arms, and clearer, younger-looking skin. And that familiar stranger will be smiling - and not just because you look great; you also feel great. Your energy will be higher than it's been in years; your mood will be positive; you will be well rested and know you can handle whatever your busy life throws your way.
Heard it all before? Does it sound a little too good to be true? Do you have the uneasy feeling that deprivation, suffering, and cravings are lurking just around the corner? Maybe with some complicated calculations and impossibly involved recipes thrown in for good measure? If you aren't a little skeptical, you really should be. The vast majority of today's diet books, weight loss products, and exercise gadgets are nothing more than faddy gimmicks that contradict the basic machinery of human physiology and, as a result, are doomed to fail.
Well, with most diets that's what you get - deprivation, cravings and starving. Rather than defy natural laws, a healthy weight loss program harnesses them. A healthy weight loss program is not a fad or a quick fix. It doesn't call for the radical elimination of entire food groups or hours of tedious calisthenics. What you have is a simple, sustainable road map to the physique you've always dreamed of having, a weight loss diet that will give you rapid, dramatic results that you will begin to see and feel within the first week.
How can I be so sure that such a healthy weight loss diet will work for you?
Because a healthy diet is not about weight loss. It's about regaining physiological stability so that your body performs like the finely tuned, fat-burning machine it was designed to be. Unlike most fashionable (read fad) weight loss plans, a well structured and healthy weight loss diet will not turn you into a smaller, flabbier, hungrier version of your former self. It will not leave you exhausted, depleted, and primed for renewed weight gain. On the contrary, this type of program will melt unwanted fat while it tones your muscles, leaving you sated, energetic, and lean.
You Are Not "Going On A Diet"
The vast majority of so-called diets cater to our penchant for quick fixes. But when it comes to healthy eating, there is no such thing as a magic bullet. Fad diets that eliminate entire food groups and starvation diets that severely restrict calories contradict the basic machinery of human physiology. In the long run, these approaches are doomed to fail.
Although severe caloric restriction may lead to initial weight loss, the very nature of such an approach precludes its long-term effectiveness. Weight loss by caloric restriction triggers hormonal modifications that our species evolved to survive times of famine. These physiological mechanisms involve metabolic slowing, muscle wasting, exaggerated fat retention, and changes in brain chemistry that contribute to the development of behaviors like binge eating. The preferential loss of lean tissue (muscle) over fat often results in a false sense of accomplishment. You do lose weight. However, the "new you" is merely a smaller, flabbier version of the old you. Once normal eating patterns resume, the weight rapidly returns, plus an added ten pounds. Why? Because the muscle you sacrificed during the period of forced starvation, combined with metabolic slowing, make it that much harder for your body to burn fat.
The Miracle Of Muscle
When it comes to having a firm, flab-free physique, have you ever noticed that many people are able to coast along on youth until they're about 20 or 25 years old? After that, without at least minimal attention to diet and exercise, body composition begins to deteriorate. The untended human physique will get softer and flabbier with every passing year. In fact, for many years, the medical community subscribed to the belief that decreases in metabolic rate and subsequent weight gain were "natural" and "unavoidable" consequences of aging. Well, I can assure you that's simply wrong!
Restrictive diets simply aren't the healthiest or best way to lose weight. To lose weight through losing fat and maintaining your healthy muscle tone is the ultimate goal. Rather than restricting and starving yourself, find some of these healthy weight loss tips that you can work with and go with that. Add in some regular exercise and you're well on your way to achieving healthy and permanent weight loss.
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