Effective Weight Loss Programs: Part 3
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For your weight loss program to be a success, it’s absolutely
critical that you understand the difference between fad diets and safe,
effective weight loss programs that produce long-lasting weight loss
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There are all sorts of weight loss programs out there that
can help you lose weight (not necessarily fat), but they are so miserable
that it's impossible to stay on them very long - even more difficult
is keeping the results you achieved before going off the weight loss
program. We wanted to create a weight loss program that was both VERY
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Decades of research have shown that diets (not to be confused
with personalized weight loss programs), both self-initiated and professionally-led,
are ineffective at producing long-term health and weight loss (or weight
control). When your diet fails to keep the weight off, you may say to
yourself, "If only I didn't love food so much . . . If I could
just exercise more often . . . If I just had more will power."
The problem is not personal weakness or lack of will power. Only 5 percent
of people who go on diets are successful. Please understand that we
are not failing diets; diets are failing us. Instead you need a safe,
effective, personalized weight loss program that is right for you!
Last Year, More Than 34 Million Americans Tried
Diets Instead of Weight Loss Programs
Diets have made us more aware of calories. However, controlling your
body weight through calorie-counting (rather than weight loss programs
with personalized meal plans) is almost impossible. The National Institutes
of Health recently completed a 20-year study of traditional low-calorie
diets to see if they really helped people lose weight and keep it off.
The diet plans studied included Weight Watchers®, Jenny Craig®, The
Diet Center® and most other traditional weight loss programs and diet
fads. The study concluded that traditional low-calorie diet plans have
a 95 percent failure rate; i.e., 95 percent of the people on the plans
gained back all of the weight they had lost within a few years. Most
people gained back the weight during the next year! In fact, most people
gain an additional five pounds after each dieting cycle.
The reason 95 percent of all traditional diets fail is
simple. When you go on a low-calorie diet instead of a personalized
weight loss program, your body thinks you are starving; it actually
becomes more efficient at storing fat by slowing down your metabolism.
When you stop this unrealistic eating plan, your metabolism is still
slow and inefficient that you gain the weight back even faster, even
though you may still be eating less than you were before you went on
the diet.
In addition, low-calorie diets cause you to lose both muscle
and fat in equal amounts. However, when you eventually gain back the
weight, it is all fat and not muscle, causing your metabolism to slow
down even more. Now you have extra weight, a less healthy body composition,
and a less attractive physique. The right weight loss programs will
not cause this to happen, because everything will be personalized customized
to you.
Diets require you to sacrifice by being hungry; they don't
allow you to enjoy the foods you love. This does not teach you habits
which you can maintain after the diet is over. Most diet programs force
you to lower your caloric intake to dangerously low levels. The common
theory is that if you eat fewer calories than you burn, you will lose
weight. But when you eat fewer calories than your body needs to maintain
its life-sustaining activities, you're actually losing muscle in addition
to fat. Your body breaks down its own muscles to provide the needed
energy for survival.
The Psychological Risks of Dieting - Weight Loss
Programs Will Teach You What You Need to Know
Not only does dieting have the potential to harm our bodies, it can
also our harm our psyches. Unsuccessful attempts at long-term fad diets
instead of weight loss programs can seriously affect our psychological
well-being. The increasing failure that comes with each weight loss
attempt can further diminish our already low self-esteem and increase
our risk of depression. Unfortunately, when this happens to us, we assume
erroneously that the fault lies with us and not with the real culprit,
the diet itself. We need personalized weight loss programs instead.
Other psychological risks of dieting include an obsession
with body weight and size, disordered eating patterns which may increase
the risk of developing an eating disorder, and an increased pressure
to try to conform to society's standard of thinness. All of these problems
tend to further weaken our ability to deal with food and our bodies
in a healthy way.
Dieting: A Poor Role Model for Children
Consider for a moment the messages that dieting sends to our children.
Parents who are constantly dieting and who are unhappy with their body
often indicate to their child that he or she is also not okay and needs
to go on a diet. Feelings of inadequacy and a reinforcement of the diet
mentality can come from any of the following:
Using food as a reward, as comfort, or as a form of control.
Making children clean their plates as proof that they're "good"
or in order to earn dessert rather than teaching them to tune into internal
signals of fullness and satiety.
Centering holiday festivities on food rather than emphasizing
the meaning of the occasion itself, friendship, conversation, family
activities.
Relying on diet products like Slim-Fast® that don't allow
children to acquire a taste for low-sugar foods.
Many times, we are just passing on attitudes about food and our bodies
that we got from our parents. The right weight loss programs can help
you break this cycle.
As you implement the important principles of the GHF Weight
Loss Program into your lifestyle and begin tuning in to your body for
signals of hunger and fullness, and enjoy physical activity, you will
notice that the positive attitudes and healthy behaviors will transfer
to your children. When you start living a healthier lifestyle, you'll
notice a sense of inner satisfaction. When people take responsibility
for their own health, their family is positively affected.
Our
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Traditional diets which use calorie restriction to produce weight loss,
instead of effective, personalized weight loss programs to lose fat,
are no longer appropriate. Most weight loss programs measure success
solely in terms of the number of pounds lost per weight loss attempt.
Diets don't take into account the quality of the process used to achieve
that weight loss or the very small likelihood of sustained weight loss.
For long-term good health, you need to move away from low-calorie diets
and focus on enjoyable weight loss programs. Exercising regularly and
eating lean-supporting calories, protein and carbohydrates, and reducing
fat-supporting calories will not only help you look and feel better,
it will also significantly reduce your risk of disease.
GHF
will show you how to take the frustration, guilt, and deprivation out
of diets with effective, enjoyable weight loss programs, allowing you
to adopt gradual, realistic changes into your life that will make healthy
eating and physical activity a permanent pleasure. You will soon discover
what your body is capable of and begin enjoying the many benefits of
fitness and good health!
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in the shortest period of time by eating the perfect foods combined
at the right times in the right amounts - all customized specifically
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