Lifestyle Changes Work for Weight Loss!
By building a nutrition plan that works for you along with some exercise you can maintain lasting weight loss. Dieting for weight loss is just riding a roller coaster to lose weight. Up and down you go.
Dieting research shows:
Calorie related dieting often helps you lose weight, but have been extremely failing to maintain this weight loss.
So, if you want to lose weight, what should you do, but how do you avoid regaining this weight?
Answer: Make a lifestyle change!
Understand how and why diets often fail:
If your diet fails, it is not just due to a lack of will or moral character on your part.. Our bodies are wired for us to survive, and any threat to this survival the body reacts accordingly. When energy availability decreases (through diet), our bodies respond to this calorie withdrawal with measures that include metabolism, hormones, and neurological changes that will overwhelm the will of the diet.
Calorie restriction slows your metabolism, increasing our starvation hormone (Garlin) and your satiety or complete hormone (Leptin). Not only is your body hungry, but it’s less likely that you’re completely satisfied or satisfied with what you ate.
Some of us also have genetic risk factors that respond to diets and food restriction.
For some people, binge-eating is a direct result of dieting. This response to dieting often leads to the fact that dieters have higher weights than before they started the diet.
Ask some questions before you start dieting:
Am I ready to make a lifestyle change?
Am I ready to eat healthy?
Am I ready for a new nutrition plan and not a diet?
Let’s Get Started:
Instead of following a restrictive diet plan that is not really designed for your lifestyle plan, develop a sustainable nutrition plan that meets your individual needs. Nutrition is not a one size fits all concept.
Avoid fast food and processed foods!
Try to use whole foods, quality proteins, fresh vegetables and fruits. Organic if you can but not a necessity.
(My personal nutrition plan is to eat high protein, low carb meals. I sometimes fast for 24 hours. I also make sure I take my organic supplements so I don’t miss any nutrients my body requires. I do not count calories. This works for my lifestyle, but it doesn’t mean it will work for yours).
Small sustainable changes tailored to individual lifestyles and conditions lead to better health that are likely to protect and maintain metabolism.
If weight loss is your goal be patient!
Guess what? If you go out to dinner and enjoy a desert, don’t worry about it, just get back on your nutrition plan the next day and keep going.
This seems simple, but sometimes people have trouble changing their lifestyle. You just have to keep at it and stay off restrictive diets.
