Where diets go wrong
 The
first reaction of most people who discover that they have put on some weight is to eat less food. It sounds simple enough and reasonable.
Since food is what got us into trouble it follows that eating less of it will make everything right again. Nearly every diet or eating plan in the magazines or on the Internet says pretty much the same thing
- eat less food. Therefore the answer to this problem seems simple and handy. Sure, going with less food than usual is a challenge, but it also carries with it a sort of
self-righteous feeling.
Unfortunately for those who expect that lowering the intake of food
will help them lose weight, this mostly does not work.
Over the thousands of years of evolution, the human body had to face starvation many times and had to find ways of surviving. We
have evolved from those who were able to survive periods of starvation.
They survived because their bodies learned to cope with the lack of food,
by adjusting their energy outputs and limiting their capacity
for physical activity. Therefore, a simple decrease in the
quantity of food consumed does not significantly reduce weight, because the body
simply compensates for it in the way it has learned through
evolution.
The best way to reach your weight loss goal is to work around this defense system by eating smart instead of eating less. Overweight people and thin people eat roughly the same number of calories per day because they share the same required amount of food. However, overweight people eat far more fat than thin people, who prefer complex carbohydrates that are easily broken down and metabolized by the body. This is the biggest difference between the two groups and the best point to start when considering what and how to change in your eating patterns.
Good dieting always takes time. The excess weight was not accumulated over night and will never go away in a single day. Every
day thousands of people are searching the Internet and reading magazines in order to get dieting tips and to find the
magic solution - a pill that can make fat disappear in an instant. Well, maybe this is an exaggeration, but you get the idea. You have probably encountered by now a lot of advertisements promising such amazing results with the help of some quasi magic ingredient or other.
You need to know that losing weight doesn’t work like that.
The only way to lose weight for good is to avoid the
excessive intake of foods rich in fat and to exercises on a regular basis.
Taking a "fat binder" pill such as
Proactol after each meal will contribute greatly to your
weight reduction efforts, by drastically reducing the
availability of fats to the body.
Dieting without exercising is pointless because all the weight lost by eating less food will come right back in the following months. The sedentary lifestyle most of us lead is one of the causes behind the recent increase in the number of overweight people around the world. Cars, office jobs and foods rich in fat have brought us an unforeseen problem because the easy modern life has a price tag, just like everything else.
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