| Don't diet, just eat and lose weight!First, | | | | accomplish this is to read. The internet is |
| the following "diet" is really not a diet, in | | | | probably the best and easiest venue for |
| the conventional sense, but a natural way of | | | | obtaining this type of information. The |
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| the necessary nutrients for a long and | | | | Center - McKinley Health Center - USDA |
| healthful life. The term "diet" implies | | | | Nutrient Data Laboratory - the key to weight |
| restrictions by either eliminating or | | | | control is to be healthy, happy and fit. You |
| radically reducing the intake of certain | | | | must understand which foods will provide |
| foods or food groups. Most diets are | | | | these three, all-important elements. Believe |
| inappropriate, unhealthful (some are even | | | | it or not, there are foods which you enjoy |
| dangerous) and ultimately doomed to fail.The | | | | that are actually good for you!Incredibly, |
| most important objective of eating any food | | | | many overweight people actually do not eat |
| is to provide the body with all the essential | | | | enough! Listen to your body, not your mind. |
| nutrients for a long and healthful life. | | | | Your body knows when it has had the |
| Almost every food provides some element | | | | appropriate amount of food and, more |
| needed by your body. If you do not care | | | | importantly, the appropriate amount of |
| about being healthy, avoiding sickness and | | | | nutrition. Because many people do not |
| disease and living a long life, then this | | | | understand nutrition, they eat food that does |
| natural way of eating is not for you. The | | | | not supply sufficient nutrients to the body. |
| second most important reason for eating any | | | | They will feel hungry even after a large meal |
| food is because you enjoy it and it makes you | | | | because theirs bodies are "starving" for |
| happy. It is highly unlikely that you will | | | | proper nutrition. For this reason, most |
| consistently, and for long term, eat foods | | | | diets do not work or the individual cannot |
| that you do not enjoy. Similarly, it is | | | | stay with the diet because it is an unnatural |
| extremely unlikely that you will be able to | | | | way of eating. Your body literally believes |
| completely eliminate foods that you do enjoy | | | | it is starving; therefore, it will take |
| from your diet.Many diets and dieticians | | | | actions to survive the famine. It is a |
| expect a person to continually keep count of | | | | self-preservation mechanism, if you will. |
| every calorie, carbohydrate and/or gram of | | | | The body begins drawing off your muscles and |
| fat that enters your mouth! Again, what is | | | | stores the fat for later use in the event |
| likelihood of being able to maintain this | | | | that it does not receive the necessary |
| tedious ritual for any meaningful length of | | | | nourishment for an extended period of time. |
| time? Nothing could be more depressing and | | | | When a person finally falls off the diet |
| stress-inducing as the constant monitoring of | | | | (which is inevitable), they gain back all the |
| calories, carbs or fat. Therefore, if | | | | lost weight and, in many cases, even more! |
| enjoying your meals is not important to you, | | | | The reason is because it takes the body |
| then this natural way of eating is probably | | | | sometime to adjust from its self-preservation |
| not for you.Finally, you should eat food to | | | | mode, so all the food that is consumed is |
| maintain an appropriate weight for your | | | | stored as fat while your body continues to |
| height and frame. Being over-weight or | | | | draw from muscle.There is no such thing as |
| under-weight is not conducive to a long, | | | | losing weight fast. It will take 3 to 6 |
| healthful life nor does it promote a positive | | | | months (or more depending on the amount of |
| self image. If being too heavy or too thin | | | | weight loss needed),to lose a significant |
| is not important to you, than this natural | | | | amount of weight. The good news is that once |
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| others.Otherwise, you will not be | | | | before and you are now going to hear it again |
| sufficiently motivated to change your bad | | | | - exercise! Even a small amount of exercise |
| eating habits. In fact, when the inevitable | | | | (1/2 hour per day, 3 days per week) will |
| happens and you fail to achieve you goal, it | | | | greatly accelerate weight control.If you feel |
| will reinforce and, most probably, escalate | | | | like having a snack or something sweet, have |
| the inappropriate behavior (i.e. over-eating, | | | | it. Your body is telling you it needs |
| exclusively eating junk food, bulimia, | | | | something. Of coarse, it would be better to |
| etc.)You must begin this natural way of | | | | eat a piece of fruit rather than a candy bar. |
| eating with a positive outlook and the belief | | | | However, either is preferable to over-eating |
| that you can achieve your goals with a | | | | at your next meal or agonizing over the |
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