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Weight loss magic shows you that weight loss isn’t just about pounds. Getting healthier is possible only if you can maintain an ideal weight for your body type. Impressive clinical studies show that a common foundation for building health is reaching your optimal weight.

The leading addiction in this country is food. The food that Americans are addicted to causes overeating among other things. Americans so far have the highest obesity rates in the world. With about twenty percent of the population diagnosed as clinically obese we have a huge problem. There are ten million overweight and obese children in this country.

What Is Happening?

Well for one let us go back to synthetic food. Veteran authors and health experts Mannie Barling and Ashley F. Brooks have released it’s Not Your Fault, Weight Gain, Obesity and Food Addiction. Shedding light on food craving, overeating and food addition they show the powerful and pivotal role of a chemically enhanced food supply. 

This is about the quality and quantity of our food supply. So weight management is only achievable if you choose to change to lifestyle management. The foods that line the supper market shelves and are in the freezer are our #1 public enemy.

Willpower is Not the Answer

Willpower isn’t the answer for many reasons.

For many people obesity is a sign of a nutritional deficiency. A healthy body finds its ideal weight. Overeating is not due to an absence of willpower. It is in large part due to the extreme stimulation of taste buds. The deck is stacked against you the minute you hit the grocery store.

You are eating more calories than you need on a daily basis. The risks from excess caloric intake jeopardize your health. The modern scourge of over consumption is a risk factor in virtually all age-related diseases. Most people can’t seem to commit to a sufficiently restrictive dietary regimen to obtain long lasting weight control. The reason being is hunger overtakes any desire to curtail the amount of food on any given day. The trick is to cut calories and not feel hungry.

There is only one Diet       

Eating your way to optimal weight is weight loss magic. There are some basics that help you achieve both your perfect weight, while improving your health.

Eat Foods with a low glycemic index. Gylcemic index is a measure of how fast a given food item increases the blood sugar level. Foods with a high glycemic index cause a sudden rise and fall of blood sugar levels. Low blood sugar levels trigger the need to eat more food; it creates a sense of immediate hunger.

Foods with a low glycemic index cause slow and consistent levels of energy for a prolonged period of time. This results in appetite control. Refined carbohydrates and foods with high sugar interfere with the hormone messages that signal you had enough to eat.

The insulin spike interferes with leptin; the hormone secreted by fat cells that let the body knows it can stop eating. This is not an emotional issue it is a purely physical mechanism. Sugar is an addictive substance, and that means refined carbohydrates fall into the same category, they turn to sugar.

The Answer is Coming and It Isn’t What You Think

The ten new ways to view weight management are remarkably easy and at the same time invisible to those you dine with.

Because eating is a pleasure it is undeniably the hardest thing to do. Most dieters are dispirited and frustrated by the gimmicky ways that most diets work.

For better or worse these diets are designed to make majestic sweeps of you eating patterns. There is nothing more thrilling than losing weight and becoming healthier. Going beyond the unusual dieting philosophies, I put together a plan for changing how you look at weight management.

1. Be selective about what you consume. You have to assign a whole new meaning to eating. Eating has to have a standard. Dinning is pleasure in our world. You have to take the eating experience even farther, by imaging a destination. Such as a healthy body, youthful appearance and longevity, so the number one tip is the value of what you ingest.

 2. Imaging what may be in the food you consume is a poor substitute for knowing.  Stay clear of packaged food with an ingredient list too long too read. In these foods are appetite enhances, such as MSG, high fructose corn syrup and non-nutrient sweeteners. All these stimulate your appetite. Calorie restriction means eat what you need, discard the rest.

 3. Mental tasks, such as work related problems, computer work that uses brain power, and any thinking tasks use a great deal of sucrose. You brain uses a good amount of calories and depends on sugar. Now that sugar can be natural such as in fruits and vegetables. Be sure to get up and use some physical activity to offset the calories, and to keep the appetite from going into overdrive.

 4. Forget dieting, this is the one way to ensure you never change your lifestyle. It is dependent on short term goals, and that means it is not meant to overhaul your weight. You are looking for a lifestyle that works.  

 5. Get away from your normal routine. The power of change emerges a as new weight loss tool. The same old reinforces failure. Start reading and researching new ways of living. What comes to mind is raw food, paleo, macrobiotic and green smoothie’s lifestyle blogs. They may give you plenty of eureka moments.

6. The mother of invention is motivation. Get motivated in the endless pursuit of ways to make you and your family healthy. The most effective way to save money is to be mindful of what you buy. Get motivated to save not only by buying the cheapest food, but the one with the most nutritional value for the buck.

 7. Victim or villain is a question that every dieter should ask themselves. The biggest misconception around is that you are overweight because you lack self control. Technically that is factual. The victim is the loser in this game and it isn’t in pounds. Most food manufactures and fast food companies want repeat business. By keeping the crowd hungry they are betting on return customers. Artificial appetite builders are in every bite you take of processed foods.

8. Most dieters feel a bit fragile. They know that it is so easy to get off course. Dieting is a perpetual campaign and it is the worst enemy of those caught in the trap of repeated dieting. Become powerful ignore the hype and start your own path.

9. Live better. That is the solution, and many successful outcomes came about because of this mindset. Mind your meals without getting out of a mainstream lifestyle. A quick look around, shows that most people aren’t mindful of what they put into their mouths, and this tells you to stop being one of them.  

10. Move, don’t sit on it. Move by walking, bending, and stretching. These are all the weight loss exercise you need to get started.

Metabolism is a conveniet catch phrase; it really is taken out of context most times.

Metabolism-One Part

If you just look at one part of weight loss you lose the whole picture. Your metabolism is influenced by chronological age, sex, genetic make-up, and proportion of lean body mass.  A few facts that will show you that this is a small part of most weight loss plans.

“Some people just burn calories at a slower rate than others” says Barrie Wolfe-Radbill, RD, a nutritionist specializing in weight loss at the New York University Medical Center. There are a few intriguing reasons for this.

Yo-Yo Dieting

What most people do not realize, the heavier you are the chances are your metabolism is running faster.

It may only be a small amount faster, but the fact is your body has to work harder to sustain itself.  

For that reason it is sometimes easiest to loss weight at the start of a diet. A small cut in calories when you are obese results in a fast weight loss at first.

But, then as you lose both muscle and fat you need fewer calories to sustain body functions. This makes it easy to put on the pounds again if you go back to your regular eating.

Yo-yo dieting: you loss weight and then gain back more than you lost, when you return to your old eating habits.

Lifestyle

At the end of the day, what it comes down to is lifestyle. As engaging as all the theories are, weight follows your lead. To change weight you have to change your habits. You have to handle stress, food, and activity differently than previously. The thing that matters is the way you work with the metabolism that you have. This is a realistic goal.

Walking and any type of physical activity help speed up your metabolism.

Eating the right foods, at the right time of day often helps boost your metabolism.

Plateau

Reaching a plateau is  one of the problems when trying to lose weight. If you binge after you drastically cut calories your body will hold on to the calories as if you are in a famine.

With that said, the answer really is in a healthy lifestyle. It is not just calories in and calories out. It is where you are getting your calories from. To boost your metabolism should not be the focus of your dieting plan. Here is the key, the modern processed food diet that we gobble up is the culprit not a slower metabolism. Previous generations did not know all the buzz words for weight loss yet; they were not nearly as overweight as we are.

High-Fructose Corn Syrup

Here is a clue high-fructose corn syrup can switch metabolism from a fat-burning one to one that stores fat.

It promotes the formation of long chain fatty acids that are resistant to oxidation.

The amount of long chain fatty acids you produce is directly related to the amount of fat in and on your body.

We need to stop talking about a slow metabolism and concentrate on what is your source of energy. Yes, that source is from the food you ingest.

The fructose in fruit is a small amount and it is ingested with the vitamins, minerals, enzymes and fiber which are present along with any fructose.

What we are talking about is the high fructose syrup that is in our food in epidemic proportions. This is the first generation to consume processed food with high fructose corn syrup. Coincidentally, this is the generation that is facing an obesity epidemic, and a laundry list of chronic health problems.

Answer

The answer to becoming slimmer, is to become healthier. The way to do that is through an individualized nutrition plan, one that becomes a lifestyle. To keep using the metabolism excuse will keep you from being healthy. By concentrating on a healthy lifestyle, everything will work as it is mean to, including your metabolism.