To Lose More, Eat More

If you set a goal this year to lose weight (and by weight I mean fat) no matter if it was 5 pounds or 50, let me ask you this question: How are you doing so far?

If your honest answer is anything resembling, "Not so good", then please adhere to this one piece of advice:

DO NOT GO ON A DIET!

Why? People who utilize a "diet" fail way more often than they succeed. In fact, diets fail more than 9 out of 10 people. You wanna know why?

It's really very simple.

1) Almost all "diets" focus on restrictions of some sort in the amount of food you eat. Furthermore, unless you enjoy being in a continual state of hunger, you won't stick with it. Your body's psychology overrides your will power.

Why?

2) In restricting your calories, your body sends a signal to your brain that you are starving. This starts a chain of events that begins a sort of "survival mechanism" that slows your metabolism down, which in turn signals your body to stockpile what you eat and store things as fat. The result is that by decreasing your metabolism, you're bound to regain the weight, and probably a few pounds extra, when you do eventually begin a normal eat program.

If you're serious about a desire to finally drop a few (or more) pounds of fat, as well as keep it off for life, I HIGHLY suggest that you eat smaller meals more frequently.

You should also focus on cleaning up your diet in order to eat more of the right foods. Doing so will increase your metabolism naturally. Your body will receive signals that "all is well" and that there is no starvation emergency, and that it can let go of the fat.

The bottom line:
1) Get rid of the junk from your diet. Keep the food you eat real, not processed.
2) Stock your kitchen with wholesome goodness straight from God's hand. If it's been altered from the way He made it, don't eat it. Do the same where you work.

Make every effort possible to keep fresh fruits and vegetables, yogurt (if you like it, unsweetened, of course. you can sweeten it with some stevia and berries), nuts (almonds, pecans, etc) sardines and fresh made peanut butter.

Personally we like to take a little time and make healthy meals that can be frozen and place them into individual portion containers. This allows us to quickly and easily prepare a meal when we're short on time. In other words, you never have to worry about having a healthy and nutritious lunch or supper ready.

Remember, if you made plans this past New Years to drop some fat, please don't expect to succeed by dieting. It's senseless to starve yourself, so why do it? The better solution to dropping fat and keeping it away for good is to eating more of the foods that God gave us to eat and staying away from the junk that advertisers and marketers tell you is food.

God bless,
Steve