Weight loss isn’t a pill you take in the morning. It is a commitment you make all day long.
Permanent weight loss is something you carry with you into bed every night. And wake up with, refreshed in the morning.
The problem with weight loss is that it is difficult. It took years for you to get to the weight you are now. All those extra pounds settled on you seemingly without notice. They just appeared. Without much effort. Now, years later, you know you are overweight, you want to do something about it, and it takes effort. Daily effort. Why was it so easy going on, and so difficult coming off?
You see, you and I, and most of us, are genetically fat. Our bodies are organized to make us gain weight easily, and lose weight slowly. Lots of health reasons for that, and not a little to do with having babies. But knowing that doesn’t help us get the weight off – and keep it off – which is where we want it to be.
There certainly are some “natural” products that can assist your weight loss. Plus, the big weight loss companies want you to believe they can help you lose weight. Truth is, they can, too. Weight loss is amazingly easy if you eat a lot less than you were eating when you were gaining weight. Starving yourself skinny works. Quite well, too.
Weight Loss Companies are Weight Re-Gain Companies (Image courtesy of Akarakingdoms/freedigitalphotos)
But, here is where it gets scary. When you are eating 1,000 calories less a day (Weight Watchers cuts your calories in half, the HCG diet has you on 1/4 your normal daily calories) something goes terribly wrong inside of your body. It hurts your long-term weight loss goals in several ways:
- low calorie diets tell your body to hold on to body fat, because you may need it later
- these diets make you hungrier, so sooner or later you are going to binge and devour everything in sight
- the diet tells your body to store more fat at each meal, because you are starving and will need it later
- low calorie diets lower your metabolism
The “it lowers your metabolism” part is the key to understanding why you quickly regain lost weight, plus some extra. Once off the diet you resume eating much the same way you did before. Trouble is, you have lower metabolism now. Eating the same food, but with a lower basic metabolism, means you quickly regain. That’s why I call the weight loss companies “weight re-gain companies.”
So, what can you do?
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Well said! I think too many people think some miracle diet pill will help them loose weight. I think what they forget that the best way is good old HEALTHY diet and exercise!
Great post! I did hear somewhere that if you don’t eat, or not enough, in a day, thinking you will loose weight faster that way, it actually will backfire on you! Because at your next food-intake, your body will store all the fat and sugars and whatever else thinking that there might not be more food in a while coming in… Eating, staying healthy and weight loss is all a way of being. you have to work hard at it but pays off in the end!
I thought that by taking a pill I would lose weight. I was so wrong! I needed to eat healthy and exercise. Great post!
Definitely something great to think about. To lose weight and be healthy, you have to focus more on being healthy than on losing the weight. when you focus on being healthy the excess weight starts to come off on it’s own.
I agree! So many people think a pill will do everything when in fact it is exercise and food intake!
Such a great post!! I think many of us forget this all too often.
I have often stated that I can lose 20 lbs on any diet–then the weight loss stops and I would gain it back-plus!! I have now lost approx 60 lbs and unfortunately it took Diabetes to make me radically change my eating habits. But change them I did. Our bodies are genetically programmed to hold onto fat in times of scarcity (hey those early humans could not always find food!) – Because I now eat less but more frequently I am still losing about 1/2 lb a week–at this point I need an entire new wardrobe! Am I happy–YES–will I let myself gain it back–NO–this time the weight will stay off because it is the change of eating habits and diet–not pills and potions doing the trick!
What a great post. I know too many who have tried to lose weight by cutting down to one meal a day. Of course they gained weight instead.
I do not do diets. They just do not make sense to me. Why should I spend every breathing moment counting calories and making sure that eat specifically X ounces per serving. I eat what I love. That said I am so not a fan of fast food and greasy foods. I try to eat healthy and exercise. Am I on my desired weight? No, but I’ve been there and I know it is possible by leading a healthy lifestyle.