Want to lose weight? Diet
Onto the real stuff. Remember the caloric balance? The best way to achieve a negative balance (and lose weight) is by exercising (increases your OUT) and dieting (lowers your IN). This book is about changing your eating habits. Dieting means eating less than normal. Let’s assume your weight is stable. If you reduce your IN by 10%, you’ll lose weight. 100% guaranteed. There are many, many ways to diet. Some are simple, some are complex, some are popular, and some are lessknown. Some work, some don’t. This book will expose a few easy, global changes you can apply to your eating habits that will produce results. Your general habits should be your primary focus, because in the long term, they determine how you eat (and how you look).
Have you tried to diet before? If you’re lucky, it worked. That is, until you stopped dieting. This is no big surprise. Your body shape is changes with your food intake. So as soon as you return to your old eating habits, your body shape goes back to its old shape. That’s why diets don’t work in the long run: you have to change your eating habits permanently. There’s no way to get around it. That’s worth repeating: to change your body, you must change your eating habits. There’s no secret, no magic pill, no shortcuts, and diets are only temporary. From this point forward, “to diet” will mean lowering your IN step by step, changing your eating habits, as opposed to practically stop eating immediately until you can’t resist anymore.
ACTION STEP
Did you ever diet? Did it work? If it did, for how long? Once you stopped dieting, did your body return to its old form?
ACTION STEP REVISITED
Ask people around you if they’ve ever dieted. Ask them if it worked. Then take advice only from those who succeeded, and ask them if they ever got back to their old eating habits after they lost the weight. Talk to at least 2 people, and summarize their advice in one page.
Want to lose weight? Stop Dieting
I could have just as easily titled this one “Want to keep on losing weight? Stop dieting”. The human body knows itself. Before, when we were hunters and gatherers, survival depended on the supply of food. No food meant death. So the body adapted: when food was scarce, the body’s functions slow, reducing the need for energy and food. That’s how it survived through periods with low food supplies.
Today, there is plenty of food. Survival is not a concern. Still, this evolution in humans is manifested in dieting and weight loss. If you diet constantly, your body functions will begin to slow down, your normal usage of energy will be reduced, and weight loss will come to a halt. How do you avoid this?
By switching back and forth between periods of weight loss and keeping your weight stable. By putting your diet on hold, you give your body some rest. Its functions return to normal speed, and soon you’re ready to diet again. Taking a break also is a relief on the psychological side-dieting is difficult, and after weeks of restraint, welcoming back (partially) your favorite foods is a blessing.
ACTION STEP
Think about the last time you went on a diet. Did you notice your weight loss coming to a halt without doing anything wrong? You may have experienced low energy levels, general unhappiness (or even slight depression, like no desire to do anything), and lightheadedness. Dieting for a long time can also weaken immune system. Perhaps you even got a cold after 1-2 months into a diet? From this point forward, make sure to take a full week off after 3 weeks of dieting.
ACTION STEP REVISITED
Ask people around you who’ve dieted if they had these aforementioned experiences.
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