It may be surprising to find out there are over 58,000,000 overweight people in America alone. The weight loss industry has become a $123 BILLION dollar a year industry! So what does that tell us? Some people are making BIG bucks from diets, pills and exercise programs that just don't work!
We have certainly all heard of the Atkins diet, South Beach diet, low carb, low calorie, low fat diets, Jenny Craig and so many more. Many people go from one diet to the next without much success and many gain even more weight than they started out with.
I got in a car accident which laid me up for several months. I was on prednisone for pain and gained almost 60 pounds! Because of the pain I was in I had very little energy to exercise. I got very depressed and started to give up. Since I had been a trainer in a health spa and very healthy most of my life, it was just not acceptable to myself for me to be over weight. I decided to stop feeling sorry for myself and do something about it.
I learned a lot while I was a trainer. If you can?t do a lot of exercises, you can certainly help yourself by the foods you eat. Just as you can eat and pack on the pounds, you can also eat to take them off. By eating certain foods at different intervals throughout the day, it will turn your food into fuel that will burn off instead of becoming stored fat.
Your body becomes accustomed to the food you eat and adjusts it?s metabolism accordingly. That?s why starving yourself and reducing calories just don?t work. If you eat 2500 calories a day, that?s what your body is gets used to. If you reduce your daily calorie intake to 1000 calories, it will adjust to that as well and anything extra will be stored as fat. That?s why when we diet and especially when we get off them, we usually end up gaining more than we started out with.
The trick to losing weight is to speed up your metabolism. By alternating and eating the correct foods at specific times, your metabolism may greatly speed up and burn stored fat. It is by far the easiest way to lose weight and it really does work. If you want to lose weight you can do it quickly with very little effort just by eating the correct foods at the right time. You will never starve and you will soon be looking and feeling great. I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to get rid of those unwanted pounds! You may be surprised how quickly you can achieve your desired weight!
Cathy lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. She loves the mountains, outdoors, sports, music, writing and helping other people achieve their goals. For more information about taking off those unwanted pounds click here: http://smarthealth4u.blogspot.com | |
