Are We Like Animals?
While we can't compare ourselves with animals we can begin to
understand eating habits and the reason why humans become over weight.
Consider how many animals you will see that are over weight. In the wild you
wouldn't find any and it is not because of a lack of food - although that
certainly will cause a wild animal to be under weight.
No even where there is abundance of food animals in the wild don't get obese
like humans do and it is not because of their metabolism or digestive systems.
It is because they are eating the correct foods that nature designed their
systems to eat to ensure that they are getting the correct nutrition to
maintain good health and obesity certainly isn't a good healthy state to be in.
I doubt you will find any animals that are obese other than those that we keep
as pets and that is because humans not only eat the wrong foods themselves but
they also feed their pets the wrong foods.
We feed our pet's processed pet food that has all sorts of colors, additives
and other rubbish that they were never designed to have.
And the result of feeding them a poor diet is the high and ever increasing
incidence of diabetes in domestic animals.
We are not only making ourselves sick with poor food choices but we are also
reducing the chances our pets have of living long and healthy lives.
Just like the food we buy for ourselves, the food we buy for our pets is often
determined by the quality of the marketing campaigns that promote those foods.
So the only living beings that seem to make the wrong choices in food
consumption are humans and we are supposed to be the most intelligent!
And the only other living beings that are affected by poor food consumption are
pets because they have to rely on the poor decisions that are made by humans.
Once you realize that most weight problems are related to bad
habits you will understand that if you can eliminate these bad habits weight
loss will follow.
The first step in the process is to determine what your bad habits are. Look at
the times when you tend to overeat and see if you can understand what triggers
these reactions.
If you can eliminate those triggers and you can only do that by determining
what they are in the first place then you will find it a lot easier to sort out
your eating problems.
You should also look at the types of food that you go for during these times as
often they will be comfort foods and more often than not these comfort foods
are of very low nutritional value and due to that fact they will stimulate
overeating.
By simply changing your comfort foods, with those that are of a higher
nutritional value you will still be satisfying your needs by eliminating the
negative side effects that are associated with poor food.
As most things that we do in life are habitual we rarely think about the
actions we take as we go about our daily routines on autopilot. Unfortunately
everything we do throughout the day includes both good and bad habits and it is
those bad habits that are causing the damage.
As we age, more and more aspects of our life become habitual and it becomes
more difficult to realize we have these habits and even more so to get rid of
them particularly if we have had them for a long time.
With a bit of personal analysis you will quickly become to notice the various
different things that are leading up to your eating and weight problems.
If you only target one of these habits at a time it becomes a lot easier to
make the changes and often changing one habit can have a positive affect on
many other habits. The process certainly becomes easier the more you do it in
and by concentrating more on that area rather than the food itself you will
find that weight loss is not such an overwhelming part of your life.
Quite often one of the best ways for most people to get started on
a weight-loss program is to simply change the routine that they are accustomed
to.
We get into the same habits of eating the same foods and doing the same things
every day and the change alone can stimulate the body into action.
There is no better way to break a habit than to do something completely
different and if you do it for long enough that will become the norm and
changes in your lifestyle can be made within the course of a month if you
habitually do the same thing every day - just make sure that that things that
you do every day are making positive steps to achieving a better quality of
health and lower body fat.
Most people who are overweight have some habit or habits that have resulted in
their condition because it takes the constant over abuse of food and alcohol to
get in such a state unless there are some other specific health-related
problems.
If you make a concerted effort to change many of your normal routines you might
find that these habits present themselves and you can begin to understand why
you started putting on weight in the first place. If you know the reason for
your condition that makes it a lot easier to reverse that state and get to
where you want to be.
No matter how many weight loss programs you attempt to go on they will always
be a struggle if you can't resolve the underlying issues and the habits that have
caused you to neglect your health to such an extent that you don't feel happy
about your body.
Quite often the foods that we believe we can't do without are only needed due
to the habit of always having had them. If you were brought up in a
different household where your diet was different then those would be the foods
that you would want to eat even if the diet was completely different from the
one you currently enjoy.
For many people who are overweight starting an exercise program
can be quite difficult.
What you need to understand is that you don't have to immediately start going
out for long-distance runs. In fact to do so if you are quite overweight
could be detrimental to your health.
In the beginning of an exercise program it is better to start by going for
walks and don't be too concerned if initially they are short walks and slow
ones at that.
You can't expect to run before you walk and you will find that once you start
taking the steps towards your goal it will become easier and easier.
Even if you don't like exercise you need to be aware of the fact that exercise
is one of the fastest ways for you to reduce weight and improve your health and
speed up your metabolism to help reach your goals.
The more exercise you do, the more energetic you will become and this in turn
makes it a lot easier for you to achieve your daily activities.
Exercise also helps to flush out toxins in the body and improve your digestive
system with increased blood flow throughout the body so even small levels of
exercise are going to benefit to some degree.
Any exercise that involves the use of resistance such as weightlifting will
boost your ability to lose weight considerably as muscle burns fat and any
muscle that you can build will help to lower your fat levels.
These resistance training type exercises also help to increase the strength of
your bones that is very important as you age.
If possible, it is good to have some physical activity each day and at least
you should assign time to do a minimum of 30 minutes of exercise three times
per week.
If you find that you can't do that initially don't be too concerned as you will
build up to it before too long and most people end up enjoying it and make it
part of their regular lifestyle.
Natural Weight Loss
Products
Many people assume that because a product is natural is a lot
healthier for the body but this is not always the case as even natural
ingredients, and particularly those that they put in weight loss supplements
can cause other problems detrimental to your health.
Many natural weight loss products also have such a minimal amount of substances
in them that are beneficial to weight loss that the chances of them benefiting
your weight-loss program will be negligible.
That's not to say that some natural weight loss products aren't good but you
need to be aware that many of them are just getting promoted as with any other
weight loss and dietary supplement purely as a source of income for the people
selling.
The FDA has in fact banned the use of many natural products that were used in
weight loss supplements over the years because they are proven to cause
anything from mild to severe reactions in some people.
A lot of these products only act as diuretics which cause a temporary loss of
water giving people the false impression that they are losing weight rapidly.
You will in fact have a lot more chance of losing weight by an increasing the
quantity of water that you drink and remaining hydrated all the time.
The best natural weight loss products are the good healthy foods that you
should be eating every day in the form of fresh fruit and vegetables that will
assure you have all the necessary vitamins and minerals that your body needs to
function properly.
If you have any health problems such as high blood pressure or heart problems
then you will need professional advice even when taking natural weight loss
products to ensure your safety. Some natural ingredients can increase blood
pressure and if you already have high blood pressure the results could be
fatal.
Over Weight Health Problems
Quite apart from the fact that your body will be in better shape
if you lose weight, there are many other health issues that will benefit from a
reduction in body fat.
Diabetes is one of the most obvious areas of concern with overweight people
with a large number of the population suffering from diabetes and the related
health problems that this disease can bring with it.
Many people are unaware that diabetes is the leading cause of
blindness. And diabetes is also a major cause of kidney disease.
In addition to this, diabetes increases your chance of having heart disease and
suffering from a stroke by almost 400%.
In men it can also cause erectile dysfunction.
High blood cholesterol and high blood pressure are also prevalent with people
who are overweight.
Even a small reduction in body fat can have quite a substantial effect on your
overall quality of health and it will also help to reduce the possibility of
you suffering from other diseases later in life.
If you are overweight you are also more likely to snore at night because the
fatty tissue at the back of your throat will obstruct your breathing passage
when you are lying down and due to this you won't be getting good quality sleep
and your energy levels will be reduced accordingly.
Losing even a small amount of body fat can reduce your snoring quite
considerably and the benefit from getting better quality sleep at night is you
will have a lot more energy.
Being over tired also tends to make most people want to eat more food in an
attempt to boost energy levels and this only adds to your weight problems so as
you can see all these little steps assist each other to help optimize your
overall health and well-being.
Retaining Your Muscle Mass
Retaining your muscle mass while on a weight loss program is one
of the most important aspects that you need to concentrate on as this will help
you to keep your fat percentage down long-term.
On the ultra low calorie diets the body begins to cannibalize its own muscle
tissue as its defense mechanisms come into play.
An example of this is shown with some of these apparently slim fashion models
who have quite high levels of body fat in proportion to their overall size.
The reason for this is the fact that they haven't done any form of exercise or
resistance training to maintain any reasonable level of muscle mass and this is
only made worse by the fact that they are often eating a very low quality diet
and nutrition is lacking.
It is not uncommon to see skinny models with cellulite and that is a sure sign
that they are retaining fat in a higher percentage than they should be.
They would find that if they added a little bit of resistance training or even
some form of decent exercise to their daily routine they would be able to still
retain a slim figure but the body fat percentage would be considerably lower
and they would look a lot more toned and healthy.
And healthy is what you should be aiming for when you go on a weight-loss
program and not simply losing weight as actually improving your overall health
and well-being will help you to live a better lifestyle for a lot longer.
Increasing your muscle mass also improves your metabolic rate whereas body fat
has a very low level of metabolic activity. Nutritionists regard muscle as the
furnace that burns in the body and this is what you should be aiming for.
If more weight loss programs focused on retaining muscle mass people would be
unlikely to put the weight back on rapidly once they finished the program.
You might be surprised to learn that simply slowing down the rate
that you eat your food at can have a profound affect on your body weight.
The longer it takes you to eat your food, the less food you will need to eat to
feel satisfied.
There are some simple techniques that can get you out of a bad habit of eating
too fast and consequently eating too much.
Try to chew your food a little longer before you swallow it as this will help
with the digestion of the food and the extra time that it takes you to chew
will also help you to feel more satisfied without having to have such a large
quantity.
Don't load up your fork or spoon with more food until you have finished eating
the food that is already in your mouth. One simple way of doing this is to
actually put down your fork or spoon until you ready to pick up the next piece
of food to eat.
It breaks the habit of over eating from eating too fast. If you look at the way
that French people in particular eat as a whole, you should notice that not
only do they have smaller portions of food but they take a lot longer to eat
their food. They are doing two things that help them to stay slim. Eating
smaller amounts and taking longer to eat those smaller amounts.
You will find that once you start eating a little slower you will actually get
to enjoy the food a lot more. You will have more time to savor the tastes in
the food.
It takes a little while after eating food for your body to register the fact
that it has had enough and many people overeat when they eat too fast simply
because they believe they are still hungry. You should never eat until you are
full; rather eat until you feel comfortable that you have had enough.
The Problem With YO-YO Dieting
Is very common for people who yo-yo diet, where they are
constantly taking off weight and putting it back on again, in an endless
emotional roller coaster to end up weighing more than if they had never dieted
in the first place.
The reason for this is the body begins to change in an effort to maintain
energy levels and by doing so stores more fat.
This also causes the body to use less energy for all activities even when
exercising and as a result it becomes more and more difficult to lose weight
and even when you go on a similar diet to one you might have previously
achieved some weight loss from it is likely that you won't be able to lose the
same amount of weight the next time around.
People who are constantly on yo-yo diets cause their metabolism to change to an
extent where they require a bigger reduction in their calories than a normal
person would to maintain their new weight due to the body's new and reduced
demand on energy.
This is linked to our evolution where food would often be scarce and the body
adjusts accordingly to conserve and maintain its fat reserves when there is a
shortage of food.
The downside of this happening is that after people go off these particular
diets they tend to put on more weight than they were before they started and in
doing so it becomes all the more difficult the next time to try and lose their
additional weight so if you are the type of person who can't stick to a
particular program for any length of time then you are better not starting at
all and just making small steps by reducing portions of food will have better
results long-term and will be a lot easier to maintain.
One of the most important parts of your weight loss program will
be to ensure that you get a regular supply of water throughout the day as it
will not only assist with your digestion and elimination but it will also
ensure that you remain hydrated throughout the day helping your body to
function as it should.
Foods that are high in carbohydrates give us energy but there are different
types of carbohydrates and eating the wrong ones can make you fat.
The bad carbohydrates are simple carbohydrates such as sugar. These will
give you a boost of energy as the sugar gets into the bloodstream fast but they
are not as good for you as complex carbohydrates such as grains, fruits and
vegetables which will help to satisfy your appetite and make you feel full for
longer by supplying you with fiber.
The problem with most people, and the reason they get fat, is because they are
eating simple carbohydrates and fats in big quantities in their diet of junk
food.
Simply changing from these poor carbohydrate foods to more complex
carbohydrates will help to lose weight.
Proteins are made up of amino acids which are the building blocks of the body
and they help to maintain and repair the components of the body.
Proteins also supply energy but not as readily as carbohydrates and this is why
many people who are tired choose to eat more carbohydrates to give them energy.
Fats will also supply immediate energy, however they are very high in calorie
content and there are many health risks associated with a diet that is high in
fat.
All foods consist of one or more of these three main types of food;
carbohydrate, protein and fat.
Where possible your carbohydrates should be complex carbohydrates or starches
and try to reduce the simple carbohydrates such as sugar from your diet.
You should have no more than 30% of your caloric intake on a daily basis coming
from fats.
Get a sufficient amount of dietary fiber to help curb your appetite and help
with your digestive system.
Taking good quality vitamins and minerals will also help with your weight loss
and maintain a healthy body throughout your weight loss program.
You would have heard this many times that most diets don't work
and the fact is that this is true.
Many people will start on a diet but the percentage that will succeed and
achieve the weight loss that they desire will only be small compared to those
who fail.
And when they fail many people will try again or change to another diet in the
hope that the next diet will work.
One of the problems that face people who are on a diet is the fact that they
are constantly thinking about food. It is on their mind all the time because
they are on a diet.
They talk about it to others, they tell everyone they are on a diet and food
becomes the main focus of their thoughts throughout the day.
Does this sound like you?
When you start a diet the first thing you have to start dealing with in most
cases is hunger and that is something that is too hard for most people to
endure and for this reason most diets fail.
No one wants to starve and it is only human nature to do everything we can to
ensure we get sufficient food so that we won't starve.
If you are trying to maintain a diet that constantly leaves you feeling hungry
all the time then you are most likely destined to failure. It's just too
difficult and life wasn't meant to be that hard.
The outcome for most people after having to endure this period of hardship is
to get back onto the 'eating too much' bandwagon and pile the weight back on
that has been lost on the diet, albeit at a far faster rate.
So that weight that you might have struggled to lose over a period of months
will go back on in weeks leaving you feeling more disappointed than you would
have been had you never dieted in the first place.
An Unusual Way To Lose
Weight
A lady doctor named Dr Suzanne Gudakunst has just release what
many are calling the end of the need for potentially harmful weight-loss drugs
and designer foods made to help you lose weight.
Dr Suzanne's discovery allows anyone regardless of their particular diet to do
"just one simple thing" and instantly start shedding anywhere from 15
lbs to as much as 200 lbs of unwanted and dangerous fat!
Typical results average 45 lbs in just the first 30 days alone for most people
just starting out using her new secret.
The reason this is so is because her secret (aptly titled: "Top Secret Fat
Loss Secret") operates on an entirely different approach in the battle
against the ever-increasing "bulge."
Dr Suzanne discovered that harmful crusty "plaque" builds up over the
years in all of us - and which is the direct result of harmful chemicals,
preservatives, pesticides, etc. deliberately placed in perhaps every food on
the market (much of which is now suspected as being carefully and intentionally
done so that people will continue to get fatter and thus sicker, and in order
to make the food & drug companies richer!)
The result: This harmful plaque is responsible for your weight gain because is
BLOCKS your body's natural ability to absorb proper nutrition - and which
causes two (2) chief things to occur:
>> Your body starves no matter how much you eat - so by not
feeling satisfied you continue to stuff your face and
get very
very fat (and eventually at the permanent cost of your
health!)
>> Your body thinks it's starving so your 'hypothalamus'
adjusts your metabolism to burn food much, much slower
in
an effort to store food - thus making you even more and
more fatter than even before!
So it makes sense that if and when you REMOVE this unwanted "garbage"
from lacing your 'insides,' you will naturally start dissolving the fat and
"stored chunks of lard" that disfigure an otherwise more attractive
and healthier frame and sexier body.
As if this 'plaque' goop weren't enough, Dr Suzanne identified multitudes of
specific species of "parasites" (i.e., little worm-like
"critters" - some which have 'fangs' but no eyes) living inside
nearly 99.964% of all people's small and large intestines in the United States
alone, and about 92.36% of people on average worldwide.
These parasites excrete (meaning they take a CRAP inside YOU!) a jelly-like
"SLUDGE" they coats your insides and which is very, very harmful and
extremely TOXIC!
Additionally, much like the plaque, they often steal your nutrition which in
turn again causes your body to believe it's starving, and as a defense you
continue even more just to get FATTER and FATTER!
These parasites usually end up dying (but not before laying millions of eggs!)
-- and once they die they fossilize forming a coral-like barrier preventing
your even further from absorbing the correct amounts of proper nutrition.
When these parasites are FLUSHED from your guts, you end up magically losing
tons of fat and extra weight - and even WITHOUT making one slight change to
your diet or how much you eat!
SHOCKINGLY, these same "little critters (as Dr Suzanne calls them)
actually release chemical "messengers" that make you crave foods that
you are not even supposed to eat at all!
People who get rid of the parasites, therefore, suddenly find that they no
longer even desire the Cheetos, pork rinds, jelly-filled treats, and 10,000's
of other equally deadly so-called "foods."
In the past 6 years alone Dr Suzanne has tested her amazing new discovery and
"TOP SECRET Fat Loss Secret" privately with a select group of volunteers,
and seen results that fall nothing short of the truly FANTASTIC!
For instance, a Chicago woman who weighed until recently a whopping 587 lbs and
who had even been visited by a living-legendary diet and fitness guru (name
withheld by request), but who after much direct assistance from him (the guru)
was not able to shed even 1 lb, suddenly dropped 449 lbs from her body weight
in under 5 months using Dr Suzanne's SECRET! -- and she didn't change or reduce
one thing she regularly ate in her diet!
Now the woman weighs just 138 lbs, looks like a completely different woman
altogether -- and as if that weren't enough, she became a swimsuit model for a
well-known company! (But most importantly, this woman added who knows how many
years to her life as a direct result of using Dr Suzanne's "Top Secret Fat
Loss Secret!")
Another equally tearfully-joyous account was of a woman named Lisa Stephens
from Ohio who was told her diabetes could "never" be cured or
reversed -- and this by countless doctors.
After shedding over 156 lbs in just 91 days of having used this same amazing
revolutionary breakthrough secret discovered by Dr Suzanne, her diabetes is
gone completely and she no longer depends on insulin just to be able to
survive!
These kinds of results are flooding Dr Suzanne's email each and everyday from
all over the world (not just from North America -- which has by far the fattest
population as a group).
And even though you like me recognize these results as both newsworthy and for
the common good of humanity as a whole, there are some who are literally out to
get the good lady doctor.
Recently investigators began carefully keeping an extra protective eye on Dr
Suzanne after she received death threats from "individuals"
purportedly connected to the vast drug empires and weight-loss food
manufacturing companies.
It would appear on the face of it that Dr Suzanne's "Top Secret Fat Loss
Secret" must really work, because if it didn't no one would care to bring
her harm.
This would be akin to an inventor discovering how to make a car that runs on
water instead of gas assassinated by the major auto manufacturers!
Investigators insist that the reason she received threats is largely because
what she is doing may actually make people healthier, leaner, sexier and
trimmer, as well as make them live longer fuller lives -- and as a result they
stand to lose lots of money (possibly BILLIONS of dollars!!)
The BEST part of her secret is that it's nothing difficult to do, and it
doesn't require a major change in either your lifestyle or diet.
In fact, "Nature's actually on our side" according to Dr Suzanne, as
her solution to the arduous ills of fat and obesity is simply the ingestion of
Nature's own 'protections' against both the harmful
death-causing/obesity-causing plaque as well as the nasty little critters
living in your bowels!
Anyone with anywhere from just a few extra pounds to those 100 lbs or more
overweight must as a rule now secure for themselves Dr Suzanne's "TOP
SECRET Fat Loss Secret" (and before someone tries to lobby against you
ever discovering what's truly in it!)
I recognize a great thing when I see one -- and THIS SECRET is definitely the
most amazing thing I've ever seen.
We all know that people are just getting fatter and fatter, and more and more
UNHEALTHY - so this is a secret whose time is long overdue.
While many people may tell you to just stick to your diet, exercise to the
point of exhaustion, etc, the naysayers will definitely be disappointed when
they find out that Dr Suzanne's cure to obesity is completely NATURAL!
If you want the good doctor's secret for yourself and so that no one can ever
take it away from you or steal out of your hands, then all you need to do is
grab your own PDF copy here:
=> http://grabslife.fatsecret.hop.clickbank.net
But I have to warn you of two (2) things:
1. Pay processors are already struggling to keep up with
orders as this SECRET is now one of the most sought after things anywhere
online! (So if you put off, don't be surprised to find you can't even place
your order, and may not receive notice as to when order-taking may resume.)
2. Dr Suzanne in an effort to get people to get off their
butts and to take action for their own good, is making it available at nearly
HALF OFF just for people getting over there TODAY through the next 48 hours
only -- after that, the low price now nearly DOUBLES! (So you'd best beat the
crowds over there NOW!)
So if you're wise, and want to grab her secret before something unforeseen
forever prevents you from doing so, then you'd best do what I did and go secure
it now at:
=> http://grabslife.fatsecret.hop.clickbank.net
How many times have you seen sudden "breakthroughs" of such great
controversy potentially come along and cause a woman doctor to actually get
death threats for her secret 'know-how?' -- You're right ... very, very few.
So don't overlook this advice as it may very well prove to be one of the most
influential and important ones you've ever received...
