Easy Weight Loss Diets - How To Make Them Work For You
How to make an easy weight loss diet work
for you
Before you start on any easy weight loss
program, it is essential to understand the basics of dieting in
simple/straightforward terms. Having been involved in the health industry for
many years, I am sure that the only way to achieve success in any form of
treatment (whether it be weight loss or anything else) is for patients to be
fully informed about their conditions. And let us be perfectly clear about
this: being overweight is a medical condition, and should be treated as such.
Apart from the possible physical problems
of obesity (hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis), the mental
distress must be taken seriously: if we are unhappy, our stress levels increase
exponentially, and that is a real problem for our ultimate health and
well-being.
The facts about nutrition
Be sure to read this section carefully - it
is quite simple to understand - because if you don’t fully grasp the principles
of the diet, you won’t get it right. The first point to make is that you
shouldn’t be counting calories any more. You need to adhere to certain rules in
choosing foods, which will enable the fat to be “burned off” (a term I dislike,
but it conveys the meaning excellently) by the body.
So you will have immense freedom to choose
a wide variety of foods in virtually unlimited quantities. For the first time,
you can eat well while dieting. I know this sounds like some ‘never to be
repeated offer’ on television, but it is based on established medical
principles, and does work. You’ve probably read some of the following
facts before (and almost certainly if you are an experienced dieter) but please
read them again, because the subsequent paragraphs will definitely be new to
most readers, and form the basis of the diet. Once you understand the
principles, you will be able to apply them easily - and successfully.
As most people know, there are five basic
food groups that we require: carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins and
minerals. The first three (carbohydrates, fats and proteins) give us energy;
proteins also provide amino acids, the building blocks of the body.
Vitamins and minerals are absolutely essential for the efficient maintenance of body functions (like chemical reactions), but vitamins and minerals do not provide energy, and therefore – provided we ensure our diet is not deficient in these essential elements - vitamins and minerals are not part of the weight-loss equation. So, we are left with carbohydrates, fats and protein. The secret of burning body fat lies in the relative proportion of these constituents in the diet.