Pure Health Today

The way to be truly successful in losing weight is to focus on living a healthier lifestyle. When you think about losing weight, think about learning how to eat healthy, a way you’ll enjoy. That can weed out many diets, like eating all protein and lots of fats, just shakes, only salads, cutting your calories really low or just cutting fat out all together. These are not things you can live with and are not healthy for your body; balance is the key. These other methods are proven, over time, to not work! Let’s talk about what really happens when people diet and why 95% of them gain it back and 5-10 lbs. more. Think of it this way: when you do “fad” diets you tend to lose muscle in your “rapid weight loss” promises, which slows down your metabolism and is unhealthy on your heart, brain, lungs and other organs. We’ll use Sally as an example. Sally goes on a diet, but she’s filled her eating habits with ways of eating she can’t live with when she is “done with diet”. She loses the weight, starts eating “normal” again, now her metabolism has slowed down at least 5% because of all the muscle she lost from the low calorie diet and she hasn’t actually overcome patterns of food abuse (addictions to certain foods, overeating, eating refined sugar sweets, etc.). So she starts eating normal again because she can’t live with the diet she was on. Gradually, because her metabolism has slowed down and she hasn’t dealt with learning how to eat healthy and a way she enjoys, she gradually will start putting the weight back on. Getting frustrated only to have to revert to her box of “fat” clothes, again. A vicious cycle that is all too familiar with most of us. Let’s stop this INSANITY! It doesn’t work! It messes with your metabolism, organs, self-esteem and can affect your relationships. It is not good for your body to constantly gain and lose weight. Long term, it messes up your overall ability to ever maintain a weight you are happy with. Most people that maintain a good weight don’t diet all the time, they just eat healthy.