part0024

Again, I’ll go back and talk more about fad diets, because they’re responsible for weight yo-yoing and for the existence of the Yo-Yo Nation! NOTE : more than 70% of adult Americans are overweight and there are more than 1 billion overweight people in the world. The Yo-Yo Nation is huge!!

Most diets concentrate on weight loss and don’t give you the bulletproof solution for maintaining your loss. Trying to lose weight by going on strict diets that are not satisfying is not going to solve anything. Forget these kind of diets. You can’t lose weight by not eating. That's because the human evolution is a very slow process. Our DNA still has data from the caveman days. There was not much food back then. People, back then, would sometimes go for days without anything to eat.

When food is consumed, our bodies are programmed to turn it into fat and store it. When you try to lose weight by undernourishment, this old mechanism kicks in. This means that when you eat your next meal, what you eat will be converted into fat and stored in your body. The more you eat during this time, the more fat will be converted. There are things you can do to drastically increase your metabolism and speed up your weight loss without eating less.

Stress affects how you think. If you worry about your next meeting or other issues at work, or worry about how you are going to make your bill payments, it’s less likely that you are going to have the mental energy to prepare a healthy menu for yourself each and every day. Instead, when you are feeling nervous, you are more likely to turn to sweet, fatty foods like candy and cookies. Stress is an immense problem.

You don’t have to worry that you will gain weight from over-eating (even if you do, you’ll over-eat on lean protein and fiber-loaded salads) and at the same time you will find that you’re healthier and more energetic than before. I’ll be honest with you, if you used to eat fast food and processed foods, this will be a big change for you. If you used to cook your meals, then there are no drastic changes you have to make. In fact, it will become so easy to follow that you and your entire family can adapt to it without much hassle. I am that confident that this diet is not just the program for you but will completely transform your weight lost efforts and the way you look at diets forever.

On fad diets, food gets boring quickly. Let’s face it: People don’t want to drink smoothies or live on steak and eggs for the rest of their lives. With recipes, diversity and taste is everything. You can create all the meal plans you want, but by the time you get two or three weeks into your diet, you’re sick and tired of eating the same things over and over again.

In a world where processed food is regrettably becoming a part of everyday life, it is important, now more than ever, to be aware of what you are eating and how it affects your life. What you eat affects your mood, your health, and your confidence. A Superfoods diet will allow you to lose weight naturally because you’ll provide your body with nutrients and foods that our bodies have used for centuries. There is no such thing as a shortcut to long term weight loss. If you do not equip yourself with the right knowledge , you will end up yo-yoing your weight and spending your money searching for an easy way for weight loss success. But the fact of the matter is, there is no easy way to weight loss… just effort and sticking to a proper eating habits.

There are a huge number of reasons why overweight people try to lose weight. Some want to feel and look better while others want to have more energy to accomplish their daily tasks. Some want to be healthier now and prevent health problems later in their life and avoid huge medical costs . Some want to transform their eating habits, so their children can learn at an early age that eating whole foods is healthy and that fast food and processed foods will get them into trouble, causing depression because of their looks in their teens, to a lack of self-confidence later on, to other health issues and diseases. The costs of NOT applying healthy eating habits are just too high! For you and your children, and their children, and their children, and so on. Think of it as a health retirement plan . If you become leaner, happier, and healthier because of the whole food Superfoods you are going to start to eat, you and your children will be healthier and happier, have fewer problems, and have fewer health-related costs. If you continue eating processed foods and junk foods, you’re risking a lot. The price for heart surgery ranges from 70 000 to 100 000 dollars for smaller and simpler procedures to 300 000 dollars for open-heart surgery. Then there’s the stroke rehab cost and cost for lost productivity. It all adds up! But it doesn’t have to, if you change your diet to a Superfoods diet.

The Superfoods diet will teach you how to eat healthy unprocessed, whole Superfoods and maintain your weight. It will also enable you to lose weight in the first phase, but without side effects or without risking your health. You already saw my pictures and 5 years proof of this. Fad diets promise quick and easy weight loss and are mostly based on eating more of one kind of food and not another. While there are people who get instant results from these diets, the results are, unfortunately, not sustainable. I managed to lose weight on a low-carb diet more than once and I gained everything back, simply because I continued to eat processed foods afterwards.

We choose what we eat, but for many of us there are many other explanations for being overweight than just bad eating habits: having office jobs or lifestyles that don't give us the time we need to be active, or perhaps your day is so busy and frantic with family and children that you have been pushing your health on the back-burner while caring for others.

I was like that. I justified my weight gain because, as a software developer that sits through the day and a father of 2 small demanding kids, I felt I didn't have the time to squeeze in a workout routine and I didn’t have the mental energy to concentrate on what I ate. At that time, we had a freezer full of frozen processed food and we ate just about anything. My kids were born 15 months apart and that time was very stressful and tiring both for me and my wife. You saw the pictures and how we looked. With the days being full of small tasks, work, and family time, by the end of the day I was exhausted and couldn't imagine getting up and doing a 10- or 20-minute workout or cooking a healthy meal or even making a trip to the store to buy healthy whole foods and prepare them for the next day.

But it doesn't have to be difficult or time-consuming to make some changes to your life. Once I got better organized and learned few life hacks, I felt mentally prepared to change myself. With transformed eating habits and less than 20 minutes a day of body weight exercises, I was able to lose weight. And I have kept it off for over 5 years!

Let’s be realistic: if you don’t make time to shop for whole foods and if you don’t make a firm resolution to cook a healthy meal with it, you will not succeed .

If you make these changes, not only will you lose weight, you won't feel hungry at all. If you do feel hungry, you will have healthy food at your disposal that will not make you gain weight.

Take responsibility for yourself. It's only really you that can make it happen. Others can help, but it's up to you whether it happens or not. Just go for it! I’ve met people who managed to lose weight and keep it off for years. These people are the ones who have really made a determined decision to change. Something made them think, “I've had enough, I want to change , I want to get healthier , I want to live longer, I don’t want to spend all my retirement money on heart surgeries or stroke rehab, I want to enjoy life to the fullest.” They’re successful because they've made that determined, definite decision that they don't want to feel unhealthy anymore.

There is no easy way to lose weight. A gradual weight loss of 2 pounds per week is an optimal weight loss. It takes a long time for weight to be put on, and the most lasting way to lose weight is to do it is progressively. Let your new lifestyle become your healthy habits. There is no doubt that you can lose weight either by starving yourself or following a crash-diet plan, but as soon as you quit it, you gain back all the lost weight… and sometimes even more. So there is no point of suffering from starvation if, in the end, you are going to put on more weight. Other than absorbing a healthy lifestyle, all weight loss solutions are unrealistic and temporary. Millions of North Americans and people worldwide are overweight or obese.

Certain things, like family history, can’t be changed. However, other things—like a person s lifestyle habits— can be changed . You can help prevent or treat overweight and obesity if you follow a Superfoods diet, are physically active, and limit the time you spend being inactive.