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The No Diet Approach to Weight Loss
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If you've tried losing weight in the past and felt like a failure, did you place the blame on yourself? If so, don't be so quick to judge.
While many a weight loss plan goes awry due to the dieter being unable to resist temptation, a good many go south because the plan wasn't built upon solid ground.
Perhaps it is time for a 'No Diet' approach to losing those unhealthy pounds. We have the step-by-step process included in this article.
But first, let's address the reasons why that former approach to losing excess pounds just didn't work. These are just a few fault lines that can send aspirations of a thinner body down the drain:
It wasn't build upon the solid rock, rather a fad diet plan - and fad doesn't equate to fab when one is trying desperately to drop pounds. That solid rock? The official American Food Pyramid; no - she isn't perfect but she is the best healthy pattern that we have for the daily diet and for achieving optimum health.
Failed diets are almost-always hinged upon plans which contain far less calories than necessary to support the individual's goal weight. The human body recognizes 'caloric intake' as 'energy intake'. Try running a motor without fuel and see what happens. You won't get very far.
Such is the human body; it requires fuel in order to operate efficiently. And not just any old fuel - adequate fuel. We can run the motor of an expensive automobile using camping fuel, but not forever. The motor would sputter, cut out and the car would eventually start smoking.
Such is the body - which requires the right types of foods and liquids to keep it humming happily along.
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Due to the deficiency in vitamins and nutrients while dieting, weight loss stalls for several reasons, thus making the dieter discouraged with the process. Stalling occurs because:
- When the body is deficient of certain essential vitamins and minerals, the metabolism cannot properly process the weight loss results.
- Significant caloric deficits trigger the metabolism to enter 'snail mode', conserving precious energy as it has no idea whatsoever that the objective is weight loss rather than a poor harvest.
These are just a few of the reasons why Diet Bites recommends the following method for losing unhealthy pounds:
Determine your healthy weight. You can use our charts as a pattern if you wish.
Determine the amount of calories (energy) necessary to support your healthy weight. You can use our calculator located here for determining such if you wish.
When the body is fed a particular amount of energy, the end result is the body's weight coming into balance with the caloric values.
For example, if Debra currently weighs 230 pounds then she is consuming an amount of energy to support this weight. In order to be at her healthy weight, she will of course - need to reduce her daily caloric intake. But she need-not go on a restricted calorie weight loss plan. She can accomplish such by consuming just the amount of energy that her healthy weight requires to support.
Once her goal weight is reached, she will have no need to struggle in balancing daily calories - she will have no need for weight maintenance. This is our 'No Diet' approach to safe weight loss.
A healthy daily balanced diet is always balanced with exercise.
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