Diet for Weight Loss
What should guide your choice for a diet for weight loss? Rather than following the trends and the diets that are so much in the news due to their marketing and advertising campaigns it is useful to look at what will bring about success not just in weight loss, but in weight management as well.
There is said to be a high failure rate in diets, that is regaining the weight after you’ve lost it. Have you been there, done that? You know how frustrating it is! Probably you ate micro portions, felt you were starving and deprived much of the time, had to fight against incredible urges to eat when you went out to social events centering around food…and have you noticed that unless you go skydiving or deep sea diving virtually everything seems to revolve around food?!
Therein lies the problem. We are awash in food, and most of it is unhealthy. It is so easy to get addicted to foods that, frankly, are engineered to be addicting, as Dr. David Kessler, former FDA commissioner pointed out in his bestselling book The End of Overeating. Do you crave pizza or brownies or ice cream or fried foods? You are not alone.
So what to do? A diet for weight loss has to address the underlying problem. To lose weight and keep it off forever and never have to shove that little black dress or those skinny jeans to the back of the closet, we have to go against the norm and eat “healthy foods.” That means whole, natural foods that are nourishing and sustaining.
Much like an addict kicking the drug habit, or a smoker who quits cigarettes, there will be a time of withdrawal. You will crave what you miss, but the good news is the cravings do go away! You maybe find it unimaginable to think that you could actually crave a baked sweet potato prepared without any butter or oil, but you will find it incredibly delicious! Or how about a salad of mixed greens — red and green leaf lettuce, arugula, watercress, and the like — with a tasty vinagrette salad dressing that’s not laden with oil and chemicals whose names you can’t pronounce. And because these are non-starchy vegetables — alleged even to be so-called “negative calorie foods” — you can eat as much as you want! Devour the whole bowlful!
That’s the key to finding a diet for weight loss. Eating nutrient dense, natural foods that will fill you up and leave you without the cravings that can literally distract you from your daily activities.
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The first step is to eliminate the foods that are troublesome and high in calories and that are not good for us. Besides that, as food critic Mark Bittman recently pointed out in a New York Times editorial, Junk food is not actually cheaper than real food. Anything with white flour must go. The breads, biscuits, the pastries, the pastas, all of it. The refined sugar must go. Whether it’s high fructose corn syrup — which by now has gotten such a bad reputation, the corn industry is trying to deceive us by calling it “corn sugar” — or even the cane sugar and the beet sugar. There are numerous alternate names for sugar including dextrose, sucrose, fructose. If you see an “ose” at the end of the word, it should go.
Saturated fats must go. You find them in animal products including full-fat and low fat dairy as well as the red meats, the so-called lean cuts of meat, and particularly in any processed meats such as salami or pepperoni or luncheon meats like baloney. If you ever check nutrition facts on the labels of any of these products, you’ll find an ounce or so is containing a staggering amount of saturated fat, as much as 14 grams in an ounce! Your cardiovascular system will benefit and you will see a drop in your weight.
Pay attention to liquid calories. It’s so easy to get into a high calorie beverage habit, whether it be sodas and soft drinks or the lattes and cappuccinos that are high not just in sugar calories, but fat calories as well. Soda has come under scrutiny, and rightfully for containing incredibly large amounts of high fructose corn syrup.
Need help putting it all together? You have several options. As mentioned, a natural diet for weight loss, will encompass some foods you will find sustaining and filling, but you may not be familiar with where to buy them or how to prepare them. You can check out Diet Solution Program by Isabel De Los Rios as a starting point. It’s a downloadable eBook and several bonus eBooks that you have immediate access to as soon as you make your payment. No high monthly fees, no expensive diet meal plans, no complicated formulas and balancing ratios of fats, proteins and carbs. While these methods may work to produce weight loss, do you really want to have to perform calculations every time you eat?
Thankfully, there is a better way. Isabel De Los Rios, a certified nutritionist has not only lost weight and successfully kept it off, but has a detailed plan to help you eliminate unhealthy foods and reap the benefits of discovering foods that help to sustain energy and even speed metabolism. You get meal plans and recipes and, unlike buying a book on Amazon.com, a 60 day money back guarantee.
Another popular plan on the Internet, that has been used successfully by people in more than 100 countries is Mike Geary’s The Truth About Abs. He uses a similar approach in helping you find achievable ways to transform your diet from one that produces overweight and obesity and all the chronic diseases that go along with it, to a tasty and satisfying diet with foods that you may find surprising.
Check out the video below on super foods for dieters. Remember a diet for weight loss does not have to mean deprivation or hardship! Nor does it have to spell failure.