Why Conventional Diets Don't Work Long-term
The obesity problem is growing, even though we have more "diets"
available to us today than ever before.
Firstly, most conventional "diets" dramatically reduce calorie
intake. This in itself can send your body into starvation mode
and store fat instead of burn it. If your body thinks food is
scarce, it will slow down your metabolism to keep you from
starving. This is one of the many wonderful natural survival
mechanisms our bodies come with.
We would have greater success working with our body's natural
metabolism functions, not against them. We need to eat food to
increase our metabolism and lose weight. Eating more and more
often keeps the survival mechanism of storing fat from kicking
in. Your body assumes you can get all of the food you need and
STOPS storing fat. This speeds up your metabolism, naturally.
Secondly, the foods you choose can spike your insulin level. The
diets that have low carbohydrates have had short-term success
because simple carbohydrates turn to a kind of sugar very
quickly in your blood stream and cause a spike in your insulin
level. Staying away form them will help you lose weight quickly,
but can harm how your body functions. Your body needs some
carbohydrates, your brains sole source of glucose comes from
them. Simple carbohydrates include things that taste sweet like
sugar, candy, honey and sweet fruits.
Processed carbohydrates like refined bread and pasta are the
worst. They have been stripped of all the fibre that slowed down
the conversion to sugar. If you are going to eat bread or pasta,
choose whole grains. If losing weight is your goal, stick to
complex carbohydrates.
Thirdly, one diet can't work for everyone. We all have a
different body type and chemistry. Knowing which body type you
are and eating the foods that work with it is a huge key to
long-term weight loss.