Diet is Useless !
Okay, the title of this post may be somewhat controversial, but the reality is that dieting itself (that is, what does the term “diet”) are not used to lose weight permanently.
For example, a friend of mine told me that followed a diet of yogurt and although this will help you lose 5 kilos in 1 month, told me that I stop suddenly and lose weight and has remained the same, although this feeding poorly.
Other people I know have also followed similar diets, including diet “Atkins” low carbohydrate, although much weight down quickly after a while it stalled was feeling weak and tired and no longer continued to lose weight, and worse, that they left the diet regained their weight as fast as it fell … and worse … extra weight gained by the rebound effect.
Why does this happen then? …
Well, one of the principles that I teach my clients is NOT to follow a diet to try to lose weight. At least not a “diet” in the common sense of the word.
The problem with diets is that although many of these if they work to lose weight temporarily, what we are doing is changing dramatically the way we feed only for a time, Confucius to our metabolism, resulting in suits that changes and stop losing weight even if we continue doing the diet or even that almost did not eat during the day.
Instead, what I recommend, is to bring a new style of feeding.
This means changing everything you knew or thought about it before eating, and take your daily eating style style optimal weight loss, maintain, and improve your health.
For example, some basic tips that I suggest are:
* Increase consumption of protein sources low in fat (chicken / turkey, fish, lean meat)
* Eat more green vegetables, reducing the consumption of fruit, since the fruit has more simple sugars and fewer nutrients in comparison with the plants, which are also an excellent source of fiber which helps to improve digestion, our metabolism carbohydrates (insulin sensitivity) and reduce levels of LDL (bad cholesterol)
* Minimize or if possible eliminate foods with sugars and simple carbohydrates
* Moderate in carbohydrates (flour, pasta, bread, etc.) and eat mostly complex carbohydrates like oatmeal, whole wheat flour, barley bread, corn tortillas, etc..
* Do not be afraid of fat. At least not to the good fats such as omega-3 that can be found in oily fish (eg salmon) and flax oil, as well as also consume essential fatty acids from canola oil, safflower, and soybean. And as for saturated fats, eating too rationed because even though eating these in excess is not good for your health, you need to consume, because they play important roles in our metabolism, and hormone production.
* And one of the most important tips of all … accompany our new style of eating to a healthy life style in which we include regular exercise. No matter what exercise is, if you like running, playing soccer or basketball, swimming, or dancing, it is simply a regular cardiovascular exercise, as well as resistance exercises (free weights and machines) if you want to lose weight even faster, strengthen and tone your body and make it appear more.