The Mystery Behind Weight Loss
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on 1/24/2009
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There is no mystery behind why a person is overweight. He, or she, consumes more calories than they expend in a day, and the excess calories are stored as fat in various parts of the body. Men generally store their fat in their bellies, for women, its in the breasts, belly, hips and even legs. (Doesn't seem fair, does it?)
There is also no mystery about how to lose weight - burn more calories than you consume over the course of time - for example a week, and you will lose weight.
I say "course of time" rather than "a day", because, and this is another unfair thing, it's perfectly possible to gain a pound, or two, or even five, in a single day of binge eating... but there is no way to lose that pound in under a week. (At least, no healthy way.)
So, there's no mystery about how to lose weight, so why is it so hard for so many people to do it?
Simple. They try to do it the wrong way. Everyone thinks they can "diet" to lose a few pounds. Once they lose those pounds, they go back to their old way of eating and gain the weight right back. A "diet" therefore, is not the answer. The only way to lose the weight, and keep it off, is to totally change your eating habits, forever. And the only way to do that, successfully, is to not deprive yourself of the things you love to eat - those greasy foods, those chocolate bars, and so on, simply limit their portion size, and the time of day at which you eat them.
One standard rule of thumb, for the average person, is to not eat after eight o'clock at night. (For body builders, you do want to eat - protein - to give more nutrients to your muscles during the night, but for the average person, that's superfluous). Drink water, or eat carrots or something of that nature to ease the hunger pains, and after a couple of weeks of not eating after eight o'clock, you'll find it easy to do so.
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