Diets Don’t Work

In losing weight, we certainly have to consider diet. We all know that carbohydrates contribute a lot in getting us fat so we need to stay away from this. Numerous diets have all been introduced in the promise of making us lose weight for a couple of days.

I hate to break it to you but diets never really work. You get deprived, you don’t function well, you get irritable or worse you might get sick. The body has a defense mechanism wherein if you don’t eat it will go SPM – Starvation Preservation Mode. Once your body gets food it will not burn the food and will store it as fat. That’s not good news at all.

Here are some of the things you can do:

Slowly decrease your food intake, your body might not get used to it thus you feel you are hungry but eventually once your body can adjust you will certainly get satisfied and won’t feel hunger.

Small frequent meals sometimes do the trick. Eat a little and your next meal will be on the next 4 hours. This helps increase your metabolism so you can easily burn what you ate. Compared to eating 3 full meals, small frequent meals have a lesser quantity.

Find alternatives, if you want to eat rice why not substitute it with brown rice. It is healthier and rich in fiber so it doesn’t store as fat. The same as bread, instead of white choose whole wheat or rye. If you want to feel full sweet potatoes are really good since it is so rich in fiber and it never stores as sugar and it has a lot of health benefits like vitamins and minerals.

Don’t Deprive yourself, if you are craving for something let’s say something sweet you can do so by eating only a small portion like half a donut or a thin slice of cake. Just to satisfy that feeling. Avoiding it will only make your craving worse and there is a tendency that you lose control so you tend to binge on it which is truly a bad thing and will make all your efforts put to waste.

The goal here is to find the right food to function better and to not to deprive yourself but have a much healthier body and a happy disposition.