Why Diets Don’t Work?

Why do people struggle with diets?

Counting calories, do you think it’s essential for reaching your goals of gaining or losing weight?

It’s all about the journey and enjoying your life…

It’s not the diet, exercise or end goal…

If you’re always growing and empowering yourself, life and happiness takes on more meaning.

Diets and all the BS leads to confusion, eating and body image disorders, guilt, envy which leads to you being stuck.

In this really what you want?

The simple answer and formula if you need to count calories is to make the progress enjoyable.

Strength and empowerment comes from owning your own life’s journey.

If you’ve managed to unshackle yourself from the confines of traditional diets, your perception of food has probably shifted from laborious calorie counting into more power for everyday life…

This is a beautiful place to be in because it exposes you to your mind and body.

Keep reading if your end goal is in context to enjoying better quality of lifestyle…

Dear Friend,

You see, diets come in many flavors, yet the popular practice of dieting is all about restriction.

So why do some diets capture our attention and change eating behavior while others flop?

What makes us want to engage with certain diets out of habit?

We need to be honest with ourselves here…

Make no mistake about it, diets are designed to be habit forming.

And it is a form of user manipulation.

More times than not, your diet makes you feel emotionally depressed and negative.

So if you think about, your diet is holding you back.

Let’s cut to the chase…

Are you tired of working out hard and not seeing the results you deserve?

The problem is NOT you.

Is there a pattern underlying how diets hook us?

If you’re hooked, you’re addicted, obsessed, infatuated, fixated, fanatical about coming back.

Diets are designed to manipulate consumer behaviors and habits…

You see, the real problem is you’re trying to find the right answers in the wrong places…

And the answers are based solely on theory

You need to learn from someone that has already achieved the level of success you’re looking for…

Look, if dieting actually worked we’d all look like superheroes right?

As we all know, this isn’t the case.

Is it all in your mind?

Our brains have evolved around and heavily depend on proprioceptive and vestibular input.

We know or at least by now we have a good idea weight is dependent upon how much you eat and how much energy you burn.

What most people don’t realise though, is hunger and energy usage are controlled by the brain.

And your brain does this without you even knowing it.

We could say your brain has your natural weight set point, however this could be in ranges of about 50-150 kcal (1), which is probably a bit misleading to be fair.

We can use exercise, training and lifestyle choices to move your weight up and down in these ranges…

Yet it’s much harder to stay out of it.

After-all, weight gain is largely a result of external factors.

For example…short or long term positive energy inbalance rather than biological.

A temporary weight gain can become permanent if you stay at a high weight for too long, probably a matter of years for most of us because your brain may be influenced by this new set-point.

Now there are two groups of people, those who rely on their hunger and people that try to control their eating through willpower…sadly like most dieters.

Let’s call the former ‘intuitive eaters’ and the latter ‘controlled eaters’.

The interesting part is intuitive eaters are less likely to be overweight as they are less likely to think about food.

Controlled eaters on the other hand, are more likely to be tempted by small indulgences like eating one scoop of ice cream and this is more likely to lead to a food binge.

Healthy habits the choice is yours…

I feel with just four healthy habits we can make great strides towards losing fat and becoming healthy. Of course there are more, but let’s just work with these ones for now:

Eating enough protein, fruits and veg
Exercising 3-4 times a week
Not smoking
Drinking alcohol in moderation
(http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/loseweight/Pages/keep-weight-off.aspx)

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Mindful eating is understanding the signals your body is giving you when it’s telling you that you are actually full from that meal

Traditional diets don’t have very much reliability. About 65% of dieters regain the weight within 3 years. 40%t of them have gained even more. If you think about this, the typical outcome of dieting is that you’re more likely to gain weight in the long run than to lose it.

Now you might be thinking that, perhaps dieting isn’t the best way to go about things, as you clearly don’t want to be gaining it all, and possibly more later on down the line. So, how do we go about this?

MINDFUL EATING

Mindfulness, or mindful eating. Mindful eating is understanding the signals your body is giving you when it’s telling you that you are actually full from that meal; becoming over weight really does boil down to eating when you’re not hungry.

So how do we go about being mindful I hear you say?

Sit down to regular meals without distractions. Think about how your body feels when you start to eat and when you stop, and let your hunger decide when you should be done. Slow down and enjoy your food more. It takes about 20 minutes for Leptin (the hormone that tells you when you are full) to kick in, so if you consume a meal in 5-10 minutes, then there’s a very good chance you’ll think you’re still hungry, when really you’ve probably had enough. This isn’t going to happen overnight, but after a while it will be really worth it.

As I said at the beginning of this blog, if diets worked, we’d all look like superheroes.

Why do we keep doing the same thing and expecting different results?

Jumping from diet to diet may seem harmless, but it can actually do a lot of collateral damage. Weight obsession can lead to eating disorders and just be damaging to life in general.

Take control of your food, learn to understand when you are full by applying the points listed above.

And enjoy the other parts of your life.

There’s no need to be obsessed about food, so free your mind to focus on what you want.

You are the best Investment you will ever make is in yourself…

Any questions or comments, I’m here to help simply ask or comment in the box below.

Don’t worry! Body weight training with fat loss diet program will have you feeling and looking better in no time!

Change your life NOW…

Keep in mind, the purpose of reading this is to take action on a strategy proven to increase your results.

Macronutrients and Calories

What you need to know is total calorie intake at the end of the day, depending if you’re in a decit or
surplus (losing weight or gaining weight), will determine if you stay lean or gain weight.

Now, that’s not to say that calories are the end all, be all, in a nutrition program.

In fact, Evans et al. Proved macronutrient (protein, carbohydrates, fats) ratios were very important during a calorie decit

Dear Friend,

In this special report you’ll learn about calories, thermic effect of food and importance of macronutrients.

Calories are Where We Get Our Energy

Thee calories we take in from food are where we get our energy, therefore we need calories for energy and to stay alive.

We know this may seem odd, but a helpful model for understanding types of energy has been used in cattle production, which relies upon the tracking of energy in order to maintain health, growth…

And reproduction.

It’s simple to understand and obvious humans are different from cows in certain aspects of digestion.

The general framework of food-derived energy use is surprisingly similar.

Here’s a graphic of the various fates of energy as it cows from the food source through the body of the animal.

What is a calorie?

A calorie is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 degrees C. 

The term calorie is synonymous with kilocalorie (abbreviated as kcal).

Less commonly, it’s referred to as a kilogram-calorie, or large calorie.

When the term is not capitalized, it technically represents one-thousandth of the value of a kcal.

In other words, it’s the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree C.

The non-capitalized term is less commonly called a gram-calorie.

Starting from the top of the chart above,gross energy is the starting point before ingestion; it’s the energy the food contains.

What’s le aer the fecal energy loss is considered digestible energy.

What remains aer energy losses through feces, urine, and gas is metabolized into energy.

Finally, net energy is what’s available for use (storage) aer losses through feces, urine, gas and heat increment.

Thermic Effect of Food is known as (TEF) which is the energy required to digest, transport, and deposit nutrients.

Macronutrients vary in their thermic effect, which ultimately influences net yield of energy available to the body.

For example, Jequier et al. suggested the thermic effect of protein (expressed as a percentage of energy content) is 25-30%, Carbohydrate is 6-8% and fat is 2-3%.

Gro et al. Suggested Protein is 20-25%, Fat is 3%, and Carbs 20-30%.

Flat et al. suggested the energy cost of digesting, absorbing, and metabolizing proteins (23%) is greater than that of either carbohydrates (6%) or fat (3%).

As you can see macronutrients vary in thermic effect and they play an important role when trying to make body composition changes.

Thermic Effect of Food…

As you can see, from above why it’s not wise to solely depend on just counting calories.

Macronutrients are important due to what we discussed above regarding the thermic effect of food.

If you still aren’t buying it, we will reference an elegant study, where they did an isocaloric (meaning same calories) comparison of four diets:

  • Normal protein, normal carbohydrate
  • Normal protein, low carbohydrate
  • High protein, normal carbohydrate
  • High protein, low carbohydrate
    

The two higher protein conditions caused the greatest decreases in body fat.

Remember the TEF’s we talked about earlier?

So clearly macronutrients play a vital role in your nutrition program and should be programmed towards your goals, body type, metabolism, activity, etc.

As stated above, the amount of total daily calories also known as “Energy Balance” you take in at the end of the day will determine if you gain or lose weight…

Yes, it’s just one piece of the very large puzzle and you must not count out the importance and role macronutrients play in body composition changes.

Low Testosterone By Estrogen Domination

Give Your Manhood Much Needed Natural Boost

Did you know estrogen dominance can cause low testosterone? Look around and it’s pretty hard to find any kind of sportswear that hasn’t been made with “gender-bending” chemicals…

Almost everything these days is made of synthetic material or some new “techno” fiber that “wicks away moisture.”

It took me half an hour to find something made from real cotton. But here’s the problem… those hi-tech materials are full of nasty and dangerous chemicals.

Too many popular sportswear brands, including Adidas and Nike, manufacture sportswear that contain chemicals linked to low-T, obesity, cancer and many other health concerns.1

And I don’t want my son to be exposed to any of that – including the low-testosterone crisis that has swept across America and the rest of the Western world over the past few decades.

Many sportswear brands now use compounds, called phthalates andpolyfluorinated chemicals (PFCs), to make their products water-, grease- and stain-proof.

These chemicals degrade over time into dangerous hormone-disrupters and xenoestrogens, which mimic the female sex hormone estrogen.

Your doctor is probably unaware of these hormone-disrupting chemicals and their devastating effects. And he or she is probably also unaware that estrogen dominance is one of the primary causes of low-T.

Estrogen mimics also can impair sexual development in boys, and cause early, or “precocious” puberty in girls. Their young bodies interpret the extra estrogen as the call to develop breasts and sexual traits when they’re as young as 7 and 8 years old.

And if you’re an adult, your body thinks it’s getting estrogen. So you could develop:

Erectile dysfunction;
Man boobs;
Loss of body hair;
Loss of muscle mass;
Decreases in bone mass;
Increases in body fat;
And half a dozen different types of cancer.
The painful muscle and bone deterioration caused by estrogen dominance leads to weakness and fatigue, achy joints and fragile bones – but no one is talking about that.

Most doctors don’t have the know-how to recognize estrogen dominance and they’re probably also unaware it can result in serious injury – and even premature death.

Conventional medical wisdom and most physicians often attribute muscle and bone deterioration to aging. But more than likely, the problem is an undetected hormone imbalance.

As I’ll share with you in a moment, you don’t need expensive drugs or therapies to reverse estrogen dominance.

The fact is that estrogen dominance has been caused by the modern world we live in. And these days, estrogen is pushed at us from every direction.

Farmers pump up meat and poultry with estrogens – all with FDA approval.
Government tests have found American water contained “… at least 11 compounds linked to birth control and hormone supplements.”
Estrogen is also found in commonly used food additives.
We absorb estrogen-mimicking pesticides from both our air and food.
Some prescription medications, including drugs used to treat cancer, contain estrogen.
Your sugar-loaded diet can trigger a hormone imbalance that forces your body to convert testosterone into estrogen.
And now estrogen mimics are in the clothes we wear in the gym or we buy for our kids and grandkids.

The phthalates and polyfluorinated chemicals found in sportswear are particularly worrying, because the sweat and friction that result from exercise only help the toxins get into your body more quickly.

And it’s not just Adidas and Nike that are at it. Twelve out of 30 sportswear brands, as well as upmarket fashion houses named in a recent Greenpeace report – including Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Armani and Louis Vuitton – have refused to remove these gender-bending, cancer-causing estrogen mimics from their manufacturing process and products.2

You may think this is a ringing endorsement for testosterone therapy as a counter to the estrogen dominance in your body – but it’s not.

In fact, if you follow popular mainstream therapies, you’ll only make your condition worse.

The fact is testosterone therapy can fuel estrogen dominance.

You don’t need to add more testosterone. But you do need to cleanse excess estrogen from your body.

The first thing I recommend to my patients is that they remove the sugar from their diets.

Secondly, I look to Mother Nature. She has provided the ideal way to shield your cells from excess estrogen – a plant compound called indole-3-carbinol (I3C).

Many vegetables contain I3C, a precursor compound converted into diindolylmethane (DIM) during digestio. And studies of both I3C and DIM show these compounds encourage the body to metabolize estrogen.3,4

So your estrogen imbalance can be easily corrected without low-T treatment or Big Pharma meds.

Just increase your I3C and DIM intake with a daily supply of cruciferous vegetables, like broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, radishes, arugula and Brussels sprouts.

And if these veggies aren’t to your liking, take 100 mg. of I3C and 100 mg. of DIM supplements daily. These are available online and in most health food stores.

Very quickly, you’ll be able to remove excess estrogen from your system and stay healthy longer with strong muscles, bones and joints … and you’ll also keep your manhood.

Source:

greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/detox/fashion/

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Chen I1, McDougal A, Wang F, Safe S. Aryl hydrocarbon receptor-mediated antiestrogenic and antitumorigenic activity of diindolylmethane. Carcinogenesis. 1998 Sep;19(9):1631-9. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9771935