Effective Weight Loss Programs: Part 2
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For your weight loss program to be a success, it’s absolutely
critical that you understand the difference between fad diets and safe,
effective weight loss programs that produce long-lasting weight loss
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There are all sorts of weight loss programs out there that
can help you lose weight (not necessarily fat), but they are so miserable
that it's impossible to stay on them very long - even more difficult
is keeping the results you achieved before going off the weight loss
program. We wanted to create a weight loss program that was both VERY
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The good news is that reducing body fat with effective
weight loss programs reduces the risk of disease. At the University
of Pittsburgh, researchers studied 159 people as they followed a weight
loss program. The subjects were under age 45 and 30-70 pounds overweight.
Those subjects who were able to shed just 10-15 percent of their weight
and keep it off during the 18-month study showed significant improvement
in HDL cholesterol and triglyceride levels, waist-to-hip ratio, and
blood pressure. In fact, according to the New England Journal of Medicine,
body fat reduction is a more powerful modulator of cardiac structure
than drug therapy.
For people with a family history of heart disease, an active
lifestyle can slow or stop the process for all but those with serious
genetic disorders. Studies by Dean Ornish, MD, have shown that a comprehensive
intervention program that includes regular physical activity, effective
weight loss programs can even reverse the heart disease process.
In addition, regular physical activity and a safe, effective weight
loss programs are successful in treating non-insulin dependent diabetes
(NIDDM); for some patients, it has reduced or eliminated the need for
insulin substitutes. In general, regularly active adults have 42 percent
lower risk of developing NIDDM.
Gaining Weight Happens to Most of Us - Weight Loss
Programs Can Help
The average American gains at least one pound a year after age 25. Think
about it. If you're like most Americans, by the time you're 50, you're
likely to gain 25 pounds of fat, or more. In addition, your metabolism
is also slowing down, causing your body to work less efficiently at
burning the fat it has. At the same time, if you don't exercise regularly,
you lose a pound of muscle each year. Consequently, people are not only
increasing their body fat stores, increasing their risk of disease,
but they're also losing muscle, increasing the risk of injury, decreasing
activity performance, and further slowing down metabolism.
Very few Americans exercise or follow any sort of weight loss program
in any significant way. The President's Council on Physical Fitness
and Sports estimates that only one in five Americans exercises for the
healthy minimum of 20 minutes, three or more days a week. In fact, the
average American gets less than 50 minutes of exercise per week and
does not follow any weight loss program. Even worse, two out of five
Americans are completely sedentary.
The Answer: Safe, Effective Weight Loss Programs
But there is hope. Moderate weight loss from weight loss programs and
a healthy and active lifestyle--not dieting--have been found to lower
health risks and medical problems in 90 percent of overweight patients,
improving their heart function, blood pressure, glucose tolerance, sleep
disorders, and cholesterol levels, as well as lowering their requirements
for medication, lowering the incidence and duration of hospitalization,
and reducing post-operative complications eight times less likely to
die from cancer than the unfit, and 53 percent less likely to die from
other diseases. Fit people are also eight times less likely to die from
heart disease.
The integrated weight loss program of GHF can help you
adapt your lifestyle to one of better health. And help you become one
of those fit people.
More Bad News about Fad Diets & Why You Should
Turn to Personalized, Effective Weight Loss Programs
Deliberate restriction of food intake in order to lose weight or to
prevent weight gain, known as dieting, is the path that millions of
people all over the world are taking in order to reach a desired body
weight or appearance. Preoccupation with body shape, size, and weight
creates an unhealthy lifestyle of emotional and physical deprivation.
Diets take control away from us, while safe, effective, personalized
weight loss programs can teach you how to get control and implement
a program that’s right for YOU.
Many of us who diets instead of weight loss programs get
caught in a "yo-yo" weight loss cycle that begins with low
self-acceptance and results in structured eating and living because
we lack trust in our body and are unwilling to listen and adhere to
our body's signals of hunger and fullness. On diets, we distrust and
ignore internal signs of appetite, hunger, and our need to be physically
and psychologically satisfied. Instead, we depend on diet plans, measured
portions, and a prescribed frequency for eating. This is just another
way it differs from weight loss programs.
As a result, many of us have lost the ability to eat in
response to our physical needs; we experience feelings of deprivation,
then binge, and finally terminate our "health" program. This
in turn leads to guilt, defeat, weight gain, low self-esteem, and then
we're back to the beginning of the yo-yo weight loss cycle. Rather than
making us feel better about ourselves, diets set us up for failure and
erode our self-esteem.
Adhering to diet plans leads to perfectionist tendencies
that in turn can result in a loss of control. People with the diet mentality
have a perception of foods as either "good" (diet foods) or
"bad" (binge foods); they see foods as coming in "good"
amounts (small/low-calorie) or "large" amounts (diet-breaking).
When we dieters eat "bad" foods or "large" amounts,
we tend to believe we have "blown" our diet for the day or
the weekend so we might as well binge further and start over the next
day. Weight loss programs instead are a lot more flexible and tailored
to your personal preferences and goals.
The Dos and Don'ts of Dieting as Opposed to Weight
Loss Programs
Following the list of foods that a diet allows or forbids us is really
only feasible in the short term. If we don't change our tastes and preferences
so we learn to enjoy foods lower in fat and higher in nutritional value,
we will feel more and more restricted. And eventually we will resume
our former eating habits because we still have a preference for high-fat
foods.
When you diet instead of following a weight loss program,
a piece of pizza is sinful; eating cake and ice cream makes you a bad
person. A missed workout means skipping dinner and doing hundreds of
crunches. A planned dinner engagement requires skipping breakfast and
having just a piece of fruit for lunch. You refuse a dinner party for
fear of being tempted with food you haven't "earned" or calories
you haven't "saved."
The attitudes and practices acquired through years
of dieting are likely to result in a body weight and size obsession,
low self-esteem, poor nutrition and excessive or inadequate exercise.
Weight loss from following a rigid diet is usually temporary, whereas
effective, personalized weight loss programs are much more likely to
be longer-lasting. Most diets are too drastic to maintain; they are
unrealistic and unpleasant; they are physically and emotionally stressful.
And most of us just resume our old eating and activity patterns. Diets
control us; we are not in control. People who try to live by diet lists
and rules learn little or nothing about proper nutrition and how to
enjoy their meals, physical activity, and a healthy lifestyle. No one
can realistically live in the diet mode for the rest of their life,
depriving themselves of the true pleasures of healthy eating and activity.
Instead follow a personalized, effective weight loss program, such as
the GHF
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