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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Diet and Weight Loss | The best diet plan and natural ways of weight loss
« on: 18/08/2018 14:57:41 »
The issue with weight loss, is that often it's not just about getting the weight of. Many people's self esteems are tied up to the numbers on the scales. Beyond that, on a basic level, people just want to feel good, so anything promising a "quick fix" or an "easy fad diet" seems tempting because it gets them to feeling good again and liking what they see in the mirror. But we all know where that leads, weight loss (sometimes) followed by weight gain, sometimes even more than before as the metabolism gets burnt out.
I believe that weight loss should be approached in a two ways, changing the diet AND supporting the emotions. After all, most people are overweight in response to emotional eating. I really do subscribe to having a "diet buddy" someone to talk to when you feel like downing that iced chocolate cake in one go. The diet has to be nutritious and containing all the vitamins and minerals that the body needs, supplementing with green foods to flush the body and cleanse and restore damaged metabolisms.
Oh, and losing weight successfully essentially goes like this > good eating day, good eating day, ridiculously bad eating day, binge eating few days, getting back to good eating ....and repeat.
The point is to never give up, even after a bad eating episode, I think this is where most people slip up. Of course exercise is important, I like a simple cardio routine like the one seen here Not a valid youtube URLto rev the metabolism up.
I believe that weight loss should be approached in a two ways, changing the diet AND supporting the emotions. After all, most people are overweight in response to emotional eating. I really do subscribe to having a "diet buddy" someone to talk to when you feel like downing that iced chocolate cake in one go. The diet has to be nutritious and containing all the vitamins and minerals that the body needs, supplementing with green foods to flush the body and cleanse and restore damaged metabolisms.
Oh, and losing weight successfully essentially goes like this > good eating day, good eating day, ridiculously bad eating day, binge eating few days, getting back to good eating ....and repeat.
The point is to never give up, even after a bad eating episode, I think this is where most people slip up. Of course exercise is important, I like a simple cardio routine like the one seen here Not a valid youtube URLto rev the metabolism up.
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