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We Don't Fail Diets; They Fail Us! Weight Loss Programs are a Better Approach! Part 3
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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 results. In addition to this helpful weight loss programs article, be sure to take our FREE Fitness Analysis! Once you've completed the brief questionnaire, you'll receive specific recommendations based on your responses, information on your very own customized weight loss program. As a special thank you, you'll also receive the new e-book, Big Fat Lies, absolutely FREE of charge. Click here to get started!
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 effective and a pleasure to implement all along the way. The GHF Customized Diet Plan is just that! Click here to learn more!
Decades of research have shown that diets (not to be confused with personalized weight loss programs), both self-initiated and professionally-led, are ineffective at producing long-term health and weight loss (or weight control). When your diet fails to keep the weight off, you may say to yourself, "If only I didn't love food so much . . . If I could just exercise more often . . . If I just had more will power." The problem is not personal weakness or lack of will power. Only 5 percent of people who go on diets are successful. Please understand that we are not failing diets; diets are failing us. Instead you need a safe, effective, personalized weight loss program that is right for you!
Last Year, More Than 34 Million Americans Tried Diets Instead of Weight Loss Programs
Diets have made us more aware of calories. However, controlling your body weight through calorie-counting (rather than weight loss programs with personalized meal plans) is almost impossible. The National Institutes of Health recently completed a 20-year study of traditional low-calorie diets to see if they really helped people lose weight and keep it off. The diet plans studied included Weight Watchers®, Jenny Craig®, The Diet Center® and most other traditional weight loss programs and diet fads. The study concluded that traditional low-calorie diet plans have a 95 percent failure rate; i.e., 95 percent of the people on the plans gained back all of the weight they had lost within a few years. Most people gained back the weight during the next year! In fact, most people gain an additional five pounds after each dieting cycle.
The reason 95 percent of all traditional diets fail is simple. When you go on a low-calorie diet instead of a personalized weight loss program, your body thinks you are starving; it actually becomes more efficient at storing fat by slowing down your metabolism. When you stop this unrealistic eating plan, your metabolism is still slow and inefficient that you gain the weight back even faster, even though you may still be eating less than you were before you went on the diet.
In addition, low-calorie diets cause you to lose both muscle and fat in equal amounts. However, when you eventually gain back the weight, it is all fat and not muscle, causing your metabolism to slow down even more. Now you have extra weight, a less healthy body composition, and a less attractive physique. The right weight loss programs will not cause this to happen, because everything will be personalized customized to you.
Diets require you to sacrifice by being hungry; they don't allow you to enjoy the foods you love. This does not teach you habits which you can maintain after the diet is over. Most diet programs force you to lower your caloric intake to dangerously low levels. The common theory is that if you eat fewer calories than you burn, you will lose weight. But when you eat fewer calories than your body needs to maintain its life-sustaining activities, you're actually losing muscle in addition to fat. Your body breaks down its own muscles to provide the needed energy for survival.
The Psychological Risks of Dieting – Weight Loss Programs Will Teach You What You Need to Know
Not only does dieting have the potential to harm our bodies, it can also our harm our psyches. Unsuccessful attempts at long-term fad diets instead of weight loss programs can seriously affect our psychological well-being. The increasing failure that comes with each weight loss attempt can further diminish our already low self-esteem and increase our risk of depression. Unfortunately, when this happens to us, we assume erroneously that the fault lies with us and not with the real culprit, the diet itself. We need personalized weight loss programs instead.
Other psychological risks of dieting include an obsession with body weight and size, disordered eating patterns which may increase the risk of developing an eating disorder, and an increased pressure to try to conform to society's standard of thinness. All of these problems tend to further weaken our ability to deal with food and our bodies in a healthy way.
 Dieting: A Poor Role Model for Children
Consider for a moment the messages that dieting sends to our children. Parents who are constantly dieting and who are unhappy with their body often indicate to their child that he or she is also not okay and needs to go on a diet. Feelings of inadequacy and a reinforcement of the diet mentality can come from any of the following:
Using food as a reward, as comfort, or as a form of control.
Making children clean their plates as proof that they're "good" or in order to earn dessert rather than teaching them to tune into internal signals of fullness and satiety.
Centering holiday festivities on food rather than emphasizing the meaning of the occasion itself, friendship, conversation, family activities.
Relying on diet products like Slim-Fast® that don't allow children to acquire a taste for low-sugar foods.
Many times, we are just passing on attitudes about food and our bodies that we got from our parents. The right weight loss programs can help you break this cycle.
As you implement the important principles of the GHF Weight Loss Program into your lifestyle and begin tuning in to your body for signals of hunger and fullness, and enjoy physical activity, you will notice that the positive attitudes and healthy behaviors will transfer to your children. When you start living a healthier lifestyle, you'll notice a sense of inner satisfaction. When people take responsibility for their own health, their family is positively affected.
 Our Weight Loss Programs Will Move You In Another Direction
Traditional diets which use calorie restriction to produce weight loss, instead of effective, personalized weight loss programs to lose fat, are no longer appropriate. Most weight loss programs measure success solely in terms of the number of pounds lost per weight loss attempt. Diets don't take into account the quality of the process used to achieve that weight loss or the very small likelihood of sustained weight loss. For long-term good health, you need to move away from low-calorie diets and focus on enjoyable weight loss programs. Exercising regularly and eating lean-supporting calories, protein and carbohydrates, and reducing fat-supporting calories will not only help you look and feel better, it will also significantly reduce your risk of disease.
GHF will show you how to take the frustration, guilt, and deprivation out of diets with effective, enjoyable weight loss programs, allowing you to adopt gradual, realistic changes into your life that will make healthy eating and physical activity a permanent pleasure. You will soon discover what your body is capable of and begin enjoying the many benefits of fitness and good health!
Click here to learn more about the GHF Customized Diet Plan – our weight loss program that is chock full of very effective nutritional strategies designed to turn your body into a 24-hour fat-burning machine. It's literally a nutritional blueprint for achieving the very best weight loss results in the shortest period of time by eating the perfect foods combined at the right times in the right amounts - all customized specifically for you.
And don’t forget, click here to take our FREE Fitness Analysis for a free sample weight loss program and for the book, Big Fat lies!
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