Weight Loss versus Fat Loss

I have never subscribed to nor been impressed with the idea of dieting.  Many would say 'it's alright for you' but I have every sympathy with people who have difficulty in losing weight.  I see many people really committing themselves to a regime then being utterly demoralized at their apparent lack of success once they return to normal life and their work is rapidly undone.

I have maintained for years that the 'low calorie' diet plans are harmful and ineffective.  They don't deal with the root of the weight problem, worse they contribute.  It's difficult to penetrate the brainwashing that countless numbers of people have been subjected to.  Living an organic lifestyle would not allow me to substitute real food with harmful chemicals, even though I do have a 'sweet tooth' and thrive on foods cooked in fats.  According to the diet industry, I should be a colossus, but I am not.

I was delighted recently to encounter the Diet Solution Program.  At last, someone who has made available to the masses, the 'permission' to eat fats, eat plenty and not starve themselves.  Isabel explains how we have different metabolic typing and provides the formula with which anyone can determine their own.  This explains why my husband can enjoy a very physical day and gather enough energy from fruits and nuts, whereas with that same activity, a day eating fruit and nuts would not only make me very uncomfortable, but physically weak and emotionally miserable.  We have different metabolic typing.  If only everyone could understand this simple fact.

The next very simple fact that the Diet Solution Program covers is that we all need fats and that there are many easy sources of good fats and bad fats.  The Canola Oil industry very successfully convinced the public that coconut oil is harmful because it is a saturated fat, which it is, but they persuaded people that ALL saturated fats are bad for us.  Most people don't know that some fats become very dangerous once they are heated.  It isn't the potato part of the french fries that makes you fat, it's the kind of oil they are cooked in.  Change to cooking in olive oil or coconut oil (which I highly recommend - potato wedges will never taste so good to you again!) and you have a very good food.  In fact, coconut oil can actually assist in burning unwanted fat off of your body.  It goes straight to the liver where it is immediately converted into energy instead of being stored in the body.

Most diets lead to weight loss, which is actually water loss (dehydration) and once you end the diet, you will regain that weight as your body rehydrates.  What most people really want to achieve is fat loss and you need maximum hydration to achieve this.  It is well known that drinking good, clean water (especially ice cold if you can manage it!) will assist in burning calories.  I won't detail all the other needs your body has for drinking water, as it is very aptly and simply discussed in the Fat Burning Furnace.

Simply altering the fats you eat, rather than embarking on a tasteless, unsatisfying, fat free or low fat diet, will radically alter the way your body metabolizes food and actually ASSIST in losing weight or fat.  What's more - the weight will stay off, as long as you keep to this simple culinary change.  You may not be able to buy fries from McDonalds again, but neither will you continue to look like most of the regular customers there!

The question of artificial sweeteners is also successfully covered in the Diet Solution Program.  The idea that dieters can drink alcohol mixers as long as they use low calorie sodas ludicrous and should be punishable for affecting the health of so many.  Isabel explains, in simple language, how artificial sweeteners send messages to the brain to retain fat - at all costs!  Each time the sensors on the tongue send the message to the brain 'here comes something sweet' our insulin levels go crazy, waiting in preparation for the 'sugar' that never arrives.  Eventually, use of these artificial sweeteners destroys our ability to manage insulin levels completely.  Have you wondered why diabetes is so prevalent now?  Yet people recovering from heart attacks are 'told' they must eat artificial sweeteners and what's the next crisis they have to overcome - yes - diabetes!

The great thing about the  Diet Solution Program
is that YOU take control of your health. You feel better emotionally, and I am certain you will feel motivated to make the effort it takes to make the small changes necessary to your food shopping habits.

I know people are tired of the 'lose weight fast' adverts and they are right to be.  I am certain that you will understand more about your bodies needs with Diet Solution Program and attain a healthy body/fat ratio.

I was especially impressed that both the Fat Burning Furnace and the Diet Solution Program tell us that we do not have to do those incredibly boring sessions on treadmills. The exercise routines that most professional trainers advise us to use actually work against fat loss. Not only is it better to do a 15 minute workout 3 times a week, it means you can fit this in at home and not have to make the journey to a gym, or set aside one hour each day for exercising.

Both programmes also include recipes and workouts for all levels of fitness with diagrams.  For a little extra the Fat Burning Furnace provides videos, which really appeals to me.  The Diet Solution Program (the most expensive at $47) also includes a journal, manual and shopping tips.

If you follow either of these programmes, not only will you attain your healthy weight, you will keep it and that makes for happier people.  To assist with the emotional aspects of trying to lose weight, I recommend EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), commonly being called Meridian Tapping.  I will explain more in my next post.