Contributed By Sandy | Published: Jul 26, 2005
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by Tim Forrester the editor and webmaster of
www.changeobesity.com
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We love all the benefits of living in the twenty first
century but one of the drawbacks is that during our every
day lives we don't use the number of calories that our
grandparents had to consume just to survive. As a result,
the overall trend is that we are all much heavier and this
has given rise to a whole new industry. Fifty years ago it
would have been difficult to find one book on how to diet,
now the book shops have thousands of different ideas
written by gorgeous looking people who you find it
difficult to imagine ever having a weight problem.
Back in the 1970s a Dr Atkins put forward a radical new
idea which came across a brick wall in the diet and medical
world. Instead of eating a diet that consisted
predominantly of carbohydrates he suggested that if we ate
a diet consisting almost entirely of proteins and fats we
would lose weight. Despite all the negative comments, his
diet has been proved to be highly effective and stores are
now stocking low carb snacks because there is such a huge
change going on in our eating habits.
In addition to our generation experiencing weight problems,
we are also seeing a huge increase in the number of
diagnoses of diabetes. Very few people are told that if we
eat excessive amounts of sugar and refined carbohydrates
our bodies will produce too much insulin and with too much
insulin we will convert our food to fat.
Our bodies work on their own and out of our control. They
still tend to worry that they won~t be given another meal
and so they store carbs away without our permission. And
where are these carbs stored? Always where you don~t want
them to be stored and in most cases on the stomach or the
hips!
Where can you start? You need to start educating your mind
and body to know and understand what is right and what is
wrong. Discover which foods will convert straight to energy
and not be stored as fat. You~ll find that vegetables,
meats, eggs, nuts, legumes and cheese will be the most
effective. There are also many foods on the market that
advertise themselves as ~low carb~ and are a good way to
launch into a new diet.
When you~ve made the decision to start your low carb diet
you need to commit to an induction of a minimum of two
weeks during which you have to keep your carb intake lower
than twenty grams per day. During this time your body learns
to burn fat rather than carbs and will have forgotten its
need to hoard the carbs when you do start to consume them
again.
Once your induction is over you can have the occasional
cheat. This can really help to kick start your body if
you~ve reached a plateau. The thing you should try to stay
away from at all costs is processed sugar. Make sure that
you consume fiber. By drinking psyllium husk you can help
to flush out much of the stuff that can hang around making
your body unhealthy and fat.
By drinking lots of water you will stop yourself from
feeling so hungry and it will also flush out some of the
carbohydrates. There will be moments when you desperately
need a snack, so try to be prepared by keeping some healthy
snacks at hand. It~s possible either to prepare veggies to
munch during the day or you can buy snacks that will keep
that you know are permissible.
Tim Forrester is the editor and webmaster of
www.changeobesity.com
a premier obesity and diet information
site on the Internet. For more information following
this article please pay a visit.
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