This article will explore easy modification you can make to your normal eating habits that will allow you to lose on average 1 to 2 pounds per week. It also provides tips on how to increase your body's ability to metabolize calories and improve your fitness level, improve your overall health, and improve the quality of your life through healthy eating habits and healthy movement patterns.
The Importance of Lowering Your Weight
Losing weight is not only helps to improve the way that you look, but also it is important to improving your health and quality of life. By reducing your body weight by 10% you will substantially reduce your chances of developing diabetes, heart disease, and even joint problems. For a woman that weighs 165 pounds a 10% weight reduction would only be about 16.5 pounds. This reduction will help you feel better about yourself, it will help you drop a dress size or two, and it will help you enjoy your life.
Why Most Diets Fail
Most fad diets fail because they create negative biological effects within your body. Starvation diets that reduce your daily caloric intake too much will actually cause you to hold onto fat and extra body mass by lowering your rate of metabolism and by triggering your body’s starvation defense mechanisms. Fad diets that reduce your food choices to only one or two food groups are also unhealthy, and they will ultimately fail because they starve your body by not providing it with adequate amounts of nutrients, minerals, and fats that it needs to operate and function properly. As your body runs out of the stored elements it will trigger a craving that will encourage you to eat foods that have the nutrients that it needs. These craving, unfortunately, will kill you diet as once you start eating the restricted foods you won’t be able to stop. This cycle of starvation and bingeing can lead to heart problems and possibly an eating disorder.
In addition to nutritional concerns that fad diets pose, unbalanced diets also impact the way that you feel, and your ability to function normally. With too few calories, and too few nutrients your moods will swing to the dark side, and people will not want to be around you. This could negatively impact your ability to function at work, to socialize with others, or to take part in your family’s activities.
Diet pills are also a dieting issue that needs to be addressed here. While relatively non-invasive when taken as recommended, most diet pills contain a great deal of caffeine that can cause the feeling of being jittery, hyperactive, and shaky. Other ingredients within diet pills may also be harmful to your health if the pills are taken in quantities or frequencies greater than what is recommended. It is common for dieters to think that if one pill three times a day will help me lose 10 pounds in two weeks, then two pills four times a day should double my results. This actually is not the case, and with some over the counter diet pills, this practice could have serious effects on a person’s health, and it may even lead to liver or kidney failure, and in some situations it could even lead to death. Another health caution related to diet pills is that their ingredients may interact with the prescription drugs that you are taking. If you are currently using a prescription drug(s), you need to consult the warning label on the diet pill bottle, or ask your doctor if they are safe to take with your medications.