Sheets, Blankets, Pillows

12 Diet Myths that sabotage weight loss

By Dr. Leslie Van Romer

Welcome aboard the U.S. diet-Go-Round, one that may have ridden a dozen times before. You plan. You measure. You have. You weigh. You sacrifice. You deprive. You starve. You crave. You sneak (as if you really can sneak from yourself). You cheat. You blame. Beat yourself (you're a master at that.) You lose. Ganas. You lose. Ganas. You lose. You plateau. You plateau. You Plateau and eventually is lost – a pound. Then go to a friend's house for dinner and an increase of two pounds again.

Then, keep winning, pound for pound, until starting just where, or even heavier. You get depressed, frustrated, and feels like a hopeless failure once again. You waive a – what is the point? No matter what you try, nothing works – forever.

You vote to ban diets forever, until the next quick fix, the fat melts and no proof of the diet is appealing to their sense of desperation to be thin and lure you into the belief that somehow would be different from the dozens of diets you tried before. You climb back aboard the diet-go-round, round round, with the scale up and down, and ultimately – And their hopes for a downward spiral again.

The good news is: you do not, diets do not! Thank goodness – what a relief! Most of the diet-of-the-day are designed to fail. We will sort the myth of the facts and stop the madness giddy-go-round diet once and forever.

MYTH: To lose weight, you must control your hunger drive.

FACT: Your hunger drive can not be controlled. It is an innate instinct. Like all instincts – thirst, sleep, breathing, sex – it keeps you alive and thriving human race. When you're hungry (not just bored or sad or angry), do the new – Eat! Just choose foods that give you the best nutrition for your calorie buck: fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains (like brown rice, no bread) and beans. To lose weight, you must satisfy your hunger drive, not war with him.

MYTH: Foods rich in protein satisfy their hunger drive.

FACT: Of the three major nutrients, carbohydrates, proteins and fats, unrefined carbohydrates fruits of origin Whole vegetables and satisfy your urge of hunger, not the protein found in animal products. Beef, chicken, pork and fish contain exactly 0% of carbohydrates. If you are eating a diet high in protein sources for animal products, not getting enough unrefined carbohydrates, responsible for triggering the brain to tell when to stop eating, that was before your stomach begs for mercy.

MYTH: To lose weight, you must die of hunger with pre-measured, pre-weighed, pre-numbered restricted parts.

FACT: To lose weight, you feel full and satisfied, not a famine of the baby-sized portions. You can only starve long before the hunger drive takes over with the unstoppable power so that you eat any anything and everything in sight. If you fill in the best-for-you foods can and should eat all you want without complaining, counting, measuring, weighing, starving, hungry, desire, and bingeing – and putting in extra kilos – never again.

MYTH: To lose weight, you must give up your favorite foods forever and ever.

FACT: To lose weight, you do not "have to" compromise. Let's face it. As soon as a claim that is giving up his friend favorite food, it is likely that the temptation to surrender as soon as tomorrow! Instead of trying to catch yourself in that "I have to give up" the box, follow a new strategy. Think, moreover, does not detract, and give yourself wiggle room.

Think about what foods to "reach" add to your day instead of you "have to" give up. Center your meals in your weight warriors and heroes of health: whole, fresh fruits and vegetables, and whole grains, beans, brussels sprouts, raw, unsalted nuts and seeds, and homemade fruit and vegetable juices. Fill in these foods and then eat their Traditional food is not so good for you. Enjoy your freedom of action, flexibility in your meal plan. But it does not move more than 20% of the time, or you will not lose that jiggle.

MYTH: Carbohydrates are fattening.

FACT: Who started the rumor that eating fruit, best of nature is the same as eating refined white sugar? All carbohydrates are not created equally. There are good carbs and bad carbs. Good carbohydrates are obtained from whole foods, unrefined plant, such as fruits, vegetables, grains and vegetables, the best-for-you food. The good carbs, fuel more efficient your body, you ate yesterday give energy today. (No, not provide the protein energy.)

carbohydrates ill be obtained by refined plant foods such as white sugar and white flour products: breads, cookies, cakes, donuts, cakes, sweets, desserts, soft drinks, beverages bought in stores, and many processed foods, packaged. bad carbs, high in empty calories and nutrients, to add fat to fat.

If preaches a diet high in protein, low-carbohydrate-fat, low, high-carbohydrate diet of prepackaged meals, diet shakes three times a day, or lots of hungry baby's size, the truth is that weight gain or loss is ultimately not dictated by any one major nutrient, but by a very simple mathematical equation:

(Calories IN) – (calories) = Use the fat

MYTH: Cravings are all in your imagination.

FACT: The cravings are real. They can keep hostage and trapped in a body that will not or similar. Subsistence allowance usually deprive you of enough calories and nutrients (especially carbohydrates), increased cravings, uncontrollable urges to eat foods that seductive Favorites are high in calories, sugar, fat, salt and / or chemicals.

Fresh fruits and vegetables we feed all the necessary nutrients to human health and life, satisfying their hunger drive and minimizing or eliminating cravings, sometimes in the first week.

MYTH: Olive oil is good fat.

FACT: This will shock! Did you know that your body does almost all the fat you need? There are two exceptions: alphalinoleic linoleic fatty acids, widely source for a variety of plant foods. Therefore, it serves no purpose whatsoever for add more fat to the fat already made, especially a highly concentrated and refined fats that comes without any nutrition. All added oils, including oil Olive, offer one thing: the calories and the calories come with a price tag of fat – more fat added to the hips, abdomen, thighs and arms. Translation: olive oil a bad fat!

FACT: Look to nature for simple answers. Where do you get your elephants need fats? Olive, canola, oil flaxseed? Of course not. Plant foods provide all our essential nutrients, including fats. Grapefruit contain 2% milk, orange 4% Oatmeal 15%, 9% broccoli, apples 4%, 10% romaine lettuce, and cabbage 6%.

MYTH: You must eat meat to get enough protein.

FACT: Animal products, including the so-called thin, comes automatically packaged with artery-clogging, disease-causing saturated fat and cholesterol. Beef is 67% fat, skinless chicken, white or 38% fat, 48% fat salmon, cheddar cheese 73% fat, eggs 62% fat and 2% milk 35% fat. With regard to cholesterol, chicken, fish and dairy products are at the height of the beef. Meat, dairy and fish can go faster hike up the calories from fat, sabotaging weight loss and weight maintenance.

Question: But we must not eat meat to get enough protein?

Answer: What is the protein for? Protein is for lots things, but simply, protein is for growth. When we grow? From birth to one year of age. When do you need most protein? From birth to one year. What is the best food for growing babies? Breast milk. How much protein in breast milk? 4.5% protein. That's it!

It is no coincidence that the World Health Organization recommends 4.5% protein in the diet for human health. Oranges have 8% protein, 45% of broccoli, romaine lettuce 36%, 8% rice, beans 26%. Plant foods give us a lot protein, fat and cholesterol that come with animal protein. Two other points of the protein: 1. Plant protein is not inferior to animal protein. 2. Protein plants do not have to be mixed and matched to make a "complete" protein.

FACT: Look at the nature of the responses common sense. Where the cows, horses, giraffes, monkeys, elephants and large get your protein to grow and maintain large, strong muscles? Do not eat cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, fish, eggs, protein bars or protein drinks. Plant foods eaten raw, and not a great variety that. If they can get plenty of protein from plants, so that we can.

MYTH: You should drink milk and eat cheese to get enough calcium.

FACT: Because dairy products are full of fat, not to mention other ill effects, not their allies in the game of loss weight. Most cheeses are 70% fat or more, and even skim milk has 4-7% fat.

Question: But we should not eat dairy products to get our calcium?

Answer: Where the cows, horses, giraffes, monkeys, and elephants get your calcium for strong bones and teeth? Flora. Certainly not drink milk (once weaned) and other mammal milk in it. Cow's milk is made for baby cows, not people drink much less the elderly. Milk is only done in people's baby mother's milk.

FACT: Food unrefined vegetables contain all the nutrients, vitamins, minerals and micronutrients you need, including calcium. Nature is so smart. What is the origin of calcium? The soil. Calcium is dissolved in water in the soil and absorbed by plants. Transform inedible plants, calcium is not usable land usable calcium they need all mammals. Eating plants is the most direct way to get calcium, and without the fat, cholesterol, animal protein, milk sugar, hormones, antibiotics, other toxins, and pus (yes, pus!), which can come in dairy products.

Meat and dairy products are options, not requirements, and can add significant calories and fat calories to fat.

MYTH: You can have the calories you take in.

Fact: The journey of twelve miles of moderate walking, all at once to lose one pound of fat. Unless you are a high-level athlete, exercising without changing to a higher nutrient density, food plan disappointingly low in calories contributes little to the ideal weight loss in the average person.

MYTH: A diet is a temporary way of eating to lose weight. Once the target weight is reached, you can go back to "normal" eating.

FACT: As soon as you leave a restrictive diet and return to their "normal" eating habits, the weight returns – with a vengeance. The only way to lose weight permanently is to change your thinking. As you change your way of thinking, can change their daily choices. As your exchange options, their travel behavior. As his change of habits, patterns of behavior and lifestyle change a. whole At first, the change is the overall effort, as with any change, especially deep conditioned habits. After a while, the total effort by magic becomes possible, unless released from the trap food.

MYTH: If you stumble, they are weak, lazy, or undisciplined, and ultimately a failure.

FACT: That's ridiculous! If you are a human being living on this planet, of course we're going down the track. It is difficult to change habits that have taken root in us from birth. The so-called sliding is totally normal and natural for all of us mere mortals. When you get off the track, there is no need for self-flagellation. Let it go – what's done is done – and get back on the track. Go to the store, get lots of fresh and whole foods, and the center of their meals next to the best-for-you food.

Jump of diet-go-round and lose those extra pounds forever. Just add, stop and wiggle. Add and fill with the best-for-you foods first, stop eating when your brain says, and move – but not too much! With time, patience, and really what they want, you can enter your body, a dream come true.

Remember: the only slip-up is giving up, and you will not give up!

About the Author

Dr. Leslie Van Romer, author of the weight-loss book, “Getting Into Your Pants,” is a chiropractor, speaker and expert in weight loss, diet and nutrition. She empowers individuals with direction and hope to lose weight, boost health and feel good about themselves. For information, visit www.gettingintoyourpants.com or call 1-888-375-3754.

The Wiggles $95 The Wiltern (3790 Wilshire , Los Angeles, CA, 90010)