Dieting and “Feeling Like a Good for Nothing Fat Slob” To a Dream Body
Healthy diets do require attention to what you eat!
In the second of our series on getting from “Feeling Like a Good for Nothing Fat Slob” to a dream body we’ll explore the diet myths we’ve been forced fed for years.
In the first of this three part series I covered Attitude – the first of the three elements you need in any weight loss program to succeed. In this article I’m going to cover diets. Now this is a large topic and it borders on “religion” for many people and my mother always told me to avoid arguments about religion and politics.
Thanks mom – but in this instance I do need to be controversial because it’s important.
The food industry has played a significant role in shaping the diets of many people in this country, and unfortunately its no coincidence obesity is at epidemic levels for both kids and adults in America.
The added fats and processed foods have caused the American waistline to bulge and it’s time to get off that train and onto a healthier diet.
When conducting my private and group Weight Loss Hypnosis in Massachusetts sessions I don’t tend to care whether a person is on a formal diet plan, and if they are, which one they’ve chosen. You can argue any diet plan is better than none, and it does tend to be a personal preference. However, there are some myths and basic flaws in conventional wisdom about our diets that even physicians are beginning to question.
Just as a quick reminder here are the 3 elements to any weight loss program along with links to the other two articles:
Diet:
I’ll be talking about the concepts of carbohydrates and protein.
So along came the diet experts and told us we all needed to eat less meat and more carbohydrates. Carbs are good for you they said. Don’t eat all that red meat and protein it just fattens you up. What you need are carbs like pasta and bread and cereals and… plenty of them.
The fact is you need protein regularly and there’s nothing wrong with meat. If you can get grass fed beef all the better to avoid meat from animals pumped-up with chemicals and special grain. But there is a price to pay for getting the best and that’s both in cost and convenience. Although I suspect in a few years time – like organic foods – it’ll be readily available in the supermarkets.
But there are plenty of other protein foods out there such as dairy products and including eggs, and the wisdom now with nutritionists arguing against the old regime of low protein diet is… you need protein at every meal. Not exactly what the food pyramid recommends is it?
To be fair a number of the more recent popular diet plans such as Zone® and Atkins® are low-carbohydrate diets. But they also have there quirks such as Zone requires you to master correct portions of protein, carbs, and fats without much guidance, and Atkins dislikes fruit and starchy vegetables, which is strange.
But nonetheless they both advocate a low carbohydrate diet. And as I said I’m agnostic when it comes to you choosing a diet as long as it supports healthy foods, and especially a diet of low Glycemic Index foods.
If you’re not familiar with low GI foods then hop on over and read my recent post about how you can speed up fat loss by understanding your glycemic index here. It makes fascinating reading.
In the final post of this series I’ll be discussing exercise. Now don’t rush off and hide. I’m not going have you train for a marathon or perform weight circuit training. In fact you can walk if you want.
The exercise for weight loss I’m going to be discussing is for anybody but it’ll help you get to your dream body as long as you follow have the right attitude and eat the right foods in the right portions. To read the post now go here.
Erika Slater, CH
Erika@smoke-free-at-last.com
www.smoke-free-at-last.com
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