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Are you sick of trying diet after diet with not much to show for it? What makes diets fail so miserably? It’s incredible how many people still teach the myth that eating tiny amounts of food will help with weight loss. What really happens is when we restrict our food intake we could actually gain weight instead of losing it. The human body is designed to regard restricted food consumption with starvation. By regularly cutting down what we eat we send our body into starvation preservation mode.

Studies show that thin people tend to eat a diet that contain plenty of complex carbohydrates (like veggies, cereals etc) and people who are overweight consume diets that have a lot more fat. We need to fully understand how our bodies work in order to create a successful weight loss program. One of the best ways to lose weight is to start a low GI diet where you control just how much high GI carbohydrate you take in in a day, but don’t worry too much about the other foods. You still need to make sure you don’t overeat, by keeping your portion sizes down, and make sure you get a good combination of healthy nutritious foods which are also low in saturated fats.

Chances are there are habits that contributed to the weight gain and the weight gain was not over night but took years to accumulate. Because it took a long time to gain the weight, you should allow some time to get back to your normal weight. People who haven’t figured out the balance between eating right, drinking lots of water, physical exercises and getting proper amounts of sleep are the next customers to those pushing the new fad diet, diet pill or quick weight loss plan. All it takes is a quick browse round your local newsagent to find the latest fad diet or weight loss plan. As we live in a world where we want everything now, it’s much easier to think (or even believe) that a magic does exist that can burn off fat virtually overnight, than to accept that we have power to enhance our lives and live healthier longer lives where being overweight is in the dim and distant past.

Diets are doomed to failure because they do not encourage a healthy balance within your body. Diets will fail because they are structured towards making someone or some company rich rather than making a weight loss plan or system that will actually aid an individual to lose weight.

It’s widely documented that people who are overweight are at increased risk of illnesses and other life shortening health conditions owing to excessive body weight. Saturated fat consumption is one of the major reasons for excess body fat.

People have been led to believe for too many years that they need to deprive themselves of food or rigorously count calories to be able to shed those excess pounds. In actual fact our bodies know perfectly well how to manage weight providing we give our bodies what is needed it needs to stay healthy – such as proper amounts of sleep, plenty of water, eat healthy and nutritious foods, and some regular physical exercise.

Losing weight is not simply about counting calories, you should also not overeat. Moderate portions of nutritious foods are one key to losing weight. Another key to losing weight is not leading a sedentary life but one that involves giving your body the daily physical activity that it craves. Our bodies respond well to physical exertion!