Friday, January 11, 2013

Stop Dieting and Start Living!!!

Ahhh, a new year is here. I'm still reveling in it. Hello 2013!!!
I went to the bookstore the other day to entertain my daughter with puppets, train tables and books and had to do a drive by the new books display. Of course the new book display is loaded down with shiny new diet books just in time for everyone's New Year's resolutions.

Step AWAY from the shiny diet books!!

If you want to lose weight in 2013, STOP dieting and START living! Did you know that about 95% of people who go on a diet gain the weight back? 95%! You know why? Because going ON a diet implies that you will eventually go OFF the diet. The only true way to lose weight and keep it off permanently is to make a "LIFESTYLE CHANGE".

There is no magic pill, no amazing diet, no exercise regime that is going to make you lose the weight and keep it off if you don't address the real issues that are keeping the fat on. It's not JUST about the food you eat, or the miles you pound on the pavement. It's about YOU!

Here's a couple of reasons why diets don't work:

Most people think diet and think about cutting calories. However, if you start cutting calories too much your body and brain begin to think you are starving and so they start holding on to fat. Now I know you have heard it a million times before, "DON'T SKIP BREAKFAST". Well, let's use this as an example. If you skip breakfast, your tummy starts growling sending messages to the brain. The brain begins to believe you are in starvation mode and sends messages to the body to hold on to fat so that you might survive this starvation period. ACK! No good! But if you continue to provide your body with healthy, whole food throughout the day, your brain takes its hand of the panic button and you stop holding on to fat. YAY!

Plus, many of those calorie cutting diets may also have you unknowingly cutting precious nutrients. This works against your weight-loss efforts. In order to receive the necessary nutrients your body needs, you must provide it with high-quality whole foods full of nutrients and vitamins. Then, and only then might weight-los be permanent.

Further more, diets don't address the toxic waste in your body and perhaps in your life. If your organs are bogged down with toxic waste and not functioning smoothly, or if you have toxic things in your life that you have yet to resolve, chances are that no diet will work permanently. You must first learn to detox your body and your life!

So, if you would like to lose weight in 2013 the right way, and keep it off, forget about dieting and commit to a "lifestyle change". A healthy new you awaits!!

email Ellie @lovelightandwellbeing@gmail.com

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