By now most people know that we are in the midst of an
"obesity epidemic." What most people haven't figured out
yet is that there are billion-dollar industries getting
richer while we get fatter. With all the so-called
"solutions" for weight-loss available to health and fitness
consumers, we are in the worst shape in the history of
modern civilization. The truth is that there is big money
and a lot of profit in sickness and fatness. Each year,
millions of people are tricked into spending their
hard-earned cash on diets and fitness products that won't
help them. We spend billions of dollars jumping from one
failed solution to another without understanding the reason
why we are in such poor shape. Before you spend another
penny on diets and weight-loss and fitness products that
don't work, start by understanding why we are so fat.
The desire to lose weight without any work drives over 70
million people to go on a diet each year, and funds the $58
billion dollar diet- and weight-loss lie. Thousands of
diets profess to have the solution for weight loss, yet the
long-term positive results from dieting falls below the 5
percent margin. After ending the diet, most dieters will
regain their weight they might have lost and more.
Unfortunately, diets alone will never provide the solution
for sustained results for three simple reasons:
1. The concept of "going on a diet" means you are changing
your eating habits for a specific period of time to effect
a change in your body weight. Any dietary changes that you
make that cannot be sustained for the rest of your life
will only produce short-term results.
2. Dramatically reducing your caloric intake slows down
your metabolism and causes your body to burn fewer calories
at rest. An innate response to a slower metabolism is that
it causes your body to preserve fat to avoid starvation.
3. When you reduce your caloric intake, you also reduce the
energy source your body needs for physical activity. Most
diets make you tired and lethargic, which make it difficult
to increase physical activity. Unfortunately, increased
physical activity is the most effective way to lose weight.
Forget about the glycemic index, food combining, low-carb
or high-protein diets. Don't buy into the grapefruit or
cabbage diets and don't think for a second that French
women and Japanese women don't get fat. Every day, you burn
a certain number of calories just by walking, talking and
breathing. This is called your Resting Metabolic Rate
(RMR). The more you move through physical activity, the
more calories you burn beyond your RMR. The difference
between the calories expended through your combined RMR and
physical activity compared to the number of calories you
consume equals your caloric surplus or deficit. A surplus
of 3,500 calories equals one pound of fat gained and a
deficit of 3,500 calories equals one pound of fat lost. No
matter how you look at it, calories are king when it comes
to weight gain and weight loss. The diet and weight loss
industry wants you to believe that you can eat more and
weigh less. That is a big, fat lie. If you want to weigh
less, you have to eat less and move more. If your goal is
to lose weight permanently, stop dieting and start moving.
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Craig Pepin-Donat has helped millions of people get on the
path to living a healthier and more active lifestyle. He
has dedicated his life to helping people through health and
fitness education and now brings that knowledge and
expertise to you in his ground breaking book, The Big Fat
Health and Fitness Lie. He founded
http://www.FitAdvocate.com
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