Fad Diets Don't Work: Am I Doomed?

Hello weight losing fans...

Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 180-pounds. Yes, you read that right.
I am scratching my head, and wondering what happened?
Is it entirely possible this weekend caught me? Could it be true that I over shot my calories so badly they are compounding this far into the week? I assure you I went back to 1,500 calories.

Scratch, scratch, why the sudden change? Hmmm?

I Was Reading Healing The Body Naturally
Today I was reading in a book called "Healing The Body Naturally." This book had a four page section that explained how to deal with obesity. I am paraphrasing, but one of the comments in the book was, fad diets don't work. Another comment in the book was, 95 percent of the people who lose weight by dieting, using pills, and other methods regain all the weight they lost, plus another ten pounds in less than one year. Whew... Could you imagine regaining 60 pounds in less than one year, and another ten on top? That would be me if what had been written in this book is true.

I wonder? Is cutting back on the total amount of food consumed a fad diet? I mean I eat just about everything I did before, just much less of it.

If it's true that I am going to regain all the weight, then what am I supposed to do? Who is going to save me, if I am ultimately doomed?

I think I have an answer. It's simply this, monitor your weight more constantly. Keep records about your daily weight. If you see your weight increasing then reduce the food portions down.

One comment this book had that I have advocated all along was, no one should try to lose more than one pound each week. Bravo, I couldn't agree with it more. That's about what I did. Oh the first month was about 1.5 each week, but I went back to one pound a week after that.

Another comment this book made was, that it's only necessary to get one's total calories within 500 calories of critical fat calorie consumption, to have good results. In other words, you can eat, and not kill yourself, or starve trying to lose weight. It's unnecessary to starve.

My critical calorie consumption is around 1,500 calories each day. With that, I did a pretty good job cutting off the poundage. Only, there is no getting around the hunger. Yep, if you want to lose weight, you are going to be hungry. That's a fact.

I don't care what anyone says. I have had people sware to me they eat 1,200 calories a day, and don't feel hungry. Well, my book said, "Hunger" is the number one cause of weight loss failures. Most, people can't deal with the hunger.

The book also stated that eventually, as the stomach reduces in size, and the body begins getting used to smaller portions of food, the hunger subsides. Well, well, well....
How long it takes for that to be true? I don't know.

You can get the book at a health food store. I got mine at the vitamin store. It's a big thick book and it's loaded with neat information.

Here is the thing I try to get people to remember: We eat too much. We really do. Most of us can get away with much less food than we are accustomed to consuming.

I don't know what your critical calorie count will be. Certainly if you exercise, you can get away with a few more calories. Only, when the exercise ends, unless someone has learned to deal with that food consumption, all those pounds will come screaming back on. I kid you not, they will.

Here is why, It's just like using a diet pill, once the stimulation that causes the body to burn that fat is gone, then back will come the fat. It could be stimulation because of large amounts of regular exercise, or it can be stimulation because of a diet pill.

Diet, and exercise gets the best results. I haven't done so much of the exercise part. I have had some body trouble, and time issues. However, I can only imagine how fast 20 pounds would disappear if I could go out and exercise.

I would be back to square one again. The diet would have to remain constant. I couldn't arbitrarily add back the daily calories of food. I would go back to blimp-hood.

The same goes for any one.

By the way, tomorrow is going to be my birthday. I am turning 50 years old. Yep, I am going to be one half of a century old.

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Bye for now...

And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane