Secrets That Effortlessly Slim, Toned People Take For Granted

Posted on May 3, 2008 in Health and Fitness by admin

It’s true that obesity and overweight are serious problems that are creating enormous damage in every civilised country in the world. However it’s also true that a culture of dieting is likewise doing serious damage, even leading to the deaths of thousands of teenage girls every year.

So the first secret that I want to let you in on, is that effortlessly slim, toned people do not, ever, diet!

That’s right, they don’t diet. It wouldn’t occur to them to diet. They think diets are stupid – they SCOFF at diets!

Now, you might be thinking “Of course they don’t diet — they don’t have a problem, dummy!” but in fact if they did diet they certainly would have a problem. For a start they’d be at least 6 lbs heavier than they are right now. Because diets put on weight.

That’s right – diets put on weight. Health Department statistics show that overall the average INCREASE in weight due to dieting is 6 lbs annually. So if you never dieted the chances are you’d weigh a lot less than you do right now.

Why do diets cause weight gain? The reason is that NO-ONE ever stays on a diet (thank goodness, because I’m yet to see one that has anything like the variety needed for healthy eating) and EVERYONE puts the weight back on. This causes a yo-yo effect with weight going up and down – which slows down your metabolic rate and not only accumulates more fat, it makes you feel tired and crabby as well!

This secret doesn’t just apply to dieting, but to meal replacements, or pills, or any other thing that you might *temporarily* do in an effort to lose weight.

If you’re like most people, you’ve most likely dieted lots of times! When we ask our clients how many diets they’ve been on, they quite often tell us it’s probably 20, 30, 40 or even more. When we ask how much money they’ve spent on dieting, we hear figures in the tens of thousands of dollars over a lifetime.

If diets worked, people wouldn’t need to keep doing them. If diets worked, all that money would be a good investment. But the problem is, as health studies consistently show, diets fail for almost 100% of people. Exercise programs fail even more spectacularly!

If diets were merely useless, and merely prevented people from seeking out real solutions to overweight, as health professionals we’d already be up in arms!

But diets are not only useless – they’re DANGEROUS, and here’s why ….

The Serious Health Problems Caused Directly by Dieting

I’ve just explained to you why dieting is such a massive waste of time, effort and money. Now I need to share with you the very serious health problems directly caused by dieting.

This isn’t because I enjoy nagging or being up on my soapbox J. It’s because so very few people actually do know the vast harm caused by dieting. Here are some of the most serious direct effects of dieting:

1 With weight loss dieting, what is often lost is not fat, but fluid and muscle mass, further compromising metabolic rate and our health. Fluid in particular can be stripped off very fast (which is exactly what a low carb diet does!), but of course it returns amazingly quickly as well!

It’s physically impossible for most people to eliminate more than 0.5-1 kg per week in actual fat. If you’re losing more than that you are probably lowering your metabolism through fluid or muscle loss.

2 Diets have been linked with eating disorders, particularly amongst children, and particularly amongst children of mothers who have dieted. Do you realise that in Australia thousands of girls die every year from eating disorders that started out as diets?

This is a fact that gets little publicity amongst the general public, but the figures are there in black and white and all health professionals know that eating disorders are the MOST FATAL of all of the psychological disorders.

3 Weight loss dieting can cause health problems and can even lead to gall bladder disease if the decrease is too rapid. While I have the greatest respect for the medical profession, even today there are ignorant doctors who expose their patients to emergency surgery by prescribing ultra low-calorie eating regimes.

Some of these idiots even state that vitamin injections can make up for lost nutrition and too-rapid weight loss! These guys don’t deserve to practise!

4 The reason for many older women’s difficulty in losing weight is not their age! They have literally stuffed up their metabolism through yo-yo dieting! (Luckily that can be rectified.)

5 Dieting has been strongly linked with lowered libido. Diets can wreck a great sex life and a great relationship!

6 Diets often don’t provide correct nutrition, leading to problems with concentration and memory and also decreased wellbeing. Low carb diets are notorious for creating or worsening depression!

7 Food *deprivation* causes food *cravings*! This means that every diet literally self-destructs from the cravings that it creates.

So why diet? It doesn’t work. Instead it causes problems. Effortlessly slim, toned people seem to understand this instinctively, and stay away from dieting LIKE THE PLAGUE!

So the first secret of effortlessly slim, toned people is to NEVER DIET. Would you like to know the other 6 secrets of effortlessly slim, toned people? Well you’re in luck because a free ebook is waiting for you if you take the “Skinny Secrets” quiz on our web site. Look out for your free “7 Secrets that Slim, Toned People Take for Granted”!

Christine Sutherland is a Perth clinical researcher, and a clinician specialising in weight loss. She is the author of “Beat Cravings, Shift Fat” and the founder of WeightChoice.Com.Au. You can read more on Christine’s views on how to achieve permanent, easy weight loss on http://www.weightchoice.com.au

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