Being overweight has become the norm, not the exception. But just as surely as we are getting bigger, we are also working longer and longer hours and we need help if we are ever to get back on track, lose the weight we are carrying around and feel better about ourselves. I know I spend 10 - 12 hours a day either at work or travelling to and from. Making a meal at night from scratch is just such a burden and take out is so easy. But I know it's killing us. What can I do?
So, can you help me? I hear you asking. Can you give me easy diets anyone can follow to lose weight? YES. I can and not only are they easy diets to follow, they are tasty, easy to prepare and probably a lot cheaper than the junk you are eating now. Looking through the Internet you will be overwhelmed with options, choices, decisions and programs.
Luckily there are sites where comparisons have been made of the various programs and diets and where you can read about the different features in each program. Remember that the site is probably trying to sell you something so there is that commercial aspect to everything on the Net (it's how we support ourselves). However as an intelligent and discerning reader I am sure you can sort the wheat from the chaff. Here's how you find easy diets anyone can follow.
1. If you read a diet or weight loss plan that feels weird, strange, extreme or just plain too complicated to follow, dump it. Common sense should be a good guide and the stranger it is, the less likely it will be that you will stick to it long term.
2. If the diet requires you to weight, measure, count calories and generally spend hours working it out, dump it. Again you won't stick to it long term for these very reasons.
3. Forget any diet that seeks to severely restrict your caloric intake. Within days you will feel starved and binge eating is the natural response.
4. Be very wary of programs with outlandish claims promising unrealistic weight loss overnight.
5. Read the program carefully and try to see yourself sticking to this plan, not for a couple of weeks but months and even years.
6. Reject any diet that starves you. The more strict the more likely it is that you will fall off the plan after Week 1.
Let's consider these few points in order. Firstly fad diets and extreme diets like "The Israeli Army diet" which consist of very limited foods are very unhealthy. These are weird diets that will lead to nutritional imbalances and ill health. Your diet must contain a balance of carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Unbalanced diets lead to food binging because you start to crave the foods you are missing.
Secondly if the so called easy diet is overly complex the likelihood of dropping out of the program is much higher. Any program that you follow for less than six weeks will result in a rebound effect where your weight goes up higher than where you started.
Any diets that are easy to follow will also be diets that stimulate the metabolism and generate long term weight loss. Diets should offer steady weight loss and any that offer dramatic results you can be certain only cause major losses of body weight through fluid loss and will not be long term. You gained the weight slowly over a long period and you need to lose your excess weight loss steadily over a reasonable time frame or you will end up lethargic, stressed and unhealthy. Good programs build up reasonable expectations of weight loss and give you the tools to achieve this. Unfortunately our society has come to expect instant gratification. With diets this is the fast road to disappointment.
So to answer the question at the beginning - "Are there any easy diets that I can use to lose weight, feed my family and keep them healthy and is as easy as junk food (and a whole lot cheaper) the answer is an emphatic YES! They are out there and they are pretty easy to find. And nothing beats the satisfaction of a healthy home prepared meal that is actually good for you. - 15438
So, can you help me? I hear you asking. Can you give me easy diets anyone can follow to lose weight? YES. I can and not only are they easy diets to follow, they are tasty, easy to prepare and probably a lot cheaper than the junk you are eating now. Looking through the Internet you will be overwhelmed with options, choices, decisions and programs.
Luckily there are sites where comparisons have been made of the various programs and diets and where you can read about the different features in each program. Remember that the site is probably trying to sell you something so there is that commercial aspect to everything on the Net (it's how we support ourselves). However as an intelligent and discerning reader I am sure you can sort the wheat from the chaff. Here's how you find easy diets anyone can follow.
1. If you read a diet or weight loss plan that feels weird, strange, extreme or just plain too complicated to follow, dump it. Common sense should be a good guide and the stranger it is, the less likely it will be that you will stick to it long term.
2. If the diet requires you to weight, measure, count calories and generally spend hours working it out, dump it. Again you won't stick to it long term for these very reasons.
3. Forget any diet that seeks to severely restrict your caloric intake. Within days you will feel starved and binge eating is the natural response.
4. Be very wary of programs with outlandish claims promising unrealistic weight loss overnight.
5. Read the program carefully and try to see yourself sticking to this plan, not for a couple of weeks but months and even years.
6. Reject any diet that starves you. The more strict the more likely it is that you will fall off the plan after Week 1.
Let's consider these few points in order. Firstly fad diets and extreme diets like "The Israeli Army diet" which consist of very limited foods are very unhealthy. These are weird diets that will lead to nutritional imbalances and ill health. Your diet must contain a balance of carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Unbalanced diets lead to food binging because you start to crave the foods you are missing.
Secondly if the so called easy diet is overly complex the likelihood of dropping out of the program is much higher. Any program that you follow for less than six weeks will result in a rebound effect where your weight goes up higher than where you started.
Any diets that are easy to follow will also be diets that stimulate the metabolism and generate long term weight loss. Diets should offer steady weight loss and any that offer dramatic results you can be certain only cause major losses of body weight through fluid loss and will not be long term. You gained the weight slowly over a long period and you need to lose your excess weight loss steadily over a reasonable time frame or you will end up lethargic, stressed and unhealthy. Good programs build up reasonable expectations of weight loss and give you the tools to achieve this. Unfortunately our society has come to expect instant gratification. With diets this is the fast road to disappointment.
So to answer the question at the beginning - "Are there any easy diets that I can use to lose weight, feed my family and keep them healthy and is as easy as junk food (and a whole lot cheaper) the answer is an emphatic YES! They are out there and they are pretty easy to find. And nothing beats the satisfaction of a healthy home prepared meal that is actually good for you. - 15438
About the Author:
Lyle Neander has reviewed dozens of fat loss programs and found the most successful programs. You can find FREE weight loss information to download info at easy diets anyone can follow. Lyle offers a great comparison website at compare programs. Successful weight loss is possible and painless. Life is so much better when you are slim and healthy.
