The Three Things You Must Know If You Want To Lose Weight And Keep It Off

The world is full of methods to lose weight. Check the internet and you will find thousands of diets, supplements and programs to help you lose weight. There are millions of searches every day for methods to lose weight and they are fed, if you will excuse the expression, by the latest fad or miracle cure that will allow you to eat seven hamburgers a day, drink two litres of soft drink, exercise by pushing the buttons on the television remote control and still lose weight magically. Acai berries. Green tea. Black coffee. South American bark from the remote jungles of the Amazon. Diet pills. Diet potions. Food supplements. Food replacements. The list is endless and growing every day.

So why are so many people still overweight?

The fact is, without following the three essential pillars of weight loss, your weight, if you lose it, will rebound within weeks. And without following these three essential rules, you most probably won't reduce your weight anyway.

Let me tell you one simple method that will, without fail, achieve and sustain weight loss.

Run. Or walk.
Every day. As far as you can. Until you drop. A little bit further every day. Not only will you lose weight, but you will be a bit further from your food at home each day. So make sure you take bus fare with you.:-)

Not liking that option? Me neither. And unless you are an elite athlete used to punishing your body to its limits, it won't work. If you are an elite athlete then you very likely do not need to diet anyway.

So, for those of us who are not elite athletes, what are the three things we must know to lose weight quickly and sustainably?

The three pieces of knowledge you must know to lose weight and sustain the loss are:

1. You must eat less energy than you use each day.
2. You must eat small amounts of the right foods, often. That way you do not feel hungry and hunger is the mortal enemy of weightloss.
3. You must be kind to your liver.

Simple. So what do they mean?

You must eat less energy than you use each day.

It is an unchangeable fact of life that if you burn 2000 calories of energy each day and your dietary intake is 10,000 calories each day, then the extra 8,000 calories you have ingested will be held within your body as fat deposits. So, how do you eat less energy than you burn when you have been used to eating 10,000 calories or more each day? The answer is point two above.

You must eat small amounts of the right foods. Often.

Possibly the worst thing about dieting is the feeling of being hungry all the time. Waiting for your next meal. Finally, when it is time to eat again, you start and find it almost impossible to stop eating until you are bursting. This has two bad effects. First, you are always fighting your body and its desire to eat. Second, when you do eat, you eat so much that your stomach stretches and takes more to fill it next time.

The way to defeat these problems is to eat small amounts of good foods such as nuts, fruit, meat and vegetable and to eat them often. That way you never feel hungry because your next intake is never far away. Just as important, your stomach shrinks to accommodate the small amounts of food it is being fed. Hence, you are never hungry and your stomach fills quickly.

You must be kind to your liver.

The liver has many functions. Some of the functions are: to produce substances that break down fats, convert glucose to glycogen to supply your body energy and filter harmful substances from the blood.

If you are constantly feeding your body junk, the liver is over-worked filtering all the harmful substances from your body. It has no time to regulate your sugar levels nor to produce the substances needed to break down fats. Be kind to your liver by eating non-processed foods, avoiding too much alcohol and feeding yourself with simple, one ingredient foods such as meat, fish, eggs, real butter and nuts.

If you follow these three simple rules you will find that weightloss is easily achievable and sustainable.

Kindness is more important than wisdom.

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