To Lose Weight You Need To Do This

     The number of overweight people around the world continues to climb and 85% of us are now overweight or obese. Many people desperately try a restricted food diet in the hope of losing this excess body fat. But, it now has been well proven than diets fail 95% of the time and here are five of the reasons why they do.

They are only temporary. It is easy to stick to a diet at first, when you are really motivated and losing weight but can you imagine sticking with it long term - like life?

By being on a temporary diet you are not learning what changes need to be made to your present eating regime in order to keep the weight off permanently. Instead of slowly changing to a healthier eating plan many dieters quite abruptly and go back to old eating habits because they cannot continue with the diet.

They don't include proper exercise as a necessary part of the program. Proper exercise is not walking, jogging, cycling or any other 'cardio' type of activity. These things are recreational and are great as part of an active lifestyle but do not meet the requirements of proper exercise. They do not work the muscular system through its ranges of movement under a load (resistance). A proper program made up of mostly strength training is what you need to do 2-3 times each week for fat loss success.

They work against your body's metabolism making it harder to lose the weight and keep it off in the long term. In order to lose excess body fat, you have to create a caloric deficit and you have to burn more calories than you bring in. However, the way in which you create this caloric deficit can make a huge difference in your success or failure with weight loss. You need to burn it off with proper exercise, not try and starve it off.

By restricting calories below a certain level you risk triggering an ancient 'survival mode' which quickly slows the metabolic rate and drops the amount of fuel being burnt for energy. The World Health Organization states that a diet of less than 1800 calories a day for women and 2200 for men is a starvation diet. Yet most people start a diet eating well below this level and this is one of the main reasons they fail.

They slow us down and suck our energy from us and we become listless and sedentary. We do not have the energy or motivation to put enough effort into a proper exercise program which is the one main thing we need to do to keep our muscle tissue from being burnt for fuel and keep our metabolic motor running hot.

They make us fatter. When deprived of food our body increases its efficiency by holding on to every bit of food and storing as much of it as possible as body fat. The body will do everything it can to avoid starvation as it does not know there is a fridge full of food in the next room and you only want to fit into your skinny jeans. The more you diet the better at storing fat your body will become and the harder it will become to get it off.

The very opposite of dieting is what you need to do if you truly want to lose weight. Eat 5-7 small meals every 2-3 hours throughout the day. These meals should each have 20 grams of protein and the balance made up of raw and cooked vegetables. Get rid of processed food in pretty boxes and cook whole natural foods from scratch for best results.

Focus on what you should be eating not what you shouldn't be eating. Prepare your meals the night before and take them with you wherever you go during the day.

You need to have enough strength and energy to do justice to your strength training program to keep you metabolism running at the highest possible level. This simple concept of proper exercise and proper eating is what you need to lose any amount of excess body fat. Try it and see for yourself.

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