98 Percent of Dieters Fail: A Sensible Lifestyle is the Answer

What the Diet Industry Does Not Want You To Know: 98 Percent of
Dieters Fail. 98 Percent of dieters either quit the diet or are
not able to keep the weight off permanently. This is because
diets are to restrictive and force people into cheating because
their diet is not providing the nutrition that the body
requires. Most diets require something to be cut out. Low Carb
Diets require that you restrict carbs, the body needs
carbohydrates for energy thus if there is restrictive carb
intake the body will crave carb laden foods causing diet
sabotage. Low fat diets require that you cut out fat, making
people fear all fat believing that any fat is bad, and causing
the body to crave fat laden foods.

Why is the diet industry going to set you up for failure and not
tell you that you have a 98 percent chance that you will come
crawling back to them yet once again. To get your money. It’s
been estimated that $46 billion was spent on diet products and
programs last year alone. The average diet plan cost over $80
dollars each week. If 98 percent didn’t fail the diet industry
wouldn’t be needed any longer. Nobody would be overweight and
everybody would know what would work to lose weight.

Sports Nutrition: the Lifestyle that is not a Diet

Have you seen an infomercial that has ever told you to listen to
your body, eat what it needs and not force your body into
craving foods that would cause fat storage because your starving
it of essential nutrients? Probably not, because most
information on sports nutrition is available for free and it’s
something that you do for a lifetime, not a diet you go on for a
certain period of time then regain weight and then again hand
over your wallet once more to somebody with the latest promise
that won’t say that 98 percent will be back again within five
years.

Your body needs carbohydrates, your body does need fat. The key
to losing weight is to eat a balanced diet and not to poison
your body with the junk food that is abundant in today’s world.
Fruits, vegetables, whole grains, complex carbohydrates, healthy
fats and lean meats are the staple of sports nutrition. Fueling
your body to be able to perform what you require of it during
the day is what will help you lose weight.

Fueling Your Body Means Eat

Yes you can eat food and lose weight. Healthy choices and
knowing how many calories that your body requires to perform at
optimal efficiency will keep cravings for junk food away. The
brain alone requires 380 calories per day for the average 150
pound man just to be able to lay in bed all day, the liver
requires over 500 calories per day. You have many other organs
that also require a certain amount of calories each day. To
determine how many calories you need per day just for your
resting metabolic rate take the amount you weigh in pounds and
multiply that by 10. So if you weigh 160 pounds that is 1600
calories required for your body just to perform basic functions
like pump blood. Just to be sedentary you need to add 25% of
1600 to your daily requirements, so that would make it 2000
calories per day just to sit and watch tv, get up and walk to
the bathroom and do other basic things without doing anything
that would require work The more activity you do the more
calories your body requires. The key is not to give your body
these calories in the form of candy bars, potato chip, soda etc.
Feeding your body with foods that are lower than 30% in fat will
amaze you how much food can make up 2000 calories.

Eating more often:

Instead of eating just breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Have the
basic 3 meals per day with a healthy snack between them. This
will prevent mid-morning and mid-afternoon raids on the junk
food machine and help keep your energy up.

For more in depth information on a Sports Nutrition Lifestyle
the following books can provide a wealth of information:

Nancy Clark’s Sports Nutrition Guidebook Avery’s Sports
Nutrition Almanac Power Eating by Susan M. Kleiner

Any of these books will give you the information you need to
stop supporting the diet industry and shelling over your money
once again for a likelihood of 98% chance of failure. Enjoy food
and don’t let anybody make you afraid of it, food is there for
our bodies, it’s just the junk food that is bad and there are
plenty of healthy alternatives out there that will satisfy any
craving.

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