Three Keys To Losing Weight And Keeping It Off

Here is the simple truth about weight lose:
If your consumption of food is equal to or more than your energy expenditure, you are destine to stay the same weight or get heavier. Basically, then, this means that you must burn more calories through physical activity than calories you intake through eating if reducing your weight is desired. This is a very practical example of a complex topic, yet it illustrates the core fundamentals behind loosing and gaining weight.

Now that a clearer understanding of basic weight management has been achieved, let’s examine specifically what it takes to make loosing weight permanent. Lifelong weight loss is a by-product of conscientiously committing to making health a top priority. The following “3 prong” approach can serve as a guide to help you focus your energy and get the most out of your lifestyle of health.

STEP 1: Physical Activity and Accountability

When you don’t use it, you lose it! This commonly used phrase speaks volumes about what happens to the human body when a sedentary lifestyle is adopted. In modern day society, heavy physical labor and movement is becoming obsolete and almost everything can be accomplished from an arm chair. Unfortunately, these luxuries are making people overweight, obese and sick. 66.3% of American adults age 20 and above are either overweight or obese and obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death and disease behind smoking. A strong dose of focused exercise can go a long way towards combating weight problems. 30 minutes of goal-oriented exercise per day, burning a minimum of 500 calories, should be the target. This can best be integrated into a daily schedule by taking 10 minutes before breakfast, lunch and dinner to perform basic physical activity. Don’t eat until the 10 minutes of exercise is fully completed. There are two ways to gage the calorie output, through estimation. It is safe to assume that 10 minutes of brisk walking can approximately burn 80 to 120 calories or a sports watch with an exact caloric counter can be used to tract the precise caloric expenditure. If you can burn 170 calories during each 10 minute session, you will burn 500 calories per day and an amazing 3,500 calories over a 7 day period. Burning 3,500 calories is the necessary objective to scientifically eliminating one pound of fat! This means that if you stayed consistent with this pattern of activity for 52 weeks a year, it would put you on tract to drop an incredible 52 pounds…not bad!

STEP 2: It is not just about eating less…
You MUST Eat Better!

Gimmick diets excite people because they provide fresh prospective and hope to people looking to change their bodies but not their behavior. The point of a diet is to restrict what a person eats for a specific length of time in order to produce a positive physical change. Obviously, depriving yourself in a clever way is the root to short term success with fad diets. Long term success, however, is dependent on behavioral changes that are guided by conscientious eating principals. Dieters say things like, “Is it alright for me to have that jelly doughnut because it’s low fat jelly and it is the only sweet thing that I’ll have today? Conscientious eaters, however, understand that the jelly doughnut is a processed food made with large amounts of refined sugar and they choose not to eat processed items with refined ingredients. In the world of dieting, winners deny themselves certain foods and reduce their portions to reduce their body weight. A conscientious eater avoids chemically processed goods and focuses on eating fresh whole food understanding that the body can only absorb nutrients from natural sources. The conscientious eater is concerned with eating a reasonable portion size but they are aware that the stomach alerts the brain that it is full much quicker when natural whole foods are consumed. Here are some other major perspective differences between dieters and conscientious eaters.

Dieters: Use a regimented eating system for a certain length of time.

Conscientious Eaters: Have guiding principles that shape their food choices for a life time.

Dieters: Get bored, feel hungry all the time and thus “cheat.” 

Conscientious Eaters: Expand their food options, eat until naturally satisfied, and find fresh whole food alternatives.

Dieters: Have energy that peaks and valleys, their weight yo-yo’s, and their mood is unsure.

Conscientious Eaters: Have energy that is level, their weight is healthy and consistent and their mood is focused.    

STEP 3: Detoxify, Renew and Restore

Would you go months on end without washing your hands, brushing your teeth or showering? For most of us, we wouldn’t dream of going even one day without performing these basic hygiene functions. With that said, when is the last time that you cleaned your intestinal tract. It is safe to assume that for most of us, this is an area that we didn’t even know existed, much less, take the time to clean. It is important, however, that the intestine receive regular hygiene attention, just like showering and brushing your teeth. Why is it important to pay attention to the cleanliness of the digestive tract? Basically, digestion is the largest, involuntary muscle function and even a small blockage of this tract can cause fatigue, constipation, diarrhea or acid reflux. When this area is not attended to, major issues can occur. The intestinal tract is 26 feet of tubing located behind the naval. This massive pipeline serves as a natural conveyor belt that places food particles into the body’s waste system if the item is not needed or it places nutrient content from the food particles into the blood stream to be used in the body. If the conveyor belt becomes clogged with food particles then food starts breaking down with no place to go which leaves an unhealthy residue behind in the intestine. If too much residue accumulates it inhibits the flow of in coming food to pass through the intestine creating more clogs and eventually a toxic environment filled with rotted, decomposing food residue covering the walls of the tubing…gross! A solution for preventing or rebalancing this area if residue build-up has begun is to utilize a three-day easy to digest eating system:

DAY 1: 
Consume fruit only and make sure water is the only liquid that you put into your system for the first 24 hours.

DAY 2: 
Consume fruit, raw or steamed vegetables, nuts and yogurt only and make sure that water is the only liquid that you have. 

DAY 3: 

Breakfast:     
One cup of plain yogurt and add five to six fresh raspberries

Lunch:
One cup of organic vegetable soup with a vegetable base and a      Mixed greens salad with two teaspoons of organic olive oil and a pinch of sea salt

Dinner:
Four ounces of organic baked white fish or tofu, one small sweet potato with a pinch of sea salt and one-fourth cup of steamed broccoli

This powerful Three-Day eating program is certain to rest the intestinal tract while supplying the body with an abundance of nutrients. This will allow the system to naturally restore and clean any residue that has developed.