Best Way To Lose Weight

Four Ways to Win

THE RIGHT FOOD, AT THE RIGHT TIME, IN THE RIGHT AMOUNT, WITH THE RIGHT EXERCISE

I am a 35 year old 250 pound female (one month ago I was 260 pounds). I have battled with weight loss from the age of eight years old. After reading and researching and implementing I recognized a few things needed to win the battle and I will share them with you.

DO NOT hate your fat cells. They are wonderful. They are designed for an important function. They make fat from sugar and fatty acids. If they need more room for storage space, they expand. If they need still more, they make new cells and fill them with fat. They are marvels at storing energy in the form of fat. Its their specialty. In one pound they can store 3,500 calories, though the liver can pack only 250 calories in a pound of its energy-storage medium, glycogen.

Fat cells receive and obey signals. They cushion vital organs. They release their energy upon demand, supplying it as fuel for the bodys working cells. At times they receive emergency signals and spring into action. When sent life-threatening messages, they take lifesaving measures. They start hoarding their fat, holding it in reserve for the impending crisis.

It is now clear that fat plays an important, though incompletely understood role, in the bodys immune system. Fat cells can receive a false message and misinterpret it as a crisis; a crash diet may send fat cells the same message as would famine or starvation. Instead of fat breaking down, it is actually conserved, curtailing the release of calories to a trickle. But the fat cells have no way of knowing the difference. They react as they were designed to react. They hoard their energy for what they foresee as a future and more crucial need than the present. Parents magazine for March 1987 offers a possible explanation: The more often you dietthe more frequently your body senses youre gearing up for a faminethe more resistant the fat cells become to releasing their precious commodity. The body intervenes to cope with the current crisis by turning muscle into glucosethe brain must have its glucose or the whole organism will close shop! But you do not want to lose muscle; you want to lose fat. Crash diets are not the winning way. Then what is? The winning ways, plural, are: the right food, at the right time, in the right amount, with the right kind of exerciseand the right mental attitude. The dieter himself must be in the drivers seat. Whether you reach your goal or not is up to you.

Some nutritionists are now coming around to the conviction that the body has less tendency to accumulate fat deposits if meals are eaten more frequently and served in smaller portionswithout a reduction in the daily food intake. They have also found that the meal which is most important and should therefore make the largest caloric contribution to a persons day is breakfast. Eat a variety and eat enough. You have learned what will happen if you panic the fat cells by stingy eating! On a weight-loss experiment, rats were given only one meal a day. During the study, their enzymes responsible for depositing fat increased tenfold. The report said: It was as if their bodies were saying, The minute more food comes along, Im ready to lay down extra fat just in case this stress happens to me again! So if you have to diet, dont make the mistake of fasting or eating just one meal a day (essentially a 23-hour fast).

In any effective weight control program, exercise is essential. Regularity of exercise is more important than intensity.Conns Current Therapy.

Spot the triggers that start you eating when you shouldnt. Know the excuses you use to weaken your good resolves. Say no to them immediately! Reject them angrily! Win the war, lose the fat, cherish the victory!

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