New Weight Loss Solution–How to Make Your Diet Work

Statistically, two out of three dieters (roughly 68%)
experience weight regain, which is gaining weight immediately
after stopping a diet (in some cases during dieting). Weight
regain posses a significant health risk to dieters because it
initiates weight cycling, or the Yo-Yo Diet.

Why is this bad? Weight cycling has now been shown to decrease
life expectancy rates and increase mortality associated with
cardiovascular disease and certain cancers. For you, this means
you must lose weight without gaining it back and avoid the
dangerous cycle of the Yo-Yo Diet.

How do you diet to lose weight and not gain weight back? It’s
not easy but I will share with you a few steps from my own
research to help make it possible.

Diet Shock to Weight Regain

A quick review is in order before sharing with you the steps
involved to prevent weight regain. Diet shock is the body’s
reaction to eating fewer calories and losing weight.

Unfortunately, diets on the market today employ the exact
method of weight loss that causes diet shock…severe calorie
restriction producing extreme weight loss in the shortest time
possible (aka, fast weight loss). This type of dieting method
will eventually cause weight regain.

Why do the current dieting plans promote a weight loss method
destined to fail? It’s what you want. Fast and extreme weight
loss is what sells. Slow and low weight loss (the method I
designed several years ago for my overweight patients) does not
satisfy the immediate gratification mentality of our society. In
a nut shell, slow and low weight loss doesn’t sell.

Once in diet shock, your body initiates a series of reactions
that ultimately slow down your metabolic rate. From there,
weight regain is just around the corner.

Remember, weight regain is not good for two reasons…

1. Leads to the Yo-Yo Diet, which has now been shown to be as
much of a health risk as obesity.

2. Weight regain results from a slower metabolism brought about
by the breakdown of muscle tissue. The weight you gain back is
all fat, replacing the lean tissue (muscle) that was lost due to
diet shock. You’re actually worse off then you were before
starting the diet.

In order for you to lose weight and keep it off, you must make
your diet work by adding five simple solutions. As a whole, the
five solutions will prevent diet shock and weight regain.
Without the 5 simple solutions, weight regain is inevitable.

Five Simple Solutions for Losing Weight and Keeping it
Off

1. Keep, tone, and build muscle through resistance exercises
using resistance bands.

This is an easy way to, at least, tone muscle. Additionally, I
teach a little trick that can actually tone muscle faster, in
about half the normal time. It’s simple and quick with one
training session lasting only 30 minutes.

2. Add more protein and raw vegetables to your diet.

Just keep your total protein intake under 1.5 grams per kg of
body weight (1 pound=2.2 kg).

3. Shape your weight loss goals and cycle your diet.

On average, you can double your chance for weight loss success
by doing applying the two techniques (based on research
collected from my patients).

4. Exchange it, couple it, and combine it.

Three more techniques to almost guarantee your success at losing
weight AND keeping it off.

5. Follow a maintenance plan to keep it off (it’s almost like a
separate diet).

The simple maintenance plan that I developed is an absolute
requirement for successful prevention of weight regain.

Don’t even try to diet without applying these simple solutions.
For details, check out my site at the URL given in my Bio
section.

To Healthy Living!

Michael A. Smith, MD

Chief Medical Consultant

Diet Basics Website

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