Nutrition Provided By Your Dietary Intake Impacts Your Well-Being

Many overweight Americans want to lose weight without making permanent lifestyle changes. This suggests that they are more interested in being thin than healthy. Moreover, there will always be someone ready to try a lose-weight-fast scheme. While the achievement of a normal body weight in most obese patients is now a possibility using very-low-calorie dietary intake under medical supervision, the same long-term problems exist and the goal for the future is to achieve the same results but with permanent weight loss.

As self-control is a skill developed through hard work and over time, don't be discouraged over setbacks like:

• RESTRICTED FOOD GROUPS - Eliminating all of your favorite foods could set you up to fail. That's why it is better to manage how often you indulge as well as limit your portion sizes.
• AVOID BAD EATING BEHAVIORS - Eating is a complex emotional experience and food is intimately intertwined into your behavior every day. Your body dictates your needs for food, while your brain helps manage your cravings and satisfaction.
• HEALTH HALO EFFECT - Many dieters end up consuming too many calories from foods that they believe to be healthy choices. It's important to eat good food but any food consumed in excess will cause weight gain.
• SLEEP RELATED HORMONES - The appetite hormones leptin and ghrelin are released by your body during sleep, which means you may have less of a sense of satiety if you are not getting enough sleep.
• METABOLIC SLOW DOWN - Your metabolism determines the number of calories your body burns per day; and factors such as age, gender and genes can influence the speed of your metabolism.
• COMPETITIVE SABOTEURS - If you are succeeding in meeting your weight loss goals, some co-workers and friends may act competitively as you are making them look less successful. Although it is not your job to make them feel better about themselves, you might want to convert them as fans.

Dietary studies have shown that a low-calorie diet can be used effectively to quickly lower risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea and coronary artery disease in people who are obese. Nonetheless, a twenty-five percent reduction in calories seemed to offer the best results for those who were obese as well as those who were not.

Tailored Eating Plans from Metabolic Research Center

It is easier to see the behaviors that lead others to self-sabotaging behaviors. Conversely, we often fail to see the compounded outcome of our own bad decisions. The nutrition provided by your dietary intake has a life-long impact on your health and wellness. A personalized menu plan not only gives you a better idea of what to eat and what to avoid to effectively lose weight, but it teaches you how to eat correctly so you maintain a healthy weight for the long-term. Metabolic Research Center helps clients lose weight the healthy way by tailoring an eating plan based on his or her weight, medical history, eating habits and lifestyle issues.