Learn To Enjoy Your Life While Losing Weight

For generations, diets have approached nutrition and weight loss as temporary, whereas maintaining a lifestyle that promotes health and wellness is truly a lifelong journey. This is why going on a low-carb diet for two months is doomed to failure for most dieters. The more weight that you want to permanently lose, the more of your life that you must be willing to permanently change. Nonetheless, sustainable weight loss is doable if you're willing to work hard enough.

The National Institutes of Health Technology Assessment Conference panel published a report on the methods that best enable long-term weight loss without substantial regain. The results indicated that up to two-thirds of the weight lost through dieting is regained within a year and almost all of it in five years. A fear of the unknown will always present unique challenges. But, if you don't allow yourself to enjoy life while you're losing weight, you will never be able to sustain your weight loss.

Be fit and happy by addressing critical issues, such as:

• FOLLOWING A FAD DIET - Meals that contain lean protein, healthy fats and complex carbohydrates offer longer satiety to curb your appetite. On the other hand, if you unduly restrict macronutrient composition, the diet plan will not be sustainable.
• CHANGE IN NORMS - Many Americans have abandoned hope that a diet is a temporary change of eating habits that will allow them to make long-term adjustments to their weight. This has caused a shift in thinking that fad dieting is an effective way of achieving permanent weight loss.
• THE DIET CULTURE - A diet culture is a population that focuses on the values of weight, shape and size while minimizing the need for restoring health and well-being. It is a misguided mindset that harms everyone regardless of age or gender.
• SLEEP DISTURBANCE - Sleep deprivation triggers hormone production that regulates hunger and satiety. Leptin suppresses appetite and encourages the body to expend energy. If you want to lose weight, you must get enough shut eye.
• BASIC PROBLEMS WITH DIETING - The problem with dieting is that it is restrictive and leaves the dieter feeling deprived, which typically results in a rebound behavior of overeating that leads to a vicious cycle of crash diets.
• OBSESSED WITH NUMBERS ON A SCALE - The number that you see between your feet when you step on the scales can be misleading. Focus on eating and living healthy as a permanent lifestyle change and not as a temporary intervention for weighing one's self.

From the first forbidden food in the Garden Eden, food restrictions have led to weight management problems. Fasting is a diet trend that has been around for centuries. Ancients often used fasting diets during religious ceremonies and special celebrations to cleanse their body and soul. Supporters of this type of food restriction would describe it as a lifestyle component rather than just another fad diet. But, dieting alone does not bring permanent success. You may need to give up on the idea of perfect control of your diet to improve your overall self-control by eliminating food-related stress and anxiety.

Contact the Metabolic Research Center to learn more about permanent weight loss and restoring your health.