Friday, July 25, 2008
The Perfect Diet
This is the article where I attack all the popular diets in the market. Where I tell you how none of them work and how I have the perfect plan for you. Well, the truth is that most popular diets work if you follow them.
Diets
A diet is simply the type and amount of food and drink you consume on a daily basis. A diet is not a four-letter word that means the elimination of all enjoyable food. The typical American diet is high calories, high saturated/trans fat and high processed carbohydrates. Now, the high fat and high processed carbs part leads to many other health problems but they are not the reason you are overweight. It's the high calorie part. Calorie count is the reason you lose or gain weight.
The Candy Bar Diet
The average candy bar is 275 calories. I could create a diet that consisted of 6 candy bars a day, for a total of 1650 calories a day, and the average American would lose weight. You would lose weight because most people burn more than 1650 calories on a daily basis. This diet may create other problems because it would be high in saturated fat and low in proteins and vitamins, but you would still lose weight. The Candy Bar Diet is similar to most popular diets in that it is low calorie.
Popular Diets
Most popular diets work. If you follow them, you will lose weight. They work because they get you to eat less. Each diet goes about it in a different way, some good and some bad, but the end result is you eating less. This decrease in calories is what fuels your weight loss.
I Hate All Diets Except The Don't Go Broke Diet
Am I against popular diets? Quite the contrary, I like quite a few of them. The only diets I do not like are plans that have phases, are short term or are too restrictive in food choices. These diets are usually confusing, difficult to follow or are attempts at quick fixes to a chronic problem. Quick fixes do not work. In order to lose weight and maintain a healthy weight for life, you must maintain good eating habits for life, not just a few weeks.
Calorie Controlled Diet
There is only one type of diet that will help you lose weight and that is a calorie controlled diet. A calorie controlled diet instructs you to eat fewer calories than you burn. A calorie controlled diet combined with proper food selection will help you lose weight and improve your overall health.
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Posted by Dr. Kal at 3:03 PM
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7 comments:
I could not agree more! Diet seems to feel like a dirty 4 letter word. Simply thinking of it as a healthy lifestyle (aka. diet & exercise), will make a difference to stay on course.
Start with practicing to be aware of how many calories you consume in a day. Then as you become more aware, a healthy lifestyle becomes habit.
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This is good information and humorous too. I like the idea of a candy bar diet, but you're right, that could lead to problems! :-) Please keep posting these tips!
Thanks for the resource Happy Man.
I am glad you enjoyed the post Kirsten.
Good post Dr. Kal. The problem is that many of those fad diets won't sell if people knew the true key was to losing weight was in the calories . Anyways, having tried a few, I can say that they are good at controlling calories without letting you know the true strategy behind why you are losing weight. I definitely like the realness and keep up it bro!!!
Jamal, sometimes ignorance is bliss, but most of the time knowledge is power.
Diets these days have a stigma attatched to them. When you hear the word you think of strenuous diets, hours of cardio and a lot of stress. A VERY high percentage of people that go on diets put the weight they lost (if any) back on afterwards. It is a lifestyle change that is needed to corrct their obesity in the long run.
Healthy eating is not a complicated thing to do, although diets seem to make it seem so.
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And thankyou for such a good blog!
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