It’s a lifestyle change, not a diet
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Millions of dollars are spent every year marketing some new way help the masses out there lose weight. Advertising is especially heavy this time of the year when everyone wants to start and stick to their New Years resolutions of losing weight. The problem with these fad diets, food programs, crunch machines, etc., is that they don’t work.
They simply don’t work.
I won’t name any names because of the lawyers — but none of them work. Everything you hear about some wonderful crunch machine, or the ability to do an exercise easier and better for 15 minutes a day to get great abs is a lie. In addition, every single advertisement you see for some diet program, weight loss meal package, and calorie counting system is a lie as well. It’s all a lie.
Why? Sustainability. That’s my word of the day: sustainability. Those diets and programs will only work for the short term — you won’t stay on them forever. You won’t eat their pre-packaged frozen foods everyday for the rest of your life, on vacation, as a late night snack, etc.
The only thing that you’ll continue forever is a good diet and exercise. Buying something makes it seems easy, like there is something magic out there that someone else developed that you can take and you’ll lose weight. It won’t happen. The only way you can lose weight, and I can say this with 100% scientific evidence, is if you burn more calories than you use everyday. For every 3,500 calories your body burns, you’ll lose 1 pound. It’s a simple as that. So, how do you do that? Again, simple.
You lose weight by not having a sedentary lifestyle. That means stop watching television every night for 3 hours. Who cares that your favorite lineup is on ABC tonight? Get up off the couch and move. Do you know you burn hundreds of calories (per hour) for vacuuming? Same goes for washing your car, doing the dishes, moving boxes, etc. You really should spend 5 days in the gym a week on a treadmill or bike, but it doesn’t stop there — you need to have an active lifestyle.
Active lifestyles are only good if you don’t consume 7,500 calories a day. Consider the following: a medium soda at your typical fastfood restaurant (the drink size that comes standard with combos) hovers around 200 calories. Now, consider you take a trip to Outback Steakhouse — a place I absolutely love. You order a soda (one refill), split some cheese fries with friends, and get a salmon. You have a couple slices of bread, as well. Know how many calories you just consumed?
One soda, plus a refill: 400 calories
Outback Steakhouse cheese fries: nearly 3,000 calories — as a conservative estimate, you have only 1/5.
9 OZ salmon: somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,700 calories
Bread and butter: about 150 calories (evil butter)
That’s not including any sides with your salmon. You’re almost at 3,000 calories for a single meal, when your daily caloric intake for a healthy human is 2,000. Even if you take away the appetizer, you’re looking at a meal with more calories than you should eat in a single day.
Frightening, huh? You need a diet change. Low-carb diets are good, low-sugar and low-sodium diets are good, but calories beat them all. Just count your calories daily and keep them under 2,000. Don’t take a calculator with you, it’s not sustainable (there’s that word again). Just watch what you eat, choose wheat bread over the sugar-laden white, stay away rolls, bread, etc., (the darker the bread the better).
Eat healthy, get moving, and you’ll lose weight!
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