Are Diet's Making us Fatter?

Up until now - I have been a crazy yo-yo dieter.

A few years ago, after weighing in at the doctor's office for the annual check-up, my doctor looked at my weight, flipped through my chart and said,

"You know, it really is best if you maintain one weight."

Wow Doc - such vast wisdom!

I wanted to retort:

"Really? I never knew that. Go figure."

Instead, I hung my head in shame at being reminded - yet again - that my dieting merry-go-round had gotten me nowhere.

Here I was - again - weighing more than I ever wanted to. This insanity had to stop!

Have you been on the diet merry-go-round?

IS THERE SUCH A THING AS "THE BEST" Diet?

Or, are all "diets" doomed to fail?

I have tried most of the popular diets out there.  I've achieved my goal weight, time and time again only to gain it all back once I stopped the rigid restrictions these diets require.

I hate starvation. I hate counting calories. Deprivation makes me crazy! I hate not fitting into my clothes. I hate looking in the mirror and saying to myself, 

"Really? We are here again?"

In my experience, I have lost weight, time and time again, only to gain it back in larger and larger measures. So what's the solution?



It REALLY is this simple.

And, at the same time – eating this way is challenging for the average, busy, action-packed family.

Most of us work full time and juggle growing families, so choosing a healthy life-style of home-cooked natural foods will take some pre-planning, organization and intentional determination!

AND... it CAN be done!

The health & vitality benefits of wholesome, home-cooked meals are priceless. Nothing is more important than our health.

"Health is wealth!" as the saying goes!

Fast food and highly processed packaged foods are easy to grab on the go, but they lack the vital nutrients our bodies need to reach and maintain a stable, healthy body weight. This is true for adults and for children.

Not only are these foods lacking in nutrition - they are now engineered to be highly addictive.

Food Additives Are DELIBERATELY DESIGNED to Cause Cravings & Addiction!

Food scientists use dangerous chemicals to make you eat -- and buy -- more junk food.

The goal of the "Food Industry" is to sell mega-volumes of food and keep people coming back for more.

How do they do this?

By adding staggering levels of sugar, salt and dangerous chemicals, to create food addiction. 

Fast food and snack - junk food - are BIG BUSINESS!

It’s up to us to become informed consumers – and STOP BUYING polluted, toxic and addictive food.

The Top Five Foods - Engineered to create addiction are:

1.     Soft Drinks - Regular AND Diet!

2.     Cured Meats; bacon, ham and all nitrite laced cold-cut lunch meat products.

3.     Microwave Popcorn

4.     Salty Roasted Snacks; nuts, pretzels, potato chips, etc.

5.     All FAST FOOD!
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BELLY FAT IS DANGEROUS!

And... STARVING!

Not only is belly fat - obnoxious - and ugly - it is also DANGEROUS to our health!

Belly fat is metabolically active and produces various inflammatory factors that are actually dangerous for our health.

"The New England Journal of Medicine, found that excess weight around the abdomen nearly doubled a person's risk of death from a variety of diseases, including cancer, stroke and heart disease. A large waist circumference, researchers found, was even more indicative of health risks than body mass index (BMI), the traditional measure for obesity."

BELLY FAT IS STARVING

According to Dr. Mark Hyman - New York Times best selling author and Founding Medical Director of the UltraWellness Center - our Belly Fat is STARVING! This means the fat in our belly - itself - is causing us to crave more!

Belly fat is STARVING for nutrition to keep us alive, which it cannot obtain from packaged, processed foods. Therefore people can feel hungry not long after ingesting chemical food because the body is ALWAYS HUNGRY for nutrition, which is absent in chemical food.

Food cravings are a huge deterrent to weight loss, and maintaining a healthy body.

Use the “Crowding Out” Method

The best way to stop the insanity of failed diets and decrease annoying food cravings is to fill up on natural, wholesome, whole foods.

The “crowding out” method is adding enough nutritious and delicious food to each meal that we feel satisfied and our body gets the nutrition it needs to be strong and healthy. When our body is satisfied, the cravings decrease.

If we focus on what we CANNOT HAVE – we feel deprived and begin to obsess on all the “forbidden” food and drink, we crave.

In fact, the healthier we become we begin to crave nutritious whole foods. Our taste buds change and fake food tastes awful, way too sweet and full of chemicals.

I find there truly is satiation in natural whole foods – and when we toss the diet book out the window – and stop obsessing over calories – we experience the joy and freedom of making intentional, and thoughtful food choices.

If you need a little help along the way - I am happy to answer your questions.

I offer FREE - No Obligation Health Histories to see where you are - and discuss where you would like to be in the future.

To your health!

Michele M. Rizzo - Holistic Health Coach


Sources Quoted:

The knowledge I am sharing with you I have learned through my nutrition course at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. Links to the full articles quoted are found below.

·        Article: "Study Offers Another Incentive for Flat Abs," by Patti Neighmond: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96922213

·        Article: "5-Unhealthy foods engineered to be Addictive," By Martha Rosenberg, Alter/Net: http://www.alternet.org/5-unhealthy-foods-engineered-be-addictive