The Truth About Weight Loss

This article is dedicated to you, your health and your happiness. It is designed to untangle
the many “myths” about weight loss and to help you understand how your body really works.
This is the truth about weight loss – and the truth can set you free.

Don't blame yourself for lack of willpower or discipline, the American food supply is largely to
blame. Your grocery store is overflowing with processed "foodless" foods and sugar
laden "lifeless" drinks.  The fast food industry offers you little more than "doses" of high fat,
super sized meals and all-you-can-eat buffets containing more calories than your body
could possibly need.  The average American has stretched their stomach to
2 or 3 times it's normal size and now has to eat more to feel full. 

The processed foods have caused your body's nutritional system to become clogged,
confused, and locked into fat storing mode.  If you're like most people, you've tried it all
but nothing seems to work. Now it's time to find out why. If you'll give us only 20 minutes
of your time, we'll show you the truth about weight loss in a form so compelling it can
change your life.

The solution starts with understanding the problem
Most people who struggle with an overweight condition blame themselves for lack of discipline
or willpower. While good eating habits are important, the real problem has to do with a
much larger issue, our food supply.

PROCESSED FOODS AND WEIGHT LOSS

Perhaps you can now understand your challenge in a different light. Our processed and
packaged food supply is inundated with artificial chemicals that give the junk foods flavor,
color, sweetness, and a long shelf life. Over time, these chemicals build up in your body
causing your body's nutritional system to become confused, clogged, and locked into fat-
storing mode.

The first step to healthy weight loss is cleansing your body of these chemicals and
understanding your body's need for fruits, veggies, grains, nuts, seeds, and berries -
otherwise known as whole foods. We'll tell you more about our foods in a moment. First we
need to untangle a few of the "myths" and misunderstandings about losing weight - let's start
with topic of skipping meals.

One of the biggest mistakes you can make while trying to lose weight is skipping meals. When
you skip a meal, your body "thinks" that you are starving. This is a built-in survival system that
all of us have. When your body "thinks" that you are starving, it makes two changes to protect
you from starving.

First, it slows your metabolism causing your energy levels to drop. You slow down and your
body burns less fat. Secondly, the meal you eat after you skip a meal will be converted
almost entirely to fat and stored to protect you from starving. If you skip breakfast, almost
all of what you eat for lunch is converted to fat. You think you’re taking in less food but in
reality you’re causing your body to store more fat.

The solution is to eat small meals regularly throughout the day fueling your body with whole
foods and water. Your metabolism will increase, your stamina and endurance will increase,
your appetite will decrease, and your body will produce less fat while it burns more! Your
stomach will shrink back to it's normal size and a normal amount of food will leave you feeling
completely full and satisfied. Learn to “listen” to your body – it knows what’s best for you.
Eat whole foods and drink water when you’re hungry and stop eating once you’re full.
Then repeat as necessary throughout the day. It really is that simple!

Another common mistake while trying to lose weight is doing strenuous exercise.

THE EXERCISE MYTH

To create energy your body burns fat or it burns blood sugar (glucose), but it can’t burn
them both at the same time. When you’re not doing anything strenuous your body burns fat.
When you exercise into the aerobic zone (70% or more of your max. heart rate) your body
will stop burning fat and instantly begin to burn blood sugar – because blood sugar can be
converted to energy much faster than fat.

Aerobic exercise will burn fat – but only after you’ve depleted your available blood sugar –
which, for most people takes at least 20 to 30 minutes of being in the aerobic
zone. Countless overweight individuals are on the exercise bikes and tread mills, pedaling
and running, until their heart almost pounds out of their chest but they are not burning fat.
The first 30 minutes only burns off blood sugar – after that you’d need another 30 minutes
to burn any fat. Exercise equipment sales are on the rise and so is obesity – does that
make sense to you?

The truth? Walking is the best type of exercise for healthy weight loss. Walking burns
fat. Walking also builds lean muscle which “feeds” on the body’s excess fat. Walk daily, eat
whole foods, drink plenty of water, and turn your body into a healthy, energetic, fat burning
machine that incinerates fat 24 hours a day! Once you move closer to your ideal weight,
then adding some aeorbic exercise is a great way to maintain your weight and support your
heart, lungs, muscles, and circulatory system.

Now that you understand the real problem and know how to avoid the big mistakes - let's
learn how your body reacts to fad diets like the low-fat, and low-carb plans.

THE "LOW-FAT" MYTH

Eating a low fat diet can help you lose weight – but that’s only HALF the story. Most people
trying to lower their fat intake go to the store looking for processed foods whose labels show
low-fat or no fat. There are, processed fat-free chips, processed fat free cookies, processed
fat free ice cream and the list goes on and on. Let’s face it – sales of low fat processed
foods have “skyrocketed” over the last 20 years and so has the number of Americans
who are overweight.

The problem is that processed fat-free, or low-fat, foods contain no real nutrition and are
very low in fiber. As you eat these foods the acid in your stomach begins to dissolve the
foods and digest them very quickly so you must eat more to feel full. On top of that,
processed low-fat foods are loaded with MSG which lowers your blood sugar levels making
you hungry an hour later. The result is that you eat more of the processed foods, you
take in excess empty calories, and your body stores the extra calories as fat.

Most people who attempt the low carb diet buy a book but don’t read it carefully. They skip
right to the section that tells them all of the foods they CAN eat like steaks, butter,
mayonnaise, seafood, poultry, cheese – they are pleasantly surprised – so they start eating.
Most seem to miss the paragraph that says to eat less than 1600 calories a day.

Your brain alone needs 130 grams of carbohydrates per day to function properly. When you
eliminate carbs from your diet, you force your body into a state of ketosis. This is what
diabetics suffer from. Your body’s built-in survival system knows you need carbs so it
responds with cravings so intense that hardly anyone can stand up to them. One bite
of something sweet contains enough carbs to knock your body out of ketosis within 10
minutes, then it takes two or three days to get back into ketosis. Two bites a week and
you’ll never get anywhere.

Think about it: