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The Weight Loss For Idiots Diet

Posted in Uncategorized | October 13th, 2009

What are the best diets/diet products?

I want to know some of the better diet products. I’ve tried a lot of them: HCG, Atkins, South Beach, Hydroxycut, Herbalife, the idiot proof diet, a weight loss clinic…And it’s not that none of them work, it’s just that they make me so tired and lethargic that I can’t stay on any of them for more than a month or so. Luckily most of the weight I lose on the diets stays off, so I’ve lost a total of 30 pounds and it has maintained, but I want to lose at least 50 more. So I’m reaching out to see if any of you guys have any products or tips that have helped other people lose weight.

Thank you!!!

Your best choice would be to stop thinking in terms of products and diets and start thinking in terms of education and good eating habits. In others words, reconcile yourself to making lifestyle changes and avoid easy fixes and temporary solutions.

The best diet for losing fat is the same as the best diet for building muscle which is the same as the best diet for maintaining health and body weight. In other words, everyone should be eating essentially the same macronutrients, vitamins, minerals, and fiber barring special health or medical considerations because we all have essentially the same physiognomy. Here is the diet approved by the US National Institute of Health…the people your doctor listens to.

Eat varied, wholesome, and high quality foods such that your daily caloric intake is about equal to your daily caloric burn while keeping your macronutrient ratios at about 55/25/20 (%calories from carbs/fats/protein). Only slight changes should be made in the macronutrient ratios to accommodate the extreme demands of special activities such as athletics or inactivity due to illness.

Note: Here are the details in case you’re interested. —> http://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2010.asp
and here —> http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/nutrition.html

You get to make the food choices based on culture, available foods, personal preferences, your resources, food allergies, etc. However, the words “varied”, “wholesome”, and “high quality” are important. And, you should consume your food in 4-6 daily meals with healthy snacks between such that you’re nourishing yourself every two hours when awake.

If you want to burn body fat, simply decrease portion sizes of your food such that your daily intake is 500 calories less than your daily burn rate. That should result in a loss rate of one pound per week.

If you don’t know how to proceed, here are the only two websites you need.

1. This site has a wide range of information about foods, fat, diets, and exercise with calculators, diet tips, food facts, etc. —> http://www.freedieting.com/

2. This website is a great way to track calories, macronutrients, water, and exercise. It also does all the math for you and makes it super easy to look up foods to enter into your online food intake diary. There’s a discussion forum where you can exchange info with thousands of other dieters. —>http://www.myfitnesspal.com/

Here’s my food intake diary as an example —> http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/clickmaster

Tracking your calories is crucial to your fat loss and maintenance. Tracking your macronutrients is crucial to your health. And, of course, it is implied that you will learn how to read labels, weight portions, do food lookups, enter data, interpret data, etc., if you don’t already know how. It’s all easy stuff and, if you persist, it will eventually become such a routine that you’ll be able to enter data from your cell, know what your daily nutritional requirements are real time by the hour, interpret labels and estimate recipes, plan cheats, and, best of all, not have to rely on the scale to tell you if you’re losing, gaining, or maintaining.

Good luck and good health!!

♠

PS: Here are some good websites you may find useful.
• A MUST FOR DIETERS http://www.freedieting.com/
• BEST DIET TOOL ON THE WEB http://www.myfitnesspal.com/
• NUTRITION DOT GOV http://riley.nal.usda.gov/
• ALL ABOUT FOOD http://www.mypyramid.gov/
• BEST HEALTH WEBSITE http://nih.gov/

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