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So many people ask me what is the best "weight" loss program. Well, just about any fad diet can give you "weight" loss. Starving yourself will result in "weight" loss and there are, of course, lots of pills (hydroxycut, alli) who guarantee "weight" loss. But let's look at what you're losing.Dieting in the traditional sense (calorie or food restriction, pills, meal replacement) slows your metabolism, throws your body into fat storage mode and pretty much makes you cranky and unpleasant to be around. You may lose "weight" but,...

My goal is to help you understand how your body uses different nutrients and how you can maximize fat loss by eating properly and exercising.
 
Truth of the matter is any diet will work for a period of time.  The glut of information and misinformation we are constantly exposed to makes it even harder to know how to properly go about losing weight and keep it off.  Instead of denying yourself the foods you desire, you must learn to eat in moderation and allow yourself “cheat days”.  Your health is a lifelong process, and your diet must reflect that.  Most diets are arduously torturous and you revert back to old eating habits once you have lost the desired weight.  I will show you how to avoid all that.  First though we must understand the body and what we put in it, so lets begin.
 
 
Your body has evolved over many, many years into the efficient and amazing machine that we take for granted today.  There was no bottled water, potato chips, soda or processed foods when man first appeared.  Man started eating twigs, berries and what ever was available at the time.  As we became hunters, meat was introduced into our diet.  All the while our bodies managed to keep us active, vital human beings.  It did that because the body does one thing well: it survives.
 
You must understand that your body does not want to diet. It seeks a state of homeostasis, which is a perfect balance, not too much, not too little.  It doesn’t care if you carry a little bit of extra weight or fat.  As a matter of fact it wants that fat and weight so it can have some fuel in reserve.  Your body fights dieting like it fights infections, colds, cuts, etc.  It treats it as a hostile act and tries to stamp it out.  You must learn to beat the body at its own game and win. 
 
The only things your body needs to survive are air, water and food.  It doesn’t care what food tastes like or where it comes from.  Its sole purpose is survival.  We humans create an emotional attachment to food.  Your body can care less if Wolfgang Puck prepared the meal you are about to eat.  Unfortunately food brings out intense feelings in human beings. Who amongst us doesn’t have a favorite food, a comfort food?  What were we taught as children?  You cannot leave the table unless you finish everything on your plate.  Combine that with all the ads for food,...

In this and upcoming articles I will focus on helping you with your eating habits and working on your diet plan.  Today I will give you some simple tips on how to prevent overeating and change your mindset.  It is so easy to be misled by today’s packaging and labeling, to the point where you think you are eating healthy.  The reality is you aren't. 
A perfect illustration of misleading is what happened to me the other day.  At my favorite "after gym" restaurant, I decided to have a Caesar salad with grilled chicken.  I figured I would splurge a little and have some fattening dressing.  The calories, fat and carbs couldn't be that much I reasoned. It's salad with grilled chicken. After all it's my job to know these things.
My meal arrived along with laminated sheet from which caloric information on every item on their menu could be perused.  So I decided to look up the feast in front of me.  I nearly had a seizure as I read the totals for my so-called healthy meal (their wording not mine).  With dressing on the salad the total calories were 1768 with 9 grams of saturated fat.  Carbs were over 70 grams.  The kicker was the sodium, which was an astounding 2700 mg!!
I always get dressing on the side so I was able to discard a huge portion of fat and calories.  I didn't eat the garlic bread, nor did I have all the greens so I was able to cut a large amount of sodium, sat. fat, carbs and calories from the salad. If this was a healthy meal then I wonder what constitutes an unhealthy one. Let's just say that reading the nutritional info for the kid’s meals will send you running for cover.  I want you to be aware of what lurks out there and how a lot of prepared food is not as healthy as you are led to believe.  Don't be afraid to ask, and more important don't be afraid to make substitutions.  All restaurants will accommodate your requests, you just need to ask.  Read the tips below and try to incorporate them into your daily routine.
Yours in health,
Perry Mosdromos
Owner
One 2 One Fitness
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