New research shows that there is a new and fast way to lose weight. The best thing about this new method is that it will easily help you to effortlessly succeed in your weight loss.
Researchers followed a group of people for three weeks and analyzed their stools carefully. What they found was astonishing:
That headlines promising simple solutions to difficult problems still work in 2022! If you fell for the headline, you probably did for two reasons.
You want to be cheated. Far too many actually want that, as crazy as it sounds. They want to find reasons to continue in the same lines of thought as before.
The second is that you simply don’t know enough about diet and exercise. We can change that today, if you keep reading.
I have worked in training for 28 years. First as a professional athlete and then with writing training books, lecturing and working as a PT. Over the years I have seen and heard most of it. There is probably nothing that can surprise me anymore.
I’m old enough to remember when people were doing pasta diets. Many magic cures have flowed through the digestive system since that time: Paleo, LCHF, magic powders, magic pills and now magic fasts.
Despite all the new promises you get from companies, authors and influencers, I have to disappoint you if you are looking for something easy. However, if you’re looking for something that actually works, you won’t be disappointed. We’ll get into that a little later.
Despite the fact that simple, miraculous and “new” methods are constantly appearing, they do not seem to work very well. I almost want to say that they seem to have the opposite effect. The Swede is getting fatter and fatter. Today, over half of all Swedes are overweight. A whopping 16 percent of the population is so fat it’s literally sick. Obesity is a disease, and its dangers are many.
Now if there was some simple miracle method, why are there so many fat people trying to lose weight?
Whoever patents a simple way to lose weight quickly would probably become one of the world’s richest people. Namely, this would solve two of today’s most destructive problems. Obesity and vanity.
I sometimes read posts by exercise influencers who talk about “good” and “bad” calories. If you discover something like that, you should follow up immediately. There is a high probability that there will be more turnip calia from that account.
There is no such thing as “good” or “bad” calories. Calories are only a measure of energy. The calories themselves have no quality, they are just energy. Calories in tomato are no different than calories in butter.
No amount of wishful thinking in the world can make us bypass the laws of physics. The first principle of thermodynamics concerns energy and for us mammals can be summed up by saying that calories that we eat must either be burned or stored.
You probably understand where I’m going with this.
As long as you don’t possess magical powers and can override the laws of nature, you have to get rid of the calories you eat. If you don’t, the excess will be stored as fat in the body. If you find a way to eat that works, use it! But just make sure you don’t eat more of it than you need.
Weight loss is largely about diet, and the diets are as numerous as some are stupid. There are those who fast completely, and those who eat less. There are those who stop eating carbohydrates and those who only eat jelly raspberries. All methods work as long as you understand that you have to eat less than you burn.
So the food is the key.
My advice to many of my PT clients is to stop guessing. I often hear “but I don’t eat much, and I still don’t lose weight”. It’s a common objection and it’s based on a notion that you think you’re in control. What would happen if you actually ate less than you burned is that you would lose weight.
The first step is to understand how much you actually eat. There are lots of different apps that tell you how much energy the food you eat contains. Download one of them and start gathering information.
It’s not an exact science, but it gives you an understanding of roughly how much you can eat each day and still lose weight. I would say a deficit of 500 calories a day is a reasonable daily goal. Then you get rid of fat, but not muscle. The exception is if you are very overweight, then you can reduce further.
If you still do not lose weight over time, then you need to lose more weight.
Many people who cut back on calories have problems with hunger during weight loss. Against that problem there is no magic macronutrient.
To succeed, you can choose any diet you want as long as you maintain your deficit. There is one thing that above all else will make you successful, and that is will.
I often read that weight loss is 70% diet and 30% exercise. It’s bullshit.
Weight loss is 100% about psyche, will and forehead bone. I will reveal the secret of how you succeed in this in the next column.
Please note: This column is written by an independent writer not employed by NordIQ Life; his or hers opinion are their own.
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