What really gets me is that these short term diets really don’t prepare you to keep the weight off even after you lose the 9 pounds. Maybe you do lose that weight and the jeans fit better. But most of us need to lose more like 35 pounds or more. Do you run through the program again and again to get it all off? OK. So, now what? How do you keep it off? And what about taking advantage of your body’s natural fat buring mechanism – muscle?

No, let me tell you the only way you will take off fat is to regulate your food intake and build muscle. We have to eat a balanced amount of good fresh foods MINUS the “junque” food forms like white bagels, cookies, donuts, desserts, fried foods. What we are looking at is more fruits and veggies, naturally raised meats, wholesome dairy, a few grains, nuts and seeds. And no, by fruits and veggies I don’t mean catsup and french fries!!

You can practically gorge yourself on fruits and veggies – you’ll get a belly ache before you eat more than is good for you (unlike fried foods, icecream and sweets of which you can eat thousands of calories before you get sick). Lightly steam the veggies if you like and add a dab of real butter. No margarine. Bad stuff. Drink good raw milk if you like milk. Eggs are good for you despite all opinion to the contrary. Whole eggs – whites and yolks are meant to be eaten together.

OK. One thing the quickie weight loss plans leave out is real honest to goodness, heart pumping exercise! Your body was designed to move; to work hard. By sitting for hours at a time, you are setting yourself up to die a long slow death. I know this because I am acting as caregiver to two 70 something year old people that have led sedentary lives and both are crippled by their weight and a misuse of their bodies. They should still be walking but neither one can go about without a walker – just to get to the toilet!!!

Please, listen to me! You need to do daily exercise. Even if you do Turbulence Training like I recommend here, you should be doing something on the “off” days.

So this rant started out picking on a quickie weight loss plan and ended up preaching to you about exercise but do take heed. Don’t fool yourself into thinking a sound diet and daily exercise just isn’t for you.  Stay active. Use it or lose it!!

This may not seem much differnt from our first law but there is a subtle difference which is why I cover it here.

If you are like me, your grandma told you to finish your food to be a member in good standing of the “Clean Plate Club!” What our dear grandmother did was set the stage for over eating and over weight. It is “sin” to leave food on the plate, after all! To top it off she made that food so yummy we not only cleaned our plate, we went back for more!

What if she had just put a bit of everything on the plate and we went on to eat slowly until we were satisfied. Then a few hours later – not half a day later – we could come back for more. This slow steady flow of nutrients into our bodies would tell that brain of ours, “You are getting enough, there is no starvation. No need to store (in the form of fat)”.

You see, our body is NOT like a gas tank. When we fill out car’s tank with gas, we know that this fuel will steadily be metered into the carburetor and burned as needed. A partial fill takes you only part way then you have to fill again.

Our body, on the other hand, receives the food into the stomach. Whether it is a snack or a full blown meal, it is processed, converted to usable nutrients. But whatever is not used is either discarded (this happens to the indigestible fiber as well as food that was not chewed thoroughly) or stored (you guessed it, fat). Then we want to fill up our tank again in 3 or 4 hours no matter how full we filled the tank before. More food to be processed or stored (as fat). And so it goes.

Because we have ready access to tasty food and lots of it, we (that’s you and me), need to act as the carburetor to our body and slowly, steadily “meter” it or we will get “flooded” and won’t start!

There are lots of eating plans out there. The tips I just outlined will give you a checklist to go by to find a plan that suits you and will help you safely and healthfully lose weight.

Next time I will go into how exercise figures into all of this.

We are on the brink of information overload collapse!  Face it, there is just so much you can read and study and digest and ponder on any one subject.  Don’t you just wish there was a Control Center that oversees the vast Internet and filters the good stuff from the junk.  I do.  When you type “healthy weight loss diet” into Google — WHOA!  How can there possibly be so many programs out there and which one is the best??

Well, fo rone thing there is no BEST weight loss diet.  Oooooo, I heard some of you groan.  And some of you got all head up – of course there is a “Best weight loss diet”.

Nope.  But there are some things you can count on being true about a healthy weight loss program.  The usual:

#1 regular sturdy exercise

#2 controlled eating – both quantity and quality

#3 which is one we don’t think of much as a part of a balanced weight reduction program, lifestyle factors.

When looking at a weight loss plan, all three should be part of it.

So, which ones are the best?  Well, our team has investigated dozens of plans and programs and have come up with quite an interesting  collection of great and not-so great plans.  Take a look at the sidebar for the plans we have written up

Oh, and I might add the best part of this evaluation hinges on “Peer Reviews”.  Look for the yellow box on each report where we cite customer feedback from all over the ‘net.

So, no there is not an easy one size fits all weight loss plan out there.  There are a lot of really great ones though.  Ultimately, you will need to decide which plan will suit you best.  But here is where you will get the straight scoop from those who have already been there, done that!

Glad you stopped by!