Diet 101
The definition of Diet, according to Webster’s, is ‘a regimen of special or limited food and drink, chosen or prescribed for health or to gain or lose weight.’
In the next few weeks, I am going to do a series of articles touching on some of today’s more popular diets, the good and the bad. When doing research for this, I typed in the word diet on Google, and over 60 different varieties popped up. No wonder the ‘diet’ industry makes over 40 million dollars a year.
The list of diets ranged from the Anne Collins diet, the Mayo Clinic diet, the Atkins diet, the South Beach diet, to the Zone diet. People have got to realize that they are losing the same 10-15 pounds over and over and over again.
‘Yo-Yo Dieting’ is a term that refers to repeated weight loss and weight gain. This is probably what the majority of you who are reading this today are doing. When are YOU going to realize that YOU have got to make a lifestyle change and eat better for LIFE!! Are you going to realize this when the doctor tells you? Or how about after the surgeons put that stent in your heart.
Have you ever watched a yo-yo go up and down? Now compare that to your own weight loss history. Has your weight gone up and then come down, then gone up again and then come down? OOPS! It’s gone up again. You go on one type of diet to lose that initial weight, only to watch yourself go up in weight again, therefore leaving you to diet again and again and again and again…
Have you ever stopped to think that you are losing that same initial weight again. Someone on Friday told me that he enjoyed reading these articles, but could not follow them. Why Not’?? Just tell yourself, ‘Self, we are going to do this!!’
Heck, call me up and let me bug you to lose the weight. I’ll do it.
For people in this cycle of yo-yo dieting, you should have gotten terribly frustrated and discouraged. Are you not tired from the constant losing and gaining of weight? In a study conducted at the University of Michigan, cardiologist Dr. Claire Duvernoy found that people who fall prey to the Yo-Yo dieting syndrome, are now putting their health at risk. Especially if it occurs five or more times during their life. These people face a higher risk of cardiovascular disease.
Are you in this category? Have you gone a ‘DIET’ more that five times in your life so far? We all have heard on TV, in the newspapers, and magazines that Heart Disease is now one of the leading killers of women. Hey, is that because more women go on diets than men? Good question and it made me think, maybe there could be a correlation.
‘Weight management experts and physicians agree that LONG TERM weight loss, really keeping the weight off for good, requires a combination of good nutrition and exercise.’ Sticking with an exercise program is a crucial part in maintaining your weight. I have said this time and time again. Permanent changes in your exercise and eating habits, can result in permanent changes in your health and lifestyle. YOU HAVE GOT TO REALIZE THIS!!!!
Remember, if you would like to contact me you can do so by emailing me at [email protected], label it fitness question. Or write to me at Paige Northcutt at P.O. Box 7281, McMinnville, TN 37111. Or, you can stop by USA GYM, I’m almost always there.