Most People Struggle With Weight

If you go to a doctor when you’re overweight, they’ll probably tell you to “eat right and exercise” in order to become healthy. But since most people have no idea what that means, they usually go home, watch TV and sign up for the first diet they see on a commercial – without doing any research to find out if it’s actually good for them. And since most of these diets involve starvation as a way to lose weight, you won’t just be losing fat when you’re on them; you’ll also be losing muscle. So, when you go off that diet, you can expect to gain your weight back quicker, and even more of it.

The good news is -- this spiral effect doesn’t have to happen. says just because you lose weight initially when you start a diet doesn’t mean that diet is going to work for you in the long run. In fact, most people lose a little weight just from the placebo effect alone. However, there are proven scientific steps you can take if you want to gain control of your weight and keep pounds off for good.

Well, you know, it’s a very complex subject weight and diet, because the human body is so fantastically made. What happened is, a hundred years ago the average sugar intake was five pounds per year. Mom would make a cake or meat pie, or they would get a treat at the candy store from time to time.

But now sugar has become a staple. Do you have any idea what the annual average intake of sugar per person is in Ghana today?

The body does not know how to deal with that extra sugar, because it isn’t designed to have it. The body says, I only have 500 grams of glycogen stored in the muscles, 100 grams in the liver, and then there is just a teaspoon in the blood. So when somebody sits down and drinks a soft drink with 9 grams of sugar in it, it’s basically like driving up to fuel station: you fill your car until it clicks a few times, and then it runs down the side of the car, and you roll the back window down and you fill the back seat. So the body has about as much capacity to deal with the extra sugar and extra fuel that people put in their body as a car does the petrol in the back seat.

think about it, too: never before in human history have human beings had such access to the sugar and fat-laden and processed type foods. And this is new, really. hundreds and hundreds of different chemicals that the body has never even seen before. So you ask, what is the secret? Well, we come home from the doctor. The doctor said, “Your blood pressure is too high, you blood sugar is too high, and you’re overweight, so you’re going to have to start eating right and exercising.” So the guy goes home and tells his wife, “The doctor says I need to eat right and exercise,” and then they both look at each other … Well, what does that mean? Neither one of them really knows what eat right is, or what kind of exercise really is going to get it done. How much, when, and so on? So they look at the last commercial they saw for the biggest weight loss system out there. And say, that’s where I’m going to go, to this system, and I’m going to lose the weight. And then they go to the weight loss system. They haven’t done any research to know if that’s low glycemic, or if that’s low-carbohydrate, or whether that’s high protein or what kind of diet are they getting into. And how might that be good for them, or not good for them? So the real first thing anybody should look at is, it is not really about WEIGHT LOSS, because if it’s about weight loss, then you’re going to be one of those people who keep rotating through the various diet systems and diet books and diet foods and so on, who never end up getting to the weight they want to get, because they lose the weight, and then they go back to doing what they’ve been doing.

The definition of insanity is clearly, doing the same thing and expecting a different result. So they go back to what they were doing before, and get worse than what they were to start with, because oftentimes these diets will promote muscle loss, and not fat loss. So then when they get to the end of the goal, they start back slowly to their old system. Only now they don’t have the muscle, the metabolic engine that they once had, and so now they’re putting on extra fat, and that extra fat becomes an endocrine organ that essentially makes you not want to work out, and makes more muscle loss, and makes more fat gain, so it’s a spiral that people are on. To be continued…