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No Easy Fix

By R.P. Edwards

Our average day's fare is comprised of burgers, pizzas, coffee, tacos......and maybe if we are trying to eat "right" we have a fast food salad (soaked in chemicals) or a falafel instead of a burger.

Over time our bodies literally become addicted to these foods. The salt, the sugars, and as we take more in.......we need more. Like a junkie on heroin the moment our "fix" isn't available our minds CRAVE these foods!!

Corporations spend millions of dollars each year on studying which foods are the most addictive!

Its no secret (but not a well known fact) that there is a multi-million dollar food testing facilitythat, among other things, does just that......test new foods to see which are the most addictive.

(They use other terms to describe the research but it doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out the motivations)

So when the time comes to finally diet........wow.....it's tough. Particularly if we drop right from 2 burgers and fries a day to some crazy super low-cal program. Our survival mechanisms, now twisted to expect 4000 calories a day click in and say "starving!!! At this point we end up eating 5 hamburgers or an entire tub of ice cream and cookies. Oh well there is always tomorrow.

OK........well that diet didn't work........lets go on to the next one. We try pills, shakes, low-carb, low-cal, Atkins, Pritiken, and on and on.....but each one is "hard" and we lose a few pounds......fail....and put them right back on again. This is a terrible cycle for the simple fact when we cut calories to very low levels, our bodies will burn muscle as well as fat.....muscle is needed to burn fat. Next time we gain weight back we have less muscle, and it gets harder, and harder to lose the weight.

What are we searching for with all these diets?? We are all expecting a quick fix, a pill that makes us not hungry, and the weight just falls off in buckets.

I am sorry to say, as much as many scam companies would like you to think ....there aint no such donkey!!!

Life is filled with funny little now cliche laws that no matter how we try, we can't seem to beat.

Sayings like "We reap what we sow" "Garbage in garbage out" as overused as they are DO still apply to us. And the one term that you can't escape when dieting (or life itself!) is "You get out what you put in"

This is one of the hardest battles you will likely ever have to face. Regardless of what diet or nutrition plan you choose you WILL face difficult days. Whether you have your stomach stapled, take medication, drink shakes, follow a "balanced" diet or go low carbs.....you WILL have times when you are hungry!! Sure some diets are better than others, and it IS important to select a sensible one that tapers down your food intake and is based on your physiology but even then your food addicted body will have cravings.

There IS no magic pill ......nothing in the world will entirely curb hunger, or make it "effortless" to lose weight. You hear that a lot on TV "Lose weight effortlessly" Nonsense!! If such a thing existed every doctor, trainer, nutritionist and person on the planet would be doing it......

Once you have finally realized that this WILL be a battle ...whether its that last 10 pounds, or needing to lose 300 pounds it will always take some discipline, research and planning.

A trainer or nutritionist can create a nutrition plan specifically for you, calculating your daily caloric requirements, your food preferences as well as your physiology and create a program that will generally wean you off the bad foods like a junkie off heroin. Easy?? No. But do -able....unlike cutting calories so drastically that you are starving and blow the diet.

by Robert Edwards founder of OPThttp://www.onlinepersonaltrainer.ca

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