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If you are like many, you have lost weight and gained it back repeatedly. This can cause a person to feel defeated. Have you lost and gained the same 20 pounds over and over, again and again? Do you feel like a weight loss failure because every diet you have tried gave you no long lasting results? Perhaps you do not eat much, yet you still gain weight. Have you given up hope of ever reclaiming your smaller figure and settled for a lifetime of fat? If this is the case, it is important to realize diets have failed you, not the other way around.
Fad diet's have one commonality, they are not a lifestyle change. They are a temporary restriction of either certain foods, calories or entire types of foods that are not possible to maintain for a lifetime. In the short term, the pounds fall away but in the long term, the weight comes back and you just get fatter and fatter! Weight loss is temporary and never a permanent feature of your life.
Along with getting heavier, your blood pressure rises, your blood glucose rises and ultimately you aquire heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis and in some cases, even cancer. I know because I was a lot like you!
I saw my doctor for my yearly physical over one year ago. I was easily 20 pounds overweight, my blood pressure was high and my cholesterol levels were elevated. I was a typical middle-aged woman. I knew I needed to lose weight but was puzzled about all the different diets and had a hard time getting started. It was then I studied the low glycemic impact anti-inflammatory approach to eating. Not a diet more of a way of life, I knew I could eat this way for the rest of my life. The science of low glycemic impact eating made sense to me as a doctor. In addition, the supplements I started using made me feel full and satisfied in a way it had not in years. Their physical effect helped restore my body's own metabolism and normal glucose regulation.
The eating was easy. I just learned to eat the correct foods in the right amounts at the right time. I never deprived myself. I found the 90 / 10 rule to be valuable. 90% of the time I consumed healthy foods and make sensible choices. 10% of the time I rewarded myself with a treat! With these easy guidelines, the pounds simply began to melt away. Additionally, my aches and pains disappeared as well. Within 12 weeks my blood pressure was normal and my cholesterol was the best it had ever been!
Consuming fresh, whole foods with unrestricted access to fruits and vegetables, wise choices of lean protein, beans and whole grains combined with smart supplements is really the secret of the low glycemic anti-inflammatory diet for life.
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