How To Lose Weight The Healthy Way

The reason why I can eat three very square meals a day, despite spending most of it sitting at my laptop tapping out this stuff, rather than taking exercise -- and still keep a steady weight is because I know how to lose weight the healthy way. I simply eat real food.

By that I mean food which has been subjected to minimal processing.

And that is the simple, key secret of keeping to a good, steady weight. None of the faddy low carb, high carb, no carb, low fat, high fat, no fat, low calorie, , high calorie, no calorie diets which will be seized upon with desperate alacrity at this time of year as people embark again on another fruitless round of pointless and disappointing dieting misery.

If you are overweight, you are overweight for one simple reason . . . you are eating the wrong type of food.

And that wrong food has three major things badly wrong with it:

1. It has been over refined at the food processors, so your body has less work to do to digest it. So you need eat less of it to stay the same weight.

2. To replace the taste lost by this excessive processing junk food is loaded up with fat (often the evil hydrogenated fat -- which is worse for you that even saturated fat), as well as sugar and salet. Sometimes you get all three in the same product.  

3. Because of this over-refinement at the food processors, many of the valuable vitamins and nutrients have been lost or deliberately removed to make the food processors a few extra bucks on the side. Don't believe me? What do you think happens to all that valuable, nutrient dense wheat bran taken from the white flour used to bake your daily bread? I'll tell you: it's sold for animal feed.

So what's wrong with that?

This type of food has been, effectively, "pre-chewed" for you, your body doesn't need to do the work it would have to do with real food. Less work requires less energy, which means it needs less of this sort of over refined food.  

But, because much of the nutrients in your over-processed food has been lost through processing -- or even deliberately taken out -- your body is deprived of the vital vitamins and minerals essential for its proper function. And our bodies are programmed for survival. So, if you have failed to provide all the vital vitamins, minerals and other nutrients your body needs, it will demand them the only way it can -- it will make you feel unsatisfied and hungry in the hope the next meal you eat will provide the missing material it craves.

So you eat some more of the over refined, nutrient devoid, pap that got you in this position in the first place, which -- of course -- doesn't satisfy your body so it demands more and more food! At the same time -- because the excess processing your food has received, much  of the wonderful subtle natural flavors have gone, so, to give it "taste", junk food is loaded up with hydrogenated fat, sugar and salt -- none of which are good for you and which (far and sugar) both make you fatter!

So then you "go on a diet", which probably involves eating no carbs or all carbs or no fat or all fat or no calories or as many calories as you can cram in.  Or like most overweight people you cut down on your intake of food.

It's obvious, really. Which is why most obese people actually eat very little more than slim people -- and some cases they actually eat a lot less.

So why, despite defying all logic , doesn't that work, either?

Remember that built in survival mode, I mentioned earlier?

When you cut down on your food, your body shuts down in response and goes into "survival mode". That means it makes do with less energy and hoards more of what food energy it gets from your reduced food intake by laying them down in its reserves of FAT!

Of course, that double reduction in your calories has a marked effect on your general metabolism and you will feel, tired, listless and miserable and unable to think about much -- except food! 

So now I've shown you why a starvation diet doesn't work, let me discuss the other two old red herrings . . . the low carb diet and the low fat diet.

The idea behind the low carb diets is that by severely restricting your intake of carbohydrates, which are normally the major source of energy, your body will be forced to dip into its reserves of fat and burn fat for energy, in the same way a candle burns fat to give off heat energy.

The main problem with low carb diets is your general health pays the price of a slim waist. You see, although some diets work in the short term, you cannot keep them going indefinitely, because many of the good things you should be eating, on a daily basis, such as many fruits and vegetables are forbidden because they are carbs, so you are not allowed to eat them. So, you'll soon begin to suffer from lack of all those valuable vitamins and nutrients found in those forbidden foods.

Guess what happens next? Yes, you're right. Your body starts to crave those missing vitamins and minerals and makes you feel hungry.

But even worse than the low carb diet is the faulty logic that says: carbs are bad -- therefore non carbs, such as protein is good. So toss the carbs and tuck into plenty of protein.

A very tempting doctrine that! Because you are now empowered to eat all the bacon and steaks you can accommodate. Surprisingly, it won't be too long before you are hankering after a slice of bread and are sick of the sight of meat.

And, when I tell you that one of my very best selling books shows people how to get rid of kidney stones, without going to hospital and then how to modify their lifestyle and diet to avoid a repeat occurrence, I can tell you with some authority that an excess of protein, such as steak is one of the prime causes for kidney stones. And that's before I mention the damage the nitrates used in the bacon processing does to your chances of getting stomach cancer.

But don't misunderstand me: I'm nor saying never eat red meat or bacon. But you cannot sustain eating that sort of diet, where one group of foods is eaten to the exclusion of all others, without considering the long term consequences of what you are doing with such a lop-sided diet.

So now we come to the other red herring -- the "low fat" diet. Sounds as logical as eating less, doesn't it. It's so obvious! If you want to lose your fat, stop eating fat.   Nope!

You see, fat is what gives most food its wonderful flavor. Remember when you select a piece of beef for that sumptuous grilled steak? Don't you always look for one that's marbled with streaks of fat, because you know that will taste great? Of course, you do.

So, take the fat out of your food and what have you left?  Not much taste, that's for sure!  So, to compensate for the lack of taste the food processors put in something else just as bad -- sugar. And they add some salt to counteract the sweetness of the sugar and with a bit of chemical magic, they manage to come up with something which is low fat but tastes of something.

The problem is, sugar will make you even more fat than fat itself and -- even worse -- will interfere with your blood sugar levels. And that's another whole can of worms, because keeping your blood sugar levels steady throughout the day is vital if you are to avoid Type Two Diabetes, seen increasingly frequently nowadays. 

You see, the problem with "going on a diet" is that it is an entirely artificial and temporary condition, which is unsustainable long term. And, even though you might lose a few pounds during it, when you "come off the diet" again, you put those pounds right back on again -- plus a few more. That's why some people go on for years in this yo, yo way: on a diet/off a diet. And, each time, they end up weighing more than when they started.

All of which brings me back to the over-refined, junk food, which made you fat in the first place. You see, because the over-refined "imitation food" has had the stuffing -- and thus much of the taste -- knocked out of it, it relies on fat, sugar and salt to put back some semblance of taste. So, eat this sort of food for long enough and your blood sugar levels will be zooming all over the place and your pancreas (whose job it is to stabilize your blood sugar levels) will finally be unable to cope. So the chances are high you'll will also end up with the same Type Two Diabetes, which was virtually unheard of a decade or so ago, yet is all too common now and linked directly to obesity.

There has to be a better way. There is!  And this is where you discover how to lose weight the healthy way.

What if . . . instead of eating less, or only eating carbs . . . or getting sore gums by constantly eating steak . . . or mysteriously piling on the pounds despite being on "low fat (but high sugar!) diet" you tossed all diets and, instead embarked on some easy and natural weight loss?

And, what instead of reducing what you eat, you eat as much as you want until you are satisfied. And, because you are eating "real food", instead of junk, you won't constantly feel hungry.

And instead of "going on a diet" ever again, you will begin to see food in a new light: as something to delight in, rather than just fill you up. And that brings me to the cruel trick that's been played on you, whether you are "on a diet" or simply dismayed to never quite be satisfied with your food, whilst your weight creeps inexorably skyward.

That cruel trick is to have kept from you the knowledge that real food not only does you good by protecting you from many debilitating conditions and gives you more energy and sheer zest for life, but it also tastes far, far better than the over processed, nutrient deficient, bland stuff you are probably used to eating, right now. 

So you are already on your way to easy and natural weight loss, because you can be smart and sidestep all those problems now you know the simple secret of how to lose weight the healthy way.