Diets Don't Work ... but you knew that

Americans spend $40 billion a year on weight-loss programs and products (yes I am Canadian). They get sucked into Jenny Craig or Bernstein or Hoodia supplements and who can blame them with all the marketing that goes into selling that stuff.
But the New England Journal of Medicine found that most people who participate in weight-loss programs “regain about one-third of the weight lost during the next year and are typically back to baseline in three to five years.”

You knew that though, didn’t you? So how can you lose weight?
The main thing to remember is that the changes you make to your diet should be ones that you can sustain. If you go on an ultra-strict diet, you will not only lose fat, but you will also lose lots of muscle, which will slow your metabolism. Eventually you will be unable to continue with this diet, or you will stop the diet because you have lost all the weight you wanted to and so you will begin eating normally.
The problem with this is that your now sluggish metabolism will not be able to burn calories as efficiently and will store any extra food as fat.

All “diets” that work do so because they can be sustained permanently. Add a bit of weight training to a sustainable diet and now you are burning fat and keeping, if not increasing your muscle, which in turn is keeping your metabolism going.

You are thinner and healthier and not afraid of cheating with a double fudge brownie … (in moderation, of course)!