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Don’t Get Fooled by Fad Diets
Successfully Change Your Eating Routine Instead
Brian Roberts Your Central Mass Fat Loss Coach Here…
We are inundated with diet books, weight loss programs, and magazines touting the latest Hollywood diets. Not to mention that Google searches on ‘diet for weight loss’ return over 300 million results! This is why fad diets can seem like an attractive option for the majority of people who do not educate themselves on healthy eating regimes.
The scientific definition of a fad diet is: “Any of a number of weight-reduction diets that either eliminate one or more of the essential food groups, or recommend consumption of one type of food in excess at the expense of other foods. Fad diets rarely follow sound nutritional principles for weight loss, which focus on ingesting fewer calories and/or consuming more energy through exercise; fad diets are generally not endorsed by the medical profession.”
This is the link to one article we found that gives an idea about some fad diets out there and another link to a fad diet timeline.
Despite best intentions, most people have an extraordinarily hard time dropping those extra 5, 10, or 20 pounds – and even more trouble keeping pounds off. It’s not because we aren’t hard-working, smart, or have self-control. Keeping weight off is one thing that’s perpetually difficult. Weight loss and fat loss comes down to basic biology. Your body, programmed by evolution to survive famines, doesn’t like to be given less food. When you diet, it assumes there’s a famine and hangs on to every fat cell it can. The more you diet, the more resistant your body becomes to losing weight. So instead of going for that quick weight loss, you’re more likely to succeed by making small diet and exercise changes that will produce more lasting effects. The good news here it that you don’t need to spend a lot of money, join a fancy gym, avoid your favorite foods, have special meals delivered or buy another diet book.
Here at Central Mass Fat Loss, we don’t want you to get fooled by those excellent marketing and branding tools they use to attract interest. Instead, we teach you about portion sizes and healthy eating routines as discussed in a previous blog post: Healthy Eating and Portion Sizes and we give you that 1-1 attention for your individualized program to ensure that you are successful. We make sure that we’re assessing what nutrients YOUR body needs and what minerals will assist YOU in burning fat.
If you ever have any questions or need any advice, don’t hesitate to touch base with us.
Get in contact with us here to set up a consultation with us.
You will be amazed at what we bring to the table!
Brian Roberts – Director
Central Mass Fat Loss
6 Colonial Drive
Westborough, MA 01581
(508)834-6260 Cell or TextCheck out our website for upcoming events as well as previous posts
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Get Your Portion Sizes Right
Healthy Eating and Portion Sizes
Brian Roberts Your Central Mass Fat Loss Coach Here…
Whilst a majority of people are embarking on fad diets or quick blitzes, you are very much aware that those fads never end well, and it in turn inspires you to improve your diet and health at ANY time of the year.
Out go the crisps, chocolates and biscuits, and our shelves are stocked with avocados, coconut oil and hummus.
The trouble is, it’s easy to forget that just because something is healthy, that doesn’t give you a free pass to binge. Binging will actually set you back in reaching your health and fitness goals. Your goal of slimming down or building muscle will take longer. Understanding there’s more to losing fat than just ENERGY IN vs. ENERGY OUT, is definitely a good place to start.
Few nutritionists or dietitians would recommend counting calories – that’s because counting NUTRIENTS is a much more sensible way to go – and keep in mind that the quantity and quality of food you’re eating IS important.
Everything can be ‘unhealthy’ if consumed to excess; even water!
“Foods that are high in fat and low in nutrients, such as fries, doughnuts, crisps, chocolate and cake should definitely be kept to an ‘occasional’ food, but when it comes to foods that are high in fat and high in nutrients, we can indeed have them more frequently.”
It’s essential to get your portion size right though.
“There are days where we overindulge and eat more than we usually would, but in general it can be helpful to be mindful of what a portion size is for different foods and different individuals’ needs.”
At Central Mass Fat Loss, together we figure out what portion sizes work for YOUR body, what nutrients YOUR body needs and what minerals will assist YOU in burning fat. We give you that 1-1 attention for your individualized program to ensure that you are successful.
If you ever have any questions or need any advice, don’t hesitate to touch base with us.
Get in contact with us here to set up a consultation with us.
You will be amazed at what we bring to the table!
Brian Roberts – Director
Central Mass Fat Loss
6 Colonial Drive
Westborough, MA 01581
(508)834-6260 Cell or TextCheck out our website for upcoming events as well as previous posts
For updates and event info, subscribe to our newsletter HERE