The two persons inside you, the fat person and the thin person, are at odds. They operate in different ways, and they want different things. The same world isn’t going to work for both of them.

The first thing you have to recognize is that the fat person has the edge right now. She’s bigger, stronger, more clever, and more devious. She’s been getting all the attention. You’ve been feeding her while you starved the thin person. The fat person has a lot of influence over your behavior right now. When you start to replace her with the thin person, she’s going to put a fight. She’s going to try to make you as uncomfortable as she can. Continue Reading

Weight management is one of the health concerns that most people have difficulties to deal with. This falls into two categories namely weight gain and weight loss. Through the years, losing weight became the weight problem that people primarily have. Causing an alarming concern to health authorities due to increase in the number of patients with overweight and obesity problems.

Losing weight can be intentional and unintentional. People who have unintentional weight loss have may have physical activities that helps them lose weight as part of their lifestyle or some may have some health problems.

Losing weight intentionally happens when a person maintains a certain weight to help solve health problems or simply to have shapeir body. This can be achieved through various diet programs. There are also several lose weight solutions that you can try and determine which fit your lifestyle. Continue Reading

Fat and Happy? You must think I’m kidding. Who could be fat and happy? The two don’t go together. Let’s take a look.

Given everything that you’ve done so far to lose weight and everything you’re willing to do (or not willing to do) from now on, the truth may actually be that you are never going to get thin. If that’s the case, then wouldn’t the most practical thing be to accept yourself the way you are and get on with your life? If deep in your heart you know you really aren’t willing to do what’s necessary to be thin, then the most sensible, practical , and loving thing you can do for yourself is to accept yourself the way you are. Quit all this beating yourself up about your weight, and use that energy to start living the way you want to.

Think of all the things you could do if you just gave up and enjoyed being the way you are. You’d never again have to worry about dieting. You could buy clothes that were comfortable, rather than buying them one size too small to try to look smaller than you are. You could eat whatever you wanted and enjoy it. You could lean back and laugh when people bought diet books. You could stop putting your life on hold until after you were thin and start living it fully right now.

The very act of getting off your own back about losing weight will actually allow you to lose weight. When you accept yourself exactly the way you are, things will naturally start to turn around. Part of it is that if you start caring enough about yourself to get off your own back, you eliminate many of your reasons for overeating. Since there was no more battle on dieting, eating will become rather dull.

It will take a lot of courage in choosing to be fat and happy. It goes against everything written or spoken in our culture on the subject of weight. But you can end weight as a problem in your life forever in one instant by choosing to be fat and happy.

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You get up in the morning and step onto the scale. One of three things has happened: you’ve gained weight, you’ve lost weight, or you’ve stayed the same.

If you’ve lost weight, you’re ahead of the game and can afford to cheat a little. If you’ve gained weight, you may feel angry or depressed. If you’ve stayed the same, it looks as if what you’re doing is for nothing. And what’s the likely response to any of those three situations? To eat, of course. The scale can actually prompt you to eat. Continue Reading

Who are these people who are so ignorant they don’t know the number of calories in a chocolate chip cookie, who don’t even know what they do to stay thin? Why are naturally thin people like that, and how did they get that way?

The answer is that they didn’t do anything and they don’t know anything – that’s just the point. Being thin is a natural state. We are the ones who have created the myths and the patterns and the rules that make and keep us fat. Take those away, and what you have is a natural state – thin. The Thins are like animals in the wild, following their body’s instincts from moment to moment. We are the ones who have done something out of the ordinary.

It’s not that thin people don’t enjoy food – they do. They probably enjoy it more than we do, because they actually taste it. I used to buy ice cream cones, and the first bite would taste just great. After the second and third bite, I couldn’t taste the flavor anymore – all I tasted was cold. If a thin person stopped enjoying the ice cream, he would probably toss the rest of it away.

It doesn’t occur to thin people to use food as a reward. They reward themselves with other things. You see, in order to be effective, a reward has to be just a little bit naughty. Thin people sometimes think it’s naughty to take the morning off to play tennis or to spend more money than they should on a new pair of slacks, but since they don’t find food even the slightest a bit wicked, it’s of no use to them as a reward. They can’t use it as a weapon against themselves or others. To them eating is like breathing – neither good nor bad. Continue Reading

Are you ready for the big secret? Are you ready to find out how thin people can eat whatever and whenever they want without gaining weight? It’s going to sound deceptively simple, but don’t be fooled. It’s the simplest and yet the most difficult thing in the world.

What makes it difficult is that it involves some basic, fundamental shifts in how you approach food, eating, yourself, and your life. As you read, imagine yourself behind that thin person’s eyes, and notice how you feel. Continue Reading

What then is the sure fire way to lose weight? Continue Reading

There are numerous internet sites that will help you determine what should be your calorie intake, based on your own particulars and based on your diet they can also tell you what your present consumption is.

A Well-Balanced Diet should include nutrient rich carbohydrates, high-quality protein, and healthy fats. Continue Reading

Ever since obesity has been termed as an epidemic, it has attracted attention throughout the world. In America weight loss has become a billion dollar industry. The air is thick with discussions and counter-discussions about various diet programs being proposed by various people.

There is a 5-Factor Diet, Atkins Diet, Bob Greene’s Best Life Diet, South Beach Diet, Cabbage Soup Diet, Carbohydrate Addict’s Diet, Anne Collin’s diet and now you have DASH diet and Fat Smash Diet and Size Zero Diet and….it goes on!

Proponents of each of these diet programs make claims of how much weight you will lose and how rapidly you will lose weight. Some go to the extent of claiming that you will lose up to 10-12 lbs in a week whereas medical experts warn that such claims are ridiculous and weight loss of such proportions can come about only by losing water which is detrimental to the system. Moreover there is always the danger of gaining weight just as rapidly when you stop working on the program.

Essentially all these programs boil down to a few basics. The body weight is contributed by fat, muscles, bones and water. Excess calorie intake is responsible for increased weight and so cut down the excess intake of calories. Increase metabolism so that stored fat can be burnt off. Burn off the fat that is stored in the body by exercises and fat burning food. But do not starve the body of the essential nutrients.

Basically diet programs fall into three broad categories: the “fad diets”, those that are based on specially processed food and those that can be called as “natural diet” programs.

There is no clear definition of “fad diet”, it is very subjective. Fad diet is popularly believed to be a poor weight loss diet. A fad diet generally becomes very popular very quickly and falls out of favor just as quickly. Fad diets quite often claim very quick weight loss. Their claims for efficacy are generally not confirmed by any legitimate scientific studies. Often promoted by parties that publish books about the diet or those that sell some supplements or ingredients that are part of the fad diet, a fad diet may not achieve anything at all or at times may have an adverse effect on health.

The natural diet program is based on use of food constituents that are normally in your diet; it recommends some of the constituents as being helpful and some others as being harmful from the point of view of weight loss. For example, it may recommend certain fish such as Sardines, herrings, etc as providing beneficial Omega 3 fatty acids or may recommend use of lean meat but not others such as pork; it may recommend low-fat skimmed milk but not the normal fresh milk. Natural diet is based on very clearly understood and recognized scientific knowledge.

The third category of diet programs mentioned above are based on use of specially processed food ingredients or supplements; this category is so highly commercialized that even if it has scientific basis at times lies on the boundary of fad diet plans.