Guest post by Joanna Cake of Having My Cake and Eating It Too
As I said in my previous article ‘Want To Know The Most Successful Diet? Ask An Anorexic’, in addition to addressing food intake and waste disposal, there is one other key factor that you need to consider to achieve the perfect diet. You need to look at your lifestyle.
If you drive everywhere and then sit on the sofa eating fast food containing all sorts of additives that mess up your digestive system, your poor body is not going to be able to metabolize what is being put into it and your entire skeleton will start to seize up from lack of use.
Get Moving
Losing weight per se is not necessarily the long term goal for most dieters. It is also about achieving a more healthy body shape. The only way to do this is to use your body physically. Along with eating smaller portions from all three food groups, some physical exercise needs to be added into the equation.
As an anorexic, I did aerobic work-outs two or three times a week. This allowed me to burn off most of what I had consumed and forced my body to start eating into any fat reserves.
The problem with most diets is that, once the dieter has reached their goal weight, they go back to their old eating habits. As soon as this happens, the body starts storing anything that is over and above the previous level of food intake – just in case the rationing begins again. It is vital to add in the physical exercise to encourage the body to utilize those supplies rather than trying to stockpile them.
It can be as simple as a 20 minute walk each day or a yoga class two or three times a week but you need to do something or any weight loss that has been achieved will soon disappear.
Successful Dieting
So, let me sum up thirty years of almost too successful dieting.
- Eat small meals often. Each plateful should be composed of ingredients from the three main food groups: fat, protein and carbohydrate as skipping any of them will impede the body’s metabolism.
- Use an acidophilus or other probiotic supplement in powder or capsule form to help your digestive system to deal with waste disposal more effectively.
- Increase your intake of water between meals.
- Take regular exercise so that the body is unable to stockpile any excess food.
- And, above all, start learning to love yourself!
Joanna Cake is a sensual blogger who write about life, health, parenting, intimacy, and other issues which affect the modern middle aged mum at Having My Cake and Eating It Too
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