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What Diet Advice Is Good Advice?
One is that when we are given quick fix advice that we know will not work, we choose to accept it, knowing that we are doomed to fail. The second way we doom ourselves to failure is to seek out good advice, recognise its wisdom and choose not to accept it. Why do we do this to ourselves? It's pretty much human nature that we believe what we want to believe rather than what we know to be true. A few very easy pointers to remind you of the difference between good advice and utter drivel are... 1. Have a good look at the person giving the advice. Are they fit and healthy, toned and energetic. Do you want to look like, to be like, them? A simple "yes" or "no" will put their advice in the place it belongs. Listen to advice with your eyes and ears coordinated. 2. Does the advice involve the endorsement of a rake thin or walrus sized celebrity, is it a fad with a catchy name, does it mean you have to eat cabbage every day for a week (no need to ask who's the smelly bum), a food that burns more calories to eat than the energy it gives you (not a food, by definition - what are you eating it for, practice?), a particularly fetching food colour? (There are not really that many purple foods on the planet, Mrs Beckham). If the diet has no grounding in logic and sounds frankly unhinged until you've consumed a bottle and a half of claret (one of the few purple foods, by the way), then it is not a diet. It will not work. Don't dream; don't bother. 3. Conversely, does the diet appear logical, like it might just work with a bit of effort and perseverance? Is the diet and exercise that comes with it do-able both in terms of a fat loss program and a weight maintenance routine? Can you live with it for the foreseeable future? If "yes", however reluctantly, you have found the right advice. We tend to lock ourselves into a bit of a pattern of failure as far as weight loss goes. We can sabotage our own efforts rather subliminally because we think somehow we don't deserve to lose weight and be happy (or more importantly, be happy first and then lose weight - it works much better this way). It could also be that we just do not want to put in the hard yards because we are in a lazy and comfortable habit. Sensible diet and exercise programs ALL work, whether low protein, high carb, vegetarian, detox, supplemented, whatever. So long as you take in less energy than you put out, the diet will work. It helps your health and fitness levels out of sight if you can ensure that the foods you consume are of the best nutritional mix for you. The trouble with losing fat is that while any good diet will work on paper, in reality it is the person who wants to diet that often doesn't work, expecting something for next to nothing or an instant cure for overweight. Whether we develop calorie and exercise amnesia, cheat on our diet or skip out on our cardio exercise, if a decent diet is not working for you, you are not working for it. You may not want to believe this. But you know that it is a bald statement of fact. It is true, so you can take this from me as good diet advice. Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com Rosie Peters gives common sense advice, encouragement and tips for weight loss, sensible diet and lifelong fitness. Visit Rosie at lose-fat-get-fit.com Download Rosie's 5 Simple Steps to Fat Loss here and start losing weight today. |
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