Common Sense Weight Loss

There is an enormous variety of diets on the market today that include the Atkins diet, Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, a variety of soup diets and weight loss supplements.  It is so confusing trying to find the diet that will work for you.  When you lose the weight you wanted to lose you tell everyone what a great diet it is and how well it worked.  In a few months or maybe a few years you put the weight back on and the first thing you do is go back on the diet that worked the last time.  This can be a never ending cycle of losing weight and putting it back on.

Have you ever considered going back to basics and ignoring all of the marketing about the thousands of ways to lose weight fast?  We all know that losing weight is about eating healthy foods and exercise, so why can’t we do this? We feel that if we decide to start a weight loss plan and it does not work, we can blame it on the weight loss plan, but, in reality the blame is our own. It is a way of justifying to ourselves and to others that we have tried so many times to lose weight and none of the weight loss programs have worked.

This makes no sense, it’s common sense that if you eat less and exercise more, you will lose weight and this is the core concept of all of these weight loss programs, but rather than offer a weight loss plan that is simple and realistic, it focuses on the latest evidence in the spotlight such as low carb or fast metabolisms to market to you and how this is the best and fastest way to lose weight.  Losing weight fast is not a long term solution.

It’s a shame the marketing is so successful because in reality none of these diets or pills are realistic and it is inevitable that at some point in the future you will put the weight back on. These diets may have helped you lose the weight, but they have failed by not teaching you how to make a lifestyle change that you can live with for the rest of your life.

Common sense weight loss is going back to the basics and being realistic. We all know what foods we should not eat, or eat less of. Take responsibility for your body and your health and eat nutritious food such as fruit, vegetables, meat, eggs; this is simple, common sense eating. If you eat unprocessed food and stick to healthy choices, you don’t need to count calories as most natural food is low in calories and fat.