The Healthy Way to Lose Weight

The Difference

Too many times you've read of magic pills, extreme diets, and bizarre practices (lemon juice with maple syrup?), and been disappointed to find out that while they're wonderful for shedding water weight, they just don't help you keep the weight off.

That's because extreme diets can't be adhered to in the long term. Can you really drink cabbage soup every day for the rest of your life? Of course not. And if you stayed in the first phase of the Atkins diet, where you lose the most weight, you'd never use toilet paper again. Other diets can't be adhered to because of cost - I know of one bariatrics program where the patient lives on less than 1,000 calories per day, and is injected with essential vitamins and nutrients daily to keep them from starving to death: this barbaric system costs over $250 every week!

Learning the healthy way to lose weight and keep it off means ignoring all the fads and building healthy habits that will last a lifetime.

Tips on Losing Weight

According to experts, it takes 21 days to create a habit - good or bad. After a lifetime of indulging in bad habits, it's nice to know it will take less than a month to get you on the right track.

Here are some simple tips to help you build the right habits and learn the healthy way to lose weight:
Cut out refined sugars and flours. White bread – even enriched – is so chemically created and devoid of nutrients, you may as well be eating drywall. The same goes for refined sugar – get rid of it.

Read labels. When it comes to tips on losing weight, reading labels is a biggie. If you can’t pronounce it, or can’t identify it, you shouldn’t be eating it. The foods we eat are chock full of preservatives (remember what I said about preservatives?), and they are making us fatter than we’ve ever been. Cut ‘em out!

High Fructose Corn Syrup is the work of the devil. Seriously. You should not be eating or drinking that crap. It hides in your food under other names: isoglucose, maize syrup or glucose-fructose. Eliminate it. Permanently. This poison began showing up in our food supply back when the corn lobby (AKA Big Corn) started messing with the food supply. They began growing corn instead of other crops, and needed a new use for it. Hence, the worst of all preservatives, HFCS.