A lot of us tend to view diet and exercise as a temporary routine, a way to achieve a short term goal. Whether it’s for an upcoming wedding or a summer beach house, we seem to program ourselves that this is a momentary sacrifice. With this approach, a lot of the pre-packaged diet plans that focus on quick weight loss seem to be the most effective. It will get your to the short term goal and allow you feel good about your success for awhile. However, these programs will never transfer to a long term weight management solution, which is why most of us tend to yo-yo.
The question is, why live your life finding one reason after another to chase down the same 20 pounds when you can more easily find a way to change your habits and lose them forever. Not only is it easier on your mind, it’s better for your body. Weight gain isn’t just something that our bodies produce just to annoy us. It’s a barometer for how well we’re treating ourselves. Those extra 15 pounds are telling you that you’re not fueling your body properly. While this might be most concerning for your self esteem, the real problem here is your long term health.
It’s not easy to blame ourselves for our malnutrition either. Unless you have an advanced degree in nutrition, you won’t be able to see through the haze of advertising to see what’s actually good for you body. In fact, those that do know the basic principles of eating right avoid 95% of what’s on the shelves at the supermarkets.
The food industry is a business. The business, obviously, is making money. What better way to make profits than to produce food cheaply and have customer’s buy it repeatedly? How do you do that? Well, you cut corners in mass production, you make your foods as delicious as possible (which almost always means adding fat or sugar) and you make sure it can survive on the shelves long enough. These myriad of ways to make food more profitable are linked heavily to the most common western civilization diseases.
Ever wonder why Cancer, Heart Disease, and Diabetes are so prevalent in our culture by not necessarily by others in the world or even our own ancestors? Whether we are willing to admit it or not, our eating habits in this country are literally killing us. You can reduce so many of these risks simply by returning to basic dietary principles. Raw and wet foods that are delivered to your fridge the way they came from the earth are your best bet. Severely limiting processed foods will not only shorten your waistline, but will lengthen your life line.
There is a ton of information available on the links of eating to the three major illnesses I mentioned. Do your research and take care of your body so that, in the long run, it will take care of you!