Diet free weight loss: What does that mean to you?

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(Free-Press-Release.com) November 29, 2009 -- In 1970, most people took diet free weight loss for granted. They still assumed it would always be normal. But experimentation with anything new was in vogue and that included new foods. Pasta was introduced to the average household and a breadbasket at every meal was expected. By the late seventies, retailers got adventurous. Butchers began to prepare their meats for better display. Bakers went even further. Bread was no longer just a loaf of bread it was a dozen different shapes and varieties from around the globe. Sugar was often introduced to add flavor.

Cereals went from porridge and cornflakes to boxes of sweets. We got a brightly colored box of cereal with every flavor. ‘Your kids will love it’ they said. Of course they would. It was a box of sweets.
Manufactured foods flourished. Anything produced in a factory was superior. This was a boon to the new ‘snack foods’ industry. This was food you could take anywhere and eat anytime. It was salty, and sometimes sweet. It was spicy, it was full of flavor and it was very morish.
The one word that accompanied all the manufactured foods was ‘healthy’. You know the old saying, ‘if you have to keep repeating a phrase it’s probably not true...and of course; it’s not true.

Do you think that our metabolism has NOT suffered some damage by having to adjust from a diet which changed little for centuries to one which is virtually the exact opposite? When people get older their metabolism slows down, when someone’s thyroid gets damaged the metabolism slows down. When people eat food the body has difficulty processing, the metabolism slows down and diet cravings kick in.

All these new carbohydrates were more than our metabolism could cope with so it simply slowed down. That meant we began to store the fat we would normally have burned off in energy. Our metabolism could then establish a new benchmark for what it considered our ‘normal’ weight. By then most of us were already looking for an easy diet plan. A diet then, as today, meant reducing calories. It the diet continued long enough your confused brain would read the food shortage as a famine and signal your metabolism to slow down further.

Our body was never designed to process solid carbohydrates. But famine it knows well. It will recognize it after you have dieted for a little while. It will slow you down and losing weight will be very hard. As soon as you give up, the weight will return, and so will some added bonus weight.

You are now caught in a no win situation. You can resume your easy diet plan and lose weight again, but each time you do, you will end up with more fat. Or you can stop dieting and accept the diet cravings that will make you heavier still. To most people, neither option is acceptable.

The author of my Own Plan, Kirsten Plotkin learned how to get a diet free weight loss and her weight has been normal for five years. She is ready to share what she knows.

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