Understanding Weight Loss Basics
July 25, 2010 by Ron Cripps
Filed under Weight Loss Articles
Persons who need to lose weight are constantly searching for diets that work. The trick isn’t really finding a diet plan that works, but rather locating a diet to which a person can stick. The 46.8 billion dollar diet industry (as of 2005) depends not on people staying healthy and staying thin, but rather on people taking an endless yo-yo ride between health and fat. Because repeat business brings in the cash, the focus is surely on the roller coaster reality of poor living followed by short stints of diets and health programs.
So you want a diet that delivers? Here’s one. Combine limiting caloric intake to 1000 calories each day with at least 30 minutes of exercise at least five times a week. That diet will result in shedding weight. But there are two problems.
#1 cravings will likely end the diet. Sooner or later, particularly after returning home from work outs, those 1000 calories won’t be sufficient to satisfy. One piece of cake, or just one bag of chips, or one extra hot dog will soon motivate you to end the diet.
