| What is the best weight loss program in the | | | | supplement companies on the market who don't |
| world? | | | | want you to know fact from fiction. |
| The best weight loss program in the world is one | | | | They want you to believe that constantly buying |
| that works with your body, not against it. Time | | | | "low fat" foods is going to somehow speed up |
| and time again, it's been proven that the only way | | | | your metabolism. |
| to work with your body is to increase your | | | | While, yes, some low fat foods can play a role in |
| metabolism. | | | | an overall eating program that is designed to |
| Understanding Metabolism | | | | speed up metabolism, merely eating foods that |
| Regrettably, many people simply don't understand | | | | come from packaging that screams "LOW FAT!" |
| the concept of metabolism and metabolic change. | | | | won't do anything. |
| This, equally as regrettably, is hardly their fault. | | | | In fact, believe it or not, but many people actually |
| There is so much information floating around out | | | | gain weight when they eat too many "low fat" |
| there, much of it over the 'net or through a | | | | products. Many of these products are laden with |
| "friend of a friend who has a personal trainer", | | | | calories from carbohydrates or proteins (which |
| that there's bound to be some confusion and | | | | are still calories and still must be burned off or |
| conflicting messages. | | | | they turn into body fat). |
| Furthermore, many people (quite understandably) | | | | As you can see, and probably feel from years of |
| mistake their own weight gain and loss episodes | | | | trying to unravel this whole metabolic mystery, |
| as a matter of metabolic change. Sometimes this | | | | this is a confusing, stressful, and indeed, potentially |
| is true, and sometimes it isn't. | | | | depressing situation. |
| For example, there are scientific ways to increase | | | | Each year, tens of millions of people attempt to |
| the rate of metabolic change, and thus enable the | | | | retake control over their health and the shape of |
| body to burn more calories. Eating certain foods | | | | their body; and each year, tens of millions of |
| more frequently is one way to do this. Yet | | | | people feel that they've "failed" because, try as |
| another way to visibly lose weight - at least on a | | | | they might, they just can't speed up their |
| perceived, temporary level - is to sit in a steam | | | | metabolism. |
| room for a few hours. Whereas the former | | | | There is an antidote to that way of thinking and |
| method (eating the right foods) is a real, proven | | | | feeling because the perceived failure is not a |
| weight loss method through increased metabolic | | | | failure in any of these hard working dieters and |
| change, the latter method (the steam room) is | | | | exercisers (of which you may be one). |
| just temporary because the lost weight is merely | | | | The failure is with the medical and nutritional |
| water, and will return as swiftly as it "melted | | | | sector as a whole, which has simply not provided |
| away". | | | | people with the information that they need to |
| The point to remember here is that some people | | | | know in order to speed up their metabolism. And |
| mistake their own weight loss attempts as being | | | | given the size of the nutritional field and the fact |
| related to metabolic change; and, as you can see | | | | that so much of it is influenced by money-making |
| with the steam room example, that isn't always | | | | enterprises (not all of the field, of course, but |
| the case. | | | | enough of it to make a difference), there's really |
| Low Fat Labels | | | | no sense in playing a "wait and see" game for |
| Another big reason that people don't have clear, | | | | when clear, consistent, and helpful information |
| consistent information on this topic is because, | | | | starts to flow out to people like us. |
| unfortunately, there are a lot of food and | | | | |