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Our Approach to a Natural Weight Loss Healthy Diet Program
Summary
Our approach is based upon the usual combination of diet and exercise. Where we differ from many other programs in relation to exercise is in the following: Exercise is a lousy way to lose weight. It is much more sensible to reduce the number of calories taken in than to try to burn them off through exercise.
Exercise is very important, however, but for many reasons rather than weight loss.
This program keeps track of everything for you. The results are available in both tabular and graphical form.
Exercise is important in any weight management program, including this one, but the reasons to exercise here are not to lose weight, but rather to maintain, and hopefully build, muscle mass, among other reasons . From a purely practical point of view, it's awfully difficult to exercise off any significant number of calories. Look at any of the lists on how many calories you burn for various activities. It is rather unproductive as a mechanism for losing weight.
Yet, if we can believe anything, we must acknowledge that our weight is the result of the equilibrium between the number of calories that we take in as food and drink, and the number of calories that we expend in the variety of life processes, such as digesting our food, maintaining our body temperature, breathing, our heart beat, our mental processes, etc. plus all the more obvious activities, such as walking, working, lifting, moving around, and so forth. If we don't accept that premise, then lacking a medical abnormality, weight would have to be something magical. That conclusion would be just crazy! When our intake and output are in balance, our weight is constant. When they are out of balance, then we either gain or lose weight, depending upon the direction of the imbalance.
It is this premise that forms the basis of this program; it is our approach that gives it its essence.
Let us accept, that to a first approximation, our output, i.e. our activity level, is pretty much constant. If we can increase it a little, that's wonderful, but as mentioned above, burning calories in any significant numbers is very difficult, and time consuming.
That leaves us with other half of the equation, namely, intake. This parameter is much easier to control. If someone who normally eats 2000 cal/day just reduces her intake by 5 %, she will lose weight. Most people would not consider that (1900 cal/day) as a menu of denial. By choosing foods judiciously, those 1900 calories can be very filling. Part of such judicious choices would entail limiting (but not eliminating!) the amounts of fatty foods, substituting apples or grapes for potato chips, for instance. This is by no means a low fat diet. Fats are not only good for us, they are essential. On this program, we limit our fat intake to ~25% of the total calories. Thus in the 1900 cal/day example given above, the amount of fat could be as high as 475 fat calories. This corresponds to 52.8 grams of fat, which is quite a lot.
This program keeps track of your weight, your total calorie intake, and your grams of fat intake, both on a daily basis and on a cumulative basis for the month. Every day is a new beginning, and even more so for each month. All these parameters are available to you online in both tabular and graphical forms long as you are in the program. You always have access to what you have consumed, and what weight resulted, both as a function of time.
We present sample screen shots to illustrate how the program works. The sample journals are meant as examples only. You are in charge of your own path to success. Our function is to show you the way, and to make it as smooth as possible.
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