Protein For Weight Loss - Research Update

Your body is supposed to be trim, lean, and full of energy all day, every day. You are supposed to wake up refreshed after a good night's sleep, without pain or disease. Your food is supposed to be like jet fuel for a high performance race car. Now what do you do if some or all of this is not true for you?

The debate about what to eat, how much to eat, and when to eat rages on, loaded with so much misinformation, fantasy, and downright lies that you, the consumer, has almost no chance to find out what is best for you. However, scientists continue to publish research on how to eat right for losing weight, being energetic, and staying healthy. If your doctor, nutritionist, trainer, or other health advisor isn't aware of the science behind how to eat right, then this article will help you discover for yourself how to get slim, increase your lean body mass, and get your body back to optimum performance.

A major health bonus for following recommendations based on the scientific research summarized here is that you will also help yourself to avoid the number one killer of modern times: cardiovascular disease. Wouldn't that be a great bonus for just eating right? The question is: What is right?

Latest Research on the Atkins Diet

Source: New England Journal of Medicine, 2008 (Volume 359, pp. 229-241: "Weight Loss with a Low-Carbohydrate, Mediterranean, or Low-Fat Diet")

Summary: This study compared three diets: 1) Atkins (low carb), 2) Mediterranean, and 3) low fat. Main results after 2 years were:

• Atkins diet: average weight loss, 12.1 pounds; with greatest reduction in ratio of total cholesterol to HDL

• Mediterranean diet: average weight loss, 10.1 pounds; with most favorable changes in fasting glucose and insulin levels among diabetics

• Low fat diet: average weight loss, 7.3 pounds; with smallest reduction in ratio of total cholesterol to HDL

Conclusions: Mediterranean and low-carbohydrate diets may be effective alternatives to low-fat diets. The more favorable effects on lipids (with the low-carbohydrate diet) and on glycemic control (with the Mediterranean diet) suggest that personal preferences and metabolic considerations might inform individualized tailoring of dietary interventions.

Comment: This is the most recent research to vindicate the diet made famous by Dr. Robert Atkins more than 30 years ago. The bottom line is that carbohydrates, meaning refined sugars and flour, are the main dietary culprit behind getting fat and unhealthy. Although the results may seem mild and the conclusions timid, this is another study that confirms what scientists have known about dietary carbohydrates since before the turn of the 20th century.

Benefits of High-Protein Weight Loss Diets

Source: Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Obesity, 2008 (Volume 15, pp. 416-421: "Benefits of high-protein weight loss diets: enough evidence for practice?")

Summary: This is a review of several articles based on well-designed clinical trials. The most consistent results from all of these studies is that protein is the key dietary component for energy and for fullness leading to proper weight control. The most important effects of high-protein diets are for weight loss protein diets on weight loss, preservation of lean body mass, and improvement in several cardiovascular risk factors for up to 12 months. (Studies generally do not go longer than 12 months.)

Comment: When several well-designed studies come to the same conclusions, the best dietary strategy becomes clear.

How to Put Weight Loss Science into Your Life

The take-home lesson is that eating more protein, regardless of whether it is from animal or plant sources, is the foundation for maintaining proper lean body mass. The bonus benefit of a high protein diet comes in reducing cardiovascular disease risk. Overall, protein is turning out to be the key missing ingredient in the average diet of an increasingly obese population.

Is Your Diet Making You Fat?

Are you addicted to your next diet like an Alcoholic to his next drink? Do you feel great each time you start a diet and exercise then a let down when you fail, like the high and low of a junkie with each fix?

Science has shown that stress actually causes abdominal fat. Diets cause stress. Put the two together and you make yourself fat. Yet Americans ignore the facts and think they can outwit this wisdom.

Do you put your life on hold until you lose weight? After feeling disgusted, do you drag yourself off the couch to diet and exercise? Then does burnout send you back to the couch, munchies and TV? Break this failure cycle.

Sixty-five percent of all Americans go on a diet each year. More than half of those last only 30 days. Twenty-six thousand diets have been published since 1920. Out of every 200 people who go on diets, 190 fail. Nine out of ten who make it to their goal weight gain their weight back within five years. Are we getting fatter because there is a diet shortage?

Why don’t diets work?

Diets don’t work for two major reasons.

Diets are a prescription for weight gain. For one thing, they cause stress. Stress stimulates appetite. It also depletes the necessary brain chemicals which keep us calm and energized. As a result, we reach for food to replenish these substances. Because carbohydrates such as pretzels, candy, and cookies supply these quickly, we tend to reach for these snacks when we’re stressed. However, their affect is short lived. Before long, our brain exhausts the supply and we are reaching for more.

The “all or nothing” syndrome brings us to our knees. We’re either on the diet, strict and rigid or totally off the diet diving into the forbidden fruit, and ice cream, and chocolate, and chips, and cookies and…When we fail at the diet, the pendulum swings to the complete opposite side and we overindulge. It’s the Yin and Yang. You can’t have one without the other.

What is the alternative to dieting?

Strategies for eating and coping with life will give you the physiological edge you need. Here are a few. For more detailed techniques go to everloss.com

1) The Paradox - When you say “no” to a two year old you’re likely to get the very behavior you’re telling them not to do. When you diet, you are saying no to the part of you that wants what it wants. It feels deprived. (In essence a child part of yourself.) The need to eat becomes stronger. The answer is in the “paradox technique”. Set the stage for eating what you want. You will enjoy food more and feel satisfied with less. Learn how to eat your favorite foods without triggering the two-year old in you.

2) Food Meditation - Ever pass your freeway exit when driving because you’re in a trance? In the same way, most people go “unconscious” and pass the point of satisfaction when they eat. Want to know how to be truly fulfilled? For one thing, slow down and learn to enjoy your food.

3) Body Talk - Your True Need – Do the cravings for sweets, fried food or fast food keep coming back? When ice cream calls you, turn to this technique to quiet the voice. Do you crave food when you’re not even hungry? Do you eat when you’re bored, sad, happy, depressed and then wonder why you’re not satisfied? Then you’re an emotional eater. Want to find out what will give you true gratification?

Is it comfort that you need? Perhaps a constructive escape from stress? Take the time to discover what will satisfy your true need.

All of this sounds good but will it help me lose weight? Your body knows what size it should be. When you get your ego out of the way and do what your body is showing and telling you to do, it will find it’s perfect natural size. Feel and look good. Finally find happiness and comfort in your own body at the size that’s right for you. You will never have to diet again!

How do I know what my natural body size is?

Goal-supporting behavior is the key, not a magical number on the bathroom scale. Eat and exercise moderately ninety percent of the time. Don’t worry about the other ten percent. Then get on with living and enjoying your life. You body will show you the rest.

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I Don't Know Where to Get the Motivation to Lose Weight!

I hear this all the time. With all the advertisements that bombard us everyday it is very difficult to find and maintain our weight loss motivation. There's a lot that we can do to motivate ourselves to lose weight.

The first thing to do to find motivation in anything is to set goals. This is especially true if you want to lose weight.

The most effective goals are the ones that are tangible, you should be able to see and/or touch them when you accomplish them.

To find your weight loss motivation I suggest that you decide on something that you're going to buy for yourself or do for yourself when you've accomplished your first weight loss goal. This could be a new outfit or even a small vacation; anything that will motivate you to put in effort and remain determined to accomplish your weight loss goals.

The next advice I'll give you for maintaining your weight loss motivation is to garner support from your friends and family.

Support is very important during those days when you are feeling weak or when circumstances are pressing down on you and you just want to eat the first thing you can lay your hands on.

People that support you can also celebrate your victories with you.

A further word of advice to find your motivation for weight loss is to believe in yourself that you can do it. If you do not believe in yourself, who will? Starting out with anything without the belief that you can actually do it is completely self-defeating. Go online and watch some motivating videos, or if you're savvy enough make your own. Throw some "goal" pictures into Windows Movie Maker, add some relaxing/motivational music, and some words of encouragement to yourself and you're set to go. Remember to refer back to it when things seem hard.

The last word of advice I want to give you in terms of finding your weight loss motivation is to create an image of the slimmer you in your imagination (or in your motivational movie!). Picture how you will look and experience the feelings of how you will feel when you fit into those clothes that haven't fit in a long long time. Constantly keep these images in your mind.

To summarize this all up, in order to find your weight loss motivation you need to play a few little mind tricks on yourself, get the support from people around you, and set goals with a prize at the end.

It's not as hard as you're making it out to be. YOU can do this. EverLoss can help. We can be that stepping stone that you need to get started, that's why we're here. Trust us, trust yourself, and shed those pounds.

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[Tisha]

Natural Weight Loss - everLoss

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Always set realistic weight loss goals for yourself. Monitor your weight, but not so much where it's compulsive. Just do a weekly weigh in. And once again, don't focus on the numbers because losing even half a pound is a great achievement.

The most important natural product you need to help you in your course of losing weight naturally is...say it with me now...WATER! Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes drink water. I would advise you to ONLY drink water, but I don't think that's fair at all. The key is to have everything in moderation. I drink 100% fruit juices more than I drink water. (Don't tell anybody.) But seriously, water helps in losing weight by flushing out toxins and by increasing tone and contraction of your muscles during exercise. Water should be your best friend!

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