Thankfully that's changing as more diets with science and research make their way to the forefront. And these latest diets aren't too restrictive and they certainly aren't boring. What they do is help us understand how and why we gain excess weight that we can't seem to lose. What research does is reshape the way we think so help us be more successful in our weight loss.
Losing Weight Is Connected To The Mind And Body
The most significant findings just might be that researchers have discovered that we don't just overeat because of our love of food or because we feel we must eat. Instead it seems that there is complex blend of both physical instincts and our emotional needs, which lead to our overeating. One of the major causes for being overweight in America is because food is used to help fill an emotional void which includes problems with money, relationships, stress, and more. Food is like a prescription to comfort us.
Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research founded by psychologist Judith Beck has a new approach to weight loss the helps dieters to reshape how they look at food. Dr. Beck is also the author of The Beck Diet Plan, which teaches people who are overweight to think like a thin person. Her diet plan lets dieters continue eating their favorite foods while they are focused on losing weight. They can do this because they have made changes at the cognitive level that will stop them from overindulging. It's a whole new way of looking at dieting, and best of all it works!
How Instinct Affects How You Eat
A weight control book that is getting a lot of attention is The Instinct Diet: Use Your Five Food Instincts to Lose Weight and Keep it Off," by Susan Roberts and Betty Kelly Sargent. That's because this book explains how we have been programmed with the instinct to eat back to pre-historic times. We were hard wired this way to keep us alive. The trouble is the world we live in has changed and so while this worked great back then it doesn't really work now. The types of foods we have now and the environment we live in has made it tough to maintain a healthy weight. It makes sense and it works!
To lose the weight and then keep it off requires a lot more than some hyped up fad diet. What you need is total comprehension of how triggers emotionally, psychologically, and instinctively cause you to eat. Only then will you be able to correctly alter your eating habits so that you can enjoy the healthy weight you want to be, and enjoy living a healthier life.
Jim Fisher is a fat loss and physical fitness enthusiast focused on new and innovative methods of losing fat and staying in great shape at any age. For a limited time you can claim the "Insider Secrets to a Lean Body" ebook absolutely free at http://insider-secrets.synthasite.com
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