Weight Loss

There is no such thing as a magical diet. Any diet promising you quick weight loss is only at best a temporary diet. With diets such as these, you will end up regaining the weight you lost, plus more. Did you know that a slight but prolonged excess of food intake could add up to alot of weight gain? In order to lose the weight you desire, you must change your diet and I mean change it for life.

The same way that a little extra calories can add up over time, little changes in your diet and lifestyle can also help you lose a lot of weight over time. Since you are the one having to make the changes in your diet, then you have to realize that you have to be the one to take charge and plan out what works for you.

Never think of a diet as a temporary thing. If you think short term then it will be short term. When a diet is short term, the results are as well. Inevitably, you will put the weight right back on.

Don’t do anything drastic to lose weight. If it comes off fast then it goes back on even faster and you will usually wind up heavier than you were originally. Simple changes are the best, both physically and mentally.

Joel Kaye
Creator of The Right Brain Diet
www.RightBrainDiet.com

Diet Confusion

The desire to lose weight and get in shape is at an all time high nowadays. Along with this humongous interest, dieting has caused much confusion about which foods are good for you and which ones are bad. There seems to be a lot of conflicting information out there.

People don't know what foods to choose anymore. Each diet guru insists that his or her diet alone is the right way to eat. The low carb diets insist that carbs are bad for you and that meat is good. You have the high carb, vegetarian diets that insist meat and fats are bad for you and carbs are good for you.

With most of these diets, the longer that you remain on the diet, the more tension and frustration you tend to experience. Over time, most people end up regaining the weight that they lost. The bottom line is if all these diets were so good, why are so many people over weight?

Joel Kaye
Creator of The Right Brain Diet
www.RightBrainDiet.com

Meal Frequency

Research has shown that to keep our bodies functioning more efficiently in order to maintain a healthy weight, people should eat smaller meals more frequently rather than eating fewer larger meals throughout the day. Bigger time gaps between meals cause blood sugar to drop. Not only will you feel tired when your blood sugar drops, but you will tend to want to eat more at the next meal. When the blood sugar drops, the body goes into a starvation mode and will use protein for energy, which is not usable by the brain.

Also, there will be less protein available to help build the muscles. Did you ever hear the term brain fog? Well brain fog is when there is not enough sugar to feed the brain. So try to eat smaller healthy meals more frequently then just having breakfast, lunch and usually an enormous diner. Try to eat every 3-5 hours.

Joel Kaye
Creator of The Right Brain Diet
www.RightBrainDiet.com

Fat Loss

How does one rid them self of that extra fat? Do you want to shed some extra fat for the upcoming warm weather? Are you confused on which diet to choose? Do you ever find yourself wondering, “which diet is healthy or which diet is just a fad?”

There are simple things that you can do to empower yourself to lose fat. Simply put, you need to eat healthy and increase your physical activity. Don’t initially set your goals too high. Instead, make small changes over time. Making changes too quickly will cause you to go back to your old ways. Aside from that, it is unhealthy.

Variety is the key. Expand your tastes and enjoy a variety of foods. Enjoy as many different foods as possible, just don’t overeat. Be flexible, because any diet plan that is too strict will be short lived. You want your new diet to be a change for life. Don’t think diet, think of changing your eating and physical activity habits as a life long adventure.

The bottom line is that fad diets are ineffective over the long run. Following a fad diet may result in putting your health atrisk without reaching your weight gains.

Joel Kaye
Creator of The Right Brain Diet
www.RightBrainDiet.com

Low Carb High Protein Diets

With the explosion of so many new diets flooding the world today promising extreme weight loss, many health professionals are concerned with people’s health. One popular diet of today that is raising many red flags with these professionals is the low carbohydrate/high protein diet.

First, too much protein is very hard for the body to break down and can damage the kidneys and liver. Second, high protein usually means high in fat, which can lead to cardiovascular problems. Third, the expense involved and repetitious nature of the diet may make it difficult to sustain. Finally, one will tend to crave simple sugars from a diet such as this. This is due to the fact that there is such a carbohydrate restriction.

Joel Kaye
Creator of The Right Brain Diet
www.RightBrainDiet.com

Weight Loss Tips

Today more than ever, there is so much conflicting information available pertaining to losing weight that it has become very confusing. To help put an end to some of this confusion there are certain things that you can do to help lose weight.

First off, it is essential to begin your diet feeling good about yourself. When you feel good about yourself, you tend to want to choose foods that are better for you.

Next, learn more about your ancestors. When eating more like your ancestors, you will be eating foods that are biologically better for your body.

Always try to eat whole foods that are as natural as possible. Stay away from overly processed foods. Your body doesn’t know how to handle these foods, especially when they lack alot of nutrients.

Drink a lot of water. A lot times you aren’t hungry but really thirsty. Drinking a lot of water also helps in digesting foods.

Always chew your food well. The more you chew the less you will eat, and the better you will digest your food.

Try eating smaller but more meals in a day. Taking to much time between meals makes you hungrier for the next meal. Eating large meals taxes your digestive system.

And last if not least increase your physical activity. This will help in creating a negative caloric balance which will lead to more weight loss.

Joel Kaye
Creator of The Right Brain Diet
www.RightBrainDiet.com

Popular Diets

Today more than ever, the world is saturated with diets, but most of them are not based on physiological principles. There is no way around it, the best and healthiest way to reduce weight is allowing adequate time to see results. This method also yields longer lasting results.

Losing more than 1-2 lbs per week is not a healthy way to reduce weight. A combination of a small dietary restriction and increased energy expenditure is this the best way to accomplish weight loss. Diets that promise a lot of weight loss in a short period of time usually result in a substantial loss of water and muscle.

Studies have shown that people, who lost a pound a day for a month, only lost about 23-25% of the weight from fat. The other 75% was from water and muscle. When losing weight at a much slower pace, the individual is learning a new, healthy eating pattern that they can stick with the rest of their life. This will result in a permanent weight loss. Also, the loss of weight will consist of losing body fat rather than losing muscle and water.

All the new fad diets may seem different from one another but most of them have 2 things in common, they can be very dangerous and will not work over long periods of time.

Joel Kaye
Creator of The Right Brain Diet
www.RightBrainDiet.com