Have you lost and gained the same 20 pounds over and over, again and again? Do you feel like a weight loss failure because every diet you have tried produced no long lasting results? Do you eat very little and still manage to gain weight? Have you given up hope of ever reclaiming your trim figure and settled for a lifetime of flab? If so, you need to know that you are not the failure. Diets have failed you!
No carb, low carb, high protein, Weight Watcher's, SlimFast, NutraSystem - they all have one thing in common. They are not a way of eating for life. They are a temporary restriction of either certain foods, calories or complete categories of foods that are impossible to maintain for a lifetime. In the short term, the pounds fall away but in the long term, the weight comes back and you just get fatter and fatter! Weight loss is temporary and never a permanent feature of your life.
Along with getting fatter, your blood pressure rises, your blood glucose rises and eventually you develop heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis and sometimes even cancer. I know because I was a lot like you!
I saw my doctor for my annual physical over a year ago. I was easily 20 pounds overweight, my blood pressure was elevated and my cholesterol levels were high. I was a typical middle-aged woman. I knew I needed to lose weight but was confused about all the different diets and had trouble getting started. It was then I studied the low glycemic impact anti-inflammatory approach to eating. Not a diet but a way of life, I knew I could eat this way for the rest of my life. The science of low glycemic impact eating made sense to me as a doctor. In addition, the supplements I began to use made my body feel full and satisfied in a way I had long forgotten. Their physical effect helped restore my body's own metabolism and normal glucose regulation.
The eating was easy. I just learned to eat the right foods in the right amounts at the right time. I never deprived myself. I used the 90 / 10 rule. 90% of the time I ate healthy and make wise choices. 10% of the time I allowed myself a treat! With these simple guidelines, the pounds simply began to melt away. In addition, my aches and pains disappeared as well. Within 12 weeks my blood pressure was normal and my cholesterol was the best it had ever been!
Eating fresh, whole foods with unlimited access to fruits and vegetables, wise choices of lean protein, beans and whole grains combined with smart supplements is really the secret of the low glycemic anti-inflammatory diet for life.
Dr. Pamela Avery, the Natural MD, is a board-certified physician and specialist of over 30 years in the management of pain through natural methods. She offers free articles, weekly newsletters and online pain management lifestyle coaching. She has developed a lifestyle system for chronic pain entitled "Live Pain Free! 6 Steps to a Pain Free Life." It can be accessed at drpamavery.com drpamavery.com Her free special report, "The Truth about Supplements", as well as her E-zine, "Natural Solutions", can be accessed at the-natural-md.com the-natural-md.com
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