Why my diet does not work?

In 1990 I decided to become a vegetarian. Well, to be exact, Pescetariano, I kept eating fish and shellfish. My reasons were mainly due to the fact that I was becoming more and more uncomfortable cooking and eating meat and I did not like the idea of ​​killing animals. I had also become very active in the new age movement at the time and the environmental cost of meat production just didn’t make sense. It wasn’t long before even the thought of eating meat was distasteful to me and since then I have not been tempted to eat meat.

However, I started to gain weight and have continued to struggle with my weight for 25 years. When I changed sex and started taking hormone replacement therapy, it got worse. I have tried the Weight Watchers Diet, the Lemon Diet, the Grapefruit Diet, the 5: 2 Diet, the Mediterranean Diet. the Beverley Hills Diet, the Cabbage Soup Diet, an Ayurvedic Diet, the Atkins Diet (really challenging if you’re a vegetarian), the Paul McKenna Diet, the Think Thin Diet, and many more that I have now forgotten about.

At the time, the only diet that worked was Sure Slim – this is a very complex and also very expensive diet based on metabolic type, low Gi, low fat, low carb, and personal food preferences. The diet includes blood tests and an in-depth interview followed by regular weekly and then fortnightly consultations. Each meal must be meticulously weighed with ingredients selected from a fairly restricted list. I lost about 4 stones in six months, and then put most of it back on the net six months.

Every year since then I have decided to lose weight again and every year I give up after a few months and the weight comes back. The problem is that I had to stick to a complex diet even to maintain my weight and that made it almost impossible to eat out, or to get into a buffet, or to eat something when I was traveling or going to dinner.

I’m sure most of you reading this article will have had similar experiences, and the older we get, the harder it seems to be to lose weight and maintain good health.

However, I am not giving up and recently started looking in more detail at Low Gi Low Carb diets to see if I can find a way to simplify this process and find a more acceptable long term diet that works.

There are a few books that have contributed to my growing understanding of diet over the past decade. Rose Elliot’s Low Carb Vegetarian Diet is great, although you should enjoy eggs and tofu to stick to that diet for the first 14 days. With that said, she is one of the leading experts on vegetarian food and her explanations on the basis of the diet have really helped me better understand the principles of the safe slim diet that worked.

Chris Woollams The Rainbow Diet is primarily about fighting cancer by eating healthier on a version of the Mediterranean diet. But if you can beat cancer by changing your diet, it’s the same diet and process to beat heart problems and diabetes and get you on the road to perfect health. The book has really helped me understand how nutrition and the body work and what our diet can do to make it go wrong or work better. I don’t know why my doctor hasn’t read this book.

Finally, a book that I found over 20 years ago that is now out of print but available second-hand is The Food Addicts Diet by Tish Hayton. In helping her son overcome a major food allergy problem, Tish concluded that many of us suffer from food addictions and the foods we are addicted to are wheat, potatoes, milk and the sugar. When I first read it, I didn’t want to believe it, even though I knew it made sense. These four foods are the foundation of all convenience foods. Between them, they represent about 80% of everything we eat.

Putting together everything I have read from these and many other books, I begin to understand why a diet worked and why I then gained weight again. I am beginning to understand how to simplify my diet so that I can lose weight and keep it off. I have not managed to do it yet, but what I am doing is recording all my progress and I will write more articles about my journey towards achieving perfect health.

My problem has been an addiction to foods that stimulate my body to store fat. They are the reason why diets fail because as soon as we go off a diet we inevitably return to foods that encourage us to store fat.

The food industry knows this too, but it benefits so much from this food addiction that it is not even ready to try to tackle the problem. Instead, we have been misled and lied to for decades. We are convinced that the villain is Fats. So we are all obsessed with low-fat foods and diet drinks that are loaded with sugar substitutes like aspartame.

But it is not the fats from foods that are stored as fat in the body, it is the carbohydrates, particularly the simple carbohydrates from grains and sugars. It is not just wheat and sugar. Our bodies need glucose for energy that comes from carbohydrates; Any excess carbohydrates are converted to fat as a reserve for times when we don’t have enough. In the past this happened quite often, but now in the west we are just not that hungry.

No matter how much you reduce your food intake, if you give your body more carbohydrates than it needs, it will store the excess and not burn fat. The only way to make your body burn fat is to starve it of carbohydrates. Cut out grains, sugar, and even starchy vegetables.

I have been eating a healthy diet of fruits and vegetables for years thinking that it would help me lose weight, but it does not. Many fruits and vegetables are high in carbohydrates.

So the first step in losing weight and keeping it off is tackling the number one villain, SUGAR, wherever he comes from. Sugar, honey, fruit, corn syrup, maple syrup, etc. Sugar is sugar, it quickly breaks down into glucose. So my first tip for tackling weight gain and making a permanent change to your diet is that you should lose your sweet tooth.

The more you restrict your sugar intake, the less you will crave it until you finally find that sugar is unhealthy. It’s not going to be easy, but if you value your health and want to get to a good comfortable weight in the long run, your enemy will be sugar and it has to go.