Yo, Are You Yo-yo Dieting?

Yo-yo dieting is a vicious cycle of dieting that millions of
North Americans and people worldwide experience.

With a typical diet, you eat less and take in fewer calories.
Your famine response kicks in. You lose weight from fat AND
lean muscle.

With less muscle, you have a reduced metabolic rate, which
means a reduced ability to burn fat. Since you're getting
less calories, you eventually fall off and need to increase
your calories.

Your feast response kicks in, you start eating much more, and
you regain the weight you lost as fat.

The cycle repeats.

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4 Reasons Why Most Diets Fail

Back in my university days, I had a few months where I went
on a no-grain, mostly raw food diet (or at least I tried to).

I found that avoiding grains was pretty difficult because
they're in so many products, like rice, pasta, bread, baked
goods, and even soy sauce!

The second thing that made this diet very hard for me was the
fact that I got sick during that time. I don't know if it
was caused by nutritional deficiencies or by eating some
contaminated food.

Diets are typically prone to failure, and you'll want to know
why. It's usually because they:

* Are nutritionally inadequate
If you don't have the right nutrition, you're just not going
to feel good

* Are too hard to follow
For example, can you easily follow a diet that tells you to
maintain a specific carbohydrate/protein/fat ratio? Having
this kind of restriction can interfere too much with your
life.

* Are slow to give results
People want to get results as quickly as possible. When
they don't see the results quickly enough, they can get
frustrated and abandon the diet.

* Depend on unsafe ingredients
Unsafe ingredients can have unwanted and negative side-effects
that make it difficult for people to stay on the diet.

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causes of failing:
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How being short can feel like being overweight

In school, standing out from the crowd can make you feel
like you're different and don't belong. You may get picked
on and this could happen, for example, because you're shorter
than everyone else.

The same type of thing can happen if you appear physically
overweight or obese. Here are some of the intangible costs
of obesity:

* Physical restrictions
* Low self-esteem
* Depression
* Social discrimination
* Reduced quality of life

If you want to avoid the the intangible costs of obesity,
then I think the best solution is to lose weight and inches :)
You'll feel healthier, and this plan can help you succeed
financially as well:
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It's not just about the genes

Would you agree that knowing about the causes of obesity
could help you lose weight?

The causes are:

* Overeating
Eating too much food or eating the wrong foods. One common
trigger of overeating is emotion. Do you ever eat more
when you're down? When you're up?

* Lack of exercise
This can be caused by the nature of the job you have. For
example, many people these days have an "office job". Some
people just have a sedentary lifestyle - they sit around the
couch and don't get involved in physical activity.

* Hereditary factors
Your genes could be working against you. Some people seem
to gain weight easily, and others seem to be able to eat a lot
more without gaining weight. Genes can also control your
appetite.

This plan helps you get on the right path to losing weight.
It has a success guide that will help you control overeating,
and a nifty pedometer to track your exercise. Learn more about
the plan:
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My experience learning to juggle

Do you sometimes find it hard to improve a certain aspect
of your life? Or to acquire a certain skill?

When I learned to juggle 3 balls, it was relatively easy. I
received a book at Christmas about how to juggle. It came
with three balls, and I started practicing. I would say it took
about a day to get it down pat.

When I nailed it down, I thought to myself that 3 balls was a
cinch! So, I decided to go for 5 balls, which is much more difficult.

Some days, I got discouraged. It seemed like I was making
no progress at all. I decided to start tracking something
because I heard that "what you can measure, you can improve".

I tracked the number of throws I could make and continually
made higher goals for myself.

Similarly, in the world of weight loss, the idea of measuring and
tracking works as well. One important measure here is
BMI (body mass index).

BMI falls into four categories:

* Underweight: BMI < 18.5
* Normal Weight: BMI of 18.5 – 24.9
* Overweight: BMI of 25.0 – 29.9
* Obese: BMI of 30+

To find out where you fall, please go to this online BMI
calculator:
http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/

P.S. A 12-week study of people on this plan showed that
participants on average decreased from obese to overweight!
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