Healthy Weight Loss - Diet Vs Dieting

You've heard the hype about different diet plans and fast weight loss supplements. The Southbeach Diet, The Hollywood Diet. The Grapefruit Diet, The Cabbage Soup Diet. The premise behind them may be different, but they all promise you easy weight loss. Just remember that healthy weight loss is simple, but not easy. Diet is an area where people tend to get out of whack. Fad diets that eliminate one type of nutrient (low fat/low carb) or focus exclusively on a special food (grapefruit diet) fail to take into consideration the balance of nutritional needs of your body. They may provide a short term loss, but they usually plateau well before your ultimate goal. And you will likely gain the weight back. Sometimes you'll gain more than you lost. This puts you onto the yo-yo dieting treadmill. And that doesn't even take into consideration the potential damage some of these dieting techniques can wreak on your body.

While following a fad diet (i.e. dieting) is not a good way to lose weight, changing our eating habits (i.e. diet) is an important part of a healthy weight loss plan. You need to change your lifestyle and that includes what, how much and when you eat and drink. Fat and protein still have a bad rap today. Many diets look only at the calories they provide. Both fats and proteins have more calories per gram than carbohydrates. That is an undeniable fact. But they also contain vital amino acids, proteins and other building blocks that your body cannot grow without. Your body does not break the fat and protein down for energy unless there is more building blocks than it needs. So the caloric content of fat and protein is not the most important fact to consider. The pendulum of dieting has begun to swing back in the anti-carb direction. There is ample evidence to show that carbohydrates, while having less calories per gram, are often a major culprit in weight gain. Excessive carbohydrates will go directly to fat storage. But that doesn't mean that it is healthy to eliminate all carbs. You also need to learn the difference between simple and complex carbs and how they affect your body. Often people will say "If less is good, none is better." While this may be true for toxic waste and bowling on TV, it isn't true for any of the food components. You also need to keep in mind that not all fats (nor all carbohydrates for that matter) are good for you. Some will affect your health negatively and are best to be avoided. Just don't fall into the trap of eliminating all fat/protein/carbohydrate from your diet. Your body needs all of them. So, if you want to lose weight and stay healthy, then forget about the fad dieting. Focus your energy on changing your eating habits for the better.

On top of that, people say OMAD is convenient — you only have to worry about planning for one meal a day. Another commonly cited perk is having fewer dirty dishes to deal with (yes, seriously). But most importantly, many people on OMAD like it because, for some reason, it’s the one diet approach that has actually worked for them. With this in mind, here’s a breakdown of how OMAD works — and what science says about its weight loss potential. How Does OMAD Work? Many popular intermittent fasting plans rely on time-restricted eating, which involves limiting food consumption to a certain time window. The more common variations allow for a six- or eight-hour eating window, followed by a 16- or 18-hour fast. There’s also alternate-day fasting, which gives people the freedom to eat whatever they want on one day, followed by a fast or calorie restriction the next day.

Other forms of intermittent fasting might incorporate only one or two days per week of no eating or significant calorie restriction. According to Krista Varady, a nutrition researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago, fasting forces our bodies to rely on our sugar and fat stores first for fuel. But she says intermittent fasting’s success largely relies on something that’s pretty boring and familiar for many who have tried to lose weight: calorie restriction. “I just think it’s a way to fool the body into eating less, I don’t think there’s anything magical about it,” Varady says. Another common misconception around intermittent fasting is that it promotes autophagy, or “self-eating,” on a cellular level. The idea behind autophagy is that, when you fast, your body can spend time cleaning up damaged cells because it isn’t busy dealing with a constant influx of food. But this process has never been observed in humans, and scientists don’t even have a way of measuring it in people, Varady says. How Effective is OMAD? Although 23-to-1 fasting hasn’t been studied in humans per se, one well-known paper examined a one-meal-per-day eating regime’s impact on weight and other health measures.