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12 Diet Myths that Sabotage Weight Loss
By Dr. Leslie Van Romer
Welcome aboard the U.S. diet-Go-Round, one that may have ridden a dozen times before. You plan. You measure. You have. You weigh. You sacrifice. You deprive. You die of starvation. You crave. You sneak (as if you really can sneak from yourself). You cheat. You blame. Beat yourself (you're a master at that.) You lose. Ganas. You lose. Ganas. You lose. You plateau. You plateau. You plateau and eventually lost – One pound. Then you go to the home of a friend for dinner and an increase of two pounds again.
Then, keep winning, pound for pound, until it is just where to start, or even heavier. You get depressed, frustrated, and feels like a hopeless failure once again. You waive – What's the point? No matter what you try, no work – forever.
You vote to ban diets forever, until the next solution fast, the fat melts and no proof of the diet is appealing to their sense of desperation to be thin and lure you into believing that somehow it would be different of the dozens of diets you tried before. You climb back aboard the diet-go-round, round round, with the scale up and down, and ultimately – and hopes downward spiral once again.
The good news is: you do not, diets do not! Thank goodness – what a relief! Most diet-of-the-day are designed to fail. We will sort the myth of the facts and stop the madness dizzying diet-go-round once and forever.
MYTH: To lose weight, you must control your hunger drive.
FACT: Your hunger drive can not be controlled. It is an innate instinct. Like all instincts – thirst, sleep, breathing, sex – it keeps you alive and thriving human race. When you're hungry (not just bored or sad or angry), do the new – Eat! Just choose foods that give you the best nutrition for your calorie buck: fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains (like brown rice, no bread) and beans. To lose weight, you must satisfy your hunger drive, not war with him.
MYTH: Foods rich in protein satisfy their hunger drive.
Fact: Of the three major nutrients, carbohydrates, proteins and fats, unrefined carbohydrates fruits of origin Whole vegetables and satisfy your hunger drive, not the protein found in animal products. Beef, chicken, pork and fish contain exactly 0% of carbohydrates. If you are eating a diet high in protein sources for animal products, not getting enough unrefined carbohydrate, responsible for triggering the brain to tell when to stop eating, that was before your stomach begs for mercy.
MYTH: To lose weight, you must die of hunger with pre-measured, pre-weighed, pre-numbered restricted parts.
FACT: To lose weight, you feel full and satisfied, not a famine of the baby-sized portions. You can only starve so long before the hunger drive takes over with the unstoppable power so that you eat any anything and everything in sight. If filled at the best-for-you foods can and should eat all you want without complaining, counting, measuring, weighing, starving, hungry, desire, and binge – Kilos and start over – again.
MYTH: To lose weight, you must give up your favorite foods forever and ever.
FACT: To lose weight, you do not "have to" compromise. Let's face it. As soon as a claim that is giving up his friend's favorite food is likely to the temptation to surrender as soon as tomorrow! Instead of trying to catch yourself in that "I have to give up" the box, follow a new strategy. Think, moreover, does not detract, and give yourself wiggle room.
Think about which foods you "get to" add to your day Instead you "must" give up. Center your meals in your weight warriors and heroes of health: whole, fresh fruits and vegetables, and grains whole beans, Brussels sprouts, raw, unsalted nuts and seeds, and homemade fruit and vegetable juices. Fill in these foods and then eat their traditional foods not so good for you. Enjoy your freedom of action, flexibility in your meal plan. But it does not move more than 20% of the time, or you do not lose that jiggle.
MYTH: Carbohydrates are fattening.
FACT: Who started the rumor that eating fruit, best of nature, is the same as eating refined white sugar? All carbohydrates are not created equally. There are good carbs and bad carbs. Good carbohydrates obtained from whole foods, without refining plants, including fruits, vegetables, grains and vegetables, the best-for-you food. The good carbs, more fuel efficient your body, you ate Yesterday give energy today. (No, not provide the protein energy.)
bad carbohydrate foods are obtained by refined vegetable white sugar and white flour products: breads, cookies, cakes, donuts, cakes, sweets, desserts, soft drinks, beverages bought in stores, and many processed foods, packaged. bad carbs, high in empty calories and nutrients, to add fat to fat.
If preaches a diet high in protein, low carbohydrate-fat, low, high-carbohydrate diet of prepackaged meals, diet shakes three times a day, or portions of hungry baby's size, the truth is that weight gain or loss is ultimately not dictated by any one major nutrient, but by a simple mathematical equation:
(Calories IN) – (calories), = fat you wear
MYTH: The cravings are all in your imagination.
FACT: The cravings are real. They can keep hostage and trapped in a body that will not or similar. Diets usually deprive you of enough calories and nutrients (especially carbohydrates), intensifying cravings, uncontrollable urges to eat foods that seductive favorites are high in calories, sugar, fat, salt and / or products chemicals.
Fresh fruits and vegetables that supply all necessary nutrients for human health and life, satisfy your hunger drive and reduction minimizing or eliminating cravings, sometimes in the first week.
Myth: Olive oil is good fat.
FACT: This will shock! Did you know that your body does almost all the fat you need? There are two exceptions: alphalinoleic linoleic fatty acids, widely source for a variety of plant foods. Therefore, it serves no purpose whatsoever to add more fat to the fat already made, especially a highly concentrated fat and refinement that comes without any nutrition. All added oils, including olive oil, give you one thing: the calories and the calories come with a price tag of fat – more fat added to the hips, abdomen, thighs and arms. Translation: olive oil a bad fat!
FACT: Look to nature looking for simple answers. Where do you get your elephants need fats? Olive, canola, flax seed oil? Of course not. Plant foods provide all our essential nutrients, including fats. Grapefruit contain 2% milk, orange 4%, 15% oatmeal, broccoli, 9%, 4% apples, romaine lettuce 10% and 6% col.
MYTH: You must eat meat to get enough protein.
FACT: Animal products, even so-called thin, comes automatically packaged with artery-clogging, causing diseases of saturated fat and cholesterol. Beef is 67% fat, or chicken skinless white 38% fat, 48% fat salmon, cheddar cheese 73% fat, eggs 62% fat and 2% milk 35% fat. With regard to cholesterol, chicken, fish and dairy products are at the height of the beef. Meat, dairy and fish fast can hike up the calories from fat, sabotaging loss weight and weight maintenance.
Question: But we have to eat meat to get enough protein?
Answer: What is the protein for? Protein is for lots of things, but simply, protein is for growth. When we grow more? From birth to one year of age. When do you need the most protein? From birth to one year of age. What is the best growing food for babies? Breast milk. How much protein in breast milk? 4.5% protein. That's it!
It is not coincidence that the World Organization recommends 4.5% protein in the diet for human health. Oranges have 8% protein, 45% of broccoli cos 36%, 8% rice, beans 26%. Plant foods give us plenty of protein, fat and cholesterol that come with animal protein. Others two points of the protein: 1. Plant protein is not inferior to animal protein. 2. Plant proteins do not have to be mixed and matched to make a "complete" of the protein.
FACT: Look at the nature of common sense answers. Where the cows, horses, giraffes, monkeys, elephants large and get your protein to grow and maintain large, strong muscles? Do not eat cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, fish, eggs, protein bars, or protein drinks. Plant foods eaten raw, and not a variety at that. If they can get plenty of protein from plants, so that we can.
MYTH: You should drink milk and eat cheese to get enough calcium.
FACT: Because dairy products are Full-fat, not to mention other ill effects, not their allies in the game of weight loss. Most cheeses are 70% fat or more, and even milk skim is 4-7% fat.
Question: But we must not eat dairy products to get our calcium?
Answer: Where the cows, horses, giraffes, monkeys, and elephants get your calcium for strong bones and teeth? Flora. Certainly, do not drink milk (Once weaned) and other mammal milk in it. Cow's milk is made for baby cows, not people drink much less the elderly. Milk is only in people's baby mother's milk.
DONE: Unrefined plant foods contain all the nutrients, vitamins, minerals and micronutrients you need, including calcium. Nature is so smart. What are the sources of calcium? The soil. Calcium is dissolved in water in the soil and absorbed by plants. Inedible plants transform calcium unusable land usable calcium needed by all mammals. Eating plants is the most direct way to get calcium, and without the fat, cholesterol, animal protein, milk sugar, hormones, antibiotics, other toxins, and pus (yes, pus!), which can come in dairy products.
Meat and dairy products are options, not requirements, and can add significant calories and fat calories to fat.
MYTH: You may exercise the calories you take in.
FACT: It takes about twelve miles of moderate walking, all at the same time to lose a pound of fat. Unless you are a high-level athlete, exercising without having to change to a higher nutrient density, food plan low in calories helps disappointingly little to the ideal weight loss in the average person.
MYTH: A diet is a temporary way of eating to lose weight. Once the weight objective is achieved, you can go back to your way "normal" eating.
FACT: As soon as you leave a restrictive diet and return "Normal" eating habits, the weight returns – with a vengeance. The only way to lose weight permanently is to change your thinking. As you change their way of thinking, to change their daily decisions. As your exchange options, their travel behavior. As his change of habits, behavior patterns and changing the whole lifestyle a. At first, the change is the overall effort, as with any change, especially deeply conditioned habits. After Over time, the total effort by magic becomes possible, unless released from the trap food.
MYTH: If you stumble, they are weak, lazy, and / or discipline, and ultimately a failure.
FACT: That's ridiculous! If you are a human being living on this planet, of course we down the track. It is difficult to change habits that have taken root in us from birth. The so-called sliding is totally normal and natural for all of us mere mortals. When you get off the track, there is no need for self-flagellation. Let it go – what's done is done – and get back on track. Go to store large amount of food obtained fresh and whole, and the center of their meals next to the best-for-you food.
Hop-go-round diet and lose those extra pounds forever. Just to add, stop and wiggle. Add and fill with the best-for-you foods first, stop eating when your brain tells you, and move – but not too much! With time, patience, and what they really want, you can enter your body, a dream come true.
Remember: the only slip-up is giving up, and you will not resign!
About the Author
Dr. Leslie Van Romer, author of the weight-loss book, “Getting Into Your Pants,” is a chiropractor, speaker and expert in weight loss, diet and nutrition. She empowers individuals with direction and hope to lose weight, boost health and feel good about themselves. For information, visit www.gettingintoyourpants.com or call 1-888-375-3754.
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