Diets and Obesity

Welcome to my blog! I hope you were attracted to this blog because you are interested in living a healthy lifestyle.

This site will analyze and report current trends in healthy living. We will track the progress of some of my clients. I will discuss the state of our populations health and hopefully attract some feed back and thoughts from others. I will also answer questions anyone has on living a healthy lifestyle.

The first topic I want to tackle is the title of this post: Diets and Obesity.

Do you realize that there are currently hundreds of different diet plans, books, videos and tapes on the market today? Some are similar but others are on opposite ends of the eating scale. For instance, there are diets that have you cut out carbohydrates but eat high protein and moderate fat. Then there are the low fat, high carbohydrate diets. The diet industry is a multi-billion dollar industry!

Now comes the tough question. If we have so many choices for diets and they all claim to be effective, then how come the obesity rate is the highest it has ever been in history? If billions of dollars are spent on diets then the opposite should be true.

This is my observation on this problem (yes, it is a problem for everyone). Dieting is complicated and is hard. They rely on you depriving you of needed calories by drastically cutting them. They also only concentrate on one or two aspects of the over weight and obesity problem. Everyone sees it as an eating problem or an activity problem. Diet "gurus" concentrate on cutting calories and fitness "gurus" concentrate on increasing activity. Some will do both but it is still not enough.

My formula has five factors. Those factors are nutrition, supplementation, resistance training, cardiovascular training, and personal assistance. Using all five factors makes dieting obsolete because this is a lifestyle change. What happens after someone reaches thier goal in a diet? Most will gain back the weight they lost plus gain additional weight on top of that! My formula is not something that is done until you reach your goal. It is done for your entire life. The best part about it is that it becomes second nature.

I have a twelve week program that I take clients through and teach them how to use the five factors. They change their bad habits for good habits. What I am talking about here is a lifestyle change. "Diet" no longer becomes a meaningful word for them. They lose fat (note that I don't say weight) and feel better, happier, more alive.

I am interested in what others may think of what I have said here so please leave your comments. This is just the beginning of a source of information for anyone trying to live healthier.