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"The icing on the obesity cake, so to speak, is our practice of dieting, losing weight fast, and gaining it back. Many chronic dieters have lost the ability to eat when they are truly hungry and to stop eating when they're comfortable. Years of dieting have taught us to follow a certain plan to the letter and deprive ourselves until we can't stand it anymore. We are born with the ability to eat when hungry and stop when comfortable, but this is an easy thing to lose in an environment of fad dieting, with tempting food everywhere you go. We have our work cut out for us, but it can be done." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"As you've discovered, eating generates immediate rewards, whereas the rewards you get from dieting won't be realized for weeks, months, or, for some, years. Future benefits versus the immediate compulsion to eat: that's the formula for yo-yo dieting. Positive motivation alone simply can't overcome the desire for the immediate payoff that propels you to eat the things you know you shouldn't. I saw this fact clearly demonstrated when I consulted at the Pritikin Institute in Santa Monica, California, where clients paid $10,000 a month to take part in a controlled diet and exercise program." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.) "And yet I noticed something else, something that concerned me because I saw how it could sabotage any sincere dieting effort. I saw denial—the same type of denial that sabotages people trying to kick any harmful addiction. Those agitated audience members had experienced so much misunderstanding, so much pain and denigration around their weight issues, that they no longer could face reality. They'd slammed the door on themselves and didn't want to consider that their weight problem had anything to do with their life, preferring any other cause than that." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"They find dieting difficult and often unproductive in the long term. Restricting calories does not result in weight loss as it should. People who are sugar sensitive can eat as few as 800 calories a day, and if those calories are from carbohydrates they will still gain weight. They may have tried a high-protein diet, like that recommended in Barry Sears's Mastering the Zone, and initially had success. But over time it is likely that they started feeling restless and uneasy. Then they slipped and ate carbohydrates, could not get back on the diet and experienced a disastrous rebound effect." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.)

"If you are trying to lose weight, dieting alone without regular exercise can cause you to lose lean muscle tissue, so this approach to weight loss is not optimal. Regular exercise is an important part of a long-term weight-control strategy. Another benefit of physical activity is its ability to relieve stress and tension. This is an important though often overlooked benefit of regular physical exercise. Stress can negatively affect blood glucose levels both directly and indirectly and can have a significant effect on blood pressure." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Avoid extreme dieting. Increase soy foods and flaxseed. Lifestyle: Counseling (for eating disorders) Stress management counseling and practices Reduce exercise from excessive to moderate (continued) Sample Treatment Plans for Amenorrhea {continued) Mineral supplementation: Calcium/magnesium/ boron/vitamin D/other trace minerals and nutrients (see Chapter 14) Oral contraceptives with 30 meg of ethinyl estradiol Consider bio-identical hormones: Estriol 2 mg/ estradiol 0." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The Insulin Connection One thing that almost always goes with PCOS is weight gain, and women with PCOS find it fiendishly difficult to lose weight, even with dieting and exercise. One thing we know for sure is that women with PCOS are much more likely to have a condition called insulin resistance, which is also associated with metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. (More on insulin resistance in a moment.) Our diet can significantly aggravate the condition of insulin resistance, which is why dietary intervention can be so effective in all conditions where insulin resistance is a problem." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"We are born with the ability to eat when hungry and stop when comfortable, but this is an easy thing to lose in an environment of fad dieting, with tempting food everywhere you go. We have our work cut out for us, but it can be done. We have to start focusing on eating and exercising for the health of it and letting the pounds fall where they may. Our obsession with being thin is partly what got us into this mess, after all. We have to stop the fad diets immediately and make changes in our eating and exercise habits that will serve us well for the rest of our lives." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Again, most of us launch into diets with unrealistic expectations that inevitably undermine our efforts to lose weight, because when we don't see the life-changing results we hoped for, we get discouraged and return to bingeing. dieting leads to weight loss and improved health and vigor—period, the end. From any rational point of view, getting thin and healthy should be reason enough to forgo the trench fries, but as you've already discovered, irrational forces tend to win the food wars." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.) "In other words, the will to succeed that kept you going dissipates because the success you wanted couldn't be achieved through dieting alone. Your goals absolutely must be intrinsic and achievable, and only goals completely within your control fit into this category. Only these types of goals keep your commitment alive. Let's take a closer look at how you can sabotage your diet by unwittingly setting unrealistic goals. Suppose, for example, you eat to assuage the pain you feel because your husband, Chester, ignores you.You enjoy a slice or two of tiramisu and forget about Chester for a while." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"Working with the food (please note I do not mean dieting) may evoke feelings of deprivation: "Oh, no, you aren't going to take away my ice cream, are you?" Or sugar or coffee or French bread or whatever you are most attached to. Starting to work with food is likely to touch some pretty core feelings. Please remember that my program is based on an abundance model rather than a deprivation model. I am not taking away anything. At some point you may decide that you do not want to eat foods that contribute to your "craziness." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.)

"These other symptoms include weight loss unrelated to dieting; problems concentrating, thinking, or making decisions; frequent problems with disturbed sleep or too much sleep; markedly increased or decreased activity; fatigue; daily feelings of worthlessness or guilt; and recurring thoughts of death or suicide. Now that you've seen the list of symptoms that helps define major depressive disorder, perhaps you can understand why doctors may confuse CFS or idiopathic chronic fatigue (ICF) with depression." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Moreover, since muscles burn calories, if you lose muscle while trimming pounds, no wonder you regain them so rapidly after you stop dieting. This is a classic example of a good idea, using a high-protein/high-fat program to shut down the self-destruct genes and fat-storage system; but that diet, taken too far, damages the foundation that we wish to preserve. In Phase 2, the Restoration phase, you'll learn how to preserve and even build your muscle mass as you continue to lose fat." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"The large Health Professionals Follow-up Study found that repeated weight loss and gain in men, particularly if they lost more than 20 pounds in a dieting episode, might increase their risk of gallstones by 50%. SHRINKING The Incredible Shrinking Man entertained millions of moviegoers. But if you're the one who's shrinking, you're not likely to be amused. Losing height is a fairly common sign of aging. But, according to a recent British study, older men who lose more than one inch are at increased risk of death from heart and respiratory conditions." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"You've tried dieting and exercising to lose the belly fat, and while you may have lost a few pounds here and therefor short periods of time, the bulk of your extra weight just hangs on. In Part 1, you'll learn the medical reason why your belly fat appeared and why it just won't budge, no matter how hard you try. In Chapter 1, you'll learn how hormone balance is intricately connected with your body's metabolism and its predisposition to store fat." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"We're telling you now that the SuperFoods plus portion control will change your dieting life and ultimately, the quality of your whole life for good. SuperFoodsRx Portion Control Basics Here are the two game pieces you need to practice portion control: A tennis ball A deck of cards These two very familiar shapes represent the amounts you should be eating of various foods. It's that easy. Fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes should be the size of a tennis ball. Protein foods (turkey, salmon, etc.) should be the size of a deck of cards." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.) "Most people don't realize the effect that chronic dieting has on their ability to make decisions. Most fad diets—or diets that are low in essential nutrients—make it nearly impossible for you to succeed in losing weight. That's because when you do not have a sustained and gradual release of blood glucose—which ideally comes from whole, nutrient dense, fiber-rich foods—your moods are affected such that you are extremely vulnerable to fuzzy thinking, mood swings, and impulsive behavior. Foods that are high in sugars and refined carbs and low in fiber lead to a rapid and extreme rise in glucose." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"So they market different kinds of entrees to each member of the family (low carb for the dieting teenager, low cholesterol for dad, high fat for the eight-year-old, and so on), and engineer these "home meal replacements," as they're known in the trade, so that even the eight-year-old can safely microwave them. But the biggest threat to the meal-as-we-knew-it is surely the snack, and snacking in recent years has colonized whole new parts of our day and places in our lives. Work, for example, used to be a more or less food-free stretch of time between meals, but no longer." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Because the prevalence of overweight and obesity is also at an all-time high, this interest in dieting and attempts to modify diet appear to be contradictory. This contradiction underscores the difficulty people face in making seemingly simple changes to their dietary intake in an environment that encourages easy overconsumption of energy. 1. Creating an Energy Deficit The universal component of dietary interventions for weight loss is a creation of an energy deficit [1, 5]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"How could a country so obsessed with plastic surgery and being thin, spending billions a year on fad diets and dieting products, get itself in this mess? Well, I've got my theories. First of all, when it comes to food variety and taste, the United States has it made. Both of these factors stimulate food intake. We may have started as the land of opportunity, but we are now the land of huge portions. Our extralarge servings and the fact that we eat out more often than ever are two more factors that encourage overeating in America." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Significant weight loss when not dieting or weight gain (e.g., a change of more than five pounds of body weight in a month), or decrease or increase in appetite nearly every day. Insomnia or hypersomnia (sleeping too much) nearly every day. ??Psychomotor agitation or retardation nearly every day. ?* Fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day. ??Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt nearly every day. ?* Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness, nearly every day. ?" - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Your body can cleanse and heal itself more rapidly while fasting or juice dieting, often referred to as juice fasting. Since the body doesn't have to spend so much energy digesting various foods and eliminating their residues, it can focus on revitalizing, expelling stored toxins and repairing damaged cells. Dr. Paavo Airola explained why fasting is the "number one healer and reju-venator" (How to Keep Slim, Healthy and Young with Juice Fasting, pp. 20-21). The body lives on its own substances by the process of autolysis, or self-digestion." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Furthermore, with juice dieting one can go about daily business and even get moderate exercise. It is even possible to continue working if the person is relatively healthy. Many people, myself included, have noted that they can still work while on a juice diet, although deeper excretion of toxins only comes with complete rest during a fast on water only. Fasting and Freedom from Addictions Dr. Cousens likens the effects of fasting on the body to the effects of rebooting on a computer. Often when your computer acts up, a simple reboot is all you need to get rid of the problem." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Airola's and Cousens's juice dieting reasoning must be considered: Think about it! To get well, the whole idea of fasting on water only is to inspire the body to live off its own reserve nutrients in certain tissues exclusively, healthy and unhealthy both. This is the most favorable setup for complete healing to take place in as short a time as possible. If an ill person takes juices, however, he is living partially on juice nutrients; and this auspicious setup for exclusivity is sabotaged." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "For a crash course on detoxing while on raw foods and on fasting and juice dieting, refer to Chapters 14 and 15.) The health seeker can go the faster route by fasting on water only or the slower route by drinking raw juices and/or eating raw foods. Either way, all ten energy enhancers must be followed to get the best results possible." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Having used it myself when fighting those last ten pounds that somehow keep sneaking up from time to time, I can tell you that it really helps stave off hunger pains when you're dieting so that you feel less like overeating and are genuinely satisfied with less food. Extending Satiety A number of studies have been conducted on Satiatrim, one of which, as of this writing, is scheduled to be presented at a meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity. Tanya Little, Ph.D." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"In response to energy restriction (i.e., dieting), a modest suppression of RMR has been reported to range between 5% and 25%, with an average maximum change of about 15% [44], largely due to a decrease in fat free mass, which often accompanies diet-induced weight loss. Although small perturbations in RMR can have a substantial impact on the regulation of body weight in a given individual, there is no indication that RMR has declined in the population during the past few decades [45]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"SuperFoods Trump Willpower What's the hardest thing about dieting? Most of us would agree: It's standing in front of the fridge or pantry at 10:00 p.m., starving, and giving in to a handful of cookies or a bowl of ice cream or a bag of chips. It's almost an out-of-body experience. You don't want to do it but you feel compelled to. Why? Because you're hungry. Or you think you're hungry. But it's really more than that. You may in fact be stressed or tired. One thing for sure: You're not feeling in control. The surprising fact is that you may be subverted by the very diet you're following." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"However, it is apparent that more research is needed to conclusively determine the psychological effect of repeated episodes of dieting and weight loss. B. Physical Activity Modification Physical activity is important for improving health-related outcomes across many disease states including heart disease, cancer, and diabetes (i.e., frequent comorbidities to obesity) [65]. In general, physical activity has been used as a key component of obesity treatment." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

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