| It is estimated that on any given day of the year, | | | | or irregular menstruation. Fat is a necessary |
| 38% of the population are on some type of diet | | | | substance, but when it accumulates in excess it |
| or exercise program to "lose weight". This means | | | | causes a bunch of hormonal and health problems. |
| that more than 1 in 3 people wish to achieve a | | | | What we want to reduce is our body fat excess. |
| reduction of their body weight and are willing to | | | | In other words, SLIM DOWN. |
| sacrifice something to achieve this. | | | | Measuring body weight alone has never been a |
| The sad part is that the majority, about 95% of | | | | good indicator of how much fat a body has. This |
| these people, end-up abandoning their efforts or | | | | is because a human body is made up of at least |
| fail in their intent to diet or exercise. Very few | | | | 65% water and water weights much more than |
| achieve their goal and even less is able to maintain | | | | fat. Fat is not a heavy substance and this is why |
| any weight lost. Because of this, obesity and | | | | overweight people float in water much more |
| overweight conditions have been increasing | | | | easily. Fat is a very light substance, but it is very |
| throughout the last 40 years and today these | | | | VOLUMINOUS. In other words, it occupies a lot of |
| conditions have become an "epidemic" because | | | | space. Which is why trying to measure the results |
| they affect the large part of our population. | | | | of a diet or an exercise program with a scale is |
| Meanwhile we receive heavy advertising through | | | | exposing you to failure. What we should really |
| the media with daily images of skeletal thin | | | | look at, to determine if we are losing weight, is |
| models as a symbol of how thin we all should be. | | | | your dress size. Observing the way your clothes |
| Everything we see on television and print media | | | | now fit never fails because this tells you clearly |
| indicates that we are "fat" and that we carry | | | | whether you are really reducing fat in your body. |
| more pounds than we should. | | | | In addition, when we put additional pressure to |
| In my experience, a lot of the people who go on | | | | weigh ourselves it creates an anxiety that |
| a diet fail simply because they have a wrong idea | | | | increases cortisol hormone levels and this |
| or a compulsion to "lose weight". The generality | | | | prevents us from slimming down. The continuous |
| that the problem is too much weight is a wrong | | | | stress to weigh ourselves every day sabotages |
| idea. The general problem is not that we have too | | | | our efforts because the cortisol hormone reduces |
| much weight, but rather that we have too much | | | | metabolism, makes us hungry and makes us fat. |
| FAT, and this is what classifies us as "fat", the | | | | If you want to go the logical and effective way |
| body fat. | | | | when it comes to being slim, lose the scale. Do |
| There is an important difference that we must | | | | not weigh your body more than once a week and |
| recognize before we go on a diet only to then | | | | always keep in mind that the problem is not |
| feel a "failure" because we are not "losing weight" | | | | "being heavy". The real problem is being "fat" and |
| like we wanted to. The crucial difference lies in | | | | that cannot easily be determined well by a scale. |
| knowing how to set the right goal. "Losing weight" | | | | Observe the changes in your dress size. If |
| is not the same as SLIMMING DOWN. When the | | | | someone asks how many pounds you've lost, |
| body experiences weight loss, the loss could | | | | simply tell them "I lost 2 dress sizes" or "I lost 4 |
| come from losing water, muscle or fat. In reality, | | | | inches around my waist". Don't put too much |
| what we are interested in is losing BODY FAT. | | | | importance to your body weight. Do put your |
| We don't want to lose water because our body | | | | attention to being able to fit into those clothes |
| will dehydrate and metabolism will slow down | | | | you have hanging in your closet that didn't fit |
| which will eventually make us fat. We don't want | | | | anymore. |
| to reduce muscle mass either because our skin | | | | Ironically, when a person begins an exercise |
| will be flaccid and lose. The important thing is to | | | | routine, he or she gains weight. But this weight |
| reduce FAT. That is called SLIMMING DOWN and | | | | gain is good because a person is actually gaining |
| that is what we really want to achieve. | | | | muscle mass. Muscles weigh 2 ½ times more |
| Some people have a compulsion with their body | | | | than fat. If you increase muscle, fat will reduce |
| weight. They want to achieve, no matter what, | | | | and you will be thinner. Increasing muscles is a |
| weight loss. But, they forget that the body is | | | | good thing. I have heard a so-called nutritional |
| made up of a lot of different components: water, | | | | expert tell his client not to exercise because |
| bones, muscles, tissue and fat. The only thing we | | | | exercise makes you gain weight. This is just a |
| really want to reduce is body fat because it is | | | | reflection of the expert's ignorance regarding the |
| body fat that makes us "fat". It is also excessive | | | | human body. The best way to slim down is with |
| fat that blocks our arteries and causes high blood | | | | the correct diet plan paired with an exercise |
| pressure and heart attacks. It is excessive fat | | | | routine. |
| that causes an insulin resistance on diabetics and | | | | So, forget about your weight. It is not important. |
| makes it impossible for them to control their | | | | Observe your dress size or the size of your |
| condition. It is excessive body fat that makes | | | | waist. Give your scale a vacation and you will see |
| some women infertile and causes a very painful | | | | that you will slim down and increase your energy. |