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The Power of your Metabolism

“DIETS” DON’T WORK

Different studies that have been done have revealed that approximately 95% of people that start a diet lose weight and then gain the weight back again in less than one year.  This is saying that 95% of diets are failures.  What good is it to suffer through a diet if very shortly after you’ve lost the weight you gain it all back again? What’s the point in keeping yourself from eating the foods that you love if you’re just going to gain back the weight you lost? What a miserable way of wasting time!

In reality, “diets” don’t work.  The traditional concept of “a diet” is the concept of “denying myself something” or “not allowing myself to eat something”.  It is a negative concept.

There is a human characteristic that sabotages all diets.  It is the tendency to desire that which we are told we cannot have.  Diabetics are told that they can’t eat sweets, so what the diabetic person really wants to eat then, are sweets.  The basic principal behind this human reaction seems to be that the “scarcity” always causes the “necessity”.

The only real freedom that exists is the freedom of “being able to have” or “not being able to have” something.  For example, an alcoholic “has to have” alcohol, and that is why he is an alcoholic.  If he could “have it” or “not have it” he would simply be free to decide if he wanted the alcohol or not and wouldn’t be an alcoholic.  Whenever there is a situation where “I can’t have” a certain substance, that creates a scarcity of it, and therefore, a necessity.  It’s a trap.

“Diets”, generally speaking, are a type of “I can’t have” and cause scarcities of substances and therefore create a feeling of necessity.  I’ve been working for 10 years with thousands of people that have been slimming down.  I constantly have to convince people that they don’t have to deny themselves of any foods.  I know from experience that if you start to deny yourself a piece of pie that you really want, you will eventually lose control and you will eat double or triple what you initially felt like eating.

People are accustomed to going, for example, to a nutritionist that asks them not to eat fat, or use salt, or eat sweets or some other prohibition.  In other words, they get used to thinking in terms of “what I can eat and what I can’t eat”.  That’s why they fail; they deny themselves of the things that they really like.  This is what makes them consider their diet to be an “enemy” because their “diet” denies them of the things that they really enjoy.  The mind works by association.  All of those things that block us from the pleasures of life could be considered our “enemies”.  The word “diet” has come to have a very negative connotation because it stands for “I can’t have this or I can’t have that”.

What I have seen that works is avoiding this limited concept of “a diet” and adopting the wide concept of what we call a “lifestyle”.  A “lifestyle” is a route that one freely chooses.  If I know that certain foods cause serious harm when I eat them, it would be really irresponsible on my part to eat them excessively.  That’s not to say that I have to completely eliminate them forever as if my religion didn’t allow it.  What is optimum in life is to find a “balance”.  All extremes complicate life and make it more difficult to enjoy it.
  
The main goal of this book, “The Power of Your Metabolism”, is to create awareness.  Don’t deny yourself of anything or put yourself on a “diet”.  The idea is to understand which factors are the ones that speed up your metabolism and which are the ones that slow it down.  The idea is to invite you to take part in a “lifestyle” where you eat all of the foods that you love responsibly, but with complete consciousness of the effect that each one of them has on your metabolism and health.

There aren’t any foods that are bad for you.  There are foods that can be very harmful to your metabolism and health if you eat too much of them.  There isn’t anything bad about a piece of pie.  There isn’t anything wrong with potatoes, bread, fried food, sweets, chocolates or any other kind of food.  It is all a question of proportions and balance between them.  You can enjoy EVERYTHING without abusing those that cause a lot of damage to your health like refined carbohydrates.

So, I’m inviting you to take part of a healthy “lifestyle” where you will feel much more energetic.  Every day you will feel healthier and need medications less.  It’s a “lifestyle” that protects your metabolism and doesn’t make you overweight or obese.  Forget about the idea that it is a “diet”. “Diets” don’t work, “Lifestyles” do.