Examining Diet Tips

1) You will gain weight. It's inevitable.
As you age, the resting metabolic rate decreases. Without a counteraction of decreasing food intake or increasing physical activity, your weight will rise.

2) A diet should really solve the problem of weight gain, which is harder to handle than weight loss.
Age, food, calories, calorie composition, micro-nutrients, activity level--all targets of a good diet.

A diet is NOT a process of dropping pounds as fast as possible.

3) Losing weight should NOT set you up for weight gain later.
Lose weight fast, starve yourself, neglect entire food groups--yep, you'll gain weight soon.

Why?

Simple. Put your body through stress (like extreme diets) and it response is to conserve energy.

You might lose weight fast but the conservation of energy by your body eventually catches up and wins.

4) We have eating personalities (eating personality disorders is better).
Minor variations of general personalities--Dominant, Analyzer, Relater, Promoter--cause you to develop bad habits and gain weight.

But these same eating traits have good habits to teach...you just have to be willing to learn.

5) Dieting is about losing fat but keeping muscle. Maintaining weight is about increasing muscle mass.

Never start a diet that will cause you to lose muscle. If you're not sure ask.

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6) A diet that causes you to lose fat and muscle is not following #5.
Bad diet.

7) The right levels of micro-nutrients and muscle stop weight gain.
Good diet

8) Losing fat and keeping muscle requires a different diet then gaining muscle.
Several recent studies support two diet plans, one to lose weight and one to prevent gaining it back.

9) What the calorie is (composition) is key not amount of calories.
Counting calories is not as important as we once thought. However, the number of calories consumed per day REMAINS A FACTOR IN CAUSING YOU TO GAIN WEIGHT OVER THE YEARS!

YES, I'M SHOUTING TO GET MY POINT ACROSS.

10) Water is thermogenic.
This is a good thing...drink water.

11) No supplements are needed for average Americans, with one possible exception: Calcium.
Calcium is good. Coral calcium has not been formally tested to treat the diseases the marketers promote. Just keep that in mind.

12) Ideal weight is really best thought of as ideal weight range.
This has a great impact on setting realistic goals.

13) Support groups help.
Our own research shows that participating in online groups with a few individual sessions mixed in is best.

14) Bad habits keep you fat
Good habits can keep you thin.

15) Two different diet approaches work better then one. A diet that Pre-Stops weight gain makes it easier.
You need two plans (see diet tips #8)

16) Energy density of food affects how much you eat. Fat content doesn't.
High energy foods make you eat MORE. Energy density of food is from fat, water, and fiber.

What does this mean? Not sure. But with the right food combinations you can LOSE FAT without LOSING MUSCLE.

17) Any diet that fixes your weight but causes harm in some other way is stupid.
Stupid diet tips.

18) Any diet that is not nutritionally balanced will not improve your health.
A diet MUST be nutritious...enough said.

19) Only the most disciplined dieter can stay on ONE diet for the long haul. Unless the diet is so pleasing it's easy to do.

But those are usually bad for you.
Anything of worth requires work.

20) The wonderful people of China and Body Builders aren't fat.
We are. Interesting...