Your New Years Weight Loss Resolution™ by JayKay Bak PDF EBook JayKay Bak Your New Years Weight Loss Resolution | Page 33

Bottom line. Avoid fad diets. You won’t be able to realistically stay on
them for the long term and you won’t experience long term weight loss
results. If it falls into any of the categories above, chances are it’s a
fad diet.
So what draws us to them? It’s the allure of quick results with very
little effort. We live in an instant gratification society, we want
everything now with little work. If you want anything worthwhile in
life, it will always require effort. In fact the reward is only proportional
to the amount of effort invested.
Weight loss is no different. If you want to lose weight you have to
earn it, it’s going to take some work, but think of all the benefits you
get back in return. They far outweigh any sacrifice. Your life is worth
it don’t you think?
Factors Affecting How We Lose Weight
There are several reasons why we gain weight of which we will delve
into in more detail.
What We Eat – Our Calorie Consumption
When we consume more calories than we burn our bodies store the
excess away as fat. As I mentioned before our bodies are
extraordinary creations and tend to store away any excess fat we don’t
need in case of leaner times that might lie ahead.
However today those times are few and far between and because we
live in the developed world rarely are there ever any times when food
is truly scarce so we continue to keep storing at away.
Compared with 100 short years ago, you would be hard pressed to find
any of our ancestors stricken with obesity because they worked hard in
order to eat. They would either have to grow and harvest their own
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