The Fastest Way To Lose Weight Is To Go Slow

 

The first thing you should do she suggests, is "get clear on where you are now," by carefully examining your present diet. Then draw up a list of dietary goals, to "define where you see yourself going, to make sure you know what you want to change." Then, in easy stages, lay out the stepping-stones for getting yourself to the other side.

If you're trying to add whole grains to your diet, for instance, she suggests you do it in "percentages" - make the switch to whole-wheat bread first, then start using wholegrain pastas, and so on. Pay attention to the after-effects of foods: Junk food may be easier to leave behind if you really pay attention to the way you feel after eating it. That half-sick feeling that follows too many cream-filled cupcakes, for instance, cam become a great motivator for change. And as you move further out onto the frontiers of taste, "you should always make sure there's at least something familiar in there. You've got to take risk by including new foods with new tastes, but don't risk it all at once."

Your body will no doubt appreciate the cautious approach, because a dramatic change in the foods you eat causes physiological changes that take time to adjust to. Several doctors have reported, for example, that people who suddenly add a lot of fibre to their diet often complain of temporary stomach cramps or gas; but if fibre is increased gradually, these problems don't occur.

Before long, Snyderman tells her students, "The things you want to eat will be the ones your body has adapted t. What seems hard now will be effortless in the future."

For many people, that effortless future is often difficult to imagine. But Snyderman recalls an elderly couple in one of her classes who decided they would take one full year to change their diet into the one they wanted. "I really respected the wisdom of these people, who decided to make a slow, steady transition, one that would really last," she says. "Because it's the same with eating as it is with anything else: If you try going too fast, you end up taking two steps forward and one step back."

And so with Exercise

But dietary changes are just one part of the weight-loss equation - the other part is exercise. Dragging yourself out of the old easy chair to exercise regularly can be difficult - but no more difficult than making the switch from a high-fat, high-sugar, and high-salt diet to a more natural one.

And, as with diet so with exercise. You don't have to kill yourself to get its benefits. The wisdom of the turtle's approach applies equally well.

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