You probably wonder what I mean by diet free weight loss. I mean you will be free of having to diets again. I would not suggest to anyone that they should diet. I have learned the hard way that diets will never work long term.  You see, they can’t your own body will not allow it.  You need to understand the reasons for this so you can adapt your life to suit your own body, rather than a prevailing trend.

During the past five years, I have become an expert on diet free weight loss. I happened to discover the main cause for the epidemic of weight problems we see today. I now know that our body will always resist a diet that cuts down on your daily calories.  Your brain perceives an extended shortage of food as a famine. When that happens, it will signal your metabolism to respond, to slow down, and to store up on reserves. That means fat.

The more often you put your body through the ordeal of a diet, the more weight you will gain between dieting.  Dieting is a no win situation.  You will always land right back where you started, with more fat than when you began.  If we do not do something to turn this trend around, at least in our own family, there will be very few people left who are still slim.  This is not the way human beings were destined to end up.

If we do not act to start to make some changes to what we eat, our fate is only a matter of time. We will all become fat.  Sixty percent of us are already there.  If you gauge the frequency by which you see overweight people today, you will realize it is not going to take very long for the rest of us to get there.

The only way to achieve what I describe as a diet free weight loss is to never embark on a diet at all.  I have spent five years practicing what I preach and I am living proof that it works.  Think about it:  If it works for me it will work for you too. I am not unique.  In fact, for me to lose weight has been far more difficult than it would be for most people. You see, I have what is called a thyroid condition which causes my metabolism to slow to a crawl.

Although I am medicated, I am still much less likely to hold a long term weight loss than most people. Yet I have done it, persistently, using my diet free weight loss plan for more than five years. Clearly I must be doing something right.

So what led me to discover a diet free weight loss plan?  When I was in in my early 40′s, I was diagnosed as a borderline diabetic. That was a little scary and I set out to diligently follow the advice of my doctor.  I quickly agreed to consult a dietician to learn the correct diet to prevent full blown diabetes.

Till that time, I had never had a weight problem. Sure, I’d sometimes put on a couple of pounds over Christmas, but like everyone else, all I had to do was to cut out sweets and cakes for a couple of weeks to bring the weight back to normal.  Sadly, that would not work today, but in those days, it was easy to deprive myself of sweets because diet cravings were unheard of.

The diet prescribed by the dietician was deceptively simple.  I was to eat three serves of carbohydrates to each serve of protein.  It was my first diet and it turned my regular eating habits completely upside down.  You see, I was used to eating the way my parents and their parents had brought me up to eat, which had served me well for forty years without causing me a weight problem.

We tend to think that everything new and modern is somehow superior to the old.  I embraced this new diet and stuck to it fervently, for three to four years.  I finally had to accept that my health had not improved, my weight had gradually increased and I had developed a powerful craving for bread.  That’s when I went on a dieting binge. I embarked on every new diet that came along and promised me a weight loss.  By this time, all that mattered to me was to get back to the weight I had before the first diet.

With each diet, I followed the same routine. I would stick to the rules till I lost the weight. I would then return to a normal, quite modest diet.  Then slowly but surely the weight would start to creep back, always with an extra bonus. I also noticed that with each diet it became more difficult and took longer to lose weight than it did with the one before.

My discovery of a diet free weight loss happened almost six years ago.  My weight had reached eighty kilo’s. That was the heaviest I had ever been and it shocked me. I was desperate and I knew I was at a cross road. If I dieted again, I would end up even heavier. If I did not diet I would still end up heavier because my diet cravings were causing me almost continuous feelings of hunger.

Of course, there was always the third option. I could give up and accept my fate. That seemed the worst option of all.  So I decided to forget everything I had ever been told about what foods to eat and what to avoid. Instead I would trust myself, my considerable knowledge of history and my vast experience with just about every diet invented over a period of twenty years. Somehow I would find an acceptable answer to my weight problem.

It took a while, but what I discovered could be called an epiphany: A moment of complete clarity. In that instant I knew I had found the way to achieve a diet free weight loss, one that would become permanent.

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Kirsten plotkin

Thirty years ago the majority of people were slim. It was a time when diet cravings were rare. People would handle their own weight problems, if and when they put on a few pounds. They would simply exercise more and cut down on snacks for a few weeks. Today the majority of people are overweight. Chances are they are either on a diet, about to go on a diet or they have just finishes a diet. In thirty years, diets have gone from being almost ignored to being a way of life.

Back when Nutritionist first arrived on the scene they had some serious news about cholesterol.  Tests had shown that just about everybody had very high cholesterol.  The way to correct that was to follow a diet they had designed for that purpose.

Nobody had thought much about diets and even less about nutritionists, but what they heard was a little scary. So a large number of people, most of them not even overweight, went on the diet to avoid what they were told would be a heart attack or a strokes.

What they did not know, and perhaps the Nutritionists did not know either, was that to correctly measure cholesterol, there are two separate readings. One is for the healthy cholesterol, and the other for the bad. The correct reading is when you deduct the count of the bad cholesterol from the good.  The labs did not do that. They added the two counts together. This is how suddenly just about everybody needed a diet to reduce their cholesterol.

Because nutritionists grabbed the opportunity to report on cholesterol, they became identified as having discovered it.  That gave their mostly ignored profession a lot of undue credibility.

When they launched their first major diet, it was to promote cholesterol and it’s evils.  People who were slim and had never dieted in their life rushed to use a diet that would lower what was termed a dangerous level of cholesterol.

It has only recently become general knowledge that the reading for cholesterol had been incorrectly performed for almost thirty years. Even today you will find a few labs and institutions that continue to cling to the old way.

The diet was launched with a poster depicting a Pyramid. The base of the pyramid was filled with grains, cereals pasta and pulses.  It filled more than two thirds of the pyramid.

Then there was a layer of greens; fruits and vegetables. This was followed by small amounts of meat and fish. This diet, we were told, was a direct response to the newly discovered cholesterol problem caused by the bad diets in the past.  In reality, the diet laid the foundation for the food addiction we see today.

What is so puzzling in hindsight, is that nobody, not even scientists or doctors, ever asked how a diet people had followed for eons, without much change,  had suddenly begun to increase our cholesterol to such dangerous levels.

Thirty years ago the vast majority of people still had their normal weight. Think of the hundreds of diets people have used since then. Yet today, the average person is grossly overweight. If just one of those diets had proved to work, we would all know about it, we would all have used it, and nobody would be fat today.  As it stands, we would be far better off today, had we used no diets at all.

What has changed between the average person thirty years ago and the average person today? The average weight has changed massively. But what is just as amazing is that today’s diet is almost opposite to the diet we ate in the past.

In fact, if you turn the content of the Pyramid upside down you will have something fairly close to the diet people ate for centuries. The food we eat today is not the food that made us who we are. Our metabolism appears to have difficulty adjusting to the new reality.

Before you think it, let me point out that thirty years ago people had just as much available food on offer than they do today and that includes fast food. The shops had plenty of produce and nobody went hungry. The only thing that has changed is that people have become obsessed with diets.

Obesity is now at epidemic levels. It has become clear that people with obesity, tend to lapse into type2 diabetes.  This is a life threatening condition. Food addiction is proving to be as overlooked or ignored as tobacco addiction used to be. It is every bit as dangerous, possibly more so. That is because despite the efforts of cigarette makers, they were never going to turn everybody into a smoker.

Food addiction on the other hand is different. We all eat food, every day. Most of us are addicted to it. We eat too much, we eat too often and we eat the wrong food. We eat food the body was never designed to process. If we continue on our present path, we will all end up obese, we will see our children grow up obese and soon our children’s children may be born obese. We have already seen it happen. It would seem diet cravings are a sign of addiction.

Our long term survival may no longer be all that certain, and not just because of climate change.

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Kirsten Plotkin Author

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