Without Portion Control, Weight Loss Didn’t Happen – History Explains!
High-carbohydrate diets of the 1970’s reflected no understanding of portion control as the way to long term weight loss. Instead, they encouraged the increased consumption of carbohydrates and decreased the amount of meat and protein portion in a diet. Potatoes flew off the shelves and bread-lovers dove head-first into the crusty, white loaves in the bakery section of supermarkets. Whole-wheat was not even on the radar screen at the time!
But the focus on carbohydrates and reduction of protein was not a long-term answer to weight loss either. Before the craze ended, it was clear that a diet heavy with carbohydrates was not the answer for sustained weight loss, and the focus moved to meats and protein. These became low-carbohydrate diets and they rocked the dieting world again by putting the brakes on carbs!
Diets like this literally reversed the fads of yester-year’s high-carbohydrate diets by saying that bread and pasta and anything white were bad for you and should be eliminated. Once again, the public jumped aboard a new diet fad and lost the critical nutritional value of many carbohydrate foods. They failed to understand that the key to healthy weight loss over the long term is by following a healthy eating plan not a restrictive one through portion control.
The Atkins Diet glamorized the high-fat, high-protein diet and ‘ketosis’ became a household word as millions of people jumped on the dieting roller coaster again! According to Wikepedia, ketosis is ‘a stage in metabolism occurring when the liver converts fat into fatty acids and ketone bodies which can be used by the body for energy.’ Unfortunately, many medical resources consider this a physiological state that is associated with chronic starvation! Scientists and physicians scratched their heads with concern about how this diet would impact the heart’s health in years to come.
There are many ways to lose weight but the key to success is being able to keep it off and maintain a healthy weight. Limiting food types, minimizing calories, and eliminating food groups can help you lose weight quickly. But when you resume your old eating habits, you’ll regain the weight even when you’re just introducing healthy foods back into your meal plans! The secret to losing weight and avoiding weight gain after this is by reducing the amount of food you eat through portion control rather than eliminating them completely.
That’s why you should not deprive yourself of foods you enjoy. You need to learn to manage portion control and know more about what your body needs to stay healthy. It’s clear from history that fad diets are exactly that – FADS! Diets are short-term fixes to a lifelong problem and they often have hazardous health effects in the long-term.
We now know that healthy proportions of carbohydrates, fats, and oils are needed in the diet for healthy weight management. Understanding the value and importance of all types of food groups, vitamins, and nutrients is essential to better managing your health and your weight. Eating all of these in a balanced way through portion control allows your body to react as it should and provides a long term answer to weight loss and maintenance
Don’t think about ‘dieting’. Think instead about eating a healthy portion of foods from each food group. Listen to your hunger signals, and enjoy your food. This is the basis of portion control, the weight loss and weight management secret we can learn from our European neighbors who keep trim without eliminating foods that they enjoy.
Warm regards
Rowena French
For the Team@mightydigitaldownloads.com
Rowena French uses responsible portion control to successfully manage her own weight and her family’s health. Tired of dieting without success? Sign up to my magazine to learn more about how to use portion control for healthy, permanent weight loss. If you haven’t already subscribed to my free product sample, watch my preview video for more information about the whole portion control package.
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