Why Meal Planning Is Important For Creating Permanent Fat LossIn this article I will explain in full detail why meal planning and choosing healthy weight loss foods is very important for creating permanent fat loss, and why it is one of the major steps that you can take toward bringing into reality the body of your dreams! In this article you will also discover why consuming processed and refined foods is one the main reasons why so many people are experiencing problems with unwanted body!
Without doing this on a daily basis creating permanent fat loss will be a difficult, uphill climb. In this healthy eating plan article you will find the meal planner that you can use when you are ready to start creating your own perfect weight loss meals. And in this healthy meal plans article you will find the weight loss foods that can help you to reach your ideal body weight in the fastest time possible and then maintain it in the long run! Choosing natural, unrefined food sources is one of the most important meal planning steps that you can take toward losing the unwanted body fat that you currently have and achieving all of your major health goals. But first, let's take a look at how the processed and refined food sources created the current problem that many people have with unwanted body fat. And to do this objectively we have to start by looking at how our ancestors made their food choices. Long before processed foods, and 24 hour convenience stores, and supermarkets that carry tens of thousands of food products and beverages under one roof, human beings ate food in its natural, whole state and drank pure water that was not sweetened with processed carbohydrates (sugars). These foods were good sources of complex carbohydrates, good dietary fats, protein, vitamins and minerals. These food sources included vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs, nuts and seeds. We ate what nature provided, the way nature provided it, and these foods were a significant part of the human diet.
With the invention of new technologies that allowed us to process foods in a way we never had before, everything started to change. We learned to mill whole grains in volume to feed an ever-growing population, and we learned how to refine the whole grains even further into white flour. White flour gave the breads and other baked goods more visual and textural appeal. And even though this new processing method was revolutionary, there were some unfortunate side effects that people were not immediately aware of! The processing and refinement stripped the grains of most of the nutrients that nature had built in. But it wasn't just the grains that technology was processing. Fruits, vegetables and all other natural food sources started to be processed and refined, and this increased the choices available to the consumers, but as we understand now, this happened at a nutritional price. As the merchants and manufacturers responded to the need for a year-round food supply by carrying larger inventories, it became apparent that they will need to find a way to extend shelf life. This led to the discovery of preservatives, and fortunately eventually to the discovery of the enrichment and fortification process that adds some of the nutrients back that are lost during the processing of the food.
Stripping foods of their natural vitamin, mineral, fiber while adding artificial colors, sweeteners, an other additives is not the healthiest or wisest use of technological advancement. Partly out of interest in prevention and partly in response to the steady increase in type 2 diabetes and obesity, as well as the high rate of heart disease and certain cancer diagnoses, the process is starting go back in the opposite direction. While it is impossible as well as impractical to return to the days when food wasn't refined or preserved in any way, there is an increasing recognition that eating fewer highly refined processed foods and more whole grains, vegetables and fruits is better for our health and for controlling weight. The link between nutrition, health, and disease grows stronger daily. In the early 1970s, much of the nutrition research linked fat, particularly saturated fat, to heart disease and obesity. But even as the evidence continued to accumulate throughout the 1980s, there seemed to be a disconnect in the message delivery: Americans were growing heavier as well! In fact, according to the Center for Disease Control, in the last ten years obesity have increased by more than 60% among adults. Since 1980, obesity rates have doubled among children and tripled among adolescents.
During the mid to late 1980s, food scientists and manufacturers began working to become part of the solution to the growing obesity problem by developing fat free and low fat foods. Since fat has more than double the calories found in protein and carbohydrates, it seemed reasonable to assume that cutting fat in foods was a good way to cut calorie consumption overall. Consumers eagerly jumped on the bandwagon, buying lots of fat free food products. However, much to everyone's surprise, obesity rates continued to climb at an alarming rate. The fat-free products contained considerably more refined carbohydrates, especially white sugar, to substitute for the loss of flavor from fat. These products may have been fat free, but they weren't calorie free. And what happened was the majority of the people that consumed these fat free foods, started to consume huge quantities of processed fat free cookies, crackers, cereals, and other goodies. When fat free foods didn't appear to be the answer to the skyrocketing obesity rate, people began to look for the next solution.
The focus eventually shifted from counting grams of fat to counting grams of carbohydrates. The new meal planning theory became the fewer carbohydrates in your daily meals the better it is for weight loss. Where fat was concerned, however, all caution was thrown to the wind. As long as people could build a meal around a miniscule amount of carbohydrate, they figured that they could eat as much fat as they liked, and the weight was guaranteed to come off. And for some it did come off. But there were some unpleasant side effects: Many people who cut carbs significantly felt less energetic and experienced constipation and bloating. And when they ceased to adhere closely to a reduced-carb diet, the weight crept back on. Currently obesity rates continue to climb. Heart disease remains the number one killer, and type 2 diabetes is becoming an epidemic. All of these approaches produced short term results, but in the long run they all backfired, and produced the opposite result than was planned.
It is a mistake to blame carbohydrates or protein foods or dietary fats as the main causes of obesity and nutrition related disease. The problem is not the food, but the fact that many people are born with a body type that has a very slow metabolism. If you were born with a slow and "very efficient" metabolism your body does not need that many calories to maintain your weight. And since most people do not count the calories that come from the food they eat, they are simply consuming way too many calories on a daily basis. The human body is very efficient at storing these "excess calories" as unwanted body fat inside of your fat cells. And the unwanted body fat that is stored inside the fat cells -- your body views as a long-term energy source. This is the reason why it is so hard to lose this "unwanted body fat." Your body does not want to easily give up this "long-term" energy source because it considers this body fat important for your survival! Taking into account everything that I have written, here is what you have to do to lose the unwanted body fat that you currently have: To create a lean, healthy body and achieve permanent fat loss you have to eat the amount of calories that your body can realistically burn during the day and exercise regularly. Consuming carbohydrates, proteins and dietary fat in moderate amounts and never going over your daily calorie intake limit is what it will take for you to reach your ideal weight. In the healthy meal plans article you will find a list of the best weight loss food that you can eat on a daily basis and also a list of the fat gaining foods that you must avoid, if you want to create a lean, healthy body and maintain it for life! In the menu for low fat diet article you will discover everything about good dietary fat, and why consuming this important macro-nutrient in moderate amounts is one of the keys to reaching your ideal body weight. Effective weight loss can be created only when you make meal planning a part of your daily life, and when you know exactly how many calories you are consuming from everything you eat and drink. In the healthy eating plan article you will find an explanation about the whole process of creating the ideal weight loss meals, starting from your daily calorie intake and ending with the best meal frequency/timing approach that you can use. In this fitness nutrition article you will find the information about meal frequency and timing and will discover why it is also one of the important nutrition strategies that you can use to create a lean, healthy body for yourself. By using effective meal planning, and consuming mostly natural, unprocessed food sources on a daily basis, your will provide your organism with everything it needs to function properly, and will start moving toward creating permanent fat loss and reaching your ideal weight!
The Ultimate Fat Loss SystemIn my book The Secret To Permanent Fat Loss you will find a simple, easy to follow "step-by-step" weight loss approach for creating the body of your dreams. If you want to create irreversible, long-term weight loss success in the fastest time that is humanly possible -- this is the ultimate fat loss system that you will find -- for making this goal a complete reality! Inside The Secret To Permanent Fat Loss you will discover exactly how you can create the “non-stop” motivation fuel that is necessary for you to use proper nutrition and exercise in order to reach and then maintain your ideal body weight for life!
If you want to create irreversible, long-term weight loss success in the fastest time that is humanly possible -- this is the ultimate fat loss system that you will find -- for making this goal a complete reality! Inside The Secret To Permanent Fat Loss you will discover exactly how you can create the “non-stop” motivation fuel that is necessary for you to use proper nutrition and exercise in order to reach and then maintain your ideal body weight for life!
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