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Is Diet Confusion Keeping You From Losing Weight?Diet advice – a million “experts”, hundreds of snake-oil miracle pills, and an infinite number of different human bodies make losing weight the subject of controversy and confusion.The diet program that worked miracles for your best friend does nothing for you. You feel sad – depressed – you feel doomed to be fat. You want that miracle pill that will take the weight off in 48 hours. Unless your DNA is the same, why should his/her diet plan work for you. You have a different body shape, different level of health, different life style and different emotional outlook. Diet advice – Eat small meals 5-6 times a day. Better for digestion and keeps the metabolism high. Diet advice – Eat only 3 full meals a day. Not enough stomach acid to properly digest food if you eat 5-6 times a day. Diet advice – Eat only vegetables or avoid all things white. Diet advice – Eat only protein Diet advice – Eat only one type of food at a timeWhat is a person to do? Throw up your hands in despair or just think for a minute. Listen to your own body. Does eating a big meal make you feel sleepy? Does eating sugar make you feel sleepy? Does eating white bread make you feel sleepy? Or jittery? Maybe you have a blood sugar problem. Sadly, most people do in this day and age of epidemic diabetes. You don’t want any peaks and valleys. So your diet should be along the lines of several small meals a day. You want to eat every couple of hours to keep your sugar levels – level. You want to eat raw vegetables over anything processed. Are the traditional 3 meals a day wrong? No, not for some people. If however, you stuff your stomach until it protrudes and you feel like you can’t breathe, you are probably over doing it. Did you go for a good run before you sat down to breakfast? Did you go for a nice walk after that evening meal? It depends on you – what works for you. It is really not about 3 meals verses 6 meals, it is about what those meals consist of in the way of sugars and carbs and bad fats. There is an old story of a man who started taking a supplement for his heart. He began to feel better almost immediately. He recommended that his friend who was also not feeling well to take the same supplement. His friend did not improve and soon began to say the supplement did not work. The friend was suffering from a liver ailment – his heart was fine. Naturally the heart supplement did not make him feel better.
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