Scot’s Weight Loss Blog

If you can’t sit comfortably behind the driving wheel of your car, or you can’t see your toes, or there are a string of “Xs” in the size label on your clothes, or everybody seems to be whispering about you, or if it is a struggle to ease through the shower door,  then maybe it is time to accept that your belly is too big!

Well there are 2 things you can do about that  – you can either make life more difficult for yourself, following unsavoury dieting procedures and / or starting some training and having only low-calorie snacks (which incidentally would help you live longer), or you can cover up that belly and maybe nobody will notice it.

Some of the causes of having a belly too big include anxiety, taking no account of cutting down on the amount of bread we eat, boredom, no regular exercise, having a fatty diet e.g. ice cream which is high in fat and cholesterol, and bad eating habits like stuffing food down very fast. So you happened to put on some weight. In the meantime you want to cover-up that fat belly. As expected, you are probably considering a diet but the problem won’t go away of it’s own accord. Your answer may be to consider an Atkins diet.

Many scientific researchers now claim that Atkins and other reduced carbohydrate diets are pretty useless when it comes to keeping the pounds off. In a survey comparing low carbohydrate, relatively low fat diets and calorie reduced diets, all members of the test group started to put the pounds on again after six months, and by 52 weeks there was no statistical difference between the groups. Professor Arne Astrup of RVA University in Copenhagen, Denmark said that there is no clear evidence that Atkins-style diets are better than any others in order for us to keep the weight off, despite the success in some cases of the Atkins diet. Ok… so perhaps this is a bit over the top, but it helps to explain it.

So how should we proceed with the best diet? Some good advice: Ignore the hype, find a safe and healthy diet that makes good common sense, and alter your eating habits permanently. While this is not particularly clever in its revelation, it‘s staggering how many of us on a diet become so frustrated trying to actually lose some appreciable amount of weight, believing that this latest diet is “the answer”. Hey pal, if this describes the way that you have approached dieting, you are going down the wrong direction and need to consider something different.

Take a moment to consider this fact: Gardenburger Inc. conducted a nationwide survey which estimated that significantly more than two-thirds of all ladies between the ages of 25 and 54 make a decision to try to lose some excess weight each year. In this same survey, nine-tenths of those who responded to the survey reported they were disappointed with the long-term results (some respondents actually had put on some pounds instead). You see, the actual initial losing of weight is not that difficult! Anyone on basically any diet can lose weight. The hardest thing to do is keeping the pounds from re-settling on our bodies as time goes by.

We’re continually bombarded with bad information about why we gain weight. Reasons given are the same old chestnuts like we don’t commit ourselves to a diet, no self-control, too greedy, bad planning etc. You name it, and there’s an explanation out there! But, the truth be known, when it comes to getting and staying slim, many of these half-baked “explanations” are a load of twaddle. What really, really matters long term is whether our everyday customs when it comes to eating and calorific value of food ingested are in-balance with the amount of energy consumed by our way of life.

Scott Whiskeye has created several websites which are devoted to healthy body and mind and Scott’s aim is to create stimulating articles about all forms of healthy living and problems of health which will help the visitor attain a better quality of health. There are many interesting articles about Weight Loss on Scott’s site.
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