We've all the seen the weight loss commercials where newly skinny women talk about how much more energy they have since they've lost weight. What they don't tell you is that it isn't the losing of the weight that gives you more energy. It's what you do to get there.
Certainly, calorie reduction tends to be part of any weight loss program. The only way to take off pounds is to ingest fewer calories than you burn. However, that, in and of itself, only gets you so far. If you just restrict intake, sooner rather than later, your body will notice and adjust its burn to conserve what it has.
This is a very necessary and useful technique from the time before there was a fast-food place on every corner. Your body can go into starvation mode, burning a minimum of energy to make sure that what you get to take in is stored for an even greater emergency and allowing you to live as long as possible in hopes of the arrival of a new food source.
This is one of the reasons why dieting alone has limited success. You get yourself down to eating almost no food, but your body reacts by hoarding what little nutrition it is getting and weight loss also slows to a crawl, or ceases entirely.
Ask any anorexic that you can get to admit she's starving herself to death and she'll tell you a few things. One is that she barely has the energy to breathe, let alone get up in the night and do sit ups to burn off the calories she took in brushing her teeth and two, at the level she's at, her body is fighting for every shred of energy, so that it requires eating less and less to continue shedding ounces.
There are other things that can lead to weight loss success. The first is changing out what you eat. Switching out healthy foods for unhealthy ones, even if your calorie count doesn't go down will improve things. This is because a high-fat low-everything-else diet can send your body into the same sort of starvation mode, trying to store what it can until it gets the right nutrition. If you're getting lots of fruits and vegetables and so on, your body will work more efficiently and you can lose a little weight right there.
The other thing you will probably have to do - despite all the products - is move. It doesn't have to be a lot, especially at first. If all you're accustomed to doing is sitting around watching TV, a walk around the block with the dog will put your body through something of a workout -- and the dog will love you even more.
You may be tired at first, but the beauty of moderate activity is that it too increases your body's efficiency and your metabolism and therefore gives you more energy. Moving makes you want to move. As does having the type of nutrition in your system that makes you energetic, not sluggish.
This doesn't mean weight loss will be completely easy, but it does mean that you can start small. Each small step can lead to many more.
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