Losing weight is one of the most common New Year\’s resolution. Everyone knows how the gyms and aerobic classes fill up in the first few weeks of the new year, but everyone also knows how the attendance rating drops, as the first motivation drops. I would assume that this is the time where gyms make a lot of profit, as gyms sell their memberships per month or even longer – not to mention the stories about how difficult is has been to quit the gym membership.
Losing weight seems, in the surface, a very simple thing: just don’t eat as much as you burn. Basically either exercise a lot and you can eat as you did before, or stop eating as much. The phrase of combining these two ( exercise and eating healthy ) assures the best result. If that is true, then why is there so many ( and so big variant ) of different diets out there? Money of course is the big issue, but also that human bodies are different. What fits to Paul may not fit to Steven at all. It’s all about the individual.
The exercise and eating right is a general advice, and sure it works, but for some people it’s easier to not go on a strict diet, but to find an interesting thing to do that occupies the time, burn calories and forces the right eating schedule. For example, if a person has a job at home he/she might be more eager to snack and not keep the normal breakfast, lunch, dinner schedule in contrast to a factory worker who has his/hers breaks scheduled in the working hours and therefore cannot snack as much.
And then what about those people, who I think many of us know, eat and eat but never seem to gain weight? How does the rule apply to them? They are eating more than they burn and not exercising, and yet they don’t gain weight – in my experience, they don’t gain muscle mass either, even with regular visits to gym.
Lastly, there are people that think they are eating right, but actually aren’t and thus don’t lose the weight. This makes them frustrated and they stop the diet. These people need solid advice on what to eat, for example it’s not the same to eat some fresh fruits and eating a fruit cocktail in sugar syrup. That being said, it is not the same to eat healthy and only drinking juice for 30 days.
For the most part, eating healthy and exercising is the key, but it’s wrong to say that it is a recipe for everyone in every situation.
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