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Diets, metabolism and Why I need a GPS
This afternoon I gave a talk on the benefits of having a circles of friends and the audience were lucky I turned up I don’t mention that for egotistical reasons, but simply because I am geographically challenged.
Driving anywhere outside my comfort zone is usually off my agenda. However, having invested in one of those GPS things where a voice speaks as an arrow on a map points you in the right direction, I made an exception and amazingly found my way there and back safely.
I was asked to arrive about 12.30 p.m so I could have lunch before I spoke. As it was half term, I took my autistic son with me, and he was delighted to try the various sandwiches cakes and nibbles.
As we sat there enjoying the buffet lunch, I realized my friend, who’d invited me to give the presentation, was drinking what I thought to be a pink milkshake. However, when questioned, it transpired it was a meal replacement drink, and my friend was on yet another “diet”.
He was required to drink two of the replacement meal shakes everyday, and these he said, contained all the daily minerals, vitamins and nutrients he needed within only 5000 calories. He also confessed they tasted awful, and he really missed the texture of actually eating something. However, he was looking forwards to next week and he would have biscuits instead of one of the drinks.
This particular diet is not cheap, so naturally i wondered why he would pay a lot of money to do something which clearly made him miserable. The answer it seems is it works, or at least works in the short term.
Apparently my friend has been on this particular diet before and lost three stone
in the same amount of months, which i have to admit, is a really impressive achievement.
However the fact he’s going on it again means just one thing-
Why is that?
Well, the main reason is your metabolism has this amazing ability to adjust itself
accordingly to how many calories you consume. As it doesn’t know how many calories
you will devour in the future, it burns calories based on what you’ve has during
the previous few days as it assumes you’ll continue to do the same.
Based on my friend’s diet, his metabolism will assume he only needs 500 calories
each day, so as soon as he increases that amount he will gain weight. It’s a vicious
circle and one, which anyone who has ever been on a low calorie diet has faced.
That’s why there are so many yo-
Dieting is a big and profitable business,
and if you think about it realistically, they don’t really want you to succeed.
As
long as people are overweight they have a captive marker, which translates to money.
It’s the old find a starving crowd and give them what they want touch, except in
this case the crowd isn’t starving.
As you can tell I’[m personally not a fan of
diets as self-
They’ve thought about food all the time, what they can
or can’t eat, and although they may have lost weight initially, it invariably came
off in the wrong places.
Many a women has been devastated by the loss of her bust,
which is often where a few of those extra pounds are carried.
Of course, that’s not where my male friend has his excess weight but he admitted
he didn’t like this shape. However, everyone has his or her own unique framework
and losing weight won’t necessarily turn him into his ideal body image.
What he
needs to do is to learn to be happy with his body, eat healthily and take regular
exercise.
Undoubtedly my friend will continue with his meal replacements and of course he will
lose weight for as long as he is allowed top remain on it. His challenge then will
be keeping it off and somehow I can’t see him succeeding.
Just as I was geographically challenged, he will be food challenged, so if there’s anyone out there who can design one of those GPS things where and voice speaks as an arrow points in the right direction for sensible healthy eating and exercise, please get in touch!
Jean Shaw© -