FREE 17 Weight Loss Secrets the Industries NEVER want you to hear. PART 1

‘Weight management’, for want of a better phrase, has always been a topic of great interest for me - firstly from a personal angle and then later from a professional one.

At the age of 19 it was brought to my attention that I had put on not an inconsiderable amount of weight. About a stone and half and I looked chubby. On a return home one weekend, my mother took me aside and revealed to me the three secrets that I believe have enabled me to maintain my weight and stay trim ever since.

As a health and lifestyles writer over the past two decades I have read and written about many topics that have increased my knowledge of weight management, nutrition and the fascinating workings of the human body. During my training in counseling, I became further interested in the role of psychology in the matter.

One thing that I have always found particularly interesting is the enormous difficulty that so many people have in losing weight. Over the past six months I have been interviewing people in the hope of getting to the bottom of why that is - and of writing material that will hopefully tackle some of the issues and help more people feel great about themselves and their weight and the food that they eat.

The response from hundreds of dieters have confirmed a lot of what I already knew but also brought a number of new realisations to light.

While I hope at some point in the near future to publish a far fuller and more actionable report, I hope these 17 points below will go some way towards helping you avoid the pitfalls that so many dieters fall prey to - including those created (whether intentionally or non-intentionally) by the many industries that profit from the huge numbers of people who always want to lose weight.

I also hope it will help you work towards a new idea of how to manage your weight.

1. Drastically restricting your calorie intake during a traditional ‘diet’ will not lead to effective and/or long term weight loss

Your body is a highly complex system built to adapt to the different situations and tough times that life can inflict upon it. When it comes to metabolism, the rate at which you burn energy is designed to respond flexibly to times of plenty and famine. If you suddenly restrict or decrease the amount of calories you give to your body, it responds by dramatically reducing the amount of calories it burns so that you can survive on what you’re getting. Your body may also start storing fat in case the famine gets even worse...

If you go on a calorie-restricting diet, your body will respond by lowering your metabolism. You may lose some weight but not necessarily much. If you then return to eating the same amount of food as you did before you started the diet you will put weight back on rapidly.