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AS K The Secrets to Successful Weight Loss

Lo by Dr. Thomas K. Lo, Advanced Chiropractic

Dr . & Nutritional Healing Center

The secrets to successful weight you fat,” you need to add foods and your body will use this nutrition to 4. Eat for Quality. Your body
loss…well, they are not actually activities that improve health and keep the body healthy and to help needs nourishment from real,
secrets, but many people are not well-being. Loss of excess weight maintain muscle. Muscle tissue is naturally nutrient-rich foods, not
aware of these strategies. Many, and fat will be a positive side effect continually burning energy. over-processed foods, low or devoid
though, have heard of and fall to changing unhealthy eating habits Therefore, by reducing calories of nutrients. Overweight usually
for the ultra-fast weight-loss and increasing physical activity. This with nutrient-poor processed food, means under-nutrition, a body
claims, such as magic supplements is a lifestyle change, not a temporary you may lose weight, but your body craving vital nutrients. Eating more
that claim to burn fat, stimulate goal. Your goal should not be to lose suffers; you lose muscle tissue and raw foods (vegetables, fruits, raw
metabolism, and suppress appetite, weight but to improve your lifestyle. it is easier to regain the weight. milk products, nuts, and seeds) can
or the latest miracle diet craze. So, Cultivate a life-long way of eating People who focus on nutrient-dense result in dramatic improvements in
what has worked for many people? and living. whole food tend to consume fewer weight and health.
Here are five good tips: calories, and the body knows it is
2. Don’t Count On Just Counting getting the nourishment it needs, 5. Don’t Eat Low Quality. If you
1. Get Focused. If current trends Calories. How many calories so you do not need to eat more. If eat a lot of processed food, fast food,
continue, half of North Americans should you eat each day? Since a you are overweight, your body is takeout, or supermarket-prepped
will be obese—not just overweight— calorie is a measurement of burning, hungry, if you are obese, your body meals, then you do not know exactly
by 2030, and yet there are around that is difficult to answer. It depends is starving—not for calories, but what you are consuming. The food
48,450 diet books on amazon.com. on your age, gender, activity level, for nourishment. Gaining weight industry adds many types of fillers
Anyone can lose weight. Severely hormonal balance, weight-loss goals, can result from eating the wrong to make the food go further. Typical
restricting calories works, but you and much more. We are told that kinds of calories and not exercising processed food diets result in an
may not like the way you look or burning 3,500 calories equals a loss enough. “alarming prevalence of obesity.”
feel, and weight loss alone does not of one pound. However, it is not Removing nutrients and fiber, adding
bestow health. that simple. If cutting 500 calories 3. Don’t Go On a Diet. Dieting refined sugars or toxic fats, and other
Being overweight can be a a day truly meant losing a pound a implies a temporary restriction of prevalent aspects of food processing,
symptom of an unhealthy lifestyle, week, a dieter weighting 300 pounds eating. Once weight is lost, the “have created an environment in
malnutrition, toxicity, excess stress, would disappear in six years. At dieter returns to his/her “normal” which our foods are essentially
eating unhealthy food, as well as some point, weight loss stops, even way of eating and usually regains addictive,” says Dr. Robert Lustig,
disconnecting from nature. Lessening while continuing the lower calorie the weight. Eating well should be University of California.
the symptom is like taking a drug to intake. In fact, obese people often a lifetime goal; long-term changes If you are interested in switching
mask the problem without healing lose only a small amount of weight in diet and exercise have shown to a whole-food diet and gaining
the reason for the symptoms. Many on a low-calorie diet. The point is, to have the best effect on weight back your health, then contact Dr.
health problems can be related to only lowering calories is not the reduction and maintenance. Drop Lo at his Frederick office at 240-
excess weight: hypertension, diabetes, answer. the “dieting” and go for “eating 651-1650. If you are interested in
osteoarthritis, asthma, and fatty liver It also matters where calories better.” Focus on consuming and seeing what the practice is about
disease, to name a few. Dieting may come from. Our bodies distinguish enjoying real nutritious foods that then join Dr. Lo for a free nutrition
get the weight off, but you can still one type of calorie from another. promote health. Replacing depleted, seminar, offered on alternating
be in poor health, have nutritional If you eat nutrient-poor processed over-processed, altered foods with Tuesdays and Thursdays. Call the
deficiencies and imbalances, and food, your body can do little else nutrient-dense foods provides our office to make an appointment.
poor cellular functions. Instead, try but quickly “burn” it or store it bodies with what they need to (Article source: Nutrition News
focusing on building health. Rather as fat. On the other hand, if you function properly so that we feel and Views, Judith A. DeCava,
than subtracting calories that “make eat nutrient-dense whole food, satisfied, satiated, and well. CNC,LNC.)