Weight Control Through Common Sense

You don’t need to diet or slim down or go on a regime to lose weight.

Now THAT is a bold statement indeed, and it contradicts millions of published pages of studies, books, research, intuition and logic. But it is because of the sum of the above mentioned reasons that most people won’t accept it either and it is a sad fact indeed.

There is enormous resistance to change in some situations, and one of these involves personal habits. This does not diminish the fact that losing weight is possible without any type of constraint, diet or regime. The word “regime” is used in politics to refer to autocratic rule, by the way, it is heavily laden with constraint, limitation and authoritative brutality.

So why consider a “regime”? Would it even be normal for any person to continue to comply to any form of brutality? As for the word “diet”, its even worse. The first three letters of it refer to death, so, thanks but no thanks. And lets not even begin on the subject of slimming, for that would provoke a polemic around the beauty dictator living in each human beings’ mind.

So what on earth would motivate this author to make such a bold statement? First of all, experience. As an ex-obese, having lost more than 120 pounds some 20 years ago and still within normal BMI values after all that time, there is a statement by demonstration or example and second, there is simple common sense.

By now, most people reading this article will be screaming for the punch line. “What’s the catch?” is, of course, the question on everyones’ mind. Well, the catch is in the simplicity of the explanation to that very bold opening statement, which is why this author is doing his very best to make it look like it isn’t that simple, when actually, it is. So here it comes, brace yourself.

The magic words are “nutritional balance”. It is the most difficult state to achieve. Human bodies are designed to remain normal when they respect the daily nutrition pyramid. This is what it looks like:

1 Small Portion of Sweet, once a day
2 Small Portions of Fat, once a day
3 Small Portions of Protein, once a day
4 Normal Portions of Fruit and Vegetables, five times a day
5 Large Portions of Liquid, all through the day

When you invert any of the numbers of the pyramid, you disturb the balance and the body can’t cope anymore. Either you start gaining weight, lose your normal levels of energy or concentration, and what have you else, but when I write “can’t cope anymore”, I mean to express that getting out of nutrtional balance has devastating physical consequences.

Now, of course, I can hear every single reader howling and wailing for more and I can hear the clamor for specifics loud and clear. How much exactly is a portion? When can I eat the sweet? What is the exact weight of a portion of fruit? And so on, and so on,…

So I will make the solemn promise of providing you with the answers and more, but not in this article for it has reached its ideal lenght. But it would be criminally negligent to omit to mention that the body is also designed to move, and that no living human being can maintain nutritional balance without spending a large part of energy intake by way of movement or exercice.

That too, is part of the balancing equation. No one can contradict the logic of this: if you absorb energy under the form of food and you don’t spend it, its going to start piling up.