It is a widely reported FACT that 95% of diets don’t work!

That fact doesn’t stop over 75% of people saying they had been on diet in the last year.

So this being the case what’s the point in losing 20 Lbs, and gaining back 25Lbs and why do people do it?

There is no doubt that there is great pressure over the last few years to look ‘thin’.

So why do diets fail?

That’s the million dollar question.

The main reason diets fail is we are guilty of falling for the latest clever marketing campaign.

Over the last 10 years there has been a stack of diets on the market many endorsed by Hollywood stars.

Many of these diets DO work, BUT only short term.

They often do produce quick weight loss and fantastic results. The problem is maintaining the weight loss as it is very difficult to stick to these eating plans.

They are simply too boring.

Once you lose the weight it is all too easy to slip back into your old ways and go back to your normal calorie intake. This will result in weight being put back on probably as fast as you lost it  - often you will end up heavier that when you started the ‘diet’.

Healthy Eating Plan

The best method to lose weight is through a healthy eating plan and exercise. It’s about re-educating how you eat and what you eat. It’s not rocket science.

Don’t fry food and cut back eating at the ‘fast food’ joints. Cut out the chips and chocolate or least cut it back. Have fruit instead.

Drink lots of water. If you are finding it difficult to stick to the healthy eating plan don’t torture yourself, allow yourself a treat every now and then, but don’t over do it - always moderation.

Exercise Is The Key

The bottom line is that exercise is good for you and helps with your entire well being.

It doesn’t matter if you run, swim, play football, turbo jam, P90X or do 1-on-1 Pilates – exercise is what your body needs.

Exercise will improve your muscle tone, help you control your weight, reduce your blood pressure, help prevent heart disease.

Let’s face it: Not everyone can be thin. But you can reach and maintain your best weight!

Like Beth said in her video… it’s not easy, but it’s simple.

Your genes may affect your susceptibility to obesity, but some people simply eat too many calories.  So battle the bulge with a plan that includes developing - and maintaining -a healthy diet and an active lifestyle - that’s the key.

So in conclusion… eat sensibly and start doing some sort of exercise regime.

You will feel better - look better and live longer.

Forget the New Years Resolution to lose weight… instead, make it a ‘Life Long’ resolution to become active.

Watch Aaron’s Video… Beths… Dawns… see what losing weight and living an active lifestyle with Team Beachbody has done for their lives.

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Three Minute Video Overview:

He wasn’t able to lay on his side because the weight physically hurt his heart.

“If not for Power 90, I’d be on my way to an early grave. I’d been warned for years that I must lose weight.”

He topped the scales at 297 pounds… he has now lost 107 pounds… lost eleven inches off his waist - not fitting into a size 42 pair of jeans to now fitting nicely into a size 32.

He’s been asked several times by people he knows if he had surgery to lose the weight… did you get your stomach stapled?

Through Power 90, Aaron is literally a new person.

“People are amazed at what’s happened to me”.

His story…

Six and a half years ago Kimberly’s daughter, Kimeisha asked her to quit smoking.

In her own words… “I did not want my mother to get a ‘black heart’ and die. I want her to be here a long time for me — for when I get married and have kids”.

Kim’s weight loss journey was tough.

To reward herself for making it through the day without smoking, she would stop at fast food restaurants.

“I just kept eating and eating. I replaced one vice with another… it was a very low point in my life”.

Late one night she caught one of the “Turbo Jam” infomercials on TV… and it changed her life forever!

I’ll let Kim and Kimeisha share with you the rest of her weight loss ‘transformation’ story.

After her pregnancy, she hit 200 pounds and finally decided she  had to do something about it.

“The only pictures I liked of myself was from the neck up… so many times I just wanted to feel beautiful. When describing myself to others I always said I have a good personality“.

Now?… she feels as good as she looks - and once you have watched her video you’ll agree, she looks great!

Using P90, she lost 30 inches off her body, is down to a size 8 and no longer hides from the world.

The Video also includes Dawn’s story.

“I did not know how bad I felt until I felt good.”

Dawn’s heart touching story on how she went from a size 20 pair of Jeans to a size 6… she lost 46 pounds… took 8 inches off her waist… 9 inches off her hips… feels and looks the best she ever has in her life.

She did something she had always wanted to do after shedding all that weight — she went Sky Diving.

Beth and Dawn both went from where they were… to looking great, and changing their lives in 90 days!

Here’s their story…

Common sense would say that all we have to do is slash the number of calories that we consume.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of studies that disprove this line of thinking and show that this does not work… not for the long term.

A study published in the American Journal of Nutrition, for instance, showed that a group of individuals on a low calorie diet, who lost an average of 26 percent of their body weight during the course of the study, were not able to keep that weight off.”

EVERYONE in the study regained almost 75 percent of their lost weight within three years of completing the study. And many studies show even worse results than that.

If weight loss were as simple as consuming no more than 1000 calories a day, or to consume no more than 1500 calories a day, then everybody who wanted to would be skinny.

There are a number of reasons why a low calorie diet won’t lead to long term weight loss.

Part of it has to do with biology, and how our ancestors evolved to survive the feast and famine lifestyle.

We need a certain amount of calories to stay alive.

Since humans and other animals evolved in the days when we had to hunt and gather our food, and food supplies were never predictable, our bodies developed in a way that allows us to survive times of famine.

When little or no food is available, our metabolism simply slows down and we burn less calories.

Unfortunately this is just one of the many survival mechanisms that our bodies developed that worked to keep us alive thousands of years ago, but that doesn’t work so well in the modern world where there’s a Dunkin Donuts on every corner.

Our natural tendencies to crave foods that are bad for us, like fat and sweets - foods that would help us survive a famine thousands of years ago but now just pile on more fat cells - don’t help much either.

A study in the Journal of American Medicine showed that a group of people put on a very low calorie diet experienced a 20 percent decline in their metabolism in the first month and their metabolism continued to fall for three months straight after that.

What a nightmare! Going on a low calorie diet means that you have to eat less….and less…and less…in order to lose weight, and you will very quickly reach a point where you are struggling simply to maintain your weight.

Every dieter out there who has ever struggled to lose weight by drastically cutting calories knows this is true.

The first few days or even the first week or two of the diet, the weight crashes off. You’re constantly starving and can’t concentrate because you’re so hungry and you’re irritable and dizzy, but hey, at least the weight is falling away, right?

But unfortunately, that doesn’t last very long. The weight loss slows down, and then it stops. No matter how much you starve yourself you’re seeing no reward.

That’s the other reason that low calorie diets fail - because most people can’t last very long on a diet where they are constantly starving.

And if you start eating normally - if you even start increasing your calories a little bit…the pounds come piling back on, undoing all of your hard work.

This sounds like terribly discouraging news, but it really doesn’t need to be. It simply means that low calorie diets do not work well for maintaining weight loss.

In fact, it’s good news - it means that you never have to starve yourself again!

Instead, you need to select a healthy diet that has been proven to work and that allows you to eat a normal amount of food every day and begin a good workout program.

Starving yourself to death is not the answer to weight loss and good health… exercise is the key to losing weigh and looking great.

When you get right down to it… losing weight is really just common sense.

Exercise burns calories… not fad diets.

Being this is the first post on the “Game Changed” blog about Team Beachbody… what better way to kick it off than Team Beachbody’s CEO Carl Daikeler ‘Today Is the Day‘ video.

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And being hungry all the time is difficult to live with for a single day, much less for weeks or a few months.

Here are some tips to make sure that hunger pains don’t derail all of your hard work.

Don’t skip breakfast, or you will be starving and cranky by mid-morning.

A breakfast with complex carbs and low fat protein will help stave off snack attacks.

Plan your day in advance.

Make sure that you have some low calorie snacks and drinks with you. Drink plenty of water and eat snacks like celery, carrots or apple slices.

Make sure that you have some fat included in your diet - you need it.

Choose healthy fats, like olive oil.

Take note of what times of day you become hungry and plan your meals and snacks accordingly.

If you always cave in around 3 p.m., schedule a snack for 2:30 and drink a big glass of water too.

Don’t cut your calories too drastically. It will make your metabolism slow down and cause you to be plagued with hunger all of the time.

Eat several servings of bulky low calorie foods a day.

Broccoli, cauliflower, salads, most any raw vegetable… these will fill you up and help stave off hunger.

Stay away from sugary snacks and simple carbohydrates like honey buns, cake and donuts.

If you eat these sugary snacks your blood sugar will soar, and then it will crash and you will find yourself irritable, jittery and famished.

Eat sufficient protein.

Scientific studies show that proteins leave people feeling full longer than carbohydrates.

Eat complex carbohydrates half an hour to an hour before exercising to fuel your workout session and also so you don’t end up feeling absolutely ravenous afterwards.

It may be a challenge at first going through those “hunger pains”, but it will be worth it in the long run once you have lost the weight and look great.

So hang tough!

You already know that exercise boosts your metabolism, of course.

And we can not recommend highly enough that you do some type of aerobic activity every day, even if it’s just walking up a few flights of stairs a few times a day at work, or taking a brisk walk on your lunch hour.

If you do aerobic exercise, your metabolism remains higher for up to eight hours after you finish exercising!

And if you exercise enough to put on more muscle, so much the better.

Building up muscle can boost your metabolism by ten percent or more, which will generally mean you can eat a few hundred more calories a day.

But when you’re dieting you need all of the help that you can get, so here are some ways to boost that metabolism and burn those calories off faster.

1. Magnesium is necessary to keep your metabolism functioning properly. If you are not getting enough magnesium in your diet, your metabolism may slow down.
2. Vitamin B is another vitamin that is essential for boosting your metabolism. B-12 in particular is known to give an energy boost and increase your metabolic rate.
3. Spicy foods. Studies show that eating foods containing ingredients like black pepper, ginger, and chili peppers can boost your metabolism by as much as 8 percent for several hours after you eat them!
4. Green Tea not only boosts your metabolism, studies show that it has health benefits including acting as an anti-oxidant and protecting against heart disease.
5. Water Dehydration causes your metabolism to slow down. Even mild dehydration can cause your metabolism to slow down as much as three percent, in much the same way that cutting back on calories does.

   When your body is deprived of water, it slows down all of its metabolic functions. Drinking water not only fills you up, it keeps your metabolism functioning efficiently.

There you have it.

Five Safe ways to increase your Metabolism and get into shape.

And if they’re being honest with themselves, in our weight obsessed society, most dieters are probably more motivated by a desire to look good then they are by health reasons.

However, there’s certainly nothing wrong with wanting both.

And to truly look good and be healthy, you must get into shape — you can’t JUST lose weight.

Thin, flabby, wobbly, and becoming easily out of breath is neither an attractive nor healthy state of being.

So you need to exercise regularly while you are losing weight.

Now, here’s the problem with crash diets and exercise: they end up being mutually exclusive. Nearly impossible to do at the same time.

Don’t do it.

Most diets call for a drastic reduction in calories. This will leave you feeling exhausted and it will be very hard for you to summon up the energy to exercise.

This is especially true if you are on a low carbohydrate diet.

After all, what do athletes eat right before a marathon or any other endurance type sport, where they will need energy and stamina?

That’s right, they eat carbohydrates.

When you exercise, your body needs to be able to immediately access carbohydrates to burn for energy. The body burns carbohydrates as fuel for the first 20 minutes of exercise before it starts accessing your fat stores, according to The Physician And Sports Medicine Journal.

If you are on a low carbohydrate diet, believe me, you will not even last that 20 minutes to get to that fat burning zone.

You will not have the energy.

To be able to last that 20 minutes, you would need to eat complex carbohydrates.

We’re not saying that you should scarf down a candy bar or donut right before exercise; those are simple carbohydrates that are metabolized very quickly and send your blood sugar shooting up and then crashing down.

Carbohydrates slowly release energy and sustain you so that you can exercise longer.

So when you consider a weight loss or getting in shape program, you are going to want to pick one where you will have enough energy to exercise as you lose weight.

Eat healthy and choose an exercise regime that goes hand in hand.

And avoid the temptations of going on one of the fad diets.