Sunday, March 14, 2010

Desire for Sweets during a Weight Loss Diet

I've decided to start a section on weight loss. It's not going to follow any particular pattern, just as brilliant thoughts strike me.

Let's say you are following a weight reduction diet and suddenly you have a craving for sweets. You've just had a great breakfast/lunch/dinner with protein in it and you are taking your (naturopath prescribed) supplements regularly and you are not hungry right now.

So what is it?

Simple! If you have already started losing weight. it's your metabolism being lazy. Yes, a bit like a bloody teenager bugging his mum to get him something out of the fridge. Now if mum says: "Get it yourself!", the kid is going to have to get it or go without. It's the same with your metabolism. If you have already started losing weight, that means you are making your metabolism work more, and it's rebelling. It wants more calories now but it doesn't want to go and break down your fat reserves, it wants the calories to be delivered to it now just like the teenager sitting on his ass.

So your choice is: either you use the excuse to have something sweet (which is how you got the extra weight in the first place), or you tell your metabolism to get off its derriere and go burn some fat. I guarantee that if you can hold out for an hour, the sweet craving will go. Absolute proof that your metabolism was trying to free load.

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