Buy Walking VideosQuestion of the Week: Weight Loss Propaganda
Months ago, I looked through YouTube to find inspirational weight loss stories. I didn’t find much. Now, YouTube’s tubes are full of weight loss videos promoting weight loss surgery, hypnosis and other weight loss gadgets and pills. Instead of finding personal stories about people trying to lose weight, I am buried in commercials and propaganda.
How do you evaluate weight loss commercials?
What do you use to filter out the crap? How can you tell if something is real?
Are you tempted by options like weight loss surgery, hypnosis, gadgets or pills?
What do you tell yourself when you see weight loss propaganda?
I’ve gotten so fed up with the weight loss industry that I’m to the point where I don’t believe ANYTHING. I have found gadgets that have actually helped me exercise more often, but I still don’t believe in them. That sort of backlash can’t be healthy either. I don’t know what’s right for me…
The Question of the Week is meant to be an Inner Workout for you. Find some time during the week and allow yourself to write the answers to the questions posted. You can write them on paper, on a word processor or here in the comments section. Whatever works for you as long as you do it.
Keep writing until you find out something about yourself that you didn’t know before. I’ve also heard that it works to keep writing until you cry, but that doesn’t really work for me. Whatever works for you. Just keep writing until it feels right.
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November 21st, 2006 at 12:50 pm
Allen, Laura,
I have been fighting the fat battle all my life. Have you noticed as each generation gets away from accepting responsibility for themselves, the fatter that generation is…. (it’s Mc Donalds fault, etc). I have come to realise that the basic formuala of calories consumed VS calories spent is correct to a point. For many of us this needs to be taken a few steps further. Not only is it matter of how much we eat, but what we eat and when. I would suggest a vast majority of overweight people are carb sensitive. The types of carbs you eat are critical. When you eat those carbs is even more critical. Eat more carbs in the morning when you have all day to burn them off, cool, eat them at night, you get fatter.
As another article here pointed out, even with the weightloss surgery, you have to alter you eating habits. With every weight loss program you reduce calories you consume to less than you expend to loose weight. We no longer expend the energy that our fore fathers did in the course of their day. So it would stand to reason we cannot consume the amount or type of calories they did.
We do not tax our muscle to the point where they will absorb huge amounts of calories from the need of being worked hard. A weight lifter can consume any carbs he or she wants within two hours of a hard workout and the body cannot, nor will it store any of that as fat. I will be taken directly to the cells of the muscle as fuel to repair and rebuild. Hence the issure of when to eat what type of calories.
Restraint and proper food selection with a sound workout system is the best diet out there. Please do not try to short cut the process. Forget the promises of rapid weight loss. Most of thiese diet sacrifice as much lean muscle as they do fat. You didn’t gain it over night, don’t expect to loose it any faster than you lost it.
One last thing, find out your body mass index, as you loose weight, if you are doing it correctly with exercise, you will gain muscle which will help you loose weight faster as muscle burns more calories than fat and weighs more. So just because you did loose much weight this week, you may have just replaced fat with muscle. Be patient and kind to your body.
Just my opinion.