Acupuncture for Weight Loss in Englewood, NJ 07631
A Personal Opinion on Diets and Weight Management:
For quicker read and tips, view my blog here: Spring Tips
Many people who have come into my office know that I do NOT believe in diets. Diets DON’T work. In order to have sustainable weight loss, you must change your lifestyle. A healthy lifestyle doesn’t mean you have to go to the gym everyday or eat salads for every meal, but it does mean subtle tweaks to your choices.
I’ve had patients tell me they have been on liquid herbal diets or 500-calorie-a-day “meal” plans by other healthcare practitioners. These are ridiculous and damaging to your bodies, starvation diets lead you to lose water weight rapidly, along with muscle and some fat. However, once you start eating real food again, you will put on the water weight and more fat, in the meantime you’ll have lost precious lean muscle. Muscle burns more calories than fat and take up less space, you want to keep your muscles healthy and toned with good food choices and exercise. With weight loss there is no quick fix option, anyone who tells you otherwise is being untruthful and unethical. Your body’s natural inclination when it’s losing weight is to try and cling on to fat and prevent starvation, this is why extreme diets lead to binge eating, anxiety, and an unhealthy obsession with food. Even with bariatric surgery, patients are often put on a healthy approach to slowly lose weight before their surgeries. Below I’ve compiled a personal list of things that help me stay in shape, hopefully it helps you too!
7 Healthy and Easy Tips to Lose Weight
Disclaimer: All Content provided on or through the site is provided for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, care, diagnosis or treatment, and is not designed to promote or endorse any medical practice, program or agenda. Please speak with your doctor before making any changes to your lifestyle.Copyright © March 2018 Pema Chen Acupuncture. , All rights reserved.
For quicker read and tips, view my blog here: Spring Tips
Many people who have come into my office know that I do NOT believe in diets. Diets DON’T work. In order to have sustainable weight loss, you must change your lifestyle. A healthy lifestyle doesn’t mean you have to go to the gym everyday or eat salads for every meal, but it does mean subtle tweaks to your choices.
I’ve had patients tell me they have been on liquid herbal diets or 500-calorie-a-day “meal” plans by other healthcare practitioners. These are ridiculous and damaging to your bodies, starvation diets lead you to lose water weight rapidly, along with muscle and some fat. However, once you start eating real food again, you will put on the water weight and more fat, in the meantime you’ll have lost precious lean muscle. Muscle burns more calories than fat and take up less space, you want to keep your muscles healthy and toned with good food choices and exercise. With weight loss there is no quick fix option, anyone who tells you otherwise is being untruthful and unethical. Your body’s natural inclination when it’s losing weight is to try and cling on to fat and prevent starvation, this is why extreme diets lead to binge eating, anxiety, and an unhealthy obsession with food. Even with bariatric surgery, patients are often put on a healthy approach to slowly lose weight before their surgeries. Below I’ve compiled a personal list of things that help me stay in shape, hopefully it helps you too!
7 Healthy and Easy Tips to Lose Weight
- Start small, and think small changes that are easy to stick with. Did you know that a pound of fat is approximately 3,500 calories? So if you eat 100 less calories a day for a year, you can lose 10lbs in a year. Not a lot, but an easy change if you think that 100 calories is just a half cup of rice, a tablespoon of peanut butter, a small cookie, or 8 doritos chips.
- Drink water instead of sodas or juices. Even if you drink diet drinks, the toxic fake sugar substitutes trick your brain into craving more real sugar, which can cause you to eat empty calories.
- Conscious eating: Always pay attention when you eat, the best bites of food are the first ones you take. Focus on the taste and texture of what you are eating and you will feel satiated quicker.
- Recognize when you are truly hungry. Ask yourself, “Am I full? Do I need this 2nd slice of cake?”
- Focus more on what you can eat. Think of “adding” foods. Add fruits and veggies, perhaps challenge yourself to eating 3 different types of vegetables or fruits a day. You’ll be thinking about how to eat those instead of worrying about not being able to eat sometime else.
- Keep a food journal and reasons why you are eating: hunger, boredom, the food is there and accessible. A quick tip here is to not buy junk foods you love, then if you have a craving you don’t have access to it.
- My favorite tip of all: don’t focus so much on it. Be honest, are you eating well? Are you exercising? Are you truly overweight or are you just weight conscious because society wants us to be thin?
Disclaimer: All Content provided on or through the site is provided for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, care, diagnosis or treatment, and is not designed to promote or endorse any medical practice, program or agenda. Please speak with your doctor before making any changes to your lifestyle.Copyright © March 2018 Pema Chen Acupuncture. , All rights reserved.
