Most Effective Weight Loss Strategy
Manna Health Products compiled the 5 most important weight loss strategies from our experience of 2010.
The word diet is used widely these days. Almost every week there is a new “Best Diet” or “a Miracle Diet Pill” which are promoted either on TV, Radio or in the Magazines.
Only proven strategies can really assist you.
There are some diets who advocate NO carbs at all. You cannot live on protein alone, because your organs will be unable to cope.
Here is our step-by-step strategy for effective weight loss.
1. Struggling to lose weight, no matter which diet you follow or the amount of exercise you do?
The chance is that you are insulin resistant. Insulin resistance normally occurs when your metabolism is messed up due to irregular eating habits or skipping meals too often. Fad or quick diets are major contributors for messing up your metabolism.
2. To Reverse Insulin Resistance (Pre-Diabetes) you have to do 2 things.
a. Get your metabolism to perform properly – A Proper eating strategy
Note that this program advocate a LOW carb intake and not a NO carb intake. You will get enough carbohydrates from your greens and salads. Try to stay away from bread, potatoes, pasta and rice for the first 7 days.
If there are some of the proteins you don’t like or can’t eat, substitute it with the type of protein you do like.
To get your metabolism to function properly, you must not skip meals or get hungry.
Remember to snack, but only on low GI, healthy snacks if you get hungry between meals.
b. Lower Insulin and Sugar levels in the blood stream – Decent Exercise
Insulin Resistance occurs when the cells in the body becomes resistant to Insulin and cannot perform it’s function properly.
A build up of Insulin & sugar occur, causing you to have high blood sugar levels and preventing you to lose weight, as the cells cannot open up to release energy because of high levels of insulin trying to store more energy in the same cells.
Exercise is the only way to burn the excess sugar in the blood and to lower insulin levels so that the cells can open up to release the stored energy. (Burn fat)
Do any form of exercise you prefer, as long as you do it for at least 30 minutes per day and build up a good sweat. See the video as example. (Do it with music)
NOTE: Only a Low carbohydrate eating strategy, like the 7-day damage control program, and exercise can reverse insulin resistance and get you to burn fat.
Tip: When you do a good amount of exercise each day and don’t lose weight fast enough according to your calculations, you might be building a bit a muscle which is heavier than fat. Do not only watch the scale, look at how your clothes fit.
Use the scale, but also use a measuring tape to take measurements around your middle and thighs to see the results of your new lifestyle.
3. Drink Water
As you change you’re eating pattern and commence with exercise, your body will release toxins. Water is essential to remove toxins from your body. Drink at lest 6 to 8 glasses of pure water per day. If you want to be successful with your weight loss strategy, you have to cut on the soft drinks coffee and tea. Rather put a few drops of lemon juice in the water for a little bit of taste.
4. Lifestyle change – Not a Diet
See this strategy, program or whatever you want to call it as a lifestyle change and not a diet. Once you have come to understand how your body reacts to certain foods, you will be more careful to eat the “wrong” types of food in the future.
It is difficult to sustain a diet, but to change your lifestyle and eating habits for your bebefit, you need to do a change of mind.
5. Never go Hungry - It is important to carry snacks with you, because hunger is one of the major culprits, causing us to eat “wrong” foods when our blood sugar levels drop.
6. Sleep Enough – 6 to 8 hours of sleep is very important, because enough sleep will help to restore your bodies’ functions.
If you don’t sleep enough, you tend to crave the “wrong” foods during the day and because your body’s functions have not been restored properly, it will be tougher to lose weight.
You can replace some of the meals with the Manna Low GI shake for ultimate weight control and energy.
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