What's The Best Thing To Do If You Have Done Everything And Still Can't Lose Weight?

ByAvy Barnes

In my own experience, there is nothing more frustrating, annoying, and disheartening that getting all excited to start a diet and exercise program, spend my hard-earned money getting the program, start the program, do it for some time, and then after all of that... I end up getting absolutely NO RESULTS! Do you experience this as well? Or, are you about to get started with dieting and exercising and you want to ensure this doesn't happen? Read on to find out how to ensure you get great results!

Okay, the first thing to do is to narrow down why you would have done many things to lose weight... but still didn't get results...

1. Were you drinking plenty of water during the diet? Drinking more water is one of the absolute most important steps for improving your overall health and body.

2. Were you getting plenty of sleep? Without more sleep, you are extending how long it's going to take for you to get in better shape.

3. Were you doing both cardio AND resistance training? Doing one or the other will not you get you impressive results.

4. Were you on a natural diet program based around strategically skyrocketing your metabolism?

Chances are, most people will answer the first 3 questions with a yes, and the last question with a very confused NO.

You see, the ultimate secret to success with getting an amazing body lies within doing what the body wants more than anything. And what the body wants more than anything is sleep, water, NATURAL foods, a healthy digestive system, and a faster metabolism. When you give your body what it wants, you WILL see amazing results take place incredibly fast.

The part of the equation that most people mess up on is increasing their metabolism and eating natural foods.

"Diet" foods (such as so-called healthy yogurt for example) are actually not that healthy (unless it is Greek organic yogurt by the way), and going on diet programs that have you restrict foods, or eat one type of food, etc., are definitely not healthy nor will they produce permanent results.

Boosting your metabolism is another thing that must happen if you want to lose weight and more importantly, body fat. Taking "metabolism boosting pills" or doing other things to try to unnaturally boost your metabolism is just asking for trouble. What you want to do is to go with a 100% all natural diet where you will be eating the right foods (which means ALL types of nutrients, the right amount of calories, and NOT starving yourself or depriving yourself) in the right way that will all cause your metabolic rate to soar.

Natural Healing Process - Understanding Detoxing

The natural healing process starts immediately, you either start to practise healthy options, such as eating real food and/or when you stop doing unhealthy things to your body. These include eating unhealthy food, partaking in unhealthy pursuits, flooding your body with medication, etc.

Up to a point, your body can cope with whatever you throw at it. But there comes a time when you will start to feel the effects. At this point, you have three options - ignore it (leading to a deterioration), seek a quick fix (which often adds to the problem) or face up to the fact that what you are currently doing is not serving you.

The latter option is the hardest to realise, but the most curative in prognosis.

The challenges don't end there. When you allow your body to do what it is designed to do, when you allow a natural healing process to occur, then you can experience what is often referred to as a healing crisis. In effect, you are letting the build up of toxins, that are so detrimental to health, go.

This letting go can be unpleasant. The more severe your health problem, the stronger the effects can be. Some of the common symptoms of a healing crisis include:

lower energyheadachedischarges - such as bile, mucus, phlegm, sinus, vaginalskin eruptions - such as boils, rashescoated tongueincreased body odourmore frequent bowel movementsincreased sleepinessweaknessincreased symptoms of current ailment

These symptoms are temporary, lasting from around a few days to a week for an averagely healthy person, to 3 - 4 weeks for a very toxic person. If they are too strong to carry out your daily routine, if they cause you distress or last longer than is comfortable, then you should seek the advice of someone who is familiar with this process. A homeopath can help to lessen the crisis without interring with it.

It's worth remembering that a body will only enter into a healing crisis if it knows it can handle it. Your body is intelligent. It won't embark on anything that it can't see through. All you have to do is to be in a space (both mentally and physically) to allow this to happen. Support is often vital.

The natural healing process is essentially a detoxification. You know that you will feel so much better when you come out of it. But it doesn't have to be unpleasant.

Massage, especially lymphatic massage, coffee enemas and good homeopathy prescribing can all lessen the pain of the process dramatically. The latter has the potential to eliminate it altogether.

Many practitioners, including GPs, are unfamiliar with the healing process and will prescribe medication to help you. These will worsen your condition, increasing your toxin load, which is likely to make you feel worse in the coming months.

The best way to avoid the pain of a natural healing process is to change over to a healthy diet in small chunks. Change one thing at a time. This way tends to have longer lasting results, too.
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3 Diet Mistakes to Avoid When Trying to Lose Weight

There must be a reason why some struggle to lose weight while for others it seems like the weight just falls right off. It seems like losing weight comes easy for some and harder for others. What is a dieter to do?

Avoid these three mistakes for starters.

Mistake 1 - Having unrealistic weight loss goals or expectations. If you want to look like one of the guys on the cover of Muscle & Fitness in 90 days but have 100 pounds to lose, you are fooling yourself. An important aspect of writing goals is to make them realistic and achievable. When goals are achievable you won't give up when the going gets tough. Giving up is the last thing you want to do when trying to lose weight.

What to do instead: Make more realistic goals that are achievable. If you have a big weight loss goal like losing 100 pounds, break it down into smaller increments. At first, aim for losing a couple pounds a week. Build on your success. The more weight you lose the more confidence you will have.

Mistake 2 - Giving up too soon. Different people have different results. If you and a girlfriend are both on a quest to get healthier and get thinner, but she is losing weight faster, don't beat up on yourself. Keep reminding yourself that weight fluctuates. You could weight yourself tomorrow morning, and then the next day, and the weight will most likely be different. Give your girlfriend a high five for her success and later celebrate your success.

What to do instead: Stick it out. No matter what you face when dieting, give it you're A game. When things get tough remember all the people that love you and want you around for many years to come. That should be more than enough motivation especially if you have kids.

Mistake 3 - Not eating enough. You would think eating less would actually help you lose weight since you are eating fewer calories. In turn, you have fewer calories to burn off. But that is far from the truth. Your body needs a certain amount of nutrients; you are most likely not getting them when you don't eat enough calories.

What to do instead: Eat the correct amount of calories for your height, weight, and age. Starving yourself is not healthy weight loss. If you are not eating enough calories you are actually causing your metabolism to slow down. This is the exact thing you don't want. This will cause weight gain. Not exactly the results you were looking for?

Bottom Line? When you are trying to lose weight it is not always easy, but hang in there. There is light at the end of the weight loss tunnel. Allow what you eat to help you instead of hinder you.

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