Weightloss diet: Understanding weight loss factors

Have you tried various means of weight loss techniques, yet it didn't work out?

May be you have a few misunderstanding of how weight loss work. Before one can effectively plan out for a successful weight loss diet program, one must learn the basics of how the body works.

Weight loss: Defined

Weightloss, as defined by wikipedia, " in the context of health or physical fitness, is a reduction of the total body weight, due to a mean loss of fluid, body fat or adipose tissue and/ or lean mass, namely bone mineral deposits, muscle, tendon and other connective tissue."

Such that as defined, weight loss is affected by factors in order to trigger the body mass reduction, these should be part of the diet program.

1.Biological. This includes genetic inheritance, age, and gender. Genetic inheritance play a amjor role in the body mass of a person. Some people were born with faster metabolism while the others have slower.. Metabolism has effect on the calorie consumption of a person. In relation, gender and age also serve as factors such that males have lower body fat percentage and greater body mass than woman. Age affect such that as you grow older, the bone mass may be higher and metabolism increases as one ages.

2.Mental Activity. The hours the body is awake affects the use of the body energy, thus consuming more calorie while you are awake than you are asleep.

3.Health and medications. For every increase of 0.5C in internal temperature of the body, the BMR increases by about 7 percent. The chemical reactions in the body actually occur more quickly at higher temperatures. So a patient with a fever of 42C (about 4C above normal) would have an increase of about 50 percent in metabolic rate. Moreover, people with medications have their metabolism more interfered than in normal conditions.

4.Food Intake. Essential Fatty Acids are used by the body for structural and hormonal functions rather than for energy. This means that 9 calories per gram of this fatty acids is consumed for the said purpose. In excess of this may affect in weight gain. Refined foods, especially the non nutritious are stored by the body as fats than make use as energy.

There are still other factors than affect weights but I decided to take note of these basically. Now this will serve as a framework in our diet program.

Eat less. Eating less has been always associated with weight loss. However this is one of the taboos that should have your second thought. Contrary to this, when in a diet program, you can eat well. Being in a diet program does not spell famine for your stomach. It only controls the food that you take. Your fave food can be substituted by another food that may be pleasurable to you. Like if you are fond of pizza, you may opt to have a low-calorie cheese on it or when eating pasta, you may request for an alternative toppings or sauce. Don't hesitate to ask.

Eat low carb, high protein. Low carbohydrate and high protein intake is associated with the American Diet. However, studies shows that this is not good for the health. Here are some of it:

• High cholesterol. Protein such as red meat, whole dairy poducts are known to be high in cholesterol. In take of these that what the body needs adds to the risk of heart attack and other related diseases.
• Kidney Failure. Such diet requires the kidney to work harder to sort out unneeded salts and fats by the body.
• Ketosis. Ketosis is a metabolism condition where the liver excessively work to convert fats into fatty acids and ketone bodies which can be used by the body for energy. This can be attributed to high gkycemic diet or use of fats to burn energy rather than glucose. Such condition results many organs to fail if this is done in the long run and causes kidney stones and liver problems.

Skipping a Meal. Skipping any of the three major meals in a day has been proven to do harm for the body. Though there might be loss in weight for a period, it reduces the energy needed by the body for the whole day's tasks. As quoted, eat like a king on breakfast, prince on lunch and pauper on dinner. But never skip meal.