Quickest Way to Lose Weight, the Double Edge Sword of Losing Weight

The elixir of weight loss, the ElDorado of staying slim. The fantasies we go through and how we imagine losing weight very fast looking fabulous then flaunting it like it was very easy and uninvolved.

Sadly this is a fallacy; weight loss done the right way takes time and a lot of patience.

I have a very hard time explaining the concept of slow weight loss and the benefits.

Before we talk about why weight loss at a moderate pace is the best approach to weight loss, let’s look at how conventional weight loss programs approach to weight loss.

The comparison will help us see how slow or fast a really good weight loss program is.

Let us step back in time and figure out how long it took for us to gain all of the weight?

Look back and figure out when you started to gain and it became uncontrollable?

Look back and figure out how you tried to stop this inventible fat accumulation?

Ask yourself about how many times you have tried to decrease the weight with it coming right back?

Ask yourself, if you can add the amount of time it took to lose weight, how much time did it take you, per attempt?

So did you figure out how much time you spent losing weight?

I would venture to say it was longer than a year. I would also venture to say that it also took a lot of money too.

So what is the quickest way to lose weight? Well, the quickest way to lose weight is to lose it slowly.

Lose one pound per week, not two or more but one. After all, it will take you one year to lose 50 pounds or so with a very good chance of not regain it.

The old fashion way of losing weight fast took you approximately ten years, and you are still overweight.

No comparison!

Reasons why we regain it:

Gaining all that weight took your time, and every single bite that you took was learning or reinforcing a skill that is constantly cultivating after every morsel. Time frames for eating became very familiar and became ingrained in your mind and body.

Familiar places with food aromas or simply smells become a very convenient and a haven for us to sit and eat comfortably. Eating in front of the TV, eating during a movie, eating during a sporting event, eating while celebrating any event.

Having a snack every time you had a whiff of something sweet.

Every time the clock struck, 10:00 a.m. we wanted a coffee break and a sweet dessert (doughnut anyone?)

So after training this amazing body of ours to perform like an Olympic eating athlete we are asking it to perform like an Olympic starving monk.

I do not think it is going to work very well.

We only talked about out external stimulus; we have not talked at all about the internal organs that we do not even consider when thinking about learning.

Oh, how I remember Pavlov! He only made dogs salivate for food after ringing a bell or a metronome.

Yes, our internal system has been stimulated and conditioned to such a degree that we need to have that taste in our mouth, the stretch in the stomach, the dowsing of the sweet high caloric liquids. Every time you eat a typical meal the digestive organs stretch and their receptors get used to receiving a certain amount of volume, and the tissues stretch to accommodate all of this. If the tissue is not stressed like normal, then the receptors and sensors all over our internal organs sense a change and feel uncomfortable and set off alarms.

The internal organs are saying we are being starved; all our signals are telling us there is no more food outside and “must conserve to survive.” And you thought our bodies did not communicate that well!

So with extreme fortitude and motivation, you can lose weight, but your inners are fighting you until one day you have a small portion of food then another and all of a sudden you lose control and start eating at your old normal rate.

You lost the race!

When losing one pound per week, the alarms are not being set off, and you are learning to eat differently and have enough time to make corrections but not set off alarms.

The digestive organs are stretched just about the same and are not sensing a great change. The change is so minute that some of the tissue tend to regain their normal tension rather than the stretched out situation we were having before.

Compare the tissue of someone that loses 100 pounds quickly and how flaccid their skin is (I am using the 100# model so that you can have a better picture in your mind). The body never had the chance to recover its elasticity. The tension on the skin was decreased so quickly that the skin could not stimulate and remodel itself.

Think about the same process for the digestive organs; the organs are already stretched since they are used to a great deal of food.  If there is less food coming in, then there is no tension in the tissue.

With very little tension or stimulation to keep the digestive tissue with firmness and allowing tissue remodeling the tissue become flaccid.

Flaccid digestive tissue still needs to be stretched to be stimulated, but now it is not stretched since you are restricting food volume, and the body loses control and does not know what to do.

People who lose weight slowly do not have that flaccid excess skin; they have normal skin tightness.

There is a great reason people who lose one pound per week tend to do extremely well compared to the quickly weigh losers.

Another very interesting thing about losing weight at a slower rate is that the chances of regaining it decrease tremendously, so you don’t have to regain it therefore arithmetically this is the fastest and best way to lose weight.

Don’t ReGain it! Lose weight slowly!