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Circles For Health Weight-Loss Nutritional Program (Throw Away Your Scale)
A Fundamental Difference
There are two approaches toward weight-management. The first is the “magic-theory.” The magic-theory often incorporates restricted-calorie starvation diets, pills, hypnosis, pre-packaged foods, etc. You may remember the infamous liquid-diets, grapefruit diets, amphetamine diet pills, the Hollywood Diet, Scarsdale Diet Plans and most recently the “fen-phen” diet fad.
The magic theory approach is appealing because it requires no responsibility. You simply fall into a “system” and “they” tell you what to do. You don’t even need to think. (You just need to suffer). The system has all the answers. And if you fail, well, then it’s your fault because you weren’t a good “dieter.” The magic theory has left millions of people in hopeless despair (and hungry) in their never-ending quest to be thin.
The Fitness Approach
Meanwhile beneath the clamor of misleading advertising, dieting “gurus” and multi-level weight-loss schemes, the Fitness Industry has quietly and methodically helped millions of people throughout the world achieve long-term weight management and fitness goals. How? By using common sense!
Weight-management programs designed by fitness professionals focus on two primary elements—proper nutrition and productive exercise.
Fitness experts focus on body-composition (body-fat vs. lean mass) instead of body weight.
You’ll also find that many fitness organizations emphasize the physiological aspect of weight-management as opposed to the psychological side. This makes sense since most fitness experts receive their training in exercise physiology, nutrition or other life sciences related to the physical world.
So, it is to that end, the physiological aspect of weight-management, that our program is directed. It will help you understand the delicate balance and interrelationships our bodies maintain with food and exercise.
Throw Away Your Scale
Here’s the best advice you’ll ever hear in regard to weight-management - - “THROW AWAY YOUR SCALE.” The focus (obsession) on weight is the very reason why most people fail. It’s mis-guided and dangerous.
The focus on weight began back in the 1950’s when the definition of appropriate weight was simple. Your weight was compared against the “ideal weight” tables developed by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. If your actual weight was twenty percent (20%) or more above the table weight, then, you were considered obese. It is was ten percent (10%) under, you were underweight. Today, however, the term ideal weight is irrelevant.
Beware: Some medical doctors still use the Metropolitan Life Tables.
It’s Body-Composition That Matters
The original weight-table standards were designed for insurance purposes - - not as guides for nutrition and fitness. These tables never considered body-composition. Most world-class body-builders (usually less than 8% body-fat) would be categorized as “obese” by the original weight-tables.
The way to measure and determine one’s fat to lean muscle proportion is to determine body-fat percentage. The body-fat percentage is the percentage of an individual’s weight that is fat. next page >>> |
