Before you embark on your low-dieting weight-loss program, you need to know that some medical conditions could prevent or stall your progress. If any of these apply to you, be sure to check with your doctor for advice.

Medications

Some prescription and over-the-counter medications can prevent or stall weight loss. They increase a person’s metabolic resistance. These include the following: Read the rest of this entry »

Drink Caffeine Cautiously

How caffeine affects your weight loss can vary. Some people can continue to drink a couple of cups of coffee or a caffeinated beverage every day and have great success on a low-dieting weight-loss program. Others may find that it slows down progress.

Caffeine all by itself, even without cream and sugar, can stimulate the production of insulin because it can indirectly raise blood glucose levels by stimulating the release of glycogen stores. And, as stated previously, this can increase fat storage and thwart fat burning. Read the rest of this entry »

Nothing can be done about your age, so don’t worry about it. You simply are the age you are, and yes, your metabolism slows down accordingly. But all is not lost. You can rev up your metabolism in spite of your age, no matter what age you are. Here’s what to do beyond eating the low-dieting way.

Avoid Overeating

Low-dieting weight loss only works to the extent that you don’t overeat. When you overeat, your body’s insulin levels become elevated and your body starts storing fat. Read the rest of this entry »

Although some people can keep their metabolism high throughout their lives, most can’t. Certain biological factors are, well, facts of life. After a person’s biological prime, say at about age 30 or 35, the body’s hormonal system begins to slow down and continues slowing down with every passing decade. As hormone production slows, so, too, does the basal metabolic rate. Read the rest of this entry »

The key to success with dieting index weight loss is simple: Eat within your dieting load allotment every day. Here are some guidelines for choosing your allotment. Start with these recommendations and then modify them if necessary. You may need to lower them if you aren’t losing weight, or raise them if you are losing too quickly.

• Start with a dieting load allotment of 60 to 75 per day, making sure to spread this out over the course of the day. You might have 15 at each meal and three snacks of about 10 each.
• A younger person needs to eat a higher dieting load than a person who is older, because metabolism slows with age.
• A person with a lower percentage of body fat can eat a higher daily allotment than a person with a high body fat percentage. Read the rest of this entry »

The dieting load is the key to knowing how much of a carb to eat. As you have already learned, the dieting index gives you information about the quality of a carbohydrate. The numerical value tells you how eating that carbohydrate will affect your blood sugar levels. The dieting index alone, however, doesn’t give you a guide for how much of any carbohydrate you can or should eat.

When the dieting index first became popular, many people assumed that as long as a food was low dieting, it didn’t matter how much of it we ate. Wrong. Indiscriminately filling up on too many carbohydrates, even low-dieting carbs, can cause weight gain. Read the rest of this entry »

Mood Management

Eating high-dieting food creates mood disorders. Your body reacts to these foods by increasing insulin levels, which then increases the level of stress hormones.

With elevated levels of adrenaline and cortisol, a person easily experiences anxiety, panic attacks, and depression. If stress hormones stay high over a long period of time, a person can end up medically diagnosed with a mood disorder. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’ve been on a restricted-calorie diet before, you know how hard it is to avoid overeating when you feel hungry all the time. Throw in the sudden and unexpected food cravings that can make a mess of your best intentions, and it’s easy to see why staying on a restricted-calorie diet is agonizingly difficult and certainly not fun. On a dieting index weight-loss program, however, it is easier to avoid both overeating and the horrendous, and at times irresistible, food cravings. That kind of hunger is induced by the restrictive nature of those diets. Read the rest of this entry »

You want to have energy to burn, and you can. Your body already has abundant energy stored as fat. Dieting index weight loss lets you access that stored fat and burn it for fuel. On many other kinds of diets, your body burns muscle for energy. When you limit carbohydrate intake, however, your body uses up stored fat with less muscle loss. Read the rest of this entry »

Think of insulin as a highly beneficial hormone. It literally keeps you alive. But again, too much of a good thing—in this case, insulin—is damaging. You want to have enough insulin in your body to keep you thin and healthy and not so much that you fall prey to its dire health consequences. Read the rest of this entry »