Weight Gain (Not Weight Loss) Associated with Dieting
ScienceDaily: Dieting Does Not Work, Researchers Report
Want to lose weight? Whatever you do, don’t go on a diet. According to this study, the vast majority of people who go on diets end up weighing more after two years than they did before the diet. In fact, they found the number one predictor of weight gain was dieting. And dieting is also a major predictor of future heart disease, Type II Diabetes, stroke, and altered immune function. Yikes!
The researchers concluded the only way to guarantee long-term weight loss was exercising. Hey, that’s what the HRH Program says! (I love it when large, government-funded studies prove the same thing that any man or woman could figure out while exercising in their basement.)
The reason the HRH Program is so successful for people is that the changes are made over the long-term through the “law of mass action”. In my book, that means that anything you do long enough and consistently enough will be the determining factor in your health. Exercising within a specific heart rate zone will change your body into a fat-burning machine that craves the right foods. Doing it consistently will get your body used to the exercise, and it will then operate on auto-pilot, reminding you daily that you need to move around every day.
Nothing drastic is necessary in the HRH Program. The changes are made over time to help you regain a “feel” for how your body was designed to operate in the first place. Insulin resistance, for example, isn’t going to go away in a week or two with a crash diet and running your body into the ground . It’s something that has to be reversed over time. Small steps are what count.