Dieting isn't easy. You need some help? We're here to help you with your weight loss. One reason that many people have so much difficulty losing weight is that metabolic factors appear to play an important role in obesity. In fact, a good case can be made that obesity is most often not an eating disorder but rather a metabolic disorder. Metabolism refers to the physiological process, including the production of energy from nutrients that take place within an organism. Just as cars differ in their fuel efficiency, so do people. Rose and William studied pairs of people who were matched for weight, height, age and activity. Some of these matched pairs differed by a factor of two in the number of calories they eat each day. People with an efficient metabolism have calories left over to deposit in the long term nutrient reservoir; thus, they have difficulty keeping the reservoir from growing. In contract, people with an inefficient metabolism can eat large meals without getting fat. Thus, a fuel efficient automobile is desirable; a fuel efficient body runs the risk of becoming obese.
Many people don’t know how to diet, they diet and then they relapse, thus undergoing large changes in body weight. Some investigators have suggested that starvation causes the body’s metabolism to become more efficient. For example:
Browel research on how to diet
He fed rats a diet that made them become obese and then restricted their food intake until their body weights returned to normal. Then they made the rats fat again and reduced their intake again. The second time, the rats become fat much faster and lost their weight much more slowly. Clearly, the experience of gaining and losing large amounts of body weight altered the animal’s metabolic efficiency. They also obtained evidence that the same phenomenon (called the yo-yo effect) take place in human. They measure the resting metabolic rate in two groups of adolescent wrestlers: those who fasted just before a competition and binged afterwards and those who did not. The investigators found that wrestlers who fasted and binged developed more efficient metabolism. Possibly, those people will have difficulty maintaining body weight as they get older
Gaol setting
Goal setting theories argue that goals ( e.g losing weight) must be specific, challenging and attainable. These are the most probable results that you will get if you will start to pursue a weight loss program. So, can you lose 10 pounds in a week’s time? Chances are, you won’t be able to … at least not in a healthy way. Do you think you can shed 3 pounds in a matter of 7 days? Commit most of your day to weight loss activities and this is very much possible.
Most weight loss programs can guarantee this much of a result. However, we’re talking about sustainable weight loss not quick fixes to the problem of being overweight. Very difficult or impossible tasks have demotivating affects, even when the reward is high. For example; Most quick loss diets will promise up to 10lb in the first week, which is more often that not merely loss of fluid rather than fat. But then next week will be losing 0.8kg per week. Indeed, excessive rewards may over arouse individuals, increasing their sense of responsibility and making them choke under pressure.
Intergrating expectancy and goals theories, social cognitve approaches to motivation, such as Dweck have examined the self fulfilling and self defeating effects of overconfident or under confident cognitions in educational setting. For example, believing that intelligent is fixed or entity will lead to lower motivation and efforts, whereas believing it is malleable or incremental have motivating effects, and in turn improve performance, same applies to losing weight
Long-term steady weight loss is safer, and likely to be more permanent. It has been found that an average of 2lb or 0.8kg per week is the optimum weight loss that will encourage changes in metabolic rate that, crucial, can be sustained. And don’t forget losing large amount of body weight alter the metabolic efficiency.
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