The Secret to Permanent Weightloss!

One of the most misunderstood aspects of weight loss is the belief that if you simply reduces fat intake, you will lose fat from the body. While the average Australian does consume far too much of the wrong sorts of fats, and that this does contribute to certain disease conditions, when it comes to losing weight, fat intake is not the main problem. The main player in successful weight loss is carbohydrate.

How many times have you seen overweight people in the supermarket and all the food in their shopping trolley is 98% fat free. These people only eat low fat food but continue to grow. Here is an explanation of how that happens.

When you consume more carbohydrate (such as bread, rice, pasta, cereals, potato and products derived from them) than can be used or burnt as energy straight away, then the body will convert this carbohydrate to fat and store it in fat cells.

In Australia, we seem to be following the American trend of being an overweight population. In this increasingly overweight society we are seeing major increases in diseases such as mature onset diabetes, arthritis, bowel cancer and heart disease just to name a few. If you consider that for every kilogram of fat you store, the body has to manufacture approximately 300 kilometres of blood vessels to feed it, you can see the increased stress that each kilogram of body fat is placing on the heart.

The SlimSafe program is designed specifically to limit the amount of excess carbohydrate consumed. The body will then gently mobilise the energy reserves in fat cells.

Mealtimes should also be pleasant and relaxed. Encourage family mealtime interaction without stress. Eating slowly is very very important. Slow eating during a meal helps you to learn how to interpret cues for hunger and fullness and how to regulate how much you eat. Laying the table nicely and all sitting down as a family is a positive end to the day.

The other benefits about eating slowly and chewing well, is that it ensure that protein is broken down properly which provides a sense of satiety or fullness.  Eating slowly and relaxed also ensures that the body releases the right chemicals into the stomach to break down food properly. This makes sure that there is proper vitamin and mineral absorption as well.

Stress at the Dinner table prevents the body from releasing gastric juices and therefore leads to poor breakdown of food and poor assimilation of vitamins and minerals into the body.