What are the signs of a bad diet?

Hi guys, this post is going to concentrate on some of the negative signs of a bad diet. If you need to lose weight quickly and effectively, these some of the things that you should be considering when doing your diet. This is a continuation of some of the themes that I might have explored in earlier postings.

1. Simplicity and organic are words that we are looking for. If your diet is full of artificial things then it is unlikely to be a good one. The more natural food that you have in your diet the better it for your overall health and the practicability of your diet. Artificial elements may help you somewhat in developing your diet up to a certain level but then you have to take up the mantra and get serious about your weight loss program. The tendency to become obsessed with the artificial shows that you are either not confident in your ability to achieve your ideal weight through fair means or that you believe that it is appropriate to simply take the apparently easy way out by resorting to artificial condiments and pills. The sad truth is that many of these artificial things will not work unless you accompany then with a belief and commitment to proper dieting and exercise regimes.

2. A diet that attempts to get things that are outside of your reach is not a good one. It places extra pressure on you to search for food when your priority at this moment in time should be about making sure that your have enough capacity to control your weight. In typically laughable fashion you might end up spending your time trying to find the right foods thus causing you to get even hungrier and eat more than you should. Weight is about finding solutions that meet your needs at the time and place of your choosing. Looking at the foods around you is the best way of determining whether you can stick to any particular schedule for the diet. If you try to access that which you are unable to access, then failure is almost certain and you will have to beat a hasty retreat from your diet program.
Once you have identified the bad habits that will make your diet fail, you then have to concentrate on ensuring that you avoid all such habits in your daily routine. That is the only way forward.

Does smoking help you lose weight?

I have often wondered about this controversial issue. The people who have given up smoking seem to be getting fatter while the smokers are generally thin. The doctors tell us that we should not listen to old wives tales about smoking. The psychoanalysts among us then move on to tell us that the reasons why smokers put on weight when they kick the habit is that they keep wanted to use the habitual motion of putting hand to mouth. Thus in the absence of a cigarette they turn to food which increases their intake and calorie count.

There are some very foolish people who even go as far as suggesting that it is a good idea to start smoking in order to control one’s weight. These are people who really do not understand the meaning of healthy living. Smoking has such a devastating impact on those who take it that it is very irresponsible to even suggest that it could be a solution to your health problems. This is akin to saying that when you have a headache the solution is to cut off the head itself.
This is the kind of irresponsible talk that has led many teenagers into the grips of a serious weight loss problem without a route towards exiting the trap. How some people come up with such theories is beyond me. However I must say that I have not yet found a satisfactory explanation as to why people who smoke tend to gain weight when they stop smoking. Perhaps one of you guys will have an intelligent explanation which I can public in the blog.

This is an issue that affects us all and I would appreciate any feedback or links to the information sources. I think that if they discovered that smoking really helped to lose weight, they would try to work out something to help facilitate the use of smoking without taking on the well known dangers.

I wonder whether the doctors are just afraid of contradicting one another and that is why they are not providing an explanation about smoking and weight control. I know that medical people have the habit of trying to forget issues rather than confronting the difficult issues. Maybe this is one of them. Anyone who has done research in this area please let me know the progress and we would be grateful for any tips on this rather secretive issue so far.