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The Psychology of Weight Loss: Yo Yo Dieting

The current mainstream model of weight gain states that it occurs through a positive energy balance which is caused by too little physical activity and too much food. In other words, body fat accumulation is a direct result of greed … Continue reading

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The Psychology of Weight Loss: Is Fat Loss For Everyone?

The health benefits of a lower body weight and more muscular body composition are well reported in the scientific literature. In particular, the risk of cardiovascular disease is reduced with reduced body fat, and this relates largely to the concomitant … Continue reading

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The Psychology of Weight Loss: Buying Western Food

The Western diet is dangerous because it not only causes weight gain, but because during this process it primes the individual to the taste of Western foods. Generally such foods contain too much fat, too much sugar and far too … Continue reading

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The Psychology of Weight Loss: Losing your Motivation

Weight gain is relatively easy. Consume a typical Western diet for a number of decades and considerable metabolic damage will have been done to the insulin system that is a key regulator of energy balance. The consequence of this damage … Continue reading

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The Psychology of Weight Loss: Self Perception

The current mainstream model of weight loss is that it is caused by overeating and a lack of physical exercise. This we are told causes a positive energy balance, which leads to weight gain in the form of mainly body … Continue reading

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The Psychology of Weight Loss: The Kaizen Principle

The Kaizen principle is a Japanese philosophy that is usually applied to business or industry. The word describes the continual improvement that results in long term success. This step by step approach of the kaizen principle has a number of … Continue reading

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The Psychology of Weight Loss: Biochemical Individuality

Most off the shelf diet plans will work for most people, at least for a short while. The ability of all diets to cause weight loss is likely a combination of the fact that energy restriction causes weight loss that … Continue reading

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The Psychology of Weight Loss: Personal Responsibility

Increasingly our society is becoming subservient to its government. This is not how it should be, as our governments should serve our interests and work for us as public servants. Instead they see themselves as rulers with subjects, and this … Continue reading

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The Psychology of Weight Loss: The Cheat Meal

The basic concept behind the cheat meal is that those who are following a high quality diet allow themselves a single meal where they are allowed to abandon their healthy eating habits and to indulge themselves with low quality foods. … Continue reading

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