Any effort to lose weight pretty much depends on your ability to moderate what you eat in one way or another. The key to losing weight is to consume fewer calories than your body needs per day, forcing it to burn whatever calories you have stored in your fat tissue.
Eating foods that have a high caloric value, such as burgers, on a daily basis will not only create a surplus of calories, but chances are you will consume enough calories to meet your daily needs with just that single meal.
On the other hand, one burger a month won’t impact your caloric intake in a way that will cancel out your weight loss efforts. As long as you keep track of your calories, you should be able to eat whatever food you desire and still keep a trim waistline.
Free Report: Why You Can't Shift Your Belly FatMaintain a Trim Waistline with Moderation
Moderation allows you to enjoy your favorite foods that would be considered unhealthy, without them influencing your weight or health. One of the main issues with moderation is the fact that you will need a lot of self-discipline in order to stop yourself from eating more than you want to.
Unfortunately, this is something you have to develop and maintain on your own. It’s no secret that mental fortitude is the key to accomplishing almost any kind of fitness goal you can imagine.
The same applies to moderation. If you’re someone who’s already following an exercise routine, you probably won’t have much trouble with moderation as a concept. Keep in mind that it make take time to get used to moderating your intake. If, for your whole life you’ve indulged without thought, then this new concept will be as foreign as moving to France after living your whole life in the United States.
With time and practice it will become second nature, and you will soon see that the rewards of a trim waistline and fit body.
Moderation Versus Complete Restriction
Aside from being a powerful tool, moderation also allows you to avoid complete exclusion of your favorite foods from your diet. With moderation, you can still eat whatever you want while making progress in your weight loss or fitness program. Completely eliminating every delicious, but potentially unhealthy, food is a wrong way to approach the idea of leading a healthy lifestyle.
Complete exclusion of unhealthy foods from your diet can lead to developing negative sentiment towards your fitness goals, and ultimately destroy your wish to achieve those goals at all. Not only is it bad for you, but there’s absolutely no need for complete abstinence of this kind.
You can still enjoy your favorite foods in moderation, and use them to treat yourself for maintaining a healthy diet and reaching short or long-term goals in your fitness program.
People who enforce complete restriction on foods they enjoy but find unhealthy, usually tend to be less happy with their overall progress. This lack of satisfaction leads to people creating so-called cheat days, or cheat meals which usually have the same results as eating those very same foods in moderation. The only significant difference is that when you have a cheat day, you’ll end up feeling bad for eating the food you like. Again, this is unnecessary and can be avoided by mastering moderation instead.
Empowerment Versus Depravation
A large part of the human condition is that being deprived or restricted instantly makes us want that thing more. How many times have you started one of those useless “diets,” and suddenly found yourself craving food that you never normally want, only because it is not allowed on that diet?
This is part of the reason that fad diets don’t work, as they can never be sustained for the long term. When you choose instead to make profound dietary habit changes, you are planning for the long-term and you are never restricted, instead you are empowered and you have choices.
Why Can’t You Shift Your Belly Fat?
Are you frustrated because you feel like you’ve been doing everything right, but you’re still not able to banish belly fat? Maybe you’re watching how much you eat and you’re exercising regularly but the change in diet and exercise isn’t ging you the trim waistline you deserve. That’s the bad news. The good news is that it’s possible to lose belly fat even though you’re not having success right now. To learn more, download my free report, Why You Can’t Shift Your Belly Fat and stop the harmful effects of this excess fat.
