The eternal question: how to lose weight sustainably? How can we lose those extra pounds that affect our health when it’s not also our morale?
There is no simple, unequivocal answer. Indeed, we are not all equal; there is great variability in weight loss which depends on different characteristic parameters and individual profiles.
Several factors come into play in weight loss:
- Genetics: inequalities are significant; some people eat little and gain weight while others eat a lot and don't gain a single gram!
- Tastes and eating habits: depending on your eating habits and tastes, it is more or less easy to lose weight.
- Health problems: taking certain medications or even certain pathologies can have an impact on weight loss.
- Stress: it is an aggravating factor which promotes weight gain and prevents you from losing weight quickly, because food often plays the role of an “anti-stress” particularly with sugary foods.
The restrictive diet
Haro on the restrictive diet and the “lose weight quickly” enemies of weight loss! Of course we lose weight quickly, but these diets always end with a greater and faster weight gain than the loss. This is the dreaded “yoyo effect”.
In addition, these diets are bad for your health and often add to the weight regain the problems linked to the restriction, we find:
- Eating disorders: in fact, with frustration comes the time for compulsive cravings. The ban creates the desire and once we fall for it we devour the food in very large quantities, without pleasure and with a lot of guilt. This then induces a vicious circle where the person restricts themselves even more, because they have slipped, thus creating another dietary slip and again guilt.
- Problems linked to body image: the yo-yo effect can cause psychological disorders which manifest firstly through the euphoria of weight loss and secondly through very strong guilt linked to failure.
- Dietary deficiencies: a restrictive diet to lose weight quickly is, as its name suggests, a diet very low in calories and nutrients. However, the body has unavoidable needs to function well, restriction forces it to draw on its reserves and can have damaging effects on health.
HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT SUSTAINABLY?
There is not one, but ways to lose weight just as there is not one individual, but individuals with their specific singularity. To know how to lose weight, it is therefore essential to respect certain principles:
- The fundamental needs of the body: in fact, our body has needs that cannot be reduced and are essential to its proper functioning. For example, to cover your needs for omega 3, DHA and vitamin E, precise nutritional intake based on age is essential. Quintesens health oils ( tailor-made organic oil blends) have been designed by nutritionists with this objective. A true targeted nutrition solution, they allow an optimized intake according to your age group and nutritional needs.
- Pleasure: it is often forgotten in slimming programs, because it is often excluded, which is an aberration. On the contrary, pleasure must be an integral part of weight loss otherwise there is failure! Life is short, you have to know how to enjoy the moments of life and above all not cut yourself off from the world. And it is entirely possible to eat healthy, balanced and varied while having fun.
- Modern life: diets are often disconnected from reality with obligations to weigh food, the use of rare products, not suitable for eating outdoors... Successful weight loss is simple, without the need to weigh food and especially with products that are accessible and that we love. We must be able to eat on the go or in a restaurant without this causing any problems. It is just essential to learn how to do it well according to our tastes and possibilities.
- Tastes: the standard diets that are commonly found do not take into account the tastes of individuals even though this is the basis of success. Trying to get someone to eat broccoli, for example, who doesn't like them is the worst way to make them lose weight, because frustration and lack of pleasure will cause them to stop eating and have compulsions. Any diet must be personalized to fit sustainably into our daily lives.
- Health problems: depending on certain health problems, losing weight quickly may be more or less easy. It is therefore essential to take into account a person's treatment and pathology to best adapt their dietary program.
In conclusion Weight loss
cannotbe standardized and/or restrictive, it must be personalized and in line with the nutritional needs essential for good body balance. To do this, you must take the time to study the person's eating behavior and adapt their weight loss to their profile. It is essential to obtain information and be accompanied by a health professional. There are also different adapted programs, such as the tailor-made my-nutri program designed by Laetitia ANSALDI. This program adapts to the person as a whole, ensuring that all their nutrient needs are met. Within this program, Laetitia also recommends our Quintesens oils andbecause in addition to being perfectly balanced and adapted, their subtle flavors will bring a touch of pleasure to the weight loss objective.