The number 1 reason weight loss diets fail.
Do you ever wonder why every diet you try fails? It's because
they target the wrong problem. Diets focus on treating a
symptom (weight gain) rather than providing what your body
needs to naturally maintain its weight. What happens next?
Yep! You lose weight temporarily only to gain it back again
later. Is it lack of will power? No!
Have you heard the phrase "it's all in your head?".
Well, there's much truth to that. Overeating is a result
of a lack of neurotransmitters in the brain. When the neurotransmitters
are missing (when there is an imbalance), your body tries
to replace them with something else...food.
Usually the problem is that we don't eat
the right foods to bring up the levels of neurotransmitters
to the point where we don't end up overeating.
Most people trying to lose weight go on
some type of weight loss diet program but very often DO
NOT stay with a weight loss diet because the stress they
experience trying to stay on the diet, is too much for them
to handle. Why is that?
The body gets most of the nutrients the
manufacturing cells need to keep the opiod (neurotransmitter)
levels normal in foods such as milk, cheese and other dairy
products. Since we often eliminate these types of food when
we diet, so we can lose weight, we are also eliminating
the very foods our bodies MUST HAVE to keep the stress cycle
from starting.
What you have is a viscious cycle of your
body craving certain foods and you depriving your body of
those foods.
Certain amino acids provide nutrients, lost
by depriving yourself of those foods, that aid in restoring
normal nutritional balances in the brain. Which in turn
can prevent you from overeating in the first place. Without
getting too "scientific", here are a few of the
essential amino acids that aid in losing weight.
l-phenylalanine is an amino acid used by
the body to synthesize dopamine and norepinephrine.
d-phenylalanine increases the levels of
endorphins and enkephalins.
l-tyrosine and l-glutamine are amino acids
used by the body to synthesize dopamine and Gamma Amino
Butyric Acid (GABA), respectively.
l-arginine and l-ornithine facilitate production
of muscle, not fat.
l-carnitine helps mobilize surface fats.
Chromium helps to lessen the competition
of these specific amino acids to cross the blood brain barrier
and is also thought to enhance the action of insulin which
facilitates glucose (blood sugar) and amino acids into muscle
tissue.
These, along with other vitamins and minerals,
conveniently deal with the deficiencies resulting from poor
eating habits or inadequate diet. By giving your brain what
it needs, you will NOT need to go on some insane weight
loss diet that may do more harm than good.
Therefore...Stuff your brain, not your face!
