The basics of weight loss
If losing weight was easy, no one would ever need pills let alone the awfulness of even having to think about surgery. Yet when you look at the numbers, you realize weight loss is one of the biggest markets in medications and it's adding to medical costs paid by our health plans. Sadly, losing weight is easier to say than to do. It's a little like trying to quit smoking. We always explain how hard that is by telling non-smokers they don't know how addictive nicotine is. It's a drug, we say, and once it's got its hooks into you, it never wants to let go. We shake our heads. We're weak reeds in the face of this terrible addiction. Well, here comes the headline. We're just as addicted to food. Surely not, you complain. We have to eat to live. How can this be the same as an addiction to a non-essential drug?
To understand the nature of addiction, we have to go back to the caves and plains where humanity first walked on the Earth. Even before we developed intelligence, our bodies understood the problem of coping with an unreliable food supply. If the hunters make a good kill, the tribe has meat. If the season is right and the gatherers are working well, they add to the supply. In these times, the body puts on weight to store up fat for the times when there's no food. To tell us we have food of the right kind, the stomach sends a message to the pleasure center of the brain. Eat the food the body can store as fat and we're told how much we like it. If the food is no use to us at all, we have no joy in eating it.
This linkage of pleasure and food continues today. Except now it's a real problem. As a society, we've got more food than we know what to do with. And choice? Well, go into any large store and there are shelves of every type of food you could ever hope to see. So what do you choose to eat. Well with your body giving you pleasure every time you eat or drink anything sweet or savory, you tend to eat a diet that's unhealthy. It would be great if there was a famine every now and again. That way, you would burn the fat just to stay alive. But with every store being a convenience store, you can top up your refrigerator anytime supplies are running low. The result is an epidemic of obesity.
We're all food addicts and, if you really want to lose weight, you have to want to kick the addiction. This is a big psychological problem to overcome. You will crave for sweet food and sodas in the same way as you crave for nicotine. You need a strong will to overcome this habit of snacking between meals and piling up large portions when you do eat. Acomplia can help. It suppresses your appetite. That way, you will feel full for longer. If you don't feel hungry, you will eat less. Acomplia helps people lose an average of 10% of their body weight. It's an essential part of every successful weight loss program.