Doctors diagnose, nurses administer meds/supps and care givers observe and report and due to the low level dirty stuff. That's pretty much most of how the health system operates throughout the world. There may be some exceptions. Your doctor diagnosed you have a certain obesity problem and then recommends like most other doctors will do, strength training. Because that will help you build muscles, raise your metabolism and help with your obesity problem.
Having said that, most of the western world had been fed food that are rich in sugar and saturated fats. Even so claimed health foods are not at all healthy! The human body is not designed to process more than 15grams per day of sugars. A can of Pepsi or Dr Pepper has like 43 grams of sugar, eventhough per can serving, it has 110 calories! Just 1 can of that stuff shoots your insulin up the roof. I cringed when I see a woman hauling a bunch of 2L of Coca Colas off the supermarket and she's obese! Which is why the majority of people in the Western world are suffering from insulin resistance and are suffering later on in life with Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and recently Alzheimer's disease! Not good.
Also our other foods are also laced with tons of sugars like sweet cereals (even the so claimed healthy ones are laced with sugars), sweetened yogurts and even those store bought healthy bread! So when you eat foods with a high glycemic index, not just sugars but also starchy foods like white bread, white rice, white potatoes and baked goods, your body pours out large amounts of insulin in an attempt to keep the glucose levels in check, because glucose itself is toxic at high levels. That harms your cells in several ways. For one thing, the cells become insensitive to the constant flood of insulin just as commuters are insensitive to blaring cars, profanity exchange between drivers etc.. When something happens, you just stop responding to it.
Sugar is like a drug and like a drug addict, you always want more of it. Your taste bud expects sugary stuff. This is the same with saturated fats, which makes the food taste good. So it is very difficult to go cold turkey for any drug addict; getting off the sugary train diet. And most of us had been fed this stuff since we were a little child. Going healthy and going without sugar is NOT easy. I think too many people focused on the Calorie In and Calorie Out, but neglect the fact that we truly don't really know how much sugars we consume even if we are eating healthy because most of the stuff we buy and cook come from the supermarket.
Having said that. Fat loss is more about diet than exercise. I think about 80% diet and most of it is our misunderstanding about calories.
With all the craze with people drinking Coconut water, let's examine 2 cans of Coconut water I have here. The healthy brand has just 80 calories @ 520ml but with 17grams of sugar. The not so well known brand that seemed to sit in my supermarket longer has 60 calories @ 310ml but with only 5 grams of sugar. The 2 tastes different and at least for me, one tastes way way too sweet and the 5 grams one taste just right. Even the so called fresh frozen ones have like 20grams of sugar!!
So the take home point is simply; don't focus on just calories.
When I started weening off those sugary stuff and starchy foods, I don't just go cold turkey. I go through a systemic withdrawal, like a drug addict does. Replace 1 meal slowly with a balanced diet of protein and high fibre, grains, fresh fruits and vegetables. The higher you are insulin resistant, the slower you need to replace your meal. Otherwise, your body will just reject them.
Secondly, as much as a diet plan does to reduce weight, you also need to work on yourself, your inner-self and what makes you unhappy, lack of peace and harmony and feeling "powerless" about yourself. In my experience, I had to heal myself feeling "powerless" that I couldn't do what I could do; always afraid of being judged and be rejected and that is a formula for addiction, because what a controlled substance does, like sugar and fat, is to give you a temporary high, so you thought the problem went away. But it didn't. Then you need more high, then more high, then even more high. That's typical from any addict. Right now in health care, I work with a lot of addicts of all kinds; addiction to body image, sex, wealth, performance etc.. You name I see it. And they have psychological issues feeling powerless about themselves that they couldn't do anything about it.
Powerless is a temporary illusion, because you can do something about it. It is being yourself, the authentic self. Everyone else who judges you also feel powerless about themselves and their situations. They need to put others down, so they can get the high, the feeling good they are not powerless. But that is also a temporary feeling, for then they have to continue putting and judging other people to make themselves feel good to get the next high, then the next high so forth. They are also addicts of a psychological kind.
I hope this helps you..
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