A few months ago, after trying and re-trying all types of restrictive diets that help momentary with my weight loss and then only caused me to gain much more weight than I’ve started with in the first place, I decided to take a break from dieting and find a way to get accustomed forever to a clean alimentary schedule that I can keep for the rest of my life. You see, I wasn’t looking for just a quick weight loss diet, but for a quick weight loss program that can be continued even after you’ve lost that weight and help you maintain the weight you have.

At that point, someone, a close friend, came to me and mentioned the watcher’s diet. At first I didn’t want to hear about it because …well, I was a diet, but there are a few interesting ideas in it that persuaded me to try it. I tried to reproduce below some of the things that make this thing different, the things that made me try it.

The Weight watchers diet is a diet that has been created in the united states during the 60’s, and it constitutes an innovative method of losing weight, which associates for the first time an alimentary diet based on a value system and psychological back-up.

The points’ system elaborated by the fat loss 4 idiots weight watcher’s diet is an innovation amongst the losing weight diets and has registered an immense success in Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and United States. The method is flexible, easy to use and can be adapted to many daily schedule.

If you want to lose weight efficiently and to maintain your figure, it’s not enough just to lose the extra pounds. In addition, you will have to give up all the wrong alimentary habits you’ve earned during your life. This thing can be realized with the help of this diet’s point system.

This is a quick weight loss diet because it is so simple and easy to understand. It basically has three simple rules:

1. Each person has allocated a certain number of points, defined according to certain criteria which can be sex, age, weight, height, if they are active or not and so on. There are many more other factors, which include type of personality, irascibility and so on, so that each point system is allocated to each individual as correctly as possible.

2. Each food has a certain number of points, calculated according to their caloric and fat composition for 100 grams. The fatter the aliment, the more points it gets. Aliments that contain non-saturated fats, or good fats, like linen oil or fish meat do not get as many points as those who contain the same fat amount but it is unsaturated.

3. If you do a sport, you will be able to earn extra points that can allow you to eat something you want badly. This is a great stimulation for people having trouble with diets.

All I had to do while taking this diet was to watch over the things it had to eat every day, or those I wanted to eat, calculate the points at every meal and be careful not to go over the permitted number. In periods when I knew I was going to eat more, I could simply supplement my daily points with sports and efforts.

This can allow us to get through Christmas eating all we want and not gaining a pound. I don’t know yet if this is 100% for real, the eating all you want part. I’ve never eaten more than felt natural and I constantly restrained myself form things that looked like they will obviously make me gain a lot of extra weight instead of loosing some. What I do know is that the fact that I have been eating by this schedule for a while now I can clearly see quick weight loss results on my scale.

Lately I have been really concerned about my metabolism. I seemed that no matter what I was eating, I was still continuing to gain weight. It really didn’t matter if I was on a diet or not. This is why I felt it’s about time to properly understand things about my metabolism, as it seems to be the main suspect in my weight fluctuations.

Reading a lot of materials related to this made me realize a few things about my past fights with extra pounds. I used to have a normal weight until I was about 35. After a period when I was sick and had to take medical treatments and then anti-depressives I started noticing that I was gaining weight from one day to the other, even if I’ve never been a gourmand. The tests I took showed I’ve also developed problems with thyroidal glands. I’ve tried numerous methods, treatments and natural weight loss diets that I hoped will do wonders for me and that they will make me stop gaining weight. After 2-3 weeks of dieting I would notice I lost very little weight or sometimes not at all. This personal experience proved me that the metabolism can be activated and can be helped to function better, but it can not be changed with a wonder natural weight loss diet in a few days, because our metabolism is in the end something we were born with. At the same time, our metabolism suffers some variations throughout our lives, and it can become more active or lazier…depending on things we are doing. Clearly I’ve done something that made it quite lazy.

In a medical dictionary, I’ve found a definition of metabolism that seemed quite explicit and relevant. They defined it like the multitude of physical and chemical processes in our body, through which substances are produced, maintained or destroyed and energy is distributed to cells. In other words, metabolism includes all the changes that take place in the human body. After reading this, I had to ask myself, can a process that is so complex and involves millions of cells be changed in a matter of days with some natural weight loss programs…when sometimes the “natural” is fading away, because we are given numerous pill alternatives to fight with our extra pounds.

I’ve tried to take the wonder diet that claimed to change my metabolism in 12 days. I was at first impressed by the results they claimed: more than 80% register a natural weight loss after ending the diet. When it was over, I did lose some weight, but then I’ve put everything right back on so fast, that it was clear it hasn’t changed my metabolism, just starved my body. I found out soon after that only 10% of those that were losing weight after finishing the diet continued to lose weight, and that they were mostly in their 20’s when changing the metabolism is easier.

The main idea is that there is no natural weight loss diet that can change instantly metabolism, but some good ones can activate it. This means it becomes aware of changes in alimentation. This is why I immediately gained weight after stopping these diets. My metabolism, remaining the same, was aware that there might come periods with poor alimentation and tried to made deposits. It was simply defending my body against bad times.

A nutritionist told me that all hope is not lost. That metabolism can be changed, after being activated. That natural weight loss diets can contribute in changing the metabolism, but that I will have to take such a non-restrictive diet for the rest of my life. I had to go to a nutritionist to find about all the alimentary delegations in my body. Since I was already having trouble with my glands, I took some herbal supplements to keep that under control. I made my own changing metabolism diet… I gave up on red meat; I only eat it very rarely on remote occasions, and mainly eat a lot of vegetables and fruits and chicken or fish. Also, I am trying to eat non prepared aliments as much as possible. Comes very naturally actually. The only stuff I really can’t give up is soups, but I’ve heard that if they are not made out of fat meat, they are also very beneficial. And let’s not forget that I’m pushed by my family to go and walk the dog…for at least one hour a day. Basically, I’m running, if you had a dog like mine you’d understand why I’m saying this.