Calories Rule continued

According to Dr. Stephen Chaney, "Your body type or blood type has absolutely nothing to do with which diet is going to work best for you." 

Changes in your diet will be necessary.  You will want to drop some foods from your diet and include some foods and drinks that are new to you.  Think about what you are eating and make conscious choices about which foods are helping you fulfill your goals of losing weight and which are not.

The diet should be one that is healthy in the long run.

Particularly the popular high fat, low carbohydrate diets.  It is clear that diets high in fat, particularly saturated and trans fats, are associated with increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer and inflammatory diseases.  Plus high fat diets just don't work well for long term weight control.  Fat has more calories than carbohydrates. 

If it is hard to believe what Dr. Chaney has reported, you may consult the National Weight Control Registry.  This was established in 1994 and has tracked the weight loss strategies of over 5000 peple who have been successful at keeping their weight off long term.

While those people lost weight using every diet in the books, the vast majority of them that were successful at keeping their weight off long term, followed a low calorie, low-fat diet to maintain their weight loss.

Part three is next week and how you can achieve your goal weight and, more importanly, maintain that weight