The Only Secret To Losing Your Excess Fat Forever

 Have you been trying to lose weight or get rid of that excess fat that seems to never go no matter what you do?  Have you tried all the latest diets and failed?  Or, have you successfully lost weight only to gain it all back and maybe even more?Are you looking for the “secret” to lose your excess fat and finally have and maintain a lean and healthy body for the rest of your life?If so, here is the only real “secret” you need to know.  Caloric Restriction: eating fewer calories than you use for a long enough period to reach your goal.We know that this is not what you wanted to hear.  You wanted some miraculous food or supplement that would strip all that excess fat like magic.  You wanted a solution that would allow you to continue eating and drinking all your favorite foods or at least let you get back to them as soon as possible.The diet business is going to keep giving you new and “unique” choices in order to get you to try something new just one more time.  They also hope to get some of your hard earned cash along the way.  Diet, weight-loss and supplement products are a multi-billion dollar business.  Their marketing skills are exceptional and their pitch always sounds perfectly reasonable.  However, no credible study has ever shown that anything other than caloric restriction will result in real, permanent weight-loss.Without exception, all successful dieters, regardless of the program they use, the foods they eat or the supplements they swallow, have restricted their caloric intake below their maintenance level for long enough to reach their goal.The problem with dieting is that people see it as something temporary and often quickly return to their old eating habits, which caused them to become overweight in the first place.  This approach eventually puts them right back where they were before and often worse.There is also healthy weight-loss and unhealthy weight-loss.  Both result in lower scale weight.  However, healthy weight-loss improves body composition (fat to muscle ratio) and also improves almost all health biomarkers.  Unhealthy weight-loss results in unchanged or worse body composition and health.  The primary and proper goal for any diet is improved health and body composition with scale weight reduction as a desired but secondary effect.In general the healthiest diet is the one with the highest nutrient density per calorie.  Eliminating calorie-dense foods and replacing them with moisture and nutrient-rich food choices allows a similar or larger volume of food intake with lower total calories.  This alone will often create enough of a caloric deficit to see results in addition to better overall nutritional quality.The only secret for healthy weight loss and lasting results is a lifestyle change, which includes proper diet and activity choices that can be maintained over a long period of time.Your thoughts and comments are always welcome.