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by
Konstantin Monastyrsky
A professionally-prepared weight loss plan sets
forth realistic weight loss goals, estimates the duration of your diet,
anticipates possible complications, devises a proper transitional diet,
sees you through the loss of body fat to your target weight, eliminates
diet spoilers, and helps to avoid medical errors. Starting a weight loss
diet without such a plan is akin to taking a bicycle tour around Europe
without a passport, money, map, cell phone, and dictionary. If you
already know how badly that trip is going to end, why, then, commence a
diet that you know in advance is likely to fail and make you even
fatter?
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Transcripts
Greetings,
In this episode I will address the very first question
most people ask about my weight loss program for diabetes reversal: “Konstantin, but why do I need a professionally-prepared weight loss
plan?”
Well, if you can magically lose weight and get rid of
diabetes on your own, and stay that way for the rest of your life, you
don‘t need any plan, either professional or do-it-yourself.
If, on the other hand, you cannot, then the quick and
simple answer is: you need this plan to attain “no fail” weight loss,
because it is a precondition for eliminating pre-diabetes, recovering
from type 2 diabetes, reducing high blood pressure, reversing heart
disease, getting off multiple drugs, saving
time and money, and improving your quality of life.
If this brief response leaves you longing for even more
reasons, here are more extensive and nuanced explanations.
— The first reason for needing a
professionally-prepared weight loss plan is to establish realistic
weight loss goals and determine the duration of your diet based on your
age, gender, heredity, digestive health, rate of metabolism, and other
relevant circumstances. Otherwise, you are likely to abandon your diet
long before attaining your desired weight.
Most often this happens because the loss of weight goes
in two stages: rapidly at first, up to one pound per day; and at a much
slower rate soon thereafter, usually less than a pound per week. At this
point, exactly when the real weight loss is just starting in earnest,
most people abandon their diets simply because they no longer see
profound weight loss on a day-to-day basis.
Obviously, the right plan tells you what to expect, by
when, and why, so you stay with your diet until you lose the very last
pound of unwanted weight.
— The second reason for needing an expertly prepared
weight loss plan is to anticipate and prevent the most likely
diet-related complications that can derail your weight loss, harm your
health, and cause you to gain even more weight.
The most common of these complications are indigestion,
heartburn, low blood sugar, migraine headaches, dehydration,
constipation, malnutrition, edema, and so many others that I already
discussed in prior episodes.
The thorough review of your health and dieting history
along with other pertinent facts helps to preempt and overcome these
complications even before starting the actual diet. The resulting
recommendations, obviously, become a part of your plan.
— The third reason for needing a realistic and
attainable weight loss plan is to identify preexisting conditions that
may derail your diet, make it less effective, or cause its failure. If, for example, you can improve your rate of energy
and structural metabolism in advance, your weight loss will go faster,
much faster. Likewise, eliminating undernutrition prevents serious
health damage, such as tooth loss, infertility, nerve damage, or bone
disease. Similarly, curbing excessive hunger and appetite makes
dieting bearable. And, to boot, normalizing insulin secretion
prevents migraine headaches and sugar cravings, and so on. Rest
assured, your plan will include relevant recommendations on how to
anticipate and eliminate these and other preventable obstacles.
— The fourth reason for needing a working weight loss
plan is to devise a proper transitional diet. It must always precede a
low calorie weight reduction diet in order to prepare your body for an
extended period of, essentially, intentional undernutrition as well as
to readjust your digestive organs to a different food volume, diet
composition, eating frequency, and schedule.
A transitional diet is especially important for anyone
past 40, because the digestive organs of middle-aged people are no
longer as adaptable to sudden and drastic dietary changes, such as
required for a sustainable weight loss.
If you are already taking sugar-lowering medications, a
transitional diet is even more critical. It is hard to attain a
meaningful weight loss while on these medicines because practically all
of them stimulate appetite, induce weight gain, and require
calories-dense foods to counteract and balance their sugar-lowering
effect.
A proper transitional diet will stabilize your blood
sugar in advance, and will allow you or your doctor to reduce or eliminate these
medications altogether. Correspondingly, your plan will include a
description of the recommended transitional diet.
— The fifth reason for needing a
professionally-prepared weight loss plan is to devise a personalized
low-calorie weight reduction diet. This diet commences after the
transitional diet is completed, and it is usually the longest and the
slowest.
Most people can lose around two-to-three ounces of fat
daily, so if you have around 20, 30, or more pounds of body fat to get
rid off, it may take a considerable amount of time, and you want to make
sure this time isn‘t wasted, or that your diet is safe, effective, and
sustainable.
By safe I mean a diet that isn‘t going to damage your
health. By effective I mean a diet that produces demonstrable weight
loss. And, by sustainable, I mean a diet that does not leave you
perpetually hungry and miserable.
To some extent, these three objectives are mutually
exclusive, so this is a fine balancing act that requires a great deal of
expertise, attentiveness, and empathy. Your plan, obviously, will
include a detailed description of the recommended weight loss reduction
diet.
— The sixth reason for needing a personalized weight
loss plan is to determine and eliminate the most likely diet spoilers. By “spoilers” I mean foods, habits, and lifestyle
factors that stimulate appetite and cravings, or make it difficult to
attain satiety, or compromise digestion, or cause allergies, or block
proper assimilation of nutrients, or reduce your metabolism, or deliver
hidden calories, or compromise your sleep, or interfere in any other way
with safe and efficient weight loss.
It is hard to identify and eliminate some of those
spoilers on your own for exactly the same reasons even seasoned physicians have
their own private doctors. That is because when we look inside
ourselves, we usually lack detachment, objectivity, and perspective,
and, let
alone, essential expertise.
— Finally, the seventh reason for needing a
professionally prepared plan is your safety, particularly if you are
already taking medication for pre-diabetes, diabetes, and related
conditions. With your weight loss plan in front of them, your doctors
will be able to adjust your treatment accordingly.
As I already noted in prior episodes, there is
absolutely no adversity between my weight loss program and mainstream
treatment of diabetes. Just ask any medical professional what is the
most effective means of preventing and reversing pre-diabetes and type 2
diabetes, and without exception, they all will respond the same: an
effective weight loss diet.
And many will add: for as long as it is safe, balanced,
and complications-free, just like the one in your weight loss plan.
In addition to these seven major reasons, it goes
without saying that while preparing your plan, I and my associates will
get to know your weight loss history and health background pretty well.
So, when you hit this or that pothole along the way, we
will be able to provide you with quick and relevant answers based on
that intimate familiarity rather than speculating and experimenting with
a trial-and-error approach.
Equally important — a realistic weight loss plan will
give you confidence, inspiration, and motivation to stay with your diet
for as long as it takes rather than constantly double-guessing yourself,
or succumbing to peer pressure to produce quick results, or simply
giving up way too soon.
So if you can‘t afford yet another failed weight loss
diet because of raging diabetes, or don‘t wish to gamble your health on
drugs, or if your self-esteem needs a boost, or to enhance your career,
or simply because you dislike your reflection in the mirror, or just
value your own time and money, start with a professionally-prepared
plan, attain a normal weight, and stay that way — fit, healthy, and
diabetes-free for the rest of your long life!
If you have ever failed a diet, I am sure the doubts
over your ability to lose weight still linger, plan or no plan. That is
why the next episode is entitled “Come-on, Konstantin, Diets Don‘t Work!
What Does Make Your Program any Different?” It explains what makes my
program different from all other weight loss diets, and why I call it a
“no fail” diet with so much confidence. Please, watch it right now!
Thank you for your interest in my weight loss program, and I look
forward to greeting you in the next episode!
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