Diet Trapped

What does it mean?

It means you are eating nutrient-poor, calorie-rich foods that are providing too much of what your body doesn't need from food and are a slave to the natural detoxification process that is "always" occurring in the form of cravings for foodstuffs that perpetuate the problem, among other uncomfortable symptoms that you experience whenever you are not eating.

Yeah, I know that's very in your face, but hopefully you are seeing it as very insightful as well.

It doesn't need to be that way, you don't have to be diet trapped!

Diet Traps are myths the food and diet industries have taught us – like "a calorie is a calorie." All calories are not created equal, maybe in terms of energy released in a Bomb Calorimeter (the most common device for measuring the heat of combustion or caloric value of a material). But our bodies treat them differently, depending on their “packaging.”

Diet traps are popular “common-sense” answers (like “eat less” often combined with “exercise more”) that seem innocuous and beneficial – and at face value make sense as a solution to overweight, but not if your diet is nutrient poor and your lifestyle is not balanced and healthy.

They’re false information we’ve been fed all our lives – like the idea that you have to eat meat and dairy every day to lose weight, grow and build strong bones and be healthy…

They’re short-term methods with negative long-term effects. Low-carb, low-cal and low-fat diets, where we manipulate nutrient and caloric concentrations in extreme ways, all fit into this category! Even if they masquerade as “lifestyles,” they’re still diet traps!

They’re tricks we think help us keep our weight down, but don’t – like using caffeine as an appetite suppressant only to overeat later, because we’ve confused our hunger signals and made ourselves sick.

They’re beliefs that sabotage our quality of life and our success – like thinking that weight is all about willpower, motivation or self-control. You can’t measure anyone’s will power or self-control by looking at their weight or when they are under the influence of nutrient-poor foods.

Diet Traps are tactics that induce unnatural weight loss or promote unhealthy, unsustainable weight management, because in most cases they keep us dependent on the nutrient-poor and nutrient-barren foods that are at the root of the problem.

Diet Traps snare not only our health and our self-esteem, but our ability to function well.  They keep us stuck.

They don’t free us from our food addictions or fulfill our complete nutrient needs.  They promise success and freedom, but rarely deliver. And the consequences are clear:  weight gain, disease, depression, sickness – and so many more.

Today, the “truth teller” approach is to point out all the “traps” and then sell you right back into one.  That is not going to happen here at nutrientrich.com especially when you get free of the ultimate diet trap--Eating nutrient poor!

Make the Switch to Rich.

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I'll share with you a few insights on each of these going-nowhere approaches to losing weight that make up most of the $50B diet industry supposedly about helping you lose weight, when really it's about keeping you diet trapped!

• Nutrient Deprivation: or manipulation is about drastically cutting or eliminating carbohydrate out of your diet. The problem with this approach is that our bodies run on carbohydrate for fuel and we ALL have a sweet tooth, for that very reason. Carbohydrates are sweet, even natural carbs. When most people cut their carbohydrate they typically cut out plant foods, where there is ample, natural carbohydrate, and base their diets on fish, chicken and other meats which are also devoid of carbohydrate and great for quick-fix weight loss (water loss). The minute you do this you are now eating nutrient poor because animal foods are nutrient poor, missing whole categories of nutrients; the most important being phytochemicals. You can't be healthy this way, therefore you will always have weight and health problems.
  
  
• Proactively eating less: This is dieting, and most people are proactively eating less on top of nutrient deprivation. Meaning, the nutrient needs their body is striving to meet, aren't getting met, and now they are eating less on top of it! This is like having your food on the break and the gas pedal at the same time; you will chase your tail this way. Nobody can do this, unless you are an adept dieter almost warrior-like with deprivation. Some people can do it, as they buy into the "heroic" story of weight loss thinking that they must live this deprived live to deal with their lot in life. It's a great accomplishment, losing weight, but it's not heroic and doesn't require heroism. It requires that you understand how to eat in a nutrient rich way, as part of a successful lifestyle.
  
  
• Dependency on exercise to burn calories: This is the all time biggest sham ever! Exercise is not about losing weight, it's about getting fit. Sure, you use more calories when you exercise; your weight will fluctuate with increased activity levels and usually in the right direction, but trying to burn up nutrient poor and nutrient barren calories by relying on exercise is a futile way of life. It also does not prevent your from experiencing health complications even if you were to maintain a lower weight.
  
  

There is a diet trap that is holding almost everyone back from getting all the health and natural weight loss benefits they want and it is eating 90% or more nutrient poor food! No matter what type of diet you go on Paleo, low carb, vegan, vegetarian, low fat, low cal, low glycemic, gluten free etc... if you are eating nutrient poor you will struggle guaranteed, or sell yourself short from getting ALL the health benefits that you deserve from a nutrient rich healthy eating style.

To name the top health benefits...

• Detoxification from the accumulation of saturated fat, cholesterol, refined and added oil, salt and sugar that are causing problems in your system.
  
  
• Reversal of diet style-induced diseases, like diabetes, and heart-disease...
  
  
• Natural Weight Loss, which happens when you know the cycles your body has to get through before you eat again.
  
  
• Slower Aging and a younger look, which happens when you aren't eating overstimulating food that promotes inflammation, and super fast growth...
  
  
• Maximized Longevity, which is the natural result of getting more nutrients in less calories, causing less stress, wear and tear on your body, and managing your energy!
  
  

When you lose weight the nutrient rich way, you engage in the same natural process that healthy people living at or near their ideal weight engage in to maintain their healthy state. You get ALL your nutrient needs met, get free of substances you'll inevitably have to withdraw from (detoxify) that create addictions, and eat when you are truly hungry... when all three of these dynamics are in play, you WILL lose weight, only now in a nutrient rich way!

Make the Switch to Rich; begin the Nutrient Rich® Healthy Eating Plan with Nutrition Transition support.

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Are You Diet Trapped?

The are what need to get free of before you will eat a Nutrient Rich diet style successfully.

They’re myths the food and diet industries have taught us – like "a calorie is a calorie." All calories are not created equal, maybe in terms of energy released in a Bomb Calorimeter (the most common device for measuring the heat of combustion or caloric value of a material). But our bodies treat them differently, depending on their “packaging.”

Calorie theory doesn’t account for what the human body cannot absorb, or what is used in the digestive process or what the body can utilize in the first place vs. what it will store as excess weight and be forced to eliminate from the body.

And nor does calorie theory consider the impact empty, nutrient-poor calories have when they overwhelm and poison our bodies and compromise our health.
Diet traps are popular “common-sense” answers (like “eat less” often combined with “exercise more”) that seem innocuous and beneficial – and at face value make sense as a solution to overweight, but not if your diet is nutrient poor and your lifestyle is not balanced and healthy.

They’re false information we’ve been fed all our lives – like the idea that you have to eat meat and dairy everyday to lose weight, grow and build strong bones and be healthy…
They’re short-term methods with negative long-term effects. Low-carb, low-cal and low-fat diets, where we manipulate nutrient and caloric concentrations in extreme ways, all fit into this category! Even if they masquerade as “lifestyles,” they’re still diet traps!

They’re tricks we think help us keep our weight down, but don’t – like using caffeine as an appetite suppressant only to overeat later, because we’ve confused our hunger signals and made ourselves sick.

They’re beliefs that sabotage our quality of life and our success – like thinking that weight is about willpower, motivation or self-control. You can’t measure anyone’s will power or self-control by looking at their weight or when they are under the influence of nutrient poor foods.

Diet traps are powerful food, weight and fitness beliefs and behaviors that keep us overweight and obsessed with losing weight.

Diet Traps snare not only our health and our self-esteem, but our ability to perform at a high level.  They keep us stuck.

They include commercial diets, but they’re not limited to them by any means.

They are rituals and tactics that induce unnatural weight loss or promote unhealthy, unsustainable weight management, because in most cases they keep us dependent on the nutrient-poor and barren foods that are at the root of the problem.

And the consequences are clear:  weight gain, disease, depression, sickness – and so many more.

They’re unsuccessful strategies because they don’t free us from our food addictions or fulfill our complete nutrient needs. They promise success and freedom, but rarely deliver.

Today, the “truth teller” approach is to point out all the “traps” and then sell you right back into one.  That is not going to happen here, especially when you get free of the ultimate diet trap! -Eating Less, Not Better!

If you haven't already, download "Break Free of the Diet Traps" on the upper right hand corner of this site.

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Here's the segment that I did with Shawn Phillips a few months back on Personal Energy when he first introduced The One Thing to the world.

The New, pressure packed, 5-Minute Health, Fitness & Lifestyle Wisdom radio show. The premise is simple, the topics relevant, the wisdom concentrated, the experts grade-A.

Listen to THE ONE THING and see why I guarantee that you’ll get more real, valuable, actionable wisdom faster and clearer than anywhere else or… well, I challenge you to tell me where you’ve found better info, faster.

This Week’s Topic: Energy

This Week’s “Hot Seat” Question:

“What’s the ONE most important thing listeners can do today to start enjoying more optimal energy levels?”

Today, Shawn Phillips did another episode.

In this segment he he asks best selling author Brad Pilon, author of the best-selling book, EAT-STOP-EAT, that the ONE question: “What’s the ONE most important thing people need to know about dieting and their relationship with food?”.

You can listen to the 5 minute interview here.

I then asked my comments.

"Brad is right, our food doesn’t love us; I think, in the sense that food doesn’t have a hold on us. It’s not like it has a personality and it doesn’t make us eat it; it’s us who have a hold on food, particularly foods that hijack our taste buds because they are overstimulating (like drugs) and cause us to lose our senses.

We literally can’t trust our senses when our foods are holding us hostage. When they do, don’t you think we could consider that a dysfunctional relationship with food?" read more.

By the way, I will be stopping eating for the last two weeks of December at True North Health to give my body a rest and to eat up all that stored "nutrient rich" food I ate when I wasn't truly hungry but really tired.

I'm looking forward to losing weight naturally, by doing nothing!

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You wish low fat diet's could do this!

When we started nutrientrich.com our first tag line was the end of low carb, low cal, low fat diets!

Now, as the Nutrient Rich Revolution kicks into gear, the music is really coming out against these terms like "low fat". As you can see, simply by looking around, low fat diet's have not worked very well.

Here's why.

For more than two decades, many commentators have discussed and cussed so-called low-fat diets and gotten away with talking nonsense. It is time to look at some facts.

Virtually all of these discussions are based on recommendations of reports of the National Academy of Sciences during the 1980s when the initial suggestion was made to reduce total dietary fat to 30 percent (from the average of 35-37 percent of calories) -- I know because I co-authored the first of these reports on diet and cancer in 1982. Then, during the next decade or so, this 30 percent benchmark became the definition of a low fat diet. A myth was born because this diet did not lead to obesity, as claimed.

During the next 10 years when this low fat myth was growing, average percent dietary fat barely changed -- maybe decreasing a couple percentage points to about 33 percent, at best. In reality, the amount of fat consumed INCREASED because total calorie consumption also increased. Furthermore, during this same period of low fat mythology (1980s-1990s), obesity incidence increased.

Read The Whole Story

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Perfect fat for athletes

I found this great article from Body Sport.com that addresses one of the biggest nutritional myths ever~that a low fat diet will equal weight loss.

I have been eating a lot of avocado's lately and loving them. Not only becuase they are creamy, satisfying and delicious but becuase they helped me lose weight- 30 pounds!

Currently, while preparing for a figure competition,  I added an avocado a day into my meal plan and the weight just kept coming off.   I never allowed myself to eat an avocado prior to this experience as I always thought they were FAT and would make me FAT. Well nothing can be further from the truth.

Figure competitors have low body fat and eat avocado's which proves the point that nutrient rich fats are healthy and promote natural weight loss.

This is one diet trap that I am happy to have broken free of. By the way there are many, many other diet traps that keep ups stuck in dieting hell.  If you are unfamiliar with what a diet trap is Click here for a free report and leave a comment on some of the diet traps you've personally experienced and what you have discovered.

Rosie Battista

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