Rebound Weight Gain Blamed For Diets Failing

Successful weight loss does not happen by magic, according to weight loss expert Dr. Kent Sasse. Rebound Weight Gain commonly occurs after a diet, and the pounds are put back on faster than they ever came off. And yet, some weight loss programs succeed while others fail.
%26quot;Diets don’t work because they almost always lead to Rebound Weight Gain,%26quot; says Dr. Sasse, founder and medical director of the International Metabolic Institute. %26quot;The loss of muscle and protein stores during dieting causes powerful biochemical signals that lead to intense hunger and weight gain after the diet comes to an end.%26quot;
More than 50% of adults are significantly overweight, and many are dieting to lose those extra pounds. Medical weight loss centers like iMetabolic believe Rebound Weight Gain can be avoided with the right weight loss program. They note that diets alone don’t work because they don’t involve creating the right kind of calorie intake that can result in weight loss, appetite suppression, and maintenance of the muscle or protein mass. Nearly all diets result in depletion of muscle mass to an equal or greater degree than burning of the fat mass. When the diet comes to an end, the Rebound Weight Gain occurs as a result of the hunger and nutrient deprivation experienced by the muscles. Diets fail over time because they feel like deprivation to the dieter, and they require an unrealistic level of motivation to keep cutting calories. This does not last.
To avoid Rebound Weight Gain, medical experts recommend:
— Cut calories while maintaining protein intake
— Exercise five times a week during the diet and beyond to maintain muscle mass
— Take multivitamins and drink plenty of water
— Plan your transition back to real foods
— Work with professionals on long-term behavior changes and appetite control
— Consider a medically-supervised weight loss program, not just a diet
Most of us know that diets alone usually don’t work for long because they are not sustainable as eating behaviors beyond a very short term. The right physician-supervised program can cut calories, utilize meal replacements, provide counseling and behavior tools, make use of appetite suppressing medications, and plan the transition to future phases of the program and a maintenance program. "It takes a comprehensive approach to avoid Rebound Weight Gain and succeed in long term weight loss," says Dr. Sasse.

Mise En Place For Weight Loss

Professional kitchens couldn't function as efficiently as they do without mis en place. Prior to service prep cooks spend hours chopping, mincing, cleaning and pre-cooking. When service starts, because of mise en place, dishes are prepared with amazing speed. Some of the fast food joints take it a step further and have the food already cooked and under heat lamps. When you place your order all they have to do is throw it in a sack.
You can see mise en place in action by watching the chefs on television. Everything they need for a recipe is in little dishes already measured out. There's no fumbling around looking for an onion and then peeling and dicing. When it's needed it's already there. Done in advance because when the show gets going, there is no time to go back and dice up more carrots.
Mise En Place [Pronounced MEEZ ahn plahs] is a French term referring to having all the ingredients necessary for a dish prepared and ready to combine up to the point of cooking. Roughly translated, "everything in place".� �
Experienced home cooks practice mise en place, to a certain extent, probably without realizing it. After preparing a recipe hundreds of times they just automatically know what needs to be done and do it in an orderly fashion. However the advantage of speed is not there because nothing was done in advance.
Inexperienced cooks have a tendency to jump right into a recipe with little or no prep. A few steps into the recipe they discover they need diced onions. "Do I have onions"? "I hate to cook." "Honey, will you call Pizza Hut?" (Get the idea?) Fast food joints love inexperienced cooks.
Mise En Place and Weight Loss
So how does mise en place fit into a weight loss program? Simply put it will keep us "poundage challenged" out of those fast food joints! It also forces meal planning which is necessary for us. Cooking at home allows us to take control of what we consume.
By using the mise en place technique and doing the prep work in advance when we have the time for it, we can be in and out of the kitchen with healthy, low calorie food in a matter of minutes. Our lack of time is why the fast food joints do such a brisk business. Mise en place in advance allows us to borrow time from one day and utilize it on another.
Mise En Place From The Grocery
Have you ever bought a loaf of bread at your grocery? Of course you have. How about boneless, skinless chicken breasts or fish filets? All these items could be looked at as mise en place from the grocery for the home cook. Professionals are doing the baking, skinning, boning and filleting and making it available to us. For a price!
Mise en place at the grocery seems to be growing. Today you can find prepped items that weren't available not so long ago. Baby carrots, all kinds of greens washed and ready for the salad bowl, mushrooms cleaned and sliced, etc... Combining home and grocery mise en place means even less time in the kitchen.