What's Making Me Fat? An Insight From the 100 Calorie Diet

Today, Im giving all of my 100 calorie fans a preview into The 100 Calorie Diet to look at the reasons you’re fat. An excerpt:

Before you begin your journey down the path to slimness, let’s look at what’s making you overweight. People always want to know why. The word in and of itself is compelling. Maybe you say “I know what’s making me overweight, I eat too much and I don’t exercise enough.” Although that is the current thinking behind the overweight condition, the problem is much more complicated than that! Even the medical experts can’t really explain why some people can eat all they want and not gain weight while others struggle to maintain a healthy weight. Simply put, you gain weight when you consume more calories than your body expends. But the real problem is multi-faceted and depends on a number of factors. Let’s look at what’s making you overweight.

1. Genetics/Metabolism – Your genetic makeup determines your basal metabolic rate (the amount of energy or calories expended while at rest) and how your body stores and burns calories. Many overweight people are predisposed to having a metabolism that likes to store fat while their thinner counterparts burn fat more easily. Does this mean you have “Fat Genes” and are doomed to be an overweight person for the rest of your life? No, this just tells you that you must restrict calories in order to lose weight. Is it fair? No, it’s not fair but these are the facts. Getting mad at your genetic make-up isn’t going to help you lose weight, The 100 Calorie Diet and Food Counter will.

2. Environment – Does your environment play a role in determining if you’re going to be overweight? Very much so. If you fill up your kitchen with cakes, cookies, chips, sugar, flour, fats, sodas and beer, you are setting yourself up to be overweight. If your work space is loaded with high calorie foods, you’re more likely to consume too many calories during the day. The good news? You have direct control over your environment and that can easily be changed.

3. Habits – Bad habits will make you overweight. Do you make it a habit to have coffee and doughnuts for breakfast and fast foods for lunch and/or dinner because of convenience? Do you stop at the store for a coke and a candy bar as a quick snack? Although you aren’t really eating that much food, the foods you are choosing are so high in calories as to be unbelievable. In addition, habits like watching television for hours or sitting at the computer in your spare time will contribute to your weight problem. With time and patience, you can change your habits.

4. You Love Food and Love To Eat – Are you one of those people who simply have a big appetite, love food and love to eat? This problem possibly has its roots in your genetic make-up. The 100 Calorie Diet is especially great for those of you who love to eat because you are FREE to eat whatever you want. Also, The 100 Calorie Diet has an extensive list of FREE and unlimited foods and recipes.

5. You Were Raised To Overeat – Were your childhood days filled with big meals, snacks, candies, sweets and sodas? Do your family get-togethers have enough food to feed an army? When you think of home, do you think of food? Sometimes we are overweight because we were taught to overeat. The 100 Calorie Diet teaches you how to “unlearn” overeating.

6. Eating Is Your Fun and Recreation – If you associate all fun activities with eating, you’re much more likely to be overweight. Do you like the fair because of the food? Are your parties all about the food? Is food the best part of your vacation? Do you think of “going out” as going out to a restaurant? If so, your problem is that food is your life. The 100 Calorie Diet teaches you how to live and eat and still have fun.

7. Eating Out of Rebellion – Sometimes the overweight person isn’t eating because they are hungry at all, they eat because they aren’t suppose to be eating. This person resists any authority or control over eating. Maybe this overweight person has been dieting and dieting but doesn’t lose weight fast enough, so they rebel and eat everything in sight. Perhaps friends and family are always telling them to go on a diet, so that’s exactly what they aren’t going to do. The 100 Calorie Diet teaches you that you are only hurting yourself with your rebellious overeating.

8. Emotional Eating – We eat when we’re happy, we eat when we’re sad, we eat when we’re bored or just eat to fill a void in our lives. Any stressful or hurtful event has you turning to food for comfort. Food turns into a kind of drug to deal with everyday life and like any kind of drug habit you need more and more to get you through. We will help you to learn to deal with the stresses of life without turning to food.

9. Dieting History – Getting into a vicious dieting cycle of gaining and losing weight not only hurts you physically, but mentally as well. The desperate dieter will decide to drastically cut calories to lose weight. This will automatically lower an already slow metabolism. So you will lose weight only to gain back more than you lost. You get frustrated, angry and depressed which only leads to further emotional eating and weight gain. You get mad at yourself and then you get mad at the world in general. How do you deal with the anger? By eating more. Does it make sense? No, but you get in this cycle and can’t seem to break free of it. The 100 Calorie Diet will help you to solve this problem and get back to a normal, rational way of eating.

10. Obsession – Often times the overweight person will get obsessed with food. This starts out with depriving yourself of the foods you love to eat. All this deprivation leads to an unhealthy attitude towards food. Whereas you might have normally eaten one doughnut you now want to gobble down three or six or twelve. You get obsessed with all the foods you’re not supposed to have and then you get mad. Next, you give up and you give in and decide to eat anything and everything you want. The 100 Calorie Diet will help you to solve your food obsession by gaining a healthy attitude towards food.

11. Physical Activity – Are you overweight because you don’t exercise or you don’t exercise because you’re overweight? We all know that exercise will help you burn more calories and is healthy for your body. But as you get heavier and heavier it’s just not easy to exercise and you’re tired all the time. Maybe you’re embarrassed to go to the gym or participate in sports. We will show you how to make exercising simple and fun.