For quite some time meal replacements have been used in the diet arena as a portion of the diet regime. They've aided countless individuals successfully achieve their weight loss goals, and even more important, they have helped people learn the distinction between healthy and unhealthy eating choices. Both quantity and quality of life improvements will be attributed to the idea of meal replacement solutions.
Those who have successfully used a meal replacement plan can reflect happily on how the plan helped address a basic diet obstacle: choosing what to eat.
One of the biggest concerns that a someone who is trying to lose weight has to face – if not the biggest – is finding out what to eat, and what to avoid. Answering the latter is generally easier, since nearly all knowledgeable dieters are very well aware of what they should and should not be eating. However they're normally left wondering: what should I eat? Dieters who are lucky enough to be able to answer this with a easy: I’ll eat my meal replacement foods typically see their diets last beyond their vulnerable infancy [i].
Dieters who depend on willpower alone, or follow along with a a poorly designed “fad” diet plan, often do not have any success. The most that these dieters sometimes attain is maintaining their current weight, or maybe a few pounds lost, probably through water loss.
As with most diet plans, there are some potential pitfalls that may undermine dieters. And maybe the foremost ironic of these pitfalls exists for those dieters who have chosen a meal replacement route to achieve their weight loss goals. This issue is explained, and resolved, below.
Diet plans supported by meal replacement plans are usually successful; and therein lies the potential reason for concern. When a dieter has lost their desired weight, there is a transition period from meal replacement food to “traditional” food. Without the right nutritional supplements in place to make sure that this transition is both smooth and long-term, a large number of people trying to lose weight slip back to their pre-diet harmful dietary habits. The outcome, lamentably, is they regain the pounds they lost; and for several dieters, nonetheless yet one more failed attempt to shed weight and inches [ii].
The blame for this regression is sometimes, and mistakenly, placed on 2 sources. The first target for this misplaced blame is the meal replacement plan itself, which promised long-term weight loss however actually failed to deliver. The second misplaced blame, and the one which will do the most injury, is directed towards the dieter him/herself. It is simply “another failure”, and a crushing blow to self-esteem.
However, as noted above, this blame is mislaid. The cause of the problem is not really the meal replacement plan, and not really the limited willpower. The culprit here was that once the meal replacement plan had done its job, there was no strategy in place to take care of that accomplishment over the long term.
Fortunately, there happen to be some very well designed nutritional supplements and plans that facilitate this transition strategy. These nutritional supplements aren't candy bars posturing as “energy bars”, or protein powders overloaded with calories and fat grams [iii].
Rather, these authentic nutritional supplements are scientifically designed, low-calorie, total eating solutions. That is, they can be used to supplement a meal that is not fortified with vitamins or complete protein, or they will be used -- without health risk -- to replace a meal when healthy eating options aren't available.
Meal replacements have established their merit in the “battle of the bulge”; particularly in view of the fact that they provide dieters with an straightforward response to the question : what can I eat today? However, it is equally as apparent that the period of time right after losing the pounds, when the meal replacement's program is complete, is critical.
Far too many dieters are left without a transition plan that enables them to securely return to a nutritious diet of non meal-replacement items. Fortunately for these individuals, and for dieters in the future as well, there are authentic and medically engineered nutritional supplement solutions that meet this need, and help ensure that a hard won weight loss war can be a long-term victory.
REFERENCES
[i] Source: “Are you Sabotaging your Diet?”. Prevention.com.
http://www.prevention.com/article/0,5778,s1-4-57-190-4559-3,00.html
[ii] Source: “Meal Replacement Diets”. All About Info Ltd.
http://dietsnutrition.allinfoabout.com/features/replace.html
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