Colella Joe - The appetite solution : lose weight effortlessly and never be hungry again

To my glorious sons Joey and Luke. No father could be more blessed.

I ts January 2 and Naomi is ready to start keeping her most important New Years resolution: Go on a diet and lose weight! Shed like fast results to keep her motivated, so she picks a low-carbohydrate diet that a friend has recommended, one that has her cutting her food intake to 1,000 calories a day. Just as her friend has told her, Naomi loses ten pounds in two weeks, and she is ecstatic.

Of course, shes hungry all the timebut she knows the weight loss will be worth it, and with an iron will, she sticks to every detail of the diet. When the two weeks are over, the diet plan becomes less restrictive, and Naomi breathes a sigh of relief. But shes still always hungry; and then, suddenly, she stops losing weight.

Frustrated and disappointed, Naomi toughs it out on this new diet for another few weeks but then finally gives up in despair. She goes back to eating the way she did before, continues to feel hungryand by April 1, she is actually five pounds heavier than she was on January 1.

Shana also has a New Years resolution to keepin fact, its almost the same as Naomis: Start a diet and fitness plan and lose weight! Shana normally consumes about 2,000 calories a day, so she goes on a low-fat diet that is somewhat less restrictive than Naomisdown to 1,500 calories. At the same time, she joins a gym, signs up with a personal trainer, and begins a vigorous fitness program.

Shana notices that she, too, is hungry all the time, but during her first week on the diet, she loses five pounds, which motivates her to keep going. A few days later, however, she hits a hard plateau and the weight loss grinds to a halt.

Frustrated and hungry, Shana cuts her calories back to 1,300 per day and steps up the exercise. She manages to lose another two poundsand then, again, a plateau. Her fitness instructor encourages her to tough it out, but the following week, Shana has actually started to gain back some of the weight shes lost. By April 1, she is just about three pounds less than the weight at which she started her diet and exercise plan, and shes more frustrated and hungrier than ever.

Greg would also like to lose weight, so on January 2, he works with a nutritionist to follow a super-healthy diet with lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, no grains, and no starchesabout 2,000 calories a day. He hasnt been able to make time for exercise, but his nutritionist assures him that this diet will work if Greg sticks to it faithfully.

For breakfast, Greg enjoys a protein shake with fresh blueberries buzzed in, or perhaps a hard-boiled egg and a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice. For lunch, he eats a salad with salmon or turkey and low-fat dressing. For his afternoon snack, he has a nonfat vanilla yogurt and a skim decaf latte. For dinner, he broils some chicken with barbecue sauce or simmers it in some of his moms homemade tomato sauce and steams up a big bowl of broccoli. All day long he drinks water flavored with a couple of lemon wedges, or maybe has some decaf coffee with nonfat hazelnut creamer.

Greg began this diet on January 2, and he sticks it to faithfully every day, never exceeding his allotted 2,000 calories. By April 1, hes lost just over three pounds, most of which he dropped during the first month. To make matters worse, he feels hungry all the time. Whats going wrong?

Do any of these scenarios sound familiar to you? Have you been starving yourself on a diet, running yourself ragged at the gym, or eating an apparently healthy diet, yet you either cant lose weight or cant keep the weight offplus youre hungry all the time? Have you been blaming the problem on your lack of willpower? Your fat genes? Your big bones? Your lifelong lousy metabolism? Does it sometimes feel like youre the victim of a conspiracy to keep you overweight and hungry?that everywhere you look you see desirable food youre not supposed to eat, and yet even when you resist it, your weight stays on?

Believe me, I understand. Ive helped thousands of people who feel exactly the same way dealing every day with hunger and frustration. I know I can help you, too. Im going to show you how to beat each of these scenarioshow to lose your excess weight and keep it off, without being hungry.

Does that sound too good to be true? I promise you, it is true. The Appetite Solution can be your solution: steady, significant weight loss without feeling hungry, until you ultimately achieve the metabolism of a teenager. You can keep eating many of your favorite foods, youll never feel like youre starving, and when you do achieve a teenagers high-powered metabolism, you can even indulge periodically in some missed treats.

If that sounds good to you, stick with me. Lets start by taking a closer look at why so many diets fail.

Three major pitfalls prevail with dieters, and most people fall into one, two, or all three:

They begin a diet by cutting calories, and by default, their protein intake.

They start a diet and a fitness program at the same time.

They dont know how to recognize simple sugars, especially the hidden ones, versus complex sugars, which occur naturally in fruits, vegetables, and grains.

Naomi, Shana, and Greg each fell into a different pitfall, but they all had one thing in common: Each of their diets left them feeling hungry.

In the world of dieting, that should be your first clue:

Why do I say this? Well, first, of course, the hunger often means that you simply cant stay on the diet. Its very difficult to keep denying yourself the foods you enjoy in the face of a punishing hungerespecially if youre not losing weight.

But even if you do stick to your plan, a diet that leaves you hungry is messing with your metabolism. Anything more than a mild hunger after the first two or three days of a diet is a sign that a process known as adaptive thermogenesis has kicked in. And adaptive thermogenesis is going to make it virtually impossible for you to lose weight. It always wins.

Adaptive thermogenesis is the mechanism that your body has evolved to keep from starving to death or wasting away when you cant get enough to eat or have to exert yourself more than usual. Adaptive refers to something that has adapted in response to circumstances. Thermo means heat, that is, energy, or calories. Genesis comes from the Latin for generation; so thermogenesis is the generation, or production, of heat in the body.

Put that all together, and adaptive thermogenesis means that when your body perceives that you arent getting your usual amount of food, for example, on your brand-new diet, it will do everything in its power to adapt by conserving energyto stop burning calories and to force you to seek out more calories. Likewise, when your body perceives that you are exerting yourself more than usual, for example, with your brand-new fitness program, it will again adapt to conserve energy, ensuring that your new vigorous activity burns as few calories as possible.