Weight Loss Super Foods: The Myths & The Magic In Tampa, FL.

By now it’s common knowledge that the key to good health is a diet rich in nutrients and low in empty calories.

One of the biggest challenges to people living on the standard American diet is the fact that we are inundated with high calorie, low nutrient foods. This is a recipe for weight gain.

Unfortunately, it’s become so much the norm that people have difficulty understanding why common foods like bread are practically designed to make you gain weight. The essence of the problem is the fact that when you consume low nutrient foods, the body’s fullness indicators are not triggered.

That’s why a person can eat enormous portions, feel full, and not feel satisfied. We’ve all had the experience of eating Chinese takeout and being hungry thirty minutes later. Eating low nutrient foods causes the body to stay in conservation mode.

This is a state where the body knows it isn’t getting what it needs, so it stores what it’s getting away for a rainy day- hence you gain weight.

The way we tried to explain it to our children when they were smaller was to compare eating to going camping. If you fill your backpack with toys instead of camping equipment, your backpack will feel heavy, but you will not have what you need to build a fire and pitch a tent. Unfortunately, that didn’t dial back their interest in candy very much- but what can you do?

For years now “super foods” have been all the rage. This is because we had finally discovered the fact that the more nutrient dense a food is, the more satisfying it is- which means you can eat less of it and feel satisfied.

It also became a matter of general knowledge that a diet rich in a variety of vital nutrients can prevent numerous medical conditions that we had been relying on doctors to troubleshoot for us.

Of course, our propensity for adhering to fads has caused us to take our superfood obsession into the weeds somewhat.

Where we go wrong is we tend to choose our favorite super food and stick with it alone as our favorite- kind of like a teenager choosing her favorite Top 40 artist- it becomes something we identify with.

Super Foods & Your Weight Loss Program

So, superfoods offer a multitude of ways to enhance our diets, improve our health, be more energetic, and of course lose weight. But there are two things we have to take onboard before we can supercharge our diets with superfoods.

The first is the fact that no one superfood is going to be enough. You will need a rich variety of these superfoods for an effective, personalized super weight loss program.

The second thing we need to learn is that every superfood comes with its own myths- and its own proper place in your diet.