Diets Don’t Work and Here’s Why

Diets don’t actually work, do they? That’s a fact, now proven scientifically many times. No matter how enthusiastic you or your dietician may be, all diets only provide a temporary reduction before it all comes back.

Why don’t diets work? Because, it is not fat.

Your body’s muscles are damaged and this so called, “fat” is your body’s way of protecting itself with a safe layer of cushioning. When a muscle is damaged, for its own protection it contracts, it seizes and hardens, so protect our muscles, our body covers the damaged area with a soft layer of cushioning which we call “fat”.

The more damaged our body incurs with just normal living, then the more padding, i.e. fat, our body needs to cushion and protect itself. That’s why we all get fatter as we get older, men as well as women.

Diets initially appear to work. As our body is starved of external nourishment, it calls upon its “fat” as an internal, reserve source of food, therefore our bulk reduces. But when the diet ends, the bulges re-grow, don’t they?

They re-grow because they have been deliberately placed where they are, as a protective padding to guard our damaged muscles and they re-grow larger, because the diet has traumatized our body into thinking that there has been a famine and so, our pro-active body lays down some extra reserve food supplies, just in case.

This cycle is so common that it has even been given a name, “the yo-yo effect” and it occurs much to the confusion of dieticians, doctors and scientists, because they don’t know why.

There is a simple and totally logical explanation for this.

Why? Because, you are not fat, you are damaged.

If you are fat, then you will have a rounded fat face above a rounded fat neck. You will have rounded fat fingers on rounded fat hands and rounded fat toes on rounded fat feet.

But, if your body fat is just a combination of up to 4 “spare tyres”, 4 fatty bulges that are drooping around your body, then you are not fat, you are damaged. Beneath these hanging bulges are seized muscles.

Look at the diagrams below and compare them with your body shape.

You are not fat because of what you eat, you are fat because you have seized body muscles, treat the muscles and the padding will disappear, naturally and permanently.

Learn all about your body, how and why your posture has changed, how and why you have those “fatty bulges” and learn why EXERCISE is BAD for YOU.

The ideas expressed in this blog are the original concept of Linda Dodds.

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