Dieting for Dummies(a) | 天才减重班

by Rebecca A. Fratzke

Losing weight by being smart is the only way to succeed.

Like many young men and women today, Judy is worried about her appearance. Her wedding is coming up in six months, and she wants to wow everyone by looking absolutely stunning in her wedding dress. The trouble is that all the stress from planning the wedding has resulted in her putting on 10 kilograms. So what's a person to do when they want to shed excess weight? The best answer is to be smart about it.

Everywhere we look, there are advertisements about how to lose weight the quick and easy way. Unfortunately, though, these fad diets can lead to a lot more than just a change in the reading on the bathroom scale. They can bring with them feelings of failure, unhealthy addictions, and more often than not, an increase in extra weight.

Worse yet, good advice can be improperly put into practice. For example, we know that to lose weight, we have to burn more calories than we consume, so the most basic of advice is to eat less. However, that does not mean you should stop eating altogether. If you eat too little, your body will go into starvation mode. This means that when you do eventually give in and eat normally, all of those calories will get stored up as fat because your body fears the next meal won't come for a long time. Another tip that can go wrong is to eat many times throughout the day to keep your metabolism up. Oftentimes when people do this, they don't change the size of their meals. What experts actually mean when they say this is that you should eat three smaller meals and a few light snacks.

   就像时下的许多年轻男女，茱蒂对自己的外表感到烦心。她的婚礼再 6个月就要到了，而她想让大家对她穿着结婚礼服的美丽模样感到惊艳。问题是所有来自筹备婚礼的压力使她胖了 10公斤。那么当一个人想甩掉多余体重的时候该怎么办呢？最棒的方法就是要聪明以对。

　　放眼所及，我们四周充斥的都是如何快速和轻松减重的广告。不过很不幸地，这些流行的节食方法所导致的结果不仅仅是浴室里体重计读数的变化。随之而来的还可能有挫败感、病态的成瘾症，而更常发生的则是增加了多余的体重。

　　更糟糕的是，良好的建议可能会被不当地执行。举例来说，我们都知道想要减重，我们燃烧的卡路里必须比摄取进来的多，所以最基本的建议原则就是吃少一点。然而，那并不代表你应该完全不吃东西。如果你吃得太少，你的身体会处于饥饿的状态。这表示当你最后妥协而正常进食时，所有的卡路里就会被储存成脂肪，因为你的身体害怕下一餐要很久才会来。另一项可能会出错的减重诀窍是，一整天进食多次好让新陈代谢加快。人们常常在实行这种方式时没有改变进餐的份量。专家真正的意思是你应该吃较少量的三餐以及几次轻食。