The Most Natural Way to Lose Weight

Because of our society's obsession with thinness, losing weight is a primary concern for many individuals, particularly women. Many women with perfectly normal body weight consider themselves overweight, and this applies to young girls as well. Geneen Roth, an author who has written many books about self-regulated eating, says "for every diet there is an equal and opposite binge".

Nobody can deal with the pressure of deprivation forever -- sooner or later, something's got to give. When it does, the result may be that you lose control of your eating -- or, as the tragic stories of many anorexic girls will attest to, you lose control of your dieting. If, like many women in our society, you have spent literally years of your life on a diet, you have probably lost track of what it feels like to eat for the most natural reason of all -- because you happen to be hungry.

But over the long term, because this is a natural way of eating, it will get your body back to its natural healthy weight. Of course, the weight that's natural and healthy for you may not bear any resemblance to the fashion models we see in magazines.

In fact, studies have shown that less than 1% of women naturally have bodies that are proportioned like a fashion model's, so maybe it's time for us all to make peace with the bodies that we do have. You may assume, that if you eat whatever you want whenever you're hungry, that you'll end up eating only unhealthy, high-fat foods.