With that, we often decide that we are going to lose that extra weight, join the gym or complete that detox we have been thinking about.

So, let's spend some time talking about the most common issue this time of year. Food, weight loss, and calories. What I want to do is for you to forget about calories and focus on the QUALITY of food and let your body take care of you.

Fewer calories less weight in Nepean ON

Often people are looking for weight loss and what we have been taught to do was lower our calorie intake and the weight will come off. Makes sense; fewer calories in means less weight gained. This may work in the short term but eventually leads to failure. Why? Because your body was designed for feast or famine. When you restrict your calories, the intelligence of the body kicks in. Your body starts to hold onto calories, increase your hunger and slow down your metabolism. Your body believes it's in famine mode and tries to conserve calories. And this is not your lack of willpower, this is the way your body was designed.

Another challenge that we now have is that everything is so fast and over-processed. What happens is that processed foods are not slowly digested or slowly absorbed. This causes spikes in your blood sugar levels, like a roller coaster up and down versus a smooth train ride on a flat surface.

When you have these huge spikes, it affects your metabolism and increases insulin levels, which is like Miracle-gro™ for fat cells. So, what you want to do is have a steady rise and then a steady decrease of sugar levels, so you're using your foods for body functions versus storing them as fat cells.

Remember that it was the tortoise that won the race, not the hare!!