The True Value of Weight Loss Industry Research

The EET Fitness Plan was developed through an extraordinary amount of research into weight loss and fitness. Research has it's place in solving problems. It also has its limitations.

EET's success has been the result of the INTERPRETATION OF RESEARCH more than the research findings themselves.

Research indicates a lot of things, sometimes two different research reports indicate the exact opposite of one another. Most research has a bias to conclude what the sponsors want the research to conclude. And then there's this research that provides the critical data that all weight loss research is suspect and needs further investigation and interpretation:

• Ninety-five percent (some studies are as high as 98%) of Americans who attempt to achieve a healthy body weight by dieting alone fail.

(http://www.earth-policy.org/index.php?/plan_b_updates/2000/alert11)

So if the billions and billions spent on researching how to lose weight and be more fit have been invested wisely and the answers are helpful, why are only 2% of people benefitting from these research findings?

What other field could survive or have any credibility with a 2% success rate?

Clearly there's a need for better answers, and that is EET's mission: To INTERPRET existing research and find better answers for meaningful weight loss for a much larger percent of people.

Other posts have and will cover EET's interpretations of existing research and how it is used in the EET and EAT plans to successfully achieve permanent weight loss.

But there is a very small amount of research that does not need interpretation and that sort of research is ALWAYS respected by EET and included in the plan.

Green Tea and Omega 3 fatty acids


Two items that are prominently featured in both EAT and EET.

How is the research different for Green Tea and Omega 3's? They don't just have research supporting their value in weight loss, they have OVERWHELMING research of tremendous nutritional value including and well beyond weight loss.

You can and should do your own research and decide if EET has reached the correct conclusions. The following should get you started:

1. Green tea catechins linked to weight loss: Study

   Jan 26, 2009 ... Antioxidant compounds in green tea could help promote exercise-induced abdominal fat loss, according to a new study from the American ...
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2. Green tea plus exercise speeds the loss of tummy fat | Booster ...

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3. Does Green Tea Help With Fat Loss?

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5. Green Tea Catechin Consumption Enhances Exercise-Induced Abdominal ...

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   This study evaluated the influence of a green tea catechin beverage on body ... in overweight and obese adults during exercise-induced weight loss. ... Percentage changes in fat mass did not differ between the catechin [5.2 (–7.0, ...
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6. Green Tea Weight Loss - Backed By Science Or Not

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7. Green tea help Fat loss herbal supplements

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8. Sip Your Fat Away; EGCG (Green Tea Extract) : The Natural Fat-Loss ...

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1. Green tea slashes heart disease death risk: Study

   Sep 8, 2009 ... Seven cups of green tea a day over the long-term may massively reduce the risk of death from colorectal cancer and heart disease, ...
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2. Green tea

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3. Does Green Tea Help the Heart? - TIME

   Jul 3, 2008 ... A new study shows the beverage can protect the heart arteries by ... those who drank green tea showed greater dilation of their heart ...
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4. Study: Green tea prevents heart disease

   Sep 13, 2006 ... A Japanese study has suggested that green tea consumption can reduce the risk of heart disease.
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1. Omega 3 Fish Oil for Weight Loss

   A university research project suggests omega 3 fish oil and exercise may be the key to ... Now a recent study has shown that taking fish oil supplements, ... a decrease in body fat percentage plus an average 2kg/4.5lb weight loss. ...
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2. Fish Oil + Exercise = Fat Loss | Fish Oil, Omega-3, & Fish Oil ...

   A brand new study from our mates in Australia tested the effects of fish oil ... Omega-3 Reduces Body Weight and Increases Fat Loss by Raising Metabolism ...
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3. Omega 3 Fish Oil & Weight Loss - Omega 3 Fish Oil Helps Fat Loss

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4. Fish oil and fat loss - omega-3 (n-3) fatty acids DHA & EPA help ...

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5. The Myth about Fish Oil and Fat Loss

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6. Omega-3 fatty acids, fish oil, alpha-linolenic acid: MedlinePlus ...

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9. Omega-3 shows benefits for fat loss in diabetics

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1. Omega 3 Benefits

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2. Health Benefits of Omega 3 fatty acids

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4. Omega-3 fatty acids, fish oil, alpha-linolenic acid - MayoClinic.com

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8. Omega-3 fatty acids

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9. Omega3

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10. Fish and Omega-3 Fatty Acids

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EET Solves The Caloric Conundrum

So many diet and exercise plans are focused on what's called a

Net Caloric Deficit

Meaning - eat fewer calories than you burn off with your exercise.

Using exercise to create a caloric deficit is extremely time consuming and hard to do.

You go hard on the treadmill for an hour and burn 300 calories.

You come home and eat a Turkey Sandwich on wheat bread, a serving of granola and a gatorade.

Total calories eaten: 500

Many people celebrate every hard workout with a lot more calories that that. And most of that eating is done at exactly the wrong time.

How can you go about losing weight using calorie reduction techniques when you are netting more calories than you exercise burns? Quite the conundrum.

Yet people continue down this path -- including many "experts". No wonder 98% of all diet and exercise plans fail.

EET has solved the caloric conundrum and creates consistent weight loss. It starts with an understanding of how to better match your eating and exercise with your metabolism.

This solution has created the EET Fitness Plan that only calls for 20-30 minutes of exercise per session to produce weight loss and fitness.

Metabolism and sending the correct messages to it, is FAR more important than how many calories you burned during exercise or ate in the meal afterword.

Do You Need To Be A Nutritionist To Succeed With EET?

By Mr. EET January 9, 2010

You don't need to be a nutritionist to succeed at EET, but you do need to be willing to learn as you go.

As always, EET encourages the use of progressions.

And when it comes to the nutritional content of the foods you eat this means:

NOTE: Remember EET provides guidelines, you can vary from these to make your plan work for you, but this is what EET recommends.

1) You can begin your EET plan by simply ensuring you have a good supply of a few of foods that the guidelines strongly recommend. Green Tea, Canned Salmon, Chicken Breasts, Fish Oil pills and a quality vegetable to add to your meals like red peppers, spinach or broccoli.
Ideally some, most or all of these foods can become part of your "core" foods.

2) You then focus on EATING TIMING which means you make sure you have prepared a forecast to start your week and that you do the best you can to eat a meal whenever it's time to eat. At this point, if you can understand IN GENERAL what sorts of foods have carbs, protein, etc., You can begin to make better foods choices.

This step means it's likely that early on in your efforts, you will make mistakes and eat foods that have carbs or high fat and the wrong time. Those mistakes are a PART of the EET Plan and should be expected. What plan could you possibly follow perfectly from day 1?

3) As you improve your eating timing (as well as exercise and activity), you can slowly but surely start to become aware of the nutritional content of the specific foods you are eating. You can always check the nutritional label for foods that include them, or you can find most specific foods (or similar comparisons) data on the internet simply by searching that food and "nutrition" or "calories" (calories is a more effective search to find the data than Carbohydrates or protein, but you can try all of them).

4) Build your nutritional content knowledge base. Set a goal to review and try to remember 10 foods you are interested in per week. Also, Start to look at the nutritional content of potential core foods for you as you grocery shop. Over time, this will make you familiar with what is contained in almost any food you eat, even when you go to restaurants.

5) You should be looking at this process in terms of months or even years, not days or weeks. You have a lifetime goal of weight loss and fitness and EET is a lifetime plan, so follow EET guideline by building your knowledge slowly and steadily and you will gain the knowledge you need to succeed.

To succeed long term using the EET plans, you need a solid working knowledge on what foods have protein, carbs, fiber and fats. But you don't need to know it all today. You just need to commit to a progressive learning process and you will succeed.

EET Teaches You To TIME Your Stress

Just as you will learn to time your eating and exercise, a very important part of the EAT/EET Plans is to learn to time your stress.

Most people already know that reducing stress is a critical component to overall health, if you need convincing of this you can read any number of sources.

Some people are aware that stress has been directly linked to weight gain, and in some studies weight gain in the belly area. Performing and internet search provides a great deal of info on this. Here's one example:

Stress and Weight Gain Information by MedicineNet.com

So we know we should eliminate stress from our lives. But how many people actually do that?

It seems like a difficult proposition to have no stress and still lead an active, meaningful, social existence. To eliminate all stress permanently, would certainly take a very stressful effort, and the chances of success are not great.

So, while it certainly makes sense to minimize your stress, it also makes sense to accept that stress will be a part of your life, and spend your efforts learning to cope with it.

One thing you can learn to control is WHEN you allow yourself to feel stress, or dwell on stressful issues. The key is you can LEARN this.

The way to learn how to TIME your stress is exactly the way you learn any other new skill. Knowledge and repetition. The more you learn about the way your body and metabolism function, the more you will understand the best times to deal with stressful issues.

If you operate on a typical "work in the day, sleep at night" schedule, then your metabolism's metabolic memory has it gradually slowing down as you prepare for sleep, and dropping dramatically once you fall asleep.

The hours before you go to bed and bedtime are among the worst times to allow stress to effect you. Quality rest both physically and metabolically is a key component of Fitness, weight loss and health, and stress gets in the way of all three - especially during these pre bed hours.

Because stress will be with us for the long haul, EET offers learning tools to help you cope with and properly time your stress levels. Over time, you can learn these strategies and deal with any stressful issues that arise at times that will not get in the way of your weight loss or improved fitness.

Fear of Failure is Easily Cured

A woman joined Weight Watchers in October with the goal of losing weight before the holidays as the beginning of a long term weight loss program. She had been on multiple diets in the past, but was more determined than ever to really make it work this time.

She enrolled and even paid extra money for the variety of tools that weight watchers offers to help people in their efforts to lose weight. She attended the first meeting available to her and religiously attended at least 1 meeting per week for the next month.

She lost 7 pounds of her 30 pound weight loss goal over the first 4 weeks, which ended just before Thanksgiving. She felt uplifted. Over a pound a week lost, her clothes began to fit again, a few people had begun to notice. She was getting great praise and support at the weekly meetings. Weight watchers had also spent a lot of time preparing her with strategies to deal with the eating temptations that come with Thanksgiving so she felt confident her weight loss could continue well past the holiday.

And the diet had become easier to follow. Some of her cravings for fattening foods had lessened, which made the thought of controlling her eating and maintaining her weight over Thanksgiving seem even easier. She had not felt this good about herself in a long time.

Thanksgiving Day arrived and she was hosting a large group of friends and family, so the cooking began early. As she pulled the stuffing out of the oven, she couldn't resist stealing a little bit. "Not even a point on the weight watcher's plan" she thought. Man, that tasted good. A little later the apple pie came out of the oven and she was able to flake off a piece of the crust to take a taste. Sweet.

As the preparations continued, things began to deteriorate. Slowly at first, but the more little tastes she had of the great foods that she loved, the more she wanted of them. As she at an entire brownie off the tray she had just gotten ready, she started to panic. She realized here diet plans were falling apart and the thanksgiving meals hadn't even started yet.

She pulled out all her notes and materials and tried to read them over. Instead of helping, they felt like restrictions that were making her feel like she was missing out on the best part of thanksgiving. She quickly put them away and decided that for today she was "off" weight watchers and was going to eat whatever she wanted.

That moment represented the end of her diet. There were a couple of feeble efforts after Thanksgiving to track points again, but they were quickly lost in Thanksgiving leftovers. Within three weeks as Christmas approached, her weight was 2 pounds above where she started and she had never felt worse about herself. She hid all the materials and journals from weight watchers and never attended another meeting.

After the holidays, saw an advertisement for an eating and exercise plan that seemed truly different and interested her greatly. She sent for the free information and really liked what she saw, but never took any further action on that or any other weight loss program. She felt like none of them could ever work for her since she "failed" again on Weight Watchers.

6 months later, now 10 pounds heavier than she had ever been, she was desperate and felt worse than ever. A friend had lost 20 pounds recently using Weight Watchers. Maybe she should try it again? She really wanted to do SOMETHING, but was actually now afraid to act.

None of the problems she experienced ever really needed to happen. It all started with her definitions of failure and success.

Did she ever truly fail? Or did she decide in a moment of weakness that all of the great effort she had made up to that point meant nothing and that any mistake while following her diet plan could not be tolerated and MEANT failure.

What if she had established before starting Weight Watchers this time that she would stay on the plan for 90 days no matter what happened on any given day?

What if she had set the plan up to consider Thanksgiving weekend as "off the plan" and had a written schedule to start up again the following week ahead of time?

What if she realized that even if you are not actively working on weight loss and fitness, you are still on a plan for life because your body does not go away. So trying something is less of a failure than trying nothing-- no matter what the outcome.

What would she tell a friend to do in the same situation? Is failure different for her than it would be for a friend who went through the same experience?

The challenge for all of us is to be objective and accept weaknesses in our efforts by learning how to do better and committing to at least try to improve, rather than becoming defensive and making excuses or worse yet, giving up your efforts because you were not successful in your prior efforts at weight loss and fitness.