Super Bowl destroy your diet? Relax it's all good

Chicken wings – a Super Bowl favorite 

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So what's everyone talking about today? The Super Bowl and the dominating blow-out win by the Seattle Seahawks over the Denver Broncos. For those people who are fans of football or for those who are not, they share one thing in common – if you went to a Super Bowl party chances are that you overate and that healthy diet went right out the window.  Have no fear because you are not alone.

The average Super Bowl spectator gobbles down about 1,200 calories worth of snacks on game day, according to the Calorie Control Council. That's snacks, people, not meals. Game day eating is so extreme that the United States Department of Agriculture has labeled Super Bowl Sunday the second most glutinous day of the year after Thanksgiving. And we all know how much we eat on Thanksgiving!

You can't go back and undo your overindulgence, but the good news is you don't have to worry about it a second longer because your new strict diet is over. You've heard it before that extreme diets don't work, and let's face it, they don't. If they did and we were happy with our weight, we wouldn't keep going on them, right?

So what's the answer? There is a profound absence of scientific evidence to support the claims of most of the popular weight-loss programs. Most diets can guarantee that if you eat 1,200 calories or less a day and exercise moderately, you will lose weight. It would also probably be safe to guarantee that you cannot sustain this regimen on a lot more days than the Super Bowl.

Men and women struggle equally with their weight. Brooks Carder, a scientist with a businessman's focus on the bottom line, made a firm decision never to go on a calorie-restrictive diet again. Yet he was facing health problems and needed to lose weight. Dr. Carder's salvation began with his love for Italian food and his introduction to the Mediterranean diet – not an actual diet, but a set of dietary principles focusing on whole foods that have been proven to promote health.

When he began to lose weight without deprivation or discomfort, his scientific curiosity was piqued, and he began to read the scientific literature on obesity, weight loss, and diets to understand what was happening. The Laguna Beach Diet is the culmination of these findings. This book presents an eating and exercise plan for sustained weight loss, along with the science that backs it up. It conforms to the principles of the Mediterranean diet, yet is also adapts to the cuisines of Asia and Mexico, representing the ethnic diversity of our country.

Unlike most diets, it is not necessary to buy special meals, weigh portions, count calories, or anything of the sort. Followers of the plan must simply keep the principles in mind and make the best choices he or she can, according to the ingredients on hand.

In the end, it's always about making better choices.  We will have days when we overindulge, but the key is to have more days when we don't. Most importantly, though, don't have any days when you starve and deprive yourself of healthy and delicious food.

When we deprive ourselves, we usually over do it –  so don't do it!

To read more about this doable approach to a healthy lifestyle, go to http://basichealthpub.com  or amazon.com