The One and Only Effective Way to Lose Weight
If you have become overweight and wish to reclaim your slim body you may have to accept that your current thinking about food and dieting does not serve you well and it is time for a change.
You may also want to consider changing your outlook on exercise as proper exercise is superior to dieting and is the only solution for permanent fat loss.
The old fashion notion that we could simply starve off the fat with a restrictive food diet does not work.
It never has and it never will.
We now know that 95 percent of diets fail yet for some strange reason people continue to try each new fad diet in the hope that maybe this latest one will work.
There is only one way to lose stored body fat - and that is to create a calorie deficit and there are two ways to do this.
One is to decrease your food intake so you are eating less than you burn (in other words a diet).
The other is to increase your activity levels so you are burning more than you eat.
Of these two ways to create a calorie deficit, burning the fat through activity is far superior to trying to starve it off.
What happens when we cut calories too much is that it does cause some weight loss at first but it also causes muscle tissue loss.
This is not a good thing for an overweight person as it causes a decrease in metabolism (the rate you burn fuel).
This is the general pattern of conventional diets, you lose weight at first but then you hit a plateau and weight loss stops.
Cutting calories at this point only digs you into a deeper 'metabolic hole" further reducing the efficiency of your fat burning machinery making further fat loss much harder.
The modern approach is to do the opposite of dieting and that is to burn the fat off using strength training exercise to increase the metabolic rate so you are burning more fuel every minute of the day and night.
Dieting slows this down, proper exercise increases it.
Proper exercise also has major health benefits, while starvation can only create health problems both short term and long term.
To get this increase in metabolism you have to work your muscles through their ranges of movement under a load.
Recreational endurance activities like walking, jogging or cycling will not do this, so keep those activities as part of your active lifestyle but remember only muscle building and strengthening activity has the power to increase your metabolism.
So forget the eat less mindset and fuel your body with healthy foods every 2-3 hours so you have the energy to support your exercise regime as that is where you will get your fat loss from.
Ditch the processed stuff full of fat, sugar and chemicals and give your body the most nutrients you can with fresh natural foods cooked from scratch making sure you include a serving of protein at each of your 5-7 small meals.
With you eating healthy food and your proper exercise program you will get a double increase in your metabolism and the fat will come off in the quickest way possible.
Just accept that there is no other way but to build yourself a strong, lean and healthy body and let it go to work for you.
You may also want to consider changing your outlook on exercise as proper exercise is superior to dieting and is the only solution for permanent fat loss.
The old fashion notion that we could simply starve off the fat with a restrictive food diet does not work.
It never has and it never will.
We now know that 95 percent of diets fail yet for some strange reason people continue to try each new fad diet in the hope that maybe this latest one will work.
There is only one way to lose stored body fat - and that is to create a calorie deficit and there are two ways to do this.
One is to decrease your food intake so you are eating less than you burn (in other words a diet).
The other is to increase your activity levels so you are burning more than you eat.
Of these two ways to create a calorie deficit, burning the fat through activity is far superior to trying to starve it off.
What happens when we cut calories too much is that it does cause some weight loss at first but it also causes muscle tissue loss.
This is not a good thing for an overweight person as it causes a decrease in metabolism (the rate you burn fuel).
This is the general pattern of conventional diets, you lose weight at first but then you hit a plateau and weight loss stops.
Cutting calories at this point only digs you into a deeper 'metabolic hole" further reducing the efficiency of your fat burning machinery making further fat loss much harder.
The modern approach is to do the opposite of dieting and that is to burn the fat off using strength training exercise to increase the metabolic rate so you are burning more fuel every minute of the day and night.
Dieting slows this down, proper exercise increases it.
Proper exercise also has major health benefits, while starvation can only create health problems both short term and long term.
To get this increase in metabolism you have to work your muscles through their ranges of movement under a load.
Recreational endurance activities like walking, jogging or cycling will not do this, so keep those activities as part of your active lifestyle but remember only muscle building and strengthening activity has the power to increase your metabolism.
So forget the eat less mindset and fuel your body with healthy foods every 2-3 hours so you have the energy to support your exercise regime as that is where you will get your fat loss from.
Ditch the processed stuff full of fat, sugar and chemicals and give your body the most nutrients you can with fresh natural foods cooked from scratch making sure you include a serving of protein at each of your 5-7 small meals.
With you eating healthy food and your proper exercise program you will get a double increase in your metabolism and the fat will come off in the quickest way possible.
Just accept that there is no other way but to build yourself a strong, lean and healthy body and let it go to work for you.
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