Conventional diets don't work. It is impossible for them to ever provide lasting weight loss. When you begin to "starve- yourself with a reduced calorie diet. two things happen that assure that no matter how much weight you lose, you will gain hack every pound and often more.
Why Diets Don't Work
"Diets" Slow Your Metabolism - Remember that fat is a survival mechanism developed by our body to keep us from starving to death during long period without rood. Going on a reduced calorie "diet" kicks this survival mechanism into full gear and virtually assures your failure.
When you go on a diet and reduce your caloric intake or only eat one or two meals a day, your body thinks you are starving. It doesn't know that you're intentionally not eating. It assumes there is no food available and that there might not be any for a long time. To keep you from starving to death before your next meal, it slows down your metabolism and starts storing all the food you eat as fat.
So even though you are eating less food, your body starts metabolizing it more slowly - burning less for energy and storing more as fat. That means that even though you are eating less, you may not lose weight. In fact, it is very possible to go on a low calorie diet and actually GAIN weight. And that's why after failing on a diet, people often gain MORE weight back than they lost. They've slowed their metabolism so much that virtually everything they eat gets stored as fat.
Are you one of those people who are literally eating the caloric equivalent of one meal a day and still cannot lose weight. They have become the human equivalent of a bear. Their bodies are literally hibernating. A bear eats nothing during hibernation and so its metabolism shuts down. Eating too little works against you.
That is why you have to eat to lose weight. You do just the opposite of a "diet." In other words, you are generally eating MORE not less... and you eat more often. Virtually every time you are hungry, you eat. Then, instead of thinking you are starving, your body realizes that food is plentiful. Every time it is hungry, it gets fed, so the survival mechanism never kicks in. It assumes it can get all the food it needs, so it stops storing the fat for an emergency.
In fact, once your metabolism starts moving this quickly, even heavy fattening foods, like a big log added to a raging bonfire, gets burned up quickly. That means that, unlike those diets you've been on in the past, where once you started eating normally again, you gain all the weight back and more, even if you fall off the plan for a day or two, you will often continue to lose weight. You will have stoked your body's fat-burning fire so dramatically that your body sheds fat automatically.
Your Eating Plan has you eat more of the right foods for your body, more often, to speed up your metabolism so weight loss then occurs almost immediately". The net result: you can stop dieting, stop starving yourself and start eating... and, perhaps for the first time in your life, you can lose weight fast and keep it off.
Diets Kill Muscle AND Your Ability to Burn Fat - The other big problem with diets is that when you go on a reduced calorie diet you don't just lose fat. In fact, one of the first things to go is muscle. It's all part of the survival mechanism. Muscle burns a large amount of calories, so if your body thinks it's starving, it is going to start shedding muscle tissue. It figures, "if I get rid of all this muscle, I won't burn as many calories, so I can survive longer without eating.- the problem should be obvious: when you lose muscle your body loses a significant amount of its ability to burn fat. At this point you've essentially lost the war on fat.
One of the things you must do is determine how much muscle your body has: then you will be able to select the right types and amounts of carbohydrates and proteins to assure you maintain and increase the lean muscle tissue in your body. Not only will this lean muscle make you look more shapely and sexy, but it increases the amount of calories you burn all day long. It speeds up your metabolism.
One Size Doesn't Fit All
The last big problem with conventional diets is that they presume that one size fits all. You wouldn't buy a one-size-fits-all suit and expect to look good in it. That's because everybody is different. Different hair, different eyes, different personalities and of course, different metabolisms. Everybody's metabolism runs at a different speed and responds differently to different kinds of foods.
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