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Have you tried time and time again to lose weight but either ended up gaining it all back again, or giving up before you’d really begun because it was too hard to follow?Have you ever wondered why ‘diets’ are often unsuccessful?
Did you know that you are able to put your body into a state where it burns predominantly fat for fuel?
Well it's true, and it's much easier than you think.
Muscle is a very active tissue, so burns fat even while resting. You need to have a certain amount of muscle in order to burn fat efficiently. Every pound of muscle you have will burn 50 extra calories per day.
That is per pound, even while resting! Isn't that cool?!
All you have to do to burn fat faster is build muscle tissue through diet and exercise. The more muscle you have, the higher your metabolic rate (the rate at which you burn fat), the faster your metabolism.
The term ‘going on a diet’ however implies a temporary measure to lose weight.
The truth of the matter is: In order to sustain long term, healthy weight loss you need to adopt new habits and keep them for a lifetime. We simply cannot eat whatever we want, whenever we want to and expect to get away with it. We can eat takeaways occasionally, just not all the time. Even people with high metabolisms pay for it in other ways eventually.
But when people talk about getting fitter, leaner and healthier, they always talk about ‘going on a diet’ or ‘losing weight.’ Many and varied are the “I lost 5kgs in 3 days!” stories that catch everyone’s eye. What they don’t know or fail to tell you is most of that weight loss is water that will be replaced as soon as a normal diet resumes.
There is no ‘chemical breakdown’ or ‘secret formula’ either.
These ‘lose weight fast’ diets you hear about work by massively restricting calorie intake, which in the short term work very well in the ‘weight loss’ scheme of things.
But when faced with an intensive calorie restriction like this, your brain immediately thinks you are starving and sends your body directly into famine mode. This is in place from when our ancestors endured hard times. Your metabolism slows and your body does its utmost to preserve precious fat stores.
Everything goes into damage control, your cardiovascular system, nervous system, gastrointestinal system all slow to save precious fuel. Your body starts to use up fat burning muscle tissue for fuel instead of life-saving fat, which slows your metabolism even further. Furthermore, lean muscle is nowhere near as efficient an energy source as fat, so your body needs more of it for the same amount of energy.
Fat burning muscle tissue is lost and will take some time for you to replace it.
You are doing everything to plan on your ‘diet’ but fat loss has become near impossible with a decreased metabolism due to depleted muscle stores. You may have experienced the 'plateau,' where your weight loss simply stops and will not budge a gram further. The excitement of the initial weight loss is no longer outweighing the hunger pangs, cravings, feelings of anxiety and lethargy.
There is nothing else to do but drop your calorie intake even more.
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