| One of the worst things we can do to our body is | | | | position than when you started. You may as well |
| embarking on a low calorie diet. It never really did | | | | have saved yourself the grief of starving when it has |
| seem like a good idea and now science supports the | | | | gained you nothing but a worse body composition |
| notion that treating our body like this is both harmful | | | | (muscle/fat ratio). |
| as well as being ineffective for losing body fat. | | | | The best way to lose weight is to get back to |
| We believe that the only way to lose weight is to | | | | basics. Rebuild and restore lost muscle tissue with |
| reduce our food intake but this way does not work | | | | strength training exercise and let that go to work for |
| as 95 percent of these diets fail and weight is not | | | | you burning up body fat. This is a far better way to |
| kept off for the long haul. These diets cause a | | | | lose weight that starving. Your muscle tissue is where |
| disruption to the hormonal systems that control | | | | fat is burned for energy so it is imperative that this is |
| appetite and fullness and go on to cause cycles of | | | | in good toned condition. |
| damaging weight loss and weight gain. | | | | Your exercise program must be supported by good |
| The long term harm done to health is not yet known | | | | nutrition so some effort can be put into it so you can |
| about but it is thought that yo-yo dieting makes it | | | | make the necessary changes to your metabolism. |
| harder to lose weight with each successive attempt. | | | | Strength training does require a high level of intensity |
| Each time the rebound effect from a diet kicks in | | | | (degree of effort) so you need lots of energy. |
| weight is lost more slowly and regained quicker after | | | | (Something you will not get from dieting). Low |
| the diet as the body attempts to protect itself from | | | | intensity endurance activity will not change your |
| what it perceives as starvation. It has no idea a | | | | metabolism so focus on what will give you increased |
| person only wants to get into their skinny jeans. | | | | fat burning - strength training. |
| A slowed down metabolism seen with most of these | | | | In just a few months you will have toned up your |
| diets does not stop when a person begins to eat | | | | muscles and begun to change your body composition |
| normally again. In fact this lowering of the metabolic | | | | back to a healthy level, and guess what - no starving |
| rate is one of the survival strategies the body uses | | | | involved. Small meals every 2-3 hours, protein at each |
| to regain the weight quicker. Another big problem | | | | meal and at least 1800 calories for a woman or 2200 |
| with low calorie diets is that the weight that is lost is | | | | for a man are the ticket for fat loss. |
| not all fat but precious muscle tissue as well which | | | | Quite the opposite from what we used to do with |
| furthers lowers the metabolic rate. | | | | our harsh starvation diets that work against our |
| When the rebound weight happens when one comes | | | | body. Now we know to get what we want we have |
| comes 'off' the diet the regained weight is all fat and | | | | to work with our body and we can slowly coax it to |
| not the muscle which means you are in a worse | | | | give up its fat stores. |