Losing Weight – The Right And The Wrong Way
Written by Alex Saffo on August 12th, 2009You can lose weight the right way or the wrong way. Off course, if you choose the wrong way, you won’t lose any weight long term. In fact, you are going to regain all the pounds you initially lost, plus some more. So please, if you’re going to do it, do it the right way. In this article we will try to show you what to do and what not to do.
If we look at the statistics, we see alarming numbers – two thirds of American adults are overweight. A considerable percentage of these people try very hard to lose weight, but with very little success. Less 5% are successful in long term weight loss. It seems that mainstream diets aren’t doing what they’re supposed to do. Why?
This is because the majority of mainstream diets are so called reduction diets. Everything with low in it. You know – low fat, low carb, low calorie, etc. The reason why it’s so hard or nearly impossible to achieve long term weight loss with these diets lies in a way our bodies deal with starvation. After all, these diets are starvation diets.
The main objective of our bodies is to survive and they have many clever adaptation techniques to achieve that. One of them is called starvation mode. It kicks in when you starve, like when you are on starvation diet. In this mode, your body will try to survive on as little energy as possible, also trying to more efficiently store as much energy (fat) as possible.
What do you think happens when you go off the diet? Well, you stay in starvation mode for a while and you start gaining weight faster than ever. People usually end up weighing more than they did before the diet.
Starvation is definitely not very effective, not to mention unhealthy, way to deal with weight problems. There are much better ways. One method that doesn’t include starving, but produces great results is called calorie shifting.
Calorie shifting works by tricking the metabolism into working fast and burning stored fat reserves. You do that without starving yourself. You eat six proper small meals a day. Off course, no junk food. You are even allowed to have cheat days, when you can eat whatever you want. Easy to follow and it works.
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