Are You Dieting The Right Way?
August 3, 2009 by Sarah Leroy
Filed under Wellbeing
You 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.
About 6 in 10 Americans are overweight, that’s 60% of the United States population. Many of them will go to great efforts to lose weight, but only very few really succeed. Less than 5% achieve long-term success. Obviously, something is not right here? Mainstream diets, as it seems, are not doing especially well. Why is that?
The majority of mainstream diets – low fat, low carb, and low calorie diets are so called reduction diets. They impose starvation on the body and this is the main reason why they don’t yield any long-term results. The way our bodies deal with starvation make it very hard or almost impossible to achieve lasting weight loss.
You have to understand that when your body thinks you are starving, it tries to use as little energy as possible while becoming more efficient at storing energy, meaning fat. This is known as a starvation mode. In starvation mode metabolic rate lowers and your body becomes very efficient fat storing machine.
But it gets worse. Once you start eating normally again, the body still remains in this mode for a while. This is the reason why you gain weight faster than you ever thought possible. Soon, you end up weighing more than you did before you started dieting.
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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