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Why Doesnâ??t our Body Want to Lose Fat?

plongshanks — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:29:48 +0000

How frustrating is it, when you bust your butt for a few weeks, training hard and sticking to your diet, and your fat doesnâ??t seem to budge. It seems as though it doesnâ??t want to get burnt off. Why is that? Why is fat so stubborn and hard to lose? The very answers to these questions will hopefully make your fat loss journey a lot easier. To first understand why fat is so stubborn; we must know why it is stored on our bodies in the first place. The main reason why it is stored on our bodies is to prepare for times of starvation. It is our back up energy supply for when food is scarce. This was hardwired into our DNA thousands of years ago, when cavemen would have to survive days or even weeks grazing on whatever they could find until they made a kill.The body is reluctant to use up its fat stores because it is our last ditch chance at survival when food is in shortage. Problem is, dieting only makes this worse. The caloric restriction that comes with dieting makes our body fat even more stubborn. This is because it doesnâ??t know how long this period of food shortage is going to last for. So it is going to go out of its way to maintain its fat stores as long as possible. The body then goes to extreme measures and breaks down muscle tissue to use as energy instead. This results in a loss of muscle, a slower metabolism and therefore makes fat loss even tougher.So how then do we make our body want to lose fat?Itâ??s actually quite simple. Eat more. You see if the body sees that there is an abundance of calories coming in, it will think that it is pointless storing all this fat. It will then feel a lot safer at using up the fat stores for energy. Exactly what we want!However, to successfully lose fat, we have to eat a calorie deficit. So to make the body feel a lot safer at using your fat stores, I recommend 3 solutions.- Eat only slightly less total calories then you need a day. Cutting calories too far will only make our body fat stubborn. Just be patient. A good number would be to eat 15 calories per pound of bodyweight a day.- Have a 1-2 cheat meals a week. Overeating once or twice a week, will again show your body that there is plenty of calories coming in, and there is no reason to panic. – Burn a calorie deficit with exercise. Performing short, intense exercise is the best way to lose fat. It boosts our metabolism, and actually stimulates hormones that actually make our body want to get rid of our excess fat. Hope this helps

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Fat Burning Diets…the Best Way to Lose Fat

plongshanks — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:26:21 +0000

Why are we overweight? Well its definitely not because we don’t exercise but the core reason is because we eat the wrong foods, the wrong types of calories, at the wrong times of day. This may sound odd but suspend disbelief a little: nothing else has worked maybe this can. I believe this idea will change the way you think about dieting. It did for me.
Food is the fuel in your engine! It truly has the power to make you slim or fat. Have you ever heard of the saying “You are what you eat”. Well for it to be really accurate you have to expand the saying so it becomes “You are what, when and how you eat”.
What you eat and when you eat it has a very powerful effect on your body. Together they can have a more decisive effect than any prescription weight loss pill. Your engine to be efficient really only needs certain foods at certain times, and if you don’t eat the right foods at the right times then calorie burning will be slowed to a crawl and they’ll be stored as fat tissue. This may sound counter-intuitive but eating more often (a.k.a. grazing) is a key factor in losing fat.
So the idea is that can SLIM down by eating the RIGHT FOODS at the RIGHT INTERVALS.
The Old Ways (which I have tried and failed with):
- Low Calorie Diets. You can’t lose weight by starving yourself because your metabolism will sense the drop in calories and it will then adjust itself by burning less calories a day. It’s a survival mechanism Frustratingly it’s why you can starve yourself on 1,000 calories a day and not lose weight while your friend can happily eat 3,000 calories a day and not gain an ounce.
- Low fat diets? Well have you noticed to that there is practically a “no fat or low fat” version of everything in the food store…and yet (and I don’t think I’m talking about just me here) we keep getting fatter…despite this “low fat” help.
- Low carb diets have been immensely popular but they can be very restrictive. Some deny you a large apple when you start or let you eat out normally. As a result they tend to leave you feeling fed up and discouraged and as an aside (I know from experience) can give you horribly bad breath.
I was amazed when I found this system. It’s different from anything I’d ever seen. They promise that you’ll see a change in your body in just 11 Days. For me that was an eye catcher. I had to forget about past dieting failures for a moment and think WHAT IF it was really possible to change your body in 11 days?
So what is their (2 part) Secret?
1) FOOD IS NOT YOUR ENEMY.
It is your friend! Every time you eat your brain releases fat related hormones into your bloodstream. There are 2 types and together they control Fat Burning and Fat Storage. However the really important fact is that these 2 hormones are controlled by the foods that you eat. Knowing that we can manipulate the fat burning hormones with our diet!
So the goal is to eat in order to manipulate these hormones so that after eating your body goes crazy producing more of the fat burning hormones and minimizing the fat storing hormones.
One of the key ways to do this is to eat more than 3 times per day because that allows us to control them better. Do you find it hard to believe that eating more often could be the solution to speeding up weight loss? Remember food is not the enemy instead think of it as the switch which can turn fat burning on and off. If I could turn fat burning on by eating I’d eat all the time (just kidding).
But sounds crazy doesn’t it? Eating more often can be the solution to weight loss. Realize this isn’t a magic pill. It will take effort. You must eat the right meals in the right patterns each day (clearly eating chocolate 10 times per day wont help you get slim).
However, the bottom line is that you’ll be eating MORE than 3 meals per day during the next 11 Days, you wont be hungry and after 11 days you’ll be slimmer and lighter. What is there to lose? I am thinking…”the weight!”
2) CALORIE SHIFTING.
This second part means that your body will be given different types of calories each day which will boost your metabolism and force faster fat loss.
Why does this work? Well your metabolism doesn’t know how much food you’ll eat tomorrow or the next day. So it burns calories based on your previous eating habits — it assumes that you’ll continue to eat in the same general way. However this system does the opposite of that so your body keeps burning at the higher level. So when you change the types of calories/meals every couple of days, your metabolism burns the foods entirely and then switches to burning your fat tissue.
Of course, in order for this shifting technique to work you need to eat foods which have been rated “Fat Burning Compatible” — because the foods you eat must be easy to burn. This does not mean you will be eating celery 5 times a day. Far from it, but it does mean you can’t go on a chocolate diet.
It’s a simple program that uses science but makes it soooo easy.

As I say on my blog, I am “working toward more of me with less bulk”. Anyway take a look at my page for more information. It can be found Here! Best of luck

Eat Fat, Lose Fat: Lose Weight And Feel Great With The Delicious, Science-based Coconut Diet (Kindle Edition)

plongshanks — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:43:59 +0000

From Publishers Weekly

In this new addition to the fast-fix diet book shelf, Enig and Fallon attempt to correct what they see as Americans’ false belief that tropical fats and oils (such as coconut and palm) are unhealthy, asserting that those fats (and coconut, especially) are beneficial saturated fats that should be more heavily incorporated into our diets. Enig, a biochemist and nutritionist, along with Fallon, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation (a non-profit dedicate (more…)