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Part 5 of Starving Yourself to Lose Weight is Dangerous

The final part…

Healthy weight loss… the safe, sensible, and effective solution. A combination of healthy eating habits and some exercise will not only help you shed the pounds, but will keep you fit and allow you to stay at your optimum weight year after year. Weight loss should be a once in a lifetime event, a Fit Fat Loss Event.

Do this:

Eat well, eat little, but eat often. Smaller, more frequent meals help keep your metabolism going throughout the day. It’s an easy lifestyle change. However, if this is totally impractical, just squeeze in a healthy snack between meals to keep your body going.

Don’t skip breakfast. The one period of the day when you can’t keep your metabolism revved up is while you are sleeping. You need breakfast to get your body burning calories again. Then keep the metabolism revved all day.

I feature programs that practice both.

Exercise, of the fat burning type. There are firm believers that “cardio” exercises, such as jogging, swimming, cycling, and low impact aerobics are excellent fat burners. However, I’m not convinced cardio is the best form of exercise when it comes to burning fat.

Build muscle mass. That means doing some weight training, but not heavy weight lifting. We discussed the energy burning ability of muscle, remember? Building up more muscle mass will turn your body into a calorie burning machine by increasing your metabolism. Keep the calorie intake below the calorie expenditure and experience a Fit Fat Loss Event. Even 7 minutes of specific exercise can do it!

The programs I highlight on Fit Fat Loss BURN FAT and they incorporate exercise that produces results.

These programs are not dangerous on your body. However, that said, be sure to check with your physician before starting any exercise program.

You owe it to yourself to look into them.

Aden

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Part 4 of Starving Yourself to Lose Weight is Dangerous

OK, so we are discussing starving your body by extreme dieting. You’ve convinced your body it is starving. What it does next is try to conserve enough muscle to quite simply stay alive.

Finally, after about a week of starvation, the body will learn to use its stores of FAT as fuel instead of muscle. However, when fat is metabolized, ketones are produced. After a lengthy period of starvation, ketones will build up, and eventually turn toxic, leading to a condition called “Ketosis“.

Too much toxic waste in the liver taxes it, causing vital bodily functions carried out by the liver to slow down or cease. It’s a fact of life. The body is breaking down.

All of this extreme, rapid weight loss greatly stresses the body. There is the lack of vital nutrients that will begin to show in your overall physical appearance. Although I recommend supplements during weight loss, their benefit in a starvation diet would be lost to the risks incurred – this is not the route to follow to lose weight.

–continued tomorrow–

Aden

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Part 3 of Starving Yourself to Lose Weight is Dangerous

Did you know that trying to promote weight loss by habitually skipping meals has the opposite effect on your overall weight?

The body will think that it is not getting regular nourishment and will begin to store calories, in the form of FAT. It won’t burn calories in the effort to ensure there is enough energy to get past the period of starvation.

All of this is bad news for starvation dieters, and it doesn’t end there either. When you eventually resume your normal eating habits, getting back to “regular” calorie levels, weight gain will occur even faster and will consist of more fat than before. (If you have ever experienced weight rebound, have you noticed the fat seems “different“?) What happened was that your metabolic rate, being much slower than before, stores the excess calories as fat now. The result…? You could very well end up weighing even more than when you started.

Also, the wasted muscle will not miraculously reappear. You will have to exercise even more to build it again. Life is so cruel! The tricks it throws at us!

–continued tomorrow–

Aden

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Part 2 of Starving Yourself to Lose Weight is Dangerous

The liver stores enough glycogen to provide energy for a single day. So if the starvation diet goes past that one day, the body turns to muscle as a back up source of energy. That’s correct, the body will use muscle to produce the glucose it needs as energy. That slowly reduces your overall amount of muscle yet it is the amount of muscle you have, that sets the rate at which calories are burned. The more muscle wasted to create glucose, the slower your body becomes at burning calories. Starve your body of required calories and you will have just lowered your metabolic rate.

Those quick 2 or 3 day diets claiming to burn only fat…? They only burn away metabolically active muscle tissue… Starve yourself for about a week and you WILL lose weight: 30 percent from muscle and the rest from fluid loss. That is not how to lose weight. Burning fat is tricky!

Now, muscle has the ability to burn calories even while the body is resting and inactive – it consumes energy just to maintain its own mass. By reducing the amount of muscle you have, starvation dieting becomes detrimental to the body’s calorie burning efficiency.

–continued tomorrow–

Aden

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