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Diets Are The Problem, Not The Solution
There are 5 fat factors that cause people to become metabolically challenged and make it
difficult to lose weight:
1. Yo-Yo dieting - Losing and gaining significant amounts of weight again and again.
2. Crash dieting - Going on a drastically low-calorie diet or "fad" diets
3. Sedentary lifestyle - Getting too little exercise.
4. Garbage in - Eating foods with too much sugar, fat, synthetic chemicals and too few
nutrients.
5. Chronic stress - Being on constant alert due to physical and emotional pressures.
When you go on a diet, your brain misreads the lack of food as a life threatening time of
famine and slows the rate at which your body burns fuel for energy. When you crash diet
or cut calories drastically to lose weight, you are temporarily slowing down your
metabolism. When we eat less food than we need to maintain our weight, our brain
thinks that we are starving. Your brain goes on red alert and sends a message to your
thyroid to slow down metabolism and conserve energy until the food is plentiful again.
Most diets do not teach you how to eat for life, they are just a quick fix and cause muscle
loss rather than fat loss. People often get bored on diets and begin to cheat “just a little.”
When this happens they soon abandon the diet.
The not so "skinny' on High GI Foods
High glycemic foods like donuts, candy bars or anything with refined white sugar (no
fiber, no nutrients) coverts into blood sugar very rapidly. Instead of escorting the blood
glucose in to the muscle, your body stores it as fat.
This leads to sugar fluctuations, which result in fatigue and cravings, particularly for
sweets. It is also linked to obesity, insulin resistance, type II diabetes, high cholesterol
and increased risk for heart disease. Studies have also shown that it can increase the risk
of certain cancers; breast, prostate and colorectal.
There are 5 fat factors that cause people to become metabolically challenged and make it
difficult to lose weight:
1. Yo-Yo dieting - Losing and gaining significant amounts of weight again and again.
2. Crash dieting - Going on a drastically low-calorie diet or "fad" diets
3. Sedentary lifestyle - Getting too little exercise.
4. Garbage in - Eating foods with too much sugar, fat, synthetic chemicals and too few
nutrients.
5. Chronic stress - Being on constant alert due to physical and emotional pressures.
When you go on a diet, your brain misreads the lack of food as a life threatening time of
famine and slows the rate at which your body burns fuel for energy. When you crash diet
or cut calories drastically to lose weight, you are temporarily slowing down your
metabolism. When we eat less food than we need to maintain our weight, our brain
thinks that we are starving. Your brain goes on red alert and sends a message to your
thyroid to slow down metabolism and conserve energy until the food is plentiful again.
Most diets do not teach you how to eat for life, they are just a quick fix and cause muscle
loss rather than fat loss. People often get bored on diets and begin to cheat “just a little.”
When this happens they soon abandon the diet.
The not so "skinny' on High GI Foods
High glycemic foods like donuts, candy bars or anything with refined white sugar (no
fiber, no nutrients) coverts into blood sugar very rapidly. Instead of escorting the blood
glucose in to the muscle, your body stores it as fat.
This leads to sugar fluctuations, which result in fatigue and cravings, particularly for
sweets. It is also linked to obesity, insulin resistance, type II diabetes, high cholesterol
and increased risk for heart disease. Studies have also shown that it can increase the risk
of certain cancers; breast, prostate and colorectal.
