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Dieting is not effective in controlling weight over the long term. You may get a temporary weight loss but you are 95% more likely to regain the weight after you stop the diet. The worst fact about dieting is that after a diet, you will probably gain more weight (fat) than previously and you will have more difficulty in losing the weight again. This is called the Yo Yo effect. I know we all deny the fact that we never regain all the weight back, much less gain more fat than we had before. But in reality we do, it's FACT, black and white, period! Please let me explain. There is a valid scientific reason why most of the diet fails. Humans originated about 200,000 years ago. The body has a defense mechanism to protect itself from starvation. As soon as the body detects a food shortage, this defense mechanism starts to kick in. This causes the body to assume that the shortage will last so it will reprogram the body systems to change. Theses changes occur in the metabolism, hormonal productions, and psychological systems. The body's reaction cannot be stopped; it hard wired as self preservation. Decreases in metabolism, loss of muscle, increase in the fat storing enzymes & hormones and reducing the fat burning enzymes & hormones are the results of this self preservation or Starvation mode. Your body will begin to decrease the thyroid output, and increase the appetite, resulting in you feeling like you are starving. Due to the lack of fuel your energy levels will sharply decrease and you will find it harder and harder to concentrate. The body is not designed to work without fuel, so now the body is looking for other places to get that fuel. We assume the body will first burn the fuel (food) we ingest, then it will burn the stored fuel (fat), and since we have so much extra energy stored as fat, that is what is burned first. Yea! Sorry not true. And on top of this we will not even consider that we will burn muscle tissue. When you're on a diet and the body senses a reduction in fuel, this reduction will cause the body to go into what is called Starvation Response mode. So now the body needs fuel, where does it go to get it? Muscles are metabolically active tissue. So reducing the muscle reduces the request for the energy it needs to move that muscle. It now becomes more efficient to burn lean muscle than to reduce the stored fat. Basically the body is saying lets become a more efficient machine, if we have less muscle we don't need as much energy (Fuel). Go to http://MyDietForWeightLoss.com/Starvation-Mode for more info on Starvation Mode. To have a calorie deficit, you must burn more calories than you consume in any given day. There are two ways to do so. 1) Decreasing the amount of calories you ingest. 2) Increase the amount of calories your burn. The best way to acquire a calorie deficit is to burn the fat with exercise and reducing your caloric intake by a small amount. Actually, it may seem backwards but eating more of the right kinds of food and exercise to burn off the fat is the healthiest way for you to diet. Exercise allows you to create the calorie deficit. It also burns the fat without losing muscle and slowing down your metabolism. Eating more gives your body the vitamins and minerals it needs were low calorie diets does just the opposite. By using the three combo approach to permanent fat loss, nutrition, cardio, and weight training (both cardio and weight training also involve stretching) you can increase your results exponentially!
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