Are you a victim of “yo-yo” dieting?
Your body is an incredible machine. It contains countless contingency plans that kick in whenever something seems to threaten your well being, even something as ordinary as a stressful day or a case of the sniffles. When the weather turns bitterly cold, your body recalls blood from your fingers and toes in an effort to maintain a minimum core temperature. Fingers and toes are expendable. Your head and torso, not so much.
One of the most fascinating aspects of your body’s defences is the starvation response. It has many other names, but it is simply your body’s reaction to what it perceives as a critical food shortage. When your body finds that the fuel supply is diminishing, it shuts down unnecessary activities and clings to every possible calorie in order to survive the “famine.” All of this is great... unless the famine your body detects is simply a new weight-loss program!
Many dieters have had the bathroom scales seize up and refuse to budge for days, even weeks, after severely restricting their calorific intake at the start of weight-loss program. When you are “starving,” your body begins to manufacture more lipase. This is the enzyme your body uses to transport fat to your fat cells for storage. Your body becomes better at storing every bit of energy, or fat. So what
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happens at the end of a weight-loss program, when you return from severely restricting calories to previous eating habits? Fat stores are still being overproduced in response to “famine” and will continue to do so for some time, in turn more weight or fat will be gained.
This is where the term “yo-yo” diet comes from. Weight will fluctuate in accordance with periods on and off diet programs, sometimes grinding to an agonising halt and often ending with participants finding themselves worse off or heavier a short time after finishing their program.
THE SOLUTION is simple: Mend your eating habits and MAINTAIN a natural, healthy, unprocessed food diet where the calorie deficit isn’t too great in accordance with your needs of daily energy expenditure. A healthy diet that’s specific to YOUR body mixed with regular exercise will speed up metabolism and encourage effective body fat loss which will be long term.
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avoid low calorie diets eat little and often
avoid processed foods
ensure diet is rich in protein exercise often!
For more help and advice, contact Graeme at Shapesmart Personal Training on 07715 640 133
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