Fat Burning Fairy Tale #1
In order to experience rapid fat loss, you should drastically lower your food intake and consume far fewer total calories?.
When most people make the decision to lose weight and get into shape, the first thing they do is make large reductions to the amount of food that they eat and place extreme restrictions on their caloric intake.

Their logic is simple: the less food I eat, the more weight I’ll lose

To put it bluntly, this is one of the most harmful and counterproductive things you could possibly do if your goal is to lose fat and keep it off permanently.

Why?

It’s because severe calorie reductions actually program your body to burn fat at a slower rate!

The human body is a highly complex and sophisticated system that is setup with the ultimate goal of keeping you alive and healthy at all times. When you try to lose weight by starving yourself, your bodys hard-wired defense mechanisms kick into gear as a natural survival response.

Your body has no idea that there is a fridge full of food 10 feet away, and when you deprive it of the calories it needs each day for optimal functioning, it makes the necessary adjustments to respond to this perceived “famine”.

2 major adjustments are made, and they are directly counterproductive to your goal of a lean, defined and healthy body.

* First of all, the fat burning metabolism comes to a screeching halt.

Body fat is simply a stored form of energy, and in an effort to conserve this energy for future use, the body will begin holding onto it rather than burning it.

During periods of severe calorie restriction, the metabolic rate can slow down by up to 40%.
* Secondly, your levels of lean muscle tissue will rapidly diminish.

Muscle is metabolically ?expensive? tissue and requires a lot of resource t o build and maintain. In an effort to further conserve energy and to obtain a source of much-needed protein, the body will begin breaking down and wasting away your muscle mass.

In fact, around HALF of the weight that you lose during a crash diet is muscle tissue.

To sum these 2 points up: When you deprive your body of the calories and nutrients it requires, you begin storing more body fat while simultaneously losing muscle mass.
It’s the ultimate “double whammy”, and is the exact opposite of what you should trying to achieve.

The solution?

You will have to come back for the next installment.