So you want to lose a lot of weight quickly...so you buy a wrap, you kill your body with an HCG diet, you starve yourself crazy and eat like a rabbit, you do a master cleanse that shocks your system and you lose a few pounds...That is until you start eating ‘normal’ again. Then you’ll blow up like a balloon, and the vicious YO YO cycle will start all over again deepening the pit of depression even more.
If you want to look better and feel better permanently, you MUST make permanent changes. You took the easy way into the pit, and now it's up to you to take the hard way out.
You must lift weights and perform cardiovascular exercise along with any healthy eating food plan you choose to follow. Without weight lifting/resistance training and cardio, you will lose weight due to any calorie deficit you create, but you will also lose precious muscle in the process.
Muscle is your best friend for long term weight control. It burns fat from your body. You’ve got to do everything in your power to keep as much of your ally as possible during weight loss programs.
You must understand that losing muscle decreases your metabolism and makes weight loss even tougher. Muscle burns calories. The more muscle you have, the more food you can eat and not gain body fat or body weight.
After you go through one of those typical weight loss programs that starve you and feed you cardboard, you will end up in worse shape than before you started the program. When you lose muscle, you look worse and burn fewer calories each and every day.
Sure, you might be happy because the scale says you are at a lower body weight. What you don’t know, though, is the ratio of muscle to fat in your body has decreased! This means you have less muscle and more fat than before you started. This is when you'll hit a weight loss plateau.
From that point on, you have to eat even less to lose more weight. This starts a downright vicious cycle.
Eventually, you will be starving yourself. It will send your body into "starvation" mode...meaning that even if you eat just a little, your body will be confused that it's not being fed enough, so it will turn any foods you eat into unhealthy fats. Your body will hold onto fat stores and feed off your muscle for energy. The body will keep the fat because body fat is more important than muscle in sustaining life.
Body fat serves as stored energy for the body.
Feed Your Body Clean, Healthy foods, and It Will Let Go of the Body Fat
The body will hold onto body fat if it believes it is in danger. And that’s exactly what most weight loss diets will do to you. This is why it's important to eat 5 small meals a day instead of 1-2 larger meals (even if they're healthy). Your body will begin to feed off of your muscle mass for energy.
The number on the scale will go down quickly, but you’ll be losing your most important ally in your long term war on fat loss.
The only way to prevent muscle loss during weight loss is to lift weights and eat more. This tells your body that it’s fine to burn fat from your body and keep your muscle. Burn fat with cardiovascular exercise, and create the calorie deficit through exercise.
This is an entirely different strategy than any of those typical weight loss programs, and that’s why it works.
You eat more and exercise to burn the fat away.
You stay happy and feel great the entire time you’re burning deadly body fat.
And MOST importantly: YOU MAKE A LIFESTYLE CHANGE and never YO YO again.
