Pure Health Today

From the thousands of people I’ve trained and consulted, I have seen a common thread amongst those who seem to always be on diet, can’t lose weight or lose it slowly. That common thread is that while they are trying to lose weight they reduce their calories too low on a REGULAR basis. Unfortunately many people resort to this method of eating insane low calorie diets of 500-700 calories. If you use this method to lose weight, in the long run it can make it more difficult to keep the weight off. When calories are too low your body thinks it’s starving to death so it will start to break down your muscle tissue for calories. The problem with this is your muscle is what burns most of your fat so if you start losing a lot of muscle when you lose weight, it will slow down your metabolism. This will also create flabbier muscles because your body has been breaking down the muscle fibers. When you eat a diet that consists of extremely reduced calories, it also gets your body into a fat storing mode and programs your body to store fat. Sure you may lose weight on the scale but is your BODY FAT percentage dropping too? You could lose 30 lbs. and your body fat percentage stay exactly the same! Is that an effective fat loss plan? When you lose muscle and water, you lose weight on the scale but how much of that actual weight on the scale was fat? Make sure when you go into a weight loss plan that you focus on FAT loss, not just weight loss. The question should NOT be, “How can I lose weight the fastest?” It should be, “How can I lose weight in a healthy way that is not going to mess up my metabolism and make it more difficult to keep the weight off?”