Lose Weight
Losing weight can be one of the most challenging things anyone can do. Furthermore, there’s a right way and a wrong way to lose weight.
Let’s start with the wrong way to lose weight --> losing too much weight, too fast.
This can happen with extreme dieting and/or extreme exercising or both.
Think about it: It takes your body a lifetime to get to where you are with your weight today.
That means...
Change is really hard for the body.
It means having to engage processes that haven’t had to be used or have had little use in many years. The body doesn’t want to do more than it has to in order to survive.
If you have been 200 pounds for the last 20 years, how much effort do you think your body has to put into changing?
If you make it change too fast, it puts the body under extreme duress. This can be a lot of stress on the heart first and foremost. Secondly, it puts you at risk for relapsing into an even heavier weight than when you began.
That brings us to the right way to lose weight. The right way is gradual weight loss.
Small increments lost over a greater period of time. This ensures the body can keep up with the adaption and you can keep the weight off for good.
What you’re doing when you’re losing weight is giving new instructions to your body. You’re telling your body that the way you’ve been doing things is going to completely change and it’s changing because you are trying to achieve a new level of homeostasis. Not only that, but it must maintain this new level of homeostasis at the new level of weight that you know is healthier for your height and body type.
To achieve this, you need a consistent strength training program that can gradually build you up to the point of achieving full body fatigue in each workout so that your body is burning calories on the days between workouts.
To support muscle building, you need to eat the right foods that provide vitamins and nutrients. By supplementing currently ineffective foods for power foods (foods that provide something to the body other than calories), you can change your entire organism.
Let’s start with the wrong way to lose weight --> losing too much weight, too fast.
This can happen with extreme dieting and/or extreme exercising or both.
Think about it: It takes your body a lifetime to get to where you are with your weight today.
That means...
- The body has become accustomed to maintaining itself where it is
- It has adapted and it has taken the instruction from you that it needs a certain amount of criteria (food, exercise or lack thereof) to stay exactly where it is
- It doesn’t want to change.
Change is really hard for the body.
It means having to engage processes that haven’t had to be used or have had little use in many years. The body doesn’t want to do more than it has to in order to survive.
If you have been 200 pounds for the last 20 years, how much effort do you think your body has to put into changing?
If you make it change too fast, it puts the body under extreme duress. This can be a lot of stress on the heart first and foremost. Secondly, it puts you at risk for relapsing into an even heavier weight than when you began.
That brings us to the right way to lose weight. The right way is gradual weight loss.
Small increments lost over a greater period of time. This ensures the body can keep up with the adaption and you can keep the weight off for good.
What you’re doing when you’re losing weight is giving new instructions to your body. You’re telling your body that the way you’ve been doing things is going to completely change and it’s changing because you are trying to achieve a new level of homeostasis. Not only that, but it must maintain this new level of homeostasis at the new level of weight that you know is healthier for your height and body type.
To achieve this, you need a consistent strength training program that can gradually build you up to the point of achieving full body fatigue in each workout so that your body is burning calories on the days between workouts.
To support muscle building, you need to eat the right foods that provide vitamins and nutrients. By supplementing currently ineffective foods for power foods (foods that provide something to the body other than calories), you can change your entire organism.