Inspiration
I am very grateful for of my best friends. She has inspired me to continue what I've started on this blog. Why not, if that's what we talk about most?!
Some of my greatest frustrations come from what we are continually taught to accept as truth, even when it's not working. Diet is one of them. We are told that to lose weight we need a deficit of calories. 3,500 less per week for one pound of fat loss. We do this by changing our eating patterns and burning more calories. But how come we are eating salads with light dressing and working out 5+ days a week and still gaining weight?
Let's think about it this way;
What happens when you increase your physical activity by, for example, running 5 more miles than we're used to or lifting weights for a half hour longer than usual? Don't you get hungrier than you were before or would have been had you not run those extra miles?
And we're not supposed to eat more.
This is where the problem lies. We're doing more work and instead of nourishing ourselves after depleting energy stores; we're starving ourselves. Now, don't get me wrong, you will lose weight if you starve yourself but A) Who wants to be starved? and B) Isn't that extra physical activity supposed to make you stronger than before? We won't build muscle and lose fat if proper nutrition and supplementation is not happening.
The best way I know to healthfully lose weight, from experience and from watching others, is to eat real food, on a consistent basis and never blocking out any one food type (unless there is a severe allergy) and to continue a modest routine of physical activity.
I learned a lot while I was in classes at NPTI and one resource we came across is a book called The Dark Side of Fat Loss (found at http://the-dark-side-of-fat-loss.blogspot.com/). I found it extremely easy to follow and the information made sense. To think of it, I probably learned the above example from that book. I highly suggest that book for reading until next time.
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