Nutrition and Weight Loss Ideas

In our last article, we talked about how eating less can slow your metabolism and trick your body into thinking you’re starving. When that happens your natural weight loss that comes from an active metabolism will diminish, plus, when your body thinks it’s starving, it will do whatever it can to eat more food. The end result? Your nutrition and weight loss program goes down the tubes and you begin to gain weight.

Another of the reasons why combining exercise with eating less will tend to cause a weight gain rather than a weight loss, is the exercise side of this question.

We’ve always believed that if we exercise hard we’ll burn a lot of calories and we’ll lose weight.

But that doesn’t seem to work. So what’s the problem?

If you burn more calories than you take in, your body gets confused again. Just like eating less puts your body into starvation mode, burning so many calories makes your brain think you’re starving — and your metabolism slows down.

Then the cycle sets in — you now feel wiped out — you’re hungry — and you don’t feel like exercising anymore. That figures because your body will fight burning more calories than absolutely necessary. So, yes, exercise will burn extra calories, but the tendency is to exercise less, eat more and burn fewer calories in the long run.

When you go for those “starvation diets” the weight you lose is only half fat — the other half is your active muscle mass. Losing muscle again lowers your metabolism since muscle cells burn more calories than fat cells. What happens then is you lose weight - then you gain it back — then you lose some again and gain it back.

It’s the well-known “yo-yo” problem we’ve all heard about. It’s the skinny-fat syndrome and it can be so disheartening to anyone working on their nutrition and weight loss goals.

In our next article we’ll take a look at some other factors that can lead to weight gain and some steps to get it under control. Be sure to check back in.

Here is some information about the nutritional supplements I add to my nutrition and weight loss program. These have helped me more than I would have ever imagined. I’m not kidding. Click on the links in the box below — you won’t be sorry!

Have a great day. I’ll be back soon with some more nutrition and weight loss thoughts for you.

And give the South Beach program a try. That’s what I follow and it sure has worked for me. Here’s where to go to learn more:

Shanti,

Ron
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