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5 Tips to Avoid Plateaus and Metabolic Slowdown

Saturday, 29 May 2010 16:03 Written by admin 0 Comments

By Tom Venuto, Burn The Fat

QUESTION: Tom, Is it possible to not lose body fat because you’re eating too little?
-Linda

ANSWER: Yes and no. This gets a little complicated so let me explain both sides.

Part one of my answer: I say NO, because if you are in a calorie deficit you WILL lose weight.

Most people have heard anecdotes of the dieter who claims to be eating 800 calories a day or some starvation diet level of intake that is clearly in a deficit and yet is not losing fat. Like the mythical unicorn, such an animal does not exist.

Every time you take a person like that and put them in a hospital research center or metabolic ward where their food can be counted, weighed, measured and almost literally “spoon fed” to them, a calorie deficit always produces weight loss.

There are no exceptions, except possibly in rare diseases or mutations. Even then metabolic or hormonal defects or diseases merely lead to energy imbalance via increases in appetite, decreases in energy expenditure or changes in energy partitioning. So at the end of the day it’s STILL calories in versus calories out.

In other words, NO – it’s NOT your thyroid (unless you’ve got a confirmed diagnosis as such…and then guess what… it’s STILL calories in vs calories out, you’re just not burning as many as someone should at your height and weight).

One famous study that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine years ago proved this point rather dramatically. After studying obese people – selected specifically because they swore they were eating less than 1200 calories but could not lose weight – Steven Lichtman and his colleages at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital in New York came to the following conclusion:

“The failure of some obese subjects to lose weight while eating a diet they report as low in calories is due to an energy intake substantially higher than reported and an overestimation of physical activity, not to an abnormality in thermogenesis.”

That’s right – the so-called “diet-resistant” subjects were eating more than they thought and moving less than they thought. This was probably the single best study ever published that debunks the “I’m in a calorie deficit but I can’t lose weight” myth:

Part two of my answer, YES, because:

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10 Weight Loss Tips

Wednesday, 07 October 2009 19:58 Written by admin 6 Comments

10 Quick and Simple tips to help you shed the pounds and keep them off.  Author James Mierop covers 10 of the best ways to help maintain a healthy lifestyle.  While many may be obvious, it’s often these people forget.

1. Burn more calories than you consume. If this makes you go: “D-uuuh!!”, snap out of it and consider that this elementary aspect of dieting escapes countless clueless — and doomed — dieters. Tabloids may claim to have the “miracle foods” that’ll allow you to eat like a pig and have the pounds melt off, but it’s a load.

2. Establish your base metabolism, and set a target calorie goal approx. 500 calories below it. I wrote an article dedicated to establishing your metabolism earlier, so look it up in the article archive if you need a refresher.

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Turbulence Training

Tuesday, 29 September 2009 21:06 Written by admin 2 Comments
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Turbulence Training

Turbulence Training claims to be a time-efficient, research-proven workout system that “boosts muscle growth and blowtorches body fat”.

Written by Craig Ballantyne, a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and “Men’s Health Magazine” expert, Turbulence Training is designed for those who are short on time and have trouble fitting exercise into their daily schedules.

In fact, the official Turbulence Training website claims that users of the program will achieve maximum results in only 3 workouts per week.

The Turbulence Training Secret

The science behind Ballantyne’s product is the combination of interval training and resistance training to increase your metabolism so that in between workouts your body burns more calories.

Craig Ballantyne states; “Cardio doesn’t boost your metabolism after exercise. Only strength training and interval training do that – while you work, sleep, and eat – your body will be shedding fat.”

The Author is so confident in his system, he offers a full 8-week guarantee if Turbulence Training is purchased through the official website.

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5 Simple Healthy Menu Tips

Thursday, 17 September 2009 23:26 Written by admin 8 Comments

Regardless of your age, gender or level of fitness, a healthy balanced diet should be something you try and do on a daily basis.  With so many so called experts telling us what we should eat, it’s often hard putting it all together and even harder actually sticking to it on a constistent basis.

Here are 5 simple to follow tips to help you not only develop a healthy menu plan, but hopefully one that will allow you to stay healthy well into the future.

  1. Take that food pyramid, and look at it.  You know the one!  Veges at the bottom, sweets at the top?  Yeah that’s the one.  This may be shocking to believe, but that pyramid is actually spot-on accurate.
  2. Try new things.  Never had a particular fruit or vegetable before, now is a great time to try it.  Tired of boring old meals?  Find new ways to prepare them to make it fun.
  3. PLAN you week.  If you are at work during meal times, be sure to take this into account when planning.  If you plan in advance, you’ll know what to cook, and when to cook it.  Believe me when I say this is a HUGE factor in keeping on track.  Prepared menu planners can help with this if you prefer others do the hard work.

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