You On a Diet and Success

January 4, 2008 | Author NRP

Diets do not work BUT many people think a change of life style equals you on a diet. This article discusses how you can turn that belief into success.

I’m betting you’ve tried one or more diets in your life and as soon as you quit the diet you gained back what you’d lost and more. There is a very good reason for this.

Your diet probably reduced your caloric intake by 50 percent or more. Your body saw this drastic food intake reduction as starvation and stored part of everything you ate as fat and burned the lean muscle tissue in your body for energy.

As soon as you started eating at your previous levels, you started rebuilding your muscle mass and that plus the increased fat you gained during your diet pushed your weight higher.

This means fat loss cannot equal you on a diet.

The correct path would have been to reduce your calorie intake by no more than 20 percent and to increase your level of exercise. (I heard that groan.)

What you may not know is even minimal exercise, when done properly and consistently, helps increase your metabolism and active muscles burn fat when the calorie intake has been even slightly lowered.

Modestly reducing the calorie intake plus increased exercise is a double whammy that forces your body to burn fat. Fat loss is your undeclared goal anyway.

Ignore your scale while eating less and exercising more because lean muscle weighs more than the fat you are losing.

An additional benefit to those that choose an aggressive resistance training program is your muscles become healthier and their cellular age may more closely resemble the muscle health of a young adult.

Good nutrition through diet, vitamin and mineral supplements, increased water consumption, cardio workouts and resistance (strength) training will equal the fat loss you are seeking.

Most of us don’t understand good nutrition, portion control, eating 5-6 meals a day, what exercises to do, when to exercise and where all of this information can be found. I recommend you check out the NutriSystems Advanced program because they offer not only the foods in the right portions but counseling, support, a DVD on exercising and more so you on a diet can equal a successful lifestyle change.

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