If losing weight is your goal you need to understand the difference between a fat loss diet and a weight loss diet.
Here are some of the differences:
A weight loss diet:
• Is all about restricting calories in the hope of trying to starve fat from the body.
• Reduces food intake usually way too much causing the body to experience 'diet shock' and slowing the metabolism (the body's engine) as a result.
• Sucks the life energy from you and makes you miserable.
• Creates intense and often uncontrollable food cravings resulting in binges and overeating making you crazy.
• Processed and refined foods acceptable if calories are low.
• Does not increase health and fitness and leaves one flabby and weak.
• Lowered energy levels do not support a proper exercise program that needs some strength and energy invested in it to make positive changes to the metabolism.
• Is about less - less food - less energy - less strength - poor metabolic health - less fat burning.
• Creates fat storing hormones (cortisol) from the stress of lowered food intake.
• Is punishment to the soul
A fat loss diet on the other hand:
• Is all about creating a healthy metabolism to burn the fat from the body.
• More food than normal usually needs to be eaten to boost metabolism.
• Meals are 2-3 hours apart and contain 300-400 calories.
• Must have protein and complex carbohydrates at each small meal.
• A balance of macro-nutrients (protein/carbohydrates/fats) is essential for fat burning.
• Natural, whole unprocessed foods should be eaten at least 80 percent of the time.
• Eating this way creates loads of energy to be active and increase fat burning.
• A strength training exercise program needs to be done at the same time to keep the fat burning machinery (muscle tissue) burning fat at the highest rate.
• Creates fat burning hormones to make ditching the fat as easy as it can be.
• This way of eating and exercising creates a strong, lean, healthy, shapely body
• Gives you more food - more energy - more strength - more life and three times the results in half the time when done properly.
• Makes you feel a million bucks.
So now you have it. Which one will you choose? Bit of a no-brainer really. Forget the old fashioned dieting and get yourself a brand new body and healthy metabolism with a proper exercise program that keeps your muscle tissue toned, healthy and in good condition. Combine that with a proper eating plan that will boost your health and support your activity need and you have the recipe to get you in the very best shape of your life.
