You CAN lose weight — but not the way they say
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Don’t fall for this destructive weight loss tip
The focus on losing weight in American culture makes me crazy…
….because it leads people to do things that are super bad for their health.
Keto diets and all of their siblings are terrible for you and traditional diets aren’t much better.
The reality is that most diets fail miserably.
The statistics say that 95% of diets fail. That’s abysmal. Here’s what usually happens…
People go on a diet, lose weight then go off the diet and almost always gain the weight back plus some.
While they do this, they inadvertently mess up their metabolism and lower the lean mass in their bodies.
It’s a nasty cycle and it needs to stop NOW.
That brings me to the question — “If I’m not supposed to diet then how am I supposed to lose weight?”
I want to introduce you to a critical concept in the idea of maintaining the kind of body that you probably want.
That concept is called body composition.
Body composition is a term used often by doctors and health professionals. It refers to the percentage of fat, bone, and muscle in your body. Doctors use body composition to see if you’re at a healthy weight for your individual body.
Body composition essentially means how much of your body weight is dedicated to lean mass vs. fat.
You want to maintain or increase lean mass and reduce fat.
And that creates a very different strategy than the idea of “weight loss.”
What researchers have found is that resistance training (lifting weights) can have a positive impact on body composition.
‘Resistance training effectiveness on body composition and body weight outcomes in individuals with overweight and obesity across the lifespan: A systematic review and meta-analysis’ was published in Obesity Reviews.
This is good news, because the last thing that you want to do as you readjust your body is to lose lean mass in your muscles and organs.
I’m not a big fan of doing aerobic activity just for the sake of doing it and most people find it painfully boring so they don’t do it.
Not to mention that if you are overweight doing aerobic exercise can actually hurt you.
“They can injure knees, joints, ligaments and more because they have to carry their whole body weight during a lot of aerobic exercises.”
Weight lifting though can help to avoid the kind of muscle mass loss that we normally see when people try to lose weight.
“The study also showed resistance training was effective in avoiding losing muscle mass when lowering the number of calories being consumed,” he said.
If you want any chance at all of not tanking your metabolism, then keeping and increasing your muscle mass is critically important.
If you are overweight and want to change that reality, then I want you to start to shift your mindset.
Start thinking about changing small habits and changing your body composition rather than “losing weight.” Weight loss as part of our culture is a trap that can lead to destructive behaviors that are congratulated and called “healthy.”Don’t fall into this trap.
It’s not worth it and more often than not it leads to failure.
—-Important Message About Losing Fat with Science—-
This “breathe the fat out as body heat” hack burns an extra 800 calories a day whether you exercise or not
How does it work? It’s called mitochondrial uncoupling.
And it converts excess calories and fat directly into heat and carbon dioxide.
So instead of having to do wearying tedious exercise to get rid of fat, the fat simply burns off on its own…
In fact, Big Pharma is excited about it and researching this intensively:
It’s like you become a raging inferno…you feel warmer and the fat is burned off steadily and completely.
And you naturally start building more lean muscle mass without working out.
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