Eat More And Lose Weight

I bet you read the name of this article and got excited. Well you should have. I’m going to explain some concepts to you that you may not have heard before. I think you will see this is an interesting approach.

Fist of all you have to remember that your body is that of an animal, and as such has certain built in responses. These responses are caused by millions of years of evolution, and are hard to work around if you don’t know what they are.

When you go on a diet and start eating less food certain things happen in your body that you may not be aware of. For instance as with any animal, when we suddenly eat less our body thinks we are experiencing a famine so it changes our metabolism. It does this to protect your reserves and to hoard as much fat as possible against an uncertain future. It also changes the amount of fuel you require by causing you to want to move around less.

These are not things conducive to helping you lose weight.

Your body will switch to a super fuel efficient machine that requires hardly any food to run and as a by-product, destroys your hope of losing weight.

It gets worse than this though, as you are about learn. When your body thinks it’s going to starve it also starts to cause you to experience an overwhelming desire to eat.

Remember your body thinks you’re in danger. Starvation has been a killer for humans since the dawn of our race, and as far as millions of years of instinct is concerned you need to go the extra mile to get food.

If you were living in a jungle this would be fine. You might be inspired to go somewhere you hadn’t been before in search of food, and possibly solve your problems. However you know this is no longer the situation.

Modern living unfortunately is unaware or unconcerned in what went into our evolution, and because of this often makes terrible mistakes. Unfortunately television plays an important role in our lives today, and mentioning our evolution, or the fact we are animals is not want people want to hear. This does not however change the fundamental truth that we are.

Do you realise that by eating foods you desire, you will reassure your body that there are no problems with obtaining food. You aren’t starving and everything is OK.

Once you have done this your body will start to run far less efficiently, and this means it stores less of the food as fat.

When reviewing this information you ought to realise that diets by their very essence are hindered by your nature. And as we know from multiple examples, if you set ourselves against nature, you set ourselves up for failure.

Don’t fight the way you own body works, use it to your own advantage. Your bodies metabolism triggers can help you lose weight without effort and pain if you only decide to pay attention to the way your made.

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Lose Weight - The Truth About Exercise

Everybody knows that exercising will make you lose weight. The problem is that what everybody knows is not necessarily true.

When someone hasn’t exercised in some years and then starts a heavy regime, they risk doing themselves some serious damage.

You may be thinking that incoming energy minus your outgoing energy is your fat reserve, this is only a very basic understanding though. In actual fact when you suddenly start exercising, you will send your body into survival mode. As soon as you do this you will start to have trouble losing weight.

While you will start building muscle you won’t really notice any weight loss because your body will panic and start to hoard its reserves.

Consider in nature when a person would have traditionally started to push themselves to their limits. It would be in an extreme survival situation or war, and as these are the signals you’re sending your body. It reacts accordingly.

If you want to actually lose weight then you need to make sure you don’t panic your body. Start exercising very gradually, while paying extra care to only increase your regime by a very small amount each day.

Remember that the human race has evolved very slowly over a long time to function in a certain way. Don’t try confusing it just because the television’s latest trend says so.

Be aware that you were designed to survive under vastly different circumstances than we experience today.

When your body finds you’re spending all day running and struggling it thinks you’re in danger. What do you think happens then? Yes, you got it. Your metabolism undergoes a huge change and starts desperately saving its reserves.

Don’t start exercising too fast. Only exercise very lightly to start with. You shouldn’t start doing a proper exercise routine for quite some time. To start with you should be doing very light exercises or possibly even just stretches. Over a period of several weeks you should slowly add a few minutes extra, until finally you are doing a full exercise routine. This way your body won’t start to panic and genuine weight loss can be achieved.

The other thing that can easily stop your weight loss attempts from working, is dieting.

If you suddenly cut the amount you eat, you will send your body into survival mode which will lead to a change in your metabolism. This change will take the form of a sudden belief within your body that it needs to hoard fat reserves against an uncertain future.

It is a standard famine control method that the body has always used. Strangely it seems in recent times people seem to have forgotten this necessary survival method of ours.

Mix crash dieting and exercising and you know what you get? Very briefly some weight loss, followed quickly by weight gain or hunger cramps.

These hunger cramps are also a method by which the body tries to spur us on to search out food.

When you’re considering any kind of weight loss program, I would strongly urge you to consider whether the method is for or against our basic animal design. 

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