Diet Concepts: Fact or Fiction

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Contributed by Mike George

Fact: Walking a mile can burn as many calories as running one.

Fact: Working out too hard for your fitness level will burn sugar, not fat.

Fact: Cutting your calories too much to lose weight will eventually lead to your gaining weight.

I've read that the definition of psychosis is 'repeating the same behavior repeatedly yet expecting a different result'. If this is the case then it stands to reason that the majority of people in America are psychotic when it comes to weight loss.

You've heard the term 'Yo-Yo' dieting-- which refers to being on and off diets -- which eventually results in regaining the weight. Another way of viewing this is simply stating that Yo-Yo diets result in failed weight loss. Yet we go back to it, or at least some variation of it, by eating too little (starving the metabolism).

One caveat-- most people, in their past, experienced a positive result from eating less. It is the memory of this positive result that is embedded in our brains and burned into our subconscious. We experienced euphoria and elation from achieving a certain body weight. But, how long did the weight loss last?

Research indicates that giving a client minimal calories not only negatively affects weight loss, but also seems to encourage the body to eventually put the weight back on. Unfortunately, most weight loss programs recommend ingesting calorie levels below the person's resting metabolism. Continued, sustained, restricted calories below a person's resting metabolism will cause other issues that may require medical intervention.

So, our metabolism functions in predictable ways, yet we still don't recognize these ways and continue to foster behaviors that will ultimately affect our bodies in unintended ways. Because your metabolism 'learns' your tricks, you lose mostly muscle, not fat.

That's why your body is softer than you remember. Wake up out of your own irony and reach over and shake your metabolism awake while you are at it. Just be ready, because you've been mistreating your metabolism for so long that you are going to need to cajole, respect and nourish it back to health.

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