How To Burn Fat, Law # 6
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
When "dieting", don't restrict your calories too much or too drastically or for to long of a time or else you'll ending up losing a lot of muscle and very little fat.
REASON:
The body's main purpose is to stay in "homeostasis" or to basically stay balanced at all times. It does this mainly through adaptation by a system of checks and balances. For example, when you reduce calories too much or for too long, the body thinks it's starving and it won't be able to find food.
It begins to go into "hibernation" mode and it does this by slowing down your metabolism and reducing thyroid output and also, by preserving FAT for survival and burning up muscle, since muscle requires more calories for existence.
As you can see, this would defeat our purpose. So, at times, it's best to reduce calories by 10% every 2-3 weeks and at the same time, expend more energy through exercising.
There is no need to do too much, too soon. Do a little, your body will be okay with it and around 14-21 days, it will begin to adapt and that's when you'll need to once again, reduce calories by another 10%.
In fact, one of our protocols we use is to reduce calories by 10% for weeks 1+2, then increase exercising by 10% or 20-30 minutes 3x a week for weeks 3+4. This is one month. Then, repeat the second month by further reducing calories by another 10% for weeks 5+6 and then after two weeks, increasing your workouts a little more during weeks 7+8.
By just going back and forth and reducing food a little for 2 weeks and then adding more exercise for 2 weeks and so forth, you'll keep your body happy, burning fat and preserving muscle. Obviously, you can't do this forever and after 3 months, it's time for a break by increasing calories for about a week. But this is good for now and we'll get into specifics in the future.
REASON:
The body's main purpose is to stay in "homeostasis" or to basically stay balanced at all times. It does this mainly through adaptation by a system of checks and balances. For example, when you reduce calories too much or for too long, the body thinks it's starving and it won't be able to find food.
It begins to go into "hibernation" mode and it does this by slowing down your metabolism and reducing thyroid output and also, by preserving FAT for survival and burning up muscle, since muscle requires more calories for existence.
As you can see, this would defeat our purpose. So, at times, it's best to reduce calories by 10% every 2-3 weeks and at the same time, expend more energy through exercising.
There is no need to do too much, too soon. Do a little, your body will be okay with it and around 14-21 days, it will begin to adapt and that's when you'll need to once again, reduce calories by another 10%.
In fact, one of our protocols we use is to reduce calories by 10% for weeks 1+2, then increase exercising by 10% or 20-30 minutes 3x a week for weeks 3+4. This is one month. Then, repeat the second month by further reducing calories by another 10% for weeks 5+6 and then after two weeks, increasing your workouts a little more during weeks 7+8.
By just going back and forth and reducing food a little for 2 weeks and then adding more exercise for 2 weeks and so forth, you'll keep your body happy, burning fat and preserving muscle. Obviously, you can't do this forever and after 3 months, it's time for a break by increasing calories for about a week. But this is good for now and we'll get into specifics in the future.
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