Why Does Your Weight Loss Program Always “Plateau”? Blame it on Darwin and Learn the One Simple Solution That Works
Written by David Hirsch on February 5, 2010 – 1:47 pm -Adaptive evolution is the reason that 95% of all weight lose programs fail. Think back to the Theory of Evolution taught in High School.
“Theory of Evolution? What does that have to do with weight loss?”
As it turns out, they are FUNDAMENTALLY connected. Over millions of years, human beings have evolved to endure long periods of both famine and abundance. Our evolutionary history has made us creatures of opportunity, getting our food whenever and wherever we could find it, so the human metabolism also evolved to help us survive these cyclical periods.
“That sounds very interesting, but what does that have to do with my diet tanking after a few weeks?”
Well, limiting or changing caloric intake is the keystone for most diets. After a while, the average metabolism will interpret this as a famine or natural disaster, so the metabolism automatically slows down in order to keep the body alive longer. This is why most diets will stop working after a few weeks, and why we sometimes feel sluggish on diets. It’s just nature’s way of trying to keep us alive.
“So how do we break the cycle?”
Glad you asked. We do something called “calorie shifting”. Studies show that it consistently promotes sustained weight loss.
“What is calorie shifting?”
Once you’ve established your baseline caloric intake, you spend a week to 10 days lowering your intake. It’s been shown that after about 11 days, your metabolism will start to adapt and slow down (as if you were experiencing a famine).
To stop the metabolism from slowing down, you then spend the next week to 10 days raising your caloric intake ABOVE your baseline. This makes the metabolism react as if the famine were over, so it speeds up again.
After it speeds up, you then return your caloric level back BELOW your baseline. You see? That way, you constantly “trick” your metabolism into never slowing down, and you prevent the sluggishness.
There are many other things you have to do of course, so there’s a lot more to calorie shifting. There’s a requirement of eating the right kind of calories in at least 4 meals a day, for example. Plus, you have to drink up to 10 glasses of water a day. I’ll be discussing all of this in future articles.
Learn more about CALORIE SHIFTING. Stop by Jennifer Gordon’s site at www.gofatloss.info where you can find out all about FAT LOSS 4 IDIOTS and what it can do for you.
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