Why can't I loose weight?

Loosing weight isn't rocket science. It's simple. Expend more calories than you take in. Right?

The reality of weight loss.

Have you tried to loose weight by dieting? Watching every bite, adding up calories, even exercising only to struggle to loose just a few pounds. Then you go out with friends or take a trip and mess up on your diet just a little and gain 5 pounds! It just doesn't seem fair or right.

So what's going on?

Let's take a look at why most diets fail.

• Most diets are nutritionally inadequate. They are too low in calories and/or nutrients. Sooner or later you feel bad and cheat. When faced with a shortage of calories, your body’s natural response is to conserve fat. This mechanism may have come in handy for your distant ancestors trying to survive a famine, but the "starvation response" and it’s associated hormonal changes make life difficult for many a dieter. After all, when's the last time you couldn't find any food!
• Most diets are too hard to follow. They interfere with your life. They give you too many excuses to goof off, cheat or quit.
• Most diets are too slow and frustrating. Lots of pain, little gain.
• Some diet plans ask you to take unsafe ingredients having negative side effects (Ephedra, Ephedra Alternatives, other stimulants). Why should you have to take your life in your hands to loose a few pounds? You’re trying to get healthier, right?
• Most diets slow your metabolism setting you up for the "yo-yo" effect.

What is the "Yo-Yo" Effect?

A low caloric diet is a self-imposed famine, so the body responds by conserving fat and begins to break down muscle tissue for fuel. It doesn't know how long this famine is going to last so it guards its precious high energy store.

Nitrogen is released when you break down muscle and the body quickly eliminates it through the kidneys with water from your cells. This causes an immediate reduction in water weight and a noticeable drop on the scale. Loosing water and muscle is no reason to celebrate. This weight will be right back as soon as you have something to drink, and the missing muscle lowers your metabolism.

Muscle tissue burns calories 24 hours a day. The more muscle you have, the more calories you burn even when you’re just sitting around. The less muscle you have the less you can eat. Okay hold on here comes a little math! Suppose, for example, that a you lose 10 pounds of muscle (along with maybe 20 lbs. of fat) on a low caloric diet. Now suppose that each pound of muscle had been burning 50 calories a day just sitting there. Together, those 10 pounds of muscle had been burning 500 calories a day. With this muscle tissue gone, the you must now consume 500 fewer calories a day in order to maintain that weight-loss. Your job just got harder.

Here's where it really gets tragic. When you ease up on your diet, your body goes "Finally some food, but I'm scared another famine's coming." So what does it do? It puts on fat stores before it puts on muscle! Even at the same weight you're fatter than ever with less muscle to burn it!

Learn more about the yo-yo effect and how to defeat it.

So what's a person to do?

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Well obviously we have to get our energy expenditure up and our caloric intake down. That's where it stops being obvious. How low should we lower our calories and what type of diet should we follow? (Click here to calculate a healthy caloric intake for you)

Recent studies suggest that the most efficient type of reduced caloric diet for weight loss is one that emphasizes low fat protein and low glycemic carbohydrates. The fat consumed should be a healthy fat usually from plants instead of animals.

So why do protein based diets work better?

One theory is that increased levels of the amino acid (protein building blocks) leucine helps level blood sugar and promotes the building and or sparing of muscle tissue. Leucine is an essential amino acid that travels directly to muscle to signal protein synthesis. It helps your body preserve muscle mass while you lose weight from fat. (Read a scientific article titled "The Role of Leucine in Weight Loss Diets and Glucose Homeostasis")

Low glycemic carbohydrates are important because they do not disturb our blood sugar levels the way many sugars and high glycemic carbohydrates do.

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