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Could yours be "broken"? Most dieters think so. You get
told that a calorie is a calorie is a calorie and that is all
there is to it. It just isn't true. A calorie is an exact science
about a measure of fuel to boil water. The translation loses
a lot in explaining burning fat in a human body.
You carefully add up how many calories you eat, and
calculate how many you burn. At first, you lose. It works!
So you do it harder, faster. Less food, more exercise. You
do not lose weight. You work out daily for over an hour,
consume no more than 800 calories a day, and after a
month, you gain 2 pounds. According to your diet
counselor, this is a biological impossibility. You are
adding wrong, or must be doing donuts in your sleep. So
besides being fat, you are told that you are mathematically
challenged as well. You give up and eat a half gallon of ice
cream - why not, what's the difference if you do or not?
Here's the deal: Yes, your metabolism could be out of
whack, but you can fix it. When you mess with your
appetite, like go on a diet and go from eating a lot
whenever you feel like it to eating little, or nothing when
you are hungry, your inner manager goes into Famine
Mode. The manager does not have office windows, can't
see that there is a whole bunch of bananas on the shelf,
etc. just what comes inside: half a banana instead of the
usual whole one. Yikes. FOOD SHORTAGE! This alarm
sets off Food Storage. You start getting great mileage out
of one radish instead of burning fat
To get out of Famine Mode, you need a relaxed sense of
wellbeing to get the inner manager to cut you some slack
and say, what the hay, let's burn up some stored fat, we
can afford it! Yes, you need to eat more. Not more
fattening food devoid of content, but eat Real Food. See
the eating guide at Real Food Also see Appetite
Muscle mass makes for a higher metabolism. Learn how
to do your resistance training in 30 minutes, once a week,
in a way that emphasizes muscle action with minimal
tendon and joint damage. This is habit forming and not
boring.
Mind over matter? Terms like "battle of the bulge",
"fighting fat" can have you thinking that getting burning
mad at your body should help burn fat. You don't work that
way. Getting hot and bothered raises your Storage
mode, which lowers your metabolism, same effect that
comes from going around hungry.
Quit "fighting" and stop treating your body/metabolism as
your enemies and get out of your own way. You can be
your best bud when you learn to listen. Your body can tell
you what you need and when you have had enough when
you eat Real Food.