When you went into the health food store to get details about low fat diets …
When you browse the health food and dietary magazines
When you purchase any fat loss book
When you listen to the media-spin about losing belly fat, low-fat diets or fat loss
When you surf the internet for details about diets, losing fat or fat loss
When you do any of this, we can be sure
YOU DON’T LEARN THE TRUTH – YOU HEAR LIES!!
Are you taken aback by this? Does it enrage you? If you answered to both those questions, you’re not first – there are many like you.
Accurate and truthful information about food and losing fat is becoming more and more scarce, and we’ve all been given false information at some time – I included.
I spent a lot of money on fitness courses that weren’t worth the cash I spent, in addition to the fat loss diets in which I lost me nothing but more dollars.
You have to be a very clever, intelligent customer to wend your way through the maze of inaccurate, deceptive, and downright dishonest advertising.
1) Simple avarice!
There’s a lot of money to be made in the fat loss industry – so many fortunes to be made that crooked salespeople will feed you a pack of lies, in order to sell their wares and earn a buck or two, let alone the $50-odd billion each year that the market’s worth.
2) Too much to know.
The digital age floods us with all sorts of information – too much of it.
“Lose the fat,” “low-fat diets,” “fat loss,” – everyone’s an expert, and you can’t escape them, day or night, day in, day out.
Books and magazine shelves groan under the weight of diet and fat loss publications.
Adding to it all, the world-wide web is churning out yet more “information” at break-neck speed.
A search on Google lists over 27 million entries under “losing fat” and more than 87 million under “fat diets” – where would anyone even start?
3) Inconsistent information.
The information is conflicting, even from the reputable professionals in the industry.
Each person has his or her own piece of advice, and none of it is matches. Where’s the consistency?
The end result is that many folks are angry, disappointed, or just plain confounded. They don’t know who to believe.
So, we’re here to help you through the maze of too much information – a maze that would otherwise confound you and send you hopelessly off course.
Work your way through the twelve lessons of our course, and you’ll become one of the brightest, best-informed shoppers of fat loss diets in the world.
You’ll then see through the swindlers at a glance, and you will possess the knowledge required to understand from the outset whether a given fat loss diet has any chance at all for success.
With all the unnecessary information and “junk mail” behind you, you’ll be in the right frame of mind to take on board and really put into effect the truth about losing body fat – losing fat and achieving the most accurate weight you’ve ever known!
FAT DIET LIE NUMBER ONE: Supplements are necessary for losing body fat
In this part of the course you’ll discover what food supplements are really about – and it’s not what you’ve heard in the media!It’s a widespread myth that losing body fat requires a special supplement to eat up the excess fat.
It’s a widespread myth that you can merely take a tablet, and you’ll lose body fat as fast as they say in the media.
It’s simply not true. No such tablet or concoction exists to burn the fat – and keep it off permanently.
You’ve seen the “before” and “after” pictures in the advertising venue, but the seemingly dramatic effects were almost certainly the result of planned physical exercise and controlled diet, rather than any “magic bullet.”
The “quick-fix” diet pill remains just that, a temporary solution that addresses the outward effects but not the cause.
You cannot lose belly fat without addressing the causes – generally, the way you live, poor eating habits and too little exercise. If you only address the effects, you’ll be throwing good money after bad.
So, it should come as no surprise to know that you won’t need any tablets or additives when you’ve learned precisely which foods to eat to lose the fat, in addition to the appropriate way to burn off the calories.
Physical exercise routines – plus a positive attitude that helps you stay with the exercise plan – are all that you require to lose the body fat permanently.
We’re not talking here about a Mr. Atlas physique – unless that’s what you want. We’re simply saying that the same four basic principles will apply whenever you’re in search of increased muscle, improved muscle tone, and reduced body fat.
Just think about one of these fundamentals which you can apply to fat loss as easily as other aspects of the way you live.
This is the Pareto principle, which states that 80% of your successes will come from 20% of what you do. In other words, concentrate on the small number of things that have a major impact, and don’t concern yourself over the many minor things – don’t sweat the small stuff!
And the few really important things truly are small in number:
* A physical training routine
* Diet (wholesome, natural food)
* Motivation
The paradox with regard to weight loss is this: Almost everyone bent on losing fat is busy concentrating on the small stuff that has little effect, instead of focusing on the major things that really improve your body shape.
Supplements fall into the category of small stuff; they have only a minimal effect on your success at losing the body fat – even when medical evidence supports them (but usually don’t.)
If you are just starting out on a fat loss regimen, and you haven’t yet addressed the questions of diet and exercise, don’t even consider food additives and supplements.
Though it may sound contradictory, the only people who stand to gain a little extra benefit from supplements are the already-fit athletes, and this is because they have already put into place a disciplined regimen of correct diet, exercise and attitude.
The fitter you are, the better your chances of achieving your natural slimness, power and capacity for exercise – and, proportionally, the greater the possibility that a food additive might make a small, added improvement.
That peak athlete is unlikely to be you or anyone else starting down the road to losing body fat.
It is more than likely they are eating junk food, or not eating proper meals. They are not exercising at all (or infrequently), and their immediate answer to the need to lose weight is to seek a quick-fix tablet or concoction.
So, when you’re told you need a food additive to lose the belly fat or that additives are essential to any loss of fat, ponder within yourself if that’s a matter of sweating the small stuff, rather than concentrating on one of the few things that can really make a difference.
FAT DIET LIE NUMBER TWO: Don’t eat a thing to stay slim
In this part of the course we’ll explain why minimal calorie eating habits won’t do the job long-term groundwork will do. You’ll also see why they often backfire, the result of which adds more weight to your frame.
Of course you have to reduce the number of calories you take on board to lose the fat and basic science will tell you that more has to be burnt than consumed for body fat loss to happen.
No doubt you have to reduce the number of calories you take in to lose the fat, and basic science will tell you that more has to be burned than consumed for body fat loss to occur.
However, there is a limit to this, and the majority of low-fat diets can leave you starving when your daily consumption of calories is 1,100, 900, 700, or less!
If you’ve been reducing your caloric intake too far, your mission is self-defeating – it’s probably been decelerating your metabolic rate and crippling your body’s natural fat-burning processes!
In this event, your fatty cells start to send forth a hormone known as leptin, which is the messenger that tells your body it’s been sufficiently well-fed.
This activates a series of additional bodily messages that produce the effect of reducing your thyroid activity (and the hormones that regulate your metabolism), which in turn leads to a sizable increase in appetite.
It is physically impossible, therefore, to stay slim on a starvation diet. These low-calorie diets will cause you to gain more body fat over the longer run.
So, you lose muscle, and body fat loss becomes even more difficult with any rise in caloric intake. The result of this is immediate fat gain.
The low-calorie diet is pre-determined to backfire, since no one can resist a huge appetite indefinitely.
Therefore, you must scrutinize the calorie amount of any diet program before you begin. Most likely it’ll tell you to reduce the intake to a level that will cause to feel as though your starving (1100 or less for females; 1700 or less for males.)
You’ve seen how this sort of diet can work in the short term, but not the longer term.
This is because your body is wiser than you think – it will always try to find the proper balance.
Metabolism, body temperature, blood sugar, hormone levels, acid-alkaline balance, and every other system in the body are each controlled within limits that your body knows to be safe and comfortable – body fat falls into the same category.
The more drastic the measures you inflict on your body, the more it will adjust itself to maintain the balance – both in energy levels and body fat – similar to the thermostat at home that maintains heat within preset comfort limits.
As you descend toward starvation, your body’s “fat thermostat” is turned down. As a result, you burn fewer calories. At this point your “appetite thermostat” goes up, and you eat more!
This effect is generally known as the starvation response.
Thus, in order to lose body fat and keep it off, you must avoid the starvation response with a wholesome, balanced diet and appropriate physical exercise.
The best recommendation, therefore, is to reduce your calorie intake to a level that is 15-20% below normal, and augment it with intense physical exercise to burn more calories. more calories.
A popular, pseudo-scientific term for this is energy flux, and it means eat less and burn more,” because it’s always more sensible to burn fat than to try to starve fat out of the body. /p>
Martin Collins, fitness expert
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