This is Why Weight Loss is NOT Important
Have you ever attempted to lose weight before? If so, it's a safe bet that you wanted to look better or feel better. Am I right?
Weight Loss. Why is everyone so fascinated with weight loss? When are people going to realize that weight loss is NOT important. What??? Let me say it again -- Weight Loss is not important.
When you attempt to lose weight with most weight loss programs, you're going to be losing a combination of muscle mass, body fat, and water weight. Most programs cause you to lose tons of muscle mass, which is very bad. But people believe they were successful because they lost weight and they're really not.
I've got news for you. The number on the scale is NOT IMPORTANT...
The numbers that show up on your scale are not important. You should not be focusing on decreasing that number as quickly as possible. Why? Because you do not want to lose your precious muscle mass. You should focus on losing body fat and not muscle mass.
Muscle loss is bad. When you lose muscle, your metabolism slows and you must eat less food to simply maintain your current body weight. When you start to eat more food, you'll gain weight fast and that weight will come in the form of body fat. Lose muscle mass and in order to lose more weight, you'll have to eat less food.
You then begin to eat smaller amounts of food in order to lose more weight -- because that's what everyone tells you to do. When you do this, you have a greater chance of triggering the starvation response from your body. When the starvation response is triggered, the body holds onto body fat stores and burns muscle for energy. Why? Because it has nothing else to turn to for energy because you aren't giving your body enough food!
Don't threaten your body -- your body will win.
The human body is amazing. It's job is to help you survive, and that's exactly what it does. When you start eating less, your body will hold onto fat stores because it has been threatened. More body fat will allow you to survive for longer periods of time. So when you attempt to lose weight on a low calorie diet, you are only losing muscle and keeping all that unwanted body fat.
When you decide to lose weight with some low calorie diet program, you've told your body that it's okay to burn your precious muscle mass and eventually replace it with more body fat. You end up in worse shape than ever before. You feel bad and look bad all due to some weight loss program that was supposed to help you -- instead it did the exact opposite.
Weight loss diets do not work. They cause you to lose muscle mass and eventually gain body fat. Yes, the number on the scale decreases, but your body doesn't look any better. Really. You might think you were successful, but in reality, you weren't.
So what are you supposed to do to lose body fat and get REAL results?
Focus on building muscle and burning body fat and STOP worrying about weight loss and that stupid and useless number that shows up on the scale. No one cares how much you weigh except you and your doctor. Even doctors have no idea any more. Doctors should be measuring body composition and stop reading some ignorant chart that's supposed to fit every single person throughout the world -- NEWS FLASH -- everyone is built differently. We're all different... Stop trying to use a chart invented 100 years ago to tell people they need to lose weight.
The simple solution -- Start lifting weights, eating healthy ALL THE TIME, and doing cardiovascular exercise. Those are the keys to burning body fat and building muscle, and that should be your real goal if you want to look better and feel better. - 17274
Weight Loss. Why is everyone so fascinated with weight loss? When are people going to realize that weight loss is NOT important. What??? Let me say it again -- Weight Loss is not important.
When you attempt to lose weight with most weight loss programs, you're going to be losing a combination of muscle mass, body fat, and water weight. Most programs cause you to lose tons of muscle mass, which is very bad. But people believe they were successful because they lost weight and they're really not.
I've got news for you. The number on the scale is NOT IMPORTANT...
The numbers that show up on your scale are not important. You should not be focusing on decreasing that number as quickly as possible. Why? Because you do not want to lose your precious muscle mass. You should focus on losing body fat and not muscle mass.
Muscle loss is bad. When you lose muscle, your metabolism slows and you must eat less food to simply maintain your current body weight. When you start to eat more food, you'll gain weight fast and that weight will come in the form of body fat. Lose muscle mass and in order to lose more weight, you'll have to eat less food.
You then begin to eat smaller amounts of food in order to lose more weight -- because that's what everyone tells you to do. When you do this, you have a greater chance of triggering the starvation response from your body. When the starvation response is triggered, the body holds onto body fat stores and burns muscle for energy. Why? Because it has nothing else to turn to for energy because you aren't giving your body enough food!
Don't threaten your body -- your body will win.
The human body is amazing. It's job is to help you survive, and that's exactly what it does. When you start eating less, your body will hold onto fat stores because it has been threatened. More body fat will allow you to survive for longer periods of time. So when you attempt to lose weight on a low calorie diet, you are only losing muscle and keeping all that unwanted body fat.
When you decide to lose weight with some low calorie diet program, you've told your body that it's okay to burn your precious muscle mass and eventually replace it with more body fat. You end up in worse shape than ever before. You feel bad and look bad all due to some weight loss program that was supposed to help you -- instead it did the exact opposite.
Weight loss diets do not work. They cause you to lose muscle mass and eventually gain body fat. Yes, the number on the scale decreases, but your body doesn't look any better. Really. You might think you were successful, but in reality, you weren't.
So what are you supposed to do to lose body fat and get REAL results?
Focus on building muscle and burning body fat and STOP worrying about weight loss and that stupid and useless number that shows up on the scale. No one cares how much you weigh except you and your doctor. Even doctors have no idea any more. Doctors should be measuring body composition and stop reading some ignorant chart that's supposed to fit every single person throughout the world -- NEWS FLASH -- everyone is built differently. We're all different... Stop trying to use a chart invented 100 years ago to tell people they need to lose weight.
The simple solution -- Start lifting weights, eating healthy ALL THE TIME, and doing cardiovascular exercise. Those are the keys to burning body fat and building muscle, and that should be your real goal if you want to look better and feel better. - 17274
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