Pure adaptive evolution is the culprit causing the 95% failure rate of all weight lose programs. Remember the Theory of Evolution taught in High School?
“What does the Theory of Evolution 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.
“Sounds interesting, but how does that cause me to stop losing weight after a few weeks?”
You see, most diets rely on limiting caloric intake in one way or another, or with changing your caloric intake in some way. The human metabolism has evolved to perceive this as a famine or a natural food limitation. To help us survive, our metabolisms automatically slow down, so we don’t die from starvation. This leads to the notorious plateau and sluggish feeling we all experience after being on a diet. It’s just our body’s way of trying to keep us alive.
“So how do we break the cycle?”
We can’t undo evolution, but we can consistently lose weight and keep it off through something called “calorie shifting”.
“What is calorie shifting?”
It’s a simple concept. You spend a week to 10 days lowering your caloric intake below your baseline level. Studies have shown that your metabolism will begin to interpret this as a famine and start to slow down after 11 days.
To prevent the metabolic slowdown, you then just raise your caloric intake ABOVE your baseline for the next week to 10 days. The metabolism will then speed up again as if the famine were over.
Once the metabolism speeds up, you then lower your caloric intake back BELOW your baseline. This will continuously keep the metabolism off balance so it never really slows down and there’s no sluggishness. See how it works?
There’s a lot more to it, of course, since there are other things you must do. For example, you can’t just eat ANY calories. You need 4 meals a day of the right kind of calories and up to 10 glasses of water a day. I’ll be discussing that 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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