You want to lose weight, but you don't want to use one of those dangerous, crash diets? Great! Those diets not only don't work most of the time, but they actually cause your body to put on more weight! The key to healthy weight loss is how you eat as much as what you eat.Exercise can be helpful for toning muscles, but it's actually not the key ingredient to a weight loss program. You can exercise for hours a day, and actually do more harm than good to your body.
Running and jogging, kickboxing, aerobics really any repetitive motion causes strain on the muscles, tendons and bone structure and puts your body into a mode where it wants to grab any calories it can find in order to nourish itself. You'll actually trigger a fat storing mode in your body with excessive exercise and starvation diets.
Calorie Shifting
The method that really works is not depriving your body of needed calories, but rather eating these calories at different times in the day. The patterns most of us use for eating and the types of foods we eat contribute to weight gain. In order to lose weight, we just need to reprogram our eating patterns and styles.
Triggering the Hormones
When you suddenly stop eating everything but grapefruit, or quickly cut all carbohydrates from your diet, or begin any of the other harmful eating patterns those diets instruct you to follow, you are messing with your endocrine system, the system in the body that triggers hormones. These hormones control your body functions, including your metabolism.
If you've ever tried to diet, you know that your metabolism controls how quickly or slowly your body burns fat. You want to "trick" your body into producing the hormones that will increase your metabolism and burn calories more quickly. The key to healthy weight loss over the long term is finding an eating pattern that gets the body into this calorie burning pattern.
Positive Patterns for Eating
You want a higher metabolism, right? Of course! We all want our body to burn off more calories, and we especially want our body to take care of that task while we carry out our normal work, without requiring us to kill ourselves off on the treadmill or join a spinning class (ugh!) at the gym.
When we have the right eating patterns, our body creates the important hormones we need in the right amounts to break down our stored carbs and fat, including adrenaline and HGH.
So the best way to increase our metabolism is to create healthy eating patterns that convince our bodies to burn fat. The eating patter that is the key to healthy weight loss is several smaller meals spread out through the day. So the timing of the meals is the first component of the healthy eating patterns.
The second important element is the types of food you eat at each meal. Eating the right kinds of food sends the right message to your endocrine system, and triggers fat-burning higher metabolism without tons of exercise. Together, these triggers become the key to healthy weight loss through reprogramming your body's fat burning system.
